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I'm trying to build and use the website locally to verify pull-requests, and it is failing due to a SCSS variable

Conversion error: Jekyll::Converters::Scss encountered an error while converting '/jobs/css/main.scss':
                    Undefined variable: "$grayscale-dark". on line 29

Methinks we have no need (and should not) have styling deps in each sub repo like this, as styles should be developed for the site globally in the opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io repo

I just found an old listing of ours still being shown in the list of jobs on the website. Although it might be nice to see those somewhere, I think the main jobs list is not the best place for it (at least not as a default view).

Problem: Changing the status of Jobs involves pull requests. This is tedious.
Possible Solution: We could change to issues (one issue per job) and change their state via github projects (kanban-style).

Once this is approved and ready to go, I would love to include a couple of job posting from here every week in UX Weekly.

Would everyone be okay with that? Any other places these could be synced to?

Some big problems with the job board at the moment are:

• it’s very static, discussion is difficult to start
• you don’t know the state of it, if it’s taken already
• we don’t know if it’s done

As far as I know it’s possible to embed Discourse thread replies in a website. We could have a category in the Discourse called »Jobs« (you can’t create posts but will be led to the job submission form), and one thread per job. Then on every job there’s the discussion thread below.
@erlend-sh could you point us how to do that maybe? :)

We do have to require that the people have to register at Discourse though and be subscribed to the issue. But maybe that can be automated and will lead to growth.

cc @jdittrich @simonv3 @belenbarrospena @janushead @guiguru @HeikoTietze @bnvk @evalica

FOSSASIA 2017 - one of the biggest open source conference in Asia, is looking for help to design few things:

• T-shirt (main)
• Name badge
• X-stand banner
• Poster

This year theme is Artificial Intelligence and Personal Assistants.

FOSSASIA 2017 design will have a great exposure: it will be showcased on T-shirts and website, will also be used to create an atmosphere for the party night at the conference.

Deadline: February 15, 2017
Reference: FOSSASIA logo and some of the sample work from previous years here: https://github.com/fossasia/fossasia-artwork
Compensation: FOSSASIA is run by volunteers, we can offer free t-shirts and public recognition!

Story: As SO interested in contributing with my design work I want to know who can brief me and how to get stated
Current state: Some tasks have only a very vague description ("improve usability of…") and no person to talk to to get a specification of the job

Suggestion: Let’s add a field like "contact", "mentor" or "Questions" to the basic template/form of presentation

At the Berlin meetup, @HeikoTietze brought up that a »Deadline« field would be useful for the job postings. This might be because there’s a release upcoming, but also simply for us to automatically expire old job postings.

The idea we had at the meetup was to simply replace the »Tags« field which kind of duplicates the »Job role / category« anyway with a »Deadline« section:

<div class="form-group">
  <label for="deadline">
    Deadline
    <small>(optional)</small>
  </label>
  <p class="help-block">If you need the work done until a specific date.</p>
  <input class="form-control"
    id="deadline"
    placeholder="3 months from job posting date"
    name="fields[deadline]" />
</div>

What do you think @bnvk @simonv3 @belenbarrospena @evalica?

Please help us to design a logo for Jugaadfest.com, which will take place at the end of June in Hyderabad. We would like a simple logo preferable in a vector format (if possible svg) that embodies the idea of Jugaad as described below.

Background: Jugaad (alternatively Juggaar) is a colloquial Hindi (Devanagiri: जुगाड़, Latin: Jugāṛ), Urdu (Urdu alphabet: جگاڑ, Latin: Jugāṛ) and Punjabi word, which has various meanings depending on the situation. Roughly translated, jugaad is a "hack". It could also refer to an innovative fix or a simple work-around, a solution that bends the rules, or a resource that can be used in such a way. It is also often used to signify creativity—to make existing things work, or to create new things with meager resources. Jugaad is increasingly accepted as a management technique and is recognized all over the world as an acceptable form of frugal engineering at peak in India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad

Please follow up on the specific repository here: fossasia/jugaadfest.com#3

@victoria-bondarchuk @spMohanty

Instead of using the 🐊 emoji, I'd love to have an actual logo.

