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A photo from Open Source Design devroom for 2026's FOSDEM!
Had fantastic time running the devroom for another year with some fantastic speakers, audience and folks willing to chip in and help make the room great.
We also finally took an updated photo of the devroom (this was towards the end of the day and not at all the busiest the room got which was at capacity for most of the talks!)
Watch the videos on each talk page here:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/design/
Announcing Zotero 9, with Read Aloud, a Recently Read collection, direct annotation citing, and more
Wednesday, March April 15th, at 18:00 CEST / 12:00 EDT / 8:00 PST / 16:00 GMT we'll have our next meeting in chat.
It's the last chat meeting before the physical LGM in Nuremberg! If there are any issues you want to review before the meeting, this is a good place to do so!
You can join via IRC and Matrix - the channels are bridged - see the
information here: https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2026/contact/
For all meeting notes from previous meetings, see the pad:
https://pads.ccc.de/s5FpMS8Rr1
Maybe the first paper on open source software and usability:
"Usability and open-source software development", D.M. Nichols, K.Thomson and S.A.Yeates, 2001: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2331812.2331822
What makes one decide to make a parody movie trailer for, of all things, the GNU Image Manipulation Program? I asked the puppeteer behind Pork Johnson, the star of the semi-viral GIMP clip.
https://tedium.co/2026/04/07/pork-johnson-gimp-parody-interview/
new @tedium
RE: https://post.lurk.org/@lgm/116368035956380848
Our project, #GIMP, believes in the community, sharing and collaborating to make a great creative ecosystem together.
This is also why we have sponsored #LGM many times across the years.
We would like to encourage other creative FLOSS projects to sponsor LGM, if you can afford it! This call obviously also extends to any corporation using Free Software! 🤗
RE: https://mastodon.social/@opensourcedesign/116368106527325894
"What are patterns of rejection of design input/contributions?"
- Aesthetics framed as being opposed to efficiency
- Rejection of defaults
- Keeping ideosyncracies
- disagreements lead to demand for settings
- no feedback/rejection that allows improvement
Discourse thread: "What are patterns of rejection of design input/contributions?": https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/4395
I was writing a bit about how designers might want to start being involved in open source projects. A part of getting involved is – potentially – also getting not-so-constructive feedback or outright rejections. I would like to hear from others how their less-than-ideal interactions went and if there are any patterns. Ideally, we could find some constructive responses, but even just collecting some experiences can be helpful!
Zotero
Libre Graphics Meeting
Nathan Dyer
Ernie Smith
GIMP
Jan D