Dearadh Oscailte Abú! (Open Design Forever!)
There is now an election in the Fedora voting system for members of the art group to vote on the default theme for Fedora 10. The candidates are: Gears InvinXble Neon Solar The vote will be open for 36 hours only so please get your vote in ASAP. The vote will close at 1 AM …
More than seven years later, Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You by Joel Spolsky still rings true. Sadly. I just felt the need to point this out. And now back to your regularly-scheduled programming.
Concept by pjones, inspired by Nicu’s I <3 Fedora t-shirt design. Suggested lines for the back of the shirt: Do you? – join.fedoraproject.org Get some! – get.fedoraproject.org Your clever idea here! P.S. isn’t it amusing how this post is sandwiched between two posts about Google Chrome’s EULA on planet.fedoraproject.org? Heh.https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/6/61/Artwork_Tshirt_i-f-freedom_preview.png”
Hi folks, The deadline for round 2 of the Fedora 10 artwork process is 1 September 2008. Work done for round 2 must be associated with one of the concepts that were proposed in round 1. If you’d like your favorite F10 theme proposal to make it through round 3, you must have the following …
(let me know if you want the XCF; I don’t have a good place to upload it right now. The SVG sources for the original gear shapes that Nicu created are available here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Gears)
I played around with Nicu’s artwork for the Gears F10 artwork proposal and came up with a couple of different ideas: GIMP source XCF GIMP source XCF Come join the fun on fedora-art-list! Also, check out the list of proposals we’re working with from round 1.
conventional food. organic food. proprietary software. free and open source software. Actually I think it’s harder to make an argument for organic food than it is for free & open source software since the latter is most likely to be less costly. (I’m sure the analogy has been made before but I thought it was …
I’ll be back next week.
Well, it certainly feels strange to be blogging about this after being unable to talk publicly about the design work I’ve done for Satellite as I was working on it since it was closed-source for so long. Despite this strange feeling, I want to blog about some of the stuff I worked on this week …