Monthly Open Source Design call

[Erioldoesdesign (Eriol Fox)]

June 2nd 2021

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

possible ideas on how to use some of our funds.md

How to spend money

• Oleg gave exp of how Jenkins spends money and hacktoberfest

• https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

• https://www.jenkins.io/event

• https://www.jenkins.io/events/hacktoberfest

• Mentorship programs re. jenkins can be spoken about later

• Let's spend some money! 🤑️ - #8 by Erioldoesdesign

Additional thoughts on spending money

Open Source Design program

• Summer of open-source design might only be able to be funded for 1-2 years
• Eriol is talking to folks at Sim Sec re. Underexposed: Building a Movement for Secure UX – Simply Secure as a template of design internships
• Conferences and companies ask us to deliver sessions and curate tracks so why don’t we reach out for funding to manage the continuing of this kind of work.
• Summer of usability program was time consuming and expensive: (PDF) OpenUsability.org: Usability and Open Source
• openusability.org
• Outreachy is expensive £6k for an intern
• GSoC could grow more design.
• Can we dedicate time into this?
• Partnering with another OSS project and pitch in part of the funds - umbrella org approach

Alternative to internship

• Pick jobs on board and pay to have them done.
• Complications around mentoring, coaching, choosing jobs and choosing who fills them.
• Bounties are complex - are they contributions? or ‘Freelance jobs’ are you really ‘part of the project’ doesn’t work with a design process. Project doesn’t gain a new

New jobs board iteration

• Funding the design & development of the new jobs board iteration
• Scope for the jobs page
• Fund that process that we advocate
• Could we even do this before the whole website redesign?
• Submission flow & Staticman
• Then how jobs are displayed
• AP: Eriol will look at the issues that already exist about web page design, job page improvements and then start to build a collaborative brief. DONE

Accessibility review of website

• Producing educational material of this
• Could detail the issues that we don’t have on accessibility add them to the repo
• Scoped well and not too scope creepy

Other potentials from the doc

• From the idea doc there are:

• Open Source Design summit

• Sponsor designers to go to OSS conferences + travel grants if in person events

• Sponsor conferences on behalf of Open Source Design

• Investigate providing infrastructure/proof of concept infrastructure for designers? tools etc.

• Carry out some research on design in FOSS

• AP: Eriol: Will set up an anon poll so everyone can choose what they would like to see funded and we can re-convene next month to see whether we are content wth a majority vote or not! < DONE