June 2nd 2021
Mini intros round!
Briefly, intro’d the core group: Open Source Design core team
https://cloud.opensourcedesign.net/s/PkbxmCRsTwQB7SE
How to spend money
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Oleg gave exp of how Jenkins spends money and hacktoberfest
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Mentorship programs re. jenkins can be spoken about later
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 – Superbloom 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: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260164040_OpenUsabilityorg_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
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From the idea doc there are:
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Open Source Design summit
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Sponsor designers to go to OSS conferences + travel grants if in person events
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Sponsor conferences on behalf of Open Source Design
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Investigate providing infrastructure/proof of concept infrastructure for designers? tools etc.
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Carry out some research on design in FOSS
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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