Haigh a chairde,
We met today! I did a blog post summary of the meeting, which is here:
http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2018/12/04/fedora-design-team-meeting-4-nollaig-2018/
I've copy-pasta'ed it below, for those who'd prefer to read in this
email rather than visit a website.
Cheers,
~m
Today we had a Fedora Design Team meeting. Here’s what went down
(https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2018-12-04/design-team.2018-12-04-18.20.html)
Freenode<>Matrix.org Issues
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About half of the team members who participated today used matrix.org
(e.g. the riot.im client). Unfortunately, we noticed an issue with
bridging between these two networks today – both sides could see IRC
comments, but matrix.org comments weren’t getting sent to IRC.
ctmartin recognized the issue from another Fedora channel and figured
out that if we added +v to the channel members using matrix, that would
fix the issue. I am not sure if this is All Fixed Now or is going to be
an ongoing Thing. But that is why our meeting started late today.
If anybody has ideas on how to resolve this in a permanent way, I would
very much appreciate your advice!
Fedora 30 Artwork
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For 5 Fedora releases now, the design team has been using a famous
scientist / mathematician / technologist as the inspiration for the
release artwork. We do this based on an alphabetical system; Fedora 30
is slated to be a person whose names begins with an “F.” Gnokii
manages this process, and already set up and tallied the results for
the design team-specific vote on which we chose from the following:
- Federico Faggin (microprocessor)
- Rosalin Franklin (DNA helix)
- Sandford Fleming (Universal Standard Time)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (fresnel lens)
As gnokii announced on our team mailing list, the inspiration for the
Fedora 30 artwork will be Augustin-Jean Fresnel. He also gathered the
following set of inspirational images, which all revolve around the
design of the Fresnel lens, which we talked about in the meeting would
be a good central focus / concept for the artwork, whether it’s a
depiction of a lens itself or some form of study of the diffraction
pattern (and “thin-film” rainbow effect”) that inspired its
invention:
blue fresnel lens light with smoke
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https://www.shutterstock.com/de/video/clip-10182107-blue-fresnel-lens-light-smoke-abstract-background
Fresnel Lens HD Wallpaper
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http://wallpaperswide.com/fresnel_lens-wallpapers.html
Cape Canaveral Fresnel Lens
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Canaveral_Light_1st_order_Fresnel_lens_closeup_2.jpg
Blue Cubes abstract wallpaper
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https://i0.wp.com/innotechindustries.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-cropped-Blue-Cubes-Abstract-4K-Wallpaper.jpg?w=2000
The action item we got out of this discussion is that we need to meet
separately, a remote hackfest if you will, to work on the F30 artwork
(as we typically do each release.) This will take place in
#fedora-design on IRC (or Fedora Design on matrix.org.) If you are
interested in participating, here is the whenisgood.net to organize a
time for this event:
http://whenisgood.net/79qzs5s
Exploring a Fedora logo refresh
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For the past few weeks we have been working with mattdm on exploring
what a refresh of the Fedora logo might look like. This work has been
ongoing in design ticket #620. There’s a few issues such a thing
would aim to address – if you’ve ever worked with the current
Fedora logo yourself, these should be pretty familiar (copy-pasta-ed
from the ticket):
- It doesn’t work well at small sizes
- It doesn’t work at all in a single color
- It’s hard to work with on a dark background
- The “voice” bubble means it’s hard to center visually in designs
- The Fedora wordmark is based on a non-open-source font
- The “a” in the wordmark is easily mistaken for an o
- The horizontal wordmark + logo with the “floated” trailing logo
is challenging to work with
- It gets confused with the Facebook logo
The general approach here is a light touch, and not an overhaul. Below
are some of the leading concepts / experiments thus far:
The next step here that we discussed is for each concept, to create
something like “style tiles” for each so we can better understand
how each would play in context – how would it look like with our
fonts, color palette, and what design elements would go with it. That
process may surface some issues in the design of each which we’ll
need to address.
After that, we’ll open up to broad community input – maybe a formal
survey and/or maybe some mini IRC or video chat focus group sessions
and see how folks feel about it, gather feedback, see which concept the
broader community prefers and see if there are tweaks / adjustments we
can make to iterate it based on the feedback we receive.
This is something we’ll continue to work on for the next few months.
If you have feedback on the assets so far, please feel free to leave it
in the comments here, but be nice please 🙂 and note this is still
early stages.
Are you new to Fedora Design? Would you like to join?
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This little ticket popped up in our triage during the meeting today,
and is a good one for you to grab. It has a LibreOffice template you
can use, or simply draw from for inspiration. Note the base font should
be Overpass (free font, downloadable at overpassfont.org):
https://pagure.io/design/issue/621
If that’s not your speed, we have a couple of other newbie tickets in
our queue, check them out and feel free to grab one that piques your
interest!
https://pagure.io/design/issues?status=Open&tags=newbie
Fedora Podcast Website Design
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terezahl, the Fedora Design team intern, has been working on a website
design for the Fedora Podcast that x3mboy has created. She showed us a
snapshot of her work-in-progress, and we gave her some feedback.
Overall, it looks great, and we’re excited to see where it goes 🙂
https://pagure.io/design/issue/584
That’s it folks!
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If you are interested in participating in the Fedora 30 Artwork IRC
Hackfest, please vote for a timeslot here, ASAP 🙂
http://whenisgood.net/79qzs5s
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