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We want to make FOSS Backstage a place for conversation about the potentials and challenges of FOSS development and are looking for your input! That's why we want to emphasize that our Call for Papers is open for panel discussions and workshops, too.

If you are employed in Berlin, Brandenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate or Saarland you can officially attend FOSS Backstage as an educational event for your educational leave!

The Apache Software Foundation will join us at FOSS Backstage with their Apache EU Roadshow. We are thrilled to have such an important player in the field of FOSS governance at the conference!

On both conference days we will be offering onsite childcare. We will hire professionally trained tutors to take care of your children in a separate, specially equipped room.

We are very excited to introduce our first keynote: Shane Coughlan, who will dive into the key principles of governance in Open Source.

Find out what we are looking for and how to submit your proposals.

We are delighted to announce that ticket sales for the first FOSS Backstage conference open now.

We are pleased to announce the final list of speakers and talks for FOSS Backstage Micro Summit taking place in November 2017.

As previously announced during Berlin Buzzwords, we are working on a new conference scheduled for next summer in Berlin – “FOSS Backstage”!

We're happy to announce that in 2018 we'll be organizing a conference about governance, collaboration and community within the open source space.