 Some day there we have the final session of the day coming up Okay, so final session of the day we have Nikita here and the Presentation is about Fedora veggies floor is yours Thank you all for joining It's it's a crowd. I didn't expect these many people here. So before I begin I would Before I began to talk about the Fedora badges. How do I would like to briefly introduce myself? So hey, I'm Nikita Tripathi and I'm a final year engineering student at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and I interned at the Fedora badges design project last year as an outreach intern for the summer cohort and I've been contributing to Fedora ever since for the design requirements and I would just like to mention before I start This presentation could not have been made possible without the guidance of Mary Norden and the Contributions of Chris Edoco. So here we go Here's the content reveal of my presentation. I will introduce the badges system then we'll walk through on how to use them and Then explore what lies behind beyond the horizon Okay, as we all already might know Fedora badges is a fun initiative created somewhere towards the end of 2012 so this initiative was to induce a sense of recognition and achievement in contributors for their in game engagement with the Fedora community That these engagements could be through their contributions in through their involvement or their participation with the Fedora community So effectively this introduced a game-like elements into the non-game environment of the contributor to make the Contributor experience even better While encouraging them for the holistic development of the Fedora infrastructure This method in technical terms is called gamification So to see what Fedora has done so far with the badges you just need to go to the explore page of the Fedora badges and Here is a snapshot of it So with over 600 badges in existence and many in the making the Fedora badges have maintained their style for a long time by following a strict style guide this guide specifies The colors fonts shapes That should be used in all the badges and it also provides instructions for the overall design of the badges so the style guide has helped to ensure that the Fedora badges are consistent in their appearance and This makes them easy to identify and recognize which is important for a program that is designed to reward the contributors Now that we are familiar with the wads let us have a look at the house and create our own badge so to start off we should have a Start with a clear purpose. So which means asking yourself What do you what do you want your badge to communicate? Are you trying to identify people? Are you trying to promote a message or simply make a statement? Once you know your purpose you can start to develop a design that aligns with your goal and Just like Leonardo da Vinci said simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. So keep it simple Badges should be easy to read and understand use clear fonts and colors to avoid too much clutter Stick to the Fedora brand Fedora has several branding elements use the Fedora logo and style guide Incorporate them into your batch design This will help to create a cohesive look and feel for all the badges and most importantly be creative Badges are a great opportunity to get creative with your design use illustrations Have a look at the photos or even custom artwork to create a unique and memorable batch In design it is very important to get feedback Once you have a design show it to a people in the community and get their feedback This will help you to identify any potential problems or areas for improvement So Fedora badges has several existing bad CDs The CDs are a fun way to create another dimension to the Fedora badges such as collecting a set of badges and Help to develop more content. Moreover, the Fedora badges are classified into six main categories These are development badges content badges the quality badges Community badges miscellaneous ones and even badges and as you must have noticed the all the categories have a corresponding color drink associated with them The Fedora badges came into existence about a decade ago and the batch template stayed the same through these years Over time some shortcomings were noticed in the existing design and hence came the need for a new batch template So learning from the research and discussing the previously identified improvements I made a series of iterations in the new version I reduced all the white space to lay more emphasis on the graphics I removed the drop shadow from the design in order to make it look more sleek and modern and During the designing of the iterations I was also inclusive of a future possibility of Dark mode being implemented across all the Fedora websites In the original design as we can see there was a repetition of the vector shape provided in simpler terms the border the white space and the graphic space were all made out of a single shape Because of this mathematically the design was balanced But this created a visual imbalance to the eyes that the corner is a bit thicker around the turn So to improve this I introduced a solution that instead of using the given shape as the border We could add an outer border to the graphic base shape and make it look more visually balanced this added to an oversimplification to the previously existing separate layers in the SVG file The simpler design also added to the simplicity of usage So I reduced the numbers of the editable layers I added a clip group so that anyone can simply put their design design side of it and a body group Where the design could be put and it will automatically get clipped or like hidden And it will not a leak beyond the borders So this eliminated the traditional method of separately clipping the objects which can be observed in a lot of present badges and For the sake of consistency. I also added The typical topography composition for the badges and patterns in invisible layers and I provided a instruction layer which can be deleted and it also Recommends the contributor to delete all the unused layers so that when the badges produce the It occupies letter lesser storage space so the website doesn't take a lot of time to load because of the bad size So in order to first accommodate more clear guidelines Secondly to assist contributors maintain consistency across the Fedora badges for the deliver deliverance of the authentic Fedora experience and To give the decade-old badges tile guide a modern