Commit Virtual 2021: Lessons from Mentoring and Supporting Designers in OSS
Channel: GitLab
Date: 2021-08-05

Speaker: Eriol Fox

Designers are still relatively rare in the FL/OSS space and those that have been around and active are burning out and struggling to peer support each other effectively. I see mentoring designers, new to open source software as a key way in which we can make FLOSS sustainable generally and specifically for the designer community in FLOSS.

In this session, I'll be outlining what I've observed and tried as a 'mentor' in the FLOSS design space, across multiple OSS projects with varying levels of time and intensity. What I've tried to do to support designers new to FLOSS in order to 'boost' our numbers actively contributing and keeping our community and OSS healthy. 

What is needed by those that want mentoring? What do FLOSS projects need support with? How can mentors share resources and processes?

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