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*  - Includes Flock travel budget as well sans Flock hotel. Were we to pay for him roundtrip BOS<=>PNH + lodging, the cost would be $1400.
*  - Includes Flock travel budget as well sans Flock hotel. Were we to pay for him roundtrip BOS<=>PNH + lodging, the cost would be $1400.
** - Assumes 50/50 split with Fedora Engineering budget to include Flock stopover. (Discussed and okay'ed with [[User:stickster|Paul Frields]], Fedora Eng manager.)
** - Assumes 50/50 split with Fedora Engineering budget to include Flock stopover. (Discussed and okay'ed with [[User:stickster|Paul Frields]], Fedora Eng manager.)

Revision as of 18:56, 9 March 2016

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This is the main page for the 2015 Design Team FAD, which is a FAD (a mini-conference) focused on recruiting (and enabling the recruitment of) new designers to Fedora via the Fedora Badges and Fedora Hubs projects.

  • Location: Red Hat's Westford Office at 314 Littleton Road, Westford Massachusetts USA and Creation Station, a makerspace at 1 Park Drive, Unit 9, Westford, MA
  • Dates: (tentative) July 28 - July 30, 2016 or July 29 - July 31, 2016

Purpose

The biggest challenge for Fedora's design team, as we presented to the Fedora Council in November 2015, is the recruitment of more and new designers to our community. Linux and generally open source communities tend to attract highly-technical developers and engineering staff a lot more than creative folks such as UX and graphic designers, yet to move forward towards many of our project-wide goals we need folks with these skillsets.

For example, the modularization initiative needs UX design thinking in its early stages to help work through user impact challenges of this fundamental change to how Fedora works, and graphic designers can help not only with visualizing and diagramming out proposals for how it will work, but also with effective communication both to the Fedora contributor community as well as the wider Fedora user community of the changes coming and what to expect.

The university involvement initiative could also involve interfacing with students studying UX and HCI, and we'd like to have a more diverse and populated Fedora design team for those students to hook up with. (Right now we have low enough numbers, we have the chicken-and-egg problem of not having enough mentors to help on-board newcomers at the scale we'd like.)

We would like to achieve our goal of both recruiting and enabling further recruitment of new design talent to the Fedora project (and FLOSS community in general) via the Fedora Badges and Fedora Hubs projects.

Primary Goals

  1. Hold a one-day Badges hackfest at the Westford makerspace.
    • The makerspace is called Creation Station.
    • Community Outreach: We have offered to bring Fedora Design team members to Creation Station and provide free Inkscape classes to makerspace members as well as the wider local community. As part of the lessons, we'll create Fedora Badges artwork.
    • Onboard New Fedora Contributors: As a follow up to our Inkscape classes, we'll help participants make their very first open source contribution by onboarding them into the Fedora account system and helping them submit their badge artwork into the badges ticket system.
  2. Have a 1.5 - 2 day Fedora Hubs design hackfest.
    • Engage New Contributors: We we will invite newcomers met at the badge hackfest to the Hubs hackest as well.
    • Hubs Usability Testing: We are planning to have some preliminary running prototype code (or, at least least, high-fidelity mockups) of the design team hubs page design available that we can run usability tests on with the newcomers met at the badges hackfest.
    • Hubs Design Brainstorming: Mo will run some design thinking sessions to gather design issues / feature ideas for the hub design.
    • Hubs Design Hacking: We'll work on improving the mockups / html+css of the hub based on our usability test and brainstorm session findings.

Secondary Goals

In addition, we will attempt to complete the following secondary goals as time allows:

  1. Work towards clearing out the Fedora Badges artwork queue, including triage of new badge requests. (As of March 9, there are 13 triaged badges in need of artwork and 74 new badge requests that need triage and artwork.) We'd like to have artwork completed for at least the 13 triaged badges.
  2. Help with any last-minute design issues for Flock, which occurs the following week.

Q & A

  1. Why Badges?
  2. Why Hubs?
    • Fedora Hubs is an important project for onboarding new Fedora Contributors, and is critical for two Fedora objectives - building open source software communities and developing the science and practice of building communities. We're looking to engage a more diverse talent pool to further open source, and focusing on an underrepresented discipline within FLOSS/Fedora and making sure the investment we're putting into Hubs will give us returns in reaching those folks is a good one.
    • Add your question here and we're happy to answer.

Impact

The completion of these goals will create the following positive change within the project:

  • More design contributors to Fedora.
  • Connection to a new external community with similar interests (Creation Station makerspace.)
  • Usability testing for Fedora Hubs' design.
  • Improved design for Fedora Hubs.
  • More Fedora Badges completed.
  • A potential model for how more diverse contributors could successfully be recruited into the project.

Detailed Work Items & Final Attendees

Attendees

Fedora's design team is unfortunately very widely geographically dispersed, which accounts for the larger-than-usual travel budget.

Name Remote? Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Core Tasks Budget (hotel + transport)
Máirín Duffy X X X Planning, Hubs session leader $0
Sirko Kemter X X X Planning, Inkscape class $2270 (*)
Ryan Lerch X X X Inkscape class, hubs design $1358 (**)
Marie Nordin X X X Badges leader $393
Maria Leonova X X X Badges design $740
Chris Roberts X X X Development support $393
Summer UX Intern X X X Hubs session $0
*  - Includes Flock travel budget as well sans Flock hotel. Were we to pay for him roundtrip BOS<=>PNH + lodging, the cost would be $1400.
** - Assumes 50/50 split with Fedora Engineering budget to include Flock stopover. (Discussed and okay'ed with Paul Frields, Fedora Eng manager.)