Jury feedback

Sanjay: What is the one message that you are telling designers ?
Sanjay: How does the open source economy works ?
Sanjay: Do you think the comic book will work in NID ?
Sanjay: Open source is for developers why should designers care ?

Tridha: Why the word "Gratis" in the animation film ? Will it work in Indian scenario ?
Tridha: Stuck during solution generation

Rupesh: There are no tangibles

Compiled solution strategies

TO BE UPDATED

Solution phase - Create FLOS projects.

If you have a great product for commons, create it using open source methodology

Space for FLOS projects
Sourceforge.net provides space to create your own FLOS project.
http://sourceforge.net/register/
Google summer of code is an intiative to fund the open source projects

If it is a design project you can follow the open design process suggested as below:
Open source design process:
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/design-in-open-source#more-768

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/09/01/the-case-for-open-source-design-can-design-by-committee-work/

Solution phase - Participate in FLOS projects

Designers participation in FLOS projects are less thanr than the proprietary products hence the usability of FLOS products is lesser compared to proprietary products. So designers! participate and contribute to FLOS movment.

Redesigning FLOS product

- Every FLOS product is open to redesign. Designers can redesign it along with the developers.
- Design students can redesigning/designing for FLOS products as academic projects, class assignments.
- Design teachers can encourage students take up redesigning/designing for FLOS products.

Designing FLOS products

Developers are expecting designers to contribute in design works like: Logo design, Icon design,Poster design,T-Shirt design,CD/DVD cover design,Website design,Color scheme design,Illustration,Font design and more.Such jobs can be found at below links:
Design jobs for open source projects
Design art work for ubuntu open source operating system project
Design jobs for mozilla open source project
Design art work for fedora open source operating system project
Re-design for Gimp
and much more..

Solution phase - Consume the FLOS products

Every major proprietary (commercial) software has their open source alternative like :


Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Indesign

Fontlab

Flash

3DS MAX

Premier pro

Windows Mac OS

MS Word


For more check the below links:

http://www.osalt.com/
http://directory.fsf.org/

Solution phase - Consider the FLOS need

What is open source ?


Videos:
Definition of open source
Advertisement for linux

What is copyleft ?

What is history of open source ?

What is FLOS ?



Why FLOS is better than piracy ?

Solution set

The major solution strategies can be expressed as

a) Consider the FLOS need.

b) Consume the FLOS products.

c) Contribute to FLOS projects.

d) Create FLOS projects.