FOSS Backstage 2022
2022-03-17..2022-03-18
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[FOSS Backstage 2021, FOSS Backstage 2022, FOSS Backstage 2023, FOSS Backstage 2024, FOSS Backstage 2025, FOSS Backstage 2026]
as the organisers put it
Note: This is the website for the 2022 edition of FOSS Backstage. For FOSS Backstage 2023, please visit 23.foss-backstage.de Community,Management& Compliancein Open Source Development Join us for two days of talks, workshops and panels with the most relevant experts from the Free and Open Source Software world. Why FOSS backstage? Grow Your Network Meet committers,…
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to FOSS Backstage! | Paul Berczyk | 01m |
A short orientation that frames the conference goals and what to expect over the next days focusing on community management, vendor neutrality, legal issues… | ||
| How Open Source can benefit the Sustainable Development Goals | Maurizio Maria Gazzola | 25m |
Work done inside the UN builds reusable products: a go portfolio with modules like go travel (passenger data), got intel (financial intelligence), a blockchain… | ||
| Surviving large online communities with conciseness and clarity | Bertrand Delacretaz | 29m |
Open Source communities (Apache Software Foundation example) rely on short, structured messages: a subject line, a one-sentence summary, and a body with links… | ||
| Demystifying Open Standards | Chet Ensign | 33m |
OASIS is a standards development organization since 1993 with ~2,000 members and ~60 active projects; it turns working code into ratified specs (AMQP, STIX… | ||
| Calling all UX Designers! | Scott Jenson | 24m |
Project makes five concrete changes: add a welcome page for UX with motivations and links (Elementary OS and Home Assistant are cited as examples), adopt… | ||
| Relicensing: When Your Open Source Tool Turns to the Dark Side | Dotan Horovits | 34m |
Elasticsearch and Kibana move from Apache 2.0 to SSPL/Elastic License starting with 7.11, then introduce version checks in 7.13–7.14 that break Beats and… | ||
| Are we being inclusive with our community recognitions? | Ray Paik | 26m |
Open source recognition currently skews to GitHub/GitLab repo metrics, which hides chat, forum and meetup work on Discord/Slack/Matrix and by non-developers… | ||
| Managing the unmanageable: community driven projects at Eclipse Foundation | Wayne Beaton | 23m |
Eclipse Foundation runs a 17‑year old EU non‑profit hosting 450+ projects across 18 working groups with ~320 member organizations, offering git repos, issue… | ||
| Growing your Career in Tech through Mentorship | Monica Sarbu, Madalina Tepelmann | 38m |
Nonprofit platform tupu.io matches volunteer mentors and mentees across continents, offers free mentorship and remote pairings, and automates scheduling and… | ||
| Preparing for Zero-Day: Vulnerability Disclosure in Open Source Software | Jennifer Fernick, Anne Bertucio, Christopher R Robinson | 44m |
Open source maintainers get practical steps: use GitHub Security Advisory or a clear security.md to receive reports, request a CVE for coordination, and expect… | ||
| Building a business on open-source applications | Raphael Michel | 28m |
Open-source ticketing and event platforms are turned into a sustainable company by combining pretix (AGPL + commercial license, plugin-based open core and… | ||
| Mentorship as a Pathway to Open-Source Project Sustainability | Regina Nkemchor Adejo | 14m |
Presents concrete evidence that mentorship increases contributor retention: cites an Apache Foundation 2021 survey of 175 mentors who report only monthly… | ||
| Update on licensing - "not really" open source licenses | Malcolm Bain | 31m |
Examines how the Commons Clause bans selling and hosting and how the SSPL forces disclosure of cloud management code beyond the program itself, aiming to stop… | ||
| Practical Trademark Law For FOSS Projects | Malcolm Bain, Shane Curcuru | 32m |
Trademark is brand not code: registration gives a territorial monopoly for specific goods, costs a few hundred dollars in many countries and takes three months… | ||
| Strategic Alignment of Open Source Contributions with Corporate Strategies | Masae Shida | 18m |
VMware builds a centralized open source program office wiki that lists a curated set of strategic projects table (chosen by three criteria: flagship… | ||
| How to Grow and Mentor an Open Source Community | Juan Pan (Trista) | 27m |
Roadmap for turning a codebase into a sustained community with concrete practices and outcomes: set up CI/CD and tests and host on GitHub Actions to make… | ||
| Pull Request your government | Ingo Hinterding | 25m |
CityLAB Berlin builds open source prototypes, publishes them on CityLAB GitHub and helps administrations move from fixed-price procurement to agile… | ||
| Keeping an open source project going for 27 years | Jim Hall | 35m |
FreeDOS starts in 1994 to recreate DOS and remains active 27 years later with a running OS, command‑line utilities, drivers and an internationalization… | ||
| A Better DEI Badge - Made By You | Ruth Ikegah, Matt Cantu Snell | 10m |
CHAOSS DEI Badging implements event-level DEI metrics (code of conduct, demographics collection, family friendliness, event accessibility) and runs an open… | ||
