We believe in an open, diverse, and accessible web. With your help, we want to reward people doing great work to make it happen. That’s why we don’t only organise community events ourselves, but also try to support community events and projects and the people behind them. We want to keep things fully transparent, so here we’ll be reporting what we do.

This Is What We’ve Been Doing In The Past 365 Days (Friday, August 9, 2024)

Primarily for Smashing Members:

• We organized 4 Smashing Meets events and made the videos available,
• We ran 8 Smashing Hours and made the videos available,
• We released the Success At Scale book and made the eBook available for free,
• We provided discounts to more than 40 Smashing Workshops , and made the recordings of some of the sessions freely available afterwards,
• We provided discounted tickets for our SmashingConfs in San Francisco, Freiburg and Antwerp, and released the videos to all members a few weeks after the event,
• We provided some discounts on lovely products and services via partner deals,
• We gave away memberships to various community organisers
• We provided membership discounts to educational institutes (teachers and students)

For Communities worldwide:

• We published about 60 newsletters with handy tools and resources,
• We published about 250 articles, 3 podcasts
• We ran 3 free/partnered online workshops & released the videos
• We put almost all of our video content up for free — on our own YouTube Channel
• We provided books, swag and support to various online & in-person events/communities
• We helped RIT organise a hybrid design event

Next Steps

We are always building out our involvement in local communities, supporting them with resources and contacts so they can succeed. Are you running one? Please reach out to us so we can help!

Thank You So Much

It’s all made possible with your contributions. Your support allows us to bring you great content, pay all our contributors fairly, and reduce advertising on the site. You made it happen. So thank you.