design-team October 2010

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The Fedora RPG
by Nicu Buculei 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

After we talked on today's IRC meeting about possible Fedora RPG, I decided to start the ball rolling by exposing my personal vision about it. I focused only on the "gameplay", not on the implementation details. =============================================================== The Fedora RPG The game is centered around a rectangular badge showing the "player" status, which can be easily embedded in a website/blog/etc. The badge layout is as follow: at the top the user name/nick and general rank; on one side the avatar with the current set of customizations, customizations are enabled by *honor* points in the middle the list of classes and levels, classes are SIGs membership, levels are enabled by *experience* points and reflect activity inside the SIG at the bottom a list of medals, enabled by special quests The name/nick is user chosen, preferable the IRC nick/FAS name, the rank is enables by a sum of experience points, honor points and medals. Example: Wizard Martin As an usual Fedora contributor is member in more than one SIG, an usual character of the game will basically be a multiclass character. The level is determined by experience points, earned automatically from activity: bugzilla, trac, koji etc. - closing tickets, submitting patches, creating packages, writing wiki pages, documentation and so on. Example: Martin is a level 2 packager, level 4 designer and level 1 desktop developer The avatar is a panda, from a selection of initial shapes and genders with customization enabled by honor points. Customization can be items like hats, glasses, guitar, laptop, tie, can be a selection of backgrounds like bamboo, data room, disco, or can be the color of the avatar: blue panda, pink panda, green panda, etc. Each customization has a cost in honor points. Honor points are received from another players for activity inside the project: helping on a mailing list, writing a good blog post on planet, delivering a cool presentation at FUDCon or being the last man standing at the release party. Example: Martin is a Blue Panda, wearing a pink cap, dark sunglasses and having a telescope in hand. The medals are received from accomplishing quests: winning the bi-weekly Design Bounty, bringing pizza at a release party, organizing a FAD, etc. The experience points are earned automatically from the infrastructure, the honor points can be donated by anyone having a FAS account and medals can be granted only by players with a certain level of experience (SIG/team leaders?). When a player starts the game he can choose the gender of the avatar (we have both male and female contributors), the general shape (we should provide at least 5-6 general body types to avoid monotony). The classes are read from FAS group membership. Is also possible to select the badge color and maybe the graphic style (classic, modern, cartoon, sketch, etc.) -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com

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Fedora 14 Sleeve Artwork (New variant)
by Alexander Smirnov 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Hi team! I created new variant sleeve artwork for Fedora 14 CD/DVD media. I used mark's text (it's like me). All png files (live cd (32/64bit), installation dvd (32/64bit) and kde live spin cd (32/64bit) palaced here [1]. [1] - http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora14/media-artwork/disk-sleeves/png/ What do you think? Thanks, Alexander.

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"Fedora Students Contributing" Shirt Idea
by christian＠crshd.cc 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Hi All, So, I've been working on a shirt design. In a conversation with Máirín we came up with the idea of using a flower to symbolize how the students taking part in this project are "growing". Currently, I am working on the roots, I've been trying all day to get something to work with, and it finally starts coming together, I think. I'd like to get a little feedback from you, maybe you have some ideas for improvements You can take a look at what I came up with here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2835814/fedora_tee/idea_5.png - Christian

