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.”

Meeting Details

Our inaugural session will be, well, coincidentally the date of the upcoming US Presidential Inauguration – January 20th, 2021 at 19:00 UTC. (See timezone conversion chart or check out table below.)

A Fedocal event for these meetings is available.

LocationTimeOffset
UTC18:30 / 6:30 PMUTC
Boston (EST)13:30 / 1:30 PMUTC-5
Arizona (MST)12:30 PMUTC-7
Israel (IST)20:30 / 8:30 PMUTC+2
Prague (CET)19:30 / 7:30 PMUTC+1
Moscow (MSK)
Nairobi (EAT)
21:30 / 9:30 PMUTC +3
Kolkata (IST)0:00 / 12:00 AMUTC + 5:30
Phnom Penh (ICT)1:30 AMUTC + 7
Timezone conversion table

Meeting Cadence

We originally held these sessions for an hour fortnightly, so the second session would be February 3rd, the third session would be February 17, so on and so forth. Starting Wednesday, September 29, we will be holding them weekly for 30 minutes.

I will send reminders the day before to the Fedora Design Team list and also provide an opportunity for anyone interested in bringing some work for critique or wanting to cover a specific topic to raise it before the meeting. Otherwise, we’ll fall back to backup content (typically current Design Team tickets or work items.)

Meeting Recording Policy

I’d like to keep these meetings informal, so I am proposing we make the recording available only until the next live meeting, at which time the recording of the old meeting will be deleted. This is hopefully a reasonable mix of allowing folks who cannot make it live the ability to participate while keeping some informality level to the meeting since it’s not meant to be a permanent record.

Meeting Platform

We’ll be using the Fedora Element Jitsi server and live streaming / saving recordings to the Fedora Design Sessions Live channel on the LinuxRocks Peertube.

  • If you would like to join the meeting as an active / speaking participant, please visit the Fedora Design room on Fedora’s element.io server.
  • If you would like to watch the meeting live without speaking, you will be able to view a live stream of it (on a slight ~1-2 min delay) on the Fedora Design Sessions Live channel on the LinuxRocks Peertube.
  • If you would like to watch a recording of the meeting afterwards, recordings will be kept up for around 2 weeks and can be viewed on the Fedora Design Sessions Live channel on the LinuxRocks Peertube.

Meeting Safety

I intend to maintain a laid-back / chill but also a super-respectful, calm, encouraging, and safe environment. All of the Fedora code of conduct rules apply and I have zero qualms about enforcing them to keep this event highly-inclusive and safe for all.

We hope to see you there!

You can use the handy-dandy video meeting launcher below to hop into the session at the appointed time. 🙂

VIDEO MEETING LAUNCHER

Design Team Sessions Live

Use the link below to join the live video call at the scheduled time.