We received a lot of feedback and reviews for this year's FOSS Backstage. We thought it was time to share some of them with you in our new blog post. Thank you to all of you for sharing your experiences and giving us your feedback. #fossback https://lnkd.in/eQZdPuyN
FOSS Backstage
IT Services and IT Consulting
The conference for community, management & compliance in open source software development
About us
FOSS Backstage is the conference dedicated to everything related to FOSS governance and open collaboration. The next edition will take place on March 4th & 5th in Berlin. FOSS Backstage will provide a space to discuss a broad spectrum of issues related to community management, vendor neutrality and leading projects without discretionary power. Conference topics will include open source project leadership best practices, community management, open source project metrics, open source strategy for enterprise, adopting open source collaboration in corporations, legal matters when dealing with open source and many more. With a focus on decentralised decision making and open collaboration FOSS Backstage will be a great place for: developers, architects, sysadmins, community leaders, students and anyone interested in building and managing communities within the open source space, to get together and exchange ideas. FOSS Backstage is organised by Plain Schwarz UG in collaboration with Isabel Drost-Fromm (Open Source Strategist at Europace AG, Member and former Director of the Apache Software Foundation, founder and PMC member of Apache Mahout) and Stefan Rudnitzki (Team Lead of the agile coach team at Testo, co-organizer of MongoDB usergroup Berlin and Async Cat Herding meetup Berlin).
- Website
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https://foss-backstage.de/
External link for FOSS Backstage
- Industry
- IT Services and IT Consulting
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Berlin
- Founded
- 2017
- Specialties
- open souce, FOSS, Community Management, Management, and Compliance
Updates
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Mark your calendars as FOSS Backstage returns on 10-11 March 2025! Stay tuned for more information and, in the meantime, check out the amazing #fossback24 presentations on our YouTube channel (https://lnkd.in/dYiMiBgP) or the TIB AV portal (https://lnkd.in/d3q3MmUc). https://lnkd.in/dXmHveKJ
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Learn about working in Open Source & Public Service in Germany (and at the STF) in Powen Shiah's Lightning Talk from this year's #fossback. TIB: https://lnkd.in/du2fmFQ8 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/d9VgBa_u
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Watch Matt Mankins' Lightning Talk on "A proposal for a scalable way to fund Open Source with Kudos at Semicolons" from this year's #fossback. TIB: https://lnkd.in/dHRFKe5m YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dnSy3EWf
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At this year's FOSS Backstage, Miriam Seyffarth took part in our Lightning Talks session and talked about bringing open source into the digital check for new legislation. #fossback TIB: https://lnkd.in/dR4NJtQ5 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/d2zwVMku
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Watch Mathias Bolt Lesniak's Lightning Talk on TYPO3's approach to supporting FOSS adoption in the Global South from this year's #fossback. TIB: https://lnkd.in/dEjniFPk YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dzihRw-8
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At this year's FOSS Backstage we had some very interesting Lightning Talks - Lightning Talks at FOSS Backstage are short, five-minute presentations covering a specific idea or topic. Johannes Nicolai kicked things off with a presentation on Open Source and Inner Source for APIs. #fossback TIB: https://lnkd.in/dxjQTxvu YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dPB79tQq
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At this year's FOSS Backstage, Adina Glickstein, Eli Zeger & Hazel Devjani hosted an online workshop on how the Exit to Community framework can enable open source projects to adopt more appropriate governance processes for a wide range of software projects. #fossback TIB: https://lnkd.in/dJ4YBtDV YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dkiKKgVa
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At this year's FOSS Backstage, Zainab Daodu and Omotola Omotayo explored the intersection of inclusivity in technical documentation and how these factors enhance accessibility in open source, creating a sustainable, inclusive and universal community. #fossback TIB: https://lnkd.in/djUhnC8Y YouTube: https://lnkd.in/de-vqZB3
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Want to know what outlaw bikers and open source communities have in common? At this year's FOSS Backstage, Ashley S. talked about why you can learn everything you need to know about working with and in open source communities from outlaw bikers. #fossback TIB: https://lnkd.in/dqZFRUhx YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dM7fc-Yb
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