Super super cool call this month! We talked about the jobs board and how to use the OpenCollective funds including funding travel to attend OSD events like FOSDEM and FOSS Backstage. Speaking of events, there are several in the next few months! There’s the Creative Freedom Summit which just closed their talk application, but the CfP is still open for the OSD devroom at FOSDEM, and for the design sub event at FOSS Backstage, so get your talks in and spread the word! Mars shared her amazing NumPy contribution comics and Tony shared his super cool work on making Jupyter notebooks accessible for people with disabilities with the Notebooks For All project! Thanks for joining everybody, and if you couldn’t make it this time, there’s always next month! 
Detailed notes with more links:
Monthly Open Source Design Call
6th December 2023: Juhan, Jan, Scott, Tony, Nimisha, Federico, Mars
Agenda
- Job board is up again?
- Was on our website then it stopped working because the free tier was killed, then on discourse, then we paid for it
- Scott: could we moderate the jobs board because the quality of job postings it not super good, do we even need the infrastructure for a jobs board?
- Nim: we tried https://www.fossjobs.net/jobs/designers/
- Jan: A moderator would be helpful though
- Tony: Through social media https://fosstodon.org/@us_rse
- Use of funds
- There were discussions of an internship but there was a lot of paperwork
- We also talked about funding travel for events like FOSDEM,
- Scott: https://24.foss-backstage.de/ is less dev-y and there’s even a design sub event this year! Get your talks in while you can!
- Also there’s the creative freedom summit
- Mars has a Big Update!
- An AMAZING comic about NumPy documentation
- https://heyzine.com/flip-book/3e66a13901.html
- “Cool comics! How did that happen?” Got involved with docs comics and got funding from GSoD,
- A lot of the comics are about their own experiences, went to the community meetings and brainstormed https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/25318
- Juhan: you’re already buying in before it launches
- Mars: GSoD gave it some hype, but there was already trust established because I was a part of the community
- Nimisha: Why isn’t it more widespread?
- Mars: Unifying all the different layers of the comic is very specific
- https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/open-source-comics-resources-collaboration-and-funding-for-making-comics-for-open-source-projects/3130
- Nimisha: are there any more people doing this?
- Mars: Julia Evans!
- Tony: Accessibility work in OSS
- Notebooks for all: Jupyter notebooks with a11y for disabled people as well!
- Forked into deathbeds: automated a11y testing
- Screenreader focused
- Nimisha: how did you go about recruiting?
- Tony: https://makeitfable.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCPZgcYzVpj_WHHCTUpec8THYEMzXZnR1
- https://github.com/deathbeds/nbconvert-a11y