Ask HN: How can we contribute towards the open source community?

4 pointsaminmemon7y ago2 comments

We run http://draftss.com where we offer graphic design on a subscription model to our customers.

We love using a lot of open source projects at our workplace and would love to give back to the open source community. Is there any way we as draftss.com could help the community? The first thing that strikes our mind is open source project websites are very poorly designed and we could help them there, but we are not sure.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

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Rjevski7y ago· 1 in thread

The open source community is sadly lacking in UX and design in general (partly because of funding, but also stupid attitude) so maybe you could offer those services to projects that are in need?

Look for big open-source apps that are lacking in UX (pretty much all of them - I think Firefox is the only exception really) and see if you can help them. Keepass for example could be a good candidate - solid product, and could definitely compete with 1Password & co if it wasn't for its outdated design.

aminmemonOP7y ago

Rightly said. We think that UI/UX is not taken seriously by the open source community. Keepass looks like a fantastic alternative to 1Password. Will definitely connect with them.

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