Hi everyone! 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 of Creative Free Software. After 2023’s exciting and successful debut, we have decided to organize another 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 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 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.
Questions, want to get involved, or simply want to promote?
Contact the organizing team by sending an email to organizers@creativefreedomsummit.com. We welcome those who want to get involved in organizing or anyone who wants to help us promote the event!
If you’d like to help promote: a like, share, posts, or sending to personal networks is always appreciated 
we have gotten some great submissions in response to the Creative Freedom Summit 2024 CfP- thanks to everyone who submitted something so far! We have decided to extend the deadline a week until December 1st to make sure everyone has a chance to get in a proposal 
But I would consider this one of the premier, general-purpose, open source design events of the year. The virtual format makes it accessible to people who otherwise would be unable to travel.