FOSS Backstage 2025
2025-03-10..2025-03-11
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Implementing the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) | Mirko Böhm | 33m |
The EU Cyber Resilience Act goes from proposal to law with a 36‑month rollout and forces new roles: manufacturers bear product liability while stewards… | ||
| Digital Sovereignty and Open Source | Jutta Horstmann | 37m |
ZenDiS presents a working platform and pilot products: openCode is live with about 5,400 users collaborating across ~2,300 repositories, and openDesk (built on… | ||
| Anatomy of an open internship program: How we run Outreachy | Anna e só | 29m |
Outreachy runs two cohorts a year, has supported 1,000+ internships, and now averages ~80 interns per year from ~5,000 applicants with ~30 mentoring… | ||
| From Forks to Sporks: The Journey Behind Creating OpenSearch | Nicholas Knize | 27m |
Forking a 2M‑line codebase, the team forked Elasticsearch and Kibana into OpenSearch and preserves full git history for legal traceability and auditability… | ||
| From Keynes to Code: Efficiency & Well-being in Open Source | Wolfgang Gehring | 30m |
Keynes predicted 15 hours a week by 2030 but knowledge work hours rise instead, and open source shows the same dynamics: visible metrics like commits and PRs… | ||
| The Burden of Knowledge: Dealing With Open Source Risks | Max Mehl | 43m |
Organization-wide SBOMs reveal scale: 30,000 internal repos average 125 dependencies each, totalling 117,000 packages and a single top dependency appearing in… | ||
| A community has to do, what a community has to do! | Peer Heinlein | 24m |
A new company forms in January with about 20 experienced employees, forks the ownCloud OES repo and publishes the code on GitHub after a 4–5 week cleanup, then… | ||
| The Future of Open Source: Five Socio-Economic Predictions | Gregor Schumacher | 31m |
Argues that open source wins because it yields a marginal cost of zero for new features and lower transaction costs for adoption; uses Kubernetes, Groq/Nvidia… | ||
| Driving the InnerSource Program at SAP | Guilherme Dellagustin | 25m |
SAP runs a focused InnerSource program that builds a public knowledge base, a template repo and contribution guides, plus a crawler-backed InnerSource Portal… | ||
| Open Design Guide | Christoph Ono, Eriol Fox | 32m |
Open Design Guide is a 100% open-source, 12-chapter guide that maps practical routes for designers into open-source work, from basic concepts to advanced… | ||
| FOSS, AI & non-code artifacts: What’s new and noteworthy? | Lina Böcker, Angelika Wittek | 29m |
Clear rules: separate licenses for code, models, data and media; many model repos show a code license plus an ambiguous “model” license (some even report… | ||
| OSPOs for Good! Achieving the UN SDGs with Open Source | Wolfgang Gehring, Nicholas Gates, Jutta Horstmann, Omar Mohsine, Adriana Groh | 39m |
UN convenings produce concrete outputs: two OSPOs-for-Good editions (started 2013 with ~70 attendees) and a conference report plus UN Web TV videos; the UN… | ||
| How FR and DE are developing their digital sovereignty | Samuel Paccoud, Lea Beiermann | 28m |
France and Germany combine existing projects openDesk / La Suite numérique and run paired development sprints where each challenge invests 100 person-days to… | ||
| GovStack: A Global Community for Digital Transformation | Lena Reinhardt, Jürgen Schmidt | 29m |
GovStack provides an open, vendor‑agnostic specification for national digital services; the Cloud Infrastructure Working Group drafts a blueprint between… | ||
| Building open digital infrastructures for public health | Bianca Kastl | 26m |
GA‑Lotse is a modular, federated public‑health platform started 2021 with development from late 2023, funded at 24 million euro budget, built to run on‑prem or… | ||
| Designing is for GUIs only? CLI Design as a shared practice | Hartmut Obendorf | 32m |
Argues that designers should shape CLIs by defining a command’s primary purpose and feature scope, introduces a prototype CLI in browser that reads a… | ||
| Onboarding Designers into Open Source Projects | Oluwadunsin Emmanuel Omole, Kingsley Mkpandiok | 22m |
CHAOSS Africa describes a repeatable onboarding stack that turns interested designers into active contributors: pinned Slack contribution guideline, a shared… | ||
| Open Source is a sewer | Powen Shiah | 06m |
Provocative claim: open source is a sewer — core internet plumbing often runs on one to a few maintainers, e.g. curl, Fortran revitalization efforts, Nominatim… | ||
