FOSS Backstage 2024
2024-03-04..2024-03-05
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| When business models are conflicting with security | Melanie Rieback | 39m |
Argues that VC-driven “freemium” and acquisitions hollow out open source security: open projects turn proprietary or get axed, useful tooling and signature… | ||
| Looking at Open Source Security from the Community Angle | Ana Jiménez Santamaría | 26m |
Claim: 96% of orgs with an OSPO advise on security. The OSPO acts as a connector between corporate units and maintainers, driving concrete actions: choose… | ||
| Changing the governance model of an established project | Ruth Cheesley | 29m |
Mautic removes company control and refactors governance: it keeps fiscal hosting with Open Collective, transfers brand and trademarks there, and runs elections… | ||
| OSPOs in Energy, Transport, Automotive & Public Sector | Ana Jimenez, Jonas van den Bogaard, Karel Rietveld, Cornelius Schumacher, Alexander Butzlaff, Wolfgang Gehring | 39m |
Panelists map concrete OSPO work: centralize a single point of contact, enforce license and security compliance, and enable upstream contribution while scaling… | ||
| A Journey to Inner Source | Wolfgang Gehring | 28m |
Seven-year Inner Source rollout at Mercedes-Benz focuses on three hard problems: tooling consolidation (pick one or two platforms, not 20; evaluated GitHub vs… | ||
| Embracing your weird: Community Building through Fun & Play | Tom Callaway | 27m |
Built an automated badge system hooked to a messaging bus and later made Mozilla badges compatible, ran a candy-swap since 2016, a Zelda‑style virtual event… | ||
| How you write matters in open source | Kyle J Davis | 30m |
Argues that open source spends as much time on written communication as on code and gives concrete fixes: adopt an existing style guide (Bottle Rocket uses the… | ||
| Talking with management about open source | Rich Bowen | 28m |
Explains how to translate open source into management terms by showing ROI, supply-chain risk and concrete remediation costs (e.g., replacing a tiny project… | ||
| How contribution programs benefit mentors and participants | Carmen Delgado | 21m |
Eclipse Adoptium runs programs that place newcomers onto Temurin and AQAvit with industry-paid internships and mentorship, producing measurable wins… | ||
| A Strategic Approach to Assessing Viability of OSS Projects | Dawn M Foster | 30m |
Practical checklist for deciding tonight: evaluate governance, community, security and compliance with concrete metrics instead of buzzwords; run the Augur or… | ||
| Distributed teams that actually work! | Bertrand Delacretaz | 31m |
Claim: distributed teams do not need most of their time in video meetings. Shows a four‑phase asynchronous decision‑making workflow (ideation, narrow to 3–7… | ||
| EU cybersecurity regulation and Open Source governance | Mirko Boehm | 33m |
EU law excludes individual volunteers and non-commercial FOSS but treats any entity selling or bundling software as a manufacturer with full obligations… | ||
| FOSS and Security Risk Management | fukami | 28m |
Examines how EU laws (AI Act, CRA, eID) change software liability and shifts to concrete supply‑chain controls: ongoing coordinated pollution attacks since… | ||
| Automating Open-Source License Compliance | Petteri Kivimaki | 32m |
X-Road uses tens of direct and hundreds of transitive open‑source dependencies across Java, JavaScript and Python; compliance was a yearly manual check taking… | ||
| Open Source Contributions in Today’s World | Lina Böcker, Angelika Wittek | 32m |
Outlines specific legal changes — Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive — and how “distribution” now triggers license duties; recommends… | ||
| Why is there no new Release? Nobody pays for basics | Schlomo Schapiro, Gratien Dhaese | 32m |
ReaR started as a paid consulting project to replace an expensive commercial DR product and now automates bare‑metal restores by integrating with many… | ||
| CERN’s Open Source Program Office | Giacomo Tenaglia | 40m |
