Hey everyone, I pinged Mairin about DesignHub and the following is her reply.
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: > http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/design-hub-update/ 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: > http://pickpic.parcodiyellowstone.it/ 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. The other side of the general effort to improve collaboration tools > for FLOSS designers is SparkleShare, which Hylke Bons has a beta of now - > http://sparkleshare.org/ 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. 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. Thanks Mairin! John
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