Monthly Open Source Design call

May 5th 2021

Mini intros round!
Briefly intro’d the core group: Open Source Design core team

Jobs

  • Eriol is now gonna close jobs that haven’t responded to the emails re. jobs being closed

  • The github bug is becoming more of a problem: Bug when inputting GitHub handle (?) · Issue #321 · opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io · GitHub can we pay to have it fixed?

  • Is there an easier way to create job requests? Posting jobs is a bit hard for people still - Can we spend money improving it and making it easier?

  • The pull request after submitting the form is pretty invisible to the job poster.

  • Is there an open source job board tool?

  • We like that it opens a discourse post on the forum to build community.

  • We want for Jobs:

    • Structure of a form.
    • x-post to the forum
    • Easy way to see status of job for poster of job.
    • Easy way to update for the poster of job.
    • Review stage for the job so that abuse is avoided.
  • AP: Eriol will make a github issue for the jobs page ‘wants’ and also make a discourse post < DONE

We could spend money on this to be improved! > Add to the spending money discourse thread: Let's spend some money! 🤑️

Nextcloud for OSD

Website updates

  • No big updates, people are working on the things in previous meeting notes
  • Core group discussed Matomo and analytics and metrics: Some differences in thoughts, Mention of for non-tracked, anon info. 'We would like to know info like ‘we had 600 visitors in May 2021 etc.’
  • So maybe an “investigation into how we can get basic (to be defined) analytics…with the possibility (if people agree) to put into place basic metrics”.
  • https://github.com/opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io/graphs/traffic
    https://matomo.org/
  • AP Eriol: Open up a dedicated forum thread about this analytics conversation. < DONE

Conferences

Spending money

  • Shall we spend a whole meeting on spending money?
  • Request that we be hyper-specific on what we want to spend it on. $5k
  • Spending on individuals vs. the collective.
  • What incentives do we need to give to have the website worked on.

PenPot

  • Import/Export in penpot.app is not supported yet.
  • Jan has set up a team and if you send your email to him then he’ll add you
  • Eventually, move the designs from Figma
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