“I find FOSS Backstage to be one of my favorite conferences content-wise and community-wise.”
Nick Vidal, Community Manager at Open Source Initiative, wrote a blog post titled “Three perspectives from FOSS Backstage”, sharing his thoughts and experiences from this year’s FOSS Backstage, offering three complementary perspectives. With Thomas Steenbergen, he held a talk “Aligning wishes of multiple orgs into an open source project” presenting an innovative governance and funding model created by the ORT community to align demand and supply between organizations.
“Open source is so much more than code and it was nice to see an event focused on the non-code aspects of it.”
Tarus Balog joined FOSS Backstage as a speaker and talked about “Adventures with Open Source Business Models“, sharing his 20 years of experience in running an open source business. It was also his first time at FOSS Backstage. In his blog he shares his impressions of the event and his opinions on some of the sessions.
“FOSS Backstage is where leaders and advocates in the FOSS ecosystem – especially community leaders, OSPO staff, and even government policy types get together to learn from each other.”
Shane Curcuru was also a speaker this year, talking about “Who funds FOSS Foundations“. In his blog “FOSSBackstage Awesomeness” he talks about the contacts he made and the ideas for collaborations.
More voices
We also received a lot of positive and constructive feedback on social media. We have listed some of these below and also linked to the full posts.
“Great discussions and interactions about pressing topics in software making“
– Pedro MC Fernandes
“This is one of my favorite open source conferences, not only because of the lovely humans we meet in the corridors, the carefully selected spaces, and the delicious vegan food that serves everyone without cruelty… mostly because of the quality and variety of the content that we hardly find – if at all – in other conferences around the world.”
– Paloma Oliveira
“Great talks were held, inspiring conversations had, interesting people met and good connections made“
– Dr. Wolfgang Gehring
“Amazing talks & presentations, learning about great open source initiatives in the public sector (…)“
– Samira Gibson Wages
“Thank you to FOSS Backstage organizers for their excellent job bringing the community of communities together in the same space, sharing knowledge and experience, and planning the future of managing Open Source Communities and projects in a more diverse, secure, and compliant way.”
РCarmen Laura Delgado P̩rez
“So much learned, so many great connections made and simply awesome to meet so many community managers, leaders and contributors to open source all focused on helping each other to learn and grow.“
– Ruth Cheesley
“Big thank you to all FOSS Backstage team for the incredible event, the quality of the talks, the beautiful venue and the delicious food 🙂“
– Miriam Gonzalez
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