Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay
That’s right!!! We are officially ready to start brainstorming for Fedora 36 Wallpaper ideas because our candidate with a K last name has been chosen (drum roll please) and it’s Deepika Kurup!!!
Ideas and progress are going to be documented on pagure, issue 789.
To recap, Deepika Kurup is an inventor, scientist, and clean water advocate.
Kurup's initial idea that won her the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist in 2012 is based on using a photocatalytic compound for water purification. In 2015 she developed a pervious photocatalytic composite using sand, TiO2, Portland cement, and silver nitrate. This photocatalytic pervious composite showed 98% reduction in total coliform bacteria immediately after filtration. Exposure of the filtered water to sunlight with a photocatalytic composite disc resulted in 100% inactivation of total coliform bacteria.
This has a lot of different paths we could go in! Playing around with whether we wanted a landscape that emphasized the sun and water like Fedora 34, or if we wanted to symbolize bacteria in a way with the water in a gradient effect going from dirty to clean. A few of our voters commented that this is globally meaningful, and exploring the element of water and the inventor presents a new generation.
Thank you to everyone who voted and gave comments on the candidates! It’s greatly appreciated!
The next step was a brainstorming session for figuring out different paths we could go down together. So we met on Wednesday, November 3rd at the design team meeting which was 1:30-2 PM EST?*
*This is our usual time slot which we will continue to use for most of the future sessions. But if you can’t make this time of the week, feel free to call and host another brainstorm session if there is a more compatible different time slot! Or if the majority of people who want to attend can’t meet then we can move the time slot.
1. Nature/Water Cycle
Some ideas were a physical landscape where land and water meet. It was brought up that we could leave an easter egg of trees from previous wallpapers. Marie also brought up the idea of dew droplets. Especially since Kurup’s invention involves hollow glass microspheres, so the droplets could represent both water and the shape of the microspheres.
2. Transparency/Reflection
Water’s transparency was brought up as a visual element to play around with. Transparency is also key in Fedora’s OpenSource process.
Either one or more reflective orbs being the end result of the filtered process reflecting the world around us and the clean ending.
3. Filter/Purification
Mo brought up how water gets filtered so it’s easy to digest, the same way Fedora is which results in it being the better “purified” desktop. We discussed particles and elements being filtered out potentially in a gradient abstractly or concrete representation.
We talked about how this invention and the ability to filter particles out of the water, mirrors our necessity to filter air when it comes to covid, and how it offers hope.
Next steps:
Going forward anyone who wants to be involved is encouraged to pursue whichever avenue they’re the most interested in and work on some thumbnail sketches (they are supposed to get the creative juices flowing with ideas not overly detailed) to figure out some potential compositions.
:D Please have fun with this and don’t feel restricted by any of the topics discussed above! Any other ideas are welcomed.
And one last reminder that the ticket issue is #789 on pagure!!