CERN launches an Open Source Program Office (mandated May 2023, launched Nov 2023) to centralize licensing, cataloging and training across thousands of… | ||
| Has Open Source outgrown the OSPO? | Per Ploug Krogslund | 31m |
Claim: the OSPO definition from Sun 1999 still dominates even though open source becomes core to IT and 97% of companies use OSS, so much that legal, security… | ||
| Freedom vs Sustainable Business: A Candid Necessary Debate | Paloma Andrade de Oliveira, Lina Böcker, Fiona Krakenbürger, Thomas Steenbergen | 36m |
Panel argues concrete fixes: public funding via the Sovereign Tech fund commissions maintenance contracts for critical libraries; companies build internal… | ||
| What the AI revolution means for Open Source and our society | Frank Karlitschek | 29m |
Open source Nextcloud builds and ships self‑hosted AI features that run on Raspberry Pi to cloud clusters, claiming parity with cloud vendors for… | ||
| The Cuckoo in Bidding: When the Manufacturer Loses to Itself | Peer Heinlein | 31m |
Open Source vendors report losing public contracts to lowball bidders who resell without funding upstream development, depriving maintainers of revenue and… | ||
| A modern OS information system for the french fire fighters | Olivia Guyot | 30m |
NexSIS is a unified information and command system for French fire and rescue that targets 100 departments and about 50,000 users, designed to handle up to 21… | ||
| Success through a thousand emails: Fundraising and outreach | Dawn Michelle Wages | 27m |
Claims that winning campaigns come from three concrete approaches — services rendered, shared identity, or urgency — and from thousands of small, iterative… | ||
| Aligning wishes of multiple orgs into an OSS project | Nick Vidal, Thomas Steenbergen | 32m |
A legal template called the Contributor Commitment Agreement and a lightweight collaboration marketplace prototype coordinate multi‑company requests for… | ||
| Measuring the Impact of Community Events | Brian Proffitt | 30m |
Red Hat experiments with measurable tactics: create collateral and landing pages tied to QR codes, track badge scans and booth traffic via event apps, and run… | ||
| More than developers: growing your maintainer community | Celeste Horgan | 30m |
Company open source splits into two orgs: Ivan Open (≈39 projects) and Ivan Labs (≈34), with ~10 dev/community staff and 19 full-time upstream contributors… | ||
| The secret lives of designers in OSS | Eriol Fox, Nimisha Vijay | 33m |
A diary study follows five designers for 16 weeks (participants paid) tracking tools like GitHub/GitLab and Figma, artifacts produced, and weekly reports. Key… | ||
| Why UX and FOSS clash and what we can do about it | Jan Dittrich | 22m |
Argues that the real clash is an imagined user = programmer versus a non‑programmer user model, tracing it to Norman 1981 vs Unix rebuttals, and shows three… | ||
| A UX Toolbox for Usability, Accessibility, and Security | Katie Wilson | 24m |
An open UX Toolbox for Risk Mitigation and Accessibility assembles modular resources: a positionality worksheet and ability prompt cards to map bias and… | ||
| Size matters: Why some projects can't do UX well | Scott Jenson | 25m |
Claim: project size shapes how UX gets done, and mid‑size repos routinely fail for three concrete reasons: maintainers default to “scratch your own itch” so UX… | ||
| Who Funds FOSS Foundations? | Shane Curcuru | 31m |
A dataset called ffoundations.info maps 35 foundations by scraping sponsorship prospectuses and project pages, plus US 990 filings via ProPublica; modeled… | ||
| Adventures with Open Source Business Models | Tarus Balog | 30m |
Twenty years running OpenNMS leads to concrete choices: services and support scale up but plateau, so productized a green light project (one week of services +… | ||
| OSS Excellence: Munich's Journey towards Public Code | Dirk Gernhardt, Klaus Müller | 29m |
Munich declares in 2021 that in‑house code follows public money public code and builds an OSPO inside its 1,200‑person IT department (about 30 devs in the… | ||
| Open Source Inclusivity: Empowering Newcomers | Mayank Jindal | 26m |
