On 12/22/2009 12:29 PM, Mel Chua wrote:
Looking again at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_Suite#Upcoming_milestones, we
should probably set a date by which everything that wants to be
considered for inclusion in the kickstart file to be packaged, and then
another to freeze the kickstart's package list (after testing those
packages).
I strongly believe in the "release early, release often" process, so the
first version of the spin does not have to be perfect, it can be just
the Desktop Spin with a handful of applications added. Then we can
add/remove/refine stuff.
And I don't think we will package stuff solely for this spin, the
packages will go in the large Fedora repository and we will make a
selection from there.
Anyway, we can't have a list of packages before we don't know exactly
which type of packages we want to have.
It looks like the Design Studio will bring up some interesting
questions
while it's being made - things like "what's the line between content and
software?" (do brushes count, etc) and how should the various things
(whatever they are) we want be delivered via the Design Suite?
(packages? webpages? packages of bookmarks to webpages? packages of
sampe content?) So it's a good idea to leave plenty of time for those
conversations and questions to be resolved.
Not only sample content, but also stock: we have already packaged
clipart images from
openclipart.org (the package is very old but this is
a different and long story), in a similar way we can add stock
photography or stock sounds (only the size is a limit - it may be
replaced with bookmarks for websites).
Yep. My current working definition for open source marketing is that
it's much more than "just" PR - it's "the community-driven
process
responsible for enabling users to identify, anticipate, and satisfy
their own requirements sustainably[0]" so the "identify" part is what
I'm thinking about right now, and what I'm here in Design to learn. ;)
/me drops back to watch the process of designers designing something for
themselves. Yay, meta!
Honestly, if I would be designing a spin for myself, the result would be
total chaos :D If you look at my desk, everything look like a mess.
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