Let’s talk about what the conf is like. All across a university in Brussels - chaotically open - maintain one main track - sort of a keynote and lots of community managed rooms. Managing a dev room is like managing any conf. The timing is very strict and you cannot go over or your talk will get cut from the video recording.
We’ll put together a poll/form for people interested in volunteering. Best place for updates is on the discourse forum or on these monthly calls.
Massive exhibition hall and companies will put info tables in this ‘hall’ (also kind of corridors) you can promo projects and how to get involved. We’ve had the stand for about 2-3 years. Tell people about who we are and what we do. UX clinic → 15 mins to discuss whatever design issues they want.
Request a stand is filling an online form - if accepted we do a doodle poll for 2 hr slots for minimum 2 ppl on the stand at all times. Physical stand.
Whats involved in volunteering
Ngoc asks if anyone can apply to be a volunteer → which threads to reply to?
Make Discourse post/form for people to express interest
Superbloom scientific OSS research
They’ve gotten a grant from Sloan.
How is scientific OSS think about their users? When and how do they prioritise usability & design and how do they incorporate user focussed practices?
Desk research with Science OSS projects & OSS folks. Gonna send around surveys and have conversations about this topic.
Juhans raised questions about what open principles this Superbloom project is following within this project?
Juhan’s comment: whats your stance on the output of the work. Will it be open source?
Belen asks: it would be really interesting to crowdsource the analysis process for instance
Juhan comment: so we need a 1st principles of Open Source Design research.
Eriol responds: It might end up being one of the continual outputs
Internship/fellowship
picking it back up again
spoke with penpot about “what a software company would want from a design person”
belen says:I actually think penpot might be the ideal partner for running this for the first time
Juhan: its bi-directional obligation
Juhan says:your money + PenPot’s money = makes it more real.
Bernard - OSD says: Yes.
Belen says:that sounds like a fair and neat arrangement
FOSDEM is almost upon us and we are super excited! So for this month’s Open Source Design call, FOSDEM is on the agenda. FOSDEM is run entirely by volunteers (that’s us!) and there are lots of things to do in the Open Source Design devroom for anyone who is interested. So if you want to get involved in the OSD devroom, are a speaker with some questions, or simply want to see what’s going on, feel free to drop in in the OSD monthly call on Jitsi at 19:00 CET today
Hi all! I’ve joined this month’s call to give a quick update on Open Source Comics!
I’ve working on a grant with NumPy and Google Seasons of Docs to create the ‘NumPy Contributor Comics’! It uses comics as a form of visual documentation, which aims to be more engaging to newcomers.
Thanks for the links Mars! I’m gonna try to start posting the notes here again so people who are interested know what were talking about (and join in the next months )
Summary: We talked about a whole bunch of topics today! We discussed what everyone thought about Open Collective for donations, and Penpot came up yet again as we discussed design systems and open design. Mars also shared her amazing documentation comics!
Detailed notes here
Intros!
Christoph from the Bitcoin design community
Amit from Google
Clayton from the Drupal community
Nimisha from Nextcloud
Mars from the NumPy team
Christoph: Human rights foundation bounty program
Design system on Penpot?
Playbook for project who want to move away from Figma
Nimisha: Good! Used at Nextcloud, no major complaints considering OSS
Infrastructure: Meet.jitsi now needs you log in. It seems to be the case that guests are still possible, but a moderator needs to log in with google, facebook or github. We could just accept that or try to find someone who provides us an anonymous instance. No matter what, we will need to update the info on top of this thread (do we also have the info on our regular website? If yes, it is hard to find!) to let people know about jitsi’s behavior.
Job board. We are still with the discourse job board (the old board does not work anymore, due to a service being discontinued; Maybe we also lack the knowledge how excatly it works/worked?). It is still open whether we continue with the current solution or revive the old job board somehow. We made some small changes recently to the discourse job board:
Directing the website’s /jobs route to the discourse job board, so that old links go to the right place, too.
Fix a problem in the discourse job category settings that prevented post creation.
