FOSS Backstage is back for its seventh edition in Berlin on 11 and 12 March. The conference is a yearly meet up for the German FOSS community and has a wide range of talks and workshops in both English and German. 

FOSS Backstage provides a space to discuss a broad spectrum of issues related to community management, vendor neutrality and leading projects without discretionary power. Conference topics will include open source project leadership best practices, community management, open source project metrics, open source strategy for enterprise, adopting open source collaboration in corporations, legal matters when dealing with open source and many more.

This year, we highly recommend to check out some of the following sessions related to OS in the public sector: 

Open Source for Good! Driving Achievement of the UN SDGs

From Lutece to CiteLibre: the City of Paris' journey in OS

How FR and DE are developing their digital sovereignty

Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding for FOSS

Digital Sovereignty and Open Source – Shaping an answer to geopolitical instabilities

OSOR will also present its paper on the Progress and trends in the national open source policies.

FOSS Backstage will be followed by one day dedicated to UX Design in FOSS. Find out more at: foss-backstage.design.