We invite you to join a meetup for upstream maintainers to share with each other the best practices and lessons learned in nurturing open source projects. We plan to discuss:
- Collaboration with your colleagues and other contributors (corporate or private) from all over the world
- Increasing awareness about your OSS projects by presenting, teaching and doing workshops, etc.
- Mentoring new contributors, growing your skillset, helping others become a maintainer
- Best practices for managing, leading projects and building communities
- Community health and what metrics are important for community growth
- Best practices with communication channels, tools and platforms that you use in your community

If you are a project maintainer, be ready to share your project's best practices, but also failures so we can learn from them. And if you are not a maintainer, don’t worry! You are welcome to join as well. Come and learn what it takes to be an open source maintainer and see how you, as a contributor or user, can help them or become one.

Infrastructure is a crucial yet under discussed part of any important project. The choice of software, hosting and system can hinder or stimulate a project growth, but that's not without having trade-offs, and community leaders and systems administrators alike are often struggling to decide on what could be the right choice.

This panel will bring various people working on free software communities and their infrastructure to explore various questions around infrastructure for free software project, like the trade-offs between self hosting, using off the shelf infra or paying for a service, how to get contributions from your community, what to do if you do not have a solution for some specific needs, etc.

Do you love coffee? Do you enjoy trying new beans or experimenting with different brewing methods? If yes, we would be happy to meet new friends during DevConf.cz that have the same hobby as we have!

Let’s meet, brew some coffee together and exchange our tips and tricks about coffee.

We'll bring some of the beans we love and make a lot of coffee using various methods (V60, Aeropress, Moka, French Press etc.). If you have your favorite coffee beans or method you want to show your coffee friends during DevConf.cz, we encourage you to bring it to this meetup as well!