The Fedora Website Redesign | Fedora Podcast Ep. 25

Fedora’s website got a big, sleek overhaul with Websites 3.0, and the story of how it came together is a great example of open source design in practice. In this episode I talked with Ashlyn Knox and Máirín Duffy about the redesign, the challenges they hit along the way, and how a distributed community of designers and developers actually shipped it.

A few things worth carrying away from the conversation:

• A community redesign is a coordination problem as much as a design one. Ashlyn and Máirín were candid about the messy parts of pulling many volunteers toward one cohesive look, which is the real work behind that polished result.
• Doing design in the open changes how decisions get made. We talked through how transparency and community input shaped the choices, rather than a redesign handed down from a closed room.
• There’s still road ahead, and room to help. The team walked through what was still to come and how to get involved, so this isn’t a finished monument so much as an ongoing project you can join.

If you care about how open source projects present themselves to the world, give this a listen.