#682 Fedora zine - Call for ideas and submissions!
Closed: Fixed 2 years ago by riecatnor. Opened 3 years ago by smeragoel.

phenomenon

Call for ideas for the next edition of Fedora zine!

reason

The purpose of this zine is to recognise people who are making Fedora awesome, gain contributors and highlight products. The zine will be distributed at conferences and events, and a downloadable copy will also be available.

recommendation

Currently, @riecatnor has suggested a bunch of ideas, including:
- Infographics which highlight the accomplishments of mindshare teams in Fedora
- Art, made by Fedora contributors
- Animals of Fedora: Pictures of pets of Fedora Contributors

The target audience of this zine is wide- from people who are super knowledgeable about tech stuff to the regular everyday user to someone who doesn't know anything about Fedora.
All ideas and submissions are welcome!


As mentioned on Social Hour, https://wizardzines.com/ might be of interest.

Any interest in having some part of a play in there? I wrote and performed this at PyCon 2019 and it features @duffy in a section titled "Sending an email to a stranger in tech." Fedora was the 1st community that I encountered that was openly seeking volunteers in design specifically. I've done some badges as well as collaborated on some wallpapers (F26 & F32).

The whole play is here but it may make more sense to just take one section depending on what you're looking for. Let me know!

https://kylerconway.com/2020/03/16/hello-world-2/

@kylerconway this is awesome! I would suggest choosing an excerpt (your favorite perhaps :)). If you provide text only, we will take artistic license in the composition and background. If you would prefer to arrange and pair it with some background, that would also work

The Fedora-relevant section is probably the below...


Sending an email to a stranger in tech.

(slide reads: “on sending an email to a stranger in tech”)

Kyle

(straight to audience. single light.)

(like an awkward introduction at a job interview. exasperated:)

Hi. I’m Kyle. I’m new here. I want to get better at this technology thing. Can you help me? You seem like you could help me.

(beat.)

’cause I need a lot of help.

(ding sound. beat. overly formal:)

Hello. My name is Kyle R. Conway. I have a PhD … in Fine Arts … and you do art … and so do I … but you also do tech things … tech things with art. I would like to do what you do. May I join you?

(extends hand for handshake. beat. wide eyes. beat. more intense.)

(ding sound. beat. casual:)

Hey, tech blogger. I really liked your post about unpackaged fonts with permissive licenses. I think that’s really cool.

(ding sound. beat. rapid-fire round. cheeky:)

Howdy!

(ding sound. beat. Irish:)

Dia duit!

(ding sound. beat. concerned:)

I promise I’m not a creepy stranger.

(ding sound. beat. intense:)

I. Am. Your. Biggest. Fan.

(gong sound. rubbing eyes. honest:)

This is never going to work.

(quick fade. slide reads: “Kyle’s actual first email to a stranger in tech.”)

Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:36 PM>
Máirín,
Would the “Nina” font meet the criteria for inclusion?
http://www.archive.org/details/NinaPaleyFonts
Thanks,
KYLE

(slide reads: “Thanks for writing back, Máirín”)

Umm...I gave my first try for the fedora zine...hope its fine😅

I would like to submit a painting I made with watercolours and Krita. Where and how do I do that?

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuVeLCcdqqUrdUqM2OOmpkKAlhk
I have uploaded in this link

@aneendyadg that looks great!! Any chance you have a photo without the vignette filter?

I would like to submit a painting I made with watercolours and Krita. Where and how do I do that?

@lailah you can upload the file here, or on a file-sharing service and comment the link here!

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuVeLCcdqqUrdUqM2OOmpkKAlhk
I have uploaded in this link

@aneendyadg that looks great!! Any chance you have a photo without the vignette filter?
Yeah I have...Do you want me to upload that picture?

Here's a poem from my Pandemic Diary.

To plant things is to believe in tomorrow.
The boy waters the tender shoots
of the newly planted.
These times test our resolve.
Sometimes I look for signs
that things will be all right.
The air is clear. I can breathe deeply.
I have to believe it CAN get better.
I decide to be tender toward myself
and my helplessness.
The virus has no feelings. But I have felt a lot.
All those lives ticked off like they are only numbers.
But they are not.
It is the most tender of times
in the worst of times.
I once saw an inscription that said,
"Love is stronger than death."
And death is all around us,
singing its own song.
Right now the dog rests under a blue sky.
So many moments that skimmed
the surface of loneliness.
We are all surrounded by the lonely.
Each day feels the same,
the topic of doom a permanent fixture.
The days are so strange now.
Sometimes it feels too much to awaken.
There are birds at the feeder.
And the finches are going crazy.
We could not have imagined times like these.
I meditate on what matters most to me.
I meditate on this everyday now.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuVeLCcdqqUrdUqM2OOmpkKAlhk
I have uploaded in this link
@aneendyadg that looks great!! Any chance you have a photo without the vignette filter?
Yeah I have...Do you want me to upload that picture?

