<p>I haven't had much time to contribute, however I would be more than happy on helping people ramp up on open source tool via irc.</p>
<p>--pcon</p>
<p>Ps thanks to everyone that did a wonderful job with f13</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On May 21, 2010 3:23 PM, "Máirín Duffy" <<a href="mailto:duffy@fedoraproject.org">duffy@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br><br>Hello my design rockstar colleagues,<br>
<br>
Yesterday I was invited to represent our team at a public Fedora Board<br>
meeting. In the past couple weeks or so the Board has been setting up<br>
meetings with Fedora team representatives, to provide updates on what<br>
their team has been working on both for F13 and outside of the release,<br>
and to talk about the team's future plans and any ways the Board can<br>
help.<br>
<br>
The log from that meeting is here:<br>
<a href="http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2010-05-20/fedora_board.2010-05-20-16.01.log.html" target="_blank">http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2010-05-20/fedora_board.2010-05-20-16.01.log.html</a><br>
<br>
I'd like to give you a summary:<br>
<br>
OUR STATUS ==========<br>
<br>
One of our ongoing goals is to get greater community participation in<br>
creating the release artwork for Fedora. For F13 we've done quite well.<br>
<br>
We were able to have artwork checked in the Alpha, the earliest yet.<br>
We also had wide participation on the artwork, perhaps the widest yet:<br>
<br>
- We worked together on a single concept for the wallpaper rather than<br>
battling each other, so we had a cooperative and collaborative process<br>
for F13. Many, many folks were involved in the ideation and rendering<br>
process for the wallpaper, including Luya Tshimbalanga, Charlie Brej,<br>
Mel Chua, Samuele Storari, Mola Pahnadayan, and Kyle Baker (new contributor!)<br>
<br>
- Alexander Smirnov rocked the house with both the small release banner<br>
designs, countdown banners, and media artwork<br>
<br>
- The main banner for release day was designed by Fabian Scherschel (new contributor!)<br>
<br>
- Martha Benitez contributed additional media art (new contributor!)<br>
<br>
- Nelson Marques contributed light scribe media art designs (new contributor!)<br>
<br>
- Tatica Leandro and myself designed the release party poster<br>
<br>
- I did only the firstboot and anaconda splashes on my own!<br>
<br>
Of course we can always improve and of course we can always use more<br>
contributors but I think we did ourselves pretty proud this<br>
release, so congrats everybody!!!<br>
<br>
OUR FUTURE ==========<br>
<br>
I think you'll agree our biggest challenges for the future are:<br>
<br>
- retaining our current talent<br>
- recruiting more talent<br>
- continuing to pump out awesome artwork using FLOSS tools,<br>
improving our reputation.<br>
- spreading the usage of FLOSS creative tools and assets!<br>
<br>
Recently Red Hat hired an extremely talented new visual designer, Kyle<br>
Baker, who you've met here on the list before. Kyle's background is in<br>
design - he does not have a technical background - and his experience is<br>
from using Adobe products (as much as we hate it, the current industry<br>
standard.) However, Kyle is excited to be contributing to free & open<br>
source software and is interested in converting over to the FLOSS design<br>
tools that we use - so he is highly motivated to make the jump.<br>
<br>
That being said, through the process of trying to get him set up to join<br>
in our community and start contributing to some of the things that we<br>
do, we've gained a fresh perspective on just how hard it is for talented<br>
folks who really want to help our cause but have the technical chops of<br>
a designer. Actually, I think Kyle has a lot more tech knowledge than a<br>
lot of typical designers.<br>
<br>
With the Board then I brought up the three challenges designers face in<br>
trying to join our team:<br>
<br>
1 - Most designers are familiar with the Adobe tools. Our tools are<br>
foreign to them and will take time to ramp up on.<br>
<br>
2 - Open source and free licensing, especially for imagery/content and<br>
fonts, is complicated. Designers need to understand the licenses we work<br>
with in order to contribute effectively.<br>
<br>
3 - The workflow we follow and the tools we use to collaborate are<br>
foreign to most designers. Initial setup is the most difficult - ssh<br>
keys, learning trac, learning mediawiki, learning how to use a mailing<br>
list, IRC, sshing into <a href="http://fedorapeople.org" target="_blank">fedorapeople.org</a> to make a .planet file, mounting<br>
our shared drive on fedorapeopleorg - each one is not too bad on its<br>
own, but pile them up together and you have a mess.<br>
<br>
We don't have any choice on #2.... we have a little bit of wiggle room<br>
with #1 on how strict we decide to be. #3, however, seems like it hurts<br>
all of us to no good end and it seems to be something maybe we as a<br>
community could solve.<br>
<br>
The bulk of the log with the Board is discussion of these problems and<br>
how we might solve them. Kyle and I had a brainstorming session on this<br>
yesterday morning; we were thinking maybe some kind of single webui<br>
front end to some of the tools we already use might help alleviate the<br>
problem.<br>
<br>
Kyle just posted an awesome blog post on our ideas to Planet Fedora<br>
today, check it out here:<br>
<a href="http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/kybaker/2010/05/21/creative-open-sorcery/" target="_blank">http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/kybaker/2010/05/21/creative-open-sorcery/</a><br>
<br>
What do you think? Ideas? Critique? Rants? :)<br>
<br>
~m<br>
<br>
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 13:18:33 -0400<br>
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The full IRC log for the Board's IRC meeting can be found here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2010-05-20/fedora_board.2010-05-20-16.01.log.html" target="_blank">http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2010-05-20/fedora_board.2010-05-20-16.01.log.html</a><br>
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