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+author: "joostdecock"
+caption: "Close-up of a dandelion against a pink background"
+date: "2019-12-10"
+image: "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/hl5bw8cj/site-content/83a131ff51bec913541a94356d1930aaa2c07f87-1920x1280.jpg"
+intro: "4109 reasons to be happy about 2019"
+title: "4109 reasons to be happy about 2019"
+---
+
+
+Wow! What a year it's been for FreeSewing. 
+In August we released version 2.0 which was nothing less than a complete rewrite 
+of our entire technology stack. 
+For our users, the most obvious change is that you get to see your pattern adapt 
+live in your browser as you tweak options and preferences. 
+It's one of those things that I knew should be possible with the state of web 
+technology today, yet seeing it actually happen still boggles my mind somehow.
+
+## Scaling is hard, but we made remarkable progress
+
+Cool as our new technoglogy stack is, it is not the most important work we've done over the last 
+year. Yes, it's pretty neat, and yes it's only possible because of the work done 
+on 2.0. But that work itself is what matters most. The main reason for the 2.0 
+rewrite was to allow the project to scale horizontally. Or to put it bluntly, 
+to allow FreeSewing to go where I could not carry it on my own.
+
+In a way, FreeSewing has grown up as a (software) project. We have several people 
+making regular contributions, [an active chat room](https://discord.freesewing.org/), 
+[a dedicated website for developer and translator documentation](https://freesewing.dev), 
+a plethora of [packages we publish on NPM](https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=keywords:freesewing), 
+we've contributed fixes and improvements to upstream software we depend on, and we now 
+also have other people and teams who depend on the packages we put out.
+
+We (currently) have [23 patterns available](/patterns/), we publish 62 packages on NPM 
+(the Node.js package registry). Since putting out version 2.0, on average 450 people 
+sign up every month, and our total tally currently stands above 15.000. 
+
+## Translation has never been easier
+
+Since v2, we've also switched to [Crowdin](https://crowdin.com) for 
+[our translations](https://freesewing.dev/guides/translator/). Translation is arguably
+the best way to democratize access to our platform, and I'd like to give a shout-out to
+all people who have helped and continue to help with these efforts.
+
+It's perhaps also a good time to point out that you too can help with this. 
+Our [documentation for translators](https://freesewing.dev/guides/translator/) is a good
+place to get started, or stop by [our chat room](https://discord.freesewing.org/).
+
+## What we're planning for next year
+
+Our next year plans roughly fall apart into two categories: 
+improving our platform, and adding more patterns.
+
+As the project grows, so does the amount of work required to keep everything 
+running smoothly. We still have more performance improvements to do, as well as 
+auxiliary tasks such as writing more tests so we can go ahead and change things with 
+confidence, rather than risk that rolling out a new feature causes bugs down the line.
+
+We also know there is a lot of room for improvement of the user experience (UX), as
+well as design and user interface (UI). We've been doing the best we can, but it's 
+not really our field of expertise, and we're hoping to find more contributors who can
+help us in this regard.
+
+## v2.2 will include a ladies bodice block
+
+But hey, you want more patterns, right? So rest assured that that's high on our 
+todo list. We are going to apply some affirmative action towards the ladies who have 
+so far been under-served. Not only by making existing patterns available to them 
+(as we did recently with Simone, a ladies version of our Simon pattern) but also 
+by developing a dedicated ladies block to develop patterns on.
+
+We have earmarked this as a must-have for FreeSewing v2.2, which we hope to be able
+to release sometime in January.
+
+We're also looking at ways to get more designers on board with FreeSewing. 
+One plan on the drawing board is to offer pair-programming sessions to designers 
+where they walk us through their vision, and we implement their design in FreeSewing. 
+We're even thinking of live-streaming these sessions so anybody who is interested 
+can drop by and follow along.
+
+## 'Tis the season for giving
+
+Thanks to our awesome patrons, revenue was up this year too. As you may or may not know, 
+FreeSewing donates 100% of its revenue to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders. 
+So this morning, I had the great honour to write a 4109.38€ cheque to [MSF](https://www.msf.org/). 
+
+That felt **real good** so thanks to [all our patrons](/patrons) for their continued support.
+If you'd like to join this awesome group of people, [you can do so here](/patrons/join).
+
+
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