Bringing back the Open in Open Source: (Re-)Building Community after forks and acquisition (froscon2026)

Open source projects get forked. They get acquired. They lose contributors, fracture communities, and sometimes quietly stop being open in a meaningful sense. This talk uses ownCloud's history as an honest case study in what goes wrong and what it actually takes to fix it. We'll cover the real lessons from operating a major project without proper open governance, what prompted a course correction,…