We introduce a publicly-available capability model to assess management of FOSS compliance risk. Developed in conjunction with both the OpenChain project and active FOSS-using businesses, this model, based on ISO 5230:2020, provides an intuitive and practical framework for assessing FOSS risk, and developing a roadmap to improve it.

Why don’t more designers contribute to open source? We'll share insights from our research, presenting key obstacles like intimidating contribution platforms and unclear documentation, along with actionable solutions to improve collaboration between designers and developers.

Being proactive about improving sustainability before it becomes a crisis can help make our software better for all of us. However, not everyone has the experience or skills required to make improvements that will benefit their community over the long-term. This talk focuses on tools and techniques to build healthy and sustainable OSS projects.

What about the licensing of AI and AI generated artifacts? Can AI be Open Source? FOSS licensing is not all about code, it is also about AI models, icons, fonts, documents, music, etc. This talk will lead you from FOSS to AI, considering potential licenses for (AI generated) non-code and the question whether code-licenses are suitable for non-code.

Introducing the Open Design Guide (https://opendesign.guide), where designers learn how to find their way into open-source.

Think your project's technical direction just depends on code? Think again! How you structure your community shapes what you build - from KISS to corporate, from elite hackers to broad participation. See real-world patterns (linux distributions) of how governance creates technical culture, and learn to align your community with your goals.

As we increase analysis of our software supply chains, tools and scorecards reveal potential risks in Open Source projects like low maintenance, lack of community, or poor security practices. How should we handle this? Manual reviews? Questionnaires? Funding? Let's explore options to address these challenges strategically without ignorance or fear.

Our docs are living systems, but too often we've imagined them merely as flattened walls of text, and not much more. So, let's take a more holistic perspective of how folks interact with software documentation. Many of them wish to engage more actively, not just as passive consumers. How do we enable them?

An overview of the City of Paris' journey in Open Source, from its signature city digital services platform Lutece created in 2001 to its new software suite CiteLibre through the creation of its open source program office in 2022 and its open source policy started 23 years ago

More money for FOSS - a never ending issue. In a tech world built on start-ups, venture capital and data-gathering apps, the fight for sustainable funding for ethical technology projects is a fierce one. After some big victories for FOSS funding in the last years, this talk is about why we shouldn't forget the small, underdog civil society projects

Lightning Talk

Software, like all technologies, is shaped by economic principles. This keynote explores these forces' impact on FOSS and proprietary models. By examining past trends and current developments, it offers insights into FOSS's future amid global changes, concluding with five predictions for the Open-Source ecosystem.

Temurin is nearing 500M downloads, with growing enterprise adoption. Yet, many users aren’t supporting the project. This talk explores how Eclipse Foundation’s membership and revenue models generate sustainable funding while maintaining vendor neutrality. We'll also discuss understanding user needs and the real costs behind "free" software.

Introducing a practical toolkit for measuring the impacts of public funding for FOSS development, based on firsthand insights from EU and German funding initiatives and methodologies developed by the CHAOSS project. Learn how to assess social, economic, and technological outcomes for evidence-based FOSS funding strategies in the public interest.

This talk will discuss how common open source problems such as maintainer burnout, new contributor onboarding, under-funding of open source projects, bad user experience in open source, and communities falling apart due conflict can be viewed through a relational lens.

When choosing a governance model for your open-source project, “foundation-backed” is a proven approach. We chose this path - and built a brand-new association from scratch. Learn why and how we created an independent home and what impact the transition from company-led to foundation-backed had on our open-source project Yaook and its community.

Lightning Talk