# Figma Config 2021 - Proposal Planning
_[Call for proposals](https://sessionize.com/config2021)_
_[FOSDEM planning notes](https://hackmd.io/ffdomNWPRCiW2eQbXda9PQ)_

- Audience
- Figma users
- Designers who may be unfamillair with bitcoin, open design, and open source
- Goals of the presentation
- ...
- Represent many voices in the community
- Define the ideas of open design, open collaboration, and the role of an "open designer"

## Concept #1

- Challenges of designing a new, borderless version of money (5m)
- What is Bitcoin and why it is unique
- Design communities (5m)
- Why we gathered
- Open design (5m)
- See [page in the guide](https://bitcoin.design/guide/getting-started/open-design/)
- A familiar design processes (5m)
- Research
- Workshops and design sprints
- Taking a UI inventory
- Project Briefs
- Collaborating
- Figma - difficulties around public collaboration and lack of Github-like features
- How can you contribute? (5m)
- Remote collaboration
- Participating in calls
- Why we have calls?
- Contribute to the guide
- Review others work

### Talk format ideas

See the [FOSDEM planning notes](https://hackmd.io/ffdomNWPRCiW2eQbXda9PQ). FOSDEM was pre-recorded, so we had flexibility with editing. We need to find out if and how we can have multiple people present together.
- Idea 1: Like FOSDEM, play a community intro video, then one person presents (logistically easy)
- Idea 2: Like rC3, multiple people present, one section each

### Planning Call Notes
- We're figuring it out, in open source. Embrassing the mess.
- We are shifting what it means to even be a team. A group of people with a common interest that is bitcoin. Sharing resources, learning, creating design processes, and collaborating with projects to solve UX issues.

#### Goals
- introduction to bitcoin design
- raise awareness that we exist
- appreciation of why designing for bitcoin is different from in-house design or open design because of its global nature.
- output. projects that have kicked off, and the processes we have.
- differences between open design and in-house design.
- Principals, What we value
- Embrace diversity
- Your contributions have an impact.

**FOSDEM abstract for reference**

Since the middle of 2020, an open community has formed around the goal of making Bitcoin more intuitive and accessible. Our big project is a Bitcoin Design Guide to help both designers and developers create better Bitcoin experiences faster. We also work to promote the idea of open design, to bring more designers into the space, and to help open-source projects adopt better design processes. This presentation will provide an overview of all these efforts, where we are (early) and what the future might hold.

#### Goals as a story #3
- We want to introduce attendees to the bitcoin design community, and provide some foundations on what it means to work in design for an open, global financial protocol without leaders.
- There are no leaders, but there are principals that bind individual contributors and collective efforts of others in the ecosystem. One of the goals of our design community is to educate new designers in the space about these principals, and provide a friendly enviroment to learn and experiment. while making outputs that have a tangiable impact.
- Coordinating such a community, takes effort, and tools are limited, ... knowledge sharing ... and even the smallest contributions have can have a direct and tangiable impact...
- We have a diverse set of people, with just as diverse perspectives. We want to give a glimpse of our community, and share what we have learnt with the Figma Config audiance. To give them a perspective they may not have had to a new style of work and collaboration.

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Embrace diversity - example of baking potatoes ~~and chainsmoking~~ on Jitsi :) - be yourself, countries, time zones, etc

Principles as what ties us together - while many other things are messy.

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Things to maybe bring up
- Design community
- Mix of volunteers and dedicated
- A loosely organized group of people with varying backgrounds
- New, seasoned, technical, etc
- Code review vs design review
- Volunteer, paid, funded

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Reviewing culture in the bitcoin design community.
- Lead by example.
- Point out the faults.
- Not as subjective as something like art.

A lot of things you design are not for your self.
- With the guide youre not creating things for yourself, its for others to be useful.
- Like client work, you have freedom, not so corporate.
- Developers already go through a lot of scrutiny for their code. How do they deal with that feedback?
- Code editor helps you keep consistent.
- Variable names are too short.
- When you compile your code, it
- Archetecture.
- Externally imposed rules and group rules.

guide
resources
collaborations
- individuals
- groups

you can do ssomething alone. but if you want to acheive something bigger, there will be compromise and you need to work within a larger group.

its up to you to choose if youd like to do something more indepemend, or soemthing more collective colalboration which can have a bigger impact, but would require you to be more flexible, and participate more.

in either case, you have acccess to peers who also care very deeply about these topics to get feedback from. we#re building the future of money so you will not be able to solve all the problmes alone.

we need to have synergy!!!!!

concensus building.

###### open design / participants
finding a systematic way to deal with these things. if everyone had to do it themselves, it would take a lot longer.

###### improving design in a space which is under represented or deserves more attention and effort
bringing creativey to industries which

###### increasing inclusion in parts of the world that need to be developed

market and societal dynamics do not support certain areas and there needs to be more funding to fill those gaps.

ux clinic
- are there other rooms going on?

