Hey everyone, I’m Karthik. Thrilled to join this group! I’m an experienced UX designer and UI developer, eager to contribute to open source design. This is my first time joining an open source group, and I’m excited to be part of it. Looking forward to contributing. Happy Friday!
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Hi, everyone, Lucas here. I discovered this group through my interest in creating videos and interactive content, combined with the production of free tools. I have had several experiences in the area and today I have been working on a web tool focused on this type of production, such as small websites, narrative games and the like called TilBuci (tilbuci.com.br).
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Hi
I’m new to UI/UX but i’ve always been a good designer. I love to design and make websites, make apps, make art. I love art and i’m already real good at UI/UX i feel like. I’m looking for any volunteer jobs to help gain experience and get a good portfolio. Let me know if I can be of any help for any UX designer and volunteer jobs.
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Welcome @Henrik21 @lucasjunqueira-var @karthikuiux ! Please check out our monthly community call details Open Source Design monthly call - Open Source Design and also if you’d like to be added to a regional team Sign in to GitHub · GitHub then please let me know your github handle/username :))))
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Heya👋 its not easy meeting a dev turned designer
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Hey, I’m a videomaker and co-founder of Estúdio Gunga, a design and communication studio using exclusively free software for the last 17 years. I am also member of the Kdenlive team and KDE Goals project manager.
Based in Brazil.
FLOSS advocate.
Agroforestry and Solidarity Economy practitioner.
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Hi, I’m a graduating student in Industrial Design with a specialty in ux and interaction design from Montreal, Canada. I have a background in computer science. I always liked open source projects and I’m looking to give back to the communities that helped me so much with their software since always.
Looking forward to contribute!
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Kdenlive is really something I’m looking into!
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Hi o/ I’m Snow (she/they), I’m a student in software development and I’m extremely interested in UX/UI design because I find that it’s really what gives me connection to the users and purpose to the things I’ll develop (making sure that what I’m making is good, meets the needs of the users, etc).
I’m also very into free and open source software and am looking to make design a bigger part of open source development.
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Welcome @SnowCode 
I hope to see you in a community call and around the forum - don’t hesitate to reach out if you need something specific or have questions 
Also welcome to @frdbr it was great seeing you on February’s community call and @facuccino welcome welcome!
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Hello there, I’m Pascal Isman (he/him), my pseudo is lascapi.
- my blog: lascapi.fr
- mastodon account: lascapi.
I’m french and I live in Bonn, Germany. I’m a fullstack web developer and also web designer. That become more and more clear for me that UX/UI should always come before any programmation.
I’m working right now on a ‘Open Instant Messaging Service’ - more info here mio.chat.
I see how it’s difficult to find the good words, pictures and concept to explain complexes things like protocols to everyone.
I’m here to learn and to network. 
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Hi all!! I joined recently, I’m a designer based out of the UK. Pretty chuffed to be part of this community and dig into it a bit. Will try attend the next community call!
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Hey there! 
welcome welcome!
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Hello everyone!
I’m a graphic designer and currently still learning 
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You can call me “Novan” :D.
I’m excited to join and contribute to open-source projects! I’ve been thinking about offering my design skills for free to gain more experience, improve my abilities, and help others achieve great results together 
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I’ve explored various things on my own, including website and project development, but I realized that working in a team requires good communication. That’s why I decided to contribute here—to learn and grow with others.
I hope to be welcomed here! If there are any design-related projects that need help, feel free to let me know. I’d love to contribute! 
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Hi there Novan, welcome 
The best place to find OSS projects looking actively for design help is Jobs - Jobs
Hi everyone,
I’m product manager and open source lead at ResearchSpace, and located in Berlin,Germany. We’ve released our product RSpace, a research data management solution for academic organisations, as an open source project in June last year and we’re exploring how we might better enable all forms of community contributions, including UX/Design.
RSpace is about connecting tools, services, and infrastructure for research data, but UX/Design is often an afterthought to research data management, unfortunately. That’s why I believe it’s crucial to prioritize UX in our open source development process and we expect our project and the extended ecosystem will keep providing some interesting UX challenges.
I’ve met some of you at FOSS.backstage design a few weeks back and look forward to learning from and collaborating with this community. Feel free to reach out if you have questions, ideas or if there is anything I can help you with.
Cheers,
Tilo.
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Hi all! 
My name is Andrew, and I’m an initiator and designer in both the activist.org and Scribe communities. I’m a Berlin based analyst who works on Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland, with activist and Scribe being side projects that we’ve been able to build supportive communities around.
I’d been considering joining Open Source Design for some time, and got a very strong suggestion to join recently after a talk I gave on open-source community building. Feel free to check out the Figma designs for either project and let me know if you have suggestions!
activist designs: https://www.figma.com/design/I9McFfaLu1RiiWp5IP3YjE/activist_public_designs?node-id=805-231&t=PlXCxvUx21HWwdVd-1
Scribe designs: https://www.figma.com/design/c8945w2iyoPYVhsqW7vRn6/scribe_public_designs?node-id=405-464&t=EmyZiiNrgrKWfJGc-1
I just sent along job posts for each project, so hopefully those will be accepted and then maybe we can work together! I’m as of now the lead designer for both projects, and it would be great to set up a working relationship with people interested in contributing to either project 
Thanks all!
Andrew
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Hi all,
A long overdue introduction - I’m Cade, and I’ve kind of lurked alongside Open Source Design for over ten years. I run a small R&D lab called Para-Real Ltd., and we’re working on a number of interesting projects that I’m looking forward to sharing here when I can.
I was a designer on Signal back when it was called Textsecure, and I went to Hawai’i to help finish Signal 1.0 in 2013-2014. I was Chief Design Officer at Spideroak, and head of production at Tactical Tech in Berlin for a number of years. More recently, I’ve collaborated a little with some of the Berlin GNOME team and advise open source security projects pretty often. I keep a catalogue of Open Source Design Resources on Are.na. I’ve written extensively about design (On Weaponised Design [2018], This is Fine: Optimism & Emergency in the P2P Network [2020]), Digital Culture (The Para-Real: A Manifesto [2022], Too Late for the Earth, To Soon for the Stars [2023]).
Maybe of stronger interest to this community, I’ve written and presented some of my research around this, such as confronting the challenges of digital identity, a talk at a GNOME-adjacent event talking about demographics, the challenges of web archiving, and the political nature of game engines – particularly Godot – in a research piece commissioned by an EU Horizons funding recipient. I build accessible, non technical threat modelling tools and think a lot about the cultural and political futures of digital systems beyond hype and popular criticism.
I post a little on Mastodon at 𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔟𝔠𝔬 (@shibacomputer@post.lurk.org) - post.lurk.org.
I’m particularly interested in how we can move Open Source forward in the 2020s, given the complexity of funding collapse, bad actors in the wider community and a potential generational drop-off in FOSS culture more widely. I think it’s really clear that there is a big shift underway and that there is more opportunity than ever to bring OSD to the wider world. This community is at the forefront of that effort.
Nice to meet you all! 
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Whoa! Look at all the open source enthusiastic here!
I’m Sohier, a UX designer and a developer, I’m a master’s student and contractor designer. I got interested in open source and wanted to contribute as a developer and I was hoping that there’s a chance like that for designers because of the great benefits of open source contributions.
So, happy to be here!
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Hi everyone! I hope you’re all doing great.
My name is Julian, and I’m a Spain based UX/UI Designer with a background in Frontend Development and Graphic Design.
As soon as I heard about Open Source Design I knew I wanted to be part of it! I’m excited to start contributing in any way I can.
Looking forward to meeting some of you soon!
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