The Linux Foundation Member Summit: Full Schedule

November 19-21 2024
Napa, California
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11:30am PST

Supercharging Open Source Projects with Education - Clyde Seepersad, Linux Foundation Education & Randy Abernethy, RX-M LLC

Tuesday November 19, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm PST

Sebastiani & Beringer

The success of an open source project is directly related to the utility it provides its community and to benefit from a project, people must know of it as well as how to either contribute to or use it. Many projects are launched with great promise but die a painful and public death from a dearth of developers and/or users. In this talk we take a pragmatic look at growing open source project success through education programs. We cover the ways training can drive awareness and create 'pull' for people to get involved as users or developers. This talk will expose attendees to the open source training and certification landscape, discussing resources available to projects, such as courseware development, self paced learning, open enrollment, and, in more mature projects, skills testing and certification. Upon completion, attendees will have a clear understanding of the possibilities and benefits of having a comprehensive education agenda for their open source project.

Speakers

Clyde Seepersad

SVP, General Manager, Linux Foundation Education, The Linux Foundation

Clyde Seepersad is responsible for the training and certification arm of the Linux Foundation. Over the past decade, Clyde has held leadership positions in the education space, most recently as head of operations at 360training.com and before that as a senior executive of Houghton... Read More →

Randy Abernethy

Managing Partner, RX-M LLC

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Tuesday November 19, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm PST
Sebastiani & Beringer

Building & Managing Healthy OS Projects

Content Experience Level Any
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11:30am PST

Curation: The Role of an “Accountable Intermediary” for Critical Open Source - Eric Brewer, Google

Tuesday November 19, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm PST

Silverado West

To simplify open source security for the long term, we will need some help from curation and automation. How can we – as an OSS community and industry – help drive this transition, without placing too much of the burden on maintainers? We’ll share our vision for the future, and explore a variety of solutions and examples.

Speakers

Eric Brewer

Fellow, Google

Eric Allen Brewer is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and vice-president of infrastructure at Google. His research interests include operating systems and distributed computing. He is known for formulating the CAP theorem about distributed... Read More →

Tuesday November 19, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm PST
Silverado West

OS in the Public Sector & Society

Content Experience Level Any
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2:15pm PST

Panel Discussion: Onboarding GenAI: Accelerating Artificial Intelligence Innovation within Your Project - James McIntyre, OpenSearch; Carl Meadows, AWS; Shanshan Song, Uber; Mehul Shah, Aryn

Tuesday November 19, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm PST

Silverado East

As open source projects strive to deliver generative AI-powered features and functionality, they must set the stage for their communities to deliver progress against the right priorities. This panel discussion will explore how established projects can foster innovation from seasoned project contributors while encouraging new community members to collaborate and build together. Panelists from Aryn, Uber, and Amazon Web Services and the OpenSearch Project will share perspectives on practices that open source projects and contributors can use to bring GenAI innovations into production.

Speakers

Carl Meadows

Director of Product, AWS

Carl Meadows is the Director of Product for Amazon OpenSearch Service and the OpenSearch Project.

James McIntyre

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, OpenSearch

James McIntyre is senior product marketing manager for the OpenSearch Project, supporting product messaging and communications, digital marketing, and developer relations for the open source project. Prior to joining the OpenSearch team, he managed product marketing for category solutions... Read More →

Shanshan Song

Senior Director, Engineering, UBER

Shanshan Song is a Senior Director of Engineering at Uber Inc., where she leads the Storage, Search, and Data organization. Her team plays a pivotal role in powering Uber's online trip serving services and offline data analysis, leveraging open-source technologies to make critical... Read More →

Mehul Shah

CEO & Co-founder, Aryn

Mehul A. Shah is the Co-Founder of Aryn.ai. While everyone is working with AI these days, his background includes large-scale data management, distributed computing, and energy efficient computing. Prior to Aryn, Mehul was VP, Eng in Google Cloud, and GM of several AWS services: Glue... Read More →

Tuesday November 19, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm PST
Silverado East

Building & Managing Healthy OS Projects

Content Experience Level Any

3:00pm PST

Inviting New Contributors to the Repo: Lessons Learned from Two Contrasting Mentorship Initiatives - Emily Lovell, UC Santa Cruz OSPO

