Tobie Langel
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what they talk about
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- FOSS Backstage2 editions2021–2022
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who talks about the same things
- VM Brasseur22 talks
- Duane O'Brien10 talks
- Alyssa P Wright11 talks
- Stormy Peters13 talks
- Dawn M Foster63 talks
- Colin Eberhardt9 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Billion Dollars for Open Source Maintainers | Open Source Summit Europe 2024 | 2024-09-16 |
Argues that redirecting 0.05% of global developer spend yields $1 billion per year, enough to fund roughly 10,000 full‑time maintainers and management; shows… | ||
| Open Source Governance for Software Engineers | Open Source Summit Europe 2024 | 2024-09-16 |
Defines governance as the formalization of implicit norms to scale willing collaboration and argues for treating governance like code so human readers can… | ||
| Towards Open Source-Compatible Standards | Open Source Summit Europe 2024 | 2024-09-16 |
National and international standards bodies sell standards as their revenue model, creating a conflict with software practices while legislation increasingly… | ||
| Does open source need its own Priority of Constituencies? | FOSS Backstage 2022 | 2022-03-17 |
Argues that W3C’s priority of constituencies (aka put user needs first) applies to open source: order people → end users → app developers → cloud providers →… | ||
| Open Source Contribution Policies that Don't Suck | Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 2021 | 2021-09-27 |
Most organizations lack a written contribution policy per New Stack/Linux Foundation surveys and GitHub 2017 data show 47% can contribute off hours 12% must… | ||
| What is Open Source? | OpenJS World 2021 | 2021-06-02 |
Argues that the OSI definition only certifies licenses, not the broader concept of open source, and proposes a 2x2 quadrant (OSI-certified vs not, follows… | ||
| Towards a sustainable solution to open source sustainability | FOSS Backstage 2021 | 2021-02-10 |
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… | ||
| Does open source need its own Priority of Constituencies? | FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-06 |
What do you do when the interest of your different constituencies are in conflict? Who do you favor and why?
The 4 Freedoms and the OSD were designed for a… | ||
| Making the Business Case for Contributing to Open Source | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual | 2020-11-17 |
Companies see concrete returns: Black Duck finds 96% of apps use OSS, >50% of codebase, and contributions reduce technical debt by upstreaming fixes and… | ||
| Making the Business Case for Contributing to Open Source | OpenInfra Summit 2020 | 2020-10-19 |
Companies actually use open source heavily — a 2018 Black Duck audit finds 96% of apps contain open source and open source often makes up over half a codebase… | ||
| Strategic Benefits of Contributing to Open Source: For businesses and individuals | Open Source 101 at Home 2020 | 2020-05-12 |
Open source is now mainstream: industry audits show 96% open source usage in products, acquisitions hit 100% in financial services (2019), and the ecosystem… | ||
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