En route to Berlin for FOSS Backstage 2026. Who am I gonna meet? 🙋♂️ #fossback #fossbackstage
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Tomorrow: a day of train travel to Berlin, for #fossbackstage on Monday. 🇩🇪
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Interested in embedding design thinking into the engineering world? Join Miguel Divo, @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social, @gloria.design and David Edler at #FOSSBackstage. Their panel explores how design contributions are valuable assets for greater impact in engineering circles: 26.foss-backstage.de...
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Open source licenses matter, but ecosystem is what truly defines how open and sustainable a project is. Open source isn’t always as open as it seems! At #FOSSBackstage, Jos Poortvliet will guide you through tactics beyond licensing to lock you in.
Learn more: 26.foss-backstage.de...
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One month to go until the open source community reunites once again in Berlin. At FOSS Backstage, from March 16 to 17, we’ll explore the non-coding aspects of successful open source projects.
🎫 tickets.plainschwarz...
#FOSSBackstage #OpenSource #FOSS #Berlin #Conference
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We know that attending a conference can be challenging for those with children. That’s why children under the age of 16 enter for free and younger kids can be accompanied by an additional adult. More info: 26.foss-backstage.de...
#FOSSBackstage #Berlin #conference #childcare #OpenSource
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Ready to share your flashes of inspiration? Don’t miss our Lightning Talk session on Monday, March 16! You get 5 min. to talk us through your short ideas, pitches and cases on community, management and compliance in FOSS: 26.foss-backstage.de...
#FOSSBackstage #OpenSource #LightningTalks
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Planning to fork is a great way to identify places where you should invest more deeply in an open source project, explains Rich Bowen. Join his session at #FOSSBackstage: 26.foss-backstage.de...
Get your tickets now: tickets.plainschwarz...
#FOSS #OpenSource
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Does adopting #opensource really deliver #digitalsovereignty?
At #FOSSBackstage 2026, Mirko Boehm examines this question in “Does FOSS Buy Sovereignty? Participation vs. Ownership”, exploring what sovereignty requires beyond license freedoms. Learn more:
26.foss-backstage.de/session/does...
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Back in early march I was lucky enough to share the #fossbackstage stage with Christoph (github.com/GBKS) of bitcoin.design to speak about contributing to the opendesign.guide
#opensource #oss #opensourcedesign #designersinfoss #foss #floss #usercentereddesign #design
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How do we, the startup community, tell big cloud vendors (like Amazon) that vendor-controlled “open source” isn’t acceptable?
@nknize.bsky.social (creator of OpenSearch) just gave a 🔥 talk on what’s next.
🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=FJex...
#OpenSource #FOSSBackstage #Lucenia #SearchAI #CloudComputing
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#OSPea Spotting! jam presented at #FOSSBackstage a few weeks ago; check out his joint talk with Mathias Bolt Lesniak on explaining what you do with all your #OpenSource work.
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@catelawrence.bsky.social and I's next #techlounge features the state of European MedTech and what I learned at #fossbackstage that covers everything #opensource that isn't coding.
Search "Tech Lounge" where you get podcasts.
chrischinchilla.com/podcast/medtech-and-foss...
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In Berlin, ODET co-organized a #FOSSBackstage panel on #OpenSource & the #SDGs.
Speakers highlighted the #OSPOsforGood Conference as a key platform for scaling adoption.
📢 Next: UN Open Source Week 2025!
🔗 tinyurl.com/opensource2025
🙏 #Zendis, #SovereignTechAgency & @openforumeurope.org umEurope
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You ever go to link a blog post and realize you never actually finished the post? That happened to me yesterday with my #FOSSBackstage talk. So today I finished/published said post.
I present: Six Ways to Onboard New Contributors
relational-tech.com/blog/six-ways-to-onboard...
