Open Source Summit Europe 2024: Full Schedule

September 16-18, 2024
Vienna, Austria
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11:20 CEST

Panel Discussion: What's the State of Open Source in Europe? Key Research Findings Revealed! - Mirko Boehm, Anna Hermansen, Adrienn Lawson & Cailean Osborne, The Linux Foundation

Monday September 16, 2024 11:20 - 12:00 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

The "Key Findings from the World of Open Source: Europe Spotlight" panel will present and discuss the latest trends in the OSS landscape in Europe. The discussion will kick off with the presentation of novel findings from the "World of Open Source: Europe Spotlight" report, highlighting the need for openness in AI, the significance of OSS security, and the role of OSS as digital public goods. Anna Hermansen and Adrienn Lawson from LF Research will present the most salient quantitative insights from the Linux Foundation's annual World of OSS survey, segmented for Europe, then Mirko Boehm and Cailean Osborne from LF Europe will share qualitative insights from expert interviews. The findings provide a multifaceted understanding of the European open-source ecosystem and its future potential. A community expert will join the panel to provide an additional perspective on the findings. Attendees are encouraged to participate in this engaging discussion about the major trends shaping the OSS landscape in Europe. The panel will offer valuable insights for developers, businesses, and policy makers alike, and provide a forum for exchanging ideas on the future of OSS in Europe.

Speakers

Cailean Osborne

Researcher, Linux Foundation

Cailean is a Researcher at the Linux Foundation and a PhD Candidate in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His interests are in OSS, the digital commons, and public interest computing. Previously, Cailean worked as the International Policy Lead... Read More →

Anna Hermansen

Researcher and Ecosystem Manager, LF Research, The Linux Foundation

Anna is the Ecosystem Manager and a Researcher for LF Research where she supports end-to-end management of the department's research projects. She has conducted qualitative and systematic review research on the integration of technologies to better support health data sharing. Her... Read More →

Mirko Boehm

Community Development, Linux Foundation Europe, The Linux Foundation

Mirko Boehm is a free and open source software contributor, community manager, licensing expert and researcher, with contributions to major open source projects like the KDE Desktop, the Open Invention Network, the Open Source Initiative and others. He is a visiting lecturer and researcher... Read More →

Adrienn Lawson

Data Analyst, Linux Foundation

Adrienn is a data analyst at the Linux Foundation. Adrienn obtained a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford in Social Data Science. She supports LF Research with survey development, analysis, and report writing. Adrienn has previously conducted research at the University... Read More →

Monday September 16, 2024 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Any

12:15 CEST

How to Drive Consensus and Transparency Within Open Source Communities - Jill Lovato, Linux Foundation & Trishan de Lanerolle, F5

Monday September 16, 2024 12:15 - 12:55 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

Imagine stepping into a room full of developers, engineers, managers, executives with differing opinions, world views, agendas and technical experiences and perspectives. Now consider shepherding that group to collectively define and build a community open source project. How in the world would you do that? In addition to the supporting tools and frameworks (like collaborative documentation, source controls, issue trackers, communications platform), what are the necessary soft skills to steer a successful program? Drawing from collective real world experiences working in Open Source communities across Program management, Communications, and Marketing, the speakers will share insights and best practices on necessary “soft skills” needed to establish and run a vibrant, transparent and collaborative community, including stakeholder awareness, lowering barriers to entry, collective decision making and driving consensus to name a few. This session is designed for anyone involved in project management or community building to discover practical tips that can be applied not only to open source projects but also to enhancing team collaboration within your organization.

Speakers

Jill Lovato

Director, Marketing Communincations, Linux Foundation

Jill leads marketing communications for LF Networking, LF Edge, and several other related projects at the Linux Foundation. As an experienced tech communications and marketing leader with nearly 20 years’ of experience across both open source and corporate environments, she brings... Read More →

Trishan de Lanerolle

Strategic Planning and Operations Lead for Distributed Cloud, F5, F5

Trishan leads strategic planning for Security and Distributed Cloud Operations at F5 and recognized as an F5 Open Source Ambassador. His previous roles include Principal Technical Program Manager at Equinix and Senior Technical Community Architect at the Linux Foundation, contributing... Read More →

Monday September 16, 2024 12:15 - 12:55 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Beginner

