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I understand and really like the idea of an open design processes, but can't help but feel this encourages working for free and developing spec work. Though maybe I am not understanding it correctly.

Working pro bono is quite a bit different than the cancerous scourge of spec / contest driven work.

Charities for example, might have a designer working pro bono. However, within that capacity, they are essentially working under the same constraints a designer on a team would. Many libre / open source projects don't have the funding nor structure to hire a designer.

Let it be clear, contests and speculative efforts are a toxic cesspool. Encouraging designers to integrate with a team, pro bono or otherwise, is a trend away from contests and speculative garbage.

+1 when designers are able to make contributions on their own terms, the OSS world is a better place. On most open source projects, different contributors have different skillsets. When a designer is part if the team, they can be looped in on issues and PRs to provide feedback and design solutions "in the open"

Thank you, I knew I wasn't thinking about it correctly.

This is brilliant. I will be in touch with respect to some design tasks that need done on OpenEMR!

Please post a link here when you do! I just scrolled through the job board to look for any healthcare or government gigs and didn't find any.

Would love to get in touch directly, as well! I'm very interested in the OpenEMR project and its promise :)

Here you go! https://github.com/opensourcedesign/jobs/pull/272

Looks like they have to approve it first, but I'm thinking it will be an interesting project for designers that have an interest in healthcare. Maybe this is you? :)

As far as reaching me directly, email is matthewvita48 (at) gmail (dot) com

Here we are: https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/jobs-hospitalized-p...

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