Summer of design 2011

Summer of design is the extension of Summer of code sponsored by Google.

What?

Summer internship for design students working on open source software projects.

Design students will be working on the design aspects of the softwares.

Each project or project design feature will look for a design intern under a design mentor.

Whys?

Design for open source softwares.

Improve the user experience of open source softwares.

Stipend
Contributing to commons( Essentials added to commons reduce monopoly )
Potential job at Google
Software knowledge


Know open source history, culture
Developers started it.
Design needs singular vision - 

The visual identity of this summer of design.
Time line of summer of design and process.
(The process of this summer of design.)
Promotional posters.

• First stop open source and next stop is google.
• Flight hop to open source and next destination is google.
• Step one open source and step two google.
• What did you do during open source revolution daddy ? Developer dad:I coded, What did you do during open source revolution daddy ? Designer dad: blank.

Collaterals for pre-application talk for the potential sponsors(Google).

List of Open source projects: User experience design mentor: Design intern responsibilities:

• Graphic user interface development for new projects
• Graphic user interface redesign for existing projects
• Graphic user interface addition to existing projects
• Publication design and illustration (Operating system bible) for fedora operating system
• Regional digital typeface design for ubuntu OS, Fedora OS.
• Designing marketing collaterals(CD/DVD covers, Tshirt design, posters, banners) for fedora, ubuntu studio, gimp, 
• 2D art(animated characters and tiles) for The goblin and the butterfly
• 3D modeller (Maya/3DSMAX/Blender) for Trinity
• Graphic design ( User interface, logo and website) for OpenRCON
• Designing the installer/setup program of opit browser
• Visual identity for open source portal HumanPortal