The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is the annual meeting on Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) for graphics. It aims at gathering both developers, artists and other creative people.

This year, it will be held in Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Germany, from April 22^nd to 25^th of 2026.

As every year since the event was born in 2006 (co-founded by early GIMP team members!), our project will be present.

GIMP team members’ talks and workshops¶

Here are talks and a workshop by GIMP team members:

• Wednesday, 22 April 2026 at 16:50 GMT+2: ctx vector desktop - rasterizing as late as possible (talk) by Øyvind Kolås, babl, GEGL and ctx maintainer:

What becomes possible with a graphics stack/compositor that works with vectors, rather than pixels? - and what does it take to make it possible? Helping figuring out this - is a goal of the ctx terminal emulator with its vector graphics extension.

• Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 13:20 GMT+2: Soldering (workshop) by Simon Budig, long term GIMP team member:

I’d like to propose a soldering workshop for LGM attendees. Goal is to populate a PCB with a handfull of components to have something that lights up with colors.

Note: the schedule still says the workshop is on Friday, but we were told by organizers it moved to Thursday and schedule has not been updated. If you want to go, we suggest you verify the schedule page before.

• Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 17:45 GMT+2: GIMP: a Community, Free Software (talk) by Jehan, GIMP Maintainer and ZeMarmot technical lead:

GIMP is Free Software. Most people present at Libre Graphics know as much. But it is more: GIMP is also a Community. For me this aspect has about as much importance as the licensing part. In this talk, I will be diving further into what that means, how that works and why this matters. Doing so, I will also discuss a bit the past few years of the project, clarify our current vision and forecast the (very positive) future of this project.

Our project believes in the community, sharing and working together to make a great creative software ecosystem. Many from our team work professionally with Free Software, be it graphics or other, and we believe that FLOSS collaboration provides the best environment for all. Aryeom and I, for instance, maintain GIMP as we use it for professional animation film making. And we also use and support other awesome Free Software, such as Inkscape, Blender, Scribus, Kdenlive, Synfig and more…

This is why GIMPCon evolved into Libre Graphics Meeting, 20 years ago! And this is also why we have helped funding the event many times across the years. We also contributed hardware sometimes to LGM organizers, sponsored LGM parties, funded travel and/or accommodation expenses for contributors of other projects… Because GIMP would not be the same without all the other Free Software around.

This year again, we are officially a Gold Sponsor to LGM 2026.

It saddens us to see LGM organizers struggling to find basic funding every year. Therefore we would like to encourage other creative FLOSS projects which can afford it to also sponsor LGM. When you do so, you support the event gathering us all, improving inter-project collaboration and helping your own project evolve, you also support the smaller projects which are not yet self-sufficient, and you show appreciation for the whole community and the past contributors which allowed your project to be where it is now in the first place.

Of course, this call also extends to companies and other organizations using all these incredible Free Software for their work.

Here is where to get in touch with this year’s LGM organizers: LGM Sponsor Page.

See you in 2 weeks!¶

We hope to see many people in LGM at the end of the month! 🤗

Oh and we still have cute Wilber stickers to give out while supplies last. So try to grab some to customize your laptop, fridge and everything!