Terms of Use

Interested participants are encouraged to sign up in the talent registry, filling in as much detailed information about their current skillset as possible. Please take the time to read the requirements for participation to see if you qualify. After a project is chosen (see below) a project team will be assembled from the pool of registered talent based on their skill set.

Over the course of the next few months, potential qualifying projects will be added to the project vine. Once a project is added, visitor will have an opportunity to vote on the project to increase it's chances for being chosen as one of the projects to be done. At the end of the selected period of time, the project at the top of the vine (the one with the most votes) will be chosen for development by the project team.

The progress of the entire project can be followed on the development blog. This will provide an opportunity for the project team to express their feelings about the difficulties and challenges of working on the project as well as what they are learning so that others can benefit from them. Over the course of the project, the team will work together as a professional design team with cooperation from the clients to develop a new design for the chosen project. The process will mimic real world development as much as possible with deadlines and milestones so that the participants can get the full experience. The teams work will be supervised by a select team of industry experts who collaborate with the team for a few minutes each week to discuss progress and address and difficulties team members may have.

At the end of the project development cycle, all participants that successfully finish their assigned tasks and provided full participation will have a project to add to their portfolio with references provided by The Open Design Project as well as by one or more industry experts who worked with them during the development cycle.