 Good morning everybody. It's the last day of flock. I know right? I'm sad about it So today I'm going to give you guys a workshop on designing fedora badges We've done this at flock for the last Four years now, and it's always success. So I'm excited to have you guys all here So if you want to check out my blog post on there a ton But you'll see some stuff after flock and occasionally when events happen or we're trying to get something done I might post on there All right, so when designing fedora badges There's some things to understand before you kind of jump in so This is the anatomy of a fedora badge So basically there's going to be all these different elements in any badge that you design for fedora badges so You have the outer ring which is just white and then you have a colored ring. So the colored rings represent six different categories It is content development quality events Miscellaneous and The other one that's escaping my mind at this moment. That's the one community So those all correlate to the six fedora colors and Then the next thing you're going to have is a background So when we first started doing badges, we tried our best and we still try to Correlate the background colors with each other. So for example Member badges, it's a community badge So it has a pink outer ring and then the background is green So all of the member badges have a pink outer ring and a green background So we try to keep it consistent because it gives a nice overall look to the entire entire set of badges And then you're going to have some kind of a pattern Some designs that you may make might not use a pattern. It just depends on the concept that you're trying to do With your badge and then on top of that There's a graphic. So in this instance, it's a camera and you have some photos So it's going to be different for each badge But every badge that you make will have all of these elements So if you design a badge and you're missing one of these better go back and You know get that part that you're missing Okay, so This is just a you know a little quick overview of what the website looks like here You have a profile and then also You have just an overall view of all the badges It seems kind of obvious, but the reason that I'm pointing it out is because you can use this and you will use this To reference what has been done in the past So especially for people who might not be as comfortable Doing illustrations, right? So there's kind of this like well I can't draw so I can't do this but you have all of this artwork already there To reuse and remix and also it gives you a nice reference for You know what people have done in the past So you want to use this page when you're designing badges Okay Fedora badges on for sure This is where the design team does and the developer side as well does everything for Fedora badges So we talk on here. We actually do have a meeting. It's 7 a.m. Eastern Central Time every other Wednesday. So anyone's welcome to join us otherwise, we just do all of our communication on here and We've actually really enjoyed the tags feature on Pisscher It's helped us a lot to be able to categorize things and It's just another way we communicate about the different things. We're trying to do there all right so You're not on your your own for You don't just have to get started and guess things we have lots of things for your use. So there's a style guide and that one It tells you, you know, what size stroke you might want to use It tells you what font or typeface you're gonna want to use it gives you like an established Okay, these are the colors for the rings So you want to use the style guide as much as you can actually I think it might need an update so if anyone ever wanted to work on that reach out and Since we're on this page may I suggest that you go to this website or this link right here and download The resources for later on So okay next is These are the tickets and I mentioned the tags before so We have six tags for the different categories and then we have Artwork needed so if it's has artwork needed then you know an artist can jump on then we've categorized them by Artwork easy artwork intermediate and artwork advanced Or hard I think it might be so if you're a newbie with Designing or inkscape you might want to choose artwork easy and that's what we're gonna do later on We're gonna use that tag to find some stuff that would be appropriate for today Okay, so that's like the general overview So at this time I would say if you don't have inkscape on your computer Get it downloaded now If you don't have the design resources get those downloaded now, so if you need help finding any of that Let me know anybody. We're all good Does everyone have inkscape Okay, Edward do you have inkscape? Okay What's up Lila? Next question is does everyone have the resources downloaded? No, okay, so go to the fedora badges pager and you can just search in their resources in The in the search bar and I think the tickets 530. Let's see 528. Yeah, there's a search What? Yeah, do you have internet now? Maybe All right, we'll get there. Okay, so did you find the resources? Lila, do you have the resources? I'll be check. Do you have the resources? Okay, cool I just want to make sure we're kind of all moving towards being ready as I continue to to talk about this Okay, so that was the overview and now we're gonna talk about each step when you're designing and So I'm gonna go pretty quickly through these slides and then we're gonna go through them a little bit slower as we design a badge So there's you're not gonna try to follow along for now We'll get back to that. Okay, so the first step you want to Download and install any relevant resources, which is what we are doing right now You want to identify a ticket that needs artwork? So You can sort The