Re: [Design-team] Re: Introduction :)

[Justin W. Flory]

On 12/13/2016 01:32 AM, Chhavi Shrivastava wrote:
> Hello Justin :)
>
> Thank you so much for the warm welcome, been checking my mail every hour
> for one of these.
>
> I made an account on FAS and joined the mailing lists, and with the help
> of an alumni who is a fedora contributor, worked my way around fedora
> batches. Also, tickets now make sense. The resources you sent for
> creating badges seem like DIY kit, makes me happy to build with, thanks
> for that :) Though I am hoping to find some work related to UX.
>
> Looking forward to start contributing,
>
> Chhavi :)

Sure, happy I am able to help! The Badges can be a good way for you to 
get introduced to contributing to the Design Team. You can also see the 
Pagure repo for the Design Team, which is where their tickets work. You 
can sort them by tags too. You might want to look at the Easyfix tickets 
for getting started...

https://pagure.io/design/issues?status=Open&tags=easyfix

...which it looks like there's only one ticket open and Maria has 
started on. But she might be open to having some help, not sure. :)

If you are looking for ways to help with UX, I definitely recommend 
checking out Hubs. Some of the people there should be able to help point 
you to specific things that might help make it easier to get started 
(I'm also CCing their mailing list in case someone can chime in). 
Additionally, there's also a helpful post on the Community Blog you can 
read that might be helpful for you to get started with setting up a test 
environment.

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-hubs-getting-started/

Hope all this helps!
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Justin W. Flory <[e-mail]
> > wrote:
> On 12/12/2016 02:40 AM, Chhavi Shrivastava wrote:
>
>     Hello :)
>
>     I am Chhavi, a pre-final Bachelor's Design student from IIT
>     Guwahati,
>     India. I am newcomer, both to FOSS and writing an introduction
>     to send
>     out to a mailing list of designers (very intimidating, both).
>
>     I have courses ranging from elements of design, graphic design,
>     animation, to UX and HCI. I mostly dabble with projects
>     involving UX :
>     - I designed the UX of an e-governance portal for our state with
>     a team
>     of developers
>     - An extensive app for a global insurance firm during my summer
>     intern.
>     Not showing off but I might have designed t-shirts and posters for
>     advertising too. :)
>
>     I documented it on my portfolio website
>     <http://www.chhavishrivastava.com/
>     <http://www.chhavishrivastava.com/>> which I built this summers
>     (HTML/CSS
>     and twitter bootstrap framework to make it look good on mobile
>     as well).
>     It would be kind of you to check it out. I made a profile
>     <https://github.com/chhavijustme
>     <https://github.com/chhavijustme>> on github too, though
>     presently it has
>     only my attempts to learn React and a side project
>     <http://www.chhavishrivastava.com/skewedratio/
>     <http://www.chhavishrivastava.com/skewedratio/>>that is my
>     current love
>     (a collection of interviews about girls in IITs, since girl boy
>     ratio is
>     1:10 here and there are a lot of stereotypes in India about it).
>
>     All in all, this has made me realize how design has the power to
>     impact
>     communities and how it's more about learning from people and their
>     contexts, than books.
>
>     I stumbled upon Fedora Design page while exploring Outreachy. I
>     would
>     like to start helping out with what I can do, and learn from the
>     community (the word is "contributing", so I have learned by
>     lurking on
>     IRC channels). I have read through Mizmo's blog about Fedora
>     Hubs, and
>     the links her blog took me to. I would be happy to help with any
>     part of
>     the design process that is going on.
>
>     Phew. That would be all. I apologize for the length, nowhere did
>     they
>     mention rules about this so I took the benefit of doubt. :)
>
>     Warm regards,
>     Chhavi :)
>
>
> Hi Chhavi! Greetings, and welcome to the Fedora Design mailing list!
> We're happy to have you here with us. I'm happy to hear that this is
> your first time getting involved with FOSS, and glad that it is with
> the Fedora community. :) However, you'll find that we're a very
> accepting crowd here and we're not so intimidating! And no worries
> about length, this is great.
>
> It sounds like you have a lot of experience working on a variety of
> projects! Fortunately, there are a lot of things you could help with
> in Fedora Design or Hubs. I'm not most current for on-boarding on
> Hubs, so I'll leave that for someone else to cover. However, if you
> are interested, you can check out the mailing list specifically for
> Hubs too:
>
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[e-mail]
> <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[e-mail]>
>
> As for Fedora Design, there are a few different ways to first get
> involved. The way I would recommend getting started and becoming
> familiar with contributing to the team is to check out Fedora
> Badges. Badges are a unique thing in Fedora that allows contributors
> to earn virtual badges for doing things in the community. You can
> learn a little more about them at this page:
>
>     https://badges.fedoraproject.org/about
> <https://badges.fedoraproject.org/about>
>
> It gives you a chance to mess around with Inkscape and actually get
> to see some of your art become Fedora official. There's some starter
> resources and style guides I would recommend downloading / reviewing
> before you pick a badge. All of Fedora's badges follow design
> guidelines so they all fit in with each other and follow a common
> theme. Check these out:
>
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/attachment/wiki/DesignResources/FedoraBadgesResources.zip
> <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/attachment/wiki/DesignResources/FedoraBadgesResources.zip>
>
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/attachment/wiki/DesignResources/styleguide_full.pdf
> <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/attachment/wiki/DesignResources/styleguide_full.pdf>
>
> Once you have a chance to dig through some of these, you can start
> hunting out a badge to find and try working on. The easiest way to look
> for badges pending artwork is by going here:
>
>     https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/report
> <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/report>
>
> {8} and {9} may have a few to pick out, but {26} may have a few buried
> in there too. Don't be afraid to pick up a ticket if there hasn't been
> any activity on it for a while either.
>
> This is probably a lot to throw at you all at once, but hopefully it
> helps. :) If you have any questions, please ask them!! We're happy to
> help in any way we can. If you're leaning more towards the UI/UX
> side of things, someone else might be able to offer better info than
> me for that.
>
> Thanks for sending your introduction here on the list! Again,
> welcome to the Design Team. :)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Justin W. Flory
> [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
>
>
>
>
> --
> *Chhavi Shrivastava*
> *|* Pre-Final Year Undergraduate Student (B.Des)
> *|* Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
> *|** *[phone] | *www.chhavishrivastava.com
> http://www.chhavishrivastava.com*
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