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