# 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:** [April 7, 2022, 8:37am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/132 "2022-04-07T08:37:36Z")

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# April 6th 2022 Call

## Intros

- Quick round of intros

- Recommended to drop a post in [Introductions (come in, say hi)](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/introductions-come-in-say-hi/41) say hello and also talk about what you contribute to!

- If you wanna get involved in the ‘core team’ then take a look at this post [**https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/open-source-design-core-team/888**](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/open-source-design-core-team/888) anyone is welcome

## Anybody have topics they want to discuss?

- Two folks wanted to ask about: Experiences of us as open source designers in the community with tools and processes and fixing UI problems? or “Tell us a story about a successful interaction between your design work on an OSS project where you had to collaborate/communicate with engineers” and the inverse (a negative interaction). "

- Eriol told a story about doing Exploratory research in Open Food Network

- Jan told a story about… (sorry @jdittrich I fully lost my notes on this!) but also wrote: this write-up:[**https://www.fordes.de/posts/CulturesUXOpenSource.html**](https://www.fordes.de/posts/CulturesUXOpenSource.html)

- Bernard told a story about contributing mermaid graphs to Joplin: [**https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/6100**](https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/6100)

- Matthew told a story about working with technical devs (I think I got this right but please correct if not!)

- Comments in the chat:

- Saptak recommended: [**https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/18**](https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/18) might have some good insights where we talked about developer and designer contribution

- Eriol Recommended: I did a mini casual talk about onboarding designers in some of the projects I worked in:[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6IVuWoz3H8&t=516s**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6IVuWoz3H8&t=516s)

## Fellowships/Internships for Designers (+Developer!) in FLOSS

- more info here: [**https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/continuing-conversations-about-fellowships-internships-in-open-source-design/2722/10**](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/continuing-conversations-about-fellowships-internships-in-open-source-design/2722/10)
- @Erioldoesdesign has contacted Sage from outreachy to re-intro to the topic and also some Simply Secure interested folks.
- @jdittrich has done amazing thinking + writing in the post above

## Action points and to dos

- @Erioldoesdesign Draft a form for FLOSS projects to tell us what they might ask a designer (+Developer) for during an internship period.

- Consider a survey also for designers about how/what they want from an internship/fellowship in FLOSS

- @Erioldoesdesign Invite Sage to May’s call ← Done!

- @Erioldoesdesign Find a time that works between interested folks from Simply Secure & @jdittrich and other fellow/intern interested folks

- @Erioldoesdesign and @ei8fdb and @SaptakS to find time to do a ‘hack day’ with a spreadsheet and go through all known internship/fellowship FLOSS programs and make a ‘matrix’ of what happens in these typically and what we think we want to leverage.

- FOSDEM + FOSSBackstage + Mozfest + other? articles/summaries from these conferences need writing!

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