Category: Design (page 1 of 5)

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Fedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap Up

And just like that, the Fedora 43 Wallpaper has been finalized!

I recently attended Flock (for the first time 😼) at the beginning of the summer. I had the privilege of facilitating a workshop with Emma Kidney about getting started in the Fedora Design Team. You can read Emma’s workshop recap here if you didn’t get the opportunity to attend! Participants helped create inspiration for the F44 wallpaper.

Now that it’s the end of the summer, I thought it might be a good time to discuss the F43 wallpaper process.

The final F43 Day Wallpaper

The final F43 Night Wallpaper

Let’s rewind to the start

If you’re not a blog post person, then you can always see the process documented on the F43 ticket here.

The first step involves a list of people or topics in STEM that the community can vote on. We were choosing between people whose last name starts with R, since we’ve followed the alphabet for the past 18 wallpapers.

Jess Chitas wrote on the ticket, “Thinking of ones that would make really nice wallpapers- Vera Rubin was an Astronomer who worked on galaxy rotation rates. Rooting for this one myself, a galaxy wallpaper would be epic! Wilhelm Röntgen essentially discovered the X-ray. Something with the skeleton could be cool? Henry Augustus Rowland worked with diffraction gratings (lots of colour!!)

Vera Rubin and Wilhelm Röntgen made it into the poll (which can be found here on Fedora discussions), but Sally Ride ultimately won!

Sally Ride

“Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way.“- Sally Ride

Sally Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was a physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space on June 18, 1983. The third woman ever!

After finishing her training at NASA, she served as the ground-based CapCom for the second and third Space Shuttle flights. She helped develop the Space Shuttle’s robotic arm, which helped her get a spot on the STS-7 mission in June 1983.

Two communication satellites were deployed, including the first Shuttle pallet satellite. Ride operated the robotic arm to deploy and retrieve SPAS-1, which carried ten experiments to study the formation of metal alloys in microgravity. 

Mind Map

The mind map we created together in a design team meeting.

Based on Ride’s career, we started gathering images. We looked up the books she had worked on that had exclusive photographs of her missions. Her work in education and STEM made us think of the infographic posters that usually hang in classrooms. Ride’s mission happened in the 80s, which is technically too late to classify as mid-century. However, the bright, colorful mid-century space art and retro futurism felt perfectly suited to represent her optimism and approach to learning in STEM.

Sketches

I usually do quick sketches on paper or my iPad and came up with these three options. The first one isn’t a wallpaper, so much as a blueprint for an exploring spacecraft. More realistic vs ones with exaggerated shapes for children’s books. I was much happier with the second and third compositions. That’s why we always push to come up with multiple ideas, because it’s like working a muscle. The design muscle!

People commented on the ticket that we could go forward with sketch 2 or sketch 3. I brought sketch 2 into Krita and started drawing over it on a new layer. I wanted to map out how the clouds would billow out and where stars could be.

Rough and Final Drafts

At this point, I received feedback from people on the Fedora Design team. It was suggested to bring the clouds on the right down a little and perhaps add a moon in the sky. The color and arch of the sunrise and sunset were also things we discussed in our weekly team meeting (open to community members 😉), and I believe they turned out pretty great.

Post F43 Thoughts

Without the community, these wallpapers wouldn’t happen! If you’re a passionate artist or designer, you’re more than welcome to participate in this recurring project.

Fedora Linux 40 wallpaper talk: Unveiling the art of Open Source and nature

The Fedora Linux wallpaper is always on such a journey 😄. You can explore the creative process behind Fedora wallpapers in my previous F36 blog post.

As I write this, Fedora Linux 40 is live, and being the big four-zero the other Fedora Design Team members and I thought we should do something special. Instead of drawing inspiration from a historical STEM figure with an O last name, we opted for the word “Open” (which conveniently also starts with O!).

We always create a mind map to brainstorm different ways of interpreting the theme we could go with.

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#freetober – Join the latest Art Challenge!

We welcome you to join #freetober, the latest Art Challenge hosted by the Creative Freedom Summit and Fedora Design Team! If you’ve heard about or participated in #inktober, this is the same thing, but focused on the use of Free Software to create your art and designs. There are 31 prompts, one for each day of October. Check out the prompt list, brush off your tools, and share your creations!

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Fedora Org Chart: Now updated!

We updated the “How is Fedora Organized?” page on Fedora docs with the org chart below. This chart shows governing bodies, teams, editions, spins/labs, and initiatives. Is your Fedora thing missing? Feel free to comment on this Discussion post to ask for an update.

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Creative Freedom Art Challenge Info & Guidelines

We welcome you (yes, you!) to join in an Art Challenge hosted by the Creative Freedom Summit and Fedora Design Team!

How to Participate

  • The Art Challenge will run from June 1st through June 30th. The theme of this challenge is Open Source Super Hero. Create a piece of art inspired by the theme using Free Software.
  • Use the hashtag #CreativeFreedomChallenge on Twitter, Mastodonv(Fediverse), Instagram, or TikTok. We also encourage you to use the hashtags #CreativeFreedomSummit and #OpenSourceSuperhero. The Summit team will be watching these hashtags and reposting as we are able. Optionally, tag the Fedora Design or Fedora accounts on each of these platforms:
  • Post to the Art Challenge thread created by this post on Fedora Discussion. This requires a free Fedora account, which you can create using the Fedora Accounts system. At the end of the month, anyone who posts to this thread with a submission will receive a Fedora Badge! (Not sure what Badges are? Check out the Fedora Badges page to learn more.)
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Outreachy intern – December 2022: Introduction

Hello, I’m Tanushree Banerjee from India. I’m delighted to be selected as an Outreachy intern for the December 2022 cohort. I’ll be working on designing icons for Fedora’s chat system.

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You’re invited to the Creative Freedom Summit! Hosted by the Fedora Design Team

On behalf of the Fedora Design Team, I am excited to invite the Fedora community to the Creative Freedom Summit January 17-19th, 2023. This free virtual event focuses on promoting open source creative tools, features, and benefits of use. The Summit is open to anyone interested in learning more about open source tools, how and why to use them, as well as connecting with other creatives working in the open source ecosystem.

To attend the event, join the Creative Freedom Summit Element chat. The Element chat is where you can watch the live stream of the sessions, connect with others, and get updates about the event. The event will also be streamed live to the Creative Freedom Summit LinuxRocks Peertube Channel.

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Introducing the Community Design Team (Part 1)

This is the first part of a two-part blog post series introducing the Community Design Team (CDT) to the Fedora Community. In this post, we’ll introduce you to all of the wonderful team members and the projects they’ve been working on. In Part 2, we’ll explain how you can reach our team, make a request, and work with us!

Many of you have already been collaborating with CDT members for months now on various upstream community projects such as the Fedora Websites Revamp, the new Fedora Brand Book, the Fedora 37 artwork, and Podman’s new Podman Desktop tool. Since we formed the team, we’ve set up regular meetings, chosen our initial project set, and created a space on Fedora’s GitLab to organize our work. Now that we’ve settled in a bit and better understand how we collaborate best, we’d like to formally introduce ourselves to you as a team!

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Mindshare Committee Quarterly Report – Q1 2022

The Mindshare Committee publishes a Quarterly Report, with this post being our second edition. It covers activities from the Mindshare Committee and related teams for the months of January, February, and March of 2022. As always, we welcome feedback on how we can improve these reports in the related Mindshare ticket.

Help Wanted in Q2 2022

Take a look at the links below and see how you can get involved. For tickets and Discussion threads, make sure to comment your interest in getting involved.

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