Open Source Design collective

edited December 2020 in General

I've been investigating organisations with similar aims to our and found the Open Source Design collective opensourcedesign.net . They are members of the Open Source Collective https://opencollective.com/opensource which is the host I am suggesting we use to collect our own funds (funds for specific projects should go to that project) and make our finances transparent.
Anyway, ... I found a talk they gave a ApacheCon which is a simple introduction. I think that when BlenderBIM Add-on gets ready to do work on their UI/UX they could be a great resource. They have jobs board where FOSS projects can requests assistance. Here's the presentation:
https://aceu19.apachecon.com/session/our-open-source-design-collective
Here for example is a search in their forum for topics related to SVG:
https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/search?q=svg
So for anyone exploring the possibilities and limitations of SVG that seems like a good place to go

stephen_l

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  • edited December 2020

    I think implications of having a fiscal host in USA should be carefully studied.
    If it similar to having a company in based I would say «Hell no ! ». Because that would mean it would be subject to software export law. And so our friend from countries disliked by USA state would not be officially allowed. Remember that not long time ago many Iranians FOSS friend got kicked from Github because of this ******* law. A big protest repo was set up at this occasion.
    Similar for patent trolls does having a fiscal host in US imply an exposure to theses parasites?
    I understand considering message on chat why it was think of but we are not going to set up a fiscal host in each country to make all companies which donate eligible for fiscal deduction no ?
    Every country has it own legal advantage and drawback but regarding FOSS and privacy USA (and they are not the only one) have unfortunately a bunch of laws unfriendly to FOSS and privacy in software.
    I might be worry for nothing but I think it worths to check.

    bitacovirstephen_l
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