issues by you know, there's the top tag so you can say artwork needed so the What's up? Really? Oh, okay. So yeah, Pajor has some So there is a known issue In Pajor with downloads and SVGs and PNGs and I'm gonna address it in a little bit Some of them seem to work like the newer ones that we've added on but anything that was brought over from the track is Broken but you basically just take out a little bit of the the link and it's fine. It's it's still there. It's just kind of a pain The issue is that well That's possible so The issue is that anything that was brought over from track Has like an extra little Part in the in the link and it's like files and then a slash So you're gonna take that out and then it would work So I think Pingu has tried to work on this and I think there's been some improvement You got it to work. You got the resources. Okay good. Okay, so Leela, do you have the resources? Okay All right, so that's so once you identify a ticket that needs artwork. You're gonna set yourself to owner You do need to be a part of the fedora badges group on Peugeot Which I'm pretty sure I can set that up today for everyone But if not, you can still work on it. You don't have to set yourself as owner if you don't want to Okay, so once you've chosen a badge to work on, you know You'll read through the idea for the badge You'll see on there that maybe myself or Masha will have come on and say here's a concept for the artwork and At that point that's when you're gonna want to go back to the fedora badges page and Look at similar badges. So see what other people have done just like any artwork There's plenty of it out there and we use that to reference and to build upon Then you kind of finalize a concept for the the badge artwork and then you want to gather inspiration and resources So if you you know you say I'm gonna use the badger from this one badge The artworks already made you go into that badge on the fedora badges site You follow that through to the track or Peugeot and then you download And then for example, maybe you want to Google something Maybe for example, the one we're gonna do has a bike in it or the one that I did for this has a bike in it So I picked out a bike From just Google images. We're not using it. We're just using it as reference Okay, so the next thing once you've chosen the concept once you've gathered some resources Then you use the style guide to categorize things. So the first thing you're gonna want to do is open the template and Then you want to save so with inkscape It has a tendency to crash. So make sure that you're saving Every ten minutes, I'd say it's pretty safe Just save all the time. So I put that in here because it's important. You don't want to lose the the work They did that's always very frustrating okay, so you want to use the style guide to define the background color and Also in the resources there is two color palettes Which will we'll install those together and like get that all set up But those are super convenient and Not really negotiable. You need to use them like you can't What's up? Really? Okay. Well, I didn't know about that. So someone pointed out that you can automatically Have inkscape save for you every ten minutes. I'd like you to show me that later, please Okay So yeah, the color that there's two palettes and it's not really negotiable We use the fedora colors and variations on that and then we've established Another color palette and the reason that we do this is so that even though different artists are making different badges it gives an overall Feeling and aesthetic to to all the badges. So, you know, you have different styles. No Two artists are gonna make the same exact style. So this gives badges a really unifying Framework so if you can Take take a color from here. Sometimes you might need to make some variations and that's okay As long as it looks good. That's kind of how Artworks in general like if long as it looks good, you can kind of break the rules a little bit But generally you want to use these colors Okay, so the background can vary depending on the the concept you have But we do have a lot of backgrounds already kind of established So there's this wavy lines one that I'm showing here and then like this little Graphic that I made like there's a Sunburst one so there's Some that you can kind of just ready pull and use so you don't have to redo that that aspect at all and Save your work unless you have it automatically set up like some people Okay, so this is the yeah, this is the the little slide here on if the link is broken miss This is the issue so occasionally you'll encounter an older file So it's gonna come up either two ways. It's gonna come up like the top one and Then you switch that first part out for the second line Or it's gonna come up like the third line here and you take out the part that says files Does that make sense to everybody It's a hack. We've just had to do and deal with but it's all still there. Okay Next is graphics. So this is the fun part You want to draw something from scratch you want to import you want to reuse you want to remix the artwork That's already there, you know use use what other badge artists have doubt in the past because there's no reason to spend all that time redrawing things and It gives you an advantage and even if you feel oh, maybe I can't draw. It's fine. There's so much out there already So once you kind of get your draft you want to Evaluate that so you want to make sure you have all the components from the anatomy of a badge and You kind of want to use the style guide to make sure that it's fitting in with the aesthetic of badges overall So The style guide is in the design resources that you've downloaded So if you guys want to like pull that up and kind of just look through it a little bit that would be