Open Source Design @ Ushahidi

[justinscherer]

Project lead: @justinscherer
Mentor: @TheBonface

[justinscherer]

Week 2

• Create a new issue for project
• complete self assessment
• make sure Zoom works
• Watch the intro video
• Draft a vision statement
• Comment on the vision statements of at least two other projects
• Complete open canvas and link it here
• Make a roadmap draft and link it here

[justinscherer]

Vision Statement Draft

I’m working with designers to create an open design contribution framework for the Ushahidi Platform so that both the global community of Ushahidi users and design contributors themselves will be able to contribute more than code to Ushahidi and Open Source Software projects everywhere.

[Erioldoesdesign]

I'm doing my week 3 assignment where I feedback on others tickets :)

"contribute more than code" Do you think being more specific here would be useful? Or do you not want to limit the contributors potential?

[justinscherer]

Roadmap

Short Term

• Audit the experience of contributing to the OSS version of Ushahidi
• Create a space in the repo for OSS Design contributions
• Create Asset Libraries for Sketch and AdobeXD
• Write a design contribution guide

Medium Term

• Establish how the design contributions make it to the developers
• Reach out to the existing open source design community
• User test the contribution process with 5 other designers
• Promote the open source design effort

Long Term

• Iterate on the asset libraries, contribution guides, design -> developer processes
• Write whitepapers with learnings on OSS design processes
• Continue building the OSS design contributor community

[justinscherer]

"contribute more than code" Do you think being more specific here would be useful? Or do you not want to limit the contributors potential?

Good question @Erioldoesdesign . I suppose you contribute anything from translations, to copy, to usability testing

[justinscherer]

Licenses:

https://github.com/ushahidi/platform/blob/develop/LICENSE.md
https://github.com/ushahidi/platform-client/blob/develop/LICENSE.md
https://github.com/ushahidi/platform-pattern-library/blob/master/LICENSE.md

[justinscherer]

Open Canvas

[justinscherer]

Post mentor call to do list

• make a space in the Ushahidi Platform repo for design contribution
• refine roadmap
• refine contributors and users part of open canvas -> break them down a bit more. At least 5 contributor and user profiles that are a bit narrower (number of years)
• refine problem number 3
• reach out to open source design community
• more detail to the open source design problem
• contributor code of conduct
• invite an expert

[JazzBrotha]

Open canvas feedback
Your open canvas has a strong connection to your vision statement. The problems for designers that your project solves are clearly represented with the use of an open source framework. The value proposition offers a clear benefit to the Internet Health movement.

[KevZawacki]

Hi @justinscherer, super clear Open Canvas 👍

Excited to see this project unfold!

[madhurish]

Hi @justinscherer , loved your Open Canvas. In your contributor profiles would it help to have graphic designers to make graphic resources and assets for the open source projects?

[akeshavan]

This is a great open canvas, I'm really excited about this project!

[seandiggity]

your canvas is comprehensive, and I think it's great that attracting more diverse contributors is a central goal. Would it also be possible to provide the design files in a Free/Libre format like SVG, not just Sketch and Adobe formats? From a licensing standpoint, proprietary formats (especially those with binary blobs) can be problematic (many copyleft licenses require a human-readable source format).