

Lately I’ve been blogging about the proposal for new Fedora websites to account for the Fedora.next effort. So far, the proposal has been met with warm reception and excitement! (Yay!)

We Really Would Love Your Help

Two very important things that I’d like to make clear at this point:

This plan is not set in stone. It’s very sketchy, and needs more refinement and ideas. There is most certainly room to join in and contribute to the plan! Things are still quite flexible; we’re still in the early stages!

It’s very sketchy, and needs more refinement and ideas. There is most certainly room to join in and contribute to the plan! Things are still quite flexible; we’re still in the early stages! We would love your help! I know this usually goes without saying in FLOSS, but I still think it is worth saying. We would love more folks – with any skillset – to help us figure this out and make this new web presence for Fedora happen!

Are you interested in helping out? Or perhaps you’d just like to play around with our assets – no strings attached – for fun, or follow along on the progress at a lower level than just reading these blog posts? Let’s talk about where the action is happening so you can get in on it! 🙂

How To Get Involved

Up until this point, the Fedora.next web ideas and mockups have been scattered across various blogs, Fedora people pages, and git repos. We talked a bit last week in #fedora-design about centralizing all of our assets in one place to make it easier to collaborate and for new folks to come on board and help us out. Here’s what we’ve set up so far:

A Fedora Design GitHub group – I’ve already added many of our friends from the Fedora Design team. If you’d like to be included, let me know your github usersname!

– I’ve already added many of our friends from the Fedora Design team. If you’d like to be included, let me know your github usersname! nextweb-assets git repo – This repo has the Inkscape SVG source for the mockups and diagrams I’ve been blogging here. Please feel free to check them out, remix them, or contribute your own! I tried to set up a sensible directory structure. I recommend hooking this repo up to SparkleShare for a nice workflow with Inkscape.

– This repo has the Inkscape SVG source for the mockups and diagrams I’ve been blogging here. Please feel free to check them out, remix them, or contribute your own! I tried to set up a sensible directory structure. I recommend hooking this repo up to SparkleShare for a nice workflow with Inkscape. mockups-getfedora git repo – This repo holds the prototype Ryan has been working on for the new getfedora.org ‘Brochure Site’ in the proposal.

We also, of course, have #fedora-design in freenode IRC for discussing the design, as well as the design-team mailing list for discussion.

The Fedora Websites team will be setting up a branch for the new websites work sometime by the end of next week. For now, you can take a look at the mockups-getfedora repo. You also might want to set up a local copy of the Fedora websites repo by following these instructions to get familiar with the Fedora websites workflow.

Okay, I hope this makes it abundantly clear that we’d love your help and gives you some clear steps towards starting to get involved should you be interested. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me or really anyone on the design team or websites team if you’d like to get started!