beneficial There's like certain things that we've Established to keep the fedora badges aesthetic. So for example We try to avoid the color black. I don't know if that's actually in the style guide It would be good to add to but like whenever use a stroke on something It needs to be one and a half pixels are larger So we don't use like tiny little strokes on objects, you know, you have to be able to See the badge at a small size people are looking at it on their phones Okay, yeah, maybe people are bringing it up on their computer But for the most part not really and even then they're small So the reason that you know, we use like a larger stroke is to make the artwork readable And that that's one thing that that helps a lot. So that's just an example of what's in the style guide And there's like a few other tips like don't warp or Do any or distort like text you would never want to do that You only occasionally would use the fedora logo. That's something we kind of not try to avoid But we only use it when it's necessary Or when it makes like a lot of sense and you you never would want to You know shorten or do anything to the fedora logo You have to preserve The dimensions of that Okay, so once you've evaluated your design using the style guide, then you export a PNG So it's really important that we export the PNG is all at the same size because you're putting them on a website We want them to all be the same size unfortunately They're not all the same size some people might not have used the right template or maybe They've exported at the wrong size and sometimes we kind of just have to push things through to You know get that badge out there say we need it for an event Maybe somehow it gets overlooked So, you know, we ask the badge artists to pay attention to that as much as they can when you're when you're exporting it So, you know, we can avoid that So when you do export a PNG, it's going to be 96 DPI and 256 by 256 pixels so Next so After you upload your artwork Which you're always going to want to upload the SVG in the PNG and the reason that you upload the SVG is so that if there's an issue in there one of the like badge mentors like me or Masha or anyone else who who who would like to help can Go in and look at what's going on Beyond that if say you don't have time to finish it someone can pick it up from there and Work on it. So if you just put the PNG on it's not very helpful I mean, we can work we can work with it, but you always want to add the SVG on there So that future people can work on it and then also like for later artists to remix Using that artwork. They would need the SVG So then after that you want to add a tag that says review and One of us will review it. We try to Look at ever all the modified tickets every two weeks, but sometimes it doesn't happen But if you did have like an urgent Task or it may be an event coming or you just want to get something pushed really quickly You're always welcome to reach out to me or Masha by email You know say hey, can you look at this? We really want to get this out there? And then you want to change these artwork status to has draft So then as soon as we can we will review that and give feedback So after you get that feedback, you're gonna make revisions sometimes more than one revision It depends on the badge and then once it's complete We'll set it to ready to push and then from there it goes to the developers It's in their hands So That's that's the whole process. So now I'm gonna start at the beginning and we're gonna do each step together Okay. All right. So the first step is to So, okay, everyone has Inkscape everyone has design resources Yeah, okay. So does everyone know how to get the pallets into Inkscape? No All right So you need to go into your user folder might be hidden and Then you go into Inkscape and then you go into pallets and you drop those two files I think they're GPL files and you drop those into the pallets folder And then you want to restart Inkscape Okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna go around and help everyone do this Also a note if you figured that part out Go to open font library and download Comforta The typeface because we're gonna need that as well Okay, I was a little bit mistaken. It's the dot config folder and then slash Inkscape and slash pallets So that's where you want to drop your two GPL files is everyone with me Successful you might you might have it differently Okay, so if it's working then you want to restart Inkscape and then once you've restarted Inkscape actually I'm just gonna bring it up right now here. Let's see How do I get how do I get on? Okay, so to test if the pallets are working There's this little arrow right here on the bottom right corner You click that and it should be in here There's badges fedora pallet and badges extended pallet. So you'll see At the bottom is it working for you? awesome and Yeah, so You'll see that you can Click these different ones all right Who? Does everyone have the pallet? Installed Almost I'll be check Not yet. Okay, so while he works on that then I want people to get comforta so You can get comforta on the open font library So once you deal with the pallets Go to open font library or well, I guess they change their URL font library org And then go into the search bar and Look up comforta. So this is the only typeface We use in badges unless the concept warrants a different typeface So for example event badges That have a logo you're not going to change, but if you ever put a year a number Any kind of text you're probably going to use comforta So just keep that in mind Because if you use something else will come on to the ticket and tell you to change it. Let's see I think that's everything we need to get set up. So once you're once you're there Let me know does anyone need any