Hey there Design folks... Some of you may have seen some of marketing-team's discussion on doing some stories about what's going on in Fedora. It has occurred to me that it would be super cool to do a piece on what the Design team is up to - particularly since we're really at the start of the cycle here, and it's a great time for people to get involved and come up to speed without it being crunch time. :) Here's a bit of what I was thinking (subject to change - feel free to throw your own ideas out!) - * Look at all the different projects / deliverables Design produces throughout the cycle - from concept to shipment of each release. How to get involved. * Tools! What are the tools used - perhaps even talk about Design Suite a bit. * Discuss doing things openly - with open tools, why this is important. * How can non-designers help? Feedback loop, etc. I think it would be great as a four-part series (or... something to that effect), doing interviews with 4 different contributors (ideally, I could get four interviewers too, which would be awesome). It could be some great press-kit type stuff particularly for Design Suite, as well as hopefully assisting your team in picking up a few new contributors, and explaining to others what your process is. (Or even, "Why it's a much better time NOW to make requests, than 2 weeks before release!") As to where it winds up - there are a few options. Other than being a blog series on planet - we could also work with red hat to get it on their press blog, which gets syndicated in some places where planet doesn't; we could turn it into a nice-looking document for press kit, etc., rather than being just "on the wiki" and "in a blog" which aren't as eye-candy. (Oh, the irony - I say we could, and I'd probably be filing the request with design to make the design interview / story look better. haha!) We could even look into maybe doing a magazine piece.... or print + video.... Anyway - thoughts? I can file a ticket if necessary - although most of the "ticket" here is on marketing, rather than design :) I'd be happy to come to the design meeting this week and talk more about it, solicit some interviewees, etc. Shall I put it on the agenda? -Robyn _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
