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@hopeless yeah i don't do any FOSS work it's true

is it as simple as surfacing the figma file of your open source project as highly as your repo?

can we start the readme with our user stories instead of "how to run locally"?

should we use project tracking? should we A/B test??

should we moodboard????

@hopeless found the dev

THIS THREAD IS FACETIOUS AND TONGUE IN CHEEK AND OVERZEALOUS IN ORDER TO SHAKE UP AND CHALLENGE EXISTING NORMS DO NOT TAKE IT ALL AS 100% ACCURATE AND COME FOR ME

the industry does not work like this at all! but open source completely omits product design

but okay, how do we fix this?

we need to make space for design and product work within collaborative open source software somehow. there's PLENTY of space to walk into if you're a dev: make an issue / make a pull request / make a fork / use a package / blah blah blah

but there's none if you're a designer / producty person. what do you do??????

@flpvsk the same incentives that keeps bazillions of engineers involved

@yaxu strongly disagree! there are huge incentives for designers and product people to get involved with volunteering, just like programmers.

and yes accessibility is a huge factor of this. getting design and product-oriented people involved means software becomes accessible to more people

@inscript you should meet some designers!

@inscript the facetious division I'm making is in resistance to the status quo arrogance / view that diminishes creative design and product work while boosting the importance of programming. I'm challenging that narrative by inverting it. that imagined inverted world sounds surprisingly not-so-bad, which calls into question our current priorities

@inscript
- programmers designing things is a *negative* side effect.
- from my experience, "scrappy" is also rare in the design world.

we gave the tech nerds too much power

"[just] use IRC"
"[just] use a forum"
"[just] self-host by shushing into your prill scropt. it's easy you [just] prantiss a few cuntwobs. what's the big deal? there's no excuse. [just] spin up a brosh instance."

@inscript designers are not vernacular programmers. programmers are vernacular designers.

these toots were inspired by checking out a load of discord "alternatives"

writing code should not be the primary way of contributing to free open source software

free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people

it's official, my next talk will be:

HOW MANY HEADS
DO YOU NEED?