Topics for 2026-04-01: (Communtiy wiki editing enabled)
- FOSS Backstage Design. Talks here
- Talk recommendations? Blender and Mastodon were particularly well liked!
- Donations for video recording (posts in the work, @Erioldoesdesign plz add when ready)
- Website text updates – ask me or eriol for a login if you want to review/add.
- Balance “know the project” with “maybe the project is not nice/caring”
- Governance Work update: Job Post. Please share with people who might moderate finding a governace process for open source design.
- Jobs posts clean up task (@Erioldoesdesign happy to explain and request for help to maintain because jobs need to be closed manually, except job posters edit via git, and they rarely do)
- No new AI proposals but one strange pull that changed almost all files. Caution, rather reject.
- Question: What is on the open source design github? Answer: Mainly the website and jobs. We closed/archived some.
- Optional: “designers are making things Pretty” and "defaults are limiting user Freedom” in Issue rejections. Send if you see such conversations in issue trackers or social media, send @jdittrich a link so they can learn more about how people talk about design in open source projects.
- Tool demo quickwire by @jdittrich. Feedback/ideas in this discourse thread.
- UX Design open educational content resources? @fedesign.es
- Moved to next meeting:
- Introducing Masters Interaction Design Students to Open Source Design contributions @Erioldoesdesign
- Contribute to OpenSource projects & impact millions ← should we reach out to them more?