Interested in embedding design thinking into the engineering world? Join Miguel Divo, @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social, @gloria.design and David Edler at #FOSSBackstage. Their panel explores how design contributions are valuable assets for greater impact in engineering circles: 26.foss-backstage.de...
A screenshot of Demons Souls game bonfire scene where an armoured knight is resting at the restoritive bonfire. The overlaid text in souls-like style reads 'Faith in OSS restored!'
An image that sums up the journey of this particular week doing design work in OSS.
come and hang out tonight designers + OSS folks!
Morning.
So glad it was a useful reference! thank you for mentioning the talk :))))))))
ah! i'm so glad my diversity in design talk is still proving useful for folks ❤️ I haven't made an updated version of that talk in such a long time and I feel like so much has changed about meangingful representation online. Would be fun to update it!
How do we create permacultured communities of people where the systems seem to favour those that take more and have community as a resource to be used for gains seem like the norm.
(Permaculture experts please excuse my crude definition, it's been 10+ years since i did my permaculture course)
And again, i feel a little like i did in this photo (I'm the person watering the garden on the right of the photo while everyone elses is gathered at the tables crafting together)
I felt a sense of immense responsibility and a big question i had was how does community become equitably sustainble?
Before i was involved in OSS, during my twenties i was deeply involved in local community volunteer action, running environmental projects, community gardens, after schoold clubs and asylum seeker rights to the point it removed any time i had to understand if i was rooted in the right place.
Combinations that may seem odd and unusual end up being nourishing and essential for survival. These plants don't insist that the other to grow taller, provide more shade, move their roots there's a balance and complimenting which i think in these cases, leads to less need for harmful interference.
I've been thinking about how I prune and weed my 'garden' lately. Garden in the hypothetical and existential terms.
In Permaculture, there are plants and crops that support each others survival and growth when you plant them together.
I wrote this Open Source Contribution guide 2 years ago, thanks to @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social we updated it to include a section on how you can contribute as designer to Open Source.
Eriol I appreciate your time and sharing your journey
www.santoshyadav.dev/blog/contrib...
Thank you so much and if you find this interesting and/or useful please do share it!
#oss #opensource #opensourcedesign #design #foss
My lovely friend @santoshyadav.dev included some of my words and thoughts on to his 'Contribute to open source - acomprehensive guide for everyone' resource with my experiences and tips on contributing as a designer to open source www.santoshyadav.dev/blog/contrib...
Happy to chat about this and the compounding difficulties of being a marginalised function (design) in FOSS which is especially hard when managing being a marginalised identity in FOSS too. Doing 'care work' or 'community resiliance' in FOSS is so so hard.
github.com/iamkingsleey/
www.linkedin.com/in/victory-b...
@carolinesinders.bsky.social and saptaks.website
We do a lot of pretty 'invisible' work to advocate for design and designers in FOSS as well as many of us doing active paid and unpaid work as designers in FOSS.
huge thanks @gerwitz.com for tagging me & yes i totally agree re. more designers (and other non-code contributors) are needed in FOSS. I've been a core maintainer over at opensourcedesign.net/along with other lovely folks for 7+ years @jancborchardt.net @elio.bsky.social hachyderm.io/@simulo@hci....
free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people
We want to continue understanding how design and designers affect the OSS projects they get involved in but so far we're understanding in what ways design/designers can be measured and observed in OSS.
Find out more about the workshop here: teamup.com/event/show/i...
Myself and iamkingsleey.framer.website lead a session at chaoss.community/chaosscon-20...
We wanted to understand how the health of OSS and their communities are affected by design, usability and designers invovlement.
#oss #ossdesign #opensourcedesign #designinoss #design #chaoss
Compliance with legislation alone doesn’t ensure a great user experience, especially for an operating system used by millions. Join Leia Ruffini and Juan Ruitiña as they discuss their development of an accessibility strategy that addresses both obvious and subtle aspects.
26.foss-backstage.de...
OSS and Hacker culture can fight that and be a space for everyone to modify, define and equitably design for people. OSS doesn't need to emulate big tech in either aestehics or design pratices but it should be a concious and aware choice if they decide to.
Specifically, by giving away your time, your creativity, and the results of your skill.
Specifically, hackerdom is what anthropologists call a gift culture. You gain status and reputation in it not by dominating other people, nor by being beautiful, nor by having things other people want, but rather by giving things away.
This fact is obscured by the image of hacking as solitary
work; also by a hacker-cultural taboo (now gradually decaying but still potent) against admitting that ego or external validation are involved in one’s motivation at all.
Accordingly, when you play the hacker game, you learn to keep score primarily by what other hackers think of your skill (this is why you aren’t really a hacker until other hackers consistently call you one).
You’re trying to solve interesting problems, but how interesting they are, and whether your solutions are really good, is something that only your technical peers or superiors are normally equipped to judge.
I'm reminded of this about hacker-culture:
Status in the Hacker Culture Like most cultures without a money economy, hackerdom runs on reputation.
Something that doesn't often get spoken about is how 'taste' and 'good taste' is a colonial hangover of design and how organisations and companies with power, money and influence, typically those that benefit from power over the marginalised global majority get to set the 'design tastes' trends.
I had a great time summarising some key points for inclusive and usable design in OS for the OSS sustainability lab.
oss-sustainability-lab.com/curriculum/#...
#oss #ossdesign #opensource #opensourcedesign #design
