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Mindshare Committee Quarterly Report – Q4 2021

January 18, 2022 / riecatnor / Comments Off

The Mindshare Committee is establishing a Quarterly Report, with this post being our first edition. It covers activities from the Mindshare Committee and related teams for the months of October, November, and December of 2021. As we kick off these reports, we welcome feedback on how we can improve in the related Mindshare ticket.

Help Wanted in Q1 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.

Contributors interested in working on promotion and increased engagement on Fedora social media accounts
Contributors interested in helping out with the revival of Fedora Marketing efforts
Ambassadors & contributors to hang out at DevConf.CZ 2022, January 28th & 29th (virtual)
Ambassadors & contributors to hang out at FOSDEM 2022, February 5th & 6th (virtual)
Designers interested in working on a logo design for the Fedora Mentor Summit
Feedback & recommendations for improving the new Mindshare Committee Quarterly Reports
- Is your team active under the Mindshare “side” of the Fedora ecosystem? We would love to include your team updates in this Quarterly Reports

Fedora Linux 36 wallpaper brainstorming!

November 12, 2021 / madelinepeck / Comments Off

That’s right!!! We are officially ready to start brainstorming for Fedora 36 Wallpaper ideas because our candidate with a K last name has been chosen (drum roll please) and it’s Deepika Kurup! Ideas and progress are going to be documented on Design issue 789. If you want to help us brainstorm an approach, join us at 1830 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-design on Matrix.

A new conceptual model for Fedora

October 21, 2021 / Máirín Duffy / 1 Comment

[Editor’s note: This post was originally published on Máirín Duffy’s blog. It is republished here with permission.]

Screenshot of the current getfedora.org website

Would you use this as your homepage?

August 5, 2021 / abesu / 18 Comments

The Design team have been working to revamp start.fedoraproject.org which is the default homepage in a fresh Fedora Linux installation. We are super excited to show you the progress we have made so far.

Thanks to the amazing feedback we got from you, we have further improved the first mock-up:

Moved a bunch of things around.
Reduced unused space.
Added a search engine field that follows the default search engine in your browser settings.

A happy smiling hot dog, reclining sunglasses-wearing badger, and radioactive panda are gathered around bold text that reads "Fedora Character Revamp"

A revamp of our beloved Fedora characters

July 22, 2021 / Máirín Duffy / 12 Comments

If you’ve been hanging around the Fedora Design team lately—or dropped by one of our recent Fedora Design Team Live Sessions —you may be aware of a very cool artwork project one of our interns has been working on. Lauryn Dake has done a revamp of the character designs for the entire cast of Fedora characters, including the Beefy Miracle, panda, and badges badger!

The idea here is our current character artwork is a bit dis-jointed. For example, the pandas in our badge system are drawn in a very different style than the badger, and the original Beefy Miracle artwork is in yet another older style. We want to give our characters all a fresher, more expressive look. Also, this allows them to hang together more cohesively under the same style / approach.

**A selection of older Fedora character artwork:** A smiling hotdog with animated mustard squirt (The Beefy Miracle), a blue and white panda waving on a Fedora bubble-shaped badge, a badger rocking out on a blue guitar in front a green starburst on a Fedora badge, and an orange panda and black and white badger as winged angels in front of a cloudy sky on a Fedora badge.

We wanted to share this ongoing project with you and get your feedback and ideas. How is your team using these characters? What poses for these characters would be helpful for you to have graphics of? What formats would you like some of the artwork in?

A sneak peek at Fedora Zine

February 25, 2021 / elladaniels / 4 Comments

So my Outreachy internship is winding to a close, as is the creation of the first-ever edition of our very own Fedora Zine!

It has been a crazy journey so far and I have thoroughly enjoyed working on this awesome project, especially getting to see and work with all of these great submissions from the community. I have learned so much; from how to balance my design visually, how to pair fonts and use other typographic effects, how to use guides for a perfectly aligned design and also that you should read your printing specs very, very carefully before getting to work on a project☺. A huge thank you goes to my mentor, Marie Nordin, who has been incredibly helpful in guiding me through this whole process!

Now is the time for me to give you all a sneak-peek at what we have been working on for the past two and a half months.

Join Us: Design Team Sessions Live!

January 14, 2021 / Máirín Duffy / 12 Comments

Just before the Christmas holidays, you may have participated in one of three impromptu live design sessions / video chats I held. In the first session, a group of Fedorans did a critique on one of the Fedora 34 wallpaper mockups. In the second session, another group of us did a collaborative design session for a custom Fedora Discourse theme. In the last session, we did a live digital painting session.

This was part of an experiment to see if there would be enough interest and to generally test out the concept of holding a regular Fedora video chat meetup. Due to the ongoing pandemic, and the fact that it started just as I was returning from maternity leave, the Fedora Design Team never resumed our regular IRC/Matrix text chat meetups, and I was looking to see if we could be a bit more creative (I mean design is a creative pursuit 🙂 ) in how we chose to sync up.

I think the experiment was a success, so we will be holding these in a less-haphazard way on a regular schedule, and calling them “Fedora Design Team Sessions Live.”

Fedora Zine – Call for submissions

December 22, 2020 / elladaniels / Comments Off

Hi, I’m Ella Daniels and I’m an Outreachy design intern, starting my journey here at Fedora. My internship project is to develop and design a Fedora Zine. The Zine project is a new initiative within Fedora started by the last Outreachy design intern, Smera Goel.

Fedora Zine call for submissions

July 22, 2020 / smeragoel / Comments Off

The Design team is preparing a zine to recognize the amazing work done by everyone here in the Fedora Project. The zine will serve as a guide to future contributors as a sneak peek into what Fedora is all about and what kind of work we do. It’s also a fun way for Fedorans to express and showcase their creativity.

Outreachy design internship: budget templates and infographics

July 3, 2020 / smeragoel / 6 Comments

Hey, I’m Smera. I’m one of the Outreachy interns this year, working on creating new designs for the Fedora Project. I work with Marie Nordin (FCAIC) and the Fedora Design team. I started on the 19th of May and this is what I have been up to!