FOSS Backstage 2026

Jan Dittrich

Jan Dittrich is a user researcher, anthropologist and occasional developer. Before they started working on their PhD on learning with instructions at the University of Siegen, they worked at USEEDS° and Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. on Wikipedia and Wikidata. They are also long-time member of the Open Source Design community.


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University of Siegen, Medienwissenschaften


Session

03-17
17:00
30min
Best practices and (very) small projects
Jan Dittrich

Most open source software is not maintained by a large community but by a single person in limited time. For them, best practices developed in large projects might not be feasible to apply – but what can be done instead?

Governance & Community
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