Poster/flyer about getting involved with Fedora community #40
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What do you need?
This ticket was originally filed on Gitlab by @ekidney
Request type
Graphic Design / Artwork (logo, an icon, an infographic, swag design, etc.)
Problem Statement
A flyer that we can hand out at conferences and events with information on how to get involved with the Fedora community. I'd imagine this would be A5 size, but this isn't set in stone 😄
A flyer can aid stand volunteers in explaining how to get involved in Fedora and provide attendees with take home instructions they can refer to later.
We are also looking at the possibility of 'digitising' the flyer once complete and seeing if the Join SIG would like it integrated into their Docs pages. If they do, we can see if there are options to integrate the docs with Weblate for localization, so the content can be translated into multiple languages by our translator community.
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This was Justin's idea. The output is for conferences and the likes, but it might be worth contacting the Join SIG for their input on what info to include
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Ideally for FOSDEM but it's not urgent.
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Stand volunteers and potential contributors.
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Medium (This will bring a good increase in performance/productivity/usability)
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Attaching the latest image before the move
Hi @niknikovsky, I saw on the gitlab ticket you didnt have access to the notes from last weeks meeting. You can now find them here: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/design/meeting-logs/src/branch/main/2026/09-march-2026.md
There's feedback on the poster so it's worth having a look and addressing what was discussed. Getting feedback is essential for a designer and can really push us to creating something great! If I were you, I would break down the feedback into steps and really take your time going through it. Sometimes I take a few days with each iteration to make sure everything is aligned properly and that I'm happy with it.
If you have any questions on anything let us know! Thanks.
@ekidney Thanks, I was actually able to access the notes beforehand and I think I might have made a new design, I don't remember at this moment
Made some minor changes
@niknikovsky wrote in #40 (comment):
Hi Nik,
Looking at this you still need to implement feedback that was given to you in the meeting notes I linked in my earlier comment.
Also in the future could you outline changes that were made from the previous iteration so we know what was done.
If there's something there you dont understand let us know! Thanks.
It was just some minor layout changes.
@niknikovsky wrote in #40 (comment):
It's standard practice to provide some detail to help us know what to look out for and give quicker feedback. It also helps us know if you’ve understood feedback correctly :)
I have in fact changed the layout, but the text needs to be reformatted which is beyond my expierience.
Oh, and I still disagree with this sentence:
It's a reference.
@niknikovsky wrote in #40 (comment):
Nik I need you to be more specific. 'Changed the layout' is still vague. What layout changes exactly did you make?
'Text needs to be reformatted' what exactly do you mean by this? I need more information if I'm to help you.
I think irritating is the wrong word, but it's okay to disagree with feedback. It seems from the notes though that the general agreement was to remove it though.
@ekidney wrote in #40 (comment):
Manually repositioned the top part with a rectangle
Look at step 2 and 4
@niknikovsky On the Gitlab ticket, you were advised to recreate this poster in inkscape and to not convert the text to paths, so the text can be edited and aligned more easily. You need to create another text box and type the text out again and keep it as text, not paths.
The feedback you were given did not mention aligning those 1 - 4 steps to the right. This is what was asked:
Inkscape has tools built in to help you be more precise. Please look into them and use them.
Let us know if anything here is unclear before making updates. If this ticket is becoming too difficult for you to complete, let us know and we can focus your energy on another ticket.
And I exported (instead of copy pasting as an SVG) from Figma, which converted the text to paths, will redo.
I guess this is what came to my mind when seeing "consistently".
As for the layout things, I spent like 20 minutes with a rectangle repositioning everything.
@niknikovsky wrote in #40 (comment):
I see! I meant to built it again from scratch in Inkscape. Exporting from Figma and Penpot can be unpredictable like I told you in detail in my comment on the Gitlab ticket.
In future, you need to ask for clarification if you're unsure of what is meant and we can explain more. When you make a change like that without telling us why it can be confusing. That's why I was asking for more information earlier. When posting a design you should be specific and list out changes one by one. The more detail the better.
20 minutes is a good start but design takes time and needs to take a lot longer! You should spend about a week on each version, taking time to go through each point of the feedback again and again until everything is addressed.
A tip: when you think a design is complete, close the file and come back to it after a day or two. You'll end up seeing something you missed or something that wasn't done right. I do this all the time and teaches you to slow down when working :)
I could reattempt the rectangle method, but with more of them.
If you want to remake the file into Inkscape before continuing, go right ahead.
@niknikovsky wrote in #40 (comment):
I have mentioned in a previous comment that Inkscape has a built-in function for guides to help you with this.
I am telling you that you need to recreate this in Inkscape from scratch. If you are not willing to do that then I will have to unassign you from the ticket. Thanks.
I'll try and see what we get, but I'll probably copy some assets from this (like the numbers)
Still a work in progress, leaving this for myself in case I have to use a different computer.
In case anyone wonders how I am progressing
@ekidney I believe this is done (minus the bottom positioning)
@niknikovsky I have advised you already here and here to be more clear in your comments.
You need to list out changes you have made:
We have already spoken privately about previous feedback is not being fully incorporated into new versions.
