2023 Open Source Arts Contributor’s Conference

Open Source Arts Contributor’s Conference

We convened to the Contributors Conference at University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, April 2023. From April 13-15, members of the community gathered together for a conference to contribute to and discuss the challenges and issues within the Open Source Software for the Arts (OSSTA) ecosystem.

Read a full report from the event here:
2023 Open Source Arts Contributors Conference

We welcomed people who are current or potential contributors to the Open Source Software for the Arts communities. Contributors include those who are advocates, active forum participants, authors of documentation and tutorials, as well as those who contribute to the codebase or addons/libraries. We are especially interested in people who might be part of underrepresented identities within the OSSTA community and interested in finding new or less visible community members and those who will bring new ideas and perspectives to our community.

The Contributors Conference is co-organized by the Clinic for Open Source Arts and the Processing Foundation, and hosted at the Emergent Digital Practices program at the University of Denver. The 3-day event is focused on building and supporting open source tools for the arts and has three foci:

Providing various OSSTA projects time and space to work and plan in-person
Connecting OSSTA contributors across projects to have meta discussions about challenges, issues, and best practices
Onboarding new contributors to OSSTA projects in a healthy and engaged way with focused training sessions and mentoring

Conference Website is here:
https://opensourceart.cc/

Steering Committee:

Chris Coleman, Director of COSA
Saber Khan, K12 Educator, Education Community Director, Processing Foundation
Kate Hollenbach, Board of Directors, Processing Foundation
SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY, Artist
Qianqian Ye, p5.js Lead, Processing Foundation
Xin Xin, Board of Directors, Processing Foundation