Open Source Leadership Summit 2019: Full Schedule

March 12-14, 2019 - Half Moon Bay, CA
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9:00am PDT

Pitfalls in Pivoting: How to Make Changes in Your Organization Without Exhausting Everyone - Leslie Hawthorn & Jen Krieger, Red Hat

While change is inevitable, it is also difficult, particularly in larger organizations. As enterprises grapple with an ever increasing rate of technical change, they risk demotivating - and losing - the key employees implementing these necessary changes. Without bringing your talent along in a holistic way, attempts to level-up your business culture and technical stack will fail.

In this talk, you will learn how implementing Agile processes and human-centered change management can combat change fatigue as your company architects and executes its digital transformation strategy. Attendees will leave with concrete steps they can take to ensure that pivots in strategy can be understood, explained, and effectively enacted by their management and technical staff.

Speakers

Jennifer Krieger

Chief Agile Architect, Red Hat, Inc.

Keynote speaker and doer of many things, Jen Krieger is Chief Agilist at Red Hat. Most of her 20+ year career has been in software development holding many roles throughout the waterfall and agile lifecycles. At Red Hat, she led a department-wide

Leslie Hawthorn

Sr. Manager - Vertical Community Strategy, Red Hat GmbH

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

Wednesday March 13, 2019 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

9:40am PDT

Cultivating Open Source Leadership - Kay Williams, Microsoft & Sarah Novotny, Google

Google and Microsoft work at the forefront of Open Source today, and yet in many ways this work is just beginning. In this session Sarah Novotny (Google) and Kay Williams (Microsoft) share how their organizations are cultivating Open Source leadership. They discuss ongoing work to build cultures that reach across ecosystems and create new communities that flourish and thrive. They also share strategic goals for cultivating community leaders and the value companies can receive for their investment in the future. Join us to learn what these two companies are doing today, and what their hopes are for tomorrow.

Speakers

Sarah Novotny

Head of Open Source Strategy for GCP, Google

Sarah Novotny leads an Open Source Strategy group for Google Cloud Platform. She has long been an Open Source community champion in communities such as Kubernetes, NGINX and MySQL and ran large scale technology infrastructures before web-scale had a name. Novotny currently sits on... Read More →

Kay Williams

Azure Office of the CTO, Microsoft

Kay works with teams across Microsoft and the industry to connect, design and deliver innovative solutions through open source communities. She has many years’ experience in technology management including business strategy, product design and engineering at Microsoft as well as... Read More →

Wednesday March 13, 2019 9:40am - 10:10am PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

10:50am PDT

Understanding Trademarks in the Context of Open Source - Josh Aas, Internet Security Research Group, Ben Costa & Chris Ridder, Costa & Johnstone LLP

Establishing and defending trademarks can be an important part of operating a project with an identity and reputation that needs to be maintained in order to avoid confusion, including that which might put the safety and security of users at risk. Even if a project is not particularly invested in establishing and maintaining its own trademarks, being aware of how trademarks work can help projects avoid legal complications. We'll talk about what trademarks are, how they can be helpful, and some of the trademark-related problems and complications that can come up in the context of open source projects and service providers.

Speakers

Ben Costa

Partner, Ridder, Costa & Johnstone LLP

Ben Costa is an attorney who works heavily on trademark-related matters.Having practiced in the fields of intellectual property and privacy online for his entire career, Ben has defended the rights of clients both in the US and around the globe.

Chris Ridder

Attorney, Ridder, Costa, and Johnstone LLP

Chris Ridder’s practice is focused on software and internet law. He litigates cases, negotiates contracts, and advises companies on issues that arise at the intersection of law and technology, including data privacy, intermediary liability, trademarks, and copyright matters from... Read More →

Josh Aas

Executive Director, Internet Security Research Group

Josh Aas is the Executive Director of Internet Security Research Group, the organization behind the Let's Encrypt certificate authority. Previously Josh spent much of his career with Mozilla.

