💸 Open Source Design budget

[jan (Jan C. Borchardt)]

Continuing the discusion from the session we had on this at the summit!

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What we currently do

• Domain payment via Open Collective
• Stickers sponsored by Wikimedia Germany and Stickermule (initially we used Open Collective)
• Discourse forum is sponsored by Discourse
• Summit expenses are sponsored by organizations: Wikimedia Germany, Mozilla, phpList
• Other events (like FOSDEM, FOSSASIA) we are funded via our day jobs
• Reimbursements and donations done at https://opencollective.com/opensourcedesign/

What would we do if we had 500.000 $/€?

• Fellowships (possibly focused on diversity)

  • Work benefits the greater community and experience is shared back

  • Embed a designer in an open source team for 6 months?

• Improve Diversity in OSD - outreach, support, funding, education

  • Participating in RailsGirls Summer of Code or Outreachy

• Travel funding for events

• Full / part time employees for website, logistics etc.

• Bigger Summit

• Networked local events

• Summer of Open Source Design

• Open Educational Resources (for use in Design Schools etc)

• Fund development on integration/consistency/interoperability between F/LOSS design tools

• Work more with students and education

  • Design universities

  • Schools (Partner with Jugend Hackt?)

  • Partner with RailsGirls and Outreachy to bring design values

Potential funding opportunities

• Mozilla Open Source Support https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/

  • Apply for ~10k for work on the website → specify the scope and define a project. E.g. “a template for open source projects to get designers involved and for designers to get involved in open source projects”.

  • Open source persona generator (Eileen got started on this already)

• Wikimedia Germany

  • If we do any events in Germany?

  • Previously sponsored sticker costs when we did the Summit at their community space in Berlin

• DIAL Open Source Center: https://www.osc.dial.community/grants.html

• Open Tech Fund community lab https://www.opentech.fund/labs/community-lab/

  • Define standards for privacy/security/decentralization related interfaces. Key handling, discoverability, etc.

• Creative Commons Community Activities Fund: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/13/community-activities-fund/ (what they have been funding: https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/01/announcing-first-round-grants-community-activities-fund/ )

[Erioldoesdesign (Eriol Fox)]

I’m bumping this topic to the top of our forum thread because we’re looking healthy in terms of open source design funds and, as a community we can consider what we want to do with this!

I have a couple of proposals!

1. We keep the next $ costs of what renewing our hosting and needed costs our in the ‘bank’ as a contingency

2. We keep a $X amount as a general contingency.

3. We take stock of how many stickers and flyers we have across our members.

• Eriol: I have two stacks of general OSD stickers

4. We do a rough cost projection of what an Open Source Design Summit 2021 (online) would be

5. We do a rough cost projection of what a ‘fellowship’ would be and could cover and what we would be interested in that focussing on.