Fedora Design Team Sessions Live: Session #1
As announced in the Fedora Community Blog, today we had our inaugural Fedora Design Team Live Session Thanks for everyone who joined! I lost count at how many folks we had participate, we had at least...
View ArticleUser Experience (UX) + Free Software = ❤
Today I gave a talk at DevConf.cz, which I previously gave as a keynote this past November at SeaGL, about UX and Free Software using the ChRIS project as an example. This is a blog-formatted version...
View ArticleA new conceptual model for Fedora
Screenshot of the current getfedora.org website Fedora’s web presence today It’s no news now that Fedora has a new logo, and what you may not realize is that we do not have a new website – when we...
View ArticleRunning Penpot locally, Docker-free, with Podman!
Penpot is a new free & open source design tool I have been using a lot lately. It is a tool the Fedora Design Team has picked up (we have a team area on the public https://penpot.app server where...
View ArticleWacom calibration troubleshooting on Fedora
My colleague Madeline Peck have the same laptop that we each got late this past fall. It’s the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen 6, and it is a dream computer, with integrated Wacom screen and stylus...
View ArticleWorking with gradient meshes in Inkscape & Scribus to produce print-ready...
I recorded a ~20-minute video tutorial demonstrating how to work with mesh gradients in Inkscape, importing them into Scribus and producing print-ready CMYK artwork. You can watch it above embedded...
View ArticleAbstract wallpapers in Blender using geometry nodes
One project I am working on in hopes of having something ready in Fedora 37 final is a new set of installed-by-default but not set as default extra wallpapers for Fedora. These wallpapers would have...
View ArticleHow to automate graphics production with Inkscape
I recorded a 15-minute long tutorial demonstrating how to automate the production of graphics from a CSV file or spreadsheet (basically a mailmerge type deal for graphics) in Inkscape, using the Next...
View ArticlePart 2: How to automate graphics production with Inkscape
A couple weeks ago I recorded a 15-minute tutorial with supporting materials on how to automate graphics production in Inkscape by building a base template and automatically replacing various text...
View ArticleRun an open source-powered virtual conference!
Yes, you really can run a virtual conference using only open source tools. The Fedora Design Team discovered this first-hand hosting the very first Creative Freedom Summit in January, 2023. Using open...
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