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Fedora Classrooms: Silverblue and Badge Design

Fedora Classroom sessions continue with two introductory sessions, on using Fedora Silverblue (February 7), and creating Fedora badges designs (February 10). The general schedule for sessions is availble on the wiki, along with resources and recordings from previous sessions. Details on both these upcoming sessions follow.

Topic: Fedora Silverblue

Fedora Silverblue is a variant of Fedora Workstation that is composed and delivered using ostree technology. It uses some of the same RPMs found in Fedora Workstation but delivers them in a way that produces an “immutable host” for the end user.  This provides atomic upgrades for end users and allows users to move to a fully containerized environment using traditional containers and flatpaks.

This session is aimed at users who want to learn more about Fedora Silverblue,
ostree, rpm-ostree, containers, and Flatpaks.  It is expected that attendees have some basic Linux knowledge.

The following topics will be covered:

  • What’s an immutable host?
  • How is Fedora Silverblue different from Fedora Workstation?
  • What is ostree and rpm-ostree?
  • Upgrading, rollbacks, and rebasing your host.
  • Package layering with rpm-ostree.
  • Using containers and container tools (podman, buildah).
  • Using Flatpaks for GUI applications

When and where

Instructor

Micah Abbott is a Principal Quality Engineer working for Red Hat. He remembers his first introduction to Linux was during university when someone showed him Red Hat Linux running on a DEC Alpha Workstation.  He’s dabbled with  various distributions in the following years, but has always had a soft spot for  Fedora. Micah has recently been contributing towards the development  of  Fedora/Red Hat CoreOS and before that Project Atomic.  He enjoys engaging with the community to help solve problems that users are facing and has most recently been spending a lot of time involved with the Fedora Silverblue community.

Topic: Creating Fedora Badges Designs

Fedora Badges is a gamification system created around the hard work of the Fedora community on the various aspects of the Fedora Project. The Badges project helps to drive and motivate Fedora contributors to participate in all different parts of Fedora development, quality, content, events, and stay active in community initiatives. This classroom will explain the process of creating a design for a Fedora Badge.

Here is the agenda for the classroom session:

  • What makes a Fedora Badge?
  • Overview of resources, website, and tickets.
  • Step by step tutorial to design a badge.

Resources needed:

  • Inkscape.
  • Comfortaa typeface.
  • Fedora badges resources (colour palettes, graphics, templates).

On Fedora, inkscape and comfortaa can be installed using dnf:

sudo dnf install inkscape aajohan-comfortaa-fonts

When and where

Instructor

Marie Nordin is a graphic designer and fine artist, with a day job as a Assistant Purchasing Manager in Rochester, NY. Marie began working on the Fedora Badges project and the Fedora Design Team in 2013 through an internship with the Outreachy program. She has maintained the design side of the Fedora Badges project for four years, as well as running workshops and teaching others how to  contribute designs to Badges.

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Submissions now open for the Fedora 30 supplemental wallpapers

Each release, the Fedora Design team works with the community on a set of 16 additional wallpapers. Users can install and use these to supplement the standard wallpaper. Submissions are now open for the Fedora 30 Supplemental Wallpapers, and will remain open until January 31, 2019

Have you always wanted to start contributing to Fedora but don’t know how? Submitting a supplemental wallpaper is one of the easiest ways to start as a Fedora contributor. Keep reading to learn how.

What exactly are the supplemental wallpapers?

Supplemental wallpapers are the non-default wallpapers provided with Fedora. Each release, the Fedora Design team works with the community on a set of 16 additional wallpapers. Users can install and use these to supplement the standard wallpaper.

Dates and deadlines

The submission phase opens November 20, 2018 and ends January 31, 2019 at 23:59 UTC.

Important note: In certain circumstances, submissions during the last hours may not get into the election, if there is no time to do legal research.The legal research is done by hand and very time consuming. Please help by following the guidelines correctly and submit only work that has a correct license.

The voting will open February 5, 2019 and will be open until February 25, 2019 at 23:59 UTC.

How to contribute to this package

Fedora uses the Nuancier application to manage the submissions and the voting process. To submit, you need an Fedora account. If you don’t have one, you can create one here. To vote you must have membership in another group such as cla_done or cla_fpca.

For inspiration you can look to former submissions and the  previous winners. Here are some from the last election:














You may only upload two submissions to Nuancier. In case you submit multiple versions of the same image, the team will choose one version of it and accept it as one submission, and deny the other one.

Previously submissions that were not selected should not be resubmitted, and may be rejected. Creations that lack essential artistic quality may also be rejected.

Denied submissions into Nuancier count. Therefore, if you make two submissions and both are rejected, you cannot submit more. Use your best judgment for your submissions.

Badges

You can also earn badges for contributing. One badge is for an accepted submission. Another badge is awarded if your submission is a chosen wallpaper. A third is awarded if you participate in the voting process. You must claim this badge during the voting process, as it is not granted automatically.