I made some progress on the application which included answering two questions:
4. When and how did your group start? (300 words) We’d love to know the origin story of your group including things like when did the group start, what brought you together, who was involved, what did you start working on together?
Open Source Design started in Spring 2015 when a handful of designers that were making individual and seperate contributions to open source software reached out to the wider social network spaces they were in seeking other designers doing the same/involved in OSS. Others responded, they met and decided to form a community group in May 2015, publishing a manifesto, goals and setting up https://opensourcedesign.net/ . The first open source design devroom held at FOSDEM 2015 and open source design community members have applied, hosted and run devrooms and stands for design support in FOSS at various global events ever since.
Original founding members include:
simonv3 (Psi) · GitHub https://www.burntfen.com/ and bnvk (Warm Ashes) · GitHub in setting up and initilising the github repository to host the website, resources and OSS contribution/jobs board. Other that joined and became OSS community maintainers include jdittrich · GitHub jancborchardt (Jan C. Borchardt) · GitHub https://www.risherry.ro/ and others between 2015 and 2017 which was when the first open source design summit was held in 2017.
The purpose of Open Source Design’s community was for designers and FOSS creators/maintainers to find a place to gather when they begin to have questions about design in FOSS. The community is a place of connection, collaboration, solidarity, advocacy and facilitates design contributions to FOSS by way of the hosted and maintained jobs board as well as articles (website and conversational in our hosted forum) as well as connected design in FOSS endevours over the years. The aim has always been to have designers in FOSS find each other and FOSS project find where they can gather design support for their FOSS. We’ve also grown our advocacy work to include growing diversity in FOSS (of indentity and practice, design is a rare function in FOSS) and stepping into Internet Freedom and supporting usability and access in global majorities.
5a. What is your average annual budget? (averaged over the last 2-3 years) By annual budget we mean, your annual operating costs including all your expenses. This is so we can understand the size of your group and make sure you’re eligible for the fund (it should not exceed EUR 500,000). We know some groups are new or informal and may not have this information yet — an estimation is completely okay.
10000
5b. If you would like to add any addition context around your budget, please do so here. (50 words)
We formed without ‘need’ for governance processes, it has been difficult to gain concensus on spending existing unrestricted donation funds of 10kUSD. We recently recieved a donation from Google to implement governance.
Our budget would be larger if we’d had governance on how to spend and manage funds earlier
6. How many paid staff do you have? As part of our eligibility we are interested in funding groups that have no more than 10 paid staff (including long term freelance contracts). Groups run entirely by volunteers or collectives without paid staff are also welcome to apply.
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Next questions are:
7. What is the mission and vision of the group? (300 words) We’d love to learn about the aims of the group and what change you are hoping to make as well as your values.
8. How are the people directly affected by the issues you work on represented in the group’s leadership or decision‑making and implementation of activities? (300 words) We’re interested in how the people directly affected by the issues you work on are shaping the group’s leadership, or decisions and implementation of activities.
Your work:
These questions help us understand how you work on the issue of digital justice organising, how your group operates and what you plan to do with the grant
9. Please describe the work you are applying to be funded for. (500 words) We’d like to understand understand the specific work you want support for - what you hope to do, who it will benefit, and why it matters.
etc. etc. I’ll poist more as I work on this application :)))))