🎉The Processing Foundation Software Development Grant (pr05) open call for applications is now live! 🎉 Receive a $10,000 grant, mentorship, and community support. Mark your calendars for the Grant Info Sessions on May 6th and 20th! 🌟Apply now:
Let’s organize a distributed, worldwide party! Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Processing with the community on August 20–22 by sharing events, zines, cakes, and artwork. Who’s in?
#pcd2021
cc:
@p5xjs
Processing 4 is OUT! 🥳🌈 Read more about it on our Medium Article and download🌈 Special thanks to Ben
@ben_fry
who has maintained the Processing software for over 21 years, Raphäel
@sableRaph
for writing this article, and Suhyun for editing!
#processing4
Big News! We made a podcast, "createCanvas," on teaching at the intersection of art, science, and technology! It features in-depth interviews w/ innovative educators & our Education Community Director
@ed_saber
!
1st episode is with
@shiffman
🦄🌞🌈
Two weeks left to contribute a page to the Processing Community Catalog! Submit a sketch, photos, a text, a screenshot, a poster, or anything else that represents what being a part of the community means to you!
In the last few months we’ve received many donations via the sale of NFTs. This has caused a major change for us, as NFTs have caused a major change in the digital art community. We wanted to say that we’re thinking seriously about what to do, and we’ll have more to share soon.
We are excited to announce that Processing Community Hangout is happening on May 9th. The meetup lasts for 6 hours, you can show up whenever. Every hour, we have a different MC (facilitator) & 5 people will present in a show & tell. Learn more & RSVP at
Applications now open for our 2022 Fellowship! Get yours in by May 1 2022. Fellows are provided financial support + mentorship. 7 fellowship slots and 4 teaching fellowships!
Last few days to submit a page to the Processing Community Catalog! Share a photo of work, a snippet of code, a screenshot of a webpage you made, or anything else. We want to include you in this publication!
We’re creating a 📒 community catalog to celebrate all we’ve done together with Processing over the last 20 years! We hope you will contribute a page that represents how you’ve been a part of the community! More info:
We're so excited to announce the next Processing Community Day
#PCD2019
. Join us Worldwide: Jan 15 ~ Feb 15, 2019 or in Los Angeles: Jan 19, 2019. Visit to learn about our open calls and programming details.
There's a new library under Processing's github! p5-accessibility.js makes the p5 canvas more accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired. It can be used with any p5.js sketch and it is used in the p5.js web editor.
.
@MedialabPrado
in Madrid, Spain has been a generous supporter of the Processing Community for a long time. They are in danger of loosing their funding. Please consider signing this statement in support of their amazing work:
Hi college and university educators, could you reply to let us know if you are using Processing as the introductory language in your program? or at some point in your program? Thanks.
🎂 Free online “p5.js × Hic et Nunc” workshop this Saturday, August 21st 2021! Join us at 8pm CEST (2pm in NYC, 11am in LA) for a two-hour workshop. Sign up here: . We’ll send the Zoom link out through email on Saturday
#sketch4processing
#pcd2021
@p5xjs
@shiffman
This new video is a free 5-hour long introductory course, tailored specifically for complete beginners, and updated for the latest version of Processing.
What is CC Fest, Creative Coding Fest? Learn about this in-person and virtual event that welcomes students, educators, and others to learn together from the video below. And visit to see our upcoming events.
#CCFestNYC
#virtualCCFest
"We believe visual artists & designers should be in control of their own software tools... As makers, it’s essential to have tools that we create ourselves, tools that are shaped by the needs and desires of the communities of creators that use them."
@Reas
Please read this important message regarding a funding update and learn more about the process of how we are restructuring and re-framing the we work do and how we want to serve our community members.💜
We've been hard at work on the Processing Community Catalog, a hardcover 900+ page book with over 600 pages contributed by community members, designed by New Info Studio. Now available through our annual fundraiser!
The digital copy of the Processing Community Catalog is OUT, check out this nearly 1000 page art+tech book that celebrates the Processing and art+tech community!💻📚💜
#ProcessingCommunityCatalog
Processing 4.0 beta 3 now posted!
Lots of bug fixes and updates, plus ✨themes🌈
(Still waiting for Apple to notarize the macOS version, that'll be posted soon.)
Announcing the 2022–23 p5.js Editor Project Lead Rachel Lim and Processing Community Lead Fellow Raphaël de Courville
@sableRaph
!
Read more on our Medium channel.
This year's cohort of Processing Foundation Fellows addressed issues of accessibility and inclusion in their projects. We are thrilled share what they've achieved!
First up is Abdellah Iraamane, who made Processing tutorials available in Arabic:
Our 2018 Fellowship Program is now open! Fellowships support artists, coders, and collectives in visionary projects that conceive a new direction for what Processing as a software and a community can do.
Deadline to apply is Dec 20 2017!
Wonderful work and congrats to one of our Google Summer PF Code participants Connie Liu! ✨
@conliuart
Please check out her work 👇🏾 on the
@p5xjs
showcase
Please welcome the new
@p5xjs
co-leads:
@4444ian
&
@outofambit
!
