What should Open Source Design focus on in the future?

Some comments on what could be done:

  • examples and showcases: We could interview people from different open source projects and show how they dealt with their UX challenges.
    Effort: Maybe online meeting or longer mail exchange, writing, editing.
  • Resources: Some exits (getting started advice, but needs to be uploaded), could be duplicated (e.g. this one) or created. The general difficulty with anything repository-like is that it needs maintainance and criteria for what should not go in.
    Effort: Put on website as article?
  • Community: This is a difficult one! We have the forum, but it is relatively quiet. I also try to run the mastodon account, but I rarely get questions or comments. When I voice my personal opinions I usually use my own account, but that also gives less engagement.
    Effort: Unclear what can be done.
  • Fundraising: Not my expertise. I think our amount of money is plenty for buying things but it is very few for paying people. When paying people we also have the problem of selection.
  • Formal Representation: Not my expertise. I was involved in Vereine in Germany. They need to follow some rules, some of which are quite helpful to organize anyway.

Related: cost of funding a workshop, funding via grant (looking for collab)