Have you ever wanted to live in an eco-village? Here are plans for 7 different open source models with details under development for how to build them all.

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/highest-good-housing/

#EcoVillage #SustainableHousing #OpenSourceDesign #Permaculture #CommunityLiving #GreenBuilding #ResilientCommunities #VillageDesign #TinyHouse #SustainableDevelopment

What did we do to preserve homes before the chemical concoctions we use today existed? Here is an open source plaster and eco-plaster page that explores the options.

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/plaster/

#EcoPlaster #NaturalBuilding #GreenConstruction #SustainableMaterials #OpenSourceDesign #EcoArchitecture #HealthyHomes #SustainableLiving #ZeroWasteBuilding #EarthFriendly

What does it take to sustain design in open source? At Sustain Africa, conversations turned to trust, mentorship, and visibility, along with how design often remains invisible in OSS ecosystems. As Victory Brown shares, sustaining design isn’t technical; it’s cultural.

https://superbloom.design/learning/blog/sustaining-open-source-design-reflections-from-sustain-africa/

#OpenSourceDesign #DesignJustice #OSCAFEST #SustainAfrica

Open source and DIY sustainable energy rollout plan for eco-village construction. Covers from 10 to 400+ people and is usable anywhere, including remote locations.

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/highest-good-energy/

#EcoVillage #SustainableLiving #CollaborativeCommunity #GreenArchitecture #OpenSourceDesign #RenewableEnergy #EcoInnovation #OneCommunityGlobal #SustainableDevelopment #DIYProjects #CommunityLiving

Me and Victory Brown are at Drupal Con Vienna this week to talk about designers in OSS!

https://events.drupal.org/vienna2025

Check out our session https://events.drupal.org/vienna2025/session/secret-lives-oss-designers-diary-studies-designers-contributing-oss on Tuesday the 14th of October at 17:00 to 17:20 CEST.

Project repo: https://github.com/sprblm/Diary-Studies-Designers-in-OSS

"Listen to the unfiltered inner worlds and experiences of Designers contributing to critical OSS projects in order to make your projects more accessible to designers and design contributions."

#oss #opensource #drupal #drupalconvienna #drupalcon25 #design #opensourcedesign #designers

Open source DIY pallet furniture design resource.

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/pallet-furniture/ generate#tags and alt text

#Sustainability #EcoLiving #DIYFurniture #PalletFurniture #OpenSourceDesign #GreenInnovation #Upcycling #RecycledWood #SustainableDevelopment

Open source DIY pallet furniture design resource.

#DIYFurniture #PalletFurniture #OpenSourceDesign #EcoVillage #SustainableLiving #ReplicableDesign

Interview at the fantastic publication unprinted (www.unprinted.design author Ozgu Ozden) about the open source design contributions to civic tech OSS projects workshop from Design Matters Tokyo 25!

https://www.unprinted.design/articles/design-matters-tokyo-2025-oss-workshop/

✨More designers making OSS technology have fantastic user experiences ✨

Thank you to Yuki Kawabe for being my co-interviewee and a fantastic workshop partner.

Also thanks to Code for Japan (https://www.code4japan.org/) for collaborating on this workshop and Fu-Syuan Wang and Shin Okamoto for being the other fantastic designers in OSS supporting the workshop 💐

#designmatterstokyo #opensource #opensourcedesign #design #community #civictech #oss #foss

Live at #PenpotFest, Mike Kamminga from Tokens Studio presenting Token Script, kind of a DSL to preprocess design tokens, ready as an embeddable interpreter.

This reminds me of the Sass/Less moment for CSS developers quite some years ago. There's so much future and opportunities to this!

@penpot #opensource #design #openformats #opensourcedesign

Let's goooooo! So excited for #penpotfest #opensource #opensourcedesign

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