You can read more about the project here:

https://github.com/crocodilejs/crocodile-node-mvc-framework

I'm very focused on designers too - I just published these two packages which allow icons and images to EASILY be embedded in emails to customers.

• https://github.com/crocodilejs/font-awesome-assets
• https://github.com/crocodilejs/nodemailer-base64-to-s3

There are a couple of problems with our Job Board. This came after some discussion between @bnvk and @elioqoshi and me on IRC.

1. It is hard for non-githubers to create job postings. This is a serious flaw. I would love to hear proposals to make this better. Form hosting? Etc.
2. It isn't syndicated anywhere. Job postings should at least be posted to Twitter, as well as probably to our Facebook page (@razetime?). We could use IFTTT.
3. It's hard for people with jobs to find designers. There's no real feedback except for on PRs.

The reason 3 is a problem is because we've got some very active people doing great design work for FLOSS projects (eg. @elioqoshi), doing most of the work on the job board for keeping it active and relevant. However, there's no real incentive for these people to keep looking at the job board once people start coming to them directly (partially because of (1), our job board is hard to use).

If our job board doesn't land the people posting things to it with designers doing the work, then they're going to stop posting things to it.

I propose a way of giving some "kickback" to these awesome people - any group of designers or singular designers that have a proven track record of doing good work could be listed as "partners" and a first line of "these people will guaranteed do great work, here's how you can reach out to them". I think anyone should be able to become a partner, but they should show a commitment to actually responding to job listings.

A quick sketch:

What do other people think @jancborchardt @jdittrich @neynah @jsimplicio @paulproteus @garrett (I'm sure I'm missing some people).

I'm starting a new Linux distribution that is optimized for ChromeOS devices called GalliumOS. It is based on Xubuntu, but will include custom changes and software for ChromeOS devices.

I would prefer to have someone join our team. These are the tasks I'm in need of help with right now:

1. Logo. We have one, but it may need some refinement.
2. Default look. We can work with an existing theme.
3. Website design. We have web programmers that can implement the design.

Thanks. We have an irc channel, #galliumos, on freenet.

Use IFTTT?

I started gathering some thoughts here: https://www.pinterest.com/simonv3/open-source-design-job-board/

Let me know if you want to join the board and I'll add you, or if there's an OSS version of Pinterest that has a bookmarklet like interaction thingy.

Seems there's a fixed 85px height on the columns that might cause this problem.

This is what it looks like:

All of the titles are being truncated to the point of unreadability.

Ex:
"Create a Logo for a large O"
"Create a logo for open sourc"
"Create a logo for awesom"
"Designer For Offline-First, P"

Literally every title over 4 words is useless and needs to be clicked on to learn more.

Also, while we're at it: Two columns is a really bad way to lay this information out, especially if there is no differentiation information between the two columns. If they were layed out in a single column, maybe you would have enough space to actually display the full titles.

Didn't know where to post this issue -- but we need a logo :)

Hey everyone out there :) we are just starting an open, common license repository to collect information for refugees, organizations and volunteers.
Please get in touch if you can support us with a nice, welcoming logo :)

Many thanks in advance,
Dennis

Add a favicon to the browser tab. This is kind of inconsistent with the other pages.

So fossjobs.net does general open source jobs and exists since some time already. We should link to it somewhere from our page saying something like:

Looking for other jobs in open source except design? Check out fossjobs.net!

What do you think?

Scenario: On twitter, I stumble upon a logo discussion at a project I like. There is no concensus on a design yet, only that they want a logo.
Me and @elioqoshi were briefly involved and we thought about asking them to file a job.

Pro: Sounds like something for us and new people get to know us.
Contra: They are already discussing ideas and there is a high risk that there are at least two paralell discussions; since they are new to OSD, they are probably also most likely to not involve it as much as anything else.

What would be best practices here?

