Design for Ask Fedora

[Suchakra]

Dear Team,

We all must be aware by now, of the release of Ask Fedora [1]. Its
picking up pace and we need good design/artwork otherwise it can lead
to negative publicity. Akbot seems to be working fine in terms of
functionality and we just need good skinning/logo for the time being.
I made some changes to the css (colour changes etc sometime back)
which is just a temporary job. We even have a skin code repo from some
Ubuntu guys who tried to do something similar for Askbot (Rahul has
the links I think) It can be used as a reference. There are some other
examples of good skins for Askbot which maybe he can share on this
thread too so we can got going. I can start working on some
mascot/logo - some remixed job from OCAL I think ;) There's a ticket
already open [2] and some discussion already went through. Please help
in adding beauty to this effort. Thanks :)

[1] http://ask.fedoraproject.org
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/199

Suchakra

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/15/2011 11:41 AM, Suchakra wrote:
> Dear Team,
>
> We all must be aware by now, of the release of Ask Fedora [1]. Its
> picking up pace and we need good design/artwork otherwise it can lead
> to negative publicity. Akbot seems to be working fine in terms of
> functionality and we just need good skinning/logo for the time being.
> I made some changes to the css (colour changes etc sometime back)
> which is just a temporary job. We even have a skin code repo from some
> Ubuntu guys who tried to do something similar for Askbot (Rahul has
> the links I think) It can be used as a reference. There are some other
> examples of good skins for Askbot which maybe he can share on this
> thread too so we can got going.

The template has changed in the last few versions along with a new
default upstream theme as can been seen in
http://test.askbot.org/en/questions/ . I have pushed 0.7.29 today for
Rawhide, Fedora 16 and EPEL 6 and we will get it running on the staging
instance soon to test it out.  If anyone wants to help with customizing
the theme, take a look at this instance.  Instructions on setting it up
is at

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ask_Fedora_SOP

Rahul

[Ryan Lerch]

On Wed 16 Nov 2011 00:52:56 EST, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 11/15/2011 11:41 AM, Suchakra wrote:
> > Dear Team,
> >
> > We all must be aware by now, of the release of Ask Fedora [1]. Its
> > picking up pace and we need good design/artwork otherwise it can lead
> > to negative publicity. Akbot seems to be working fine in terms of
> > functionality and we just need good skinning/logo for the time being.
> > I made some changes to the css (colour changes etc sometime back)
> > which is just a temporary job. We even have a skin code repo from some
> > Ubuntu guys who tried to do something similar for Askbot (Rahul has
> > the links I think) It can be used as a reference. There are some other
> > examples of good skins for Askbot which maybe he can share on this
> > thread too so we can got going.
>
> The template has changed in the last few versions along with a new
> default upstream theme as can been seen in
> http://test.askbot.org/en/questions/ . I have pushed 0.7.29 today for
> Rawhide, Fedora 16 and EPEL 6 and we will get it running on the staging
> instance soon to test it out.  If anyone wants to help with customizing
> the theme, take a look at this instance.  Instructions on setting it up
> is at
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ask_Fedora_SOP
>
> Rahul
> _______________________________________________
> design-team mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

Just grabbed the ticket!

Happy to work on getting the CSS freshened up. The ticket mentioned 
that there might be a test server to play with styles and such, how do 
i go about getting access to that?

In the meantime, i will have a crack at setting up a local instance of 
askbot and having a play.

cheers,
ryanlerch

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/16/2011 03:59 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> Just grabbed the ticket!

Thanks
> Happy to work on getting the CSS freshened up. The ticket mentioned that
> there might be a test server to play with styles and such, how do i go
> about getting access to that?

There isn't a test server anymore.  Talk to nirik in #fedora-admin for
staging server access.

Rahul

[Elad]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Ryan Lerch  wrote:
> On Wed 16 Nov 2011 00:52:56 EST, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On 11/15/2011 11:41 AM, Suchakra wrote:
> > > Dear Team,
> > >
> > > We all must be aware by now, of the release of Ask Fedora [1]. Its
> > > picking up pace and we need good design/artwork otherwise it can lead
> > > to negative publicity. Akbot seems to be working fine in terms of
> > > functionality and we just need good skinning/logo for the time being.
> > > I made some changes to the css (colour changes etc sometime back)
> > > which is just a temporary job. We even have a skin code repo from some
> > > Ubuntu guys who tried to do something similar for Askbot (Rahul has
> > > the links I think) It can be used as a reference. There are some other
> > > examples of good skins for Askbot which maybe he can share on this
> > > thread too so we can got going.
> >
> > The template has changed in the last few versions along with a new
> > default upstream theme as can been seen in
> > http://test.askbot.org/en/questions/ . I have pushed 0.7.29 today for
> > Rawhide, Fedora 16 and EPEL 6 and we will get it running on the staging
> > instance soon to test it out.  If anyone wants to help with customizing
> > the theme, take a look at this instance.  Instructions on setting it up
> > is at
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ask_Fedora_SOP
> >
> > Rahul
> > _______________________________________________
> > design-team mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
>
> Just grabbed the ticket!
>
> Happy to work on getting the CSS freshened up. The ticket mentioned
> that there might be a test server to play with styles and such, how do
> i go about getting access to that?
>
> In the meantime, i will have a crack at setting up a local instance of
> askbot and having a play.
>
> cheers,
> ryanlerch
> _______________________________________________
> design-team mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

I suggest a design similar to fedoraproject.org
I'd be happy to help you with the design, if you need my help.

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/16/2011 03:59 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> Just grabbed the ticket!
>
> Happy to work on getting the CSS freshened up. The ticket mentioned that
> there might be a test server to play with styles and such, how do i go
> about getting access to that?

The stg instance is now updated to the latest version and has the new
default theme.

http://ask.stg.fedoraproject.org/questions/

If you login and let me know your id, I can make you a admin of that
instance and you can play around with CSS etc via the web interface live
settings itself.

Rahul

[Suchakra]

This is cool! I already have the access.  Maybe Ryan and me can work
together on artwork and css. Let's see if we can come up with an initial
design.

Suchakra
On Nov 18, 2011 1:17 PM, "Rahul Sundaram"  wrote:
> On 11/16/2011 03:59 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> > Just grabbed the ticket!
> >
> > Happy to work on getting the CSS freshened up. The ticket mentioned that
> > there might be a test server to play with styles and such, how do i go
> > about getting access to that?
>
> The stg instance is now updated to the latest version and has the new
> default theme.
>
> http://ask.stg.fedoraproject.org/questions/
>
> If you login and let me know your id, I can make you a admin of that
> instance and you can play around with CSS etc via the web interface live
> settings itself.
>
> Rahul

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/16/2011 03:59 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> Just grabbed the ticket!
>
> Happy to work on getting the CSS freshened up. The ticket mentioned that
> there might be a test server to play with styles and such, how do i go
> about getting access to that?
>
> In the meantime, i will have a crack at setting up a local instance of
> askbot and having a play.

Any update on this?  The staging instance is open for you or anyone else
interested to login and test changes

http://ask.stg.fedoraproject.org/

Rahul