Victory Brown
Co-Host of Sustain Open Source Design
Victory Brown has worked in the Technology space for over three years and is an expert in user experience research. Her involvement in open-source projects includes the Linux foundation public health community, the open-source design community, CHAOSSBadging, RestQA, etc.
Victory Brown is a founder and trainer for Dezignhers, a design community for women offering support, training, and mentorship. She is a member of the diversity, inclusion, and equity community on the IEEE SA Open community. She is involved with open-source diversity initiatives and SustainOSS. Contributions she has made to open-source include international speaking conferences as well as open-source event organizations. You can find them at events like, FOSDEM, GUADEC, Linux Summit and DrupalCon. In addition, she serves on the DrupalCon Prague 22 advisory board.
Victory Brown has hosted five Episodes.
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Episode 50: Veethika Mishra of GitLab on designers and barriers to open source
September 12th, 2023 | 36 mins 12 secs
Veethika on Gitlab, the power of open source contributions, the importance of community engagement, and the challenges faced in integrating external designers.
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Episode 49: Penpot Fest with Jan C. Borchardt, Elizabet Oliveira & Peter Hanekamp
August 29th, 2023 | 42 mins 54 secs
Jan shares insights on open source design strategies at Nextcloud, Elizabet from Xata talks about her varied roles and experiences, and Peter of Kaleidos discusses open source strategy.
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Episode 46: Penpot Fest with Alonso Torres, Máirín Duffy & Martin Owens
July 18th, 2023 | 36 mins 18 secs
Alonso discusses Penpot's origin and community involvement, Máirín's insights on open source design and her project Podman Desktop, and Martin's experience as an Independent Developer in Inkscape.
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Episode 34: Jason van Gumster on Animation, Design, and Open Source
January 3rd, 2023 | 34 mins 54 secs
Jason tells us about being an animation artist, the Blender community, and how he fits design and OSS together
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Episode 31: Björn Balazs on Open Usability and how FLOSS can save our privacy
June 14th, 2022 | 36 mins 59 secs
Björn shares with us his perspective on where the limit of what design is, the polypoly project, and why privacy is important in tech.