Discord Community Call: May 9, 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, May 9th, 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 am travelling and it looks like I’ll be in the air during the call.

I have been making efforts to ipen up the FreeSewing infrastructure with an eye on getting people with an interest in that sort if stuff involved.

We also now have a few people who are helping out with support questions so that’s wlso nice.

It’s a work in progress, and with some people choosing to hide stuff in light of all the AI vulnerability hunting, it’s seems to be stubbornly going against the grain, but it’s what I think needs to happen to address the bottlenecks mentioned in our most recent newsletter.

If anyone has ideas how we can get more people involved, I’m happy to hear them.

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May 9, 2026 Community Call

Notes:

  • The FreeSewing infrastructure/backend code has been open sourced and made public.
  • It’s a continuation of the effort to spread out the work of running FreeSewing, so Joost doesn’t have to do it all.
  • Sewing machines for sewing heavy material.
  • Collecting sewing machines. Fixing old sewing machines. Getting replacement parts.
  • Do any FreeSewing pattern designers use pattern envelope charts? Tissue pattern sewists.
  • New sewists have difficulty taking measurements.
  • New sewists aren’t able to view a line drawing and gain needed information about the pattern.
  • FreeSewing has 2 audiences: 1. tissue pattern sewists; 2. crafters and DIYers. Creating learning materials.

Attendees:

  • Benjamin F.
  • Sherd
  • TangerineShark
  • Wouter.vdub