Wednesday March 13, 2019 10:50am - 11:20am PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

11:30am PDT

What’s Your Open Source Strategy? - James Vasile, Open Tech Strategies & Susy Struble, Mozilla

Two years ago, Mozilla’s Open Innovation team took inspiration from a discussion at the OSLS around the need for companies invested in open source to be open by design: to ensure their entire open source approach for a project, from governance to tools, is thoughtfully designed to reach that project’s goals and impact.

To help with this challenge, in summer 2018, Mozilla together with Open Tech Strategies published a research report, a “field guide” into open source strategy and project design. This "Open Source Archetypes Report" identified 10 general types of open communities in their strategic contexts.

This presentation will not only share perspectives to encourage a more systematic approach to open source. It will also provide a sneak preview of the upcoming version two of the report, which takes into account industry feedback we collected in response to the original release.

Speakers

Susy Struble

Senior Manager Open Innovation, Mozilla

Susy Struble is Senior Manager Open Innovation at Mozilla. She brings her experience with industry collaborations around interoperability, standards, and open source to Mozilla's Open Innovation Leadership team, with the goal of harnessing the power and diversity of Mozilla's contributor... Read More →

James Vasile

Partner, Open Tech Strategies

James Vasile has fifteen years of experience as a user, developer, advocate, and advisor in the free and open source software world. His expertise is in software licensing and community-building, as well as non-profit and small business startup. He focuses on free software and open source produ... Read More →

Wednesday March 13, 2019 11:30am - 12:00pm PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

12:10pm PDT

Not Business as Usual: Companies Change their Open Source Consumption Model - Jeffrey Borek, IBM & Nithya Ruff, Comcast

Open source has been a thing for over two decades now, and it's survived a number of growing pains and transitions. It began with individual programmers, who were looking greater freedom and flexibility in lieu of the traditional commercial software industry. Over time major IT vendor companies (IBM, Oracle, others) and then the hyper-scale platform companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) joined in. Most recently, enterprise companies have started to 're-think' their relationship to OS software and are leaning in smartly. Join this session to learn more about the "Fourth Wave" of OS evolution, the arrival of 'Open Data Sets' and the CDLA, and what's driving leading companies like Capital One, WalMart, and Comcast to not just consume - but actively contribute to and participate in OS.

Speakers

Nithya Ruff

Head, OSPO, 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 →

Wednesday March 13, 2019 12:10pm - 12:40pm PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

2:10pm PDT

Make Yourself Useful: How to be an Effective (Non-Profit) Board Member - Deborah Bryant, Red Hat

In this board-essentials talk, Deb Bryant shares wisdom gained plus safety tips earned from non-profit board work with a first-person view on fit and impact. She walks attendees through a practical primer in how to decide if a board seat is right for you, understanding what you’re signing up for before you dive in, and how to make contributions most meaningful.

Speakers

Deborah Bryant

Senior Director, Red Hat, Inc.

Deborah Bryant is Senior Director, Open Source Program Office, Office of the CTO at Red Hat where she leads a global team responsible for the company’s stewardship in open source software communities. Deb draws her perspective from an industry-diverse background; Parallel and high-speed... Read More →

Wednesday March 13, 2019 2:10pm - 2:40pm PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

2:50pm PDT

Open Source Collaboration and Companies: Finding the Right Balance - Dawn M. Foster, Pivotal

Collaboration within open source projects is becoming increasingly important for companies, but it can be difficult to strike the right balance between the needs of the company and the open source project. This can create friction and put significant pressure on employees who participate on behalf of their company when the needs of the individual, the company, and the community are not aligned. This talk will focus on ways to create this alignment between individuals, companies, and the community to help all of us be successful together.

The talk contains three major sections:
* Dynamics of collaboration in open source projects between individuals, companies, and communities.
* Strategies for participating in ways that will benefit your company, your employees, and the community.
* Tips for being a good corporate citizen as you contribute to open source projects.