This won't be reviewed until all feedback previously given has been addressed and a clear comment provided.
Can I has
cheeseburgerfeedback?It's been a week.
@niknikovsky wrote in #40 (comment):
Hey @niknikovsky, Thanks for the ping as a reminder. This has been something I've been trying to cross off my to-do list, but other higher-priority tasks have cropped up or needed my attention. A week is both long and short in the open source world for feedback haha. You also hadn't fully completed the to-do-list from Emma's previous detailed feedback.
Just a quick explanation as to why you hadn't completed the feedback. Looking at the file you didn't take into consideration part of # 3 where it mentions it's left heavy- the new placement of the 4 steps is extremely far too left. # 1 wasn't completely done, as the spacing between '1' and the 'Register paragraph' is different then the other numbers and their corresponding paragraphs. The spacing between the 1st step paragraph is huge, compared to the very space between 2nd and 3rd step paragraphs.
I know you've put a lot of effort in and rebuilt the poster design from scratch, in a new program no less, and are dedicated to making this happen. You should be very proud of the work you've accomplished so far! It took me at least a full hour to write down my feedback for you today, though, and I'm sure Emma also put a lot of time into her feedback. It's not fair to ask for more feedback, if you can't complete all the previous feedback we've laid out, and say its done when its not.
If you have questions on how to do something though, that's a different story! Uploading something half way and saying "1-3 are done in this file, I'll complete 4-6 soon, How does it look so far, or I had a question on # 4 so I'll complete that after your answer" is totally fine! Our feedback will be numbered going forward so you can more easily say what's been checked off. The communication is key so we're all on the same page :)
I'm attaching a svg of the file that has all my detailed feedback over the poster. The feedback is in the number order of how I think you should address them. Screenshot to show what it looks like generally, it's obviously a lot easier to read in Inkscape but I'll also include what I have typed out within the file in a seperate comment after this one.
Let me know if you have any questions!
To Dos:
1. Colur has become stretched somehow, be careful to lock an item or group before scaling to avoid this.
★ Replace with new svg of Colur in proper proportions.
2. None of this is centered or following similar spacing rules. Not even the title is centered.
★In the drop down menu to the right of the canvas open the 'Align and Distribute' menu. Select the 'How to join Fedora in 4 easy steps' with the logo, and with 'move selection as a group' turned on, press the 'center on vertical axis' relative to the page.
3. This is way too far to the left on the page and the info is way too cramped. I mentioned looking into visual weight and would still recommend looking into it. I grabbed an earlier version of the layout that looked better format wise and tweaked some things. When we talk about aligning
★ Change the numbers' colors back to the original swatches from the screenshot.
★Using the screenshot as a guide (you can even put it on a separate layer at a lower opacity under the info so when you're done you can easily delete it) to recreate the way the information is laid out.
★ Consistent spacing for:
★ Consistent alignment for:
4. Badger is much closer to the edge of the page compared to the other mascots. We need to account for the bleed of the margins, and it also makes the poster feel too heavy on the left side.
★ Move over to give similar amount of space to other mascots and edge.
5. Fix the spacing above and below the 1-4 paragraphs
★ Make the space between paragraph 4 and 'How can I Contribute to Fedora?' similar to the space between paragraph 1 and 'How to join Fedora in 4 easy steps'
6. Not centered. Use the align and distribute tool from # 2
★ Make the space between paragraph 4 and 'How can I Contribute to Fedora?' similar to the space between paragraph 1 and 'How to join Fedora in 4 easy steps'
7. I'd bring this up to give it some more space from the margins and have a similar amount of space from the edge that the title has.
★ Move up slightly to have a little more space from edge
Greetings,
The colur has been replaced and everything has been aligned with the align and distribute tool, as per your request.
The colors of the numbers have been replaced with the HEX of the old numbers.
As a bonus, I selected the whole page and used the align tool on both axis (axises?)
Discussed in the Design Meeting, April 13th - Everything looks a lot better in this new version! We looked at the file via screen share in Inkscape, and shifted sections to where we all liked the spacing.
The screenshot below has the updated spacing, if we can get the SVG file to mirror that!
I believe that I have recreated the changes you made (literally just aligining things and implementing my idea of moving the "How can I contribute to Fedora" box down
We completely forgot the back side of this, so I ported it into Inkscape.
(Basically just redid the whole thing from Figma into Inkscape, only downloading the QR codes from it.)
To be hopefully discussed on the 20.04.2026 meeting
@madelinepeck I think it's been almost another week.
Heyo!
I had some feedback for this poster.
Some examples:
- One character could be holding a laptop, signing up for a Fedora account.
- Another character could be waving, or making a greeting gesture for the "Introduce Yourself" step.
- Another character could be having a chat with another character for the "Engage" step.
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I would send a mock-up of my suggested changes, but I'm not at my main workstation at the moment.
I'll try to draft that into the printed copy and see what comes out.
Here's something I drew up.
The 2 Cs are 2 characters talking to each other, we can just make a smaller version of the existing character, duplicate and flip it to make them talk.
If anything else is unclear, let me know
Heyo!
I just got back to my main workstation, here's a mockup of what I thought the poster could look like.
