# Monthly Open Source Design call

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253>\
**Category:** Monthly call\
**Created:** [August 1, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253 "2017-08-01T13:49:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![SvenPu](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/svenpu/32/3234_2.png) [@SvenPu](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/SvenPu)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 11:55am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/201 "2024-06-05T11:55:46Z")

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In preparation for today’s Monthly Design Call, I have created the [template on the event page](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/meeting-agenda-template/3879) according to @Erioldoesdesign 's suggestion. If you are interested, please feel free to make improvements. Maybe someone can also pin my post to the top of the new thread, as I’m not familiar with it yet.

For tonight, I would be interested to know where we are with this project, who is active (perhaps in the background) for which part and what we can tackle next to create a vibrant community that further anchors the UX idea in the open source world.

I’m gladly looking forward to seeing you this evening.

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**Author:** ![SvenPu](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/svenpu/32/3234_2.png) [@SvenPu](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/SvenPu)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/202 "2024-06-05T19:54:28Z")

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**Minutes from the Design Community Call on June 5, 2024:**

_Participants:_ @SvenPu, Otto Richter from the Codeberg project

_Notes:_  
Today I had the chance to welcome a new participant to our monthly meeting call: Otto Richter from the [Codeberg project](https://codeberg.org/). We both are from Germany, which made our communication a little bit easier. 😉 Some members here might have seen and talked to him at this year’s FOSS Backstage conference in Berlin.

Otto introduced the Codeberg project, which is a code hosting platform similar to Github or Gitlab. Codeberg is trying to build a better user experience, e. g. for designers. (Which designer does not know about the problem of comparing two versions of an image, etc.?!)  
To achieve this, Codeberg is reaching out to designers, for instance, to conduct user research or design tasks. They’re so grateful for their contributions!  
We discussed topics that repeatedly occur in software development projects at the intersection of requirements, design and development, e. g. different points of view of users, developers and designers and approaches to make them more understandable to each other.

I found this a positive discussion and invited Otto into our community. Hopefully, we can welcome him here soon.

For our next meeting on 3 July 2024, I’d love to see some more participants again and get to know more about where we are with our community. Who is active (perhaps in the background) for which part and what we can tackle next to build up a vibrant community that further anchors the UX idea in the open source world?

Best,  
Sven

_Further information:_

- The [Codeberg project](https://codeberg.org/)
- [Book: Buley, The User Experience Team of One](https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-user-experience-team-of-one/)
- [Book: Bowles, Box: Undercover User Experience Design](https://www.pearson.de/undercover-user-experience-design-9780132118255)

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**Author:** ![SvenPu](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/svenpu/32/3234_2.png) [@SvenPu](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/SvenPu)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/203 "2024-06-07T20:08:25Z")

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@scottjenson mentioned, that he tried to join the meeting on Wednesday at 19:00 CET by opening [meet.jit.si/opensourcedesign](https://meet.jit.si/opensourcedesign), but no one was there. As far as I can tell there were also some technical problems when Otto and I joined. I don’t know how long Scott waited in the room - it would not be the first time that Jitsi meeting participants in the same room did not see each other. From my experience, the only way around this is to leave and join again. Let’s hope it did not happen to more people and that it works better next time.  
Scott, if there are any issues that you brought up that you wanted to discuss at the meeting, please feel free to discuss them in this forum so that we can all share our thoughts.

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**Author:** ![Erioldoesdesign](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/erioldoesdesign/32/2895_2.png) [@Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/Erioldoesdesign)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 9:25am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/204 "2024-06-10T09:25:05Z")

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Hey @SvenPu Thanks for hosting the calls lately - I’ve been on vacation (much needed!) I’ll be around for the July call :)))

I hope Jitsi issues get resolved. The Monthly call i think has always been described as a drop in- drop out and so some folks may not show up every month or on time every month. 🙂

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**Author:** ![fnetX](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/fnetx/32/3283_2.png) [@fnetX](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/fnetX)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/205 "2024-07-02T13:09:28Z")

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Hi there, I hope to be around for the call tomorrow. Looking forward to it.

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**Author:** ![SvenPu](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/svenpu/32/3234_2.png) [@SvenPu](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/SvenPu)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 5:47am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/206 "2024-07-03T05:47:04Z")

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Hello everyone, due to time constraints I probably won’t be able to attend the meeting today. Is anyone else attending and can look after our community and the new participants? Thank you and best regards, Sven

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**Author:** ![Erioldoesdesign](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/erioldoesdesign/32/2895_2.png) [@Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/Erioldoesdesign)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/207 "2024-07-03T15:56:33Z")

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I can be there Sven :)))

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**Author:** ![Erioldoesdesign](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/erioldoesdesign/32/2895_2.png) [@Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/Erioldoesdesign)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/208 "2024-07-03T18:01:57Z")

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**Minutes from the Design Community Call on July 3, 2024:**

_Participants:_ Eriol, Matthew, Juhan, Anita, Scott, Jan D, Gerardo

_Notes:_

- **Quick Intros**

- **The little core spiel**

- **Topics!**

- **Talks at Gnome conf**

Did some quick Open Source Design core updates re. Open Collective, Forum copy paste strikes and what new issues and contributions have been made lately!

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**Author:** ![Erioldoesdesign](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/erioldoesdesign/32/2895_2.png) [@Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/Erioldoesdesign)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/209 "2024-09-04T12:37:58Z")

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Our monthly community call is today @ 2024-09-04T17:00:00Z→2024-09-04T18:00:00Z but sadly I have a terrible migraine so can’t facilitate ☹  
If anyone else can take on facilitation that’d be amazing and don’t forget to take notes here!