@aneendyadg yeah, that'd be awesome!

Okay...I have uploaded it without the filters...
This is the link
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuVeLCcdqqUrdnrXiUqfB2YCz4g

I would like to contribute with this painting. I started it on canvas with watercolours but I painted most of it on Krita with a Wacom Intuos tablet.

Here is the link:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rAA0oG

I would like to submit a painting I made with watercolours and Krita. Where and how do I do that?

@lailah you can upload the file here, or on a file-sharing service and comment the link here!

Posted the link. Thank you!

@aneendyadg thank you! looks awesome :D
@lailah thanks! it looks gorgeous!
@riecatnor woah all of these are AMAZING!

Going through my photo library and dropping some things in here. It's a lot, so I'm going to break up each collection of photos into different comments. Sorry for making so much noise.

Fedora <3 Students!

This is a collection of different things from over the years, all about Fedora and students.

Bitcamp 2016

Some happy memories from Bitcamp 2016 with North America Ambassadors @cydrobolt, @linuxmodder, and @mikedep333:

Fedora Ambassador group photo at our booth:

Fedora Ambassador group photo at our booth

@cydrobolt and @jflory7 visit Washington D.C. for the first time and see the Washington Monument!

Washington Monument - Chaoyi and Justin.JPG

Fedora <3 Students!

This is a collection of different things from over the years, all about Fedora and students.

BrickHack 2016

In 2016, we went to the BrickHack hackathon at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Incidentally, a lot of streams ended up crossing at this event. :smile:

Late-night Fedora hack session crew. Featuring: @ralph, @decause, @ngompa, and other friends. These are folks who abandoned hope on their hackathon projects, and instead decided to explore how to contribute to the Fedora Community and earn badges!

Late-night Fedora hack session crew

BrickHack open source winners. These were the winners of our Open Source Challenge. I forgot how we determined this, but I'm pretty sure it was with earning Fedora Badges.

Winners of Fedora Open Source Challenge

A legendary duo. @ralph and @decause are pretty good buds. Mike Nolan, sneaking in the back, is also a friend:

threebean and decause, ft. nolski

ZOMG a Fedora booth!:

ZOMG a Fedora booth!

BrickHack 2016 Open Source Winner badge artwork. We had a super-special, limited-edition Fedora Badge to help motivate our Fedora recruitees for contributing! (see badge here)

BrickHack 2016 Open Source Winner badge artwork

Fedora <3 Students!

This is a collection of different things from over the years, all about Fedora and students.

HackMIT 2016 and 2017

We went to the annual HackMIT hackathon in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2016 and in 2017. These photos feature myself, @cprofitt, and @mikedep333:

(2016) @cprofitt mentors a group of students working on a hackathon project:

Charles Profitt mentors a group of students working on a hackathon project

(2016) The Fedora "booth" at HackMIT! It was unconventional but it worked well since we were directly facing tables of student hackers.:

The Fedora "booth" at HackMIT! It was unconventional but it worked well since we were directly facing tables of student hackers.

(2016) @cprofitt mentors May Tomic on her project as the final submission window approaches:

Charles mentors May Tomic on her project as the final submission window approaches

(2016) Group photo with another group of @cprofitt's mentees:

Group photo with another group of Charles's mentees

(2017) @mikedep333 at the Fedora booth (this year, we got a real table):

Mike DePaulo at the Fedora booth (this year, we got a real table)

(2017) Full house - the full auditorium of student hackers during the event:

Full house - the full auditorium of student hackers during the event

(2017) "Put a Face to It" team demos their work to the Fedora submission judging team:

"Put a Face to It" team demos their work to the Fedora submission judging team

Faces of Flock

Year-by-year snapshots of our annual contributor conference. Since this year, the group photo tradition is going to have to be virtual! (P.S. – Gonna have to ask someone like @rsuehle, @spot, or @mattdm for pre-2015 Flock pics!)