Speakers

Dawn Foster

Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware

Dawn is the Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware within the Open Source Program Office. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, metrics, and more. She is passionate about... Read More →

Wednesday March 13, 2019 2:50pm - 3:20pm PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

4:00pm PDT

Single-vendor Open Source at the Crossroads - Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University

Most venture capital funding in open source flows to single-vendor open source firms a.k.a. companies with an open core model. With the struggles over licensing in the cloud, these companies find themselves at the crossroads: Stay true to open source or move to proprietary licenses, abandoning the goodwill and opportunities that come with open source. In this talk I will review how this business model works, discuss the challenges posed to vendors by large cloud providers, and review the current options on the table.

Speakers

Dirk Riehle

Professor, Friedrich-Alexander University

Dirk Riehle is a professor of computer science at University of Erlangen. He is also the CEO of Bayave GmbH, his consulting firm, and chief scientist of EDITIVE, one of the startups born out of his research. His work helps companies succeed in and through software, with a specialization in open source, inner source, and product strategy. Before joining academia, Prof. Riehle led the open... Read More →

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Wednesday March 13, 2019 4:00pm - 4:30pm PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

4:40pm PDT

Managing CLAs for Open Source Communities at Scale - Steve Winslow & Vasu Krishnappanaidu, The Linux Foundation

Some open source project communities use Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) as part of their process to receive contributions. This talk will (emphatically!) not discuss whether projects should or should not use CLAs. Rather, for those projects that choose to use them, we will discuss the practical and logistical challenges that can arise as a result. We will discuss and demonstrate a new CLA automation tool developed by the Linux Foundation, with the goals of helping to ensure that CLAs are handled efficiently and transparently; that the purposes for having a CLA are not undermined through difficulties with their use in practice; and that organizations can easily manage the lists of their authorized contributors.

Speakers

Vasu Naidu

Director, Product, The Linux Foundation

Steve Winslow

VP of Compliance & Legal, The Linux Foundation

Steve Winslow is Vice President of Compliance and Legal at The Linux Foundation. He runs The Linux Foundation’s license scanning and analysis support program, advising projects about licenses identified in their source code and dependencies. Steve is also involved with projects... Read More →

Wednesday March 13, 2019 4:40pm - 5:10pm PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

9:00am PDT

Open Source Super Power: Accelerating Success Through Strategic Prioritization Techniques - Lauren Britton & Suzanne Ambiel, VMware

Do you know what your project is going to be when it grows up? Each open source project is unique and can range from a simple script to a flagship type of project that drives a whole industry such as Kubernetes. In our talk we will give you the guidelines we have cultivated and implemented to help your company and project leads determine what type of backing your project needs.

It is important to have a framework in place to help make informed decisions on IP, marketing, branding, management, legal, and resourcing. Without this you are liable to make incorrect decisions. Not everything will be a big thing and that’s OK. You can make sure your expectations are inline with your designs for the project and what the community is going to glom to. Our tiering system we designed and implemented minimizes misdirection, missed expectations, and ensure the right resources are invested.

Speakers

Suzanne Ambiel

Director, Open Source Marketing & Strategy, VMware

Lauren Britton

Sr. Program Manager, VMware, Inc.

Lauren Weintraub Britton, PhD. is a Sr. Program Manager in the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) in VMware's Office of the CTO. She's been at VMware since 2014 and joined OSPO in January 2017. Lauren is the program manager for all outbound open source contributions. She is also the... Read More →

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Thursday March 14, 2019 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

9:40am PDT

Cultivate Open Source Ecosystem – Open, Multivariate and Symbiotic - Alan Ren, VMware

In recent years, there has been a strong trend to use open source software (OSS) for innovation. The adoption of open source software allows us to accelerate software development by using solutions of already solved problems.