Tuesday November 19, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm PST

Sebastiani & Beringer

Mentorship is a powerful way to invite new contributors to the table – or repo, in the world of open source. An effective mentor can share their professional network, model problem solving skills, and offer advice on-demand for a wide range of topics – for example, writing issues and PRs, submitting conference proposals, or navigating a vast and unfamiliar codebase. Mentorship can also help grow communities; by integrating new contributors into the social and technical fabric of a project, they may be more likely to stick around. For those marginalized in tech, mentorship can also help cultivate a sense of belonging. Our academic OSPO has grown two very different mentorship programs in recent years: one pairs a globally distributed community of new contributors with academic open source research projects, and the other offers a high-touch contribution onramp to Historically Black College and University (HBCU) students via a hybrid in-person/remote format. Along the way, we’ve learned a number of lessons about what works… and also, what doesn’t! This talk will synthesize and share highlights in a generalizable way, while offering space for others to share their experiences, too.

Speakers

Emily Lovell

Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Cruz OSPO

Dr. Emily Lovell is an OSPO Incubator Fellow at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching use novel domains to invite broader participation in computing, with her postdoctoral work focusing on newcomers to open source. Emily previously served on faculty at Berea College, where she... Read More →

Inviting New Contributors pdf

Tuesday November 19, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm PST
Sebastiani & Beringer

Building & Managing Healthy OS Projects

Content Experience Level Any

10:00am PST

LFX Organization Dashboard - Dano Qualls, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am PST

Silverado West

Your company's Organization Dashboard has been completely redesigned and rebuilt to make it easy to understand how your company is involved with LF open source foundations and projects. Learn how to use time, project, and affiliation filters to see overviews, summaries, or detailed views of the data for your entire company or for individuals for: code contributions, event attendance, event speakers, training, certification, and more. After the demo, we will show the roadmap for 2025 and 2026 and gladly hear your feedback and feature suggestions.

Speakers

Dano Qualls

LFX Product Manager, The Linux Foundation

Daniel "Dano" Qualls is Senior Product Manager of the LFX Organization Dashboard and Individual Dashboard. Dano works with foundation members and LF internal staff to create tools that provide insightful data through a simple experience. His background includes working at startups... Read More →

LF Member Summit 2024 Org Dash Overview pdf

Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am PST
Silverado West

OS Project Highlights

Content Experience Level Any

10:45am PST

Accelerating AI/ML Development with Open Source Software - Jason Weill, AWS

Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:45am - 11:15am PST

Silverado West

Open source software makes modern AI, ML, and data science possible. AWS is proud to support and contribute to a number of open source projects in this space, including Jupyter, LangChain, and PyTorch. In this talk, we celebrate the newly created Jupyter Foundation and discuss some of the work that AWS is doing in open source projects and their communities.

Speakers

Jason Weill

Senior Front End Engineer, AWS

Jason Weill is a Senior Front Engineer on the AI/ML Open Source team at AWS, where he has been working full-time on open source Jupyter projects since October 2021. He is a Jupyter Distinguished Contributor, a member of the Jupyter Frontends Council, and a member of the Jupyter Diversity... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:45am - 11:15am PST
Silverado West

OS Project Highlights

Content Experience Level Any

10:45am PST

AI Agents: Revolutionizing Cloud Native Adoption and Open Source Innovation - Younes Hairej, Aokumo Inc.

Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:45am - 11:15am PST

Silverado East

As cloud native technologies mature, AI agents are emerging as game-changers for automation and optimization. This talk explores their transformative potential in cloud environments, focusing on Kubernetes and Istio management. We'll present a case study on how Aokumo has deployed AI agents to service clients globally, demonstrating tangible benefits in managing complex cloud infrastructures. The session will showcase practical applications where AI agents streamline operations, enhance security, and drive efficiency. We'll also discuss the open source community's crucial role in developing, standardizing, and ethically implementing these technologies.

Speakers

Younes Hairej

CEO, Aokumo Inc.

