The Linux Foundation Member Summit: Full Schedule

November 19-21 2024
Napa, California
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10:00am PST

Facilitated Discussion: The Essential Role of Curation - Aeva Black, CISA & Jordan Kasper, U.S. Dept of Homeland Security

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:00am - 11:15am PST

Sebastiani & Beringer

In the beginning, open source gained the public’s trust through direct relationships with maintainers, participating in communities, and reliance on curators. Somewhere along the way, the essential role of curators seems to have been forgotten. Sophisticated actors have been systematically seeking to abuse the trust placed in open source, and individual maintainers are not equipped to fend this off - nor should they have to go it alone, if they don’t want to. Let’s gather for a discussion of community-based solutions to this threat to open source.

Speakers

Aeva Black

Section Chief, Open Source Security, CISA

Aeva Black is a non-binary hacker and open source software advocate, currently leading OSS security policy at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Previously, Aeva held advisory and board roles at several non-profits (OSI, OpenSSF, OpenStack) and led development... Read More →

Jordan Kasper

Senior Advisor, U.S. Dept of Homeland Security

Jordan Kasper is a software engineer, conference speaker, and open source zealot. He spent much of his career building web applications for organizations of all sizes. In 2017, he joined the U.S. Digital Service to help make tech better for all Americans. He has worked on systems... Read More →

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:00am - 11:15am PST
Sebastiani & Beringer

Security & Trust & Ethics in Open Source

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