Another month, another meeting! Thanks to all who joined and shared their thoughts!
The short version: Paul and Alex from FOSS Backstage are planning an open source design mini-event, and we want to have an open source design devroom at FOSDEM next year. Also @Erioldoesdesign and I worked on a very cool study about designers in open source 
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October monthly call: Belen, Eriol, Saptak, Scott, Juhan, Nimisha, Paul + Alex from FOSS Backstage, Gerardo
Agenda
FOSS Backstage
- FOSS Backstage: Design Sub-Event - #4 by lamarite
- Paul and Alex from FOSS Backstage would like to organise a design sub-event
- Logistics would be organised already, OSD would bring content and people
- Wikimedia Berlin might offer a room
- Need volunteers to organise
- Formal committee to organise, and also people who would like to chip in ideas
- Parameters and restrictions:
- Open for everything ATM
- FOSDEM is right before, conflicts?
- FOSDEM speakers can be “fast tracked” to be considered
- Outreach for design events has been difficult recently
- Whom do we want to reach? LibreGraphics community (already OSDers) but also future OSDers and ex OSDers
- Penpot folks potential speakers
Designers in OSS
- Eriol and Nimisha finished the findings document about designer s in OSS diary studies! GitHub - simplysecure/Diary-Studies-Designers-in-OSS: Funded by OCEAN (vermontcomplexsystems.org) we asked designers to complete weekly diary studies about their contributions to OSS for 10 weeks.
- Vermont Complex Systems great source of funding for underrepresented communities within OSS
- Participants were paid! Grant proposal in the repo
- Belen: was the number of participants limited due to budget constraints or difficulties recruiting?
- Eriol: A bit of both tbh, would be nice to have double the number of applications
FOSDEM organisation
- Nimisha and another person will organise this
- Gerardo would like to help out!
- Cool things that have happened since last year:
- https://creativefreedomsummit.com/ Fedora organised event (where Saptak gave a talk!) with lot of design talks
- TBC in Discourse thread!
See y’all next month where we will most likely talk about about FOSDEM and FOSS Backstage