Sustain Open Source Design Podcast

S.O.S. Design is a podcast dedicated to exploring the intersection of open source and design: how design is crucial in the open source ecosystem, how designers work with coders to make open source software better, and what sustainability means for the field of open source designers. This podcast grew out of the Sustain community and Open Source Design, and seeks to share great conversations with members from both communities and the open source and design space at large.

Episode 2: Abraham Agiri and Designing as a Coder, and Coding as a Designer đź”—

  • Eriol’s spotlight is Penpot.
  • Justin’s spotlight is Taiga6.
  • Memo’s spotlight is Open Web Docs.
  • Richard’s spotlight is NodeSchool.
  • Agiri’s spotlight is NodeJs and OpenJs Foundation.

Episode 3: Smera Goel on Designing in the Fedora Project, Outreachy, and India đź”—

  • Justin’s spotlight is the announcement of the new research from the Ford and Sloan Foundation funding.
  • Memo’s spotlight is Spline.
  • Richard’s spotlight is his mentor, Alexis Palmer.
  • Smera’s spotlight is Fedora Design, especially Fedora Badges, Zine, and Infographics.

Episode 4: Jan Dittrich and the Anthropology of Open Source Design đź”—

  • Richard’s spotlight is a PDF he read by John Wiegley, “Git from the Bottom Up” which is a great resource for understanding how Git works.
  • Eriol’s spotlight is an open source project called Beyond20, which integrates with various things that you can use to play Dungeons & Dragons.
  • Jan’s spotlight is an open source project called p5.js, which is a JavaScript library for creative coding.

Episode 5: Bryan Paget on Open Source Developers with Design Thinking đź”—

  • Richard’s spotlight is Anki.
  • Eriol’s spotlight is Dark Patterns Tip Line.
  • Bryan’s spotlight is Libre Graphics Meeting.

Episode 6: Gleb Sabirzyanov on Open Design and the Figma Plugin Ecosystem đź”—

  • Richard’s spotlight is a post by Justin Jackson called, “This is a web page.”
  • Gleb’s spotlight is VK Project on Figma community.
  • Memo’s spotlight is a new Figma product called FigJam.

Episode 7: Christina Chumillas on Design at Drupal đź”—

  • Memo’s spotlight is the first open source project he used called Opendesk.
  • Richard’s spotlight is Extinction Rebellion.
  • Eriol’s spotlight is an article called, “Design APIs like you design User Experience.”
  • Christina’s spotlight is a project called Variablefonts.io.

Episode 8: Kartik Choudhary on MLH Fellowships and Design đź”—

  • Kartik’s spotlight is a project he’s maintaining called Developer Folio.
  • Eriol’s spotlight is Patternfly.org.
  • Memo’s spotlight is Coop Design system and their Design principles.

Episode 9: Andy Gonzalez and Contributing and Collaborating as a Designer đź”—

  • Andy’s spotlight is Pure Data Software for visual programming.
  • Perrie’s spotlight is Open Source Community Africa Festival.
  • Eriol’s spotlight is a tool called Bitsy, a pixel game creator, by Le-doux.
  • Memo’s spotlight is a book called Interaction of Color by Josef Albers.

Episode 10: Justin Scherer on Open Source Design at Stax đź”—

  • Memo’s spotlight is an open source project called humaaans.
  • Georgia’s spotlight is an open source project called PhishDetect.
  • Eriol’s spotlight is a project from MozFest 2018 called Xenshana.
  • Justin’s spotlight is open source hardware called Music Thing Modular by Tom Whitwell who is based in London.

Episode 11: Aditya Patel and Building Better Design Practices as a Product Director đź”—

  • Eriol’s spotlight is vermontcomplexsystems.org Ocean Awards Program.
  • Richard’s spotlight is Talisk, an amazing band from Scotland.
  • Aditya’s spotlight is Storefront UI.

Episode 12: Abhishek Sharma on collaborating with NGOs as a designer đź”—

  • Memo’s spotlight is a resource repository model called Nice Very Nice.
  • Perrie’s spotlight is a new open source initiative called Open Source Stories.
  • Richard’s spotlight is Tiny Cat, the online catalog for tiny libraries.
  • Eriol’s spotlight is a project made by the Federation of Humanitarian Technologists and the tool called Coalesce.
  • Abhishek’s spotlights are the open source design community, and a project that they do at ColoredCow called Code Trek.

Episode 13: Oleg Nenashev and designing at Jenkins đź”—

  • Memo’s spotlight is open source typefaces to experiment with on Open Foundry.
  • Eriol’s spotlights are two HOTosm design repositories, design-strategy and HOT Design System.
  • Perrie’s spotlight is the CHAOSS Project.
  • Oleg’s spotlights are Apache Maven & Community and FOSDEM.

Episode 14: Django Skorupa on segueing into Open Source Design at Open@RIT đź”—

  • Justin’s spotlight is Fedora Badges.
  • Richard’s spotlight is a Justin Flory.
  • Django’s spotlights are two open source projects: The League of Moveable Type and Unsplash.com.

Episode 15: Jin Guo and Jinghui Cheng on UX and design in scientific OSS projects đź”—

  • Memo’s spotlight is Jamstack.
  • Eriol’s spotlights are FOSS Backstage and one of their favorite academia papers called, “Non-response, Social Exclusion, and False Acceptance: Gatekeeping Tactics and Usability Work in Free-Libre Open Source Software Development,” by Mikko Rajanen, Netta Iivari, and Arto Lanamäki
  • Richard’s spotlight is JS Montreal.
  • Jinghui’s spotlights are projects that influenced him and his research which are Atom, Jupyter notebook, and PyTorch.
  • Jin’s spotlights are two projects that influenced her previous work and current work which are scikit-learn and Zotero.

Episode 16: JĂ©rĂ©my Landes on Type Designing đź”—

  • Memo’s spotlight is Design Principles.
  • Eriol’s spotlight is Kigelia, a Typeface for Africa.
  • Richard’s spotlight is Coffee Table Typography.
  • Jeremy’s spotlights are ProcessWire and OSP.kitchen.

Updated on 30 Mar 2022