[Design-team] design.next - FAD 2015

[Dave Pawson]

Stop using acronyms without explanation and it might be easier?
~FAD? FAS?
I joined expecting (rightly or wrongly) to help with the development
of graphics. I don't know how the group (clearly not a team) works. I
have had no indication of how it did/might/ should /does work.

Just my perspective.

Dave

On 20 August 2014 17:46, S.Kemter <sirko.kemter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Looking on our team and how it's worked for a while, you'll notice some
> things going wrong right now. Some changes over time have affected the
> design team. For example, there are no code names anymore, and fedora.next
> has shifted how we will organize and ship Fedora. Also, our trac queue
> contains a lot of open tickets that are very old, and we don't have an
> organized and consistent way to share design assets (for example, our Fedora
> People shared account hasn't been used in the past 3 years, and we've tried
> an art board, Sparkleshare on git, and other solutions but none have stuck
> yet.)
>
> We want to bring some light in that darkness, so Mo and I agreed on trying
> to get the team together on a FAD. The main purpose for this FAD would be to
> put a structure in place to help handle our work in the future, and make
> design team collaboration (and new design team member ramp-up) easy and fun.
>
> We think the FAD should happen over a  weekend, from 16th - 18th January
> 2015, to enable more people to be able to come. Since the more active part
> of the team is mostly US-based right now, we thought its the best idea to do
> in the US, so the place will be near Boston in Westford, Massachusetts USA
> at the Red Hat engineering office (we can use the facility for free and have
> Mo and Ryan on the ground able to help.)
>
> What we need now is to know who want to participate, so that we can
> calculate the costs and arrange an budget for it. Here are the types of
> things and skillsets we're looking for:
>
> - Designers to help create badges, logos, mockups, etc. as requested in the
> open tickets on our trac queue at
> https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/report/1
>
> - Designers and other technical folks willing to play around / try out and
> evaluate different potential design team infrastructure tools and work out
> ways we can integrate them into our team moving forward. This might involve
> installing and playing with art boards, coming up with a SparkleShare
> workflow, or experimenting with Glitter Gallery or any other related kinds
> of tools that will help us store our assets and share our work with each
> other.
>
> - Anyone familiar with FAS to help us go through our membership list and
> clean out inactive members and tend to pending requests.
>
> - Designers and anyone else willing to participate in brainstorming a
> solution about Fedora's release artwork process.
>
> You can view our draft FAD proposal on the wiki:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_DesignTeam_2014
>
> Please add your name as an interested participant and let us know your
> location / local airport so we can start putting together a full budget for
> this event.
>
> br gnokii
>
>
> --
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>
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