PackagingCon 2023 was an amazing hybrid and in-person (first time) gathering, October 26-28th, in Berlin, one of the most open source friendly cities of the world. PackagingCon’s mission is to bring different ecosystems together: from Python’s pip to Rust’s cargo to Julia’s Pkg, from Debian apt over Nix to conda and mamba, and from vcpkg to Spack. We highlight many different approaches to package