Taking some inspiration from the recent Creative Freedom Summit and since I’ve been updating my personal design portfolio, I created a post detailing my work in these past few months as a volunteer on the Marketing team, both as a way to add to my portfolio and as a way to talk about Fedora in different social media, specially in one that is so heavily design-focused. I’d love if you could check it out:
If you’d like to see me ramble a bit about the journey of making this post feel free to keep scrolling:
The making of this post has been kind of a roller coaster, just like my own contributions to the project. I started this journey on august of last year, and now my whole world is kind of different. I’m in need of a job again after being employed for the past 3 years. I’m reeeealy close to finishing college. And I’m about to become a dad. All in the span of 4 months.
So I haven’t been able to do as much as I once did when I just started, with a boom of ideas that I still haven’t been able to fully tap into and create. I’m still trying to contribute in some way though, so I decided to at least do this.
I’m not particularly a fan nor a hater of Adobe at this point and although I feel kind of sad about having to use Photoshop again for some of my work after managing to get this far on FOSS only, I like being able to continue using FOSS tools to do as much as I can.
And it feels good using Adobe’s own platform to talk about their FOSS competitors in a way that can reach other designers and make them at least interested in trying those alternatives out. I kind of like thinking about it this way instead of the original “oh god I’m having to give in to the multi-billion dollar monopoly just to find a job”, you know?