I think the point Waldir was making was
about a lack of information preceding the event, not so much the
follow up.
On 09/04/13 04:19, Steven Walling wrote:
On Monday, April 8, 2013, Waldir Pimenta wrote:
Sorry, but this announcement was frankly too little,
too late. I had looked at the Wikimedia blog post, the
Noun Project blog post, the eventbrite page, the talk
pages of the event pages in mediawiki, meta and wikipedia
(btw, why so much duplication? where was the central hub?)
and there was nothing even suggesting that remote
participation would be possible, or that a hangout could
be expected. This is even worse considering that it was
asked a while ago (
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2013-March/000423.html)
but nobody seems to have answered.
Apart from that, where were the results posted? All I found
were pictures from the event, spread across several
categories. I've collected them on
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Iconathon_2013
and cleaned up the other categories they were polluting
(e.g. Category:I !!). I would expect the results to be
uploaded to
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Noun_Project
but so far I haven't seen any new icons there. Is this
coming soon?
Waldir, the event just happened two days ago, and yesterday
was a Sunday. Please show a little patience.
The main activity during the event was design work and
critique that did not yet involve making permanent digital
assets. The core part of this was not making simple black and
white SVGs of icons, but churning out as many ideas for
representing concepts as possible, which we did collaboratively
in groups on paper. Then we sorted and assessed these ideas with
lots of back and forth between designers, Wikimedians present,
etc.
Now that the idea phase is over and it's time to move toward
execution, Vibha and others who ran this will be posting more
updates this week. All relevant materials will of course be
available for use on Commons.
Self-answer, after doing a little research: "Afterwards,
The Noun Project will take the pen/paper sketches and have
their vector artists render them in SVG. They will be
released about a month after the event" — from
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2013-March/000421.html.
Yet this wasn't mentioned anywhere in any of the page I
listed above. A "results" section would be most welcome for
those who weren't able to participate.
Related, for anyone interested: I recently came across
interesting resources for the kinds of icons that the Noun
Project seems to focus on, and tried to organize the
categories in commons to make them more findable:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Plain_black_icons
(and subcategories) and
fontello.com
(font-based icons, all of them freely licensed).
--Wadir
ps - I don't understand why this announcement wasn't also
posted to the design mailing list. I'm CC'ing it.
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