Argues that lowering entry barriers requires concrete practices: structured mentorship programs with milestone-driven mentor–mentee matching, continuously… | ||
| Navigating the gold rush: Of influencer economies and FOSS | Divya Mohan | 32m |
Open source sees a huge influx tied to tech influencers and viral marketing: repositories and new projects spike while largest number of first-time… | ||
| What being a Biker Gang Investigator taught me about FOSS | Ashley Sametz | 32m |
Argument: open source culture mirrors outlaw biker norms in concrete ways — shared thumbs up/thumbs down rituals, visible reputation as three-piece patch style… | ||
| Docs For All: Improving Open Source Accessibility | Zainab Daodu, Omotola Eunice Omotayo | 30m |
Argues that accessible open source docs require concrete steps rather than goodwill: establish a style guide, run regular accessibility audits and color… | ||
| Exploring the Intersection Between OSS and Exit to Community | Hazel Devjani, Adina Glickstein, Eli Zaretski | 18m |
Workshop introduces Exit to Community as an exit strategy that transfers ownership to users workers and stakeholders claiming Nathan Schneider’s concept and… | ||
| Open Source and Inner Source for APIs | Johannes Nicolai | 05m |
Argues that applying open source practices to commercial APIs speeds delivery and hiring but requires API-specific tooling and processes, not just code… | ||
| Bringing Open Source into the Digital Check for New Legislation | Miriam Seyffarth | 05m |
A federal checklist launched last year, the digital check for new legislation, requires public servants to ask five specific questions about digital processes… | ||
| A proposal for a scalable way to fund Open Source with Kudos at Semicolons | Matt Mankins | 04m |
Proposes an open algorithm called Kudos that records every contribution and splits a fixed monthly budget (examples given: $100 to $100,000) among contributors… | ||
| Working in Open Source & Public Service in Germany (and at the STF) | Powen Shiah | 05m |
Organization created inside the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation in September 2022 now counts 11 staff and will spin out later this year, funding… | ||
| TYPO3's approach to supporting FOSS adoption in the Global South | Mathias Bolt Lesniak | 04m |
Typo3 CMS teams respond to a Rwandan government request for 250 sites by sending volunteer experts to deliver one‑week training to local agencies, not turnkey… | ||
| Ana Jimenez Santamaria's Top 3 Takeaways from Her Talk | Ana Jiménez Santamaría | 01m |
Three concrete claims: OSPOs shift from project curation to actively integrate open source into IT infrastructure to raise code quality and development… | ||
| Scott Jenson on Citizen Focus in Open Source UX | Scott Jenson | 02m |
Argues that open source is the practical path to rebuild software around data privacy and data sovereignty and that many projects must shift from programmer… | ||
| Ruth Cheesley shares key insights on communicating with an international team | Ruth Cheesley | 01m |
Project governance change communicates to non-English speakers by enlisting trusted individuals to pre-translate announcements into multiple languages in a… | ||
| Per Ploug Krogslund on "Has Open Source outgrown the OSPO?" | Per Ploug Krogslund | 01m |
Claim: open source is now business-critical and can no longer live inside a tiny centralized team. Evidence: many organizations discover that a two- or… | ||
| Tom Callaway on Building a Community | Tom Callaway | 01m |
A four-step framework frames community growth as a checklist: create an environment, encourage visible participation, promote community actions, invest in… | ||
| Eriol Fox on "The secret lifes of designers in Open Source" | Eriol Fox | 01m |
Diary studies of designers in open source find slow feedback is common and repeatedly causes designers to assume their work is poor, not just delayed. The… | ||
| Mirko Boehm on Project Maintenance Obligations | Mirko Boehm | 02m |
Explains that the EU Cyber Resilience Act imposes concrete required support periods for commercial software, so anyone shipping a product must plan long-term… | ||
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