Exchange on experiences and methods – best practices

I always wanted in the Open Source Design community to be able to discuss solutions between us. This can go in 2 way (maybe there are more):

  1. Share and ask for feedback / solutions for some design component in your preferred / regular open source community. For example, me sharing some XWiki design problem and decide together which would be the better approach.

  2. Take an entry from the Job Board for a new organization and solve it.

Doing things collaboratively I think it will allow us to see how we approach problems, how we communicate, how we do the visual representations, etc. And we can learn from each other this way.

The only downside I see is the time constraint. For the ones that contribute for a long time in Open Source, they know that these discussions take time, especially the design ones since are subjective. The more people participating, the longer the talk. Especially if it’s not stated from the start how the conclusion will be taken (first-come-first-serve, majority vote, committer decision, time limit, etc.)

Because of this time limit we cannot take as exercise design decisions that need to be delivered in a particular roadmap or for organizations that are impatient.

Maybe you had something else in mind when you opened this topic, but this is what I would be interested in experiencing / learning. Maybe you wanted a more theoretical approach, while I would go for doing the practical exercises.

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