# Creative Freedom Summit Blog Post

## You're invited to the Creative Freedom Summit! Hosted by the Fedora Design Team

On behalf of the Fedora Design Team, I am excited to invite the Fedora community to the Creative Freedom Summit, January 17th, 18th, and 19th, 2023. This free virtual event is focused on promoting Open Source creative tools, features, and benefits of use. The Summit is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about Open Source tools, how and why to use them, as well as to connect with other creatives working in the Open Source ecosystem. To attend the event, join the Creative Freedom Summit Element chat. The Element chat is where you can watch a live stream of the sessions, as well as connect with others and get updates about the event.

After Nest this year, I had the idea to do a "Fedora Design Week". The Fedora Design Team is an active and exciting group to be a part of and I wanted to share that energy with Fedora and the greater Open Source ecosystem by coordinating an event. After I kicked off my idea with a Mindshare ticket and gathered some interested folks- it evolved to become the Creative Freedom Summit. After some discussion, the Summit organizers narrowed down our goals to be:
- Promote Open Source creative tools
- Spread knowledge of how to use them
- Connect creatives across the FOSS ecosystem

We also have some secondary goals:
- Promote the Fedora Design Team as a welcoming group
- Create a potential onboarding path for new design contributors
- Spread information on how to utilise creative Open Source tools in communities

The Summit organizers have been meeting weekly or bi-weekly, working on crafting a unique virtual event that we hope many will find informational and valuable for networking. Each day will feature several informational sessions on various tools and topics related to Open Source creative softwares, as well as a social session to connect with other participants at the event. We are still in the process of confirming all of the speakers, but in the meantime, feel free to check out the draft schedule for the event.

We determined that in line with our goals, we want to use free software platforms to run the event. The Creative Freedom Summit will be streamed live using Jitsi in the Summit Element Chat, as well as the Summit LinuxRocks Peertube Channel. Recordings will be available after the event on the Summit Peertube Channel and the Fedora YouTube Channel, for those who are unable to attend.

In the next month we will be working on getting a website set up, getting the finalized schedule announced, and promoting the event in our Open Source, creative, and learning networks. We invite you to share this invitation with any network or people who might be interested in the Creative Freedom Summit, and we hope that you join us for the event!

Links:
https://matrix.to/#/#creativefreedom:fedora.im
https://pagure.io/mindshare/issue/359
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Creative_Freedom_Summit_2023_Schedule
https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/c/creativefreedom/videos