In this talk, Alan will share his experience in leading innovation in various areas by collaboration with open source ecosystems, including cloud native applications(Project Harbor and CNCF), Internet of Things ( EdgeX Foundry ), blockchain (Hyperledger) and artificial intelligence. The key success factors of building leadership in OSS include openness, multivariation and symbiosis. Alan will provide case studies of Chinese and global community on each of these factors during the session.

Speakers

Alan Ren

General Manager, VMware China R&D Center

Alan Ren serves as the General manager of VMware China R&D,taking in charge of the research and development of innovative projects, such as container management platform on Cloud Native, Kubernetes, Harbor, IoT, Blockchain, and Machine learning etc. He has also overseen the research... Read More →

Thursday March 14, 2019 9:40am - 10:10am PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

11:00am PDT

Inspur's Open Source Practices and Lessons - James Wang, Inspur

Inspur joined LF and CNCF according to our development requirements several years ago, we used openstack and kubernetes in Inspur private, government and public cloud, Inspur also developed SDN controller for our switch products based on Opendaylight, James Wang will share our experiences and lessons per our opensource practices and provide some feedback and advice for LF opensource projects, especially from Chinese company's perspective, to help improve LF opensource community and promote LF opensource projects to China.

Speakers

James Wang

Manager of R&D Managment, Inspur Group

James Wang, Inspur Cloud Group R&D Management Manager. Inspur Cloud, ranked No.1 in China's government cloud market, and No.3 in public cloud, dedicated to providing secure, trusted computing and data processing capabilities in the form of cloud services, Inspur makes possible of... Read More →

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Thursday March 14, 2019 11:00am - 11:06am PDT
Pescadero

IGNITE Lightning Talk, Best Practices in Open Source Development

11:08am PDT

Don't Jump, 5 Small Steps for Building An Open Source Practice with No Money - Ben Rodriguez, Health Care Services Corp

Adopting an open source practice is a vital part of your digital cloud transformation. All members of the organization can and should contribute to open source activities just like all members of the organization contribute to the culture of the organization. The key challenge is to encourage the building of an open source community while managing the day to day goals of the organization.

Within this talk, Ben delivers the first five steps he took to build an open source practice with no budget in an organization that is highly regulated with legacy technology and that has a desire to change.

Developing an open source practice is no longer just another fanciful idea. An open source strategy can deliver quantitative and qualitative measurements. It is becoming more imperative for companies to cultivate learning and retention so they can compete for talent and stay in business.

Speakers

Ben Rodriguez

Director of Engineering, Health Care Services Corp

A global technology leader with nearly 20 years of progressive corporate and startup experience who values new challenges, building relationships, and identifying solutions that deliver customer satisfaction. Strong entrepreneurial drive demonstrated through six technologies ventures... Read More →

Thursday March 14, 2019 11:08am - 11:14am PDT
Pescadero

IGNITE Lightning Talk, Growing & Sustaining Project Communities

11:16am PDT

Open Source’s Connection to the Past - Gordon Haff, Red Hat

Open source software grew out of specific aspects of the computer industry, but it’s also tied to how companies and people have collaborated—and innovation has taken place—historically. Research into these topics contains many potential learnings for open source software development.

Gordon Haff—the author of How Open Source Ate Software—will delve into that research. He'll look at how innovation took place through collective invention in the 19th century steel industry and how coopetition among companies arose over time. He’ll discuss communications, modularity, and organizational structure. He’ll cover fundamental research about motivations both as a theory and as practiced in open source projects.He’ll examine measurement systems, both historical and current . Armed with this knowledge, you’ll be better prepared to both understand and guide the open source development process.

