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Mentoring designers in open Source Software.

Talkat FOSDEM 2021 · on Saturday, 2021-02-06· at 17:00· D.design

speaker

website:https://erioldoesdesign.github.io/

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2021/D.design/mentoring_designers_in_open_source_software.mp4

slides:https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/mentoring_designers_in_open_source_software/attachments/slides/4585/export/events/attachments/mentoring_designers_in_open_source_software/slides/4585/Mentoring_in_OSD_FOSDEM_2021.pdf

summary

Covers mentoring practices for designers entering Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), focusing on burnout among existing designer contributors and methods to increase and retain designer participation. Describes concrete mentor activities and support approaches the presenter has used, and plans a collaborative workshop (shared etherpad) to identify mentee needs, project support gaps, and ways mentors can pool resources and processes.

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