On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 09:55 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi folks! > > This is a reminder that our weekly IRC meeting is at 19:00 UTC today > (July 27) in #fedora-design on irc.freenode.net. LINKAGE ======= Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-07-27/fedora-design.2010-07-27-19.01.html Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-07-27/fedora-design.2010-07-27-19.01.txt Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-07-27/fedora-design.2010-07-27-19.01.log.html SUMMARY ======= 1 - F14 artwork for alpha ------------------------- Reference: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork We decided to go with kylebaker's latest iteration for the alpha: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:F14-2400x1536.png Kyle has provided it in 16:10, 4:3, and 5:4: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork/Alpha_Sizes_Sources Martin has packaged it: http://mso.fedorapeople.org/packages/RPMS/noarch/laughlin-backgrounds-gnome-13.91.0-1.fc12.noarch.rpm http://mso.fedorapeople.org/packages/RPMS/noarch/laughlin-backgrounds-single-13.91.0-1.fc12.noarch.rpm Martin has also blogged the alpha package now that it's ready: http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2010/07/f14-laughling-wallpapers-package.html Kyle will blog the wallpaper itself to get more feedback on the latest version. Luya noted we didn't get any feedback on the wallpaper yet from Fedora Forum. Upcoming F14 artwork deadlines: - alpha website banner due aug 13 - supplemental wallpaper selection due aug 19 - f14 splash screens (anaconda, firstboot, etc) due aug 30 - beta wallpaper due sep 3 2 - Branding fonts ------------------ Reference: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/Fedora_Branding_Fonts Mizmo blogged Comfortaa yesterday http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/unpackaged-open-font-comfortaa/ Luya will package Comfortaa in the next few days so it'll be part of Fedora. We still need to make a Droid Sans vs. Cantarell decision. Emily noted that she thought Droid Sans was more readable than Cantarell in the Fedora slide template. Nicu, Martin, and Luya noted they preferred Cantarell because it was created with FLOSS tools and because interaction with upstream has been very positive so far. To help make the decision, Martin suggested some type samples to compare the two be created, so Emily volunteered to create them using English, Russian, and Greek text. Martin also noted it would be nice if we could find a good CJK font to match. Ian Weller is meeting with Pam Chestek from RH legal to discuss the possibility of changing some of our (registered & unregistered) trademarks to use Comfortaa instead of Bryant 2. He showed one of the mockups he created using Comfortaa to replace MgOpen Modata in the FUDcon logo: http://ianweller.fedorapeople.org/fudcon-comfortaa.png Some points that were brought up: - We may be able to change to Comfortaa in all trademarked Fedora logos - We may only be able to change to Comfortaa in unregistered trademark Fedora logos (e.g., the FUDcon logo and the four foundations logos.) If so, we should be conscious that the registered trademark logos won't clash with Comfortaa-based unregistered trademark logos. - The main reason we'd like to change the fonts in the logos is because currently the Fedora logo uses the non-FLOSS 'Bryant2' font, and we're looking to switch to Comfortaa from Modata for better i18n support. Ian also noted he is now maintaining the logo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx queue. Máirín has wanted to get it off of her plate for a while, but because it concerns Red Hat owned trademarks, it needs to be administered by a Red Hat employee. 3 - Join design team page ------------------------- Reference: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Design_Team Emily made some great updates to Michael's new Join page for our team. Máirín updated the design team wiki to reference this page, so it is now official: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design It was also noted that the old Artwork page (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork) should have an 'out-of-date, please visit /wiki/Design' notice put at the top so it doesn't confuse potential new team members. Since there is still some potentially valuable content on the old artwork page, perhaps the Design page should reference it rather than us delete it outright. We still need a volunteer to take are of this cleanup work. 4 - Fedora website redesign --------------------------- Reference: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Website_redesign Máirín gave a quick update on the fedoraproject.org website redesign effort. She cleaned up the wiki page for the project which is now at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Website_redesign. She is in the process of uploading the new www.fpo mockups to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Website_redesign_2009/Mockups/Www.fpo and will also be blogging them. She is in the process of incorporating Emily and Jef's suggestions from last week. There are some open tasks re: the website design that mizmo needs to check in on with Jef and Ian: - Tutorial listing: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-July/002889.html - Content review: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-July/002885.html Máirín also noted she made some website redesign project blog posts last week: - get.fpo post mortem http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/get-fedoraproject-org-redesign-post-mortem/ - Fedora website redesign history http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/fedora-websites-design-status/ 5 - UX redesign projects ------------------------ Last week in the post-meeting chat we talked about how we focus so far mostly on branding and artwork projects. Jef and Emily suggested we might want to work on more UX-based projects as well. Emily filed two tickets for potential UX projects for our team: - Live USB Creator UI https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/146 - Installer UI https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/147 Both of these are part of fedora; a critical part of the fedora experience since every user installing fedora goes through one or the other, and fedora is also the upstream for both these projects so they seem like good places to start. Emily and Máirín expressed their interest in working on both, and Luya expressed interest in the installer. Máirín noted that she was happy to bring anybody up to speed who felt they lacked GUI UX skills and wanted to help out. Máirín also suggested that folks interested in helping out could run through either or both the installer and live usb creator, and keep a little journal of their experience with screenshots if possible. Note any weird issues, problems, or confusions. She committed to doing this with Live USB creator by next meeting. Once we have a 'usability bug list' we'll have good information to build improved mockups with. It was also noted the installer is GTK-based and the live USB creator is QT4. But Máirín noted if there is a widget you need that isn available or some other thing you think would make a better user experience, go ahead and mock it up and weĺl figure out how to make it happen. 6 - Design team member interviews --------------------------------- Robyn will be getting to these as soon as possible. With OScon and FUDcon planning on her plate things have been kind of hectic for her lately. 7 - OScon --------- Mel shared her notes on a session about open source software and art +design at OScon, please have a read: _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
