This reads like an academic version of my essay, "How to get designers (or anyone) to work on your open source project," which is pretty exciting. If you're a

This reads like an academic version of my essay, "How to get designers (or anyone) to work on your open source project," which is pretty exciting. If you're a project leader that wants new people, whether devs or designers or doc writers or anyone, http://opensourcedesign.is/blogging_about/import-designers/ http://opensourcedesign.is/blogging_about/import-designers/ is my essay, and it provides concrete steps you can take, with real examples from a technologically non-trivial open source project. It looks like my essay hits all the points from this paper, which is nice to see.