Dearadh Oscailte Abú! (Open Design Forever!)
I emailed Aurélien early this week to see if I could help with HyperKitty. He said he would appreciate a UI review for mistakes and some help with icons too. Since it has been a very long while since I’ve been involved with HyperKitty, and a few months since I checked out the HyperKitty test …
The badger in this image is from Badger by Child of Light on OpenClipArt.org. The crayon is from Crayon by jhnri4 on OpenClipArt.org. The badger and crayon are public domain, the Fedora logo is not! Fedora Open Badges (Badgers) So you might be aware of an ongoing project to create and deploy an open badge …
As of right now (April 17 at 12:00 midnight UTC) the Fedora 19 Supplemental Wallpaper Election is open to all Fedora account holders who have signed the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement and are an approved member of at least one non-cla group. (So no, you can’t sign up for an account today and vote. 🙂 …
Last week the Fedora Board had an open, public meeting in IRC to discuss Fedora’s user base / target audience. Robyn announced the topic ahead of time and invited folks to join in. You can read the full meeting minutes, but I’ve gone through them and tried to pull out all of the interwoven threads …
You may have seen Gnokii’s call for Fedora 19 wallpaper submissions a few weeks ago. We are still accepting supplemental wallpapers, and have extended the deadline from March 31 to April 10th! There’s a few guidelines you must follow in making your submissions – they have to be under a free license, they have to …
If you’re subscribed to Fedora’s devel list, then you probably noticed this thread about improving Fedora’s boot experience explode over the past two days. So I have this thing on my desk at Red Hat that basically defines a simple design process. (Yes, it also uses the word ‘ideate’ and yes, it sounds funny but …
Remix of Cartoon Rattlesnake by Sirrob01, Spray Paint in Action by Guillaume W., and Tango Drive Hard Disk by Warszawianka on OpenClipArt. Yes, that is a snake spraying RAID onto a pile of disks. So I think out of all of the feedback we got about the Anaconda UI redesign, the one piece of the …
Remixed version of bottles by Tomas Arad on OpenClipArt. You must be thinking: “What do you mean by refreshing storage? I didn’t think you could drink storage?” No, sad to say, this blog post isn’t about the type of refreshment you get from a crisp cold glass of Anaconda Cola (yum!) It’s about the action …
Photo by Ryan Lerch This talk was part of the Fedora Users’ and Developers’ Conference in Lawrence, Kansas this past weekend. A full video of the talk is available. The Problem Spot gave this talk; it was essentially a proposal to change the model under which we release Fedora – not how we actually produce …
Designing interfaces to deal with storage technologies is not only hard, it’s terrifying. This is especially true if you aren’t familiar with the storage technologies involved and have to learn how they work on-the-fly, even if you don’t have easy or any access to work with some of these (typically quite expensive) technologies first-hand. After …