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Thanks for another great meeting today; here are the minutes!
by Máirín Duffy 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Thanks everybody for a great meeting! Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-10-05/fedora-design.201… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-10-05/fedora-design.201… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-10-05/fedora-design.201… Here's the Mo-summary: FEDORA 14 ========= - Alexander and Marc are kicking ass and taking numbers on the CD/DVD label and sleeve artwork. A couple of extra things we need: lightscribe-friendly disc labels, and a full color version of the disc label (in addition to the flat ones) for Karlie Robinson (we can screen the wallpaper on top) - We're going to do an animated wallpaper for F14; the supernova in the background will change from light to dark over the day. Mizmo will wrap up the artwork and Martin will XML-ize and package. - Emichan's gonna take on the F14 release poster design; it'll use the F14 wallpaper as background. - F14 countdown banners are done and translated, and Alexander is a rockstar. Mizmo will pass them on to the websites team. FEDORA 15 ========= - Naming submissions are open! Mizmo thinks they close on Friday, so please, get your names in and comment on names you don't think are themeable. The link: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_15 - Artwork process reorganization - Martin has a good idea for making neater wiki pages for our artwork progress - he'll put together a skeleton for F15 and mail it to this list for comment. WEBSITES ======== - Schendje, sijis, and mizmo have been hard at work on our new websites; check out the progress in staging and let us know what you think: - http://stg.fedoraproject.org - http://stg.fedoracommunity.org FEDORA RPG ========== - let's put together a design proposal for a Fedora RPG. We've been talking about this idea in Fedora a lot, let's just do it! - Spot will help us with development resources if our proposal is good - There's a possibility of awarding real-life prizes - We should design this so folks can also track their RPG 'levels' in other projects, and of course it will be open source and we want other communities to use it too. OpenHatch.org integration would be awesome. - Nicu sent an initial proposal for game mechanisms to this list. - Mizmo will put together a wiki page with our ideas so far - Mizmo will send out a whenisgood.net invite to all interested parties - The meeting notes are chock full of great information and references and examples, please check them out for more on this topic! LIBREGRAPHICSMAG ================ - http://libregraphicsmag.com/call.html Libre Graphics Mag call for submissions - Get your 50-word proposal to Ginger by Oct 6 - Final article is due Oct 18 SXSW ==== - Emichan, Mizmo, Spot, Jared, and Dave will be representin' at SXSW. But we need to make a good impression of free software on those folks. - Our focuses for this event: 1. design spin USB sticks, 2. impressive free tools features/artworks and 3. how to participate in fedora design takss - A lot of good ideas are in the meeting notes, check them out! Slán agus beannacht, ~m

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Ticket #159: FreeMedia Mailer Design
by Onyeibo Oku 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hello People, I have uploaded a skirmish design for ticket #159. Here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Freemedia-mailer-A4-type-A.svgz#file https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Freemedia-mailer-A4-type-B.svgz#file After much research on mailer regulations, I settled for a 5.25"x5.25" size mailer jacket. It might be worth it to pursue a design for a 6"x7.25" generic envelop for overprotective people ... like me (I like to add extra padding/polystyrene to project the media). I couldn't find much for European mailer regulations so I hope this is universal enough. I used Bitstream Vera Sans for Addresses taking cognizance of accepted mailer typeface (USPS). I believe the font is free from license issues. Correct me if I'm wrong. The 'Air Mail' label employs yet another open font - IM Fell Double Pica. I have two proposals, A & B. The variation lies with the Logos on the Front Side. I am not sure an "Air Mail" label placed on the right is acceptable by law -- well, my predecessor had his like that so, ... I made a version like that too. It seems better that way. However, all other reference materials I found, had it on the left which would put our lovely fedora logo out of place ... In type-B, The only place the fedora logo can fit in is between the Return Address and the Recipient's Address (Turn on 'restrictions' layer for further guidance'). Well, the front is encumbered by restrictions so I couldn't do much there. The rear allowed for some innovation but I kept it minimal as requested. Feel free to check out those designs and critique as necessary. You might want to view some of my reference materials ... I hope I was well guided: http://ribbs.usps.gov/onecodesolution/SPUSPS-B-3200E001.pdf http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/mailer/ http://www.baystateenvelope.com/pdfs/Postal%20Guidelines%20Primer.pdf http://www.siemons.com/forms/pdf/designing_letter_reply_mail.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/USPS-PostalAddressingPub28.pdf http://pe.usps.com/mpdesign/pdf/PBRMCrd/ -->various cards with address layout by USPS http://ascenseur.fedorapeople.org/fedora_mailer_new.otg MORE IDEAS: As I was working on this, I got this crazy idea. I may be asking for much, but what if the Addressing was automated ... just like the Fedora Ambassadors business Cards? What if we could type a bash command and get the code to read the Freemedia Contributor's Details, fill that in, fill-in the supplied recipient from the freemedia form db ...and the result is the approved design bearing all that is necessary. Just print, fold, glue, stamp, and mail. How about that? The code could even do the Intelligent bar coding (that thing adds another attraction to the entire design ...you know). All details for that are contained in one of the reference materials above -- they even added the source code (at least it looked like it). Oops ... enough rambling. I hope I've not been too naive regards -- Oku, Onyeibo https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Twohot -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service

