[Ajedi32]

Part of the problem is likely that it's often difficult for non-programmers to contribute to open source projects directly.

If I as a software engineer have a new feature I'd like to add to an open source project, I can usually just write that feature myself and submit a PR that the project maintainer can review and merge with minimal effort. But what if a UI/UX designer wants to contribute an improved UI for a particular feature? They could probably create a mockup and submit it to the repository as an issue, but then who's going to actually go and implement those changes?

[kitsunesoba]

FOSS projects absolutely have big accessibility problems. Many projects are still centered around mailing lists, IRC channels, and diff patches and some don’t even use what’s comes to be the “standard” version tracker (git). This is massively unwelcoming to even newer software engineers, let alone UI/UX people.