Welcome to the FOSS Backstage Archive

Here you can browse through all sessions held at previous FOSS Backstage conferences and download the corresponding slides. Future sessions will be added to create a FOSS knowledge base.

FOSS Backstage provides a space to discuss a broad spectrum of issues related to community management, vendor neutrality and leading projects without discretionary power. Conference topics include open source project leadership best practices, community management, open source project metrics, open source strategy for enterprise, adopting open source collaboration in corporations, legal matters when dealing with open source and many more.

With a focus on decentralised decision making and open collaboration FOSS Backstage is a great place for: developers, architects, sysadmins, community leaders, students and anyone interested in building and managing communities within the open source space, to get together and exchange ideas.

The next edition of FOSS Backstage will take place online and in-person on March 17th & 18th, 2022.

The two day conference is dedicated to everything related to FOSS governance and open collaboration. The fourth edition of FOSS Backstage will consist of one fully virtual day followed by one in person day taking place here in Berlin. The in-person day in Berlin will be live streamed for those attending virtually, and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.

FOSS Backstage 2022

 

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Next event: FOSS Backstage 2022

The next edition of FOSS Backstage will take place on March 17th & 18th 2022.

The two day conference will consist of one fully virtual day followed by one in person day taking place here in Berlin. The in person day in Berlin will be live streamed for those attending virtually, and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.

Have a look at the 2022 program Register now!

About Plain Schwarz

FOSS Backstage is brought to you by Berlin based company Plain Schwarz. Plain Schwarz is organizes events for and with open source communities, acting as non-code contributors to open source projects of all kinds. Other than #FOSSBack Plain Schwarz is also hosting Berlin Buzzwords, Europe's leading conference for modern data infrastructure, search and machine learning. You'll find all the buzzwords, presented by leading experts, demystifying and educating an international audience on a range of modern industry trends.
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