Our Open Source Design collective

FOSDEM 2018

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 the news from last year include:

Organization of our first Open Source Design Summit in Berlin! https://opencollective.com/opensourcedesign/events/opensourcedesign-summit
Another year of organizing the Design/Art/Community track at FOSSASIA: https://2017.fossasia.org/tracks.html#2017-03-19-Design,Art,Community
First time organizing an Open Source Design track at OpenTechSummit Berlin-Potsdam: https://2017.opentechsummit.net/programm/tracks.html#2017-05-25-OpenSourceDesign
Setting up our community discussion forum: https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/
Kicking off new local meetups: https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/c/meetups – among them a very active one in NYC!
Attending a bunch of events and giving talks related to Open Source Design https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/c/events
Lots more work on the website, like integrating comments into the job board, and adding subsites for resources and projects
OpenDesign.io joined forces with us! :) https://twitter.com/OpenDesignIO/status/923990916758691841
Becoming an FSFE associated organization: https://fsfe.org/associates/associates.en.html
Getting a 1000 $ donation from Discourse https://twitter.com/discourse/status/928591869763883008
Getting funding from Wikimedia Germany for our Summit and stickers, posters & cards!
Probably lots more we forgot to list! :)

Speakers: Jan-Christoph Borchardt