Design Mentoring and Open Source as a Design Opportunity.

Designers are still relatively rare in the Open Source Software space and those that have been around and active are burning out and struggling to peer support each other effectively. I see mentoring designers, new to open source software as a key way in which we can make OSS sustainable generally and specifically for the designer community in OSS.

OSS is also a fantastic way for designers to work on projects they love or build skills in certain areas on real life actual projects instead of 'speculative portfolio projects'.