CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Penpot 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. https://penpot.app/ambassador-program

Check out the announcement: https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-ambassador-program-is-live/10405

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.

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.

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: https://app.formbricks.com/s/ko5b815vsd5d5sz2gq8tiu8i

And of course, check out penpot here https://penpot.app/

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@impactology @opensourcedesign just to clarify, opensourcedesign.net is not my website, i'm just one of the current maintainers there. I'm not even a founding member.

But re. the comment about pissing off a UX designer re. make things pretty. I feel like that comes from a place in OSS where OSS coders/devs etc. aren't encouraged to learn about and pursue design as an interest, lest they be tarred with the brush of distain from other coders that do 'harder' 'technical' work or whatever. A lot of this is corpo posturing and power/heirarchy games that get played out in these spaces whenreally, most people that love OSS and care about it's purpose just wanna figure out how to collaborate with whatever language they have to express their needs at the time.

If an OSS dev comes to me and says 'Somethings not right with my OSS, can you make it prettier or better?' i don't scoff at them and get mad, i try to understand what they think needs help, i collaborate, I explore and i do my very best not to judge their proficiency levels in design language until they've had a chance to explore design without judgement.