Meeting notes:
FOSDEM: See above and:
What changed in the last years? Open Source seems to get more design friendly.
- Digital Sovereignity-discussion
- Generational change
- Penpot
Updates on Website:
- Information Architecture by @juliaro and @bumbleblue
- Issues for changes on our github. @jdittrich is happy to help with first pull requests by people but is annoyed by what seem to be LLM generated changes.
- @jdittrich is looking for self-contained design improvements that we could show as examples for design contributions. Reply to mastodon post, or write @jdittrich a discourse message!
- Some questions about the pros and cons of Jekyll vs. Hugo (Hugo is easy to install, but needs github actions, Jekyll needs ruby but github runs it directly)
Convincing peers to use open source tools – what are good practices?
- Act upon favorable conditions, like when proprietary tools raise their price, are not updated anymore or otherwise cause trouble. This gives good justification for investing time in a new tool now (rather than “maybe later”).
- Find out what hinders people to switch. There can be many reasons.
- Consider that familiar tools are always more intuitive and feel less clunky.
- Learning time is important to get familiar with a new tool.
- Easy import/export might be helpful to migrate to new tools (maybe try figma2penpot exporter ?)