July 2010 - design-team - Fedora Mailing-Lists

by Máirín Duffy

Hi folks! I put together a wiki page on our Fedora font discussion from our team meeting on Tuesday: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/Fedora_Branding_Fonts Here's a summary of the page, but please feel free to modify it and add any additional font suggestions you've got! We'll collect font suggestions at next Tuesday's meeting as well! The Problem =========== MgOpen Modata doesn't support accent marks very well. For example, I (Máirín) can't write my own name in MgOpen Modata. This became a big problem when Luya, one of our designers, put together 'Muffin', the French Fedora Community magazine. Luya ended up using the font Comfortaa for Muffin so the French language was understandable! Another problem, somewhat orthogonal to the i18n problem, is that the logotype for the Fedora project is Bryant2, a closed and quite expensive font. Requirements ============ * The font must support accent marks for the Latin-based character sets we support. * The font must be open source. If a suitable 'free' font is found, we must come to an agreement on changing the license to one acceptable for inclusion on Fedora with the font author before it may be used. * The font shouldn't be too much of a departure from our brand. Ideally the headline font could replace the Bryant2 in our logo without much non-designer notice! The Proposal ============ We should put together a proposal for the following fonts: * Official Headline Font - to be used both on-screen and in print. * Official Screen body text font - to be used in on-screen media (websites, electronic docs, etc.) * Official Print body text font - to be used in print media, such as newsletters. * CJKV headline font - to coordinate * Indic headline font - to coordinate In the design team meeting on 29 June 2010, our initial cut at a proposal (without much research into alternative fonts) was: * Official Headline font - Comfortaa or Quicksand or Arista 2.0 * Official screen body text - Droid Sans * Official Print body text - Droid Serif Suggested Fonts =============== Comfortaa Quicksand Droid Sans Droid Serif Arista 2.0 ~m

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Nightly compose gone?!?

by Chris Jones

Is it just me, or has the nightly compose vanished from the server? Regards -- Chris Jones Freelance Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web W: http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com E: <chrisjones(a)comcen.com.au> or <ubuntu_cj(a)comcen.com.au> Fedora Design Suite Developer and Co-Maintainer E: <foxmulder881(a)fedoraproject.org> GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Public Key Fingerprint: 6915 0761 5754 D091 99F4 5384 BA37 FD5D 34F9 F115 OpenSSL 0.9.8k Public Key Fingerprint: c3:df:a7:c0:d7:63:06:2b:50:c1:e8:aa:b7:77:3f:7a

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Re: [Design-team] Wiki page for country

by Máirín Duffy

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 22:00 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > I built a very minimal top-level fedoracommunity.org and > www.fedoracommunity.org web page now, linking to the existing > sub-domains. It's in the fedora-web module on fedorahosted, so anyone > on that team can update it, and _please_, make it look prettier than > that hackjob I've done. So Sijis converted it to the 960.gs grid we've been looking at using for the upcoming new www.fpo : http://sijis.fedorapeople.org/mockup/fedoracommunity.org/ I did a mockup today too of how it might be improved: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/webdesign/fedoracommunity.org/fedoracommuni... One idea, maybe to add some place for folks looking for a locale-specific set of pages about Fedora that's not hosted there.... is there a specific central place that lists something like that? What do you think? ~m

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Please allow me to introduce myself

by Emily Dirsh

Hi, I'm new to the design list, and I'm excited to contribute. My experience is primarily in web design (including coding html/css), but I also do a good bit of logo design and some t-shirt/merch design. Please let me know how I can help! よろしくおねがいします。 Thanks! Emily

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Reminder: Design Team meeting tomorrow!

by Máirín Duffy

Hi folks! This is a reminder that our weekly IRC meeting is at 19:00 UTC today (Jul 6) in #fedora-design on irc.freenode.net. On the agenda: - F14 artwork - we need to make a decision on the proposal to move forward with: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Theme_Concepts - Fedora branding font - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/Fedora_Branding_Fonts We'll collect everyone's font suggestions today - Trac queue - Ticket 141 status https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/141 - Pick another ticket to focus on from https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/report/1 - Robyn's design team marketing plan - Open floor We'll try to keep the meeting to an hour. If you'd like to add items to this agenda, just reply to the email. Below is a time conversion listing for folks who were mentioned in last week's time conversion listing. Luya: 12 PM Tatica: 3 PM Martha: 3 PM Máirín: 3 PM Onyeibo: 8 PM fabsh: 9 PM wonderer: 9 PM Martin: 9 PM Nicu: 10 PM Pierros: 10 PM ~m

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Fedora 14 Schedule Reminder

by John Poelstra

Start End Name Wed 26-May Thu 19-Aug Supplemental Wallpaper Submission Period Wed 26-May Tue 07-Sep Supplemental Wallpaper Process Tue 06-Jul Tue 27-Jul Wallpaper Design for Alpha Tue 27-Jul Fri 30-Jul Finalize Alpha Wallpaper

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FYI: Moblin spin has been replaced by the MeeGo spin

by Bruno Wolff III

I think the Meego spin will be similar to the Moblin spin but their could be some other notable differences besides the name change.