Flock 2015 - Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, NY United States:

Flock 2015 - Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, NY United States

Flock 2016 - Krakow, Poland:

Flock 2016 - Krakow, Poland

Somehow I am missing the 2017 group photo in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. But I wonder if @duffy might know where it is.

A bunchload of more artsy photos I took at Flock 2017.

Flock 2017 - Comics & Coffee interview with @jflory7: (What do Fedora Project contributors think about Fedora?)

Flock 2017 - Comics & Coffee interview with Justin

Flock 2018 conference group photo:

Flock 2018 conference group photo

Also, not sure if this fits for a zine, but there is also @tatica's amazing Flock 2019 video she composed too.

This is my last comment of photos, but some stragglers that did not fit anywhere else:


@sumantrom, @siddharthvipul1, and a handful of others over the years helped organize FOSS Wave events for students in India. On September 17th, 2016 (while I was at HackMIT actually), I joined @a2batic and @devyani7 to talk about open source and Fedora. I can't remember exactly what we talked about now, though. :grinning:

September 2016 FOSS Wave call with guest speaker Justin W. Flory

A fun event photo at the Fedora booth from LinuxCon Europe on October 6th, 2016. Pictured left to right: @ bee2502, @mitzie, @asamalik, @bex, @eischmann.

LinuxCon 2016 Fedora booth and Fedora team

hey all,

this is a piece of art i made inspired by the major league baseball logo, it's a remix/deconstruction of the fedora logo that i call "Fedora Major League Distro". i submit it here for any use, it's licensed as CC-BY-SA.

Fedora Major League Distro

fedora-major-league-distro.svg

@sayanchowdhury

The skull is amazing! The photos are great too, but one of them returns 404 error. I don't know why. Please, could you check that?

Cheers and thank you!

@lailah I missed uploading the imag which gave 404. I've uploaded it now. Thanks for noticing :100:

@lailah I missed uploading the imag which gave 404. I've uploaded it now. Thanks for noticing :100:

You're welcome!
I particularly love Garden by the bay.

I have one poem in Czech (@riecatnor told me that this shouldn't be an issue) . I wrote it some time ago. In English it's called "innocence".

Nevinnost

Pod svitem luny nevinné srdce,
tančí a směje se, neznaje biče.
Nevidouc nebezpečí okolo sebe,
nemaje strach z černého nebe.

Neznaje života a špatných chvil,
nebylo ran, jenž by utržil.
Avšak jednou přijde ten zlom
a černá mračna se protrhnou.

Kapky deště jako slzy dopadnou na zem
a přinesou s sebou bláto a černý sen.
Sen, jenž je naplněn smutkem a nenávistí,
obejme srdce a již je nepustí.

Srdce s tím bojuje, avšak nechá se unést.
Labyrintem temnoty nechá se provést.
Nebyl to strach, byla to zvědavost,
co zkazilo srdce a neřeklo dost.

Srdce, však nevědouc co je čeká,
vesele tančí, směje se a zpívá.
Kéž mohlo by zůstat nevinným srdcem 
a schovat svou krásu před okolním světem.

Poster I did for the Fedora/CentOS-based Linux distribution I created for Boston University, 2006. We didn't have any designers on the team. :)

stormy-poster72dpi.png

I don't really agree with a cartoon idea, I would see the design image to something vectorized created with Inkscape ...
You can use some of my ideas from the wiki page https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mythcat

Wow, looks great! The title is "An Entry from the Pandemic Diary"

Thanks!

@jenny73hawaii I illustrated your poem and this is what I made. I hope you like it :) All I need from you now is a title for the poem, and I'll add that in. Thanks for your contribution :raised_hands:

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Metadata Update from @riecatnor:
- Issue tagged with: outreachy-2020

3 years ago

Hi @riecatnor! I would like working on some ideas por the Fedora Zine. I am in the contribution period for outreachy. Should I sent you an email? Thank you!

hi @agusf go ahead ! I look forward to what you create :)

Pot aime de niou-bie

Pas de hauts faits
Mais
Fait d'aura?
encore un mot obsqueer
Tourne en boucle
un escargot
or à l'aulne
d'un métier à tisser
un nouveau motif
beaucoup de points
d'espace
de nouvelles fugues

encore un compte
et une toile immense

Crayon levé -
Où commencer?

Nattes - drawing in 15 minutes - poem in 6 minutes - instataneous poetry
(Done when participating to FWD as a total newbie)

IMG_2586.jpg

@nattes thank you for the submissions :) beautiful!

