Hi, Yesterday we had several (according to the feedback I got) awesome talks on mentoring, the Apache Way, open source licensing, async communication, community shenanigans, working in distributed teams, corporate influence on oss here in Berlin.
Unanimous consensus at the end of the event was that we should repeat the exercise next year, and that people would be willing to pay to attend. So, here's the ticket sale: https://foss-backstage.de/tickets ("trust us"/ "190,- € including tax" phase ends Christmas). There were people willing to help us get the topic off the ground, we'll get in touch with you separately. If you couldn't make it yesterday but would like to help spread the word, find sponsors, find speakers, find attendees - if you have nominations for keynotes, if you have nominations for program committee members - please get in touch with i...@fossbackstage.de (no need to cc me personally, I'm one of the people monitoring that inbox). I've cc'd info@ so the rest of the team sees any communication here. The dates to save: CfP opens December, event is scheduled for June 13th/14th with time for workshops (or any additional Apache related meetings) on 15th. Topics relevant: any war stories or good advice on all things governance, project management, distributed teams, FOSS legal, corporate interest in free and open source projects and processes, rants that are supposed to start a discussion. I believe we have a ton of stories within all of our projects. I believe people inside and outside the community could benefit from having these stories told. Thanks to anyone and everyone who traveled here. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I got the impression that we had more non Berliners than locals not only among speakers but also among attendees. Isabel -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.
