Join the geeks: why designers should contribute to free and open source software
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The Yocto Project is a set of tools to build customised versions of Linux for embedded products. What do you say? That you haven't understood a single word of that? Oh, don't worry: that means that you are a normal HCI person. The Yocto Project is the most unlikely place on earth to find a designer of any kind, and yet, there is design life there. Why? Come to hear how I got hooked to free and open source software in general, to the Yocto Project in particular, and most importantly, why free and open source software needs you, and why you should contribute to it. Join the geeks!
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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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FOSS
peer review
all FOSS software is ugly
there are no designers in FOSS
there are no designers in FOSS
there are no designers in FOSS
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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
Work with ‘yes’ developers
Solve real problems
Learn
FLOSS: Survey and Studyhttp://www.flossproject.org/report/Final4.htm#_Toc13908324
Be part of an amazing community
and now, what?
Join the geeks
slide 1: Untitled by Mariana Rojas licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
slide 2: Your presenter’s Tux soft toy, shot at home with her Jolla phone
slide 3: linux_inside by Adriano Gasparri licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
slide 3: android by Saad Irfan licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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slide 11: Myth by (OvO) licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
slide 41: The Beauty of Old Age by Vinoth Chandar licensed under CC BY 2.0
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