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

“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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENSA... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG9W...

Capitalism and capitalism adjacency is bad-cringe. waow.

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...

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! opensourcedesign.net/design/open/... #oss #foss #ossdesign #fossbackstage

“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.

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

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 😆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP0g...

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!

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

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.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

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...

An image that sums up the journey of this particular week doing design work in OSS.

come and hang out tonight designers + OSS folks!

Morning.

ah! i'm so glad my diversity in design talk is still proving useful for folks ❤️ I haven't made an updated version of that talk in such a long time and I feel like so much has changed about meangingful representation online. Would be fun to update it!

I've been thinking about how I prune and weed my 'garden' lately. Garden in the hypothetical and existential terms. In Permaculture, there are plants and crops that support each others survival and growth when you plant them together.

I wrote this Open Source Contribution guide 2 years ago, thanks to @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social we updated it to include a section on how you can contribute as designer to Open Source. Eriol I appreciate your time and sharing your journey www.santoshyadav.dev/blog/contrib...

My lovely friend @santoshyadav.dev included some of my words and thoughts on to his 'Contribute to open source - acomprehensive guide for everyone' resource with my experiences and tips on contributing as a designer to open source www.santoshyadav.dev/blog/contrib...

free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people

Myself and iamkingsleey.framer.website lead a session at chaoss.community/chaosscon-20... We wanted to understand how the health of OSS and their communities are affected by design, usability and designers invovlement. #oss #ossdesign #opensourcedesign #designinoss #design #chaoss

Compliance with legislation alone doesn’t ensure a great user experience, especially for an operating system used by millions. Join Leia Ruffini and Juan Ruitiña as they discuss their development of an accessibility strategy that addresses both obvious and subtle aspects. 26.foss-backstage.de...

I had a great time summarising some key points for inclusive and usable design in OS for the OSS sustainability lab. oss-sustainability-lab.com/curriculum/#... #oss #ossdesign #opensource #opensourcedesign #design

You gotta give respect to netrunners in Cyberpunk red. This is brutal.

non-human rights tool teams punching down at critical human rights related OSS tech tools honestly make me sick to my stomach.

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.

Grabbed this info sheet from the library resource desk. The library providing the political education.

Allies of women, non-binary people and trans folks that do their own labour to educate themselves on what discrimination and risk we face are the best. Thanks for doing what you do if you've not heard a thank you lately.

Wow met an old friend @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social at @fosdem.org Big fan of her work at opensourcedesign.net You can support her work by sponsoring her work on GitHub github.com/Erioldoesdes...

Transgender joy is truly the most amazing feeling to be able to both experience myself and also be priviliaged to shared with others you trust 🏳️‍⚧️

My yearly 4am morning getting ready to travel to Brussels for a long weekend of #oss goodness has begun! I'll be at CHAOSS con today running a workshop on how design and usability factor into OSS community health metrics chaoss.community/chaosscon-20...

Yeah I play DnD. DnD: 3-4 hours of flirting with my DM/close friends and listening to my close friends flirt with each other and/or talk about their problems/traume. Oh yeah fighting dragons and idk whatever. lammmmmeeeee.

Ok but this set actually goes so hard. Indie nostalgia from my 20's www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jNf...

me but when i do design process source: www.tumblr.com/kjscottwrite...

I would like to see their permission slip

Also Sofia Isella is amazing youtu.be/iUFEhqn810M?...

Every day i get one step closer to disappearing into the woods forever and starting a queer, trans, genderless solarpunk community

The casual sexism and misogny in technology, along with the bystander tolerance of 'locker room talk' is what emboldens the few rare assholes to do the active harm to femme folk there.

goals

Swelling rage

SHE! Hush! my cyberpunk red PC art progression! but also purple blob background or whatever for now! i love women.

misread the words gatekeep and gaslight in a sentence together in a ND way where the words got smooshed together to create gaskeep. That's me, i gaskeep. gatelight. boos x

Gang, we're fighting a big battle and getting fucked up it's rough.