Help fund the recordings of talks for FOSS Backstage Design 2026!

FOSS Backstage Design took place for the 3rd year in a row to bring together people working on the user experience of open source software.

FOSS Backstage Design is the place to meet designers, UX-experts, OpenSource enthusiasts, product managers and people generally interested in UX, accessible design and usability.

This year however, was harder to raise sponsorship for the event. As such, the cost of the video recordings for the talks on the day were at risk of not being funded.

The folks at Plain Schwartz, who are organizing many FOSS events stepped in to take on the cost of recordings of talks.

Open Source Design covered a part of the venue and catering costs for the 2nd and 3rd year in a row, but as a community run project on donations we cannot cover the 3000 Euro amount for the excellent level of professional recording, audio and editing that is offered by the team that Plain Schwartz hires.

Please consider donating what you can to help Plain Schwartz recover the costs to record the talks here:

https://opencollective.com/opensourcedesign/projects/foss-backstage-design

You can look forward to seeing the excellent talks about open source software and design related topics, from Blender, Mastodon, AWS and KDE in the coming weeks on their YouTube channel soon as well as an article write up here on Open Source Design’s articles section too!: https://www.youtube.com/@PlainSchwarzUG