# 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: [August 4, 2022, 8:17am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/149 "2022-08-04T08:17:56Z")

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# Notes from August 3rd 2022

Intro rounds and background of OSD & call format

- Updates to the forums re. [chapters](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/c/open-source-design-chapters/29) specifically the [Africa chapter](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/call-for-design-participation/3045) currently wrangled by @brownie

- 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](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HfSzHHVys3MTOrSMiqHCpVba0ojqVbHvs1dLaKwRLyI/edit#gid=0)

- PR to update the thank you page for jobs [Update thank-you.html by Erioldoesdesign · Pull Request #814 · opensourcedesign/jobs · GitHub](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/jobs/pull/814)

- 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](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io/issues/392)

- Mars talks about their zines for OSS comics at SciPy

- Juhan spoke about [Open Source Health Design](https://www.goinvo.com/open-source-health-design/)

Eriol then shared a proposal they are putting forward to [SustainOSS](https://sustainoss.org/) for a summit like day for open source designers [Sustain Design & UX : Sustain OSS summit 2022 - Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CKN1NLzPMg8QBZ4-bchrf1CLLcFIAZB_l_GO2DfKDQs/edit#heading=h.6s0yg1ulwpdm)

**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/**](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.

[**https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2730521/medical-graphic-narratives-improve-patient-comprehension-periprocedural-anxiety-before-coronary**](https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2730521/medical-graphic-narratives-improve-patient-comprehension-periprocedural-anxiety-before-coronary)

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

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