Hello Justin :)
Thank you so much for the warm welcome, been checking my mail every hour for one of these.
I made an account on FAS and joined the mailing lists, and with the help of an alumni who is a fedora contributor, worked my way around fedora batches. Also, tickets now make sense. The resources you sent for creating badges seem like DIY kit, makes me happy to build with, thanks for that :) Though I am hoping to find some work related to UX.
Looking forward to start contributing,
Chhavi :)
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Justin W. Flory <jflory7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/12/2016 02:40 AM, Chhavi Shrivastava wrote:
Hello :)
I am Chhavi, a pre-final Bachelor's Design student from IIT Guwahati,
India. I am newcomer, both to FOSS and writing an introduction to send
out to a mailing list of designers (very intimidating, both).
I have courses ranging from elements of design, graphic design,
animation, to UX and HCI. I mostly dabble with projects involving UX :
- I designed the UX of an e-governance portal for our state with a team
of developers
- An extensive app for a global insurance firm during my summer intern.
Not showing off but I might have designed t-shirts and posters for
advertising too. :)
I documented it on my portfolio website
<http://www.chhavishrivastava.com/ > which I built this summers (HTML/CSS
and twitter bootstrap framework to make it look good on mobile as well).
It would be kind of you to check it out. I made a profile
<https://github.com/chhavijustme > on github too, though presently it has
only my attempts to learn React and a side project
<http://www.chhavishrivastava.com/skewedratio/ >that is my current love
(a collection of interviews about girls in IITs, since girl boy ratio is
1:10 here and there are a lot of stereotypes in India about it).
All in all, this has made me realize how design has the power to impact
communities and how it's more about learning from people and their
contexts, than books.
I stumbled upon Fedora Design page while exploring Outreachy. I would
like to start helping out with what I can do, and learn from the
community (the word is "contributing", so I have learned by lurking on
IRC channels). I have read through Mizmo's blog about Fedora Hubs, and
the links her blog took me to. I would be happy to help with any part of
the design process that is going on.
Phew. That would be all. I apologize for the length, nowhere did they
mention rules about this so I took the benefit of doubt. :)
Warm regards,
Chhavi :)
Hi Chhavi! Greetings, and welcome to the Fedora Design mailing list! We're happy to have you here with us. I'm happy to hear that this is your first time getting involved with FOSS, and glad that it is with the Fedora community. :) However, you'll find that we're a very accepting crowd here and we're not so intimidating! And no worries about length, this is great.
It sounds like you have a lot of experience working on a variety of projects! Fortunately, there are a lot of things you could help with in Fedora Design or Hubs. I'm not most current for on-boarding on Hubs, so I'll leave that for someone else to cover. However, if you are interested, you can check out the mailing list specifically for Hubs too:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/hubs-devel@lists .fedoraproject.org
As for Fedora Design, there are a few different ways to first get involved. The way I would recommend getting started and becoming familiar with contributing to the team is to check out Fedora Badges. Badges are a unique thing in Fedora that allows contributors to earn virtual badges for doing things in the community. You can learn a little more about them at this page:
https://badges.fedoraproject.org/about
It gives you a chance to mess around with Inkscape and actually get to see some of your art become Fedora official. There's some starter resources and style guides I would recommend downloading / reviewing before you pick a badge. All of Fedora's badges follow design guidelines so they all fit in with each other and follow a common theme. Check these out:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/attachment/wiki/Desig nResources/FedoraBadgesResourc es.zip
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/attachment/wiki/Desig nResources/styleguide_full.pdf
Once you have a chance to dig through some of these, you can start
hunting out a badge to find and try working on. The easiest way to look
for badges pending artwork is by going here:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/report
{8} and {9} may have a few to pick out, but {26} may have a few buried
in there too. Don't be afraid to pick up a ticket if there hasn't been
any activity on it for a while either.
This is probably a lot to throw at you all at once, but hopefully it
helps. :) If you have any questions, please ask them!! We're happy to
help in any way we can. If you're leaning more towards the UI/UX side of things, someone else might be able to offer better info than me for that.
Thanks for sending your introduction here on the list! Again, welcome to the Design Team. :)
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7@xxxxxxxxx
Chhavi Shrivastava
| Pre-Final Year Undergraduate Student (B.Des)
| Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
| +91 7896892375 | www.chhavishrivastava.com
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