Discord Community Call: April 25, 2026

Hang out
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You are all invited to our Discord hangout.
Please leave a comment here or on Discord to add things to the agenda.
This topic will be updated after the call with notes.

About

FreeSewing’s Discord hangout is an informal hangout/chat/meeting that is open to everyone.
The call is organized/hosted by @tangerineshark.
The call does not have a fixed structure or agenda items. Everyone is free to suggest agenda items, ask questions, or bring ideas.

Details

Location: https://discord.freesewing.eu/ (meeting room: :speaker_high_volume:voice chat)
Date: Saturday, April 25th, 2026 4pm UTC, which can be found in your local time zone here.
Or check the Events tab in Discord!
The meetings will always be at 6pm, Antwerp time.

Agenda

  • support.freesewing.eu
  • morio.freesewing.eu
  • 21 November LocHal open source event
  • Showcase/Blog post authors
  • Migrating image files
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I can talk a bit about these things:

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There’s also this:

Hoi Joost.

Ik ben Rene Houben en ik organiseer op 21 november a.s. in de LocHal in Tilburg de 7e editie van het Open Source Event.
Info vorig jaar: Open Source Event 2025 | LocHal.

Graag wil ik je uitnodigen om ook deel te nemen;
Je kunt een stand inrichten over jouw werkzaamheden, je open source design programma / website freesewing.eu, een workshop geven of een presentatie verzorgen.
Dit jaar doen o.a. zeker mee: Wikipedia, Internet Archive, KDE community, TurtleStitch dus jij en freesewing.eu zou een waardevolle aanvulling zijn op het programma.

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Ah, and authors for showcases and blog posts. As well as migrating the pictures.

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April 25, 2026 Community Call

Notes:

  • Personal measurements comparison:
    • Sherd is working on a site that compare personal measurements to a population.
      • To give a better idea about how a garment will fit.
      • To help with store-bought paper pattern sizing. Example: to know which Simplicity pattern size will fit best.
      • To help sewists transition from store-bought paper patterns to parameter patterns.
      • To take gender out of clothing patterns.
    • Curvalicia was working on a similar Principle components analysis.
      • Waiting to get data from FreeSewing users who have granted permission.
      • To have a better idea about body types and relationships between measurements for body types.
    • Joost: FreeSewing has had different approaches to customers without personal measurements.
      • We first had standard sizes, S-M-L-XL-etc. But, we got rid of it because of problems where “Medium” isn’t the same for all garments/people
      • We also had a measurements comparison graph, to call out possible outlier measurements that don’t match average measurements.
      • We now have curated sets, actual measurements for actual people. But, we haven’t gotten many volunteers for measurements and photos.
      • We also now have a generated croquis drawing based on measurements. Helps but is not perfect.
      • So, a purely technical solution might not be possible.
  • The goal of making garment-sewing accessible to the widest possible audience. To eliminate obstructions.
  • Technical solutions to 2d geometry to 3d shapes.
    • There is a “topology” branch of math that can translate topology into shapes. Like flat patterns into garments.
    • It gets tricky when taking fabric drape and undergarment effects into consideration.
    • Technologies exist today but are not perfect.
    • If fabric is considered a surface, things can work better.
    • Currently there are limits to mathmatical transforms when it comes to real-world garments.
  • Welcome, nickjames.
  • The Discord event for this community call was 1 hour off. Daylight Savings/Summer Time side effects. The issue should now been fixed.
  • Can the FreeSewing schema for measurements and curated sets be cleaned up? There are discrepancies currently. Sherd can send a proposal to fix.

Attendees:

  • aethenelle
  • Benjamin F.
  • Curvalicia (a.k.a. Anna Puk)
  • joostdecock
  • nickjames
  • Sherd
  • TangerineShark