Speakers

Gordon Haff

Technology Advocate, Red Hat

Gordon Haff is Technology Advocate at Red Hat where he works on market insights; writes about tech, trends, and their business impact; and is a frequent speaker at customer and industry events. Among the topics he works on are edge, AI, quantum, cloud-native platforms, and next-generation... Read More →

Thursday March 14, 2019 11:16am - 11:22am PDT
Pescadero

IGNITE Lightning Talk, Best Practices in Open Source Development

11:24am PDT

Measure for Maturity - Per Ploug Krogslund, Zalando SE

What happens to an open source project after its initial release? Who ensures that it continues to grow and mature? When do you decide to double down on promising projects to support their growth and who will make the difficult decision to stop supporting projects which did not deliver on their promise?

As a company, heavily engaged in producing and releasing open source, Zalando have been wrestling with the question on how to best spend our limited resources and time - this talk will present our work on a framework of maturity metrics and tooling which we apply to our project portfolio to guide our decision making on which projects to double down on and which to consider ending.

It helps us to understand and act on the full lifecycle of our open source projects, no matter if the project is just getting started, is maturing or is in a declining state

Speakers

Per Ploug Krogslund

Open Source Manager, Zalando SE

Leading the open source team at Europe’s largest online fashion platform Zalando SE. Manages and grows the communities around 200 open source projects maintained by Zalando’s 2000 engineers. Previously co-founded Umbraco, one of the biggest open source content management systems... Read More →

Thursday March 14, 2019 11:24am - 11:30am PDT
Pescadero

IGNITE Lightning Talk, Growing & Sustaining Project Communities

11:32am PDT

The Serverless Landscape and Event Driven Futures - Priyanka Sharma, Gitlab & Dee Kumar, The Linux Foundation

Serverless design patterns have grown in popularity amongst developers and enterprises alike and the ecosystem is exploding. Developers like moving faster by focusing on business logic without worrying about the underlying infrastructure and enterprises appreciate the cost savings. Today, there are umpteen solutions and OSS projects in the market and the space needs some organization to maximize effort. There is a lot of curiosity and confusion around serverless computing: What is it? Who is it for? Is it a replacement for IaaS, PaaS and containers? Does that mean the days of servers are over? CNCF created the Serverless Working Group to explore the intersection of cloud native and serverless technology. The first output of the group was creation of serverless landscape. The landscape lists some of the more common/popular Serverless projects, platforms, tooling, and services.

Speakers

Dee Kumar

Vice President, Developer Marketing, Linux Foundation

Dee Kumar has more than 15 years of cloud computing experience. Her work at CNCF is focused on working with the developer and IT pro communities to advance open source projects at scale. Most recently, Kumar was Director of Product Marketing at Docker where she built and launched... Read More →

Priyanka Sharma

Director of Technical Evangelism, GitLab

Priyanka Sharma is the Director of Cloud-Native Alliances at GitLab Inc. She also serves on the board of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and has deep expertise in DevOps and observability. A former entrepreneur with a passion for growing developer products through open... Read More →

Thursday March 14, 2019 11:32am - 11:38am PDT
Pescadero

IGNITE Lightning Talk, Growing & Sustaining Project Communities

11:40am PDT

REDy for Takeoff? - Sven Loberg & Chad Mott, Accenture

The age of pervasive AI, rapid system evolution, and amazing software-powered digital experiences is upon us. Or so all of the talking heads will tell you ad nauseum.

Two obstacles often stand in the way, the Monolith and Data Prison. Legacy systems can shackle the Enterprise to decades of technical debt and starve AI for lack of data. There is a way out of the mess, and both the technology and method by which to succeed now exist: RED architecture: Reactive, Realtime, Event Driven and Decoupled.

In order to embrace RED and make the promise of Digital Transformation real, companies must embrace open source and cloud native technologies: business events streams provided by technologies like Apache Kafka, functions (provided by technologies like Fission and Kubeless) and many more. We will highlight trends crucial to success using the example of air travel.

