16–17 May 2026
Berlin, Germany
Europe/Berlin timezone

Digging Through the App Cemetery: Sustaining a Fork

16 May 2026, 16:25
40m
Berlin, Germany

Berlin, Germany

Presentation (40 min) Main Track

Speaker

Evangelos Paterakis (GNOME)

Description

We are living through an unprecedented boom in indie app development on our platforms, which introduces new challenges at a larger scale.

Every week, Flathub gets flooded with new, high-quality and innovative projects, but how many survive the test of time? Is there life after EOL? Can AI help?

Pressing the fork button is the easy part. Find out the social rules around forking, how to lay the foundations for long-term sustainability without burning out maintainers.

Twitter and/or Mastodon Handle

@GeopJr@tech.lgbt

Author(s) Bio

Evangelos Paterakis is a freelancer developer and security researcher based in Greece. They are passionate about FOSS and have been involved in many developer scenes from Android ROMs and iOS tweaks to LLVM frontends. Nowadays they are primarily participating in the GNOME project.

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Evangelos Paterakis (GNOME)

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