I would like to submit this acrylic painting I did recently: see attachment.

On 10/19/20 8:18 AM, Marie Nordin wrote:

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@nattes thank you for the submissions :) beautiful!

To reply, visit the link below or just reply to this email
https://pagure.io/design/issue/682

Hi @ajfbiz the attachment didn't come through, I think you replied on email? Please visit: https://pagure.io/design/issue/682 and add your file as an attachment or provide a link as a comment. Thank you for your contribution! :)

Hi @riecatnor ! I have a few questions: What size and how many pages should the Zine have? Where can I look for past editions of the Zine? Hope you can help me! Thank you! :)

Hey, @ooree , those are too cute!! It's a shame we can't actually use images of fedoras (as well as penguins) in our designs.
Great for comic relief though!

Hey, @ooree , those are too cute!! It's a shame we can't actually use images of fedoras (as well as penguins) in our designs.
Great for comic relief though!

Hey @mleonova I had no idea. Thank you for the feedback. I'm glad you liked it. I'll work on something new

@riecatnor @smeragoel Some ideas:
• "Heatmap" of where Fedora contributors are from.
• Wall with handwritten words from Fedorans that describe what the project means to them.
• A game, like a labyrinth in the shape of the logo (maybe the path forms the F from the logo?), or a crossword with squares in the shape of the logo? Maybe if someone completes it correctly they submit it somewhere and get a badge or some other perk? Also an entertaining way of letting people know some facts without having them read :P
• Maybe there could also be like a challenge where you have to decipher something in the Zine, that'll give you a clue for something on another page, a detail in a picture, or a website or for example the explore badges page where you need to find a detail on one in particular, and so on. Basically like a scavenger hunt? And maybe it can be proposed as a community challenge so maybe if 200 people (I've no idea what number) get to the end, then everyone who completed it gets a badge?
• Could use the different wallpapers as backgrounds too.

I've played around with some of the previous submissions and ideas :blush:
Zine_Ideas_Poem-1_Art.pngZine_Ideas_Poem-2_Art.pngZine_Ideas_Poem-3_Art.pngZine_Ideas-Students.pngZine_Ideas_Poem-2_Art2.pngZine_Ideas_Art-Collage.pngZine_Ideas_FedorArt-Collage.pngZine_Ideas_Generative-Art.pngZine_Ideas_Latest-Releases.png

Hi @agusf we are still working out all those details! This is the first time we are doing the zine, so best to just submit some artwork for now. Whoever the upcoming Fedora intern is will work on a lot of those things :)

Hi Everyone! I made some artwork for the zine. I got inspiration from a banner in the Fedora community blog that display rockets. I thought it would be nice to have a Fedora Rocket that represents imagination and creativity beyond planet earth. What do you think? @riecatnor
Fedor_rocket.pngFedora_zine_rocket.svg

Other ideas before I forget :sweat_smile:

  • A page with the logo, but you can cut it out, and give instructions to take a picture using the page with the holes picturing where you're reading the magazine from, to share in social media or with the community. People might get creative :D I imagine cutting out the two "drops" in the symbol in the centre. The other side of the page could have an illustration/statement about closed/open source with a message that changes when you cut out the holes, because of the content of the previous page (which is something on it's own, but arranged in a way that fits the message when the holes are cut). I hope this makes sense. The message could be something maybe like:
    No holes: You can (keep the door closed) and you'll always (be missing out(?))
    Holes: You can (open the door) and you'll always (have amazing people by your side).
    I dunno, just an idea.

  • A sticker sheet if it's possible?

  • Not familiar with FOSS AR technologies but there might be something? Then some pretty cool things can be done :)
  • I think badges are given with links? Maybe people could get a badge for reading the Zine (a link or something at the end), it might be cool for possible new contributors to start off with an achievement :D
  • Cubeecrafts are cool. Could have a page with the badger for example made into a cubeecraft for people to have their own :) (and it wouldn't be too hard to design it). It could have different elements to attach to the hand for example, like a colour palette, a laptop, a bug, the logo, if people wanted to customise it with something related to what they do in Fedora.

Hey @riecatnor I found this issue open for Outreachy 2021. Is this active and what kind of contributions are expected here?

Hi @dhairya15 this is no longer active, though you can submit things for the zine at any time at the repo link below, this can count as an outreachy contribution as well :)

https://pagure.io/fedora-design/fedora-zine/issues
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Zine

Metadata Update from @riecatnor:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

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