FOSS Backstage 2023
2023-03-13..2023-03-14
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cooperation and Inclusion through Open Source | Laura Dornheim | 40m |
Munich recounts a failed desktop migration — limox failed — because change management and on‑premise desktop focus clash with bureaucratic rigidity, but keeps… | ||
| A Vision of FOSS @MercedesBenz | Wolfgang Gehring | 31m |
Mercedes‑Benz creates an Open Source Program Office and a company FOSS Manifesto under CC0, mandates a one‑hour driver's license training before contributions… | ||
| The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Coffee House | Claude Warren, Jr | 33m |
Claims that open source is ubiquitous and risky: 99% of audited codebases contain OSS, with 82% containing outdated or abandoned components and 73% showing at… | ||
| ORT Automate compliance using Open Source & InnerSource | Thomas Steenbergen, Surya Santhi | 33m |
OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) automates license, copyright and vulnerability checks by scanning a repo, fetching source, running multiple scanners, and combining… | ||
| Plan Like Einstein | Scott Jenson | 28m |
Argues that planning, not ad‑hoc PRs, fixes UX problems and lists three concrete practices: short‑term onboarding with contributor guidelines and starter… | ||
| OSPOs: Key Lever for Open Source Sustainability | Ana Jiménez Santamaría | 32m |
Organizations that frequently contribute upstream formally create an OSPO 65% of the time, and internal programs report 80% positive impact on software best… | ||
| The F in FOSS: Affording Open Source in Developing Countries | Ahmed Sobeh | 29m |
Shows that African GitHub contributions rise from <0.5% in 2010 to <2.5% in 2020 yet remain far below the continent’s talent and population, cites Kenya… | ||
| Why isn't the German administration procuring more FOSS? | Miriam Seyffarth | 33m |
German procurement uses EVB-IT model contracts (about 12–13 templates) that presume proprietary exclusivity, forcing costly manual edits that push many SMEs… | ||
| Sustainability beyond funds: Extrospective OSPOs | Josep Prat | 28m |
Proposes an OSPO that hires a dedicated engineering team separate from product orgs to work 100% open source work on chosen dependencies, selected either… | ||
| The code of conduct has been broken. Now what? | Paloma Andrade de Oliveira | 25m |
Argues that volunteer organizers must stop improvising and adopt concrete processes: use the Mozilla guideline email template with dates, preserve anonymity… | ||
| Open Collaboration and our Lizard Brains | Clare Dillon | 38m |
Argues that open collaboration stalls not for lack of process but because primal threat responses hijack reasoning, citing Kahneman’s system 1/2, a Triune… | ||
| Dependency Management: Risk vs Crisis Management | Radoslava Zheleva, Velichka Atanasova | 29m |
Argues that proactive risk management prevents legal and security crises by inventorying and tracking third‑party software, using pipeline‑integrated scanners… | ||
| The Role of Open Source for an Interoperable Europe | Axel Thévenet | 30m |
Proposal creates a governance layer with an Interoperable Europe Board (one rep per member state plus Committee of the Regions and EESC) and an open Community… | ||
| Build license management into your pipelines | Floor Drees | 13m |
Audits of 2,400 commercial codebases find 97% contain open source, and installing Electron can pull in 87 license dependencies that each bring nested licenses… | ||
| Diversity in Open Source, an Asian Perspective | Masae Shida | 37m |
Asia supplies 60% of the world yet open source voices remain concentrated in North America and Europe; data from the Octoverse and Linux Foundation show… | ||
| Understanding Maintenance as a Turing Way | Anne Lee Steele, Danny Garside | 33m |
The Turing Way is an open guide for reproducible research that now reports 400+ contributors on GitHub and thousands of users, and it sustains itself by… | ||
| Funding FOSS | Di Luong, Tara Tarakiyee, Marie Gutbub, Ramy Raoof | 42m |
Panelists describe concrete portfolios and limits: a German prototype fund €50k grant supports projects like Mastodon’s Android client, while one funders lists… | ||
| Open roadmaps for your open communities | Oleg Nenashev | 32m |
Jenkins creates a public roadmap using GitHub Projects and a roadmap.yaml but the roadmap goes stale after about two years because one person owns updates… | ||
| Open source work is work | Per Ploug | 31m |
Spotify measures its GitHub history and finds over 2,500 direct dependencies and ~30,000 transitive ones, more than half of OSS work happening outside paid… | ||
