Join the geeks: why designers should contribute to free and open source software

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Join the geeks

Why designers should contribute to FOSS

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Open source software has already won

Alex “Skud” Bayley at Guadec 2012

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(2011)

FOSS

peer review

all FOSS software is ugly

there are no designers in FOSS

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enough

FOSS developers hate designers

The OSS community (...) welcomed the usability specialists like all those who were willing to contribute in some way (...). There was no previous usability specialist involvement with this community.

Open Source and HCI Philosophies in Open Source Projects - Incompatible or Co-Existent?, M. Rajanen, N. Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland, 2013

The developers expressed that they would readily welcome any further usability help and especially (...) by having a usability specialist as a close-knit part of their team

Open Source and HCI Philosophies in Open Source Projects - Incompatible or Co-Existent?, M. Rajanen, N. Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland, 2013

FOSS is all really technical stuff