Three speakers, Nina Rojc, Leia Ruffini, Kola Ojoodide joined us at #FOSSBack 2025 during their session "Bridging the Gap Between Designers & Open Source Communities" and shared their ongoing findings and early tools to make open source more accessible in this session.
Watch the full recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kq2emKppSc
How often should you contribute to open source?
Ruth Ikegah during her session on "Best Practices for an Effective Open Source Contribution" at #FOSSBack 2023 suggests frequently, but that you should prioritize making valuable contributions.
Watch the full session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzJ6kT_BYSM
Open source isn't always as open as it seems.
Here's a session by Jos Poortvliet at #FOSSBack 2026 on Beyond the license: measuring real openness in open source from our Starter Kit track, as promised,
Watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJlNSEObEs
Ruth Ikegah, Technical Content Manager and GitHub Star. Alongside Matt Cantu Snell , a graduate assistant with the University of Nebraska at Omaha, joined us at #FOSSBack 2022 with a session on "A Better DEI Badge - Made By You" A talk on how open source conferences connect with the CHAOSS DEI Badging Initiative to improve open source DEI best practices.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chq-Ejw1rqY
Talks drop every week. Follow along!
This one reframes how you think about security.
Elio Qoshi and Anxhela Maloku introduced the concept of "usability vulnerabilities" at #FOSSBack 2026. Go watch it now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vctZaoDzq2k&list=PLq-odUc2x7i_CkIlwiKrIKXLdmQgFxhCL&index=32
Nicholas Gates studied five real cases, Consul Democracy, Digitransit, Golemio and more, and brought the findings to #FOSSBack 2026.
Watch the session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsK5KPm4tSY&list=PLq-odUc2x7i_CkIlwiKrIKXLdmQgFxhCL&index=3
Jan Lehnardt shared 2.5 years of work through the Sovereign Tech Agency at #FOSSBack 2026. The recordings are live and you can now catch up on this session.
@janl @neighbourhoodie @sovtechfund Wow congrats!
And thank you for showing that there indeed are ways to meaningfully support projects in a 'fly in by helicopter with limited time available'.
I've already started referencing your #fossback talk to share patterns that work after having been a sceptic myself.
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