Open Source Leadership Summit 2019

Finding licenses in open source software is crucial to determine involved licensing and license obligations when using open source software. FOSSology is a software project that is specialized in identifying license relevant statements. It supports further compliance tasks, such as the identification of copyright statements or the generation of SPDX files. FOSSology is a collaboration project of the Linux Foundation. It is free software licensed under the GPL-2.0; therefore all organisations can download, use and extend FOSSology to their own needs.

Recently, new technology has been introduced for FOSSology, which is going towards more automation by providing a REST API for example. New scanning approaches have been developed which enables more automation at imprecise licensing. This presentation explains how users of FOSSology can use the new features.

The goal of the Community Data License Agreement (CDLA) is to develop data license agreements that could enable sharing of data similar to what we have with open source software. In this presentation, Nick will introduce CDLA and describe his journey of open sourcing one of his personal data sets.

Power systems are going through a paradigm transformation - from centralized and uni-directional, to distributed and multi-directional. This is a shift from a grid architecture to a mesh network. Many believe that the digitalization of energy will remake the grid to resemble a system of systems that looks more like the Internet. The challenges are formidable, the urgency critical as we try to innovate our way out of the climate crisis.

In this very brief overview of power systems for open source developers we will explore the foundations of energy and the electrification of everything. This talk has been designed with the intention of providing an introduction to the use cases and challenges of the energy transition.

Software development is a collaborative activity involving sentiments that can affect developers' productivity, creativity, and contribution satisfaction. Thus, different parts of the source code can be built either positively or negatively. In the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), the discussions can get excited as different people from distinct cultures and interests are part of it. Besides that, the sentiment can vary across subsystem communities. The more positive discussions a community has, more attractive for contributing this community is. Finally, the patch acceptance or rejection may impact contributors' sentiment and retention. Sentimine is a plugin on top of the cregit platform focused on analyzing the sentiment behind the Linux Kernel code. As a result, project leads and maintainers can improve developers' sentiments, and, consequently, the team retention and satisfaction.

OPDi was founded to drive greater alignment in the Apache Hadoop and big data landscape. As this greater alignment was realized in the platform components, ODPi turned its focus towards metadata. The ODPi Egeria project was founded in 2018 with the goal of driving collaboration between vendors, end-users, solution providers, and developers. It provides APIs for communication between metadata management systems and tools that generate or use metadata. Apache Atlas servers as a reference implementation. Going forward ODPi intends to host other open source projects in the big data space to maximize this fruitful collaboration for all players in the ecosystem.

In August 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Linux Foundation launched the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) to provide a neutral forum for open source software developers in the motion picture and broader media industries to share resources and collaborate on technologies for image creation, visual effects, animation and sound. David Morin, Executive Director of the Academy Software Foundation, will discuss why the Foundation was formed and how it plans to increase the quality and quantity of open source contributions by lowering the barrier to entry for developing and using open source software across the industry.

The OpenSDS Project is an open source community comprising storage vendors as well as end users working to address storage challenges in the cloud native era. To date, the project has delivered an open cloud native storage platform that prevents vendor lock-in. As the community grows, expectations of the project to help accelerate data center modernization becomes greater. Providing northbound framework integration and southbound storage connectivity is just the foundation. The project needs to leverage artificial intelligence/machine learning, orchestration and automation, multi-cloud, etc. to work towards an open autonomous data storage platform. This talk will outline the development plan and end users scenarios such as that of IBM. In addition, the talk will cover activities to cultivate the developer community, grow the ecosystem, and support end user adoption.

Celebrating its inaugural year as an “umbrella” project, LF Networking brings together seven top Linux Foundation open source networking projects to increase harmonization across platforms, communities and ecosystems all working towards the common goal of accelerating open source networking deployments across the stack. Together, the LFN project communities address major industry challenges through collaboration between end users, vendors and developers. Using real-world examples, founding leaders from the LFN community will discuss this unique approach to collaboration, including best practices in forging a unified community from disparate projects; how to anticipate, reduce, and mediate inter-project conflicts; how to support effective “umbrella” project governance to clear the path for technical community innovation; and more.

Highlights will include:
- LFN as a de-facto standard for Telecom (Technical and community)
- LFN as the umbrella - how members benefitted and joined the revolution

The Yocto Project’s build environment is uniquely placed to allow tracing from input individual source files all the way to the output binaries. This gives rise to under recognised and underutilized possibilities for analysing the license situation from both end user company and overall ecosystem perspectives.

Working together with SPDX the system can generate accurate Software Bill of Materials, show areas of potentially problematic license interaction and allow the licensing of the overall Linux ecosystem to be visualized as well.

This talk will explore how things stand today, where these capabilities can lead in the future and the challenges facing the Yocto Project, SPDX and the overall Linux software stack.

Standards are slow and bureaucratic, and what do you need them for anyway when open source is fast, flexible, and free?   We're going to challenge those assumptions and talk about how standards and open source can work together to achieve great results.  We'll also explore how your projects can leverage the Joint Development Foundation's approach to standards development.

Big companies coming from the old industry business are moving slowly but steadily towards Open Source which is becoming a more important part of companies strategy every year. Urs Gleim will talk on the journey over the last two decades of Open Source Software usage and re-distribution as part of products up to strategic projects. One of the current strategic projects is the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project which aims to speed implementation of Linux-based civil infrastructure systems such as railway infrastructure, power generation, and power distribution, traffic lights, as well as industrial automation. It builds upon existing open source foundations and expertise, establishes de facto standards by providing a base layer reference implementation, and contribute to and influence upstream projects regarding industrial needs. Furthermore, the talk will cover how to internally disseminate the Open Source efforts and what companies can learn from Open Source governance models.

While much of the talk and excitement around containers have moved to higher layers like Kubernetes and FaaS/serverless, container runtimes are still the driving force that underpins many of these technologies. When applications are deployed to platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, and many of today's serverless platforms, it is container runtimes at the bottom of the stack running and managing the lifecycle of these container-packaged applications.

How did we get from the burst of excitement around the open source Docker engine in 2014 to the CNCF landscape of today, featuring a myriad of options for interacting, orchestrating, and building containers?

In this talk, we'll look at the importance of the OCI and the CNCF, including the requisite standards and projects that have kept the container runtime community on the same page and working together even as many competitors as both vendors and implementers. We'll also see how work continues in these critical areas in 2019 and beyond to build a stable basis for future innovations in containers.

Since 2010 the Yocto Project has given people a way to build customized Linux systems. The wider world has changed since then but so has the Project and its vibrant community has seen growth into many places.

Find out how the Yocto Project's expanded community has been using the project, its growth with new members and updated governance structure, and how it's helping the wider Linux ecosystem with key problems and is taking Linux to new places, in some cases even out of this world!