Younes is the founder and CEO of Aokumo Inc., specializing in AI agents and cloud infrastructure. With 15 years in IT and 7 years in executive roles, he has led teams in building and operating complex systems. Previously serving as CTO at Invast Inc., Younes spearheaded digital transformations... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:45am - 11:15am PST
Silverado East

Sustainability & Innovation in Open Source

Content Experience Level Any

2:00pm PST

Open Data Vs. Open Code: The Differences Matter - Marc Prioleau, Overture Maps Foundation

Wednesday November 20, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST

Sebastiani & Beringer

In this session led by Marc Prioleau, Executive Director of Overture Maps Foundation, we explore the often-misunderstood distinction between open map data and open source code. While open source code underpins many software projects within the Linux Foundation, open map data, especially in the context of Overture Maps Foundation's work presents unique challenges and opportunities. This talk will: - Clarify the differences and overlaps between open data and open source code. - Discuss the specific challenges in creating and maintaining open map data in the case of Overture Maps - Highlight how open data contributes uniquely to technological advancements, distinct from open source software. - Address common misconceptions in the open source community regarding these two domains.

Speakers

Marc Prioleau

Executive Director, Overture Maps Foundation

Marc Prioleau is the executive director of Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to empower current and next-generation map products by creating reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data. Marc has worked with the mapping operations at a variety of companies... Read More →

Open Data Open Code pdf

Wednesday November 20, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Sebastiani & Beringer

Building & Managing Healthy OS Projects

Content Experience Level Any

2:00pm PST

Facilitated Discussion: Unpacking the ‘Source’ of the Matter: The Impacts, Tools, and Considerations of the U.S. Government - Cali Dolfi, Red Hat

Wednesday November 20, 2024 2:00pm - 3:15pm PST

Silverado East

Since US President Joe Biden issued an executive order specifying requirements for SBOMs among software suppliers to US federal agencies, there have been more questions than answers regarding what this would look like, even from the US government itself. This time will be a facilitated discussion around what this means specifically for open source communities and corporate entities that use open source in their products. Some of the potential discussion areas: Do people view this as a potential limiting factor for corporate use of open source software? What are the potential impacts of this requirement on open source? Is the Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) useful and realistic? With the goal of risk, vulnerability, and incident management, does the proposed SBOM structure “work” to analyze open source software? What tools are people currently using to make and analyze SBOMs? As input is still being considered, is there anything from an open source perspective that we should be advocating for?

Speakers

Cali Dolfi

Senior Data Scientist, Red Hat

Cali Dolfi is a Data Scientist in the Open Source Program Office at Red Hat. Her work focuses on changing the way we look at open source communities through the lens of data science and machine learning. Outside of data science, her passion lies in making careers in technology more... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 2:00pm - 3:15pm PST
Silverado East

OS in the Public Sector & Society

Content Experience Level Any

3:45pm PST

Panel Discussion: Insights from OSPOs for Good - Ruth Suehle, SAS; Arun Gupta, Intel; Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation; Sachiko Muto, RISE

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm PST

Silverado East

In July, the United Nations hosted the second OSPOs for Good symposium to bring together open source thought leaders to discuss using OSPOs as a global network for helping reach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Discussions touched on open source and AI, OSPOs in government and networked cities, software security, and the impact open source can have on research and science. This panel brings together several of the speakers from the event to talk about their perspectives and the next steps we can take together to use the power of the open source ecosystem for good.

Speakers

Sachiko Muto

Chairman, Senior Researcher, OpenForum Europe, RISE

Sachiko Muto is the Chief Executive Officer of OpenForum Europe (OFE), a Brussels-based think tank that promotes openness in ICT and a level playing field for open source software. She originally joined OFE in 2007 and served for several years as Director with responsibility for government... Read More →

Ruth Suehle

Director, Open Source, SAS

Ruth Suehle is Director of Open Source at SAS. She is also executive vice-president of the Apache Software Foundation and a producer of the ApacheCon conference. Ruth has helped build open source communities for nearly two decades, much of which she spent in the Open Source Program... Read More →

Arun Gupta

VP/GM, Open Ecosystem, Intel

Arun Gupta is vice president of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel Corporation. He is an open source strategist, advocate, and practitioner for over two decades. He has taken companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Sun Microsystems through systemic changes to embrace open source principles... Read More →