Use of our funds
Someone wanted to print Open Source Design Stickers again. Excellent use of money!
Back in ’21 we voted on how to use our funds and financing an internship was our choice. However, it turned out to be quite difficult to pull off; among other things for difficulties of bureaucracy and the need to have the internship specified fairly detailed before orgs would consider participating. In my opinion, we would need to decide if we can allocate the time to do this work or if we want to reconsider the use of the funds – since the internship is a) a large amount of money and b) outcome of a voting it is blocking other uses of the funds (except for smaller <100€ use)
O, I have some thoughts about 2. And it is important for me cuz I spend time for finding job and have some saddness thoughts about it, even in popular spaces I mean) Next month same time, ye?
Aside of conversations about the state of UX and which project structures can accomodate UX well, we talked about:
The job board! (Again, but it was productive imho). So… @SaptakS post on what Heroku costs gave some clarity on what “paying for Heroku” would mean and people on the call were much in favor to just pay Heroku and get the job board online again for he assumed monthly fee of about $7.
I also learned that “paying a developer to redo the job board” might mean “Getting it to work with an alternative to Heroku” whereas I previously assumed this was about creating a brand new solution.
Potentially relevant:
Scrolling back, @belen pointed out that Heroku only allows paying by credit card. I don’t know if there is some solution to it (Someone paying for us and sending us a bill? Just using a private card and sending them money?)
We can request a virtual credit card attached to our open collective :))))
here’s the text copy pasted as there is no sensitive info there:
Request a Card
You can request your fiscal host to assign you a credit card for your expenses.
Card use policy
Virtual cards are debit card numbers that can be issued to OSC’s hosted initiatives for paying online for things like: recurring payments, utility bills, online resources/tools, subscriptions, vendors (e.g. wholesale distributors), etc. They are directly tied to collectives’ budget on the Open Collective platform.
How it works:
Funds are spent only as transactions occur. (Setting up a card does not remove any money from your initiative’s budget.)
Submit a virtual card request with the intended use of the card (please specify the names of the services you will use) and the amount budgeted for that use monthly (e.g. $300/monthly). The virtual card with that limit will be set up for your collective.
If your collective needs a higher limit on your virtual card please request a limit increase by contacting us at hello@oscollective.org with the intended use and the amount increase needed.
To receive an increase, initiative must have a budget on their Open Collective account that exceeds the corresponding amount, and must demonstrate that a higher limit is necessary.
Cards must be used in compliance with our policy below.
Requirements/Policy:
Initiatives must have a minimum of 2 admin members
These are virtual cards. No physical card will be issued, so these cannot be used in-store.
All transactions should comply with normal usage of initiative funds as outlined in our Terms of Fiscal Sponsorship
Limitations:
Virtual cards may not be used for paying/reimbursing people, that should be done on the OC platform.
If you need to input Cardholder contact details/address:
Name: Open Source Collective
Address: 440 N Barranca Ave #3717 Covina, CA 91723, USA
Steps:
Setup the card:
Initiative admins request the card from OSC:
Visit your initiative’s page
Click Actions → Request a Card
OSC will assign the card (please allow time for processing)
Once assigned, the card assignee will be notified via email and the card’s details will appear in the initiative’s Settings for you to use (in accordance with this policy)
After a purchase is made:
The funds will be withdrawn from your initiative
An “Invitation to submit an expense” will be sent to your initiative admins
Admins will be asked to submit your receipt. (If the receipt is not submitted within 30 days, the card access will be paused until you do submit the receipt).
oh - we did maintain those a for while but I wasn’t able to keep hosting them - we’d love someone to be the IST hosts if you’d like to attend those I can ‘onboard’ you to being a community meeting host
Hi all! I think I’ll be able to come to the second half of this month’s call. I want to update OSD on a big project I recently completed:
I recently completed a comic with Google Season of Docs and NumPy! Here’s the link to the comic.
At the monthly call, I can give more context on the process, such as receiving a grant to work on it, brainstorming and reviewing comics NumPy community and handing out paper copies at the PyData NYC conference.
is the IST friendly time meeting happening?
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