Have you ever contributed to an open source project?
Or wait...
we bet you have used an open-source libraries like Google Fonts or Unsplash, or IDEO guides!

In February we launched a series of events to bring back variety in design and to secure emerging digital industries from the visual sameness. And already done two so far:

⟶ Dribbble Berlin meetup (aka DWeb.Design #1) “Embrace variety”
⟶ DWeb.Design #2 “Typonight”

This time we go beyond the topic of communication through UI and app aesthetics - toward the Global Open Collaboration movement.

We will connect Berlin open source ecosystem and designers’ community under one roof to discuss:
- What does it take to design for open-source?
- What are the designers’ incentives behind creating fonts, UX guides and UI libraries and distributing them under the open-source license?

Agenda:

18:00 - come and get cosy
18:20 - intro “Why to open-source?”
18:45 - Eileen Wagner from Simple Secure
19:15 - 15min break
19:30 - Martin Wecke about the open-source projects at Design Code Lab
20:00 - Julia Ebert from Open Source Lab

Follow #DWebDesign on twitter for the updates and teasers.

Event heroes

Eileen Wagner…
… is a designer and researcher at Simply Secure. She advises teams and organisations on UX design, conducts research and user testing, and produces open resources for the community. Her focus is on security and decentralisation technologies. She is also on the core team of Open Source Design.

More about Eileen:
https://bumble.blue

One of her previous talks:
https://vimeo.com/345474537

"Adventures in Open Source Design"
From culture clash to structural gaps, this talk discusses the various challenges and possible coping strategies for designers in open source. We will introduce and analyse common patterns in open source projects and what they mean for design. Then we will share our takes on the design toolkit that has worked well in open source. Lessons learned here are valuable for designers regardless of their involvement in open source.

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Martin Wecke…
... is a designer and developer based in Berlin. Calling his practice "Design Code Lab" he works on projects combining the fields of design and technology.
His works have been features on AWWARDS, on Hoveratat.es and stuff-picked on FontsArena.

More about Martin (as told by It's Nice That):
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/martin-wecke-digital-graphic-design-250719

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Julia Ebert…
... is a project manager at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Her focus is on projects in the field of Open Knowledge as Open Source and Open Data, currently within the the project "Open Source Lab on Sustainable Mobility".

Supporters

Have you already read the first printed issue by Smashing Magazine on Ethics and Privacy? Friends from their Smashing editoria team loved the mission of DWeb and gave us few items to give away ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Sketch team is giving us three Sketch licences to raffle among attendees! Only for #DesignforGood :)
When you arrive to the event space at Betahaus > don't forget to grab your raffle ticket.

Julius Drost - who contributes to Unsplash community - is joining us a photographer to capture your emotions and the athmosphere of the event.

DWeb.Design is a part of DWeb Global.

DWeb is a series of events driven by local communities toward a global goal - building the Web we deserve. Booted up by the Berlin Node (powered by Jolocom) and catalyzed by the San Francisco Node (Internet Archive), DWeb is now a worldwide community of 8 core nodes:

#DWebArizona
#DWebAustin
#DWebBLN
#DWebBoston
#DWebPerm
#DWebPrague
#DWebSF
#DWebShanghai

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#DWebCamp >> https://dwebcamp.org/