Joel Keers

Joel Keers is a Principal Software Engineer at the BBC with a focus on media playback for connected TV experiences. He’s the lead maintainer on the BBC’s open source TV playback library bigscreen-player and works with media playback experts within the BBC and the industry.

Sessions

Governance & Community

A fork load of maintenance – forking a key dependency

Talk

17. March 2026, 14:45 - 15:15

bUm Box

This talk explores the BBC’s experience maintaining a fork of dash.js for media playback. It covers the motivations, trade-offs, and strategies to reduce maintenance overhead - such as upstream contributions and community engagement.