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Jutta Horstmann, Omar Mohsine, Adriana Groh, Wolfgang Gehring, and Nicholas Gates on the auditorium stage at FOSS Backstage
#FOSSBackstage brings together the people behind the scenes of open source projects. Our team was on stage multiple times:
👉 Adriana Groh spoke a/how #opensource is a strategy to achieve critical goals for Germany & Europe on the panel “OSPOs for Good! Achieving the UN SDGs with Open Source”. 1/6
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If you missed Peculiar and I talking about CHAOSS resources to improve the health and sustainability of your OSS projects or want the links, here are the slides: fastwonderblog.com/wp-content/u... #FOSSBackstage #FOSSBack #FOSSBackstage2025
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there's a discussion during @geekygirldawn's #FOSSBackstage talk of whether it's safe/advisable to delegate dependency management to dependabot as I multi-task by merging over a dozen dependabot updates with minimal review 😂 😭
a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
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All done! I'll share the recording once it's ready.
Thanks #FOSSBackstage for hosting this talk! It's the first time I've given it and I'm looking forward to iterating on it and improving it. If you know of any conferences, meetups, groups, etc who'd like to hear a version of it, LMK.
There […]
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Title slide of my presentation. Title: "The Burden of Knowledge - Dealing with risks in Open Source" with a DB and DB Systel logo on it. In the background, a photo of a laptop screen with some code on it.
As multiple people already asked for it, here are the slides of my #FOSSbackstage talk I gave yesterday on "Burden of Knowledge - Dealing with Risks in Open Source".
mehl.mx/docs/2025-03-Managing-Op...
If you're still at the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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Enjoy your coffee break, #FOSSBackstage stagehands! I'm sipping a homemade latte over here in DC.
When the conference resumes, I'll be giving a talk, "Relationship Problems In Open Source", about how we can view some of the most common #FOSS challenges, such as burnout, onboarding, funding […]
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Relicensing has come up several times here at #FOSSBackstage #FOSSBack #FOSSBackstage2025 Here's a link that points to several talks, an article, and a paper with more details on relicensing and the forks that sometimes result from it. github.com/chaoss/wg-da...
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🚀Join our Co-Founder and CTO, Nicholas Knize, Ph.D. at FOSS Backstage 2025 for a behind-the-scenes look at creating OpenSearch.
📅 Tuesday, March 11 | 🕟 4:40 PM CET
📍 Auditorium, Berlin – FOSS Backstage 2025
Don’t miss it!
#FOSSBackstage #OpenSearch #OpenSource #Governance #TechTalk #Berlin
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Listening to a talk at #FOSSBackstage from Ashley Sametz "Commit to Inclusion: Building Better Open Source Culture" including a depressing litany of tech companies (including Amazon, Google, Shopify and Meta) that have rolled back DEI efforts. Not OK. Open source communities need to push back […]
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I’ve loved seeing all of the references to CHAOSS in the presentations here at #FOSSBackstage #FOSSBack #FOSSBackstage2025 Peculiar and I also have a talk about using CHAOSS resources to improve the health and sustainability of your OSS projects at 4:05pm today!
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Day2 of #FOSSBackstage with presentations on tech sovereignty in Germany and France and the drive to develop a GovStack that is not dependent on US cloud providers
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Favourite moment @FOSSBackstage als Samuel Paccoud und Lea Beiermann live ihr deutsch-französisches Text-Editor-Tool vorstellen und auf ihrer Slide einen QR-Code zeigen und wir live auf dem Bildschirm sehen können, wie das Publikum im Saal anfängt, das Dokument zu editieren ("Ohai!" […]
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Jory and Florian stand on stage behind a podium (marked "FOSS backstage") with monitors on both sides of them reading "open web docs" and showing the first 2 rows of seating with some attendees watching.
Now at #FOSSBackstage: @jorydotcom & @floscholz double ack presenting the economics of @openwebdocs and about how documentation is critical digital infrastructure.
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Platters of pieces of yummy looking carrot cake with a white frosting with some small plates in the background.
Carrot cake served at @FOSSBackstage. Whoever is doing the catering for this event is killing it! #FOSSBackstage
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Ten minutes to submit your proposal for a lighting talk at #FOSSbackstage I would love to talk about the benefits of standards in metadata and controlled vocabulary
25.foss-backstage.de/lightning-ta...
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