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Monthly Community Call

April 3rd 2024

Eriol did the Open Source Design core team intro to core team!

There were 9 people in today’s call! We did intros of people and what the community call is! (Not noted for privacy reasons)

Discussions

Tauri

  • info/intro - Wants to post a request for support on website re. Job
  • Verso web browser - presenting at the web conf (was called the www conf 30 years strong conf) filed 12 grants for this project - long term projects, comms and educational aspects, branding, logos, corp identities etc.
  • Non profit to give back to communities
  • this project: GitHub - european-browser/verso: A web browser that plays old world blues to build new world hope
    not this project: https://www.npmjs.com/package/verso-browser
  • Suggestion: NGI grants from NL Net
  • Discussion: Is the OSD community open to support?
    • Open Source Design mostly do community organisation
    • Support is welcome! Open Collective + just post something on the forum and get opinions
  • Rethinking how we interact with a browser form the ground up?

Portugal Open Source Design community

  • Events! World Internet Day (17 May)
  • Free Software Fest (11-12 Oct), Aveiro Uni, a gathering of Portuguese communities
  • in contact Elizabet Oliveira

Starting a forum topic to collect around the browser topic long term

Some comments around the browser engine vs ‘what on top’ of that engine on a user level.

Core contributors to servo so a lot of engine work has been done - work now on privacy compliance and security user features

What support does Open Source Design as a community want/need?

Conversation in the Jitsi chat re. re:Aza, yeah, I remember stuff from the 2010s, some actually integrated in Firefox for a while

Conversation/comments about history of browser

Comments about browsing the web vs the browser itself and other tools like Zotero - A browser is a commodity - need plugins!

Browser plugins conversation

Arc browser has been tried out, uses different patterns than ‘typical’ browsers

  • As a designer I like to talk things through, how to approach discussion in a text dominant world of OSS?
  • 1000 cuts, keep your sense of humor
  • Create issue before proposing changes, show before and after and look at things objectively.
  • Bringing more designers in to be

  • Eriol has been cleaning up the jobs board and noticed a number of older job posts and trying to get energy into them via bumping them up the forum list

  • More Conversations in the forum

  • Call for participation for Penpot Fest is out https://community.penpot.app/t/be-a-part-and-share-your-expertise-at-penpot-fest-2024/4653 :smiley: Maybe interesting for some folks here!

  • 17th May - world internet day - UNESCO and UN - small presentation being done about the uses of the internet

  • October free internet festival

Links

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/3e66a13901.html

Jan D mentioned tool for UI sketching: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mq8zX2nH3CsAw3KZ_eUGrpz5rGo_oMkK/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108882002799165171065&rtpof=true&sd=true

Verso browser https://github.com/european-browser/verso

Eileen’s talk “Designing for Security”: "Designing for Security" by Eileen Wagner @ Think About! 2019 on Vimeo

Onboarding designers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6IVuWoz3H8&list=PLwz4EueITgvmJzrNWbGkAMeDVLlOWQuch&index=10&t=39s

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