Hi, it would be a great chance for me joining this FAD, but I was wondering if there are any special requirements in order to participate apart from being a team member and--naturally--interested in the proposed activities. Sam_ > 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 _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