14:15 CEST

Panel Discussion: Advancing Innovation Through Open Source: Lessons from the Vertical Industries - Jonas van den Bogaard, Alliander N.V.; Cornelius Schumacher, DB Systel GmbH; Wolfgang Gehring, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation; and Karel Rietveld, Dutch Tax

Monday September 16, 2024 14:15 - 14:55 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

Open source software and collaboration models play a crucial role in fostering innovation across various sectors. Yet, companies that do not specialize in software, particularly in vertical industries where software has been seen as a commodity or an expense traditionally, often encounter challenges when integrating open source into their operations. This panel aims to address these challenges by offering insights, experiences, and best practices from Energy, Transportation, Automotive, and Public Sectors, focusing on how to effectively leverage open source to drive progress and efficiency using real world examples. Key Topics: - Innovation Through Open Source: Explore the transformative impact of open source in advancing innovation within four critical sectors. - Overcoming Obstacles: Address the common challenges organizations face in adopting and contributing to open source projects. - Policy and Governance: Discuss the significance of open source policies and governance structures, such as OSPOs, to facilitate the effective use of open source and contribute back to the community. Attendees will learn the benefits of open source and get advice on open source strategies.

Speakers

Cornelius Schumacher

Open Source Steward, DB Systel GmbH

Cornelius helps teams at Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company, to use and contribute to open source software. He has a background from more than two decades in the open source community and industry. Originally a software developer he now focus on management of open source.

Jonas van den Bogaard

Digital Strategy Lead & Open Source Office Lead, Alliander N.V.

Jonas van den Bogaard is a Digital Strategy Lead at Alliander, a distribution system operator (DSO) in the Netherlands. Alliander provides reliable, affordable, and accessible energy transport and distribution to a large part of the Netherlands. Open source has proved to be an enabler... Read More →

Wolfgang Gehring

FOSS Ambassador & OSPO Lead, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation

Dr. Wolfgang Gehring is an Ambassador for Open and Inner Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within Mercedes-Benz. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to help enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company... Read More →

Karel Rietveld

Specialist Open Source at Open Source Program Office, Dutch Tax and Customs Administration

Working within the Chief Technology Office in building an Open Source Program Office for the Dutch Tax and Customs administration.

Ana Jiminéz Santamaria

OSPO Project Manager, Linux Foundation, TODO Group

Ana is the OSPO Program Manager at the Linux Foundation project TODO Group, formed by an open community of practitioners who aim to create and share knowledge and collaborate on practices, tools, and other ways to run successful and effective Open Source Program Offices. Formerly... Read More →

Monday September 16, 2024 14:15 - 14:55 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Beginner

15:25 CEST

Who Owns This Code? Navigating Code Ownership from InnerSource to Open Source - Clare Dillon, Lero, CURIOSS & Tom Sadler, BBC

Monday September 16, 2024 15:25 - 16:05 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

In this session we will dive into the world of code ownership and examine the lines between "mine", "yours", and "ours" in open source and InnerSource projects. We’ll look at the different ways that you can consider the question: “who owns this code?” and how that may differ in open source and InnerSource practices. We’ll unpack the idea of hard vs. soft ownership. We’ll share real-life examples of different code ownership models, showing how they can impact project quality and sustainability. We’ll show how ownership can help empower teams to create and contribute to open source, but also where it can put up barriers. We’ll share some ways to create clarity in the area and examine some of the more subtle challenges related to toxic ownership cultures. This session aims to give attendees insights and strategies to foster effective code ownership in open source and InnerSource projects.

Speakers

Clare Dillon

InnerSource Researcher, CURIOSS Lead, Lero, CURIOSS

Clare Dillon is an InnerSource researcher with Lero (Science Foundation Ireland's Research Centre for Software) and a member of Lero's OSPO. Clare also works with CURIOSS, a global community of Open Source Program Offices in university and research institutions. From 2021-2023, Clare... Read More →

Tom Sadler

Principal Software Engineer, BBC

Tom Sadler is a Principal Software Engineer at the BBC, working with a number of teams to enable open source and industry engagement, and InnerSource. He has led multiple teams working on the BBC’s Connected TV applications, with a focus on cross team collaboration. Tom has been... Read More →

Monday September 16, 2024 15:25 - 16:05 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Beginner

16:20 CEST

What Makes a Good, or Bad, Open Source Experience?! - Ildiko Vancsa, Open Infrastructure Foundation & Philip Robb, Ericssson Software Technology

Monday September 16, 2024 16:20 - 17:00 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