| Growing a Social Coding culture, one seed at a time | Marion Deveaud, Florian Greinacher | 31m |
Siemens launches a Social Coding platform in 2015 and grows it to 50,000 active users and 200,000 projects, using self-hosted GitLab, CI pipelines… | ||
| Using the Commons without causing a tragedy | Jan Ainali | 31m |
Practical claim: reuse of Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and other commons works if developers follow concrete steps—radiate intent before harvesting data, obey each… | ||
| Airflow Beach Cleaning - Securing Supply Chain | Jarek Potiuk | 32m |
Experimental collaboration funded by Alpha-Omega reviews and hardens Airflow’s 700+ dependencies, starting with a Python script plus OpenSSF/scorecard-style… | ||
| Abundant with life: docs beyond the wall | Andrea Kao | 32m |
Docs are living systems, not flat walls of text, and authoring choices shape contribution rates: developer-centric git workflows cut non-developer… | ||
| Architecting Civic Engagement: Consul Democracy and Munich | Klaus Mueller, Simon Strohmenger | 30m |
Munich runs unser.muenchen.de on Consul, moved its instance from on‑prem to a public HNA cloud overnight and keeps paying a vendor while sponsoring the Consul… | ||
| Relationship Problems in Open Source | Shauna Gordon-McKeon | 29m |
Argues that most project failures are social not technical, claiming 90–95% of stalled PRs are relational and listing concrete causes (unreviewed PRs, missing… | ||
| More Hearts than Stars: Smart Charging & Community Funding | Michael Geers | 27m |
evcc is an open source EV charging controller running on small home computers (Raspberry Pi, Docker), written in Go and Vue.js, with a new Android/iOS app and… | ||
| Right-to-Left, Left-to-Right: Rethinking Multilingual Design | Batool Almarzouq, Goodnews Sunday Sandy, Richie Moluno | 27m |
Builds an Arabic‑first MOOC platform with videos, quizzes and RTL UI patterns, reports that English‑centric tooling excludes ~75% of people and ~2 billion RTL… | ||
| Putting the Railway Industry on the Open Source Track | Cornelius Schumacher | 29m |
OpenRail Association launches in 2024 to coordinate railway-specific open source, incubating five incubated projects across infrastructure simulation… | ||
| Tokenism in Open Source: Diversity or Decoration? | Maryblessing Okolie, Ijeoma Onwuka | 30m |
Argues that many diversity efforts in open source produce surface representation rather than power, citing Outreachy, CHAOSS and the Inclusive Naming… | ||
| Project Economics: A case study with Open Web Docs | Jory Burson, Florian Scholz | 32m |
Open Web Docs raised more than $3m and now budgets roughly $600–800k a year to fund a small global staff, contractors and ops, using Open Collective as fiscal… | ||
| The Challenge of Open Source Funding | Amandine Le Pape | 07m |
Governments push open source but procurement buys almost nothing: 0.5% of German federal software funding goes to open source. The ecosystem relies on three… | ||
| Implementing GitHub's private security issue reporting | Ruth Cheesley | 21m |
Mautic shifts a monthlong security intake into GitHub Security Advisories, enabling private temporary forks for sandboxed fixes and a one-click merge to all… | ||
| How to Explain the Impact of Your Open Source Work | Jeffrey A. 'jam' McGuire, Mathias Bolt Lesniak | 27m |
Explains how everyday contributions turn into measurable change: community training and funding produce 250 Rwanda sites maintained by local teams using TYPO3… | ||
| Bridging the Gap Between Designers & Open Source Communities | Nina Rojc, Leia Ruffini, Kola Ojoodide | 22m |
Canonical UX designers present survey data from 150 participants (89 designers, 35 maintainers) showing half of designers who never contributed say it simply… | ||
| Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding for FOSS | Dawn M Foster, Mirko Boehm, Cailean Osborne, Paul Sharratt | 29m |
A practical toolkit maps how public funding changes projects and ecosystems with concrete examples: the Next Generation Internet program funds 1,200 projects… | ||
| Building Resilience:UX Strategies for Crisis-Responsive Tech | Miruna Muscan | 19m |
Commit Global claims its open‑source humanitarian stack serves 18 million people in 2022 and it builds modular tools that deploy Doom MOA as a single entry… | ||
| Beyond Words: Crafting User-Friendly Documentation | Zainab Daodu | 48m |
