Totally agree. Some great learnings come from stepping outside your comfort zone, like designers attending developer-focused events.
Lowering the barriers to design contribution in open source is still a challenge, so it’s great to see more people in this community working on it. Let’s keep building in that direction!
In this community, you’ll find a few posts you might find usefull on this topic, like this one, (resources it shares are still relevant today): Are you a Designer who want to contribute to open source communities?