[kde-guidelines] Revitalize the Design Crew. Hand count.
Jens Reuterberg
jens at ohyran.se
Sun Jan 19 13:53:34 UTC 2014
Me and Thomas Pfeiffer talked about this yesterday and I said I should post
about it here - essentially I have a plan to try to create, or revitalize a
design crew for KDE. Now I know there has been allot of people who have worked
allot with design within KDE for years and that there was a larger group a
while back - so this is not me trying to steal the thunder or anything, just
trying to do something positive.
The main issue is that as a KDE user and someone who works with visual design
- I didn't know you guys existed. I knew, like many, that "KDE is anti-
designy" which is a fallacy along the lines of "KDE is bloated" so it wasn't
until I was contacted by Aaron and Sebas that I even considered helping out
because I assumed it wasn't wanted.
There are allot of good methods and pathways for devs to contribute and work -
but how do we adopt them for design work and how do we get more people to use
them and contribute?
The first step for this should be a quick "Who are active?" hand count. Just to
know which of us work with design, interaction design, graphical design,
marketing etc - the whole spectra - and which of us are interested in doing it
actively.
Second after finding out which of us are active and ready to participate, get a
grips of where to go from there to help create a positive work flow for
designers within KDE, an inclusive environment for people to help out with the
design work needed and also how to make people aware that a need exists and a
group exist for this.
So who's here?
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