Hey everyone,<div><br></div><div>I pinged Mairin about DesignHub and the following is her reply.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
DesignHub is in need of a designer to help Robby move forward with it. I simply ran out of time to devote to it. There's a lot of details on how to get involved here and I think there is a good chance Robby is still interested in working on it given a willing designer: <a href="http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/design-hub-update/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/design-hub-update/</font></a></blockquote>
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We also recently found out via OScon about a project called PickPic which functionally does a lot of things DesignHub was meant to do, but the UI is pretty rough around the edges and it appears the student who created it graduated and is not actively working on it anymore. It's written with Django and you can see a running instance here: <a href="http://pickpic.parcodiyellowstone.it/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://pickpic.parcodiyellowstone.it/</font></a></blockquote>
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After the Fedora website redesign project which will hit a major milestone during F14's release I may have more time to devote to DesignHub but I can't make any promises at the moment.</blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
The other side of the general effort to improve collaboration tools for FLOSS designers is SparkleShare, which Hylke Bons has a beta of now - <a href="http://sparkleshare.org/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://sparkleshare.org/</font></a> SparkleShare is an open source system that enables designers to share version controlled design assets via Git. The only missing piece is DesignHub which is meant to be a web display, organization, & commenting engine on top of the git repository.</blockquote>
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Thanks for the F14 wallpaper compliment. In Fedora we work extremely hard to make sure our design team is transparent, community-driven, and not exclusionary. We hope our wallpapers and other art & design work continue to demonstrate that quality design and an open & transparent community-driven team are not mutually exclusive concepts.</blockquote>
</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Thanks </span>Mairin!</div><div><br>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">John</span></div>