Open source means a lot of things to a lot of people. That may be why it’s one of the most misunderstood and misused terms in tech and related ecosystems. In fact, if you ask ten different people in tech “what is open-source?”, you are likely to get ten very different answers. We know, we’ve done it! So what makes a “good” or “bad” experience for users and participants in open-source projects? Ildiko and Phil have set out to answer this question with their “My Open Source Experience” podcast. They are talking to seasoned professionals and newbies, to understand the challenges and successes they’ve experienced so far. Questions they ask include: Was it the code, the community, or the person's employer that made their experience better or worse? How did people navigate difficulties? What are “best practices” to achieve “success” however that is defined for individuals, their organization, and/or their community? In this talk Ildiko and Phil share some of the most interesting take-aways from their conversations with podcast guests as well as from their own open source journeys, and invite the audience to join the conversation and share their experiences.

Speakers

Phil Robb

President, Ericssson Software Technology

Phil is the Head of Ericsson Software Technology (EST), where he leads a passionate group of engineers developing open source software across a wide range of projects. Prior to Ericsson, Phil was the V.P. of Operations for the Networking Projects at the Linux Foundation for six years... Read More →

Ildiko Vancsa

Director of Community, Open Infrastructure Foundation

Ildikó is working for the Open Infrastructure Foundation as Director of Community. As part of her role, she is the Community Manager for the StarlingX and the Kata Containers projects, and a co-leader of the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group. She is an evangelist of open collaboration... Read More →

Monday September 16, 2024 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Intermediate

11:00 CEST

Panel Discussion: Bring Your Product Manager to the Open Source Party - Nithya Ruff, Amazon; Jeffrey Borek, IBM; and Mary (Meixia) Wang, Volvo Car Corporation

Tuesday September 17, 2024 11:00 - 11:40 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

Open source is not just a tactical choice for consumption made by a developer. Open source should be a key part of your innovation plan and strategy, and product managers and business leaders need to understand it. From managing a key open source dependency to releasing open source for building an ecosystem and standards, to joining an open source foundation as a core part of a business plan, business owners need to know open source. Often, the business side of the house is not involved in open source decisions and don’t see it as business impacting. This session is about how to get the business side of the house involved in opens source. It is understanding the business planning process and how to ensure open source is included in that process. Whether it is ideation for a new product, managing ongoing investments in a product line or in marketing and launches, open source is a key component of business plans. As the head of the OSPO at Amazon, I work to build bridges with the business side of the house and to show them implications to the business of open source decisions we make. They need to be involved, support and invest in how we do open source at a company.

Speakers

Nithya Ruff

Head, Open Source Program Office, Amazon

Nithya is the Head of Amazon’s Open Source Program Office. Amazon’s customers value open source innovation and the cloud’s role in helping them adopt and run important open source services. She drives open source culture and coordination inside of Amazon and engagement with... Read More →

Jeff Borek

WW Program Director,, IBM

Working to build a scalable and consistent supply chain security platform, while continuing to lead the consumption compliance Open Source Program Office (OSPO), including policy, execution and guidance. Working with IBM Government & Regulatory Affairs, Software, Systems, Cloud, Consulting... Read More →

Meixia Wang

Director of Open Source Ecosystem, Volvo Car Corporation

Mary Wang is the Director of Open Source Ecosystem of Volvo Car Corporation. Her professional accomplishments include initiating open source project, forming and built OSPO for Volvo Cars. Before this, Mary was a subject matter expert configuration manager and was responsible for... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Intermediate

11:55 CEST

Bridging the Gap: Incorporating Open Source Into Product Managers' Toolbox - Philipp Ahmann, Robert Bosch GmbH

Tuesday September 17, 2024 11:55 - 12:35 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

In the world of product management, spread sheets and analysis tools dominate the daily business. However, when it comes to open source, many product managers struggle to quantify its benefits and limit it to risk and compliance handling. This session aims to bridge the gap between the open source community and product managers by exploring how open source can be incorporated into their existing tools and considerations. While traditional tools focus on quantifiable metrics, the non-quantifiable benefits of open source communities, such as technology awareness and company insights, are often overlooked. By integrating open source considerations and measuring points into existing tools and perspectives, including monetary quantifiable numbers, product managers can build a comprehensive business case that captures the value of open source. Attendees of this session will gain insights into the tools and considerations that product managers employ in their journey towards product innovation. By understanding product manager perspectives and needs, the open source community can better collaborate and support the integration of open source into product development processes.

