We are excited to announce that there will be a second Creative Freedom Summit (January 23rd-25th, 2024)! If you’re just hearing about the Summit, it is a virtual event focused on promoting the use and benefits of Creative Free Software (check out the recordings from last year on the Creative Freedom Summit PeerTube Channel). After 2023’s exciting and successful debut, we have decided to organize another Creative Freedom Summit for 2024.
While running last year’s event, we had many requests to submit session proposals, so this year we are running a Call for Proposals. We welcome you to submit your ideas by December 1st November 24th, 2023 via the Fedora Project CfP Platform (A Fedora Account is not required). We are looking for the following themes for sessions:
- Look at what I made with Free & Open Source creative tools - here’s how I made it
- Here’s how to do this cool thing or use this feature in this Free & Open Source tool
- I work on this Free & Open Source software - here are some new features, or we’d like your feedback
- How we can improve our greater Open Source Design community
Call for Proposals
Submit your proposals via the Fedora Project CfP Platform. You can sign on using your GitHub, Gmail, or Fedora Account login credentials. The deadline for proposals is December 1st November 24th, 2023. On behalf of the organizers/review committee, we look forward to your proposals! If you have any questions, please feel free to direct them to organizers@creativefreedomsummit.com.
What to submit?
Generally the sessions will be in one of these formats:
Session (25 minutes)
Session (50 minutes)
We are currently open for proposals for the following topics:
- Accessibility
- Community
- Craft/Skills
- Demo
- Features/Enhancements
- Open Source UX/Design
- Other topic not listed
There is also an opportunity to incorporate external activities that fit with our community. For example last year we played virtual Pictionary, Gartic Phone, and gathered for a Hack and Craft! If you have an idea for a virtual social experience for the Creative Freedom Summit, we are open to your ideas and you are welcome to submit it under the “Other” topic on the CfP platform.
Call for Media Partners
We welcome Media Partners for the second edition of the Creative Freedom Summit. The Creative Freedom Summit is a virtual event focused on promoting the use of Creative Free Software. This event is an opportunity to share knowledge, connect with others, as well as inspire and be inspired! If your organization is interested in partnering with us on promoting this year’s event, please reach out by sending an email to organizers@creativefreedomsummit.com.
We're happy to celebrate the successful conclusion of our first Creative Freedom Summit! The Summit showcased open-source software and the people making and using it. If you were not able to participate, we invite you to watch the edited presentations:
- Opening Session with Marie Nordin, Madeline Peck, Emma Kidney, and Máirín Duffy
- Automation in Inkscape with Máirín Duffy
- Visual Programming with Geometry Nodes in Blender with Jakub Steiner
- Inkscape's Multipage Feature with Martin Owens
- Processing Photographs with GIMP with Pat David
- A Quick Painting Demo Using Krita with David Revoy
- Creating Fedora Wallpapers with Krita with Madeline Peck
- Using Blender for any Design Process with Jason van Gumster
- Penpot, the Public Roadmap and Our Secret Agenda with Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz
- Edit Video with Kdenlive with Seth Kenlon
- Mockups and Motions: How Fedora Designers Create with Penpot with Emma Kidney and Ashlyn Knox
- Maker Processes Using Inkscape with Tuomas Kuosmanen
- Blender: Grease Pencil Speedpaint with Paul Caggegi
- Creating Accessible and Privacy Centric Products with Saptak S.
- Free Soft Wear (Open Sourcing Textile Crafts) with Morgan Lemmer Webber
- How Fedora Designers Create with Inkscape with Marie Nordin and Jess Chitas
- Freelancing with Free Software with Ryan Gorley
- Basics of Video and Audio Editing with Eduard Lucena
Thanks to our many guests as well as all those who worked behind the scenes to make the event a success. In the spirit of the software we're promoting, it was truly a collaborative effort and we're grateful. This is only the beginning, and we look forward to making next year's event even better. Stay tuned!