I Came to Design, I Ended Up Leading a Movement

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Stumbles into open source by answering a doc tweet, designed speaker cards as the first visible contribution, then singlehandedly designs the API Conference website 2023 and is invited to maintain the brand, community and conference website repos. Establishes a bounty program in 2024 that pays designers, creates Openest Africa to publish beginner-friendly resources, and shifts leadership toward creating paid design opportunities and pulling up chairs for other nontechnical contributors.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:06Skepticism to open source
3. 5:42Stumbling into open source
4. 7:28Balancing open source
5. 9:35Ask KPI website design
6. 10:40Paid maintainer via bounties
7. 12:26Key lessons from journey
8. 13:50Opportunities for designers
9. 14:59Q&A on leadership
10. 17:56Tech background contributions
11. 19:46Resolving design issues
12. 20:50Contribute without GitHub
13. 21:53Closing remarks

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