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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1. Join the geeks Why designers should contribute to FOSS
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72.03% 15.83% 4. Open source software has already won Alex Skud
Bayley at Guadec 2012 5. Android Blackberry FirefoxOS iOS Sailsh
Tizen Ubuntu Touch WebOS Windows Phone 6. Android Blackberry
FirefoxOS iOS Sailsh Tizen Ubuntu Touch WebOS Windows Phone (2011)
(2011) (2011) (2011) 7. FOSS 8. peer review 9. all FOSS software is
ugly 10. there are no designers in FOSS 11. there are no designers
in FOSS 12. there are no designers in FOSS t < enough 13. FOSS
developers hate designers 14. 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 15. 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 16. FOSS is all really
technical stuff 17. Work with yes developers 18. Solve real
problems 19. Learn 20. FLOSS: Survey and Study
http://www.ossproject.org/report/Final4.htm#_Toc13908324 21. Be
part of an amazing community 22. and now, what? 23. Join the geeks
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