For everyone who doesn’t know what exactly we do, this is a short intro to our collective: We work to raise the profile of good design in open source software, and connect developers & designers to make it happen.
We run an Open Source Design community forum, organize design tracks at well-known events like FOSDEM (hello 🙋), FOSSASIA and OpenTechSummit, have a job board to get designers involved, provide open design resources to developers & designers, and more.
We will also take our GROUP PHOTO during this session! 😊
A few of our activities from last year include:
👩💻 Lots and lots of posts on our Open Source Design job board! https://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/ 2️⃣ Organization of our second Open Source Design Summit in Tirana! https://opencollective.com/opensourcedesign/events/open-source-design-summit-2018-371ev 💸 Sponsored by Sticker Mule, Mozilla & phpList and supported by Open Technology Fund, Ura Design, Red Hat & Nextcloud 📑 More activity on our Discourse forum! https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net
Things we are working on or need to work on:
💬 Attending a bunch of events and giving talks related to Open Source Design https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/c/events 🎨 Attendance at more mainstream design events! ⭕ Still working on becoming an Open Source Initiative affiliate https://github.com/opensourcedesign/organization/issues/53 👥 We need to do more on the meetup front: https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/c/meetups – NYC is active, but we can improve elsewhere 💻 Another work in progress is the website, we are looking into improving the design. ;)
✨ Probably lots more we forgot to list! :)
Speakers: Jan-Christoph Borchardt