HCID 2014: Join the geeks: why designers should contribute to Free and Open Source Software. Belén Barros Pena, Open Source Technology Center

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The Yocto Project is a set of tools to build customised versions of Linux for embedded products. What do you say? That you haven't understood a single word of that? Oh, don't worry: that means that you are a normal HCI person. The Yocto Project is the most unlikely place on earth to find a designer of any kind, and yet,there is design life there. Why?

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Join the geeks
Why designers should contribute to FOSS

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Open source
software has
already won
Alex “Skud” Bayley at Guadec 2012

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The OSS community (...) welcomed
the usability specialists like all those
who were willing to contribute in
some way (...). There was no previous
usability specialist involvement with
this community.
Open Source and HCI Philosophies in Open Source Projects - Incompatible
or Co-Existent?, M. Rajanen, N. Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland, 2013

The developers expressed that they
would readily welcome any further
usability help and especially (...) by
having a usability specialist as a close-
knit part of their team
Open Source and HCI Philosophies in Open Source Projects - Incompatible
or Co-Existent?, M. Rajanen, N. Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland, 2013

FLOSS: Survey and Study
http://www.ﬂossproject.org/report/Final4.htm#_Toc13908324

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