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=== Meeting Summary ===
=== Design and the Schedule ===


After an IRC meeting for selecting the Fedora 12 theme took place, [[User:mso|Martin Sourada]] posted<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000798.html</ref> on @design-team the conversation log<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2009-08-10/fedora-design.2009-08-10-16.00.log.html</ref> and a short summary: "We'll move Constantine Statue back to extras, also raised concern about it including a sword * The Constantine theme will be based on (perspective) mosaico with elements added from underwater mosaic * KDE Alpha (if the packages get tagged in time) will have slideshow like we have in GNOME, if it's not working reliably, it will have mosaico * For Friday we target <ref>http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/Fedora12_mosaic-glow-2.png</ref>, if it's not ready we'll go with <ref>http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12</ref> * we haven't decided about alpha release banner design, but narrowed the selection to <ref>http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/fedora12-banner_1-rounded.png</ref> and <ref>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/banner.png</ref>.
[[User:pfrields|Paul Frields]] wondered<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000887.html</ref> about the impact of having a precise schedule over the Design team, "How do people think the schedule is helping with design tasks, in general? Do you feel the wallpaper refresh schedule is reasonable?  Are we on target for another refresh (iteration) and repackaging?", question echoed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000894.html</ref> also by [[User:poelstra|John Poelstra]], who is trying to sanitize the release process, and was worried for an apparent lack of blogging about the team's activities "We've had a couple of tasks to blog about the new wallpapers... I don't
think I've seen any on planet.fedoraproject.org". [[User:mso|Martin Sourada]] pointed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000895.html</ref> explained the slip "We're in a slip as well too. I'm still waiting on updated wallpapers for packaging", while [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] pointed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000896.html</ref> some blogging<ref>http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/08/constantine-wallpapers-package.html</ref> happened "Martin blogged the first set here" and outlined the plans for future "We met some days ago
and are planning to ship an updated version of María's handdrawn vector tiles. If they're not ready though, our backup plan is to use a perspective-ized version of the flat vector tiles graphic that shipped in the initial set."


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=== The Art Studio Spin ===
=== A New Icon Artist in the Team ===


With the increased interest for having a customized Fedora geared towards creative people, [[User:kushal|Kushal Das]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000804.html</ref> his preliminary work and asked for input "I started working on the spin , the initial size is around 1000MB, still all fonts need to be put in", something [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] was also playing with<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000818.html</ref> "Coincidentally enough I tried several times to build an art studio spin last night but livecd-creator keeps failing". Kushal followed with a kickstart script<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000808.html</ref> and everyone started suggesting application for inclusion or removal. [[User:mso|Martin Sourada]] questioned<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000816.html</ref> the spin name "I think it's good idea to rename the spin (in accordance with our move from Fedora Artwork to Fedora Design Team) to Fedora Design Live (or something like that)", something not considered an issue by [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000819.html</ref> "I don't think the spin needs to be named after our team, it just needs to attract the type of user we are seeking no?", a discussion which brought to attention the need to define the spin's target<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000831.html</ref>, with a possible answer<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000836.html</ref> from Máirín "We could do something where the whole enchilada is called the 'Fedora Creativity Suite' and then different 'slices' of that could be different studios eg vector gfx studio, 3d studio, audio studio, etc"
After recently joining the team<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000719.html</ref> with a first proposal for the Echo Icon theme<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/</ref>, [[User:kristho|Kris Thomsen]] built his confidence and returned<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000855.html</ref> with more contributions "I have made two more icons - based on the user-desktop-icon. And now I'm confident enough to share them". Welcome Kris, you are a welcome addition to the Echo team!
 
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=== Source Control for Fedora Themes ===
 
[[User:rdieter|Rex Dieter]] expressed the need<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000802.html</ref> for a source control system "but, it seems there is no source-control currently being used for fedora
theming yet.  I'd like to propose hosting what's used in stuff like constantine-backgrounds (and future fedora-related theming) in a git (or svn or whatever) repo", a request endorsed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000823.html</ref> also by [[User:mso|Martin Sourada]] "Yup, for my part a git repo would be really helpful. Spinning the source
tarball by hand is not an exactly nice experience ;-)" and  [[User:jreznik|Jaroslav Reznik]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000830.html</ref> "Indeed, it's really much more easier to use some repository, even in one
person" so  [[User:pfrields|Paul Frields]] pointed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000844.html</ref> to the existing repository which can/should be used for the task: "There is actually a git repo, it just needs to be renamed to properly match the Trac issue system." An alyas fixing later<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000847.html</ref> and everything was solved.


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Revision as of 13:33, 21 August 2009

Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork


Design and the Schedule

Paul Frields wondered[1] about the impact of having a precise schedule over the Design team, "How do people think the schedule is helping with design tasks, in general? Do you feel the wallpaper refresh schedule is reasonable? Are we on target for another refresh (iteration) and repackaging?", question echoed[2] also by John Poelstra, who is trying to sanitize the release process, and was worried for an apparent lack of blogging about the team's activities "We've had a couple of tasks to blog about the new wallpapers... I don't think I've seen any on planet.fedoraproject.org". Martin Sourada pointed[3] explained the slip "We're in a slip as well too. I'm still waiting on updated wallpapers for packaging", while Máirín Duffy pointed[4] some blogging[5] happened "Martin blogged the first set here" and outlined the plans for future "We met some days ago and are planning to ship an updated version of María's handdrawn vector tiles. If they're not ready though, our backup plan is to use a perspective-ized version of the flat vector tiles graphic that shipped in the initial set."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000887.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000894.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000895.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000896.html
  5. ↑ http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/08/constantine-wallpapers-package.html

A New Icon Artist in the Team

After recently joining the team[1] with a first proposal for the Echo Icon theme[2], Kris Thomsen built his confidence and returned[3] with more contributions "I have made two more icons - based on the user-desktop-icon. And now I'm confident enough to share them". Welcome Kris, you are a welcome addition to the Echo team!

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000719.html
  2. ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000855.html
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