The designer-contributor dilemma with FOSS
summary
A designer finds a huge discovery gap: Google and GitHub searches return almost nothing usable, only a Mozilla open design repo last active in 2019 and a vague design-help label with 111 issues, while real opportunities come through colleagues. The talk presents concrete contributions (Foss United site, Robin Hood Army check-in, Internet Freedom Foundation, Indic digital archive), documents the search failures, and proposes a simple convention — use contrib-design as a repository label and the manifesto at contrib.design to signal UI/UX needs.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50I made a switch
- 1:10My background
- 1:30My projects
- 2:40The rush of energy
- 3:15The discovery problem
- 4:25A matchmaking of sorts
- 5:00Work in progress
- 5:50False contributions
- 6:45Designers can help
- 7:20Looking for false projects
- 7:55Searching using labels
- 8:40contrib hyphen design
- 9:05Manifesto of sorts
- 9:25Design as a tag
- 10:15Spread the word
- 10:40Questions
- 11:10How to get into design
- 11:50Manifesto
- 12:55First time contributor
- 14:15Two parts of FOSS
- 15:00Which part of FOSS needs solving first
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