[kde-guidelines] Fwd: Re: [kde-artists] [kde-promo] PING!!! "Revitalize the Design Crew. Hand count."

[Carl Symons]

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Subject: Re: [kde-artists] [kde-promo] PING!!! "Revitalize the Design 
Crew. Hand count."
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:37:31 +0100
From: David Brandl <db at davidb.at>
To: Carl Symons <carlsymons at gmail.com>

Hi I´m David, I work as an graphician in a printshop. I also work as
freelancer as graphic designer and webdesigner.

I made some icons for Jan Grulich´s Network Manager and so I came up
with the work on KDE!

I´m interested in any part of design - just let me know what´s to do and
I´ll help!

Have a nice day!



Am 19.01.2014 16:59, schrieb Carl Symons:
> On 01/19/2014 06:30 AM, Jens Reuterberg wrote:
>> Hi my name is Jens Reuterberg, I work as a freelance illustrator and
>> graphics
>> designer and recently got involved with KDE's designwork for "Plasma
>> 2"/"Plasma by KDE"/What the name now will be.
>>
>>
>> This was send to KDE-guidelines and KDE-artists mailing lists.
>> KDE-promo needs
>> to be in on this as well to get a good well rounded Crew (as this will
>> directly affect you guys probably)
>>
>> __________________________________________
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Here.
>
> Thank you for initiating this. Contributions are wanted.
>
> In addition to knowing that you are active, please indicate what you
> are actively doing or what you want to do..."design, interaction
> design, graphical design, marketing", and anything else that fits in
> the design realm within KDE.
>
> Carl Symons
> - Marketing Working Group within KDE e.V.
> - KDE news editor at dot.kde.org
> - Akademy production team
> - writing/editing, and mentoring of those
> - promotion
> - speak and exhibit at free software conferences
> - wear my designer Eugene Trounev/conf.kde.in t-shirt in
> Bellingham-WA-US; home of the original grass roots linuxfestnorthwest.org
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