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:
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A photo of a group of 20+ people in a class room style room for FOSDEM's Open Source Design Devroom
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.
#oss #fosdem #opensourcedesign #ossdesign
A graphic for open source design's job posting: https://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/jobs/2026-03-31-open-source-design-governance-research-and-documentation-project
Open Source Design has some small funds to pay someone who has experience in helping OSS projects/communities build out effective governance work.
Please check our job posting here:
opensourcedesign.net/jobs/jobs/20...
FOSS Backstage Design is a decicated design day connected to the wider FOSS Backstage conference.
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Open Source Design has been supporters of FOSS Backstage platforming design OSS and we're helping to fundraise the costs of recording the design talks and ensuring that they stay available for years to come online!
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#oss #foss #ossdesign #fossbackstage
Join us for our monthly get together where we talk about all things Open Source Design. Everyone is welcome.
These monthly meetings happen as a voice/video call using Jitsi at meet.jit.si/opensourcedesign.
Date: Every First Wednesday
Time: 19:00-20:00 (Berlin Time)
Location: Online
Our community callmeeting is today! 7pm CET
opensourcedesign.net/events/month...
meet.jit.si/opensourcedesign
As always, all are welcome! bring a topic to discuss or find out what's going on and planned in the Open Source Design community.
Our open source design online community meeting is today! 7pm CET
opensourcedesign.net/events/month...
meet.jit.si/opensourcedesign
All are welcome! bring a topic to discuss or find out what's going on and planned in the Open Source Design community.
Open Source Design FOSDEM devroom
Submission deadline: 1st of Dec 2025
Acceptance notifications: 10th Dec2025
Schedule announcement: 15th of Dec 2025
Devroom: 1st of Feb 2026 in person in Brussels
Call for participation details and link here: opensourcedesign.net/2025/10/01/fosdem-cfp-2026
Please send an email to core@opensourcedesign.net to be considered for travel stipend support.
Thanks and see you at FOSDEM :)
Open Source Design has limited fund to support travel, accomodation and expenses for speakers and can be found on our open collective page. We will be prioritising under-represented members of the FOSS community with these travel funds and can offer invitation letters for visas.
- Your design process, research methods, and go-to resources while working with open source projects
- Your ideas on fostering diversity and inclusion in design and open source
- Anything else related to design and FLOSS!
Here are some topics that may inspire your talk:
- Your experiences contributing to design in an open source project
- How you use FLOSS tools to design
- An open source project which is an example of great design
...user research, design research and more. You don’t have to be an expert in the field – you could have been involved in a project for as little as a year or as long as a decade.
We invite you to give a talk about contributing design to open source projects!
“Design” can mean anything including typography, graphic design, interaction design, user experience, human-computer interaction, accessibility, information architecture, content strategy, service design...
Open Source Design has been part of FOSDEM for over a decade now, making sure designers who work with, or contribute to free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) a platform to share their ideas. You can find the link to our devroom here.
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
![A graphic for a call for talks for FOSDEM 2026 for Open SOurce Design. A orange and white cat looks up at the camera from the right side as they step on a black tshirt that has 'Pixels & Vectors & Flows & Personas' written on it with the opensourcedesign.net logo at the bottom. The text displays: Open Source Design call for talks for [FOSDEM logo] Call for participation details and link here:
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A graphic for a call for talks for FOSDEM 2026 for Open SOurce Design. A orange and white cat looks up at the camera from the right side as they step on a black tshirt that has 'Pixels & Vectors & Flows & Personas' written on it with the opensourcedesign.net logo at the bottom. The text displays: Open Source Design call for talks for [FOSDEM logo] Call for participation details and link here: https://opensourcedesign.net/2025/10/01/fosdem-cfp-2026
We're so happy to annouce that we have an open source design devroom and we're now accepting calls for talks via the FOSDEM pretalx system.
Call for participation details and link here:
opensourcedesign.net/2025/10/01/f...
#opensource #fosdem26 #opensourcedesign #design #oss #fosdem #cfp
Let's goooooo #penpotfest so excited;
The community call is today. it starts at 19.00 CET in our regular jitsi room. A host from the core team might be present but also might not today but we hope folks have good conversations and fun :)
opensourcedesign.net/events/month...
We have a maintainer that been in contact with the FOSDEM organising team via invitation for a few months advocating for more design representation in the main track and making sure that design is heard at the organisation level.
For those of you interested and watching for Open Source Design FOSDEM 2026 news. We will of course be applying for a devroom and a stand again in 2026. We will need volunteer for sure if we are successful! :)
Very much recommend designers apply to speak at this OSS conference. A fantastically welcoming conference in Berlin where you'll meet very supportive OSS folks.
The Document Foundation is seeking a remote LibreOffice developer to improve the user interface. Application deadline is September 12.
opensourcejobhub.com/job/26232/li...
The Global Gathering is ticket only so not open to the public but anyone who is attending can meet with open source design folks to chat about what the community collective does and how to connect with designers in the Open Source Software space.
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Representatives from open source design's community are at The Global Gathering 2025 running an information booth from 13.00 until 15.00 CEST.
Hey followers, we have our monthly community call today at the usual time! opensourcedesign.net/events/month... <<< check the link for the jitisi room and the time.
Hey folks - reminder that today is community call day! We meet at 19.00 CEST
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Topics included:
Open Source Design Internship updates
How we can grow as a community and make the impact we want to
New PR's and jobs posted to our github repo in progress.
Updates from various projects to do with open source design including some updates from the design team over at Canonical!
We had our online monthly community meeting yesterday at 19.00 CEST.
Find out when our next monthly call is happening via online calendar here: cloud.opensourcedesign.net/apps/calenda...
Notes from the call here (Plz make a discourse forum login!) discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-op...