This is going to be mostly for 10/26 - 11/2 but with some other background information from other things I worked on in October.
We are Red Hat Week happened last week which was super fun! On 10/26 I attended the emerging OS CY22Q3 celebration to play bingo and get updates. On Thursday 10/27 I was in the Boston office and joined the Crayons to Cradle group, packing hygiene kits for kids ages 3-12 and coloring pieces of paper for them. Really great to see everyone from around Red Hat.
Community Design Team
The community design team is organizing lots of fun things. The Fedora community blog will hopefully have a monthly blog post from the team and needs a graphic to go along with it (ideas sketched out by yours truly below).
Plans for the Creative Freedom Summit will be shared soon, and I will be hosting a game session as well as a talk about how Fedora Uses Krita. The ticket to organize that will be here and here on the fedora discussion.
The sketches below were some concept art for the Open Up game. Just to get a kind of feel of the world and help those working on the project.
This sketch was for the podman desktop team to try and visualize an illustration in a space.
Fedora 38
These are some idea sketches for Fedora 38. Very fitting since Fedora 37 Launch party is this weekend!
Outreachy
This Friday, November 4th is the application deadline for Outreachy. For the past four weeks, the applicants have been contributing to the Fedora Design sphere and tickets for the internship. The teams on the fedora server need cohesive icons, that still distinguish them from other teams.
I led the design team meeting from 1:30 PM EST - 3:15 PM EST on 10/26. For the first 30 minutes we went over design work from myself and Jess for the regular design team issues, and the rest was dedicated to Outreachy. Below are the icons that I created before to include in the project proposal. The project’s epic lives here on gitlab.
A lot of really great work has been produced in such a short time and it’s going to be tough to choose just one person for the internship but I’m looking forward to the next step. Hopefully, those who don’t get chosen for Outreachy but still have an interest in the fedora design team will stay close by contributing regardless.
My main tasks in this stage have been providing answers to questions that cover a wide range, of design in general, the icons, how to do things in Inkscape, and how applicants’ work will be documented for the final application. Before the deadline tomorrow I plan on spending some time seeing which icons in the tickets are worthy of being chosen as the final icon so applicants can record whether or not their contribution was accepted.
Hope everyone had an amazing October and see you back with an update next week.