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Upcoming Fedora 14 Tasks
by John Poelstra 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Start End Name Tue 28-Sep Tue 12-Oct Create DVD/CD label and sleeve artwork Tue 12-Oct Mon 25-Oct Polish/Finalize Release Party Posters Fri 15-Oct Fri 15-Oct Package Final Wallpaper Fri 15-Oct Fri 15-Oct Package Final Splash Screens Mon 18-Oct Fri 29-Oct Create Final Release Banners

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#162: Design the cover for Fedora media to differ between architectures.
by Eric Christensen 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In reference to the ticket below... I had given my LUG some Fedora media which contained a mixture of 64-bit install DVDs, 32-bit install DVDs, and Live CDs. The covers look identical except for the small words explaining what the disk is. It would be better if this information was brighter, larger, and easier to read from a distance. I thought it was a good suggestions because I had similar problems sorting through the box of media I received. Perhaps on the top corner of the media sleave put in a nice bold font "32 bit DVD" or something simple like that. Just a thought. - --Eric - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Design Team] #162: Design the cover for Fedora media to differ between architectures. Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:40:31 -0000 From: Design Team <trac(a)fedorahosted.org> Reply-To: nobody(a)fedoraproject.org CC: design-team-tickets(a)lists.fedoraproject.org #162: Design the cover for Fedora media to differ between architectures. - ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: sparks | Owner: nobody Type: usability assessment | Status: new Priority: minor | Component: Other Artwork Severity: Moderately Involved | Keywords: - ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ A Fedora user came to me at my LUG meeting, last night, and said that it was really difficult to quickly determine which architecture a particular Fedora DVD was from the outside cover. The wording isn't big enough. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMrd2vAAoJEDbiLlqcYamxhIUQAJwPJrGIzVMbYjcpm3bihBgn vsxL/3MRXWXFN/r9Tncz7GauIWq26MMXw5LqU6mIkWRnu0XHyAVYPi3EyC14HuQM ZR3FHcmcskenyfEFqQZ3XNYmmAqxnWY8DLXIOC5ICaiaGp2jurG97v1gQrMBTbqA /KTTragTUuo9F8QXhx6XQOssZ0AVEpZ5DOSB8ZSwV+y0K9rIMWbXvoYC8J1ZQpJp H11duF6MHFTM3GPvn7rozBsQGz6e27Qwn3M5jxAt8CpqwSQZoeV8No9WD5PHHUOW idij57UMSOYUrUF8bXULpatguWuAmbi2EBm4M4RqCCh8ohfloawgcb9anwcpEMHz vAMPWc3Cs5s3ZQ29g4pIcykjePS6y6lsSTb2oVndvjr3Ha6gnViOFdp8t77bbZKs +9bHBB6bjIjMAmDVoAesQOA9At49jFORcCrlQrZ70A6KpadTGl2rdUTqtst/Eqwf G9F4pJIWX8IYa0oqkPaqh781Qxmd8infCujfQ2F2LS03XN5O24p8PyKx/U5ZdPw3 mTxJGltAfNPd+BPRkTzMSpPB/aX5HWcop+FLsENYCkBIHv0GfLGEb+Qi5yv1YxQ+ 5YvSgWMyKgqqdLEEBAyYgCqiroXllRR+zkvnymxP0lXu/Opl3vAJMBrSkV5a/2l3 /WD9Gkkt/NDiadW35CtL =w1zF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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F15 Artwork wiki
by Martin Sourada 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hi all, as hinted in the last IRC meeting, I organized a bit and put together skeleton wiki pages for F15 Artwork: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_Artwork/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_Artwork/Development https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_Artwork/Submissions We might probably want to further split out of the submissions page the wallpaper submissions (both for default and for supplemental) as they tend to be biggish... The basic idea is for the pages to be cleaner, divided in a logical way with the main one (f15 artwork) showcasing the artwork that got into the final release, the development one for tracking progress and schedule (like wallpaper updates, changes to splashes, etc.) and the submissions one just for various submissions (banners, cd sleeves, wallpapers, ...). If you have further ideas how to make the pages more clean, pleasant to work with, don't hesitate to do changes to the above mentioned page, or rant here ;-) Also, if I forgot some of the release artwork, or listed something that is [going to be] obsoleted feel free to update the pages accordingly. Thanks, Martin