help You need what do you need help with? Oh? Okay, okay. Thank you very much anyone else pallets working Do you have comforta downloaded? so you're Going to need to restart inkscape after you install comforta to have it show up, okay? And you would just install that font like you install any other font on whatever system you're using Okay, all right So let's go to issues on pejor working awesome, okay, so Bring up the pejor website for fedora badges and then click on issues So we want to look at artwork easy So you want to sort the badges by artwork easy and then You're going to want to sort the badges by artwork needed okay, so Hmm, I think we do have easy fix, but but I don't use that tag for the design aspect Yeah artwork easy what easy fix, okay Yeah, so During the sys admin talk we actually discussed potentially Redoing the website, and I think that would be a great idea for the redo So having series together so you can kind of look at them like that. That would be a great idea I mean we've actually discussed it before it's just something that hasn't had the time to be done I'm with you. I think that's a great idea um We're thinking about trying to get a Outreachy or yeah an outreachy intern to maybe overhaul the website Right, so it's also another idea. We have is to maybe somehow Okay, ideally. I don't know how this would happen, but I would like to see badges like in Fedora like so maybe on your dashboard you have like a badges thing and they like pop up and I don't you can like view them in Fedora versus like on the website, but like No, like when you open your computer You could see badges somehow Exactly like a widget. Yeah, I think that would be really cool I have no idea how to make that happen. So if anyone does go ahead and jump on that Okay, so I'm now go to everyone once you have the artwork easy up then kind of go through and Start looking at the tickets and seeing if It's something that you feel you can do so I'm actually going to come around and help you guys Pick out tickets. Okay So I just want to show you guys this one because this is exactly the point I was trying to address earlier if my internet will work which it does not look like it's worth I was trying to use his hotspot So should we back soon? Yeah, I can try your hotspot. What is it any caps or anything? No lowercase I might have typed it wrong QAC They got it. Sorry. I thought you said see as in cat Is he as in zoo? All right, we're good. Okay, so I just want to show you guys this one because this is extremely frustrating for Badger artists. So Lilo was looking at this one thinking, okay Maybe we could do this so If you scroll down Okay, we have some so a to Baddick Gave us this idea here, but there's just a PNG so this person made more work and did you know more work on this and unfortunately We can't use it because There's no SVG here Like this is here. It needs some edits one of you guys could have done it but hey, we can't really do that because We don't have the SVG So I'm gonna see what the other one look like. Does anyone have another badge that they're ready to jump into If anyone found anything they're interested in working on Hold on sec Colonel test day participant badge. Okay, so let's read through this Okay, so this badges for participating in colonel test days So here's some ideas for your artwork, okay One idea would be to remix this badge changing the graphics on the computer screen to something colonel related or The second idea is to remix this badge take out the numbers and Maybe give the Badger a name tag. So let's jump into that and see we'll see what that's all about So we look at this too, okay, so one idea was to take this out because it's a testing badge. That's a good idea and To give him like a name tag Or there's this one and take out the computer screen stuff and put in stuff colonel related I think this is a good idea. So Why don't you jump into That if you're you're ready Okay, so then if you want to do that one, that's great. So go on that ticket and set yourself to the assignee Yep, and then after that you're gonna go here and You're gonna follow this through and Hopefully the SVG is here. It should be There's your SVG. So go in there and download this and Then open it up in inkscape. Okay. Okay, so we have you assigned one Abishak Do you have one? 461. Okay. Let's talk about this one. Okay You joined a fedora mailing list for the first time that's a cool badge And this person is suggesting that maybe it would be a series Or maybe we could just kind of Develop off of this some different ideas Our concept should refer to the at symbol because it's the basic symbol of emails since the early days. I agree. I think that would be cool Badge image sample, so let's check out what they put here. I mean That's not bad, but that's not really quite enough to make some badge artwork So they kind of just gave us a concept Badge community so Justin jumped on here and said He's not sure that this is possible and Then about a year ago. I Pinged and said is it possible and we don't have an answer So you could make the artwork just to get some experience, but there's no guarantee that this could be pushed So if you want to you can try it, but you might consider doing something. We know is possible Have you picked out I actually meant do you have a badge ticket picked out? Okay, well you actually don't need the palette so that's not an excuse So try try to find a ticket Okay, so who else is looking for a ticket? Maybe you found one Edward Lila Which one did you find? Okay, which number? Okay, we're gonna take a look at 240 Okay, so I do recall this one. So there's some question here. I Remember about using flags so So basically, you know, someone did a bunch of artwork for this which we are eternally grateful But it looks like we cannot use