free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people
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@TodePond I guess without large amount of state funding it's not going to happen, especially from an accessibility standpoint.. Until then I guess we have to make do with people mostly making software for themselves
@yaxu strongly disagree! there are huge incentives for designers and product people to get involved with volunteering, just like programmers.
and yes accessibility is a huge factor of this. getting design and product-oriented people involved means software becomes accessible to more people
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free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people
@TodePond@mas.to and technical writer
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free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people
@TodePond@mas.to FOSS engineers at the very concept of UX:
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@yaxu strongly disagree! there are huge incentives for designers and product people to get involved with volunteering, just like programmers.
and yes accessibility is a huge factor of this. getting design and product-oriented people involved means software becomes accessible to more people
@TodePond Fair enough, I should be more optimistic!
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we gave the tech nerds too much power
@TodePond this is true in many fields
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@yaxu strongly disagree! there are huge incentives for designers and product people to get involved with volunteering, just like programmers.
and yes accessibility is a huge factor of this. getting design and product-oriented people involved means software becomes accessible to more people
@TodePond what are the incentives?
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