FOSDEM 2017 – Open Source Design room organization #41
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I'm looking forward to FOSDEM2017, please count me in! |
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Yikes! Didn't see anything on their mailing list. Well spotted @jancborchardt I will be in Brussels again, so I can help, but I was wondering if someone else would like to take on coordinating the proposal writing, the cfp and so on. I have done it for the past 2 years, so it might be time to pass the baton ;) |
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@belenbarrospena do you have an exact document of what you submitted to FOSDEM as the proposal? :) Something which with slight alterations we could submit again (I guess). :) |
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GitHub issues are great! :) |
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I'm gonna try to make it this time, so count me in. Edit: Oops sorry for closing the issue 😜 |
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It's a bit too soon for me to know for sure I will be there, but I sure hope I will be able to :) so count me in. So in order to start the work the content of the proposal could be (adapted from last year - thanks @belenbarrospena ): Devroom Request for FOSDEM 2017 Title: Open source design Description: The goal of this devroom is to showcase design work done within free and open source projects, and strengthen the connections between designers involved in FOSS. We mean "design" in a broad sense, and we include within that term typography, graphic design, interaction design, user experience and design research activities. Possible topics include: After receiving several requests, we will probably dedicate an hour to project pitches, so that projects looking for design contributions can introduce themselves and establish contact with designers eager to help. Coordinator's affinity to the topic of the devroom: _TODO_Description Why does it fit FOSDEM FOSS projects bring in particular challenges that affect almost every aspect of design. Techniques and approaches used in closed software settings must be re-purposed and adapted to FOSS. This is hard to do on your own. We hope that sharing experiences across projects and communities will help establish a set of practices that are effective, flexible and transferable across FOSS projects. The devroom last year also proved to be a great way of connecting designers with FOSS projects looking for design contributors. Having a devroom again next year will increase our chances to expand the community and will give us the opportunity to spread the word between developers regarding how and where to get design help for their projects. Relevant URLs: Timeslot: Special requirements: |
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Hi @evalica Thanks for putting this together. It looks good to me. Why not stepping in as coordinator? :) If needed, we can take over the duties at FOSDEM, although I really hope you'll join us there in the end! |
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I am 95% sure I will be there so count me in! @belenbarrospena I'd be happy to help with the CFP. btw, my colleagues at Ura Design and me plan to be there with a booth (www.ura.design). Maybe we can join forces with a booth since we have the same goal? What do you think? |
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Right, so it sounds like @evalica might be willing to be the coordinator this year, as long as we can cover for her in case she doesn't get to FOSDEM. @evalica, if I am wrong, let us know! :) Now we just need a second name. @jancborchardt @gillisig @victoria-bondarchuk @elioqoshi @ei8fdb Would one of you be willing to be the second contact? Once we decide that, and if nobody has any further comments on @evalica's submission proposal, we should be ready to send it. |
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I'd be happy to be Plan B :P |
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@elioqoshi excellent. We are sorted then :) |
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yeap - works for me. Thanks @elioqoshi for help ;) |
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I created some FOSDEM guidelines/tasks that are easy to follow so that we don't forget anything:
Questions:
Mails:
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Hea @evalica as they say at home in Ireland that's fecking brilliant! I think you have covered everything that I can think of (right now..after a long day). The main thing I can think of is when (not if, but when!) the design devroom gets accepted, we should try and promote it as early as possible to maximise the chances of filling the schedule. Last year I subscribed to a number of OSS design, and "privacy and Internet do-gooders" lists (I'm on a few lists :)) and e-mailed them the CFP. These are the lists I sent it to. @belenbarrospena sent it to these lists. I also used the schedule tweet feature in Tweetdeck and automated a tweet every 2-3 days. Maybe we should ask people, when they submit, "where did you see the CFP?" - you know, a bit of user research ;) About the brainstorming, what does everything think of a general theme for talks? I bit we might be a bit too small to be restrictive to a theme...but just suggesting it? About the promotional materials, we can do that even earlier, no? About the tasks, I'm happy to help out with:
Bernard |
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@evalica, that list is excellent. I think I am only missing:
What I did in the past was sending the emails out, and give the speakers a deadline to confirm. Once I received confirmation, I published their session in pentabarf. You probably have the email I sent you last year, so you can reuse that, or you can write a new one: I made them up anyway the first time :) Everything else seems spot on. About the stand, @elioqoshi was suggesting we join forces with ura design. That might be a good thing: it will be less work for everybody to organise and cover. Thanks for the work! |
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I submitted the proposal to FOSDEM with the content: = Project details =
The goal of this devroom is to showcase design work done within free and open source projects, and strengthen the connections between designers involved in FOSS. We mean "design" in a broad sense, and we include within that term typography, graphic design, interaction design, user experience and design research activities. Possible topics include: FOSS design tools After receiving several requests, we will probably dedicate an hour to project pitches, so that projects looking for design contributions can introduce themselves and establish contact with designers eager to help.
