I would find it very useful to create set of nice icons, one for each of challenges we will address in this pilot session. Especially in multilingual environment using icons can help us all with staying on the same page. Later we could also use them on printed cards we could put on offline task boards etc.
I possible let’s please try to make them using open source software like GIMP or Inkscape and push all the original files to a repository in unMonastery Github account or some other easy to use place with pulic read, shared write and version controll.
There’s also OpenClipArt - You can upload an SVG and then users can choose to export files as any size PNG or just download the SVG. http://openclipart.org/
Thanks everyone – but I notice the task remains unassigned. Now that we have several solutions for storing the icons, who is up for actually producin them? Is it you, [jonocosa]?
To answer your questions above: the challenges are 12, so [elf Pavlik] wants 12 icons. Their list and description is here – I guess it’s up to the artist to interpret what they would look like.
I would like to respectfully point out that the list of 12 is an unauthorised shorthand conglomeration performed by Ben (?) from the offical community sanctioned list of 47 challenges that sprung out of the March meeting. This being the case it is more respectful community development strategy to either return to the original list ( 47 icons ?), or go slowly as regard to in which degree the individual projects indeed address all ( or any ) of these aims. Beginning with the PR department generally impedes flexibility; perhaps creating icons that depict the 7-10 projects as they develop is the way to go?
I would say one can put them wherever you like as long as you can add links to them somewhere. I would like that we have good quality 200x200px versions, recommended by http://ogp.me/ and make sure that they look decent in sizes all the way down to 48x48 . Also I would like to help with vizualizing projects as graphs with nodes and edges, so icons which look well in shape of circle would com handy. Just as unMonastery logo or EdgeRyders logo!
If someone would like to make 47 icons, great! Still let’s start with min 12 for chalenges we have published on webisted and used in application form?
[jonocosa] you’re a star! So, to let know other people you are taking care of this and avoid duplication, we use Tasks as in open source development groups. What you do is leave a comment to this same task, as you have done before; but if you look over the window in which you type the comment’s title you will see some parameters realting to the Task: “Project” (currently set to unMonastery), “Assign to” (currently set to Unassigned), “Status” (currently set to Open) and others. Set “Assign to” to yourself (start typing “jonocosa” in the field and the platform will autocomplete your user name); set “Status” to In Progress. Type just anything in the Comment text window, like “On it” or something like that and save. If you go to the My Tasks tab in the Taskmanager (here) you will see that now the task is assigned to you. This is useful because it tells other people you are working on this particular task, and if they want to help they should pick up an open, unassigned task instead.
We are trying to encourage the community to use these really cool tool for distributed collaboration, as we believe they make us, collectively, much smarter and more effective. Here’s a guide we wrote on how to use Tasks in Edgeryders.
Thanks! The last one, you mean the 5th in the list, the one with “Lack of a global view on the city?”. How about pieces of puzzle coming together? or a magnifying glass as in “look closely”? I’m far from an expert with visuals, all the contrary, but no harm in trying right?
BTW [Katalin] also started working on it in last two days here in Matera, I guess she could have mention it by commenting here, I’ll ask her to try coordinating it with you
