Notes from August 3rd 2022
Intro rounds and background of OSD & call format
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Updates to the forums re. chapters specifically the Africa chapter currently wrangled by @brownie
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Ongoing jobs page maintenance by Eriol - is now emailing and updating the jobs page again to ensure the current jobs are still active. See progress here on a google spreadsheet
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PR to update the thank you page for jobs Update thank-you.html by Erioldoesdesign · Pull Request #814 · opensourcedesign/jobs · GitHub
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Opened a new issue re. sending a notification about the forum post after a job is merged/approved Email / other notification sends when job is approved · Issue #392 · opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io · GitHub
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Mars talks about their zines for OSS comics at SciPy
- .github/scipy-2022-comic.md at main · alt-text-task-force/.github · GitHub
- How do we sustain this work outside of an individual making comics?
- Mars might start a thread here
- We spoke as a group about making this process/practice open source too - with templates for comics and guidance on how to make them
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Juhan spoke about https://www.goinvo.com/open-source-health-design/
- Making visible the work and investment (time and $) put into open source
- Selling open source design in to clients/the audience etc.
Eriol then shared a proposal they are putting forward to SustainOSS for a summit like day for open source designers Sustain Design & UX : Sustain OSS summit 2022 - Google Docs
Some notes from the chat thread:
Re. comics in FLOSS
so the trick now is to measure the effectiveness between RTFM + comics… and an easier one is which do humans (normal ones, less engineer ones) gravitate toward …
I am curious to know if you did user testing with disabled users using screen readers
Just found this for a comic builder, seems to be open source, not sure how good it is though:
https://gramener.com/comicgen/v1/
there is plenty of academic evidence for using symbols/graphics vs words… that people understand graphics much better + faster. Duh, that’s built into our bio. Will post paper.
The only interesting/tricky thing about graphical information is again putting alt text for those graphical information itself.
ultimate goal: comics with nostarch press
Re. Open health design
Question sort of off-topic – did you use any specific tool (except inkscape 
) to make that graph under “Open Source Health Design Projects”? Seems to work nicely and responsive 
Re. sustainOSS onf
Can I add some more specific communities?
I will add some from a11y space