Speakers

Philipp Ahmann

Sr. OSS Community Manager, Etas GmbH (BOSCH)

Philipp Ahmann is an experienced senior OSS community manager at Etas GmbH (BOSCH) specializing in safety and automotive grade open source stacks for software defined vehicles. He holds the position of technical steering committee chair for the Linux Foundation ELISA project to Enable... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Any

14:00 CEST

What Can Open Source Project Health Metrics Reveal About Project Users? - Sophia Vargas, Google & Georg Link, Bitergia

Tuesday September 17, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

Information about open source project users and usage characteristics can be an invaluable tool for maintainers and project leaders to prioritize support for features and old versions, as well as understand how users engage with their project. However, many open source users see incorporating telemetry into a project as an invasion of privacy. Within the CHAOSS community, we discuss and define metrics to understand and measure project health. Many of these same metrics can be used to infer characteristics about project users as they are part of the extended community. In this talk, we will discuss what we can and can’t learn about our users from existing publicly available metrics while respecting the privacy of our communities.

Speakers

Sophia Vargas

Research Analyst, Google

Sophia Vargas is a Program Manager in the research and education team within Google’s Open Source Programs Office. In this role she leads efforts that span project health, contributor experience, and open source economics. She is also on the Governing Board and an active contributor... Read More →

Georg Link

Director of Sales, Bitergia

Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional by using community metrics and analytics. Georg cofounded the CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active contributor to several projects and has often presents on open... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Beginner

14:55 CEST

Panel Discussion: Measuring the Health of Open Source Projects in Public Health - Cynthia Lo, GitHub and World Health Organization; Samuel Mbuthia, World Health Organization; Liliana Torres Sanchez, GitHub; Ian Candy, GitHub; Andrew Henry, GitHub

Tuesday September 17, 2024 14:55 - 15:35 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

This session will showcase how open source metrics can be used for monitoring open source projects developed for global health challenges. GitHub and the World Health Organization (WHO) partnered to build a framework for tracking and analyzing the health of open source projects. The WHO, an international public health agency of the United Nations, utilizes and creates open source digital tools to enhance global health efforts for remote care, disease surveillance, epidemiological modeling, health information systems for data collection and analysis, and digital platforms for emergency response. Within these tools, challenges exist in monitoring open source: the lack of a high level view of best practices adopted by various open source projects; linking open source practices to realized impact in the public health; and building interest in open source work and advocating for more open source development within the global health community. This presentation will highlight these challenges, discuss opportunities to tackle them and close with an open dialogue on how open source projects can be measured, and drive collaboration between the OS community and public health practitioners.

Speakers

Andrew Henry

Senior Software Engineer, GitHub

Liliana Torres Sanchez

Senior Data Analyst, GitHub

Ian Candy

Senior Software Engineer, GitHub

Cynthia Lo

Program Manager, GitHub

Cynthia is program manager with a background in project management and process improvement. Currently she leads the Skills-Based Volunteering program at GitHub.

Samuel Mbuthia

OSPO Lead, World Health Organization

Samuel Mbuthia leads the World Health Organization (WHO) Open Source Programme Office. He is based at the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin. Before joining WHO, Samuel spent many years working on technology in public health, leading technical aspects of various... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 14:55 - 15:35 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Any

16:00 CEST

You Never Know When You Need a Fork - Madelyn Olson, AWS & Viktor Söderqvist, Ericsson

Tuesday September 17, 2024 16:00 - 16:40 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

What happens when a beloved open-source project used by millions of developers suddenly changes to a non-open source license? In this session learn about what lead to the creation of Valkey, the open-source alternative to the now proprietary Redis project. In this talk, two Valkey maintainers will discuss how Valkey was created and the lessons learned along the way. We'll discuss the concerns that existed in our community before the fork, the challenges we faced during the creation of the new project, and where we want to take Valkey in the future.

Speakers

Madelyn Elizabeth Olson

Software Engineer, AWS

I work primarily on the open source Redis project and evangelize the importance of open source software development.

