Monthly Open Source Design call

Notes from Jan 6th 2021 community call

  • We did a quick round of intros

FOSDEM

  • FOSDEM (our 7th FOSDEM as Open Source Design dev room)
  • 14 sessions with 2 from OSD as intros
  • Checked that submissions were all related to open source and/or design in some way.
  • We still need two volunteers for speakers
  • And Bernard may need some logistical help
  • Two half-days
  • See FOSDEM 2021 - Support for speakers for more details
  • Pitch your project
  • Hallways track for chatting
  • No booth this

FOSS Backstage

  • AP: Eriol to poke the organisers re. UX clinic

Repos & Websites & Master to main

  • All ongoing
  • Master to main has some discussion

Donations to Open Source Design Open Collective

  • Showing backers from casinos

  • Background info: OSD has been getting donations from casinos over the last year and we talked about what kind of orgs we wanted to get funding from.

  • We want to try to have the casinos not show up on our github and our website via widgets.

  • We agreed to remove the casinos from github Jan has figured this out

  • We talked about how to change the website which will move to signal chat and then decided.

  • Jan will also open a issue on open collective github re. widget errors.

  • OSD running costs is just domain hosting and merch usually.

  • AP: Eriol to start a discussion about what we do with funding.
    Review the discussion from last OSD summit.

Open Design Processes

  • And open process for design projects re. branding for a project Eriol was intro’d to re. MDN docs

  • Eriol has been talking with a designer and OSS project re. how to start an open source design process or how to go about start this journey.

  • We spoke generally about OSS and design and how designers come to contribution, OSS and sustainability and longevity of designers sticking at OSS.

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