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**Author:** ![fnetX](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/fnetx/32/3283_2.png) [@fnetX](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/fnetX)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/210 "2024-09-04T12:40:09Z")

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Get well soon! I considered to participate today, but I’m not yet sure if I’ll make it on time, and I’m not in a good position to host it.

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**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jdittrich/32/42_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jdittrich)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/211 "2024-09-05T18:58:33Z")

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Minutes 4.09.24:

We had a small call; no big updates. We talked about the situation of designers in open source projects (See here for an [overview of academic texts](https://github.com/victoria-bondarchuk/List-of-Academic-Research-on-Usability-in-FOSS)) as well as some ideas on “my” UI sketching tool ([see here for slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mq8zX2nH3CsAw3KZ_eUGrpz5rGo_oMkK/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108882002799165171065&rtpof=true&sd=true))

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**Author:** ![Erioldoesdesign](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/erioldoesdesign/32/2895_2.png) [@Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/Erioldoesdesign)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/212 "2024-10-02T16:34:38Z")

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I won’t be at the community call today sadly - I have work meetings ☹ but i hope it goes well!

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**Author:** ![MarsBarLee](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/marsbarlee/32/2670_2.png) [@MarsBarLee](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/MarsBarLee)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/213 "2024-10-02T16:36:21Z")

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I’ll be around for today’s call! I just finished PyCon India, where I gave a keynote on my [NumPy comics](https://heyzine.com/flip-book/3e66a13901.html). I also hosted a zine making workshop as an Unconference session, and over 30 people showed up! The workshop focused on encouraging people to ‘Tell their Open Source Story’ and get crafty with pen and paper as a break from the usual conference stuff.

And met Saptak, who is convincing me to join FOSDEM next year haha.

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**Author:** ![MarsBarLee](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/marsbarlee/32/2670_2.png) [@MarsBarLee](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/MarsBarLee)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/214 "2024-10-02T18:19:28Z")

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Here’s [my slides I shared from today’s call](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/143mvOsFHH6gIgGSzWeKMQLuE0hzAGJvg4WQx9VfvlII/edit?usp=sharing). It is a truncated version of my keynote. Here’s some highlights:

- 1000 people in the audience listened! To a designer at a Python conference!  
 ![OSD Community Call Update 10_2_2024_3](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/opensourcedesign/original/2X/1/1984afc40c59bb1ca4f51180dd85c0ee98252e1e.png)  
 ![OSD Community Call Update 10_2_2024_2](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/opensourcedesign/original/2X/5/5819d5ecf06664e62a8beaf97bc6e4be520d9993.jpeg)  
 ![OSD Community Call Update 10_2_2024_4](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/opensourcedesign/original/2X/9/9ce4c1fe515782630840df84520541664d0d3913.png)  
 ![OSD Community Call Update 10_2_2024](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/opensourcedesign/original/2X/a/a9b785e46d31cc413ed4f90a952702b9ff90e1d3.png)

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**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jdittrich/32/42_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jdittrich)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/215 "2024-10-02T18:50:31Z")

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Notes from 02.10.24:

- Talking about communities, mastodon and the question whether Reddit is “social media”
- Jan giving a brief update on what is going on in the community:
  - Preparing application for FOSDEM room
  - Whether we get a room or not (so far our applications were successful, fingers crossed), some people might start planning for travel.
  - With FOSSDEM coming we also need to talk about funding traveling and other questions of governance. Also: Jan’s “What could OSD to for you-question”

- Some general discussion
  - What is OSDs goal?
  - Some projects barely manage to have unit tests (a rather dev-ish practice), this makes it kinda hard for us to suggest “hey, you should be doing some user research”
  - A lot of designers don’t know a lot about engineering. This makes interaction hard; the gap is not bridged.
  - Interestingly it has not been always this way in all communities: Smalltalk programming took a strong interest in design.
    - The first paper about patterns in engineering was about UI patterns in collaborative design with non-programmers in smalltalk and preceeds the famous “Gang of Four” design patterns book by 7 years.

  - what would we like to see in FOSS projects to work with them?

- Mars presenting slides of a talk (see above!)

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**Author:** ![Elly](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/elly/32/3341_2.png) [@Elly](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/Elly)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/216 "2024-10-11T14:13:31Z")

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Hi Team, I’m new here. I’m researching different design-related learning communities and would love to learn more about what is happening in this community. Is this call open to everyone? Where can we get the meeting link? Thank you!

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**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jdittrich/32/42_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jdittrich)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/217 "2024-10-11T17:04:26Z")

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Hi Elly, yes, the call is open to everyone and we are happy for you to join – [Infos on time and meeting link here](https://opensourcedesign.net/events/monthly-online-meeting/).

To find out whats going on browser some of the older forum posts – or make something ne whappen by posting some ideas or questions yourself!

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**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jdittrich/32/42_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jdittrich)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/218 "2024-11-08T13:24:04Z")

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**Call 6th of November, 2024** : Several people from the community who usually attend (and write that protocol) could not join this call. If there are others who participated, please share a short protocol here!

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**Author:** ![scottjenson](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/scottjenson/32/890_2.png) [@scottjenson](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/scottjenson)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/219 "2024-12-04T18:04:11Z")

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I’m having trouble logging into the Monthly OpenSource Design meeting. I’m using the jitsi link but no one is there? Am I using a stale URL? [Jitsi Meet](https://meet.jit.si/opensourcedesign)

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**Author:** ![Erioldoesdesign](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/erioldoesdesign/32/2895_2.png) [@Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/Erioldoesdesign)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/220 "2024-12-04T18:13:33Z")

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Apols for the delay! [Jitsi Meet](https://meet.jit.si/opensourcedesign) it’s this one

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