Blog post: Graphite community meetup in Germany

Author: Keavon

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 ## Funding
 
-Graphite has no investors to answer to and will always be free and open source. [Keavon](#keavon), the project founder, has been personally funding all expenses out-of-pocket and turning down a tech industry salary to work full-time bringing Graphite to life. He asks for [your support](/donate) bearing a small fraction of that cost.
+Graphite is beholden to no investors and will always be free and open source. The project's [founder](#keavon) has been personally funding the organization's expenses and working full-time to bring the project to life. He asks for [your support](/donate) bearing some of the costs.
 
-Long-term, donations will be supplemented by revenue from optional cloud storage/sync and high-speed GPU render services.
+Later on, donations will be supplemented by revenue from operating an asset marketplace for user-created procedural content.
 
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 ## Adam Gerhant <span class="handle">(@pendapia)</span> <img src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/flags/us.png" class="flag" title="American" />
 
-***Editor graph tooling, node data formats***
+***Editor node graph tooling***
 
 Adam is a pragmatic problem solver with a talent for simplifying complexity. He is responsible for various architectural decisions which provide future proof integrations between the Graphene engine and editor. His work has greatly improved the performance, stability and code quality of the project, while also setting the stage for additional features.
 

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+title = "Graphite community meetup in Germany"
+date = 2025-09-19
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+author = "Keavon Chambers"
+summary = "Join us for a Graphite community meetup on October 10th, 2025 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Meet the core team and connect with fellow enthusiasts."
+reddit = "https://www.reddit.com/r/graphite/comments/1nlt64g/graphite_community_meetup_in_germany_october_10/"
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+To our European community: mark your calendars for the first official Graphite community meetup on **Friday, October 10th, 2025** in **Karlsruhe, Germany**. Meet core members of the project team and make acquaintance with your fellow Graphite enthusiasts plus Rust developers, open source contributors, and FOSS digital content creation software users.
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+To ensure we are prepared with enough space and food, [**please RSVP as soon as possible**](https://luma.com/d0psfopk) and remember to return to update the registration if your plans change.
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+We are posting this early so you can plan your trip while we finalize the schedule and agenda. Check back here for updates in the coming weeks. We are planning to host a mix of short workshops, talks, open-ended design discussions, socializing, and show-and-tell demos (including a hands-on sneak peek of the upcoming desktop app). [Get in touch](/contact) if you would like to present a talk or demo of how you've been using Graphite. Likely ranging from ~16:00 until 22:00, the schedule will be broken into both afternoon and evening sessions to accommodate options for earlier availability and later arrivals, with more "unconference" style plans in the afternoon and structured "meetup" style events in the evening. You are invited to attend all sessions or drop in for the later parts as your schedule and travel plans allow.
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+In attendance will be:
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+- Keavon Chambers, Graphite founder, designer, and project lead
+- Dennis Kobert, technical lead and core maintainer
+- Timon Schelling, developer of the Graphite desktop app
+- Sebastian Sydow, contributor to Graphite's GPU infrastructure and <a href="https://rust-gpu.github.io/" target="_blank">Rust GPU</a> maintainer
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+We look forward to seeing you there.