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We are proud to be be once again sponsoring the popular FOSDEM two-day event for open source software, held at the Université Libre de Bruxelles Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium on 3-4 February 2024. There is no registration and the event is free to attend.

FOSDEM is organised by a large team of volunteers, and provides a space for open source software developers and users to meet, share ideas, and collaborate on open source projects.

If you would like to join a developer room at FOSDEM'24, keep an eye on list of developers that will be calling for participation shortly and the FOSDEM'24 schedule as speakers and projects are confirmed.

FOSDEM: hundreds of open source speakers and events

With well over 5000 developers and speakers attending from all over the world, it’s easily one of the largest events for open source projects.

As usual, there will be a wide variety of presentations by speakers across several tracks, along with keynotes, developer rooms and hacking sessions, lightning talks, project stands with demos and merchandise, and open discussions. You can attend as few or as many activities as you like for free - just turn up on the day.

Unlike previous events, no certification exams are planned for this year. There will be an area for recruiting and job opportunities for open source positions, and several related fringe events that you may be interested in attending.

Open source diagramming​

We greatly appreciate our open source community of developers, bug reporters, translators, contributors and sponsors, as well as the developers of the open source projects that we sponsor directly.

As one of the world’s most widely used browser-based diagramming applications, draw.io can be used online, as a desktop app, deployed locally in a variety of formats. Plus, there is an increasing number of third-party integrations, where developers have embedded our open-source diagram editor into their content and project management tools.

It was quite a year. We want to take this opportunity to thank you for your support, look back at some of the features we've added and updated.

To our diagram editor users

Whether you use our web-based draw.io app or one of our draw.io integrations, or our standalone desktop app, thank you for your support, feedback, and participation in our Google forum and GitHub discussions.

To our open-source contributors and sponsors

Also to our development and support team, translators, bug reporters, and open-source sponsors - we love that you love our secure diagramming app. Thank you for your support and contributions this year.

To those open-source projects and developers we sponsor

Particularly Henning Dieterichs (unofficial draw.io extension for VSCode), Preet (rough style for shapes) and Dan Brown, but we'd like to thank all those we sponsor for your contributions to the open-source community and our application.

New features and updates in 2022​

The biggest and most recent new draw.io feature is our redesigned toolbar and menu for a distraction-free diagram editor.

The new simple mode takes the best parts of all of our editor themes and blends them together with a simple, responsive toolbar and large drawing canvas. To switch to this mode, click on the sun/moon in the top right, and select Simple.

• draw.io users in Confluence Server/Data Center can apply a sensitive label to exclude diagrams from recent lists and search.

• draw.io users in Confluence, and with Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive can see each others' mouse cursors in real time as they collaboratively edit a diagram.
  

• Improvements were made to the mass Gliffy import and Confluence instance migration tools for draw.io users.

• Shape libraries have been expanded and updated with new icons - particularly the Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and SysML shape libraries.

• You can add and edit translations within the shape labels as shape metadata - no need to keep separate diagrams for separate languages.
  

• The editor was translated into new languages - Lithuanian and Latvian.

• Switch between dark and light modes without having to reload the browser tab - click on the sun/moon in the top right and select Dark.

• A connection point editor tool was added - you can now easily customise the fixed connection points for any shape on the drawing canvas.
  

• Swap existing shapes on the drawing canvas by holding down Shift as you drag one over the other. Flip connectors and groups of shapes via the Arrange tab on the format panel.

• Number shapes and connectors with the built-in enumerate property (to replace the number plugin).

• To run your own diagramming server, you can use our Docker image of draw.io for secure and private diagramming behind your firewall.

• Freehand drawing was updated with a variable size brush, which works well with a tablet and pen.
  

• Several advanced tools and features were updated, including Mermaid import, mathematics typesetting, rough style, CSV import, image cropping, font mapping, SVG export, drag and drop diagram import, and more.

• More integrations with a wider range of tools for built-in diagramming - thanks to the developers who have integrated our open-source diagram editor.

And, of course, our team also published a mountain of bug fixes, security patches and smaller optimisation changes to both the web version of draw.io and our own draw.io app integrations.

FOSDEM is a free two-day event held each year, organised by volunteers, to promote the use and development of free and open source software. Open source software developers and users can meet, share ideas, and collaborate.

FOSDEM’20 will be held at the Université Libre de Bruxelles Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium on 1-2 February 2020.

There is no registration and the event is free to attend!

We are a sponsor of FOSDEM’20​

As an open source technology stack and one of the world’s most widely used browser-based diagramming applications, we are proud to be sponsoring FOSDEM’20 and supporting open source developers around the world.

Open source has a huge number of advantages for customers. With draw.io you get the following benefits.

• Increased trust – anyone can scrutinise the source code.
• Extendable – open source encourages third-parties to develop integrations with various platforms.
• No lock-in SaaS – you’ll always have access to the desktop app even if the website goes away.

Our goal is to provide free, high quality diagramming software for everyone and disrupt the world of diagramming tools.

FOSDEM: hundreds of open source speakers and events​

With thousands of attendees from all over the world taking place, it’s one of the largest events for open source projects. The 400+ speakers and 500+ events are organised by a hard-working team of volunteers.

In this 20th instalment of the conference, it’s free to participate in more than 50 developer rooms where talks, hacking sessions and open discussions are held on a huge variety of topics, all related to open source development and projects.

In addition to the developer rooms, there are keynotes, main track talks, as well as stands you visit to chat in person with open source project developers. Certification organisations also run several exams during the conference that visitors can take.

Keep an eye on the FOSDEM website or follow @fosdem on Twitter as the schedule of speakers and events are confirmed.