Stop using acronyms without explanation and it might be easier? ~FAD? FAS? I joined expecting (rightly or wrongly) to help with the development of graphics. I don't know how the group (clearly not a team) works. I have had no indication of how it did/might/ should /does work. Just my perspective. Dave On 20 August 2014 17:46, S.Kemter <sirko.kemter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > Looking on our team and how it's worked for a while, you'll notice some > things going wrong right now. Some changes over time have affected the > design team. For example, there are no code names anymore, and fedora.next > has shifted how we will organize and ship Fedora. Also, our trac queue > contains a lot of open tickets that are very old, and we don't have an > organized and consistent way to share design assets (for example, our Fedora > People shared account hasn't been used in the past 3 years, and we've tried > an art board, Sparkleshare on git, and other solutions but none have stuck > yet.) > > We want to bring some light in that darkness, so Mo and I agreed on trying > to get the team together on a FAD. The main purpose for this FAD would be to > put a structure in place to help handle our work in the future, and make > design team collaboration (and new design team member ramp-up) easy and fun. > > We think the FAD should happen over a weekend, from 16th - 18th January > 2015, to enable more people to be able to come. Since the more active part > of the team is mostly US-based right now, we thought its the best idea to do > in the US, so the place will be near Boston in Westford, Massachusetts USA > at the Red Hat engineering office (we can use the facility for free and have > Mo and Ryan on the ground able to help.) > > What we need now is to know who want to participate, so that we can > calculate the costs and arrange an budget for it. Here are the types of > things and skillsets we're looking for: > > - Designers to help create badges, logos, mockups, etc. as requested in the > open tickets on our trac queue at > https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/report/1 > > - Designers and other technical folks willing to play around / try out and > evaluate different potential design team infrastructure tools and work out > ways we can integrate them into our team moving forward. This might involve > installing and playing with art boards, coming up with a SparkleShare > workflow, or experimenting with Glitter Gallery or any other related kinds > of tools that will help us store our assets and share our work with each > other. > > - Anyone familiar with FAS to help us go through our membership list and > clean out inactive members and tend to pending requests. > > - Designers and anyone else willing to participate in brainstorming a > solution about Fedora's release artwork process. > > You can view our draft FAD proposal on the wiki: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_DesignTeam_2014 > > Please add your name as an interested participant and let us know your > location / local airport so we can start putting together a full budget for > this event. > > br gnokii > > > -- > make me rich, buy my Inkscape book http://is.gd/yq5OD0 ;) > > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
