That was one reason Diaspora did well initially. They focused on good
design and didn't open source that.  There should be a civic Pivotal,
like a Mozilla, to help sound technical projects do great design.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Griffin Boyce <[email protected]> wrote:
> Brian Conley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think its always that superior technical solutions *can't* provide
>> better branding/usability, its that they choose NOT to, or in the past have
>> even demonized anyone who thinks there is value in such things.
>>
>> luckily this is changing!
>> B
>
>
>   I agree, but also some projects don't have capable graphics people on
> their staff (for whatever reason). Public-facing open-source projects in
> general need to get it together design-wise.
>
> ~Griffin
>
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