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Who are we?

Design Sofware Special Interest Group aimed to improves latest free and open tools for designers.

Contributing roles in the Design Software SIG

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Contributing roles
This is only suggestions for contributing roles. Only your imagination sets the limits.
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Designer

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Content writer

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OS Developer

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People Person


Mission

  • Creating high quality packages of design tools featuring graphics, web, arts and some video editings.
  • Documenting the available tools, including wiki documentation and comps.xml
  • Promote the Design Suite
  • Actively review each other's design-related packages to shorten the time it takes to get them approved and imported into Fedora Package Collection
  • Help each other fix bugs that have been filed against design packages
  • Alerting each other about orphaned and soon-to-be orphaned games so that we can prevent their removal

Design News websites

Documentation

Process

Design Software SIG has three channels for communication:

  • The mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org,
  • The current wiki page for suggesting design software, the need of reviewing pacakages or joining the SIG,
  • the IRC channel located on #fedora-design@irc.freenode.net.

Contribution

Active Contributors

Packages in Fedora repository

Packages in Design Suite

Recently added packages

Rejected Packages

Development

This section tracks the latest upstream development packaged in individual Fedora People repository. Using them wil help exposing bug, and exploring new features without disturbing the main Fedora repositories. In addition, the resulting source RPM will teach upstream about the good practice of packaging.

Development repository

Current individual repositories

  • Gimp development
  • Inkscape development
  • Scribus development