This is a repo for people interested in joining, helping run, and/or working as a part of the Open Source Design community. This respository is for things like
To create legimately usable Free software application that are usable and well designed, funding is of utmost importance. This section of the OSD is dedicated to documenting potential avenues of funding as well as providing resources, options towards funding!
The main categories of funding that seem most relevant and battled tested in produced decent results are:
- Crowdfunding
- End User Purchases
- Grants
- Industry Partnerships
- Employees who are allowed to work "part-time" on personal projects
- People who commit to finishing X, Y, and Z features (not money but just as good?)
A list of people who work on free / open source software, either as designers or programmers.
Want to add yourself to this list? Do the following:
- Sign in / up to Github
- Fork this repository
- Copy
person-template.mdinto thepeoplefolder, so you have `people/your-name.md - Send a pull request
- Voila!
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Our community is spread across various services and maintained by various people. If you've got any questions about those services, please reach out to those people who can help.
- GitHub (here) - Administrators
- Twitter - (https://twitter.com/opensrcdesign) - administered by @jancborchardt, @bnvk, and @simonv3
- Facebook - (https://www.facebook.com/opensrcdesign/) - administered by @razetime
- Medium - (https://medium.com/open-source-design) - administered by @razetime, @plastelina, @rdbarlett
- IRC - #opensourcedesign on freenode - administered by @jancborchardt, @bnvk, and @garthdb
- Website - opensourcedesign.net - administered by @jancborchardt