I've been working in open-source for a bit over four years now... getting designers to donate their time for collaborative projects at the same level as developers do would be a tremendous boon.
Plus, an IxDA-facilitated open-source initiative would be an excellent way to get more experience on a wider variety of projects, while contributing to the state-of-the-art. I for one would relish the opportunity to see how others work and build some battlefield camaraderie. The point Andy makes above (about open-source versioning tools being ill suited for design) is an important one... how do we set up the infrastructure for OSS design collaboration? What's the SourceForge or Google Code for designers? I imagine IxDA Labs could take a hybrid approach... weave together a wiki, knowledge management tools, digital whiteboarding... Please count me in :) -Jonathan On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Elizabeth Bacon <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom, et al., > > I'm really excited to say that IxDA may be able to support and aid > you in your & others efforts to connect with the Open Source movement > and community. > > Several IxDA board members met with Aza Raskin of Mozilla at the > Interaction'09 conference to discuss how we could work together in > the future, given the alignment of interests we have in making the > world a better place. IxDA really wants to enable new sorts of > design-led open source efforts to succeed. We're presently > envisioning having a kind of "IxDA Labs" area, just like they have > a Mozilla Labs area, where such design-led, collaborative open-source > projects can be seeded and developed. > > Our steps in this area thus far have been semi-connected to the > current infrastructure project. Anybody who's interested in pursuing > this idea further, please let me know what you think about being a > leader and/or forming an initiative in this area with support from > IxDA. :) > > Cheers, > Liz > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38371 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
