Discord Community Call: July 4, 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, July 4th, 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

  • TBD
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  • I’d like to hold one of these bi-weekly Community Calls on the Jitsi Meet video conferencing platform. This would be to test Jitsi as a possible replacement in case we ever need/want to move away from Discord. Perhaps at our next meeting on July 18, 2026? I envision having the first 30 minutes of the meeting on Jitsi, then switch back to Discord for the remainder of the meeting. https://meet.jit.si
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For testing Jitsi, I think it might be helpful to have at least one person in the Discord voice chat, to provide support for joining the meeting on Jitsi.

Also, I love that we’re looking into this. (And we do have a reputation to keep up, now that Wired lists us as the second organization world-wide to break ties with US providers. :grinning_face: )

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July 4, 2026 Community Call

Notes:

  • The current temperature.
  • Testing Jitsi as an alternative to Discord for video conferencing.
    • But, the meet.jit.si instance is hosted by 8x8 which is a US company.
    • We’ll try meet.jit.si for our next meeting.
      • Jitsi for the first half of the meeting.
      • Then, we’ll switch back to Discord for the remainder of the meeting.
      • We can switch back sooner if we encounter technical problems.
      • Links will be sent out.
  • Things people have been working on?
    • Nothing.
    • Too busy with work.
      • Tool to use AI to do Python source review.
    • Trying to modify the leggings pattern to have an inseam gusset.
      • It doesn’t seem to fit like the previous versions.
      • The new version is shorter in the leg which might make a difference for how the crotch fits?
      • Might be due to the stretch of the gusset fabric?
      • Or, simply a miscalculation?
  • Miscellaneous discussion:
    • Making Lefse for dinner.
    • AI rewritten help text to be different and not better.
    • Using version control for software.
      • Dealing with customers who don’t use version control.
      • Using svn.
      • Older version control systems.
  • Need testers for Sisi (new block with a single side dart).

Attendees:

  • aethenelle
  • Benjamin F.
  • Curvalicia (a.k.a. Anna Puk)
  • Wouter.vdub
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Another server could be https://meet.okfn.de/, a Jitsi server hosted by the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (https://okfn.de/en/).

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Apologies for not having showed, I was dealing with an acute problem at $dayjob

I’ve just surfaced from the smoldering wreckage that has been my weekend :person_shrugging:

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