| Community² - A community of Open Source Community Managers | Ariane Segelitz-Karsten | 09m |
Community² is a new peer network for open source community managers that meets fortnightly Fridays 14:00–15:00 to swap tactics, troubleshoot individual… | ||
| git init Berlin | Victoria Boeck, Ingo Hinterding | 31m |
CityLAB Berlin runs a public innovation lab funded by the Berlin Senate Chancellery and hosts the github.com/berlin organization as a planned hub for… | ||
| Best Practices for an Effective Open Source Contribution | Ruth Ikegah | 28m |
Lessons from three years of practice: start by picking projects that match interests (example: joining the Chaos project led to founding an African chapter)… | ||
| Securing OSS across the whole supply chain and beyond | Nick Vidal | 37m |
Details: argues that combining SBOM (SPDX/CycloneDX) inventory at source build and package, Sigstore keyless OIDC signing for artifacts, and Confidential… | ||
| Designing Open Source - Building Communities | Mike Nolan | 29m |
Open@RIT runs a university-backed community fellowship that uses interviews, contributor personas and Mozilla Open Leadership phases to map contribution… | ||
| The State of Open Source Software in 2023 | Javier Perez | 28m |
Global survey of ~1,000 professionals finds a majority — about 85% increased use of open source in the last year, with 37% contributing back and ~25% producing… | ||
| Contributor engagement and monetization opportunities | Omotola Eunice Omotayo | 24m |
Large projects use small unpaid teams so this shows concrete payout options: use Interledger and web monetization for streaming micro-payments, use Open… | ||
| The rockstar of my community is a bot: Where are the humans? | Miguel-Ángel Fernández | 30m |
A platform called Remote Lab aggregates APIs into a unified dataset and an identities DB, with a tool named Sorting Hat to merge profiles, tag bots and record… | ||
| Increasing accessibility for Right To Left | Batool Almarzouq, Abdulrahman Alswaji | 14m |
Open Science Community Saudi Arabia localizes The Turing Way and other open resources using a workflow that combines a Translation Management System… | ||
| Open Source and Open Science - a happy partnership? | Malcolm Bain | 32m |
Argues that open science must adopt open source practices but not blindly, showing concrete gaps: university incentives favor patents and prepublication peer… | ||
| A security.txt for gits? | Gregor "Little Detritus" Bransky | 11m |
Proposal for a machine-readable repo file called security gtxt that encodes coordinated vulnerability disclosure contacts and an up- & downstream feed so… | ||
| Contributor Growth Strategies for OSS Projects | Dawn M Foster | 31m |
Maintainer burnout is common and sustained contributor growth requires concrete investments: document governance and onboarding so new contributors can spin up… | ||
| OpenDevRel: Tales of Developer Relations in Open Source | Dotan Horovits | 10m |
Advocates for a company-backed open source presence by showing concrete actions: running Slack channels, GitHub discussions and weekly community calls… | ||
| Improving a Large FOSS Project Sustainability | Italo Vignoli | 33m |
LibreOffice updates strategy to close a funding gap: codebase is 7 million lines of code, user base ~100–200 million with 1M downloads/week, and development is… | ||
| Open-Source: Open Choice - A DevOps Guide for OSS Adoption | Hila Fish | 29m |
Practical checklist for adopting OSS: uses the Keda example to show a real fix (downscale to zero pods), warns about CentOS EOL and malicious npm packages, and… | ||
| Open Source Dystopia | Crystal Dionysopoulos, Sigrid Gramlinger | 35m |
Open source project analysis shows concrete failures and fixes: a nine‑year gap before Joomla 4 in 2021 coincides with contributor loss and concentration of… | ||
| Intellectual Property Primer | Jim Jagielski | 46m |
Overview of the actual IP rules for open source: outlines four IP types (trade secrets, patents, trademarks, copyright) and explains how permissive… | ||
| How We Updated Drupal's Code of Conduct | George DeMet | 30m |
Project begins in 2022 with a seven-person core team and about a dozen stakeholders plus the ~20-person Community Health Team, runs in two-week sprints, and… | ||
| On the Shoulders of Giants: Security in FOSS | Thomas Fricke, Isabel Drost-Fromm, Gregor "Little Detritus" Bransky | 22m |
Panel argues supply‑chain risk by naming concrete failures like Log4Shell, cites tooling such as SBOM generation and dependency graphs, and calls for… | ||
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