flags. It's kind of it's a legal issue. So I think this one's open again Let's see so Kyler Conway came on here. Oh There's a lot of stuff this one here. Yep. Go ahead. So so this Okay, so yeah, the little Bonjour fedora. Yeah, those are really cute. So my thought is We have another badge that has a Like a globe in it and so maybe you could grab that one and You can you know work off of that. So Then I think you'd want to so you'd want to go here. I think it's a content badge Maybe not so here it is You can find So here you can find a globe that we've used So you just want to go through here and grab the artwork and then you also want to grab the artwork from here actually you don't have to because I mean you could just you can but you don't have to but it this would be easy. So then you want to grab this Download this and then you want to open up a template and Import that artwork and your artwork all into one and then kind of remix All right, who is still picking out a ticket? Do you have any ideas of something you might want to do? Are you looking at descriptions? Leela, how about you? Do you need help? okay, so Occasionally you'll find artwork or a badge from like the very beginning that you can't find the SVG for And if that's the case just contact me and I can try to help you find it There might be some that are gone completely but Hopefully not Abhishek, it's this one that you want here, right? Can you tell me what that was called? That badge. Thank you Abhishek one more thing. Do you have the number of the issue for that one? Let me introduce myself. Thank you He he one of the intro in originals. I should have just gone here. I'm just gonna Abhishek, I'm still trying to get you this artwork. I'm working on it. Actually, can I just email to you? What's your email? So are you making artwork mess? Like you said you would you owe me it doesn't qualify There's there's none that are based on a movie Yeah, there is yeah, it's the one with the car, right? Oh that one too. Yeah So Abhishek, you're gonna want to open this SVG and then copy it because it has a weird background So don't try to import it because it's not gonna work out. They're in a second. That should be all set Okay, it's sent to you You're welcome. So oh by the way all you guys get a badge for coming if you haven't been you know If you haven't been to one before miss. All right, so hold on real quick What? No, he's just leaving. So I just want to do And the internet the internet's leaving our hot spots leaving Maybe miss can help us out. What's your screen name? That's it. You're good. Thanks for coming Okay, the t-shirt room Since we're doing this every okay, so what's your screen name? I'll do yours. This is really slow still all right What's yours? What's your handle? Z Yep Miss which was that one again, right? What's your screen name? What was the other one miss? What's the name of it three two one? I don't know if I can search this way Yeah, Fedora next did you comment on this one? Please do you are the little wonder, right? the little This So those two that you found might be a result of stuff that they were doing yesterday That's possible. We'll see but either way it needs to be addressed PSA PSA Yeah like that so Eventually, I don't we may have time to finish some artwork, but we might not so Once you do Finish a badge and it gets pushed We don't have like a good way of counting them like who made Who made what so we have this wiki here That's the artwork log if I can find the link Okay, so when you do make artwork and you finish artwork Go to this page and edit the wiki adding your name in and What badge you completed and so just put in a link To the ticket and then from there this is kind of how I award the Different badge artist badges. So actually anyone who finishes a badge today. I can give you That badge as well Which whom I missed getting missing right now. What's your screen name? I? Saviour would you like a badge this guy in the back didn't really do anything? But he's here counts for something so what are you are you what's your What is it on me tell like so call me the badges queen so technically I can like do what I want So but you were here and you help set up so I guess that'll count for for this time Nice pick You know like curious All right, who needs help anyone so I'm just gonna say it back into the mic whenever you're working on badges say you get pulled away or You get maybe even frustrated and you're like I'm done working on this for now so The beauty of our community is that we get to collaborate with each other and work, you know not reinvent the wheel Stand on the shoulders of giants as they say so You know if you're done working on it just upload it to the ticket and even if you do something later If you don't feel it's ready. Don't worry about like Judgments or anything like that whatever work you can do on badges. We're gonna be thrilled thrilled to have that happen So we're we're about to finish up in five minutes, so I'm requesting that everyone Save whatever they have done and put it onto the ticket that they've chosen and Also, just thanks for coming Had a lot of fun actually so You know if anybody has any questions About badges badge ideas If you have any questions about inkscape, there's actually a lot out there on inkscape I know people who are have used other Softwares kind of find it a little bit hard to settle into but if you do persist Like other open-source things too, I think you kind of learn it and eventually get used to the little Intricacies of the program. So anyway, if you have any questions about anything badge related you're welcome to Message me email me I'm on telegram. I'm not on on IRC quite as much or you can come to our badges meeting That's 7 a.m. Every other Wednesday Eastern standard time so thanks again for coming