Getting Started

Thank you for registering to organize Processing Community Day.

Processing Community Day (PCD) is a day picked between October 1 and October 31, 2026 to celebrate art, code, and diversity around the world.

We understand that it can take enormous physical and emotional effort to organize a community event, therefore we have compiled this Organizer’s Kit to help you get things started.

Although we are providing a step-by-step guide to lead a PCD in this kit, keep in mind that as PCD organizers, you are welcome to define the format of your event in any way that serves your local communities.

The kit is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

What happens at a PCD?

That’s up to you! A PCD can take many forms. Aside from the conventional lecture / demo format, your PCD can be a show & tell session, a zine-making session, an audio-visual performance, a DIY art show, a game jam, or even a group discussion on software art.

To get a better sense of what a PCD can look like, you can read past event recaps:

• PCD Santiago de Chile by Nicolás Troncoso & in Spanish
• PCD Shanghai by Qianqian Ye & in Mandarin
• PCD Tokyo by Naoto Heida & in Japanese
• PCD Bristol by Becca Rose
• PCD Quito by Aarón Montaya-Moraga
• PCD NYC by Lee Tusman
• PCD Bangalore by Mathura M Govindarajan

We hosted two info sessions for interested organizers. See the recordings on the Info Sessions page.

What makes PCD 2026 special?

Processing was first released on August 9th 2001. That’s right, Processing is turning 25 this year! To mark the occasion, we’re inviting the global Processing and p5.js community to celebrate together by organizing gatherings around the world taking place in October.

Read about the history of Processing and p5.js:

• The History of Processing by Casey Reas and Ben Fry
• Processing: the Software that Shaped Creative Coding, Part I
• Processing: the Software that Shaped Creative Coding, Part II

Who we are

Processing Community Day is coordinated by the Processing Foundation, with support from contributors and volunteers across the Processing and p5.js community. See About Processing Foundation for more information about the organization and its mission.

To contact us, email day@processing.org

Acknowledgement

The original 2019 Organizer’s Kit was created by Xin Xin, with guidance and support from Lauren McCarthy, Casey Reas, Dorothy Santos, Johanna Hedva, and Daniel Shiffman.

The 2026 Organizer’s Kit was created by Raphaël de Courville and Amy B. Woodman, with support from the Processing Foundation team, and the global Processing community. Special thanks to Roopa Vasudevan, Mathura M. Govindarajan, Xin Xin, and Roxana Hadad for their feedback and contributions.

Some of this guide is inspired by https://artandfeminism.org/.

This Organizer’s Kit is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Theme adapted from Just the Docs, used under the MIT License.