| The Flywheel Theory of Community Engagement | Ben Cotton | 05m |
Long-term project health depends on a single consistent presence that sets a floor for team energy rather than producing most output; without that steady… | ||
| Does open source need its own Priority of Constituencies? | Tobie Langel | 30m |
Argues that W3C’s priority of constituencies (aka put user needs first) applies to open source: order people → end users → app developers → cloud providers →… | ||
| InnerSource and OSPOs: Institutionalizing Open Source Culture Change | Clare Dillon, Isabel Drost-Fromm, Ana Jiménez Santamaría, John Mark Walker, Tim Willoughby | 45m |
Many OSPOs embed InnerSource as a stepping stone to external open source, reporting over 40% have formal InnerSource programs and another ~20% planning one… | ||
| Demystifying OSPOs | Ana Jiménez Santamaría | 30m |
Defines OSPOs as organizational strategy accelerators with five defining characteristics: staff assigned to open source, formal consumption policy, executive… | ||
| OSPOs in the public sector | Paula Grzegorzewska, Astor Nummelin Carlberg | 32m |
Research finds European open source delivers €65–95 billion/year (0.5–0.7% GDP) and a ~1:6–1:10 public return on investment, with 8.2% of ICT workers… | ||
| Funding is not the (only) solution | Marie Gutbub, Patricia Leu | 35m |
Prototype Fund gives six-month grants up to 47,500 euro and has funded 270 projects with 11.4 million euro total, targeting public-interest FOSS. It contrasts… | ||
| Let's make this the year of the contributor experience! | Ruth Cheesley | 33m |
Mautic runs a user survey and builds a contributor funnel: public Jira boards with good first issue labels, a Slack onboarding channel that auto-assigns… | ||
| 1 billion for open source, challenges to funding digital public goods | Heath Arensen | 29m |
Argues that funding for open source social-impact apps needs lifecycle plans: a survey of ~500 projects finds 97% cite money as the primary struggle, with… | ||
| Embracing Accessibility in Open source | Anita Ihuman | 46m |
Open source projects miss accessibility for huge numbers: one billion people (15%), 285 million visual impairments and 466 million with hearing loss, so… | ||
| On the importance of leaving | Florian Gilcher | 27m |
Leaving core roles in large projects requires planning not drama: announce intent months ahead, give about six months to transfer work, use an all-at email… | ||
| R.I.S.E - The importance of Recognition, Incentive, Support & Empowerment | Marie Nordin | 24m |
R.I.S.E is a concrete framework — Recognition, Incentive, Support, Empowerment — applied to Fedora through badges, mentorship and process changes. Fedora runs… | ||
| Frenemies in FOSS: How to deal with Charter Conflicts & competing efforts | Danese Cooper | 27m |
Explains when a parallel project is a nuisance versus an existential threat and gives concrete responses: watch and ignore for now when hostile forks rarely… | ||
| Invest In The Software That Powers Your World | Wolfgang Gehring | 41m |
Mercedes‑Benz runs a corporate sponsorship program that routes money through GitHub Sponsors to 27 organizations and individual developers, including the three… | ||
| Project Ownership & Project Enforcement: The Rules, They Are A-Changing | McCoy Smith | 28m |
Overview of current IP and enforcement shifts: three contribution models are compared—copyright assignment, CLA contributor license agreement, and license-in… | ||
| Understanding Corporate Open Source Strategy | Tom Callaway | 29m |
Companies behave around open source for money and legal risk, so expect decisions driven by finance and lawyers rather than altruism. Three concrete… | ||
| Practice Makes Perfect: Write Accessible Documentation | Alexandra White | 26m |
Gives six concrete edits that make documentation actually usable: swap imprecise UI verbs for turn on/turn off and replace blacklist/whitelist with deny… | ||
| Delivering Bad News: Helping your community through a rough patch | Rich Bowen | 36m |
CentOS Linux moves from downstream to CentOS Stream, cuts the supported lifetime from 10 years to 5 years, and ends CentOS Linux 8 eight years early, provoking… | ||
| The five stages of corporate open source adoption | Cornelius Schumacher | 28m |
A five‑stage progression frames corporate open source: deny, use, participate, contribute, lead. Concrete steps at each stage include inventory and legal… | ||
| It takes a Village | Silona Bonewald | 24m |
IEEE is building a community platform that is 100% open source and organized around role diversity rather than identity quotas, claiming that defined roles… | ||
| Log4Shell - The Open Source World on Fire | Thomas Fricke | 27m |
Log4Shell is a decades‑old JNDI/lookup behavior that suddenly allows remote code execution across Java stacks and causes several thousand million euros in… | ||
| You keep using that word Governance | Ayme Scavarda Perrin, Jamie Clark | 37m |
Practical checklist for project governance: publish a visible process and dispute path (how proposals are raised, who adjudicates, and an audit trail)… | ||
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