Changelog:
Notes:
I believe that the community outreach logo doesn't show up because it's a PNG (can't find the SVG anywhere).
Plus I think you could change the mascot in step 1.
Found the folder
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/design/assets/src/branch/main/branding-and-logos/logos/platforms/matrix
@sirkorgo One small issue.
All of the text are now in paths for some reason, and I suspect that you are using Figma or a different program.
This will unfortunately not fly here as I have learned the hard way.
I'll try to revert this, but just keep in mind that you should use Inkscape in the future.
Okay, so I transplanted most of the assets from the previous version of the poster.
The only things that are still left over are the circles where the mascots live in and the step headers.
I also swapped out some of the QR codes for new ones to keep the one QR code design instead of having many (as in some had blocks and some had circles)
I was able to remake the text that @sirkorgo made in Figma with some AI shenanigans, but I am fairly certain that the damage has now been reversed.
I decided to generate my own feedback by rendering a PNG of the SVG and here is what came back from Gemini:
For the front side
Fix the "Documentatio" typo to "Documentation".
Update typography to official guidelines: Use Montserrat for headlines and Open Sans for body text.
Audit color contrast ratios to ensure WCAG 2.1 AA/AAA compliance against the black background.
Increase padding/whitespace around the circular elements to prevent edge-crowding.
Standardize mascot sizes and anchor points within their respective circles.
For the back side
Add a header matching the front-side design (e.g., "Connect with a Fedora Team").
Expand the "DEI" label to "Diversity & Inclusion" for better clarity and inclusivity.
Perform a final alignment check to ensure labels are perfectly centered beneath the QR codes.
Verify that QR codes measure at least 15mm–20mm to ensure scannability when printed.
@madelinepeck / @ekidney what do you think of this feedback?
I had to upload this from my phone because I don't have access to my 2FA codes for some reason
I have implemented most of the changes from the AI
I am removing the "group into technical and non technical" requirement from the AI because the design would look something like this
I finished everything from the AI checklist and will try to generate another one
Some quick feedback and questions as I am looking at the design:
whatcanidoforfedora.orgupdated and maintained? Or would it be better to point toward the Fedora Join SIG for exploring and onboarding?@niknikovsky wrote in #40 (comment):
Since we don't do this for other swags, I would prefer not to put that on this poster. We can let our website footer and trademark policy speak for itself. It feels a bit imposing to force Red Hat into this poster.
I will drop the edits I made in the meeting, it's just fixing some holes and changing the text in the steps to black (minus the numbers)
@jflory7 wrote in #40 (comment):
Uncertain, I did find something about a group called "modularity" which links to a 404 page so probably not
I'd say Community Ops
I'll see what fits once madeline uploads her version from the meeting
True, will fix
We could write something along the lines of "making sure your time using Fedora is great"
Wouldn't this clutter the poster more?
Discussed in the Design Team meeting on 2026-07-13. Key feedback and outcomes:
Design critique: The team reviewed the poster in Inkscape and identified several areas to address before adding decorative elements. Font colors are inconsistent — large text elsewhere uses white or Fedora blue, but the banner titles use black, which feels out of step. Earlier versions with white text for calls to action ("register," "engage," "explore," "introduce yourself") were more cohesive, so the recommendation is to lean back toward that approach.
Banners discussion: The team discussed concerns with the solid color banners, including visual intensity (the vibrant colors felt overwhelming compared to the circle elements), white gaps where banners wrapped around text, forced inconsistent text color choices (black on green vs. white on others), and heavy ink usage that raises printing costs for community members printing at their own expense.
Technical fixes needed: Inconsistent border sizes between top and sides, tangent lines where elements are touching (need breathing room), and spacing adjustments to ensure content won't get cut off during printing. Emma emphasized that structural alignment and spacing should be finalized before layering in any new decorative elements.
Accessibility and printing costs: Madeline highlighted the importance of being conscientious about ink usage. Solid banners use significantly more color ink than previous designs, which is a concern for community members who may be printing these for remote meetups at their own expense.
Onboarding value: @niknikovsky asked whether this ticket could serve as "rookie reading material." Madeline confirmed it's a good example for new members — it's well-documented with research, Inkscape techniques, and Fedora visual design rules. The team will keep this in mind for future onboarding materials.
Next steps: Fix core alignment and spacing issues, revisit font color consistency, and address the banner feedback.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context)
I dropped this into Gemini after making some changes and it spat out this:
I do not plan to use this as the official image, but I am surprised it was able to do this.
I believe to have done everything that was mentioned in Justin's comment as well as what AI requested.
slight changes with the cards at the bottom
@madelinepeck / @jflory7
Pinging since it's been a few days
I'm taking time off from work next week, but I'll catch up once I'm back. 👍
some suggestions:
i think the headers for the registration steps should have a white font color (also uses less ink)
i also think the cards should have a white background or a lighter shade of grey, the dark grey doesn’t look very good as the majority of the page is bright
(would send a mockup but my computer isnt w/ me)
fixed that by changing the background of the boxes from 20% gray to 10% gray
@madelinepeck / @ekidney / @jflory7
Just a nudge since it's been 2 weeks with no activity here