Viktor Söderqvist

Open source developer, Ericsson

Viktor is an open source developer at Ericsson, contributing to several projects. The last few years, he was contributing to Redis, but recently his focus has been on Valkey, the open source fork of Redis, which he together with a few more active contributors forked and now maint... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 16:00 - 16:40 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Beginner

16:55 CEST

Panel Discussion: The Next Phase in OSS (Ideate, Design and Build) - Samson Goddy, Open Source Community Africa; Oluebube Princess Egbuna, Drogo AI; and Edidiong Asikpo, Zuplo

Tuesday September 17, 2024 16:55 - 17:35 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

In the last three decades, we’ve seen an evolution of open source starting from the ’90s when foundations and ideas were birthed with the likes of the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, and projects that changed the world like the Linux Kernel and the Apache server. From there, open source has gotten into mainstream adoption and advocacy, where we have platforms like GitLab, GitHub, and SourceForge, enabling people to build software projects openly and increasing collaboration among people in tech. Within the last ten years, groundbreaking innovations like the cloud, AI, and big data have become open source by default - this is where we are now. However, the global south is still stuck in the advocacy and adoption phase, with people who haven’t moved beyond their first contribution or are only aware of open source. We need to address this and move the global south to the next phase of open source—ideation, designing, and building. In this talk, we will share what we’ve been doing in Open Source Community Africa for the last 8 years and how we are currently fixing this problem through our latest flagship program, IDB (Ideate, Design, Build).

Speakers

Princess Oluebube

Software Engineer, Drogo AI

Oluebube, affectionately known as Bube, is a talented software engineer who has transitioned into the cloud native space. She has over six years of experience as a software engineer and has successfully led engineering teams to deliver high-impact software solutions. Bube is passionate... Read More →

Samson Goddy

Co-founder, Open Source Community Africa

I am the co-founder of Open Source Community Africa, I serve as one of the board members for Open Source Collective, a project that helps sustain open source projects through the open collective platform. A board of directors with Sugar Labs, inc the new organization behind the Sugar... Read More →

Edidiong Asikpo

Developer Advocate, Zuplo

Edidiong Asikpo is a Senior Developer Advocate based in Lagos, Nigeria. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge of DevOps through technical articles, videos, and social media. Edidiong has given over 100+ talks at tech events worldwide and continues to play a significant role... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 16:55 - 17:35 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Any

11:00 CEST

1 Billion Dollars for Open Source Maintainers - Tobie Langel, UnlockOpen

Wednesday September 18, 2024 11:00 - 11:40 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

Worldwide, we spend close to 2 trillion dollars per year for the loaded cost of software developers. If every company spent just 0.05% of that amount to fund open source maintainers, we’d unlock a billion dollars per year to fund the maintenance of open source. That would pay the full time salaries for thousands of maintainers, their managers, security training, etc. That seems fairly cheap for software that accounts for 70% to 97% of our software stack depending on how you count. And just imagine the positive impact on the security of our software supply chain! What are we waiting for? We’re way overdue making a clear distinction between open source developers and open source maintainers and professionalizing the latter. This talk will explore what doing so would actually look like and give an overview of the current efforts to support open source maintainers.

Speakers

Tobie Langel

Principal, UnlockOpen

Tobie Langel is a world-leading expert on open source and standardization. He advises some of the biggest names in tech (Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Intel, Cisco), promising startups (Airtable, Postman, GitLab), industry organizations (OpenJS Foundation, OASIS Open, W3C) and nonprofits... Read More →

Wednesday September 18, 2024 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Any

11:55 CEST

Open Source Governance for Software Engineers - Tobie Langel, UnlockOpen

Wednesday September 18, 2024 11:55 - 12:35 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

The goal of this presentation is twofold: Firstly, we want to demystify open source project governance. Do you freeze when you hear the term governance? Do you blindly copy and paste the governance of other projects hoping it works for your project too? Do you struggle to keep governance up to date or aligned with what's *actually* going on in the project? You're not alone. Secondly, we want to provide a simple, practical, and proven approach to writing governance that's directly inspired from coding best practices. The very same concepts that are used when writing code (e.g. Don't Repeat Yourself, Keep It Simple, or Separation of Concerns) have direct application when authoring governance documents and create the same kind of positive outcomes: governance that is simple to understand, flexible, and and easy to maintain. You'll never come back from thinking about governance as code. By the time you leave this presentation, you'll have an entirely new perspective on governance and will feel empowered by your ability to leverage your existing software engineering skills in this new domain.