Speakers

Chad Mott

Senior Technology Architect, Accenture

Sven Loberg

Global Open Source Lead, Accenture

Sven Loberg is a Managing Director within Accenture's Emerging & Growth practice with responsibility for Open Source and Software Innovation. In this role he works to promote the benefits and use of open source both at Accenture clients as well as within Accenture. Sven has worked... Read More →

Thursday March 14, 2019 11:40am - 11:46am PDT
Pescadero

IGNITE Lightning Talk, Open Source Futures

11:48am PDT

What’s Brand Got to do with it? Building a Positive Open Source Reputation - Suzanne Ambiel, VMware

Reputation: it’s what’s in the room when you’re not. It’s qualitative and often based on emotion. When it comes to your personal reputation, the levers are pretty easy to identify and pull. But what about a company’s reputation? How do you groom, grow, and measure reputation? And with the vast open source community – where do you start? What strategies and tactics should you consider? If you’re in an Open Source Program office or contributing to your company’s open source community, join me for a lively discussion on what matters, what doesn’t, and why you should care. You’ll walk away with a new perspective and perhaps some new objectives for 2019.

Speakers

Suzanne Ambiel

Director, Open Source Marketing & Strategy, VMware

Thursday March 14, 2019 11:48am - 11:54am PDT
Pescadero

IGNITE Lightning Talk, Growing & Sustaining Project Communities

11:56am PDT

Breaking Barriers: Using Open Source to Drive Big Data Accessibility - Todd Mostak, OmniSci

Big Data has become the number one roadblock to organizational insight. Mobile devices, IoT, social media and hundreds of other sources are driving up data volumes 40% annually. If Big Data analytics are to become faster and more efficient, organizations need new solutions. Enter GPU-accelerated analytics. Delivering speed increases of up to 1,000x over CPUs, GPUs are enabling analysts and data scientists to query and visualize massive, multibillion row datasets in milliseconds—far beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. GPU-based analytics platforms eliminate the need for laborious data manipulation tasks such as pre-aggregation, downsampling, and pre-indexing.
After this presentation, open source users will be able to implement a solution to assess and interrogate Big Data at speed and scale, without locking into a proprietary approach.

Speakers

Todd Mostak

CEO, OmniSci

Necessity is the mother of invention. And so it was at Harvard when Todd Mostak spent hours, sometimes overnight, waiting for answers to his queries. His prize-winning thesis topic: how social media impacted the rise of the Arab Spring. His data set: tens of millions of tweets on... Read More →

Thursday March 14, 2019 11:56am - 12:02pm PDT
Pescadero

IGNITE Lightning Talk, Business Leadership

1:50pm PDT

Sell Expertise (Open Source the Rest) - Kendall Miller & Sarah Zelechoski, ReactiveOps

Running a business built on open source tooling is hard. But service has a very human component that tools can't satisfy. Therein lies a business.

Many companies are taking an open source tool and modifying it slightly so they can charge enterprise support rates. At ReactiveOps the product is the expertise of the people.

ReactiveOps relies heavily on existing open source projects (such as Kubernetes), and the things the engineers build on top are open sourced for the community.

In a world dominated by tools, building a team that can deliver expertise on tooling is more important than ever.

This talk will cover the line between tooling and service. And how to build a service company on top of open source tools that still turns heads.

Speakers

Sarah Zelechoski

VP of Engineering, ReactiveOps

Sarah is the VP of Engineering at ReactiveOps, she has a long history working with systems engineering and now engineers processes for service Engineers to be successful in a product-focused world. Sarah has spoken at DevOps Days Boston, and other conferences.

Kendall Miller

COO, ReactiveOps

Kendall is COO at ReactiveOps (a Kubernetes Services company), he has spoken extensively in China on topics mostly related to Leadership, and most recently spoke at Kubecon in Seattle. You can almost always find Kendall sitting down, although he does occasionally stand.

