[Design-team] Self-intro
Greetings, My name is Ian MacGregor, I use the nickname "ardchoille" online, and I am a member of Clan Gregor. My nickname (ardchoille) was taken from the phrase "Ard Choille!", which is Scottish Gaelic for "To the high trees!" - the war cry of my clan. My Fedora wiki page can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ardchoille42 I served in the US Navy, as a field medic (NEC HM-8404), where I visited several countries and participated in UNITAS. Fraternities I joined during my time in the US Navy include Order of the Golden Dragon (crossed the international date line), Order of the Ditch (passed through the panama canal), Order of the Shellback (crossed the equator). I also served in the Texas Army National Guard. I have been using computers since 1983 and building computers since 2001. I have been using Linux since it became my primary operating system in 2001. I started my Linux journey with Debian GNU/Linux. From there I went on to use Fedora Core (fc1, fc2, fc3, fc4), Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva), MEPIS, Ubuntu, CentOS and am currently using Fedora 13. Fedora seems to be the best distro for me due to its sane defaults and its outstanding community. My Fedora activities * Member of the Fedora Websites Project * Member of the Fedora Forums * Maintain the Fedora classroom page * Maintain the Classroom Archives pages * Teach classes in Fedora classroom * Contributions to the Fedora wiki * Introduce others to the Fedora Project My computer hobbies * Write documentation * Write tutorials * Write shell scripts * Design HTML templates * Design graphics * Things I have created: * Designed graphics for DistroWatch * Design GTK/Metacity themes. My most recent GTK/Metacity theme can be found here * Design icon themes * Design desktop wallpaper * Design skins for conky, gKRELLm, mplayer and other apps * Design icons for developers of the Android OS platform * Design html templates * Design skins for PmWiki. My most recent pmwiki skin can be found here My most recent GTK/Metacity theme can be found at: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/NewSlickness+Round?content=124915 My most recent PmWiki skin can be found at: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Bluehead Thank you and I'm looking forward to working with you good folks :) Regards, Rev. Dr. Ian MacGregor ___ design-team mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
[Design-team] Tutorial ideas for the new fp.o site
I'm happy, no excited to be a part of the new fp.o website and have come up with some ideas for tutorials: * Agave tutorial - creating color schemes with agave * Crontab tutorial - creating a cronjob * Desktop launcher tutorial - creating a desktop launcher * GIMP tutorial - creating custom desktop wallpapers * Gnote tutorial - using the gnote app I can write most of these as I use all of these apps, and I have taught a class on crontab recently. I'm submitting these for feedback. What does everyone think? ___ design-team mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
Re: [Design-team] Tutorial ideas for the new fp.o site
2010/7/16 Máirín Duffy > Hi Ian! > > On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 08:21 -0700, Ian MacGregor wrote: > > I'm happy, no excited to be a part of the new fp.o website and have > > come up with some ideas for tutorials: > > > > * Agave tutorial - creating color schemes with agave > > * Crontab tutorial - creating a cronjob > > * Desktop launcher tutorial - creating a desktop launcher > > * GIMP tutorial - creating custom desktop wallpapers > > * Gnote tutorial - using the gnote app > > > > I can write most of these as I use all of these apps, and I have > > taught a class on crontab recently. I'm submitting these for feedback. > > What does everyone think? > > This is a great start! I think we should be looking to produce tutorials > on how-to do things posed in terms of the user's life rather than the > technology, which is really the only critique I have of your list. For > example, here's a stab at how these might be posed better to reflect a > site visitor's POV: > > - How to build beautiful color palettes for your home and wardrobe > (Agave) > > - Automatically upload your files to a backup drive every week > (crontab) > > - Access your favorite app with one click > (desktop launcher) > > - Decorate your desktop with family photos > (Gimp tutorial) > > - Get organized and build a personal database > (Gnote) > > > Out of these, though, I think crontab and desktop launcher stand out to > me as maybe not being the best for beginning users. Crontab is not > really for the faint of heart (I have an RHCT and I still prefer GUI > apps to interacting with crontab on the desktop - I only crontab on the > servers I admin). The desktop launcher I think, is kind of difficult to > pose in terms of something the user can accomplish - I think it's too > implementation/desktop specific. > > One tutorial you forgot from the list is turning your friends into the > Hulk with cheese. I think that could replace the crontab one quite well. > I would suggest maybe coming up with a different idea to replace the > desktop launcher one as well, unless you can think of a strong user > story behind it. > > ~m > > ___ > design-team mailing list > design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team > Excellent advice all around! I'll replace the crontab tutorial with the cheese idea and drop the desktop launcher idea. The folks I've already met on the project have lots of energy, I can already see that this is going to be fun! ___ design-team mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
Re: [Design-team] pop up business cards
> 2010/7/13 Nicu Buculei : > > On 07/13/2010 05:14 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > >> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 09:40 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > >>> > >>> With that said, here is a constructive idea: how about making possible, > >>> for people who want that, to add the hackergotchi image on the cards? I > >>> saw someone doing this (my friend Rejon from status.net) and think it > is > >>> an *awesome* idea and a nice and warm human touch. > >> > >> I think that's a cool idea! > > > > Something like this but with a proper hackergotchi instead: > > http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/nicubunu-front.png > > > > -- > > nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ > > ___ > > design-team mailing list > > design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team > > I think putting the hackergotchi on a business card is an excellent idea! Regards, Ian MacGregor ___ design-team mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
