In the Bitcoin Design Community, we recently started a project called the Open Design Guide (background). The idea is to create a 10-15 page guide or curriculum that introduces designers to open source and helps them get comfortable, find projects they like and start contributing (whether that’s around bitcoin or any other area). A bit like opensource.guide, but for design.
We put together this first version pretty quickly using AI so we have something to poke at. Next step is a reading club, where we meet once a week. Every session is focused on one page. Everyone reads it beforehand and takes notes. Then we read it together and discuss. At the end, we (ideally) have a list of improvements that we implement.
A guide like this hugely benefits from diverse participation. We’re trying to get a sense of who might be interested, and then we’ll finalize the schedule based on availability. How does that sound? Would you like to join?
Awesome, thank you for your interest. We scheduled the first call for this Thursday (Sep 12) at 12:00 UTC, more info here. We’ll start with intros, project background, and then dive into the introduction page.
We had interested people from all around the world, which makes it impossible to find a common time that works for everyone. If you are in a time zone where 12:00 UTC does not work for you, and would like to schedule a second call at a different time, let me know. I won’t join, but I’ll try to help facilitate. There might be others that would join a call if you set one up. It not a lot of work, and usually everyone appreciates these sessions.
That’s unfortunate. We will share our call notes, maybe those are of some interest. If you ever have a moment of complete boredom and just don’t know what to do with yourself, I’d like to plant the idea for that time to take a look at the site and share your feedback.