FOSS Backstage 2021
2021-02-10..2021-02-11
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[FOSS Backstage 2021, FOSS Backstage 2022, FOSS Backstage 2023, FOSS Backstage 2024, FOSS Backstage 2025, FOSS Backstage 2026]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Public Funding of Open Source Technologies | Felix Reda | 40m |
Argues for a European open technology fund modeled on the U.S. Open Technology Fund (which funds Signal, Tor, WireGuard and runs at roughly $20M/year) to pay… | ||
| Licensing Open Source Hardware | Lars Zimmermann | 32m |
Claim: hardware is legally born free because copyright does not cover functionality while patents/design rights require active filing. Practical rule: publish… | ||
| Managing the Corporate-Community Boundary | Simon Phipps, Rich Sands | 36m |
A corporation facing community mistrust builds a 200-question FAQ as a cross-functional forcing mechanism that clarifies goals, licenses, contribution rules… | ||
| Towards a sustainable solution to open source sustainability | Tobie Langel | 22m |
Heartbleed/OpenSSL exposes a sustainability crisis: a 2014 bug leaks ~4.5M patient records and costs ~$500M while core crypto was maintained by one maintainer… | ||
| Digital Sovereignty Driving Open Source in Germany and Europe | Thomas Fricke | 37m |
Since 2019 Germany spins up new agencies and projects claiming digital sovereignty with economic motives behind them and an explicit fear of US and Chinese… | ||
| Frontiers in Securing the Open Source Ecosystem | Jennifer Fernick, Rao Lakkakula, Christopher R Robinson, Kay Williams | 57m |
OpenSSF forms in August 2020 and grows from single digits to 36 members and 250 active contributors, offering concrete tools: a free edX course, a… | ||
| How to infect and indoctrinate todays youth in the ways of FOSS! | Kenneth Frantzen | 37m |
Upper secondary web classes in Sweden introduce Creative Commons in year one then teach HTML/CSS, Inkscape and Blender, and in year three practical stacks like… | ||
| Collaborative Leadership: Governance Beyond Company Affiliation | Dawn M Foster | 28m |
Projects controlled by neutral foundations have lower risk for users and vendors because boards, trademark ownership, and CLAs determine neutrality; check for… | ||
| Practical Trademark Law For FOSS Projects | Shane Curcuru | 33m |
Practical steps for FOSS trademarks: treat names and logos as products—use trademarks consistently (capitalization, adjectival use, TM/® when appropriate)… | ||
| Love in the Time of Corona: Parenting, Pandemic, and Professionalism | Leslie Hawthorn | 30m |
Home-working parents juggle meetings with childcare and eldercare, with one live demo of a child interrupting a presentation and a manager reporting five hours… | ||
| The Culture of Open Source between Institutions | Cat Allman, Hong Phuc Dang, Jonathan Fink, Stephen Jacobs, Richard Littauer, Joshua Simmons | 01h 02m |
Companies place OSPOs to handle license compliance and community support — Google created an OSPO in 2004 and maintains about 2500 active projects so lawyers… | ||
| FOSS compliance in university R+D projects and tech transfer | Malcolm Bain | 32m |
Universities routinely produce usable research software but often lack license inventories, centralized repos or long-term storage, so a pilot implements… | ||
| Managing distributed teams from your pyjamas | Monica Sarbu | 29m |
Claims that fully distributed teams match or exceed office productivity, backed by examples: Beats ecosystem reaches 100M downloads, work flows through… | ||
| Preventing Random Acts of Metrics | Amanda Casari, Julia Ferraioli | 36m |
Google's Project Ocean applies a five-step metric process — objectives, observable aspects, baselines, desired trends, signal phenomena — and warns of… | ||
| Inclusive contribution Guidelines for Open Source Projects | Anita Ihuman | 28m |
Contribution guidelines often read as too technical, omit a clear step‑by‑step from clone to merged PR, and assume knowledge of frameworks and dependencies so… | ||
| The Moving House Model, adhocracy and remote collaboration | Bertrand Delacretaz | 29m |
Compares moving day logistics to remote software work and gives concrete practices: uses 160 cardboard boxes moved as a data point, recommends banana boxes… | ||
| Thorny Problems in Open Source Community Management | George DeMet | 27m |
Drupal Community Working Group enforces a code of conduct since 2013 and handles harassment that originates off-platform by focusing on impact not venue, uses… | ||
| Freeing software with governance, for public administrations | Malcolm Bain, Andrew Katz | 32m |
Two case studies compare a legacy municipal case-management system and a fresh AI prototype to show what actually works: GD Matrix is a monolithic system built… | ||
| Building a culture of collaboration in OS communities with The Turing Way | Malvika Sharan | 29m |
The Turing Way is an open source book-plus-community hosted on GitHub that grows from ~10 to over 250 direct contributors and now contains 134 subchapters; it… | ||
| The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source | Coraline Ada Ehmke | 29m |
Argues that open source code is actively powering mass surveillance, protest suppression and ICE detention operations, not just benign projects, and proposes… | ||
| Design FAQs from 5 Years of Coaching FOSS Projects | Eileen Wagner | 31m |
Design coaching condenses into eight repeatable FAQs: the group has coached over 100 projects (49 directly) and finds visuals matter less than onboarding… | ||
| The Evolution of OSPOs | Danese Cooper | 36m |
A concise history and playbook: corporate OSPOs begin at Sun in 1999 leading to first corporate OSPO (Sun, 1999); between 2000–2010 tools like OpenOffice reach… | ||
