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=== Weekly Design Team IRC Meeting ===
=== Custom GTK+ Theme ===


A new weekly Design Team IRC Meeting happened, the notes<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002692.html</ref> are available, and it covered Fedora 14 Artwork Schedule, the Trac tickets queue, the Design Team Bi-Weekly Bounty, the fedora official font and marketing the design team.
[[User:marcusmoeller|Marcus Moeller]] shared<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002702.html</ref> with the Design Team a custom GTK theme he is working on "I tried to make it look visually unique and eye friendly. It fits with
the current GNOME icon set" about which [[User:nmarques|Nelson Marques]] was very enthusiastic<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002703.html</ref> "My personal position is that any brand (such as fedora) should have a strong visual identity, which eventually brings up the theming" and also pointed to [[User:mso|Martin Sourada]]'s work on theming Fedora with Nodoka<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/nodoka/</ref>. Martin joined<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002706.html</ref> the opinion about a visual identity "I also think Fedora should have its own visual identity" while [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]] remained bitter and skeptical<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002710.html</ref> about such a possibility "In fact we go the other way, rejecting icon themes, GTK themes, notification themes or any other visual identity produced by the Design Team."


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=== Better Hackergotchis ===


=== The Design Team Story ===
As an action item following the past week team IRC meeting, [[User:schendje|Jef van Schendel]] posted<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002716.html</ref> the development for hackergotchi ribbons and also wrote<ref>http://jefsblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/introducing-hackergotchi-ribbons/</ref> a blog post with a tutorial for using them. Also as an action point, [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]] wrote<ref>http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/07/good-hackergotchis-for-everyone.html</ref> a long blog post with good practices for hackergotchi creation, examples and instructions, intended to make Planet Fedora<ref>http://planet.fedoraproject.org/</ref> a better looking place. [[User:ppapadeas|Papadeas Pierros]] informed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-July/002756.html</ref> about his work in identifying and improving bad images "After compiling the lists (the ugly and the missing) I will make an generic email for each list and send to all owners.. thus we will provide assistance, point to guidelines or simple clear up."
 
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=== Fedora Branding Fonts ===
 
[[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] assembled<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-July/002726.html</ref> a wiki page<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/Fedora_Branding_Fonts</ref> collecting info for the intended change in Fedora branding fonts for  character coverage "MgOpen Modata doesn't support accent marks very well. For example, I (Máirín) can't write my own name in MgOpen Modata" and move to consistence. After the weekly IRC meeting she announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-July/002775.html</ref> the team's decision "At our team meeting today we decided to trial Comfortaa as the headline/titling font and Droid Sans as the body text font" which is going to be tested.
 
 
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=== Fedora 14 Concept Decision ===
 
With the deadline reached, at the weekly IRC meeting the Design Team decided on the graphic concept for Fedora 14<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Theme_Concepts</ref>, which was announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-July/002772.html</ref> by [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] on the Design Team mailing list "I double- and triple-counted our votes today - each voter picked their top 3 concepts - and the winner is Kyle Baker's concept for Fedora 14 with 9 votes." The next step is turning this concept in an usable wallpaper image and including in into the Fedora 14 Alpha release to gather feedback.


[[User:rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]] from the Marketing team asked<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002659.html</ref> for stories from the Design Team "it would be super cool to do a piece on what the Design team is up to - particularly since we're really at the start of the cycle here, and it's a great time for people to get involved and come up to
speed without it being crunch time. :)", the topic was discussed at the weekly IRC meeting where Robyn was invited, and [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] summed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002694.html</ref> the conclusions, as 6 possible interviews with members of the team on various projects they are working on.
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Revision as of 07:31, 7 July 2010

Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

Custom GTK+ Theme

Marcus Moeller shared[1] with the Design Team a custom GTK theme he is working on "I tried to make it look visually unique and eye friendly. It fits with the current GNOME icon set" about which Nelson Marques was very enthusiastic[2] "My personal position is that any brand (such as fedora) should have a strong visual identity, which eventually brings up the theming" and also pointed to Martin Sourada's work on theming Fedora with Nodoka[3]. Martin joined[4] the opinion about a visual identity "I also think Fedora should have its own visual identity" while Nicu Buculei remained bitter and skeptical[5] about such a possibility "In fact we go the other way, rejecting icon themes, GTK themes, notification themes or any other visual identity produced by the Design Team."

Better Hackergotchis

As an action item following the past week team IRC meeting, Jef van Schendel posted[1] the development for hackergotchi ribbons and also wrote[2] a blog post with a tutorial for using them. Also as an action point, Nicu Buculei wrote[3] a long blog post with good practices for hackergotchi creation, examples and instructions, intended to make Planet Fedora[4] a better looking place. Papadeas Pierros informed[5] about his work in identifying and improving bad images "After compiling the lists (the ugly and the missing) I will make an generic email for each list and send to all owners.. thus we will provide assistance, point to guidelines or simple clear up."


Fedora Branding Fonts

Máirín Duffy assembled[1] a wiki page[2] collecting info for the intended change in Fedora branding fonts for character coverage "MgOpen Modata doesn't support accent marks very well. For example, I (Máirín) can't write my own name in MgOpen Modata" and move to consistence. After the weekly IRC meeting she announced[3] the team's decision "At our team meeting today we decided to trial Comfortaa as the headline/titling font and Droid Sans as the body text font" which is going to be tested.


Fedora 14 Concept Decision

With the deadline reached, at the weekly IRC meeting the Design Team decided on the graphic concept for Fedora 14[1], which was announced[2] by Máirín Duffy on the Design Team mailing list "I double- and triple-counted our votes today - each voter picked their top 3 concepts - and the winner is Kyle Baker's concept for Fedora 14 with 9 votes." The next step is turning this concept in an usable wallpaper image and including in into the Fedora 14 Alpha release to gather feedback.