Open Source Design milestones over the years

Open Source Design has acheived many things in the 5+ years the community has been running. From running regular FOSDEM Dev rooms for open source design topics to holding local meet-ups and gaining over 600 community members. The community has changed and evolved over the years and its great to look back on the achievements of Open Source Design, so in response to an issue created in 2016 I began to catalogue a few of the key milestones of open source design. There will be events and occurences I’ve missed but here’s a round up of the last 6 years.

🧵 As of July 2021 there have been 548 topics posted on the open source design discourse forum!

💼 As of June 2021 there have been 186 jobs posted on the open source design jobs board!

🥳 686 designers in our GitHub people organization as of June 2021.

💵 Open Source Design open collective reaches over $6k on June 16, 2021!

🇳🇬 🇩🇪 Open Source Design team for Nigeria reaches the most members in a country based team at 20 members and ties with Berlin, Germany! in early 2021.

🎤 Open Source Design community members run a UX clinic and help select talks for the design track at the conference at FOSS Backstage 2021.

7️⃣ Open Source Design community members continue running the design devroom for FOSDEM 21 and the room has 247 people in the room watching talks in February 2021.

🧑‍🚀 Open Source Design community members give a workshop for developers at Open Source 101 and All Things Open In May 2020 and October 2020.

🇹🇼 Open Source Design community members hold an Open Source Design panel at Open Up Global Summit in 2020 in Taiwan and several community member speak on open source design topics.

🇮🇹 Open Source Design community members are invited to speak at Interaction Week in Milan 2020.

⚽ Open Source Design revisits the Goals and publishes them on opensourcedesign.net/goals in 2020.

👩‍⚕️ Open Source Design community members run a UX clinic at FOSS Backstage 2020.

🌍 Open Source Design community members spoke at Open Source Community Africa 2020 and Sustain OSS Africa!.

6️⃣ The open source design community continues their great work at FOSDEM and runs another dev room in February 2020 just before travelis restricted around the globe and events go mostly online.

🏥 Open Source Design run their first UX Clinic at FOSDEM 2019.

5️⃣ Keeping on trend the open source design community runs a dev room at FOSDEM 2019 in february 2019.

🇦🇱 Open source Design second summit held in Tirana in 2018!

4️⃣ The fourth year in a row the open source design community run a dev room at FOSDEM in February 2018.

🗽 First meetup in New York City for Open Source Designers in October 2017.

🇩🇪 Open Source Design first summit held in Berlin October 2017!

🇪🇸 Open Source Design has it’s first regional meetup in Madrid in Spain. June 2017.

🙌 Open Source Design attends and participates in a open source design track at OpenTechSummit in May 2017.

🤦‍♂️ An open source design member gives a ‘funny’ talk at the G23 conference in May 2017. Designers have senses of humor 😜

🌐 Open Source Design community members attend the Internet Freedom Festival in March 2017.

🇸🇪 An open source design community member gives a talk at Foss North in Gothenberg in April 2017.

3️⃣ For the third time there will be a dedicated Open Source Design dev room at FOSDEM in February 2017.

🏦 Open Source Design creates an Open Collective to raise funds March 2016.

2️⃣ Second FOSDEM open source design dev room is organised and run by the open source design community in February 2016.

🇸🇬 Open Source Design community members spoke at FOSSASIA March 2016.

☯️ Code of Conduct published June 2015.

🎉 Website is collaboratively created and launched April 2015.

🐦 Open Source Design joins Twitter! February 2015.

1️⃣ First Open Source Design dev room at FOSDEM January 2015.

🗣️ Conference talks on open source design and sharing resources December 2013.