From 3eb44a130c93c7110fe1eb9b043371bdac2db948 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siri Reiter Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:27:37 +0200 Subject: Add english blog entry with debian tag. --- blog/entry/140330_en.mdwn | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/entry/140330_en.mdwn (limited to 'blog/entry') diff --git a/blog/entry/140330_en.mdwn b/blog/entry/140330_en.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c0ac001 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/entry/140330_en.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +# That goddamned perfection again +Since the MiniDebConf Jonas and I have been travelling in +Spain, France and finally staying in Belgium for a week, +getting some work done. It's been harder than imagined to +work during travel. I haven't exercised either, and regained +at least three of four kilos I spent much time and effort +getting rid in the year preceding. I thrive in my home and +find it hard to keep my own time and focus when I am deprived +of my own space. + +It was challenging to give a talk, "Why aren't more designers +using Debian or working for Debian", my first public talk. +I've been working to recapture my points in writing, to make a +stronger statement, but I seem to blur my own views with +conflicting ones, and I'm loosing momentum every day. + +One of my reasons for speaking up was to do it even though +I'm not at trained speaker and have "nothing" to contribute +but my opinions from the angle of a user that happens to be a +designer. Not claiming to be a superior designer, but one that +would like to contribute if it was easier to figure out how. +And since the community wants to encourage designers to +contribute to the Debian project, I figured it to be a good +idea to talk about how this has been challenging to me as a +dedicated user and completely out of the question for any +other designer I know - or knew before the minidebconf. No +reseach, no scientific proofs, just my wiew from my "dumb +user" and designer's perspective. + +I saw one single attendant rolling his eyes during my talk. +I didn't care at that time, but I've given that look more +consideration than the people approaching me after the talk, +saying thank you for voicing _their_ opinions and thoughts. +I think that's absolutely astonishing and at the same time +it's just typically me. It makes me angry, first with myself +for not speaking to this man's perception of things, then with +myself for not just letting go of that image. I'm really glad +that so many seemed to listen with curiosity and interest. +What if one more - or half of the auditorium - had rolled +their eyes? I don't like to feel that vulnerable. + +The truth is, though, that I'm really not. I gave the talk +against my fear of failure and public humiliation and I'm +convinced that my thoughts and actions matter, just as +anybody's does, if we dare to say what's on our minds and to +take action. I believe it's in anybody's power to "make a +difference" and even "change the world" - at least in a small +way. I guess that's one of the underlying reasons to be a +designer in the first place. That _is_ quite a strong position +to take. + +I've created the wikipage http://wiki.debian.org/Design - well +knowing that design is a word with many meanings. Everything +is design. Since the talk I've been in doubt about that page. +About the project, my aim with it, what to do about it, how to +move on with just a tiny babystep, and I realise that I'm +simply afraid to be disturbing someone's peace, making people +angry or roll their eyes at my fumbling attempts to figure out +in public what can be done to make a thriving community of +designers collaborating with coders to make better, more +usable and attractive software in the free, wide world. I'm +starting a design process, not presenting a perfect, finished +solution. + +Now, having put these thoughts into words, perhaps, my mind +will be somewhat appeaced and let me move on with my intended +tasks of cultivating that acclaimed space in the Debian +information jungle into a friendly and welcoming place with +info that makes it easier to be a contributing designer in Debian. + +[[!tag english minidebconf debian]] -- cgit v1.2.3