After a few years in the making, we are officially releasing our MOOC "Open Source Masterclass" !

Presentation website is at https://opensourcemasterclass.org

It is a joint effort with quite a few people who contributed discussions and material, including @antoviaque from OpenCraft, people from @Framasoft @OpenInfra @TelecomParis

Feedback welcome :)

All content is released under CC-BY-SA if you want to take some (including the cute assets) to teach it

We're hiring!

The #Inkscape project is looking for two #developers 🧑‍💻🧑‍💻 and a bug #administrator 🐛 to work with our team on preparing Inkscape version 1.5!

Learn all about who we are looking for: https://inkscape.org/news/2026/03/02/inkscape-is-hiring-2026-1/

Applications must be submitted by 📆 April 10th, 2026.

#WorkInFLOSS #FLOSS #job #freesoftware #cpp #cplusplus #FediHire #GetFediHired

#Inkscape 1.4.3 is out 🎁! Update to benefit from over 120 bug 🐛 and crash 💥 fixes and more than 20 improved translations 🌐.

To learn more, visit
https://inkscape.org/news/2025/12/26/bugs-banished-inkscape-143-is-out/

#ArtWithOpenSource #FLOSS

Check out the #Inkscape 1.4.3 Release Candidate - the final test phase before this bugfix release will be launched!

More than 120 bug 🐛 and crash ⚡ fixes (among them the macOS tofu issue!) and over 20 updated languages await you:

https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4.3rc

#ArtWithOpenSource

The #inkscape team called it "the unicode tofu issue" (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/3532), because "something something something, broken fonts" was making the UI unusable on macOS for some people. With the upcoming Inkscape 1.4.3 we can finally say: something something something, we win!

Spread the word, grab an artifact from https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7627 and help us test!

cc @inkscape @doctormo

The Dash icon set is one of the pillars of my design vision for a modern and refreshed UI for Inkscape.

I designed it to bring clarity and consistency to Inkscape’s UI, with clean geometry and shapes optimized for both high-density and low-resolution screens.
If you're interested, go check the case on Behance ;)

https://www.behance.net/gallery/237906339/the-Dash-icon-set/modules/1370567637

#Inkscape #IconDesign #UIDesign #UXDesign #ProductDesign #Iconography #OpenSource #DashIconSet

Want Inkscape's Multi-page to work in web browsers (and other tools)?

Well my work today has been on moving our inkscape:page element to the SVG standard "view" element. Already supported in web browsers and hopefully supported someday in SVG viewers that use librsvg (are you interested @federicomena ?)

This will need testing and a migration for older data too. But I like more standards compliant files and less custom stuff in inkscape's svg.

#inkscape #svg #w3c #viewbox #page

Look at this amazing article @pulsar17 put together for the #FossIndia 2025 event: https://inkscape.org/news/2025/10/12/indiafoss-2025/

I love being able to send enthusiastic contributors to events where they can meet up and meet users and enjoy themselves.

(after all this #foss thing is supposed to be fun 😉 )

#inkscape #floss #opensource #event #FossIndia2025

The @EUCommission would like to hear your views on the governance and sustainability of critical open source software. The survey closes October 5th.

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/FOSSEPS_Governance_and_Sustainability_Survey

#OpenSource #Governance #Sustainability