Here’s some practical advice for speakers at our Open Source Design devroom at FOSDEM 2021. 1. FOSDEM organisers recommend using OBS to record and edit your talk video. This how-to gives useful advice. (https://dev.to/erikaheidi/how-to-use-obs-studio-to-record-or-stream-live-presentations-474j) 2. We recommend you recording and editing the video as soon as possible. 3. Don’t overload your slides. Make sure everything […]
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Open Source conference organising software
This is a short note to myself (and anyone interested) about software applications I’ve found recently that allow you do manage conferences/ticket sales, etc. Pretalx; it comes in self-hosted and hosted-for-you options. Feature comparison also available. Hosted-for-you prices range from 850EUR to 1450, depending on the number of attendees and ticket price.Self-hosted does not have […]
DIY Mobile Usabilty Testing talk Paris Web 2016
In 2016, Belén Barros Pena & I did a talk at the great Paris Web conference about our Do-It-Yourself Mobile Usability Testing project. We’ve done it many times before. Here’s the video. The tech and the tools may be updated and it’s 3 years old but 80-90% of the reasoning, methods and approacehs are still […]
Reading list & useful things I found for 1-8 September
User Research No design without (user) research; A great talk (with video) by Belén Barros Pena given at 2019 Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) conference in Saarbrucken. The talk was about why and how to incorporate design research practices into free software projects, but it applies to all projects. The tool we use to turn around […]
Internet Freedom Festival 2018 – Introverts meetup
Details Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Time: 14:00 – 15:00 Room: Patio Naranjos Duration: 1 hour Description (From the IFF Schedule) “This meetup brings together individuals that identify as introverts. Meetups are one hour informal events focused on allowing people to meet and greet.” I’ve volunteered to lead the Internet Freedom Festival Introvert meetup at this years IFF. […]