Mini intros round!
Briefly, into the core group: Open Source Design core team
Finished and updates on AP’s from the last meeting:
AP: 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
AP: Eriol will create a discourse post for just the poll to vote on money spend and we could decide to tweet it too? < DONE
AP: Someone needs to check the jobs repo listing that are ‘closed’ match those listed on our jobs page live. <DONE
AP: Eriol will migrate this google spreadsheet to the open-source design NextCloud account at some point soon. < DONE
Jobs postings and automatic discourse posts
- Jobs postings and automatic discourse posts that are default as ‘unlisted’
- AP: Eriol - Double check with Jan, open an issue to investigate if agreed.
How to spend money
- Leave poll up until the end of August 2021
- Is it the top 3 or top 1 that get chosen? How do we decide on the winner?
- Concern about one option using ‘all’ of the budget and some options only using ‘some’ budget.
- Outreachy have timelines so we need to consider timing if we did want to collab with outreachy.
- AP: Eriol Post on the final deadline - logistics what happens afterwards with chosen ‘winner’
- Currently winning is the ‘internship’
- Existing discourse posts about spending money: Let's spend some money! 🤑️ - #10 by Erioldoesdesign
Articles
- Articles are still in progress! here: Riseup Pad
- Anyone can jump in and help with articles
- Here’s a post about collabing on an article: Can we collaborate on a discourse thread or article about 'How to write a job posting that gets results'
Jobs update
- Since the beginning of the year eriol has gone through each existing job post, cataloged on a google spreadsheet OSD Open Jobs - Google Sheets (to be move into Open source design’s NextCloud account asap) and then emailed all job posters asking if they want their jobs kept open. Some conversations and feedback happened on email and many people did not respond within 2 weeks so those were closed.
- Now all old jobs are closed and the only jobs visible on our jobs page are those still ‘open’ and receiving contributions.
- AP: Anyone Two wrap up pieces of writing have been requested one that is about the processes and a second that is around metrics and some case studies of jobs that have or haven’t been filled.
UX & Agile
- What are resources for designers in OSS to do better Agile
- Basic stuff is still relevant - user-centric and testing etc.
- Short cycles rather than front-loading
Academic work about non-devs in OSS
- AP: Eriol will start something (Disocurse or a repo?) about papers/experiences of designers in OSS.
- Autoethnographic pieces exists about experiences in tech and OSS but so much from a dev perspective.
- We need more writing/content from designers in OSS’s perspective
- Suggestions on doing live streams of design work and ideas have also been pitched in other OSS + design groups and in conferences. Video content could be made? @amit.lzkpa was running sessions like this for a while, mini ‘talks’ sessions just about what we’re working on at that moment (if not NDA restricted)