| How OpenChain Became The International Standard for Compliance | Shane Martin Coughlan | 33m |
OpenChain becomes the formal international standard as ISO 5230 / OpenChain 2.1, converted via the Joint Development Foundation after an April 2020 submission… | ||
| How GPL and Free Software can help Europe regain Digital Sovereignty | Frank Karlitschek | 45m |
Argues that GAIA‑X plus Free Software lets European governments host core services themselves, cutting reliance on US/Chinese clouds by running on‑premise… | ||
| Open Source at the European Commission | Miguel Diez Blanco | 27m |
European Commission publishes an Open Source Strategy (Oct 2020) with a 10‑point action plan and spins up an OSPO to promote and guide reuse, representation… | ||
| Keynote: Building and Managing Communities | Sarah Novotny | 48m |
Practical playbook: prioritize the people who actually participate, codify decision criteria that favored community over company, and push for distributed… | ||
| OS Technical and Patent Collaboration in Parallel & Patent Risk Mitigation | Keith Bergelt | 38m |
Open Invention Network explains a concrete patent-defense model: a royalty-free cross-license covering a defined linux system scope made from 3,300+ core… | ||
| The Ten Ways of Trust | Tracy Evans | 28m |
Ten concrete practices for trustworthy open source communication: interview the expert to ensure technical accuracy, use a value map (an inventory linking each… | ||
| Stress-Testing the Open Source Definition | Aaron Williamson | 38m |
The Open Source Definition faces two concrete stresses: vendor-facing licenses that block cloud competition and ethical-use clauses that ban certain fields of… | ||
| How to achieve effective Open source collaboration | Franklin Ohaegbulam | 15m |
Lists concrete practices and tools: use project management tools and an all-in-one communication tool, hold daily or weekly meetings with agendas and video… | ||
| Why are we scared of user research? A phony classification | Belen Barros Pena | 18m |
Most free software projects do no user research and the talk claims that tiny studies change that: a four-category taxonomy of naysayers (scratchers… | ||
| Resilience Practical Application & Science | Alexia Georghiou | 27m |
Burnout links to lack of purpose, unmanageable workload and no space to discuss mental health; having an empathetic manager reduces risk. The bodywide stress… | ||
| Speaking about FOSS in a Corporate Environment | Jan Wildeboer | 05m |
Hardware becomes irrelevant as the world goes software-defined and a typical IT stack contains roughly 80% non-competitive functionality while only about 20%… | ||
| The Governance Game - a conversation starter tool | Jan Ainali | 05m |
A cooperative card game plus simple online portet, hosted on GitHub, that translates governance into concrete choices: move actor tokens, place starting states… | ||
| How the Standard for Public Code can help you collaborate over time & space | Eric Herman | 05m |
The Standard for Public Code lays out concrete criteria and workflows that public organizations and vendors adopt to make government software actually… | ||
| First Ph.D. Then Startup | Dirk Riehle | 07m |
German universities fund salaried PhD positions around €50k salary that let students develop real open source products under a supervising researcher, use a… | ||
| An introduction to Sustain | Richard Littauer | 05m |
Sustain runs cross-discipline working groups on licensing, ethics, corporate accountability, design and environmental sustainability and is building community… | ||
| Creating Belonging in Remote Teams | Najeeb Khan | 07m |
Remote teams show concrete gaps: uploader cites 54% of employees feel unattached, 75% of managers struggle with culture and that leads to an 18% productivity… | ||
| Introducing the Clinic for Open Source Arts | Chris Coleman | 05m |
Clinic for Open Source Arts audits and strengthens the health of creative open‑source tools by focusing on communities, access, documentation, contributor… | ||
| Learning Through Writing | Sebastian Spier | 06m |
Shows that turning company problems into structured inner source patterns forces clarity by using a fixed template: problem, context, forces, solution… | ||
| Why is UX so hard to contribute to FOSS | Scott Jenson | 28m |
A UX designer volunteers on three projects and finds no UX hooks; issue queues only request icons. Git and text‑only issues prioritize checkin‑friendly… | ||
| InnerSource 101 | Daniel Izquierdo | 09m |
InnerSource is the adoption of open source practices inside a company, using code review, continuous integration and delivery and public internal repos so more… | ||
| Opt-in InnerSource at Scale | Russ Rutledge | 24m |
Nike codifies an collaboration maturity model with three axes — artifact (talks → docs → code), criticality (side projects → support projects → mainline), and… | ||
| The FOSS Manifesto at Daimler TSS | Wolfgang Gehring | 14m |
Daimler TSS publishes a concrete TSS FOSS Manifesto that codifies company and employee obligations: a preamble plus five company principles and four employee… | ||
| 5 Years On - Lessons Learned from Building InnerSource Commons | Danese Cooper | 15m |
Five years of InnerSource Commons show a community built by seeding experiments at OSCON 2015, running summits with over 1,000 attendees, publishing training… | ||
| InnerSource Patterns for Success | Danese Cooper, Wolfgang Gehring, Daniel Izquierdo, Russ Rutledge | 24m |
Companies standardize on a small set of concrete practices: appoint a trusted committer or maintainer who reviews and merges code and mentors contributors… | ||
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