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

Everything is going well for www.instagram.com/goachwriter/ - who you may enjoy for more fox content.

Ambassador Program | Penpot Community Hours #4 Watch this Community Hours session to learn more about the Penpot Ambassador Program. What makes it unique? A peer-to-peer learning model and a collaborative, open library where take aways, resources, and real-world experiences are continuously shared and shaped by the community, all with the goal of growing the open source design ecosystem. You'll also meet the first group of ambassadors from around the world: Eriol Fox (UK), Catina Yiu (China), Layshi Curbelo (Puerto Rico), Louis Chance (France), Renan Mayrinck (Brazil), and the organization dndg (Italy). Read more 👉 https://penpot.app/ambassador-program Penpot Community Hours are all about bringing our community even closer: asking questions, discussing set topics, and seeing each other on camera. What you didn’t see is the amazing conversation we had after the ambassadors' introductions. In this video, we’re sharing a glimpse of those presentations, but the real magic of the conversation lives in the moment, during the live session. Join us for the next Community Hours and be part of it! 00:00 Intro. 00:24 How the first ideas of the Penpot Ambassador Program came up 00:53 Initial results 01:11 How the Penpot Ambassador Program works 02:07 Collaborative open library. 02:26 Learning cycles for 2026 03:53 Layshi Curbelo 05:05 Eriol Fox 07:03 CGGE, TImothy Tan and Catina Yiu. 08:01 Renan Mayrinck 10:30 dndg 14:59 Louis Chance Penpot Community: https://community.penpot.app App: https://design.penpot.app​​ Help: https://help.penpot.app​ Contribute: https://github.com/penpot Penpot Fest: https://penpotfest.org Follow us: *Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@penpot/​ *Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/penpot.app *X: https://x.com/penpotapp *LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/penpotdesign *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpot.app/ *Github: https://github.com/penpot *Peertube: https://peertube.kaleidos.net/ Penpot: Full Stack Design

Check out the penpot ambassador community hours video recording here: bit.ly/penpot-ambas...

An image of Eriol from the Penpot community hours for the ambassador program launch. They are a light skinned femme presenting person in a green baseball cap, pink headphones and blacke hoodie with the Penpot logo on the right side chest. They are speaking and gesturing with their hands and in the background you can see Berlin Airport's food court.

“I’m really nerdy about digital sovereignty as a topic right now. This was raised at penpot festival in 2025 and it’s a huge topic...largely about what companies own and do what with our data.”

#OSS #opensource #penpot #ossdesign #opensourcedesign

When I have a rough day, I look at quotes from Volition from Disco Elysium and quotes from Citizen Sleeper.

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Capitalism and capitalism adjacency is bad-cringe. waow.

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 - Open Collective To support the expenses related to running FOSS Backstage Design https://26.foss-backstage.design/

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

If you’re into Linux terminal workflows, human-computer interaction (HCI), or just building better digital commons, there's something here for you.

This conversation covers the full spectrum of modern design development: from CLI design (Command Line Interface) and the "contributor-user" pathway, to why industry leaders are prioritizing design systems to keep their projects healthy.

In this video, Open Source Designer Eriol Fox dives into the pragmatic world of design and usability within the FOSS ecosystem. We discuss how product designers and user researchers are driving long-term software sustainability through accessibility and smarter design.

An image of Eriol, seated who is a bleached blonde femme person with beaded earrings from Kenya and is wearing a black hoodie with a penpot logo. There's two quotes on screen and also Eriol's title of 'Open Source Designer'

An image of Eriol, seated who is a bleached blonde femme person with beaded earrings from Kenya and is wearing a black hoodie with a penpot logo. There's a title of designers + devs = <3

“When you give user insights and feedback to FOSS - that’s an open source contribution!”

Check out this conversation with Canonical.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP0g...

#OSS #opensource #penpot #ossdesign #opensourcedesign

As a former manager of mine in cybersecurity used to say, “If you want to keep a secret, don’t tell it to a computer.”

The massive importance of the #trigaze #trigunstargaze ending was in comparison to the manga in this year of 2026, where reporters are instrumental to a happier ending, aren't engaged with helping our free press and media thrive.

I will die on the hill of this critical reading of this anime/media.

Witch Hat Atelier | Dub Trailer | Crunchyroll YouTube video by Crunchyroll

SO HYPE www.youtube.com/watch?v=E10f...

In a world built by code, design lives between the lines YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu

I'll do a proper post about this video soon with like a social media image an everything but for now I'd like to amke sure everyone knows how comfy the penpot hoodie is and i will never remove it unless i have too 😆

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FOSS Backstage 2026 was a blast! here's a photo dump before I do a write up for the open source design articles webpage of some of my favourite moments!

The photographer for the event is so amazing!

a person with blue hair is sitting on the ground in a video game . ALT: a person with blue hair is sitting on the ground in a video game .

I skipped my cyberpunk ttrpg game tonight to hang out post FOSS Conference fun times and while my character was absent the rest of the team got in a fight with scavs and two character lost a leg each.

Can't a rockerboy take a night off without their chooms loosing limbs?! lol

Stream.place Stream.place is open-source livestreaming on the AT Protocol.

If you haven't yet checked out stream.place you should. I'm really excited about the future of video they are building for the open social web.

Penpot: The Design platform for Design & Code Collaboration Penpot is the open-source free design software that connects designers and developers with no handoff drama. Prototyping, UI design and code - all in one app.

And of course, check out penpot here penpot.app

I can’t wait to get working on our collaborative library and share the liberating and collaborative nature of open source design facilitated via Penpot! 💖✏️

Come and join all the ambassadors Penpot Community Hours, 20th March at 3PM UTC.
Sign up here: app.formbricks.com/s/ko5b815vsd...

I’ve long been a supporter of Penpot and design needs reliable and dedicated tools and teams that support the growing need for design in open source software and transparent and open source design as a practice.

Penpot Ambassador Program is live! Hi everyone 👋 When we discussed our community plans just before 2025, we did mention the idea of an ambassador program. During Penpot Fest 2025, we have teased that it’s coming soon and here we are! ...

Check out the announcement: community.penpot.app/t/penpot-amb...

I’ll be building community where I'm based here in the UK but also wherever my connections to open source software and design take me and my work.

A graphic using Penpot.app's dark blue gradient background with hot pink and white graphics of a megaphone speaker and a ribbon with the name 'Eriol Fox' with anime sparkles in pink and white. At the top there is a heart and pencil logo and the title 'penpot Ambassador'. The photo is of Eriol who is a slim, femme presenting person with light skin ton, pink and black glasses, pale pink hair, large hoop earrings and is holding a microphone while adjusting their glasses and smiling at the camera.

@penpot.app have announced their ambassador program and I’m excited and honoured to be part of the first cohort of ambassadors alongside some fantastic and inspiring folks. penpot.app/ambassador-p...

#opensource #penpot #design #opensourcedesign #penpotambassador #foss #oss #collaboration

a guide to flaming out YouTube video by Innuendo Studios

This is such an important video and i think it's essential watching for everyone www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv1S...

If your women in tech lists and shoutouts for international women's day are all white and cis gender women your list is not at all complete actually.

This week/weekend i've been reminding myself of the geek social fallacies plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-so... and how they apply to the intended board game geek spaces but also how they might apply to OSS spaces too.

Interested in embedding design thinking into the engineering world? Join Miguel Divo, @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social, @gloria.design and David Edler at #FOSSBackstage. Their panel explores how design contributions are valuable assets for greater impact in engineering circles: 26.foss-backstage.de...