Software You Can Love
Software You Can Love
celebrate the art of creating software for humans
For some of us, creating software is an intimate act .<br>We care deeply<br>about the experience that results from our work, just<br>like a painter or a musician takes pride in their art.
Software You Can Love conferences have a main day where you can<br>expect to see talks about<br>supporting the creation of music,<br>generative art,<br>cross-stitching,<br>and more. Some talks will be about<br>rethinking basic building blocks<br>of computing, while others will tackle big questions, like<br>"Does Technology Destroy Art?".
Unfortunately, a lot of software out there is not software you<br>can love . Many of us are forced to write user-hostile software<br>at work and elegant solutions are often discarded in the pursuit<br>of extravagant business models. At Software You Can Love we also<br>want to learn how to protect ourselves from dark patterns, both as<br>software engineers and users.
If you too want to celebrate the art of creating software for<br>humans, come join us.
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Current and Past Events
Vancouver, Canada
https://softwareyoucanlove.ca
3-6 October 2026
Milan, Italy
https://sycl.it
14-17 May 2024
Vancouver, Canada
https://softwareyoucanlove.ca
7-9 June 2023
Milan, Italy
https://sycl.it
7-10 October 2022
Location<br>Website<br>Dates
Vancouver, Canada
https://softwareyoucanlove.ca
3-6 October 2026
Milan, Italy
https://sycl.it
14-17 May 2024
Vancouver, Canada
https://softwareyoucanlove.ca
7-9 June 2023
Milan, Italy
https://sycl.it
7-10 October 2022
Zig Days
Zig Days are single day, in person events dedicated to collaborative programming<br>and socialization in order to inspire you to make software you can love. You can<br>find the full list here: https://zig.day.
Software You Can Love was an expression originally created by Loris<br>Cro in "Playing the Open Source Game" to describe a missing key quality in mainstream software production.