2024-08-04, 10:00–16:00 (Asia/Taipei), RB101
We plan to do a one day design workshop/hackathon that will be from 6 hours and focus on how non-code contributions, especially designers can participate in OSS projects more clearly and successfully. As an org that is committed to improving civic tech and human rights tech, the workshop examples will use projects like misinformation reporting, private messaging and private browsers as examples to work on. There will be content for potential attendees to read and understand ahead of the workshop and if some people want to prepare ahead of the workshop they can.
As non-coders, approaching an OSS project and wanting to contribute there can be barriers to starting. Am I welcome? How do I understand the project more? How do I get started? we'll be ensuring that a contribution is made at the end of the workshop to the projects open repos in relation to existing real issues.
About Workshop:
Focus on open source projects on GitHub that is centered around misinformation, private messaging apps, private browsers to stand with digital freedom. The participants will be guided to know how to contribute and open an issue on GitHub as designers. You’re hand holding all the way, we promise !
During a workshop you will make a non-code/design contribution to an OSS project, and after the workshop you will understand how to provide solutions around specific issues recorded in project repositories.
At the workshop, with our user research provided by Superbloom, designers get a chance to build something amidst the presence of real users, interacting with them at every step and making your design contribution more purposeful and meaningful to the world.
Co-Host Superbloom( Their mission is to make design in tech more inclusive and open by prioritizing human-centered design)
Eriol has been working as a designer for 10+ years working in for-profits and then NGO’s and open-source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace-building and crisis response technology. Eriol now works at Superbloom design, research, open-source and technology projects.
Eriol is a part-time funded PhD researcher at Newcastle University’s Open Lab looking at how designers participate in humanitarian and human rights focussed open-source software projects.
They are also part of the core teams at Open Source Design (http://opensourcedesign.net/) and Human Rights Centred Design working group (https://hrcd.pubpub.org/) and Sustain UX & Design working group (https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/design-and-ux/) and help hosts podcast about open source and design (https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/)
Eriol is a non-binary, queer person who uses they/them pronouns.