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Kickstart proposal

by Chris Jones

Just a progress update. I'm still working on the file and hope to get a final proposal uploaded this weekend. I've been flat out at work and trying to juggle development work somewhere in between has been quite difficult, hence the delay. But as mentioned, I should be all good to have a proposal soon. Regards -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo Resolutions - Photo Printing, Editing and Restorations Web: http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com Email: <chrisjones(a)comcen.com.au> or <ubuntu_cj(a)comcen.com.au> Fedora Design Suite Developer and Co-Maintainer Email: <foxmulder881(a)fedoraproject.org> -- GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Public Key Fingerprint: 6915 0761 5754 D091 99F4 5384 BA37 FD5D 34F9 F115

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Fedora 14 Concept Decision

by Máirín Duffy

I double- and triple-counted our votes today - each voter picked their top 3 concepts - and the winner is Kyle Baker's concept for Fedora 14 with 9 votes. So our next big deadline is 30 July 2010 - a little less than a month - to put together a wallpaper based on Kyle's concept for Fedora 14 alpha. There were some suggestions for improving Kyle's design discussed in the meeting today. The sources for the graphic, which consist of a Blender file and a Gimp XCF, are available here: http://fedorapeople.org/~kybaker/F14_wallpaper/ Please, feel free to grab the sources for this concept and remix and tweak and play so we can get as many ideas as possible for moving forward, and get a kick-ass wallpaper for F14 alpha. Using those files, moving forward some of the following suggestions could be addressed for F14 alpha: ∘ needs more fedora blue ∘ needs more blue instead of black ∘ needs more shiny things ∘ too dark ∘ favorite is the last one ∘ I show it to some users and the first comment was that it's kind of dizzy Here's the full rundown of vote counts: • 9 votes Kybaker Feedback: (see above) • 8 votes Schendje Feedback: ∘ shape is too rough but it could be fixed ∘ fractal should be smaller and placed in different position ∘ concept has potential, it will be interested with a combination of first kyle concept and jaymes Ayre ∘ fractal is too big • 6 votes Jayme's concept Feedback: ∘ needs to be more alive ∘ it's a little plain ∘ good potential to work with because SVG ∘ kind of generic - a design often used in wallpapers • 3 votes Tatica's atom concept Feedback: ∘ needs to be less FC6-like ∘ atomos is interesting but it remains solar somehow • 1 vote Mythcat concept Feedback: ∘ not the particular execution maybe, but... the bubbly threads, like trails, weaving together, uh... not sure exactly what it is but it reminds me of stigmergic collaboration wrt ants and such Voters: mizmo, nicubunu, kylebaker, tatica, finalzone, mbenitez, schendje, mchua, jrezni I have closed the submissions page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Theme_Concepts ~m

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06 Jul 2010 Design team meeting summary

by Máirín Duffy

Highlights; 1 - Fedora 14 Default Wallpaper Concept We picked Kyle Baker's proposal as the default wallpaper for Fedora 14. (more at: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-July/002772.html 2 - Fedora Branding Fonts We decided to try out Comfortaa as a titling font, and Droid sans for body text tentatively. Both Muffin (Fedora-fr community magazine) and the newest Design team bounty (Fedora presentation template) will be our testbed for us to decide how we like these fonts. We could potentially change the Fedora logotype to the FLOSS titling font we choose, but that will need to involve Red Hat approval as the trademark is owned by Red Hat. Just something to consider. 3 - Trac tickets This was a very productive trac week. Nicu completed https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/141 with a great blog post on hackergotchi design: Good Hackergotchis for Everyone http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/07/good-hackergotchis-for-everyone.html Jef completed https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/55 with a great blog post & wiki page on hackergotchi banners: Introducing Hackergotchi Ribbons http://jefsblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/introducing-hackergotchi-ribbons/ Hackergotchi Ribbons Wiki Page https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Hackergotchi_ribbons For next week, Pierros will be focusing on ticket #138 and ticket #139 for identifying missing hackergotchis and hackergotchis needing improvement. Also, Jef will take on ticket https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/142 with Nicu's (cc'ed) help. 4 - Marketing team design team member interviews The marketing team will start off design team member interviews with Luya. Luya's interview will focus on the Fedora-fr Muffin magazine project, show some screenshots of the design, maybe have a highlight on Scribus. The next victi^W willing volunteers :) up (not in any order) are: - Interview with Nicu Buculei on how he got started with Open Clip Art and also highlighting openclipart.org as a tool for designers (maybe have a sidebar on OCAL/Inkcape integration feature?), maybe explaining public domain and SVGs? - Interview with Tatica Leandro on her Gimp podcasts and how they are used in SA high schools, and maybe do a highlight on using Gimp as a tool. - Interview Jef van Schendel on how he got started with the design team via Design Team bounty, maybe highlight open office as a tool since he used that for his bounty? - Martin Sourada / Nicu Buculei / Pierros Papadeas - interview on their presentation of the Fedora design team process at Libre Graphics Meeting 2010, maybe with a highlight on LGM and what it's about and its history? - Máirín Duffy could talk about how she uses Inkscape to create UI mockups and show some off for the article. 5 - Other Mel will ask Matt Jadud, a design professor, on what types of activities he'd like his students to work on when they help out the Fedora design team starting in the fall. Based on that, we'll suggest things they can get involved with. Michael Beckwidth put together a draft Join page for the design team and we'll discuss his mockup next meeting: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Design_Team Jef will be putting together some Fedora Summer Coding hackergotchi ribbons. Full logs/etc: Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-07-06/fedora-design.2... Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-07-06/fedora-design.2... Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-07-06/fedora-design.2... ~m

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