The Design Open Project has been a fantastic resource for showing how designers can get involved in open source projects. This article, in particular, is supremely helpful for developers who want designers to get involved with their project, stepping through what fulfills the needs of contributors.
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How to get designers (or anyone) to work on your open source project
[http://designopen.org/articles/import-designers/]20 Apr 2015