Jobs

The goal here is to create a proper "job board" that pairs open source people and projects in need design work with designers who can do those tasks. It will be a mixture of both gratis as well as paying work. A job can be relatively small task to an entire project. I think the ideal balance would be a mixture of about:

• 25% small singular tasks
• 15% new or fork of an existing project
• 60% product / feature development on existing projects

Note: this process is rough and a work in progress, please free to contribute ideas, approaches, and of course jobs :)

Submit a Job

Our job submission process is being done transparently and "in the open." If you work on an open source software project or community, feel free to submit a job to our job board by doing the following:

easiest:

• Click on this link to create a new file right here on GitHub
• You'll need to be logged in to GitHub. It will ask you to create a fork. Create a fork. Don't worry about what a fork is.
• Fill in the details. Make sure to change the file name! Use the format year-month-day (eg 2015-10-25)
• Submit your pull request (PR).
• Have a margarita or a hot chocolate

harder (this involves downloading the code on your computer):

• running rake job title="Job Title" role="Role Name" org="Organization Name"
• Opening the file that got generated in jobs and filling it in.
• Submit a pull request.
• Have a margarita or a hot chocolate

hardest (a bit tedious):

• Fork the repo
• Copy job-template.md into the jobs folder
• Name your compy something like 2015-03-sticker-design-for-lnug.md
• Fill out the fields inside the template you just copied
• Submit a pull request
• Have a margarita or hot chocolate

After those steps you will have submitted a job to the OSD job board ;)

View the Open Source Design job listings here.

Open Source Design "Meta" Tasks:

Anything related to improving O.S.D. directly. Listed in order of attainability.

• Identity & Logo

OSD needs to craft an identity that is of the community and responds to the idea of open source in a clear, memorable way. Maybe that means the logo is something that is continuously iterated on, maybe it is something that has a consistent form that responds to changes in the greater community/world.

• Project listing page

What projects are currently in need of completion? The current solution has been to post each project as a github issue, which might be a good solution in the short term. It might be better to have an ongoing list where designers can post and up-vote freely.

• A space on the web

http://opensourcedesign.net redirects to Github. Would it meaningfully help the community to make a site with digests of all the repos?