Monthly Open Source Design call

Open Source Design meta Monthly call
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Mini intros round!
Briefly, into the core group: Open Source Design core team

Finished and updates on AP’s from the last meeting:

  • Sapatak is still working on a few PR’s and issues re repo merging and also redesign work.

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

  • 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

How to spend money

  • Some votes on the poll and there was some clarification on the options that Eriol made edits to
  • How long to keep it up? We loosely agreed another month and a half and review in August’s community call and September’s call can be the final one.
  • There are a couple of spending options that are ‘time sensitive’ e.g. collaborating with outreach on a fellowship/internship but they do two rounds per year so we won’t miss out, just have more time to prep.
  • Our money won’t disappear or be wasted if we don’t spend in a particular time frame so we can wait.
  • Eriol fixed the poll link in Nextcloud (sorry it was not public!) Vote on the poll by clicking here please!
    - AP: Eriol will create a discourse post for just the poll to vote on money spend and we could decide to tweet it too?

Repo stuff

  • Eriol cleaned up some issues, closed some old ones, commented on some, added a couple of new issues, responded to comments and request to pick up issues and started creating epics for collections of issues (using Zenhub extension)
  • lots of people want to pick up issues which is great! but we need more folks to lead on certain issues and tasks to guide and approve and review.
  • Should we look at ‘recruiting’ more code-related helpers to review PR’s and other things that are more code based?

Articles

  • Eriol has written 3 articles so far which you can read here:
  • Article wrap up from FOSS Backstage in PR form here and the first on the riseup document here
  • Mozfest 2021 UX Clinic wrap up second on the riseup document here (scroll down)
  • An article about the history of open-source design in response to this issue (also on the riseup document)
  • An outline of 'How to create a successful job on Open Source Design and get healthy contributions**

Jobs update

  • Eriol has messaged ALL JOBS! this is all people that have ever posted a job on opensourcedesign.net
  • See the google spreadsheet here
  • All jobs authors that have not responded by Saturday the 11th of July will be closed!
  • Eriol is working on the Jobs page epic here via a Figma file here (which will eventually be migrated to our penpot.app open source design team).
    - AP: Someone needs to check the jobs repo listing that are ‘closed’ match those listed on our jobs page live.
    - AP: Eriol will migrate this google spreadsheet to the open-source design nextcloud account at some point soon.
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