Hello Claus and All,
Attached my offer of new Camel logo.
If you think about it, would be good to
remove some object or so, please tell
me and i will do it.
Hope you like it.
Best regards

Alvaro

Hello, this is my contribution in the search of a new Camel logo.

Best regards
Alvaro

You can link the website in the repo descrition.

I went to some of the job postings and saw that many texts contain URLs, though they are not links. This makes it tedious for an interested viewer to go to these pages (makr-copy-paste-enter instead of clicking)

It is no longer on https://okfn.org/about/jobs/, and I think the position has been filled.

What's the plan here? Just a single file for now?

I'm actually working on a little application that I would love to make OSS that fits into this category.

Hey y'all. Sorry, I just went kinda rogue and pushed some things without submitting a pull request. Reason being- I wanted to send a link to OSD and specifically the Jobs board and 5 or so links to postings didn't work. They would instead force a file download. The reason was because they did not end with a .md extension.

I assumed the submitter had used the "easy" option which was generating files with no extension. New contributors / submitters are probably going to overlook things like this- but maintainers / mergers should catch these sort of bugs. So please check the new listing you merge actually works 😄

During recent hack session with @simonv3 in Berlin, we discussed the idea of where is best to show / outline "projects" that OSD is building such as Sick. One of the big things, is that a project might involve funding. A few of the details that should added to a project as opposed to a simple job posting are:

• Project State (proposed, bidding, planning, creating, incomplete, finished)
• Proposed Budget (none, currency amount)
• Funding (met, needed, supplemental)
• Proposed Team (usernames)
• Outline of Work
• Deliverables
• ...etc...

@bradfrost brings up this idea of a Project Hubs that sort of charts all the stuff pertaining to a project in a nice visual timeline like this:

I think it would be awesome to show something like this for our "Projects" that we are developing and through the various states a project is at.

The current Readme.MD says that you should create jobs via issues. Nah.

Hi guys!
We (me and some other designers at Mozilla) have started work to update the UI and UX of the Gmail-Conversation-View addon for Thunderbird. It's going pretty well but we need your help here. Check out this issue where we are trying to move forward (I'm still trying to get used to GitHub, bad habits)

thunderbird-conversations/thunderbird-conversations#967 (comment)

We would love to call it Convo or Convi. Attached the logo proposal and 2 mockups

There are different requirements for

• Showing general openness to design contributors
• Hiring and paying people to work part/fulltime at your org
• Having a specific task to be done at your projects

They should have different forms so we can "nudge" towards meaningful informations.

User Story: As a Job poster, I want to link relevant resources.

Problem: Linking seems to be only possible with Markdown and not all users are aware of that

Possible solutions

• Provide a link/link text section (+ generates proper links; - not in text; - more complex form)
• Autolink URL-like text

Example Libre Office Branding Job

Currently have to scroll through all to see which are paid opportunities

Role information is missing when viewing a job post in detail.

For example:

When looking at the details:

there is no mention that this is a "Logo Designer" role wanted.

Ideally we would need to have the "Role" mandatory in the job form, since we are using this information when listing the jobs.

For example:

didn't provide at all the 'role', instead it entered the info in the title.
Still having mandatory roles is needed by opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io#70 in order to be able to filter.

In #202 @jdittrich made some changes and me too later. Reason was basically that my lists starting with * were not recognized as such. But in particular I messed up later with links like <a href="">Foo</a> that are shown as expected in the github preview but not when the job is posted on the board. After merging it I've seen the problem but being not able to fix it. My try to change the file 62c2532 directly failed, likely because of missing access right, but that's a guess.
In the end I have no idea what happens to the job since the text is kind of scrambled on the board. It starts with pieces from the end, has varying fonts, and the links are not interactive. So besides the failed experiments to solve it myself the post needs some rework.

mustache/mustache.github.com#57

Basically someone should just grab the job-template.md and create a PR with it in jobs. Contact is @locks

While usually we start having the need for this kind of functionality when we are flooded with posts (not quite yet, although we have 56 entries, from which 39 are searching), the problem we have is that:

• we don't know if the job post is still active
• people from our organization might forget to mark a post as "closed"
• people that initially added the post might forget to close it in our repo.

