Kaleidos Blog

More than ever, many members of Kaleidos went solo with their own projects on this ΠWEEK winter edition. Some kaleiders made improvements in personal projects and some others started from scratch. Investing a whole week on your own can be challenging as well as gratifying. Enjoy the reading just as we enjoyed discovering the following initiatives on the demo day.

PIWEEKs are an end in themselves. They seek to experiment, allow us to innovate and, along the way, come across new tools, face frustrations that are different from those of everyday life, and collaborate with colleagues who we don’t usually work with.

Llevamos meses negociando esta enorme oportunidad para Kaleidos y por fin podemos anunciar que hemos conseguido la financiación de una ronda de inversión serie A de $8M para tener la certeza de que podemos centrarnos en construir productos open source para equipos multidisciplinares.

About pixel art, medical data, holidays and archery projects: open source and available in their respective repositories.

For the first time in 5 editions, we could finally meet in person again, during the 22nd edition of our PIWEEK (Personal Innovation Week). Woohoo! Well, actually it was a hybrid version of it: some kaleiders stayed home and some others combined their home desk with the re-experience of sharing the office.

This is probably the question we’ve been asked the most at Penpot. We have a vague explanation in our FAQ page, so with this article I’ll try to explain a bit the motivations and spirit behind each decision. The rationale is multi-faceted.

En Kaleidos nos encanta realizar actividades que no estén relacionadas en absoluto con el trabajo. Es donde aprovechamos para conocernos mejor, pasar un buen rato, desconectar de la rutina y donde se crea ese buen rollo que tenemos.

At Kaleidos, we love organizing fun activities at work that are non-work related. That’s the space where we get to know each other, have a good time and unwind from the daily routine.

About pixel-art and VR games, sites to keep your recipes online or to keep track of your mead brews, an online whiteboard or how to access your medical data.

How many times have you mentioned spending some quality time on a super cool project that could let you look into a new technology or explore new tools but you’ve never had time to do so?

If you’re looking for a different way to open up your retrospectives, your meetings or workshops of any kind, Exquis could be the perfect tool for a fun warm up or ice breaking session. Exquis is an online tool to create collaborative surrealist images.

In recent years, companies have increased their trust in open source and the capacity of developer communities to create open, inclusive and high-quality technologies. This is a very positive transformation that we should take advantage of and support.