I’m super excited to announce the news that I have just started a new role for Red Hat: Fedora Interaction Designer!  I’m joining the Fedora Engineering Team, and get to work with the awesome Mo Duffy as the second designer on the team.

Over the past nearly 4 years, I have been working for Red Hat as a content author creating documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (specifically the Release Notes and Technical Notes), and more recently I have been working on the UI of many of the Engineering Tools. In my spare time i also been hanging out with the Fedora Design team, and lending a hand there whenever i can. I’m super excited about the transition to start working full-time on the tools and websites that Fedora Users and Contributors use each and every day.

Over the next few weeks, we will be working on formulating a plan to help enhance the UX for new and existing Fedora Users and contributors. That said, feedback from the fedora community about a few things would be awesome for identifying issues with the way things currently are:

New Fedora Users

If you are new Fedora user , I would love to hear from you about any challenges you faced (especially with fedoraproject.org) trying to get information about the fedora project or downloading and installing Fedora itself. Feel free to comment on this post with thoughts and suggestions!

Fedora Contributors

If you are a fedora contributor, what are your opinions about the current state of the tools you use to contribute? If you can think back far enough to when you started contributing to the Fedora Project do you remember any challenges you faced when first trying to learn the ropes?  Feel free to comment on this post with thoughts and suggestions!

Your feedback will be invaluable for helping identify where the roadblocks are for new fedora users and contributors, so the right signposts and pointers can be created to help new Fedora people join our awesome community!

cheers,

ryanlerch

My blog has moved from its previous home at ryanler.wordpress.com to http://www.ryanlerch.org/blog/

cheers,

ryanlerch

The fedora-design team is currently trialling new branding fonts.

shameless crosspost from inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com =)

With the readership of the inkscape tutorials weblog steadily increasing over the past year, there are many great tutorials deep in the blog archives that newer readers may not have discovered yet. Therefore to celebrate the forthcoming milestone of 1.5 million page views of this site, we have decided to list the top 10 inkscape tutorials that have been featured on the inkscape tutorials blog to date.

Text and Simple Styling An awesome tutorial from Troy Sobotka detailing how to create a colourful outset text effect.

Creating a Business Card Template and Basic Business Card with Inkscape Create a business card template using inkscape, and learn how to populate it with a simple business card design.

Shattered, Smashed and Grungy Text in Inkscape A step by step on creating a smashed and grungy text effect using inkscape..

Create a Lightbulb Icon that follows the tango! guidelines. This tutorial provides a detailed how-to on creating a lightbulb icon that uses the tango! icon set guidelines.

Create an impressive stick man cartoon character / avatar A super detailed guide to creating a stick man cartoon character using inkscape.

Draw A Realistic Vector Guitar in Inkscape In this tutorial, Nick Roberts demonstrates in detail how to illustrate a “Fender Stratocaster” type guitar. The final result is stunning, and the author has detailed the steps superbly with many super useful screen shots.

Creating a Coffee Cup using inkscape Another detailed and impressive tutorial from the vectortuts website. This tutorial demonstrates how to draw a coffee cup using inkscape.

How to make RPG map elements with inkscape. This is a great tutorial on creating RPG map symbols using inkscape. The tutorial outlines a workflow for creating a simple jailhouse RPG element.

chrome text effect From the same author as the “Text and Simple Styling tutorial”, Here is a another that demonstrates how to create chrome text effect using inkscape.

sticker with a folded / dog ear edge here is a cool tutorial for creating a simple sticker / decal with a folded down edge.

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Here is a tutorial that i whipped up for worldlabel.com (excerpt is from inkcsapetutorials.wordpress.com)

Here is a great tutorial for creating business cards using Inkscape. This tutorial has two main sections.

The first details how to create a printer ready template from a PDF guide using clones and guides. Using clones in this fashion to create a template in inkscape is awesome; once the template is created correctly, the changes that are made to the original populate thoughout the rest of the tempate!

The second section provides a detailed process for creating a basic business card (with a nifty pinstripe background). This portion of the tutorial is a great introduction into basic fill / stroke techniques, pattern fills and text editing and kerning.

This tutorial is published by worldlabel.com. Worldlabel are quite active over at the open clip art library producing the “Clipart of the Week” and have also donated a substantial amount of public domain clipart to the library.

just a quick note. my mate mdious now has a blog!!!

http://mdious.wordpress.com/

that is all.

I got Mariokart wii the other day, so when i saw this driving home one afternoon, i almost came to the conclusion that i have been playing it a bit too much…

Jon gives a very nice blog post about the things to look forward to if F9…
Personally I Can’t Wait…

Jon Said:
“The first distro to include KDE 4 by default, PackageKit, NetworkManager working CDMA and GSM cards out of the box, support for installing to encrypted partitions, persistent, custom live USB sticks…”

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LGM

Originally uploaded by AndyFitz

andy has already got a start on the art for LGM4, and it is awesome. I can’t make it for LGM3 in wroclaw, so im already hyped for Singapore LGM4!