How do FOSS UIs get designed?

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I have a friend with significant graphic design skill, but little CS knowledge. She'd like to get into UI design as a career, and figures that contributing to FOSS projects could be a good way to gain experience and build a portfolio.

Does anyone have any insights into how this process works?

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Like every other open source project:

- Do the work and submit it and see what the developer's response is.

I run http://geoipweather.com/. I could use some help on it. Specifically, a new layout to display everything on a 1024x600 netbook screen.

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