Revitalize the Design Crew. Hand count.
Jens Reuterberg <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:53:34 +0100
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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?