Design in the Open: Collaboration Models in Open Source Design

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This session discusses the contribution designers are making in the open source world and how they are doing this - and how Drupal can learn from this and adopt a better collaboration model for designers and developers.

I will examine a number of highly successful open source design projects, extract the essential points out these projects and then look at how Drupal might be able to use similar tools and ideas to fuel designer participation in the Drupal project.

As part of the work on the Design Initiative I've been delving heavily into the question "what motivates people in open source" and what collaboration models are the most successful and why. This session will attempt to shed some light on this and hopefully spearhead changes in Drupal.org to help accommodate designers and their needs.

About Me:

Hi, my name is Jeff Burnz and I am the Drupal 8 Design Initiative owner - you can read more about this core initiative here: http://drupal.org/node/1089096 or read the official launch post: http://buytaert.net/design-for-drupal-8

I've been around the Drupal traps for about 5 years and was a heavy contributor (top 30) to Drupal 7 and am currently the maintainer of the Seven theme and co-maintainer for Bartik.

Intended audience

Designers, developers, themers

Questions answered by this session

How do designers collaborate in other Open Source projects?

What motivates designers to contribute to Open Source projects?

What can we learn from other successul design projects?

What can we do to increase designer participation in Drupal?

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