# July monthly meetings experiment!

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/july-monthly-meetings-experiment/1891>\
**Category:** Open Source Design meta\
**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/july-monthly-meetings-experiment/1891 "2020-06-30T10:56:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/july-monthly-meetings-experiment/1891/4 "2020-07-15T09:49:46Z")

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x-posting the ‘raw’ notes here too:

**Open Source Design July Monthly call #1**

19.00 CEST

Agenda:

- **How to involve existing members in more sustainable support for OSD**
- **How to gather/encourage more designers/people to join**

- Getting more students in involved opportunities for marketing and outreach

- Reaching out to university’s - Need guidance and effort and support

- Need to think about marketing opportunities

- T-shirts and shirts and swag

- Competition monthly where the participants get swag at the end.

- Students like to brag about it - twitter

- Make it sustainable by students feeding into the competition

**- AP: Eriol to start a forum thread for this idea**

- Software freedom conservancy - [https://sfconservancy.org/projects/](https://sfconservancy.org/projects/) financials and governance etc. support with. Get consulting & legal expertise. Scaling governance.

- The Open Source Summit legacy talk.

- Sustain 2021 is good deadline

- Conferences were a go to for new members/energising existing member which is hard right now.

- Monthly meeting agendas help people to know whether they want to attend.

- Some people after 5-6 years are tired and have other things to do so they are moving away from things

- No documented levels in group we can give certain privileges to people.

- Biggest concern about core group is credentials

- Vouch for/sponsor

- Meet in real life

- If people want to do something they should do it. If something is ‘using our name’ it should be known and approved.

- The monthly calls are not just core team calls they are open and community calls.

- We only have control via a PR review.

- GSoC/Outreachy helps recruit new OSS interests

- Projects to apply to to contribute to “Where do I contribute to?’

- How designers contribute to OSS? where is the list? could we provide some generic rules for contributing.

- Community call vs. Core team meetings

- Community can be on IRC, participate and learn

- We have an IRC channel, for two or three years didn’t really work.

> **[Open Source Design](https://opensourcedesign.net/contribute/)**
>
> Connecting open source & design! 🎨

- Need to work on discoverability of info.

- Coders are need

- Amit & Saptak are happy to help code

- A& S & E are looking to help clean up GitHub

- **Any website movements/improvements/PR’s that need reviewing?  
3a. The suggestion from a member for a ‘showcase’ area of OSD website**

- Some movement is happening here which is nice

- Design education on P&S

- **Some updates from UXBOX to share with the community.**

- Gave an update about Uxbox

- Adobe XD going fully open source

- **OSD Summit conversations and any other conference news**

- Talks but also tutorial how I do this stuff in an OSD way

- Open Source Diversity summit is whispers of - Can we co-locate these two conferences?

- Organisation of this is the hard part!

- **Any other jobs/projects we want to discuss? Sustain OSS badges?**

- Sustain OSS badges: [Open Source Design project with Sustain OSS: Badges](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/open-source-design-project-with-sustain-oss-badges/1843)

- **AP:** Add it as a job on OSD jobs posting via etherpad for collaboration & add on to the Sustain OSS discourse forum. [https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/sustainoss-badges-notes](https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/sustainoss-badges-notes)

- **AOB (Any other business)**

- We talked about fossresponders project

- Hourly estimates on the work for the jobs page

- Onboarding for submitting job how to post a job that designers will want to work on! \< could be an article.

- We talked about how to get validation from peers and the wider design network

00.00 BST - Friday 3rd

Stayed until 00.20 no shows

03.00 BST - Saturday 4th

Stayed until 00.20 no shows

11.00 BST - Monday 6th July

Stayed until 00.20 no shows

14.30 BST - Tuesday 7th July

1 attendee

Wednesday 8th

extra meeting at 4pm with 4 attendees

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