Hands-on workshop that converts a vague README into a skimmable getting-started with numbered steps, a short intro stating outcomes, and a next-steps trail… | ||
| The Struggle is real, Free of Charge != Cost-Free | Florent Zara | 28m |
Temurin reaches 500M downloads and runs on dozens of platforms as a TCK‑certified drop‑in Java runtime; the project runs about 60 million tests per release… | ||
| OpenChain Capability Model - moving beyond compliance | Stephen Pollard, Andrew Katz, Sascha Pudenz | 28m |
A publicly released capability model maps ISO 5230:2020 requirements onto a five-stage maturity scale (initial, repeatable, defined, managed, optimizing) so… | ||
| GovTech and open data – Giga's open source journey | Maria Antonia Bravo Reyes | 07m |
Giga compiles government spreadsheets and OpenStreetMap layers into a public school location and connectivity database deployed at maps.giga.global, plus open… | ||
| The Value of OSS Management for Risk Mitigation | Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Daniel Izquierdo | 31m |
Organizations rely on open source for ~80–88% of code and routinely face SBOMs with tens of thousands of components (35k–80k); the presenters show a bank use… | ||
| How We Built a New, Neutral Foundation for Our Project | Ariane Segelitz-Karsten | 29m |
Seven companies found ALASCA in 2022 to create a neutral, non-profit German association as a home for Yaook, registering statutes, electing a board and a TSC… | ||
| Product Strategy for Open Source Projects and Companies | Emily Omier | 29m |
Most open source projects have no clear prioritization so product strategy focuses on three concrete questions: what is the product’s purpose for the… | ||
| Small seeds – why funding new ideas matters | Patricia Leu, Marie Kreil | 24m |
Prototype Fund reports 387 projects funded over 8 years with €16.6M total and grants up to €47,500, using a lightweight funding application, hour-based… | ||
| Progress and trends in the national open source policies | Axel Thévenet | 27m |
A new OSOR qualitative analysis covers 15 countries and synthesizes over 40 country reports to show a 15‑year shift from top‑down mandates to collaborative… | ||
| Empowering African Communities using Open Source Software | Joseph Zikusooka (Zik) | 28m |
Claims that FLOSS saves money and creates jobs, backed by a built Linux distro called Jambula OS on Raspberry Pi for rugged, offline use that targets slow or… | ||
| Commit to Inclusion: Building Better Open Source Culture | Ashley Sametz | 30m |
Open source is quieter than it looks: contributors are only ~3–7% female, female PRs merge at 78% vs 74% only when gender is hidden, trans contributors sit at… | ||
| How Your Project's Organization Shapes Its Technical DNA | Daniel Guagnin | 30m |
Research on Linux distributions shows organization shaping code: three patterns emerge — elite-driven KISS (Arch) with a command‑line installer that requires… | ||
| Data to Action: Build Healthy & Sustainable OSS Communities | Dawn M Foster, Peculiar C. Umeh | 33m |
CHAOSS provides MIT‑licensed CHAOSS Practitioner Guides and tooling (notably Augur and GrimoireLab) to turn public repository data into actionable metrics; the… | ||
| How do you measure 'public good' in open source and beyond? | Cassie Jiun Seo, Jonathan Starr, Michael Downey, Angela Newell, David Lippert | 37m |
Panel lays out concrete measures: use DOIs and citation counts to link software to research outputs, GitHub metrics (stars, forks, avg PR time) for uptake, and… | ||
| Standard for Public Code: Self Assessment | Jan Ainali | 05m |
The Standard for Public Code defines 112 requirements covering licensing, traceability and collaboration practices and is now community managed with public… | ||
| EMBAG – Open Source procurement in Switzerland | Olivier Brian | 06m |
EMBAG is a Swiss federal law effective 1 January 2014 and Article 9 obliges the federal administration to publish source code it develops or commissions, with… | ||
| From Lutece to CiteLibre: the City of Paris' journey in OS | Philippe Bareille | 26m |
City of Paris traces a 2001 homegrown CMS Lutece that is open sourced in 2002 and now under an OSPO (established 2022) evolves into the CiteLibre suite and the… | ||
| The OSPO Playbook: Supercharging Open Source at Scale | Sri Harsha | 22m |
Explains how an OSPO runs at scale with concrete numbers and actions: establishes a team of five at LambdaTest, defines six principles and six core functions… | ||
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