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Figma call asks

Opportunities to showcase community & diversity
1. 3-4 presenters, each one going over one section
2. Start with a community video
3. Showcase people in the content
4. Open session (chat room) at the Conference
5. Event before or after the conference

Call setup
- Is it one video conference call that gets broadcast, making it easy for multiple people to join
- Prerecording at FOSDEM was great for the intro video because it allowed us to avoid technical switcheroo
- Is it one stream or are there multiple tracks happening at the conference?
- Are there any other open design or bitcoin talks?

### UPDATE 2020-03-17 / CALL WITH FIGMA CONFIG TEAM
- Unfortunately only two speakers, Johns and Christoph. This did not go the way we wanted and what we had discussed together. Going to weave more personal stories in the presentation, see if we can do another community intro video and get more people involved during the presentation via chat, breakout rooms, etc
- Next week we will be doing tech checks with the producers of the conference.
- Find out how we can use pre-recorded video
- Learn more about using polls during the presentation
- Are there options for breakout rooms where more of us can participate

After the conference we can follow up with attendees
- Figma is able to distribute a message with a call to action to the particpants as a follow up after the conference. Idea: We can write up a welcome letter with a link to the newsletter and website.
- The Youtube description on the uploaded video will be timestamped, and can have additional links and information included.

Other details
- Anyone is free to sign up, watch all talks, and join chats.
- They like our rough [presentation outline in Figma](https://www.figma.com/file/aWb4a85YPlKhucQNAMt45P/Figma-Config-slides?node-id=165%3A0) (work-in-progress, a variation of the FOSDEM presentation).

How can you participate?
- Help come up with some short poll questions to send out during the talk. [Edit the poll ideas document](https://hackmd.io/@BitcoinDesign/ByNBXngNu/edit).
- Register for the conference as an attendee and attend the talk. [Fill out this form to be notified when registration opens](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdx8-ouptgaSoET_R4ICKIizIB0ns7Kw6t03_r5LUqngGkDfA/viewform).
- Help [review the presentation](https://www.figma.com/file/aWb4a85YPlKhucQNAMt45P/Figma-Config-slides?node-id=165%3A0).
- Attend the work session on [Tuesday @ 9:00am PST](https://everytimezone.com/s/67974f1f)
- Have some people from the bitcoin design community hang out in the chat room for the talk with "(bitcoin.design)" in their name to help answer questions. Please state your interest.

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## March 23 work session

Structure
1. Cover/intro
2. The case for a Bitcoin design community
3. What we're doing
4. Primer on open design
5. How you can get involved
6. Wrap-up

### 1. Cover/intro

Figma will have a slide introducing the talk, so we may not need one.
Still good to have a brief "We're so and so, here to represent the Bitcoin Design Community, etc".

### 2. The case for a Bitcoin design community

Point of this section is to frame Bitcoin in a specific way that leads us to why there is a need for design community.
- Bitcoin is global money
- As such, it's only as good as it is accessible and usable by as many people as possible
- Technically so much is possible, but user experiences are lacking
- There's a global audience of users and builders, so keeping the community decentralized is natural (there's no single, "correct" UX)
- Designers were scattered, a community can help provide a healthy place to flourish
- Bitcoin is open-source, so we're embracing open design

### 3. What we're doing

Show the practical output of the community. Distinguish between the more formal organization by regular contributors and the independent solo and project efforts.

So what does this community do? Go over...
- Website
- Slack
- Github
- Newsletter
- Calls
- Solo projects
- Design guide
- Design resources
- Collaborations

A complex web of activity.

### 4. Primer on open design

Provide the framework of how to think about all this activity, the role of the individual participant. This is the theory behind the previous section.
- It's about lowering barriers of participation
- Balancing individual freedom and passion with projects for the "greater good"
- Focus on community
- Letting efforts grow through organic collaboration
- Process of review, critique and consensus-finding
- Reference Project life-cycle document?
- Embracing diversity - backgrounds, countries, languages, expertise, availability, etc
- Discuss volunteering ----- Funding

### 5. How you can get involved

Offer simple methods that viewers can choose to get involved.
Provide a one-line (short) vision that might get 'em pumped.
- "Cutting-edge design of the future of money with a ton of creative freedom"
Methods
- Join, hang out, share your perspective
- Review work
- Pick up a small task (banner image, icons)
- Join a project
- Initiate a new project

### 6. Wrap-up

Say thanks.
Where to find us.
Offer direct contact in chat, post-conference events, etc.

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### Tech check notes

Azra Daniels - Marketing & events
Vanessa Chung - Community
Tim McAfee - Premier events

Design system to culture to the state of the world

4 talks, 60 speakers
Two monitors, notifications off, look straight, drink water, solid color shirt, download stuff beforehand?

Dont look down or off to the side.
Wired internet connection if possible.
No one else on the connection if possible.
Reduce CPU and memory usage.

Natural backgrounds and light are best.
Eye level camera.
Headsets are best with attached mic.

Can use free account in free streamyard

Polls are possible, should plan for them
OK to have community members in the chat to answer questions