Hi Máirín,<br><br>Thanks for the warm welcome.<br><br>The sticky-notes piece sounds like a good place to start - hook me up and I will see how it goes!<br><br>Thanks,<br>Nicole<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/4/12 Máirín Duffy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:duffy@fedoraproject.org">duffy@fedoraproject.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Nicole!<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 07:31 +1000, Nicole Harris wrote:<br>
> My name is Nicole Harris - I'm a web designer based in Melbourne,<br>
> Australia. I've been using linux for a while now and am a recent<br>
> convert to Fedora (previously I used ubuntu).<br>
<br>
</div>It's a pleasure to meet you; I'm so excited to see your interest in our<br>
team!<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> I'd love to get involved - I'm specifically interested in learning<br>
> more about UX design and participating in these types of projects.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Some examples of my work:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.roi.com.au" target="_blank">www.roi.com.au</a> (this is my workplace - i redesigned their website last<br>
> year, since then someone else has taken over the project, but my<br>
> initial design is still *pretty much* there)<br>
> <a href="http://www.sanremoballroom.com.au" target="_blank">www.sanremoballroom.com.au</a><br>
> <a href="http://www.janetwolf.com.au" target="_blank">www.janetwolf.com.au</a> (one of my really early designs...)<br>
<br>
</div>Very impressive portfolio! Fantastic visual design on all of these.<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> By day I now focus on conversion based solutions for online marketing<br>
> campaigns - this involves a/b and multivariate split testing.<br>
><br>
> By night I am designing a couple of web apps (too early to show you<br>
> any examples...!) with my partner who is a web developer.<br>
><br>
> skills:<br>
> Gimp, Inkscape<br>
> HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Joomla<br>
> Jquery (beginner)<br>
><br>
> Looking forward to getting my hands dirty!<br>
<br>
</div>Awesome! I'm so glad to see you have so much open source tool<br>
experience :)<br>
<br>
Our normal process for joining the team is that we ask new recruits to<br>
take on a minor ticket in our tracking system as sort of<br>
practical/applied introduction to how the Fedora community works. You<br>
end up making connections and learning the Fedora infrastructure through<br>
that which powers you to taking on bigger projects.<br>
<br>
I don't know if the design ticket has been filed yet, but the Fedora<br>
infrastructure team (#fedora-admin on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a>) yesterday was<br>
talking about needing a Fedora skin for a stickynotes web app they're<br>
looking to deploy. A test instance of it is available at:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://dcr226.co.uk/paste/sticky-notes" target="_blank">http://dcr226.co.uk/paste/sticky-notes</a><br>
<br>
We'd want, at a minimum, for the design/template to match our newer<br>
Fedora infrastructure templates such as for Fedora packages (I did the<br>
skin for this one):<br>
<br>
<a href="https://community.dev.fedoraproject.org/packages/inkscape" target="_blank">https://community.dev.fedoraproject.org/packages/inkscape</a><br>
<br>
Or Koji, our build system (Ryan Lerch, who is also based in Australia at<br>
the moment, did the skin for this):<br>
<br>
<a href="http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/" target="_blank">http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/</a><br>
<br>
Let me know if this seems like an intro project you'd like to take on.<br>
Alternatively we could find something more UX-centric for you to take on<br>
since you have strong interest and ability in UX stuff. We do have a few<br>
pending usability assessments and mockup requests in the ticket system.<br>
Our list of open tickets is here:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/report/1?asc=1&page=1" target="_blank">https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/report/1?asc=1&page=1</a><br>
<br>
Anyway, I don't want to overload you with information; if the<br>
sticky-notes project looks interesting let me know and I can get a<br>
ticket for it assigned to you, otherwise let's chat more about potential<br>
UX projects?<br>
<br>
~m<br>
<br>
<br>
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