Title: Stop competing, Start collaborating Date: 2010-11-03 01:16 Author: Femke Tags: News, Free Software Community, Thoughts + ideas, Watch this thread Slug: watch-this-thread-stop-competing-start-collaborating Status: published Excellent post by [Troy Sobotka](http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/) explaining why designers should collaborate with Free Software projects and stop responding to contests: > "We need a round table interaction where literature, art, design, > philosophy, psychology, and sociology can be engaged. We need a cross > pollination of creative fields and studies. We need to have developer > minds and creative minds becoming passionate and excited about > alternate perceptions of the future" > "The very notion of Libre / Free software holds cooperation and > community with such high regard you would think that we would be > visionary leaders regarding the means and methods we use to > collaborate. We are not. We seem to suffer from a collision of unity > with diversity. How can we more greatly create a world of legitimate > discussion regarding art, design, aesthetic, music, and other such > diverse fields when we are so stuck on how much more consistent a damn > panel looks with tripe 22 pixel icons of a given flavour?" :-)