Rufai Mustapha: Invited Speaker at FOSS Backstage in Berlin 2026
Mustapha Rufai, a software engineer and open source community strategist, has been competitively selected as a featured speaker for FOSS Backstage 2026, a leading European conference on open source governance. His expert workshop on contributor growth was accepted via a rigorous peer-review process, marking significant professional recognition.
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FOSS Backstage is a premier international forum, renowned for its senior-level audience of project maintainers, foundation leaders, and technology executives. Speaking at this level signifies a demonstrable impact on the global open source ecosystem.
Rufai will lead the workshop, “Docs, Demos, and Mentors: Growing Open Source,” on 17 March 2026 in Berlin. The session provides project leaders with actionable frameworks to solve the critical bottleneck of contributor scalability—a key challenge for open source sustainability. His methodology is informed by direct experience: training over 2,000 developers across Africa and Europe and co-hosting Write the Docs EMEA.
“Contributing to FOSS Backstage is a recognition of practical, inclusive community engineering,” said Rufai. “This is where the field’s systemic challenges are addressed, and I’m honoured to add a vital perspective on global contributor growth.”
Key Details:
● Event: FOSS Backstage 2026.
● Date/Location: 17 March 2026 | Berlin, Germany.
● Verifiable Speaker Profile: https://26.foss-backstage.de/speaker/mustapha-rufai/
● Official Conference Site: https://foss-backstage.de
● Speaker’s Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mustapha-rufai

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