FOSS Backstage Design 2025

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Dear FOSS Design Community!

Great news! FOSS Backstage Design will also be back in 2025. On March 12 we will host the one day event in Berlin at bUm.

In the morning, we’ll kick things off with a small number of curated talks .
In the afternoon, the event will adopt a barcamp format, where participants can shape the program. This flexible structure allows everyone to bring their own ideas, topics, and challenges to discuss.
This year we had sessions dealing with:

  • design methods
  • user research
  • how to incorporate Design into product development
  • writing good documentation
  • testing and measuring usability
  • and even how to design for XR leveraging the power of OSS tools

I hope this list inspires you to bring your topic to FOSS Backstage Design 2025!
You may also want to ckeckout the video recordings form this years event on youtube.

Come ready to connect, share, and collaborate. Check out more details on the website.
Please join us and bring your ideas! Tickets are available here, regular tickets start at 35€.
If you also join FOSS Backstage on March 10 and 11, you can add a discounted FOSS Backstage Design ticket while registering for your FOSS Backstage ticket.

I hope to meet many of you in Berlin!

PS: At the time of writing we are still looking for sponsors who would allow us to record and/or live stream FOSS Backstage Design.

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Great to hear. Last year was a really good time.

I proposed a talk about the Open Design Guide (reading club info) to the main conference. This could be a good topic for the design day.

What are you looking for in terms of sponsors?

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The venue only allows to hire their exclusiv video recording/streaming company. Therefore sponsoring would mean a payed partnership.

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Hi @AlexBrateanu thanks so much for the update!

I’m Aishat (preferred Maya), the lead design maintainer with the AsyncAPI Initiative, an open-source community. I also serve on our Code of Conduct and Technical Steering Committees.

I’m looking forward to submitting a talk for the conference! I wanted to check if there will be any travel sponsorship for main speakers and co-speakers. I’m thinking about teaming up with another design lead from the open-source space to present on topics like design in product development or usability testing and measurement.

Thanks again for your help! You can find me here on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aishatmuibudeen) X (x.com)

cc: @Erioldoesdesign