FOSS projects bring in particular challenges that affect almost every aspect of design. Techniques and approaches used in closed software settings must be re-purposed and adapted to FOSS. This is hard to do on your own. We hope that sharing experiences across projects and communities will help establish a set of practices that are effective, flexible and transferable across FOSS projects. The devroom last year also proved to be a great way of connecting designers with FOSS projects looking for design contributors. Having a devroom again next year will increase our chances to expand the community and will give us the opportunity to spread the word between developers regarding how and where to get design help for their projects.
= Contact information = == Primary contact ==
I have been the interaction designer for XWiki (www.xwiki.org) since 2008 and part of the Open Source Design community (opensourcedesign.net) since the beginning in 2015. == Secondary contact ==
= Additional information =
You should receive a confirmation email soon. If you don't, please contact [email protected]. Your proposal will be reviewed and we will inform you if it is accepted or not via email by the 21st of September 2016. @ei8fdb Regarding the deadline, you are right that we can start the promoting as soon as possible and would be great to use the lists from last year. Same for the brainstorming and promotional materials (I've created #43) @belenbarrospena Thanks for the additional notes, they are useful :) I'll see if I can add more details in the tasks list @elioqoshi Hope I put the correct email in the submission :) also I'll let you handle the submission for the stand. Let us know if you need help. |
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@evalica awesome work! :) 🚀 |
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Wow, splendid work! I must admit I have yet to read all of it in details but it looks very well prepared! I will be at FOSDEM together with 1 or 2 colleagues from my startup Ura who can help at the booth. If we have at least 2 people at the booth at any given time, that would be excellent. What do you think? |
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@evalica regarding the Twitterings I have access to the OSD Twitter account - I can also schedule those tweets if it helps. @elioqoshi and everyone: would it be an idea to have a design surgery booth where people can come with their "design emergencies"? |
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I've created PR #44 to add FOSDEM to OSD.net. Once we get accepted I guess it can be added... |
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@ei8fdb That's a good idea, but let's make sure the OSD name is well communicated |
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@evalica @elioqoshi by the way I just added you both to the https://twitter.com/opensrcdesign via https://tweetdeck.twitter.com :) You can Tweet from there and retweet anything which has to do with Open Source Design. |
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@jancborchardt perfect, thank you! |
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@evalica for the Open Source Design dinner, do you have something in mind or it's just a dinner somewhere? Because would be cool to involve these designer http://designmarketo.com/ and make a real OS Dinner :) What do you think? |
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Or maybe just home made pasta, would be fun ;) |
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Great work @evalica! Is there anything you need help in doing? Do we have enough people to do the default sessions? I'll pack extra bottles of water and headache tablets for the 9am start. I'm not looking forward to the early start, but I am glad that we will be able to have all the good talks that were submitted. Random idea: maybe we should apply for 2 days next year? 💃 ! |
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And now that we're underway, can I suggest people look at #54 (FOSDEM Dinner preferences - do we organise dinner?) and cast their votes.... |
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Thanks @evalica for all the great work! I have 2 sessions, which is 2 too many ;) Would anybody not speaking like to take the pitch your project one? That's where projects can come and ask for design work. @jancborchardt can tell you what's involved: he did it last year. It's more like a moderation role. If you are interested, just reply here. Thanks! |
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Following Belen's example: if somebody wants to handle the "Closing" or "Success Stories from our community" sessions let me know. Preferable some community members that don't have other sessions :) |
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Unless anyone specifically wants to do the pitch your project session, I'm happy to do it. About teh closing - maybe it might be nice if we all gave a minute each? |
