Notes from 2025-05-06T23:00:00Z 's monthly community call
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Not much traffic in the forum - whats happening in OSD
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How do we show the public part?
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What is the forum for? more private discussion
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Design twitter moved to linkedin but a lot of people moved those conversations have moved there.
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What do we want (the community) from the forum? comms strategies
- bring designers into open source
- bring design into open source projects
- Us (as OSD) to work on OSD specific projects
- Add a series of channels
- and then one person OWNS a channel… to help drive it
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opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io · Discussions · GitHub
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Social medias See Open Source Design’s activity on LinkedIn
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Internship process
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Icon design job requests
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So many open and free icon libraries why to people ask for icons on jobs
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We can decide to not merge PR requests for icons that are served by icon libraries and then instead of merging the PR we suggest where they can find open icons and then come back if those don’t meet the needs they have
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Can we open design office hours - 1-2-1 time.
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Scott might want to add an article re. his office hours time
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How can we help them in the space in-between icons and entire re-factor of the project
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Can we build user personas for OSS projects?
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Do we want to do our own things or more with the website
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Eriol described the current looser structure on how to move our objectives forward as a ‘collective’ rather than a group that sets a roadmap
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From time to time people come in and we welcome them and then nothing happens anymore.
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Can i find guidance (as a developer) and find help/solutions
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How do we lower the barrier? guide to interesting topics and take hand and ask what they would like and need?
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What do we want to offer and how do we offer it in a way that keeps us engaged too!
What has been successful? what has not been successful?
How do we do that? can we be more effective?
What makes a forum ‘go’ and discuss things? either from outside or from the inside - OSS isn’t as popular a topic and partly it’s BAU.
There’s a lot going on but it’s for insiders?
In this group, can we get coherance on that
there’s also an expectation of immediacy, of urgency… that’s a trickle-pulse on the current site, part tech, and part human (ie commitment to reply in short order). Not easy to solve for.
Newsletter? or a way to gatehr the current things in OSD land?
Yes and?
Should we be on social media more?
yeah, I think with no tweetdeck equivalent I don’t post a lot there.
newsletters = agree, potent. the best ones SHOW things (what’s been shipped).
But getting the mastodon going could be cool.
https://librearts.org/ does something like this
sven talked about offering a place where foss devs can go if they had questions. I said that my experience is that in many projects are underresourced and “any designer on the internet” can’t easily consider their concerns in the context of what can be done in their project.
Internership project progress: Open Source Design Internship project - Google Docs