The goal here is to create a proper "job board" that pairs open source people and projects in need design work with designers who can do those tasks. It will be a mixture of both gratis as well as paying work. A job can be relatively small task to an entire project. I think the ideal balance would be a mixture of about:
- 25% small singular tasks
- 15% new or fork of an existing project
- 60% product / feature development on existing projects
Note: this process is rough and a work in progress, please free to contribute ideas, approaches, and of course jobs :)
Our job submission process is being done transparently and "in the open." If you work on an open source software project or community, feel free to submit a job to our job board by doing the following:
- Fork the repo
- Copy
job-template.mdinto thejobsfolder - Name your compy something like
2015-03-sticker-design-for-lnug.md - Fill out the fields inside the template you just copied
- Submit a pull request
- Have a margarita or hot chocolate
After those steps you will have submitted a job to the OSD job board ;)
View the Open Source Design job listings here.
Anything related to improving O.S.D. directly. Listed in order of attainability.
OSD needs to craft an identity that is of the community and responds to the idea of open source in a clear, memorable way. Maybe that means the logo is something that is continuously iterated on, maybe it is something that has a consistent form that responds to changes in the greater community/world.
What projects are currently in need of completion? The current solution has been to post each project as a github issue, which might be a good solution in the short term. It might be better to have an ongoing list where designers can post and up-vote freely.
http://opensourcedesign.net redirects to Github. Would it meaningfully help the community to make a site with digests of all the repos?