A solution would be to:

• allow people to add in the job template the expiration date;
• have a filter on the website and just display not expired job posts;
• have a listener and automatically change the status to "expired" if the date passed (although I don't think this is possible on the platform used).

WDYT?

We need to inform any non-designers how the design process works. We also need to inform designers how the open source and collective work process works. It'd be great if we could collect people's thoughts on this and put them into a blog post.

Does anyone want to take steps in that direction?

Yes, this is inspired by #108.

@pfefferle agreed. Perhaps we should rename "job-board" to "projects" ? To me "jobs" implies money and budgets... where as "projects" could be a paying project, or a for gratis project.

Job discussion happens on the forum: https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/c/job-postings 💬

If there are any issues pertaining to the job board, open them in the website repository at https://github.com/opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io/issues

Thanks! :)

Story: I don't want to be distracted by fields I don't need
Solution: Only show payment information if "we can pay" is choosen

For example:

1. https://github.com/opensourcedesign/jobs/blob/gh-pages/jobs/2017-01-02-gnome-two-factor-auth.md
   http://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/jobs/2017-01-02-gnome-two-factor-auth
   the url is empty
   <a id="organization" class="organization" href="">Gnome TwoFactorAuth</a>

The problem is that jobs layout displays
href="{{ page.org_url }}"
while the job entry provides
organization_url: 'https://github.com/bil-elmoussaoui/Gnome-TwoFactorAuth'

2. https://github.com/opensourcedesign/jobs/blob/gh-pages/jobs/2016-11-21-retroarch-assets.md
   provides
   url: http://www.libretro.com

3. https://github.com/opensourcedesign/jobs/blob/gh-pages/jobs/2016-10-22-gngr-logo.md
   etc.

First of all we need to:

• decide which version we want
• make sure the template is correct
  https://github.com/opensourcedesign/jobs/blob/gh-pages/job-template.md
  currently it has
  url: http://organisation-website.com
• make sure the job form http://opensourcedesign.net/opensrcdesignjobs/ uses the correct param, currently is 'organization_url' instead of 'org_url'
• make sure ALL the posts are using that field

WDYT?

I'm interested in subcontracting graphic design work (branding, print, signage, etc.) from my agency out to designers who use free software (GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape, etc.) to create with. This would be for a variety of ongoing work, and not something I would want to post a listing for on a project-by-project basis. Because the job board is really geared to jobs to support free software projects, rather than traditional jobs using free software, I'm not sure where/how to best get started. I need to find people who have the experience, skill sets, and design sensibilities I need, and are interested in freelancing. Any suggestions?

Hi All,

I'm a dev! Im looking for some hexagon stickers for our OSS meetup.

It's all non-profit and help is defo wanted

https://github.com/lnug

Thanks

Claus Ibsen from Apache Camel is looking for a new logo:

• https://twitter.com/davsclaus/status/782916131258499072
• http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/New-Apache-Camel-Logo-td5788206.html

Idea: Camel flying a Apache Helicopter... =p

Small experiment to see if more design folk can make it to this thread. Some of us are hanging out in #opensourcedesign on IRC already, but IRC is not the easiest of channels to get on to.

If you’re interested in whatever intersection of design and open source, introduce yourself in here so that we may get to know eachother a bit better and have a bit more permanent place to check in than on IRC.

Welcome!

At the Berlin meetup we talked about adding categories to the job board. That is, a way for the projects to define what exactly they need help with.

This would be useful because:

• Projects can easily choose what they need
• We can showcase which kinds of jobs you can post
• They provide a way to filter
• We know where help is needed most

Best would be 5 concise categories:

1. Logo design & branding
2. Web design
3. Interaction design
4. Usability review & research
5. Other like slides, icons, etc.

We would put these very prominently on the top with icons to filter. And same in the submission form for defining the category.

cc @janushead @jdittrich @guiguru @HeikoTietze @simonv3 @bnvk @belenbarrospena