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Yo @simonv3 nice to see your name pop up here :) @jancborchardt started
this repo as he and I have been bouncing around ideas. This repo is very
lose in concept at the moment- some sort of "job board" yes.

One idea is to point to stuff like Openhatch or Bountysource, or maybe
it’s best to just link to project trackers (Github, etc...) with only
the design issues pre-filtered... I really like the later idea quite a
bit.

I recently signed up https://hackhands.com which allows programmers to
be hired by the minute for help & consulting... it's a pretty neat and
efficient system. Something similar could work for design and especially
focused on FOSS projects / communities!

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@brennannovak Cool!

The thing I was working on was myself making a Flask app that you can install on a server, with a bookmarklet or some such that saves a job page or RSS feed to a database, and once a week sends an email to your inbox saying what's new. Might not fit in here properly, but when I get around to putting in a few more hours, I'll put it on github and link it.

Something similar to hackhands for designers would be pretty awesome. I haven't had a chance to explore many projects for design issues, that would be an interesting tool as well.

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Why not start with using these github issues to create a simple forum of some kind. See #2 for example.

I'd be reluctant to create a new thing for this, more interested in somehow aggregating what's already there and make design specific issues better discoverable.

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@yoroy For sure. You'll notice that the issue was raised almost 8 months ago. There's a lot of "job boards" already out there, and they're not the best way to actually get some work, and a lot more have cropped up over the past few months. A job board doesn't really make sense.

On the other hand, I'm reluctant to just make it a "here's an OSS project that needs your help to design things." I think there's a big misconception that people work on OSS as volunteers rather than as paid work, and I would rather not see this become a mantle for "do free work". That's something the design community already suffers from.

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