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Upcoming Fedora 14 Tasks
by John Poelstra 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Start End Name Tue 28-Sep Tue 12-Oct Create DVD/CD label and sleeve artwork Fri 08-Oct Fri 08-Oct Fedora 15 Release Name Announced Tue 12-Oct Mon 25-Oct Polish/Finalize Release Party Posters Fri 15-Oct Fri 15-Oct Package Final Wallpaper Fri 15-Oct Fri 15-Oct Package Final Splash Screens Mon 18-Oct Fri 29-Oct Create Final Release Banners How has schedule worked out for your team during Fedora 14? The schedule is only as good as the information I receive so if you've noticed things that would work better for Fedora 15, please add them to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Schedule_Retrospective

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Resignation of Design Suite Spin Co-Maintainer
by Chris Jones 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

I am going to resign from my position as Co-Maintainer of the Fedora Design Suite. Effective immediately. There are a couple of reasons for my immediate resignation for which I will point out in as short form as I can and without pointing fingers and name calling. I will try to remain as clear and professional as I can. Firstly, I have some ongoing health issues that are currently stopping me from dedicating the time required to really make a difference in the current status and direction of the Design Suite Spin. Also, I have been generating a bitter frustration within myself for the way things are handled within the development of the Fedora Design Suite Spin. And I have been keeping these niggles to myself as a means of keeping the peace. So before I blow up and say something I regret to anyone, I feel the right thing to do is step aside from my position of Co-Maintainer and open it up for someone else who may wish to fill the void. With the consultation of the Spin Owner Sebastian Dziallas. For which you can contact on sdz(a)fedoraproject.org for any more information. One of my frustration is the efforts of communication between the three Owners, Maintainers and Co-Maintainers. I feel there is too much in the difference of opinion between the three of us and feel that we can not get in agreement on the big issues on what make a real difference to the user experience of the Design Suite. I have a vision for the Design Suite and think it has not only great future potential as a Fedora Spin, but also greater potential in its current form. But that's where all the differences of opinions lie. But without dragging this out any more than what is necessary, I officially demote myself to a back role within the Development Team. What that role will be, I am still yet to decide. Probably a consultancy role of some description. In addition to the aforementioned details, I have took it upon myself to update the wiki and introduce a new section to the wiki under the "Owner(s)" etc. section. You will see I have added a section titled "Other Positions". In the near future there will be positions added here which give a bit of an insight of who holds what position(s) within the Development Team and what their official title is. I think this can be a good thing, because I have been thinking about this for quite some time. And at current, unless I am otherwise mistaken, there's no clear indication of such users details, positions, roles etc. Please do not add yourself to this section yet as we need community consultation on what positions we want displayed here. And finally, I will also be updating my wiki page to reflect my involvements and changes so nothing is misleading as such. This is by no means good bye for me and my Fedora and Fedora Design Suite Spin Development contributions. It's simply a change of position to something more suited to my current choices and availabilities. Kind regards foxmulder881(a)fedoraproject.org -- Chris Jones PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web ABN: 98 317 740 240 E: chrisjones(a)comcen.com.au W: http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com

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