"We thought of how leadership could be shaped w/o hierarchy, how the p5 community could provide mentorship to the lead, as much as the lead would support the community." —
@laurenleemack
We're actively working to move our software licenses for Processing away from GPL to something else following the Free Software Foundation's announcement of Richard Stallman returning to the board
We're so excited to announce the next Processing Community Day
#PCD2020
. Join us Worldwide next year. Visit to learn about how to get support in launching your very own PCD, meet the advisors, join our online communities.
virtual CC Fest, a free and friendly creative coding festival, is back on June 18, Saturday, from 12 pm ET to 3 pm ET (-4 UTC). Join us for the amazing keynotes, engaging workshops, and chance to make connections. Details and rsvp at .
#virtualCCFest
Hello world! Meet out 2021 Fellows! 🥳
Each project will focus on at least one priority area: Accessibility, Internationalization, Continuing Support, and AI Ethics and Open Source. We are so excited!
AND! This is our most international cohort ever!🥳🥳
We're excited to share some news about the people working behind the scenes at Processing Foundation:
@tpizza
joins us as Grants & Finance Manager,
@deedottiedot
is now Executive Director, and
@bighedva
is now on the Board of Directors. Onward! 🥳🥂
🎉 2024
#Fellowship
‘Sustaining Community: Expansion &
#Access
’ is now open! 🎉 Receive a $10,000 stipend,
#mentorship
, and community support through our incredible program stewarded by our Program Manager, Tsige Tafesse
@astoldbytsige
. 🌟Apply now:
We just posted another pre-release of Processing 4! 🛰 Includes OpenGL updates, video working again on macOS, and lots of other fixes for reliability (link at the bottom of the page):
Big News!
@p5xjs
is now available in Korean at ! We're launching today to celebrate Korean Independence Day 🥳
This was part of Inhwa Yeom and Seonghyeon Kim's 2020 Fellowship, but it got started in 2019.
Read all about it here:
This week: Fellow Aren Davey, who made a Twitch channel of
@p5xjs
& processing tutorials:
"I wanted to be very approachable to beginners and put more focus on the art that code creates rather than the code itself. A few viewers compared me to Bob Ross."
Look at these wonderful human beings! Thank you to all of the
@p5xjs
Contributor’s conference participants! We deeply appreciate your work, wisdom, insights, enthusiasm, and ♥️ for p5.js! Lots and LOTS of gratitude to The Studio of
@creativeinquiry
🥰🙌🏾☺️🙏🏾
The Processing Foundation is currently accepting applications for the 2023 Fellowship Program! 💜 The stipend for the 2023 Fellowship is $10,000 USD. Deadline May 1st, 2023.
🔗Apply here! :
Our annual Open Call for Fellowships 2019 is now open!
Deadline: Wed, December 19, 2018, 11:59PM PST
Fellowships are an integral part of our work toward developing tools of empowerment and access at the convergence of art and technology. Join us!
We are thrilled to be one of the four new
#artstech
projects funded by the
@knightfdn
to help build community and create educational resources and tools for artists and educators around the world 😀 via
@FastCompany
#knightarts
I'm not feeing terribly confident in my ability to pull this one off, but here goes nothing.
@ProcessingOrg
Annual
@thecodingtrain
telethon, live tomorrow Dec 31st, 12pm ET!
Our 2021 Fellowship period has come to an end and we are so excited to share with you what our Fellows created!
First up is this article with
#Indigemoji
:
"Some languages are sleeping, while some — like ours— are wide awake. Our language *is* us."
THIRTY-THREE cities had registered for Processing Community Day @ Worldwide! Don't see your city here? Consider hosting a local
#PCD2019
by registering at . We will be releasing further information on the PCD @ WW node events soon.
2018 Processing Foundation Fellow George Boateng discusses his project of developing Processing coding curriculum for smartphones in Ghana, which are more available than laptops, and why smartphones allow people to code anytime anywhere.
Processing 4.1 is out 🎉 It brings back the offline reference, extends support for Chinese localizations, and more updates and fixes. Get it today from the Processing website
⬇
Thanks to
@ben_fry
and the community contributors for this release 💜
We are so pleased to announce that Processing Community Day @ Worldwide now has 80+ participating cities around the world! Check out our interactive map on and get in touch with local organizers to offer your help or to receive event updates 📨
✨💻JOB ALERT 💻✨The Processing Foundation is looking for a leader who will help us envision the next chapter of the organization as we imagine new levels of support for our core software projects and public programming. Apply here:
2018 Google Summer of Code student Kevin Stadler gave the Processing Sound Library a thorough overhaul, including improved support for non-PC devices like Android and Raspberry Pi, and new example sketches!
There are multiple ways to participate in
#PCD2021
. 1) Share a in-person or virtual event and we will list it on the PF website for others to join, 2) You can share creative projects and tutorials to
#pcd2021share
, 3) Create a real or virtual cake share a picture
#pcd2021cake