Media kit

Press & brand assets

Everything you need to write about the Open Source Village, put our logo on a slide, or line us up next to your own brand. Free to use for coverage of the event and for partner and sponsor materials.

Assets

Logos

The horizontal wordmark is the primary logo; the stacked one suits anywhere with more height than width, and the mark stands in where neither would be legible. Take the SVG unless you cannot.

Open Source Village Wordmark, horizontal — white
Wordmark, horizontal — white

One line. The default lockup, and what the site header uses. For dark backgrounds.

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Open Source Village Wordmark, horizontal — black
Wordmark, horizontal — black

The same lockup for light or coloured backgrounds.

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Open Source Village Wordmark, stacked — white
Wordmark, stacked — white

Three lines. For anywhere with height to spare rather than width.

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Open Source Village Wordmark, stacked — black
Wordmark, stacked — black

The stacked lockup for light or coloured backgrounds.

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Open Source Village Mark — white
Mark — white

The symbol alone, for avatars, favicons and anywhere the wordmark would not be legible.

SVGPNGvector
Open Source Village Mark — black
Mark — black

The symbol alone, for light backgrounds.

SVGPNGvector

Please do

  • Keep clear space around the logo of at least the height of the square mark.
  • Use the white wordmark on dark backgrounds and the black one on light backgrounds.
  • Scale proportionally. Below about 120px wide, use the mark rather than the wordmark.
  • Place the logo on a plain area of a photo, or on one of the brand colours.
  • Prefer the SVG. It stays sharp at any size and is a fraction of the weight.

Please don’t

  • Do not recolour, add gradients, outlines or drop shadows.
  • Do not stretch, rotate, skew or rearrange the wordmark and mark.
  • Do not set the name in another typeface as a substitute for the wordmark.
  • Do not place the wordmark on a busy part of a photo or a low-contrast colour.

Every logo here is a true vector, drawn from the original artwork. Need a different lockup, a crop, or another format? Ask us.

Palette

Colours

Deep green carries the whole design, lime does the pointing, and orange labels things. Every pairing below meets WCAG AA for body text.

Deep green
#2b3a31
rgb(43, 58, 49)

Page background, and the colour behind the logo lockup.

Lime
#d6ff52
rgb(214, 255, 82)

Primary accent: buttons, links, section highlights.

Orange
#f89b0e
rgb(248, 155, 14)

Secondary accent: eyebrows, labels, dates.

White
#ffffff
rgb(255, 255, 255)

Body text and headings on the green background.

Surface
#1a231d
rgb(26, 35, 29)

Cards and panels sitting on the background.

Produced in the CSS as black at 40% over the deep green, not used as a literal value.

Type

Typography

The wordmark is artwork, not live text — always use the supplied files rather than setting the name in a typeface.

Headings and body
Aa Bb Cc 123

Geist Sans

All interface and editorial text. Bold for headings, regular for body.

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Code and data
Aa Bb Cc 123

Geist Mono

Reserved for code, hex values and other monospaced data.

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Words

Boilerplate

Copy and paste. Please keep the wording intact; if you need to trim it, use the shorter version rather than editing the longer one.

Short124 characters

Open Source Village is a pop-up village for the open source community, running alongside FOSDEM at the Commons Hub Brussels.

Medium309 characters

Open Source Village is a co-created pop-up village for the open source community, running alongside FOSDEM at the Commons Hub Brussels. For twelve days it offers coworking, workshops, meeting rooms and evening socials — a place to land, to work, and to build relationships that outlast the conference weekend.

Long986 characters

Open Source Village is a co-created pop-up village that takes over the Commons Hub Brussels for twelve days around FOSDEM, the open source community's largest annual gathering.

Rather than competing with the conference, the village gives people a reason to arrive early and stay late: coworking space and a living room that are open all day, bookable meeting rooms, an open space for workshops and talks, themed days built with partner communities, and evening meetups hosted by sponsors. There is a kids corner too, because there is no village without kids.

The village is invitation only. Applications are reviewed by the core contributors so the room stays diverse and everyone gets a real chance to meet each other, and sponsors can bring people from their own communities.

Open Source Village is organised with the Commons Hub Brussels and a group of partner communities, and is funded by sponsors who want to give back to the people who maintain the open source they depend on.

Writing the name

Always "Open Source Village", three words, no hyphen and no abbreviation. "OSV" is not used.

Facts

At a glance

The current edition. These update with the site, so they are always the live figures.

Event
Open Source Village 2027
Dates
January 25 - February 5, 2027
Venue
Commons Hub Brussels, Rue de la Madeleine 51, 1000 Brussels
Capacity
100 attendees / day
Format
Invitation only, applications reviewed
Alongside
FOSDEM 2027
Website
opensourcevillage.org
Press contact
opensourcevillage@commonshub.brussels