Thursday March 14, 2019 1:50pm - 2:20pm PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

2:30pm PDT

Open Source – Innovation and the Paradox of Plenty - Andrew Aitken, Wipro

Today, Open Source drives virtually every technology innovation; from cloud computing to AI. Also, this development model is being applied inside the firewall to drive efficiencies, break down silos & increase innovation. Yet, it faces a challenging future. Today, there is a problem of plenty; plenty of creativity, plenty of new projects, plenty of corporate money, plenty of media attention. What is missing is plenty of developers. For e.g., on Github there are 25M repos and 24M total users. Is the pursuit of innovation paradoxically threatening the future of open source?
We will discuss how open source drives innovation, how that model may be infringed upon by the continuing growth in projects and the fragmentation of interests. We’ll discuss some of the common mistakes made today when trying to create new projects and how to avoid them, and industry, corporate and individual solutions.

Speakers

Andrew Aitken

General Manager and Global Open Source leader, Wipro

Andrew Aitken is the GM & Global Open Source Practice leader for Wipro. In this capacity he, and his team, are responsible for crafting and executing Wipro’s open source consulting, community, go-to-market and solutions strategy. Today, Wipro has well over 20, 000 open source developers... Read More →

Thursday March 14, 2019 2:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
Pescadero

Business Leadership

3:50pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Metrics That Matter: Forging a Path to More Diverse, Inclusive Communities - Sarah Conway, The Linux Foundation; Dawn Foster, Pivotal; Georg Link, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Nicole Huesman, Community & Developer Advocate; and Jamie

While it is well recognized that diversity and inclusion are central to the health of open source communities, numbers lag and the ability to foster inclusive environments remains challenging. The CHAOSS Project’s Diversity & Inclusion Workgroup is focused on establishing a set of community-curated, peer-validated, research-informed standards and best practices to measure, and in turn, increase, diversity and inclusion across open source communities. Join us to learn about insights from our work and progress we’ve made against our objectives to date. Help shape this work by telling us how you encourage and achieve diversity and inclusion, or plan to, in your own communities. Let’s work together to make our collective open source communities more welcoming, broader and heterogeneous.

Speakers

Jamie Smith

CMO, The Linux Foundation

Jamie Smith is the Chief Marketing Officer at The Linux Foundation and Senior Advisor at West Exec Advisory. Previously, Smith was Global Chief Communications and Marketing Officer for The Bitfury Group. Smith served as special assistant to President Obama and deputy White House Press... Read More →

Georg Link

Director of Sales, Bitergia

Georg Link is an Open Source Strategist. Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional in its use of community metrics and analytics. Georg co-founded the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active... Read More →

Dawn Foster

Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware

Sarah Conway

VP, Communications, The Linux Foundation

Nicole Huesman

Founder, Producer & Host, She Lights the Way

Nicole is equal parts marketing and community strategist, storyteller and passionate advocate for elevating women in technology. During her career at companies including Intel and the non-profit Linux Foundation, Nicole has been a frequent podcaster, blogger, speaker and panel moderator... Read More →

Thursday March 14, 2019 3:50pm - 4:20pm PDT
Pescadero

Growing & Sustaining Project Communities

4:30pm PDT

What Success Looks Like for Open Source Communities - Jeffrey Osier-Mixon, The Linux Foundation

How is success identified and determined for an open source project and the people it serves, and how can we ensure that a project is achieving its potential? Each project is unique in both its character and in the needs it addresses, but there are best practices that can be generalized to all communities. Jefro discusses community intercommunications, feedback mechanisms, and project metrics, as well as the value of anecdotes and the philosophy of why measuring success is important.

Speakers

Jefro Osier-Mixon

Program Manager, Linux Foundation

"Jefro" Osier-Mixon has been an open source professional since the early 1990s as a technical writer and occasional developer as well as community manager, program manager, and OSPO leader. His primary activities over the years have included the Yocto Project, Zephyr Project, GNU... Read More →

Thursday March 14, 2019 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
Pescadero

Growing & Sustaining Project Communities