In 2017 we had a panel session in our OSD devroom where we’ve talked about “Design Feedback in Open Source”. There were 5 designers (Victoria, Elio, Jan, me and Bernard) and we also got interactions from the audience. You can see the video.
I would like to do something similar for FOSDEM 2019, but I need to know what you think about the idea, if you would like to participate as a panel member and what topic we should tackle.
So use this forum topic to brainstorm about the panel subject. After we decide on a subject, I will take care of the slides: the questions, structure and interaction. WDYT?
Add your independent panel session ideas as top level answers; or use the “Reply” to suggest questions for the respective ideas.
If you like an idea and want to see it, just VOTE (like) for it!
Each panel member represents a particular community/project (XWiki, Wikimedia, Nextcloud, etc.)
We ask questions about Design topics and how they are represented, executed, etc. in that particular community
Each question will provide several answers and the public can interact and respond, representing their own community
Examples:
How often do you do usability testing? for each issue, periodically, once per major version, etc.
What types of accessibility compliance your community enforces? (wcag, wai-aria, section 508, etc., no idea, no accessibility compliance)
On average, how many design iterations are made for a particular proposal? until agreement, max 3 versions, first-come-first-served, etc.
What is the size of your Design team? no team, 1 person, 1-5, 5-10, etc. OR Do you have dedicated researchers inside the team?
Other possible topics for questions: target representation, style guides, design system, heuristics, focus group, psychology reviews, usability reports, team size, interdisciplinary component, responsiveness, on-boarding elements etc. I would need to see how many questions we can ask in the available time frame and decide on topics that would have diverse and relevant answers from the represented communities.
The issue with Idea 1 is that is very generic and we could spread the discussions in several directions easily. We could have a more focused panel and approach some topics in more details.
I think a panel discussion is a very good idea @evalica.
Personally I’d like to see the question “why are there still a lack of designers in open source?” being discussed. I don’t know which idea this question would fall under - Maybe idea 2?
It seems, we’ve had more “success” in reaching open source code contributors, than we’ve had reaching UX designers. Id like to know why. Why dont designers want to contribute to open source?
(Maybe it’s just me though )
I would like to see if there are designers, or code contributors who’ve had success, and how they did it.
To increase the chances of a good discussion I think it’d be better if the panellists knew the questions, or at least the topics before hand. I guess this isn’t supposed to be a “hard-hitting” investigative panel
The next question is: who wants to participate in the debate?
Please reply if you are interested to participate to the discussion and let’s provide some interesting angles on the topic.
Then again it might be better to mix some other people in who either haven’t shared their thoughts yet or are not so active in our community yet.
We could also say that we have a total of e.g. 6 seats, 3 of which we define before and 3 which we ask people from the audience, or pick them out during the day. (Or 2 & 4, or any other combination.)
We will also ask the audience, don’t worry about that, but they will be more comfortable asking questions from their seat instead of coming in front.
Since we have 50 minutes to talk about this, I would like as many as possible from us that want to participate, so I would not worry about the time (we’ll see about the space). Last time, people talked when they had something to say, besides the introduction, we don’t go in a line.
Still I would prefer people volunteer themselves : so I have until now @jan and maybe/not really sure @belenbarrospena?
Happy to take part if needed, although considering I am already doing 2 talks at the devroom this year, I will gladly leave my seat in the panel to any others who might want to volunteer. @victoria-bondarchuk ?
Maybe I misunderstood @jan’s suggestion. I thought he meant we would leave some vacant panellist seats, and ask the audience if anybody would like to join as a panel member. I thougth this would be a really interesting way of running a panel: I’ve never seen this done before.
I also think there is a good chance people attending this session will have some experience worth sharing or have thought about the subject, so it’s likely they would make good panelists.
I would need to see how many questions we can ask in the available time frame and decide on topics that would have diverse and relevant answers from the represented communities.
One option would be you,