Monthly Open Source Design call

Mini intros round!

Briefly, into the core group: Open Source Design core team

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

Not finished AP’s from the last meeting:

Open Topics:

Hacktoberfest

  • Merge requests not being valuable in exchange for schwag
  • Does hacktoberfest work for open source design? talk topic!
  • Not just a hacktoberfest problem a general design problem.
  • Linux Foundation is struggling with the same concept, just not in 1 month but overall
  • How can design work outside of hacktoberfest too
  • How big is the project? how aligned is the “new” design? (ie context of contribution also matters)
  • We talked about how Eriol had onboarded designers in OFN
  • Opening up research and insights into design thinking can help designers contribute more legitimate and informed design work rather than design work not informed by the realities of. the project. Eriol shared an example of when this happened in OFN.

FOSDEM Dev room

FOSS Backstage

Open Source Design fellowship/internship

  • Short meeting today so this is pushed back
  • AP: Eriol still has some comms and wrangling to do on this topic

Cool projects