Welcome to FOSS Backstage Design 2026! We're excited to have you join us for a day filled with great sessions and especially for our barcamp, where the design & UX community in Open Source comes together to share ideas, experiences, and perspectives.

Full schedule: https://26.foss-backstage.design/schedule/

Let's make it a fantastic day! 🎉

#FOSSBack #Design #UX #OpenSource #Berlin #conference

@FOSSBackstage is one of my favorite conferences, and again this year, I had an amazing experience. I saw interesting talks, caught up with friends, met new people, and still missed talking to a few people! As with most conferences in Europe, digital sovereignty was a hot topic, but there were also great talks on other subjects as well. A huge thank you to the organizers and volunteers who make the event happen! Here's my short post with a few reflections from the event. #fossback https://fastwonderblog.com/2026/03/18/reflections-from-foss-backstage-2026/
Reflections from FOSS Backstage 2026 | Fast Wonder

The second day of FOSS Backstage has wrapped up, bringing to a close two days filled with insightful sessions and great discussions. Thanks to everyone who took part in the eighth edition of #FOSSBack!

A few first highlights: https://26.foss-backstage.de/this-was-foss-backstage-2026/

The recordings will be online by the end of next week: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWo9EhK1MUOuACENfXoAXZQ

📸 Jan Michalko

Good bye #FOSSBack , see you next year!
I had a geeat time at #FOSSBack these past two days. Will def go again!

Even at an extraordinarily smart event as #FOSSBackstage , people keep asking "Yeah but couldn't we do this [task that requires care, understanding and commitment] with generative AI?" and I am f*ing sick of it. If the task could not have been automated before the advent of "AI", then it should not be automated now. Just be a decent person put in the human work already! 😡

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Let's leave meatspace and check out cyberspace!

One of our favourite slides, intellectual property of Nicole Weber from @mozilla

– share photos of your favourite slides at #FOSSBack :)

Here's a #Wikidata item for this year's FOSS Backstage: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138706301
Please help improve and/or upload images to the associated category on Wikimedia Commons.
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FOSS Backstage 2026

free and open source software conference

No plans for tonight so far? Join Women in Open Source, the Open Home Community and our team at 7 pm for drinks, banh mi and some more nice chats!

📍Wintergarten @ bUm
♀️From 6-7 pm, the event will be dedicated to women and other marginalized identities in open source to mingle

@erioldoesdesign @openhomefoundation
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The slides for my talk "FOSS behind the scenes - the center stage is not enough" which have a lot of links with anecdotes, sources, further reading, and possibly some inspiration, are available at https://aina.li/backstage2026
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FOSS behind the scenes - the center stage is not enough