FOSS Backstage 2026

Rich Bowen

Rich Bowen has been involved in open source since before we started calling it that. He's a member of the Apache Software Foundation, where he currently serves as a board member and Vice Chair. Rich is an Open Source Strategist at AWS.


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AWS


Session

03-17
16:25
30min
Plan to fork (So you don't have to fork)
Rich Bowen

Writing a detailed plan to fork, as a disaster recovery plan for tomorrow, is a great way to identify places where you sould be investing more deeply in an open source project, today.

Growing Open Source
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