# Monthly Open Source Design call

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253>\
**Category:** Monthly call\
**Created:** [August 1, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253 "2017-08-01T13:49:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 3:38pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/monthly-open-source-design-call/253/278 "2026-03-04T15:38:07Z")

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Topics for 2026-03-04:

- Mentions:
  - “[19th annual Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM)](https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2026/) will take place in Nuremberg, Germany on April 22 – 25, 2026”
  - [FOSSBackstage](https://26.foss-backstage.de/) on 16th, 17th of March, [FOSSBackstageDesign](https://26.foss-backstage.design/) on the 18th.

- Foss Backstage Discussion Items
  - Venue costs
  - [See the speakers](https://26.foss-backstage.design/)
  - Audio recording unclear. Maybe volunteering?
  - Please share the event [https://26.foss-backstage.design/](https://26.foss-backstage.design/)

- Guidelines for AI-based contributions, see [AI in CoC](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io/issues/526) and [AI in readme](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io/issues/521)
  - Shared article: [guilds](https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-gatekeeping-or-why-medieval-guilds-had-it-figured-out/)
  - p5js [agents](https://github.com/processing/p5.js/blob/main/AGENTS.md), and [AI Usage Policy](https://github.com/processing/p5.js/blob/main/AI_USAGE_POLICY.md)
  - [people who AI-appear to be senior and how it changes mentoring](https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/AJGB73-the_synthetic_senior_rethinking_free_software_mentorship_in_the_ai_era/) – talk

- Information Architecture progress: See [discourse](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/website-rework/4332/12)
  - [Proposal](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io/blob/ia-overhaul/docs/migration-plan.md), feedback up until 6th or march on the [discourse post](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/website-rework/4332/12)
  - Not branding, but Information Architecture

- Merges:
  - [Summit gone](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io/pull/509)
  - [Milestones moved to article](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io/pull/525)
  - [deleted links to legacy repos in contributing.md](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io/pull/520/changes/c38d3cb544b904477b53a7b3b1dec73fd9e89c95)

- Some post-needed-work chat:
  - LLMs being useful for creating prototypes with more realistic mock data
  - Components are not definable in any standardized, declarative schema at the moment.
  - Figma is basically a UI-Webdesign tool, it is not great at trying new interactions (like Flash was), building actual mini-apps (like hypercard was) or combining components (Balsamiq? But that is pretty clunky). Also, a lot of design is changing existing designs that exist in code and basically pasting over it. No wonder that we try to use code-gen-LLMs when the existing tools are so limited.

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