Eriol has been working as a Designer for 10 years working in for-profits and then moving into NGO's and open source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peacebuilding and crisis response technology. Eriol now works at Open Food Network and is part of the core team at Open Source Design (http://opensourcedesign.net/) and Human Rights Centred Design working group (https://hrcd.pubpub.org/) and is working towards a Comp Sci Phd at Newcastle university researching how designers are involved in humanitarian focussed OSS.
Eriol is a non-binary, queer person who uses they/them pronouns. Their non-work time is spent playing video games, table top rpg's, gardening and reading.
Eriol Fox has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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Episode 162: Colin Eberhardt & Eriol Fox at State of Open Con 2023
March 28th, 2023 | 36 mins 37 secs
Colin tells us about what he learned about Confidential Computing, and his thoughts on open source being described as public good. We'll also hear from Eriol, who works at Superbloom about that branding change, what Superbloom does, and some cool things they’ve been working on there.
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Episode 72: Eriol Fox on Open Source Design and Sustain
March 22nd, 2021 | 41 mins 26 secs
Eriol Fox, long-time Sustain community member, joins us to talk about the intersection between design and open source