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@ei8fdb the problem with a minute each is that we might be more than 5 in that session :) the schedule is a bit tight, plus we will need to clean up and hurry for the official closing. Anyway, in that session we should do at least 1 photo :) to continue the tradition. |
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@evalica OK how about we all do it together - what I mean is, the closing session is the closing of the Open Source Design track at FOSDEM that we all organised. I kinda feel that it should be as a collective. Organise it however..each person says one word, and rotate around to the next. I just think its an opportunity to say thank you to everyone. |
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I think calling everybody to the front of the room is a nice idea, but it will be much more coherent and understandable for the audience if one or two people do the talking. If we all want to say something we will have to practice! ;) @evalica, as the person pulling off most of the work in this case, should probably be one of them. And then maybe @victoria-bondarchuk or @jancborchardt, as the organisers of the FOSSASIA track, could also also say something. |
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@ei8fdb about taking the pitch your project session, I see you already have a short presentation: "Promoting your FOSS project to university student designers". It would be nice if someone from the community, but not talking, could take this. What about @gillisig? Or maybe he would prefer taking the "Success Stories from our community" one? If noboby else volunteers, it is definitely yours @ei8fdb :) |
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I'm fine in having the Closing as a collective (I quite prefer it this way) as long as we keep it short :) |
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Today is the deadline for FOSDEM 2017 sessions confirmations. At the moment we are lacking 4 speakers:
Can somebody else also try to reach them? Or maybe you know them personally and can ask them to read their e-mails :) I need confirmations for their sessions. Thanks. |
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I can confirm I'm speaking! |
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But I can't change the status to confirmed! :/ |
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replied to the e-mail now. |
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@evalica Miroslav Mazel here, I am attending |
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@evalica Yes, I'm confirming. Sorry - didn't see this 'til @jancborchardt shame-tweeted me ;) |
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@belenbarrospena I'm totally fine with someone else doing it. I think it should be a few people anyway.. |
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Same for the »Our Open Source Design collective« talk btw. I expect a few of you @belenbarrospena @bnvk @ei8fdb @evalica @elioqoshi @jdittrich (and @simonv3 @victoria-bondarchuk, and others, if you could be there!) to be on stage for that too. :) (@evalica if it’s possible to add multiple speakers or free text, it would be great to use »Open Source Design team« for these collective / default sessions.) |
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So, thanks for confirming. We are still missing @elioqoshi @jancborchardt regarding speakers: you can only add penta users. I guess the rationale is that each speaker has a profile page and in order to look nice on the website. I cannot add free text. |
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Maybe we can mark in the title, have like a tag "[Collective]" ... or "[Group]" |
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@evalica yep, I think thats a good idea - having a tag to signify "it's the whole group". 👍 |
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Same for the »Our Open Source Design collective« talk btw. I expect a few of you @belenbarrospena @bnvk @ei8fdb @evalica @elioqoshi @jdittrich (and @simonv3 @victoria-bondarchuk, and others, if you could be there!) to be on stage for that too. :)
Yep yep! Of course I'll be there :) I hope @simonv3 can as well, but Alaska
is a bit far :P
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Hey sorry, I had 2FA problems with GitHub lately. I'm still seeking official confirmation for my sponsorship from Mozilla but I'm 90% sure I will be there. |
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We will some volunteer(s) for Video. Requirements:
And also some volunteers to help if the room gets too crowded. |
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This was splendid work everyone. Videos are up, so I guess we're done here. |
The deadline for developer room proposals is on September 9:
https://fosdem.org/2017/news/2016-07-20-call-for-participation/
It will be our third room in a row! We shouldn’t break the streak 🚀
Ref issue from last year #22
Who will be there and wants to join organization? :) @belenbarrospena @ei8fdb @evalica @plastelina @Xaviju @bnvk @elioqoshi @gillisig @danilapellicani @simonv3
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