Introductions (come in, say hi)

(Mārtiņš Zemlickis) #74

Hello everyone,

I’m a product designer with a great insight in service design who is looking to contribute skills for people who have a great vision and are willing to help others with their creations.

I have been part of multiple native mobile app development teams and web agency setups building apps and web for finance/health/education etc fields. In my free time I create identities, play around with html/css and take photos in my hiking trips around the country.

I have NO EXP IN OPEN SOURCE. :slight_smile: Looking forward to get one! :smiley:

Cheers,
Mārtiņš

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(R C Davies) #75

Hi all,

I’ve just joined the open source forum. I’m bringing together a bunch of thinking about how people can be using technology in the future through what can best be described as ‘Mixed Reality’. Or, more accurately, where the real world is both the display and user interface, populated also with virtual artifacts and characters.

From a design perspective, I’m interested in how we design the new language of this medium applying the best ‘calm technology’ principles, with an understanding of cognitive science informing our definitions of how technology is built to fit in and support people in natural and intuitive ways.

So, that’s the path I am heading down, and I’m keen to do this in an opensource and open thinking manner.

On the other side of the coin, we’re reinventing the underlying operating system structures to best support this new way of thinking.

/Roy.

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(Felipe Erias) #76

Hello everybody!

My name is Felipe. I am an interaction designer and SW engineer.

I work at Terranet AB, a Swedish R&D company focused on proximity and mesh networks; i.e. getting devices to do nifty things by talking to each other directly. I find use cases for particular technology (e.g. WiFi Aware) and bring them to life through functional prototypes, driving the development of the underlaying building blocks in the process.

Previously I was a SW engineer at Igalia for several years, developing applications and libraries for the Maemo/MeeGo mobile systems and the GNOME desktop environment.

Kind regards,
Felipe

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(Anja ) #77

Hey everyone, I’m Anja and i am part of Ura Design as a SysAdmin.
I got familiar with the OSD world in the summit held in Tirana this year, and the atmosphere was amazing. Looking forward to meeting many of you. :upside_down_face:

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(Juan Duarte) #78

Hi!

My name is Juan Duarte, i’m a Graphic Designer from Brazil and i work mainly with branding. I recently entered in the “open source world” and i want to be more engaged in the activism and community.

Today i’m a contributor of the InkScape’s Team Vectors, and i’m trying to help with all i can do and learn.

:slight_smile:

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(Piteco) #79

Alô Juan! Saudações do Brasil :smiley:

I think we might keep it in english so everyone can understand our conversation here :sweat_smile: If you haven’t already, check the @ryangorley reply to my introduction here, he pointed two great studios that use FOSS tools here.

Abraços!

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(Jan-Christoph Borchardt) pinned globally #80
(Antonela Debiasi) #81

Hello!

My name is Antonela. I’m a Product Designer. I’m currently leading the UX team at the Tor Project. We work on things like Tor Browser for desktop, Tor Browser for Android and the Tor Project website.

I’m happy to be here and excited to meet some of you in FOSDEM this year!

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(Cristina) #82

Hi all!
I’m Cristina. I’m a designer and frontend dev working on Drupal based in Barcelona. I’m one of the coordinators for the Drupal Admin UI Modernisation initiative and I’d love to get in contact with more designers from the Open Source world. I’ll try to see which events are the ones I can find some of you (sadly not FOSDEM this year). :slight_smile:

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(Peace Ojemeh) #83

Hi everyone,

I’m Peace Ojemeh(call me Perrie!) from Nigeria. I am an open source designer, I volunteer at Sugar Labs. I am also a founding member of Open Source Community Africa - a diverse community of open source lovers, collaborating on different projects to make a difference across Africa.

I’m here at OSD forum because I want to be part of an open source design community to relate with designers who do things around open Source

I’m glad to me here!

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#84

Hey everyone!

My name is Inês, i’m 23 years old and i’m a product designer from Portugal (Braga) working at SVHealth.

I’m here because I’d really like to contribute to open source projects, learn new things, share knowledge, and meet the community. Cheers!

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#85

Hi everyone,

I am Amit. I am a computational designer working in New York.
I work with buildings and structures and engineering. I’ve worked on a platform VR platform for architects and enjoy working on creative projects.
Looking forward to exploring on how I can get involved with OS design!

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(John Mica) #86

Hi all,

I’m a Frontend Dev for a small company in Rugby, UK. I’m playing with both OSS and proprietary code and currently we are involved in an interesting project that should bring the OSS more mainstream, especially to the deciding factors in public government. The project is PublicCode Directory/ and is currently in its first iteration (sponsored by OpenUK, Public Code, FSFE and OpusVL.

I’m here to help get the word spread out, help out the community and do my part in getting OSS more mainstream and learn

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(Naveen Vignesh B) #87

Hi. I am a full stack dev who is into contributing open source modules for UI. I would love to learn a lot from you people and get to know stuff.

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(Rajat Patel) #88

Hey there, Rajat Patel here from India.
So I had this idea around two years ago(when I started my career on design) that a lot of the open source tools are not as good looking as their paid counterparts, which results in less adoption of those tools, less contributors interests in them eventually resulting in less innovations on them.
I tried searching for what I could do but could not find much. Two years later, here I am extremely happy to find that there are other people who interested in the same which makes me extremely excited.

Also I am a product designer here in Delhi, India working on products mainly in the education and data management domain but I am really open to contribute in anyway I can. Let’s pace up guys! A lot is to be done.

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(stella) #89

Hi everyone,
I am Stella. I am a freelance designer working in Taipei now.
I have 4 years of experience in security, hotel, and institute start-up and focus on UX, UI design, including user research, interview, design planning… etc.
Looking forward to exploring and creating more design projects. : )

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(stepfencurryxiao) #90

Hello, I am a student.I am very interested in programming.I’m glad I can join the organization.

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(Jdittrich) #91

hi @stepfencurryxiao, @rajatpatel2113, @zucci
Nice to have you with us at opensourcedesign! Have a look at existing posts to get to know what other members have taken interest in in the past and feel free to bring in new topics. If you are interested in web development tasks have a look at our issue tracker.

(Toeii) #92

Hello! I’m Toeii (@Toeii Con Github)

I am a mobile project developer. I want to learn interactive design here. I’m glad to be here.

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(Jdittrich) #93

Hi @toeii,
Great to have you with us! Have a look at past posts and possibly at the job board to see what we do. Learning interactive design can be a bit difficult in open source since the fields have different traditions – but have a look and decide for yourself if it suits your learning needs (or come for the learning design and stay for something else!)