Speakers

Tobie Langel

Principal, UnlockOpen

Wednesday September 18, 2024 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Intermediate

14:00 CEST

Fast & Furious: From Zero to Open Source Community in 9 Weeks - Leslie Hawthorn, Red Hat GmbH & Martin Hickey, IBM

Wednesday September 18, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

When you join an open source community, do you ever wonder how it got started? Was infrastructure like CI/CD, code checking tools, docs, etc. started from day 0 or built bit-by-bit from day 1 onwards? Do people assume particular roles or does everyone just jump in to get things rolling? Do you build up some capabilities first and then open it up, or just go gung-ho? In this talk, we tell the story of how an idea germinated from the IBM AI research team and investigated on a dev laptop led to IBM and Red Hat building out an entire project to successfully create the InstructLab open source community in just 9 weeks. We will treat you to a behind the scenes look at how a huge undertaking like this can be realized - warts and all. We invite you to join us for our story of how a dedicated team working together took complex AI concepts that seemed near-impossible to make open source and built a community that allows anyone to contribute improvements to LLMs. Attendees will leave with a thorough understanding of how to create the scaffolding for a successful project opening in a short time frame, with all requisite buzzwords like “GenAI” included, but not obnoxiously so.

Speakers

Leslie Hawthorn

Sr. Manager, Industry Community Strategy, Red Hat GmbH

An internationally known open source strategist & community building expert, Leslie Hawthorn has spent her career creating, cultivating, and enabling communities. She has driven open source strategy in Fortune 10 companies, pre-IPO startups, and Foundation Boards including senior... Read More →

Martin Hickey

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM

Martin is a STSM and an Open Source strategic leader at IBM. He has been contributing to various Open Source projects, most notably, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTelemetry, and OpenStack. Martin is a core maintainer and a TOC member of the Helm project. He has been a speaker at various conferences... Read More →

Wednesday September 18, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Beginner

15:10 CEST

Open Source Software Engineering Education - Stephen Walli, Microsoft

Wednesday September 18, 2024 15:10 - 15:50 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

Well run open source software community projects are natural labs for teaching software engineering practices to undergraduates. What if we turned the classroom inside out? What if we taught students the fundamentals of software transmitted diseases? (The New STDs!) And intellectual property basics that every engineer needs to understand? This talk shares the experiences of building out Semesters of Code this past four years, and where the experiment is going to go next.

Speakers

Stephen Walli

Principal Programmer Manager, Microsoft

I'm a principal program manager at Microsoft in the Azure Office of the CTO. I've been a Distinguished Technologist at HP, CTO at the Outercurve Foundation, founded a start-up, and been a writer and consultant. I've been around open source software for 30+ years. I was governing board... Read More →

Wednesday September 18, 2024 15:10 - 15:50 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Intermediate

16:05 CEST

Open Source for the Greater Good - Sean Marcia, GitHub & Gia Coelho, Ruby for Good

Wednesday September 18, 2024 16:05 - 16:45 CEST

Hall C (Level 2)

In an era where technology increasingly influences every aspect of society, the potential for open source software to serve public interests and empower nonprofit organizations is immense. Yet, despite its transformative promise, the intersection of open source and the nonprofit sector remains underexplored and underutilized, particularly in projects aimed at public welfare beyond the tech community. I'll delve into the untapped synergy between open source initiatives and nonprofit organizations, exploring pathways for adoption, community support, funding, and sustainable growth. I will demystify the process of integrating open source solutions within nonprofit projects, highlighting practical strategies for organizations to not only adopt technology but also to contribute back to the open source ecosystem. I will also explore case studies of successful nonprofit open source projects, identifying key factors that contributed to their sustainability and impact. Finally, and possibly most importantly I'll explain about securing funding and support for open source projects focused on the public good, as well as partnerships, and community-driven development opportunities.

Speakers

Gia Coelho

Product Designer, Ruby for Good

Gia (she/her) is a Product Designer and lives in Washington, DC. She has been an active member of Ruby for Good since 2019, contributing as a core member to brand strategy development, product, UX, and visual design. Her passions include wildlife conservation, culinary adventures... Read More →

Sean Marcia

Open Source Enthusiast, GitHub

Sean Marcia, pronouns he, him, his, founded Ruby for Good in 2013 to fill the gap created by inaccessible and uneconomical technology solutions for nonprofits. He built an inclusive community of gooders—technologists determined to make the world a better place—who build open source... Read More →

Wednesday September 18, 2024 16:05 - 16:45 CEST
Hall C (Level 2)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Level Any