Dearadh Oscailte Abú! (Open Design Forever!)
Have a cool idea for a Fedora theme? Ever look at one of the old Fedora themes and think you could do better? Now is the time to propose your ideas for Fedora 9. The deadline is 8 January, 2008. What format do you need to submit your idea in? You need to write a …
Jason Kottke emailed me today to let me know he opened up his Silkscreen Font under the Open Font License today, and also uploaded it to the Open Font Library. The font only has Latin characters, but it’s a cool font because it’s usable in extremely small applications where other fonts aren’t legible at that …
I spent the morning of Day 1 at FOSS.in at GNOME project day. I was pretty excited to meet Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay and Runa Bhattacharjee in person finally. 🙂 Sankarshan’s encouragement is one of the main reasons I decided to try to submit my talks to FOSS.in (Anne Østergaard’s encouragement is another 🙂 ) We started …
Hello from Bangalore! Just got back to my lodgings after the first day of FOSS.in! I still have lots of pictures and stuff to upload, but here are a couple of videos I took yesterday of the scenery in Bangalore. I have to say the traffic here is amazing; there doesn’t seem to be any …
I think probably a lot of people that read my blog are Nine Inch Nails fans so maybe this isn’t news to anyone, but Nine Inch Nails put out a new album of fan remixes of the Year Zero album’s song. The album is a two-disc set that also includes a DVD of the multitrack …
Giacomo Succi (Anadir on IRC), one of the more recent recruits to the Fedora Art Team 🙂 has put together a nice set of designs for your Fedora 8 media! Included are: Another variation of the CD/DVD label A design for a folding paper or cardboard box Insert design for a jewel case Insert design …
Hey, so it seems some folks had some trouble with the labels I posted before – it’s not easy to work with the SVGs without some Inkscape knowledge since the way I did them they aren’t perfectly sized (there is some padding around them.) So to make it easier for folks to get some nice …
Here’s some labels for you to print out to get ready for F8’s release 🙂 DVD x86: [ Inkscape SVG ] [ glabels file ] [ PNG ]  DVD x86_64: [ Inkscape SVG ] [ glabels file ] [ PNG ]  DVD ppc: [ Inkscape SVG ] [ glabels file ] [ PNG ]  Live CD x86: [ Inkscape SVG …
Just a quick update on where the blingy spins.fpo is at right now – it’s doubtful it will be ready in time for f8’s release but we’re still making some progress. much much more detail behind the link. and now, a word from our sponsors: we need your photos for the spins.fpo site! please please …