refresh. I created the new official Fedora badges guide In the new guideline I include all these essential instructions from the previous guide and I added a few updates So as you can see here since there was an update in the inkscape application and a few technical things changed in the export options I added those so there's a 256 by 256 pixel and a 96 DPI which was previously incorrectly mentioned In the old line, so it has been corrected now after the update in Addition to the previously layered guidelines. I introduced some new ones to help contributors to Fedora badges for example on this page I am suggesting a good trick of trade for color selection that is to select any column and then Go with the top three rows of the main palette for the badges design composition. I Also included some of the unwritten rules about topics which needed consistency such as this one So while some of these rules might seem obvious to everyone Some of them might not be but they need to be followed and I remember I had to ask about This one specifically with Mary a lot. I had to trouble her a lot during my first making of the badges So his top secret sneak peek into the new look of the badges Which are yet to be released, but hey, what are you waiting for? Go make your own batch today Be creative express yourself and get involved Thank you all for being such a Great nice audience and I'm really grateful for this opportunity and my experience at Fedora has been The most enriching ones I have had so far. So any questions? So is there going to be any update to the guidelines? About each one batch to contributors about about actually each one batch to contributors No, not that I am aware of Oh, I'm just curious if you also design some guidelines for that or not No Maybe a list of batch ideas that people can start from Badge ideas. Yeah, like a list of badges that people may want to introduce Can you please repeat? I'm not able to Well any specific ideas at beginners who want to try the hand I design badges so my start from oh Since we are at the flock event. Why not people start with Designing the events badge for the flock event They are any badge Can be designed like most of the badges are of the beginner level. So Anyone can go and design a badge. There are some badges that require new artwork So that would go for maybe the intermediate or advanced level but beginner badges, there are a lot of those and Anybody can go and design those Maybe I have the answer you were looking for I think you were looking for inspiration on how to design batches if I got your question correctly Yeah, well you can look on Pager, there's the fedora batches project It has all the batches that are available in there and you can look at these designs and PNG SVG files are all in there and you can use that as a starting point and modify and what not I mean, it's open source. It's it's it's out there for you and Otherwise look on badges that fedora project org and whatever batch it takes you fancy and use that as an inspiration The the source board is available and images are available. Everything is there So I would just like to add upon that when I first started contributing to badges For me to understand what type of artwork Fedora wants. I just went to this Fedora badges explore page I just looked at all the badges and got an idea about what kind of artwork do they want then I read the guidelines There is a complete set of rules that I need to follow the border size and the shapes And there are some already existing artworks that you can just cut paste and use them over the badges So those are helpful Hey Nikita great presentation And I've been really excited to learn about all the new design work going into the badges along with the Ongoing work that we have to do badges 2.0 So it's been really cool to see also the artwork getting the refresh and Getting a new look so my question is so since you were an intern last year with Fedora I was just curious to know what you've been up to since your outreach the internship finished and I know you mentioned you're finishing your last year of school But just kind of curious to know what you've been up to since outreach II and if you're What your next steps have been since your internship? Okay, so after my internship at Outreach II I worked with software freedom Resurvency as a consultant for their graphic designs and I made graphic designs for their event Fossi this year and Besides that I've been contributing to Fedora. I was I was in the design chat and Many of you must have known that this creative freedom summit that occurred around January, right? So we used to make some banners and promotional social media Posts so I made some backgrounds for that and those were used and I keep contributing as much time I get during my coursework and all the things that are happening so That would that would sum up my open source journey so far more questions So this is a very deeply technical Question so bear with me, but what's your favorite? Okay, so It's it's not up yet. I made this badge during my contribution time So it's a high five, but it's high five Badge so I I really like this one. I Made it during my contribution What did I do? How I don't I don't really remember there was some specification, but I was too focused on the artwork. I Also have a question. I Know that you are pretty good at inkscape since you can draw that but for someone who is not very good at inkscape How can I learn and maybe start creating a batch? Okay, so if if you have never done any graphic design and you want to start with inkscape There are online tutorials on YouTube And you can also find it on the official inkscape website or on the Fedora badges website So there is a list of tutorials for you to learn inkscape from Thank you. I was also just going to add at creative freedom summit I remember there were some sessions for beginners on Doing things with inkscape So also the recordings from the creative freedom summit in January would be a good resource to perfect. Thank you Okay, thank you for a presentation Well, that's it for today for this room Enjoy the game night Yeah, so just some housekeeping stuff. So we will be on pause. I believe until six So the game night is going to be in the room upstairs where we had lunch If you have any board games card games anything that you brought along with you, please bring them with you We will have the candy swap if I remember right at six or no seven thirty Six thirty. Thank you six thirty to seven thirty