# 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")\
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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 2, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/117 "2021-06-02T19:20:33Z")

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# June 2nd 2021

Mini intros round!  
Briefly, intro’d the core group: [Open Source Design core team](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/open-source-design-core-team/888)

[https://cloud.opensourcedesign.net/s/PkbxmCRsTwQB7SE](https://cloud.opensourcedesign.net/s/PkbxmCRsTwQB7SE)

# How to spend money

- Oleg gave exp of how Jenkins spends money and hacktoberfest

- [https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/)

- [https://www.jenkins.io/event](https://www.jenkins.io/event)

- [Hacktoberfest](https://www.jenkins.io/events/hacktoberfest)

- Mentorship programs re. jenkins can be spoken about later

- [Let's spend some money! 🤑️ - #8 by Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/lets-spend-some-money/2479/8)

# 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](https://simplysecure.org/blog/underexposed-building-movement) 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](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260164040_OpenUsabilityorg_Usability_and_Open_Source)
- [openusability.org](http://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](https://cloud.opensourcedesign.net/s/PkbxmCRsTwQB7SE)

- 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**

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