conference – Open By Default

Speaker at FOSS Backstage

1 April, 2026

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking at FOSS Backstage. The topic was the same as at CfgMgmtCamp, to use open tools in open source projects, but I had the opportunity to fine-tune the slides and pracice more. The entire talk, titled “FOSS behind the scenes – the center stage is not enough” is embedded below, and the slides are available at aina.li/backstage2026. Wikidata talk In a moment of spontaneity at the conference I submitted a…

Speaker at CfgMgmtCamp

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to speak about open tooling in Free and Open Source Software projects at CfgMgmtCamp in Ghent. The talk had been requested since I gave a talk on the same theme at What Hackers Yearn (see my personal blog post). At this occasion, I gave it the title: Free Software Needs Free Tools: Making Your Project Truly Open. The organization of the conference was good and I am happy that the talk also…