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Recruiting Designers for your Open Source Project

Recruiting Designers for your Open Source Project

This is my second PyCon 2012 Lightning Talk, in which I talk about ways to help get designers passionate about an open source project.

Bryan Veloso

March 12, 2012
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  1. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Designers
    RECRUITING
    FOR YOUR OPEN
    SOURCE PROJECT

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  2. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    THE
    PROBLEM

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  3. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    You have an amazing open source project.

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  4. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    You need an amazing designer.

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  5. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    THE REAL
    PROBLEM

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  6. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Designers are picky.

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  7. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Designers are stubborn.

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  8. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Designers have “no time.”

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  9. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    I am guilty of all of this.

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  10. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.

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  11. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    SO...
    WHO AM I?

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  12. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Hi, I’m @bryanveloso.
    FOLLOWING ME WOULD BE LEGEND... sleep(3)... DARY.

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  13. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Hi, Bryan!
    AUDIENCE:

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  14. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    (0^_^)b

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  15. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    (›°□°)›ớ ǝɔuǝıpnɐ

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  16. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Hi, I’m @bryanveloso.
    FOLLOWING ME WOULD BE LEGEND... sleep(3)... DARY.

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  17. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.

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  18. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    I  have
    stickers!

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  19. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    SOME
    SOLUTIONS

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  20. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    from cloud import designer

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  21. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Let your project speak for itself.
    If you solve a problem for a designer,
    you have them in the palm of your hand.

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  22. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Sound familiar?

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  23. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Let your project speak for itself.
    If you solve a problem for a designer,
    you have them in the palm of your hand.
    Can  be  replaced  with  
    something  like...  “developer”

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  24. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Example: I maintain django-imagekit.
    I’ve also contributed to a number of
    Python, Objective-C, Erlang and even Ruby projects.

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  25. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.

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  26. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Be explicit with your design needs.

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  27. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    “Make it pretty” is FORBIDDEN.

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  28. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Developer.

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  29. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Designer.

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  30. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Design is as important as any TODO item.

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  31. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Put this in your README.

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  32. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Communicate EARLY.
    Communicate OFTEN.

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  33. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Hey man, I finished the design.
    I need your input.
    Sorry, not my style.
    TIME PASSES!

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  34. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    MOVING
    FORWARD

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  35. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    We want to help.
    @gregnewman @idangazit Me

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  36. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Let’s help each other.
    We’re all teachers, let’s exchange knowledge!

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  37. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    R·E·S·P·E·C·T
    We highly respect what you guys do, but please
    empathize with what we do.

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  38. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    R·E·S·P·E·C·T
    More and more designers are
    becoming hybrids, you can help.

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  39. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Together we can make the web...

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  40. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    NOT BAD

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  41. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK,
    I REFRAINED FROM PUTTING ANYTHING IMPORTANT HERE.
    Thanks!
    Tweet me @Bryanveloso
    if you’d like to talk more!
    That’s it!

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