Hilary Carter

SVP research & communication, The Linux Foundation

Hilary Carter is a writer, researcher, and team leader, producing engaging, decision-useful insights that broaden the understanding of open source and emerging technologies and their impact on business, government, and society. She has contributed to books and numerous research reports... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm PST
Silverado East

OS in the Public Sector & Society

Content Experience Level Any

3:45pm PST

Adopting CDEvents and Embracing Interoperability - Andrea Frittoli, IBM

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm PST

Silverado West

The software delivery lifecycle landscape (SDLC) is rich with tools and services that help engineers automate every step and aspect of the software production process: configuration management, testing, build tools, artefact storage, deployment and monitoring. How do we connect all these tools, and adopt supply chain security best practices while maintaining a good developer experience from beginning to end? The CDEvents project aims to help solve this problem through standardisation and interoperability. In this talk, the speaker will introduce CDEvents, its vision, the latest news and roadmap; he will present how the project’s shared event format is being adopted by various tools across the SDLC and how interoperability enables a consistent developer experience and helps to achieve a secure software factory.

Speakers

Andrea Frittoli

Open Source Developer Advocate, IBM

Andrea Frittoli is a Developer Advocate at IBM and an open-source enthusiast. He is the co-founder of the CDEvents project and a member of the project Governing Board. Andrea is the chair of the CDF Technical Oversight Committee and a member of the foundation's Governing Board. He's... Read More →

cdevents interoperability pdf

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm PST
Silverado West

OS Project Highlights

Content Experience Level Any

4:30pm PST

The Past, Present, and Future of the AgStack Foundation - Sumer Johal, Almanac

Wednesday November 20, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm PST

Sebastiani & Beringer

The AgStack Foundation launched in 2021 to develop and preserve the open infrastructure and data that supports digital agriculture and a sustainable food system. Since then it's attracted collaborators from around the world, released several projects, and won several grants to support its work. As exciting as all that is, the best is yet to come. In this session we'll… * fill you in on everything that's happened at AgStack since its launch, * give you a summary of the work we have planned for 2025 and beyond, and * show you how you can be a part of our community.

Speakers

Sumer Johal

CEO, Almanac

Sumer S. Johal is a globally recognized leader in digital innovation and AI, with over 25 years of experience transforming industries. As the CEO of Almanac, he spearheads groundbreaking solutions in agriculture, impacting over 100 million acres globally.

Wednesday November 20, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm PST
Sebastiani & Beringer

OS Project Highlights

Content Experience Level Any

10:00am PST

Open Source Hacker Vs. Government Lawyer: Clashing Views on Fixing Tech in the DoD - Rebecca Lively & Eddie Zaneski, Defense Unicorns

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am PST

Silverado West

“What do you mean I can’t bring my car keys into this building?” “No internet?? But how do I download things from GitHub?” Join a recovering government attorney and an open-source hacker for a fiery debate that dives into the world of DoD cybersecurity inefficiencies. Rebecca, a former DoD lawyer, pairs her intricate understanding of perplexing government policies with Eddie’s fresh, critical (and dare we say naive?) insights from the private sector. This session will explore the frustrating “how” behind the government’s “why,” from slow booting government laptops to the realities of “military-grade technology.” Together, they will challenge the status quo, proposing innovative, open-source inspired solutions to streamline and secure DoD operations. Expect a dynamic exchange filled with real-world frustrations, enlightening explanations, and a hacker’s touch on how to fix what’s broken.

Speakers

Eddie Zaneski

Tech Lead - Open Source, Defense Unicorns

Eddie lives in Denver, CO with his wife and dog. He loves open source and works on the Kubernetes project. When not hacking on random things you'll most likely find him climbing rocks somewhere.

Rebecca Lively

Cyber Portfolio Lead, Defense Unicorns

Rebecca K. Lively began her career as an attorney focusing on legal and policy issues relating to software development, acquisition, intellectual property, and cyberspace operations. In 2020 she went all-in on software development, co-founding Shadow’s Edge Software, Air Force Cyber’s... Read More →

Open Source Hacker vs Gov Attorney pdf

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am PST
Silverado West

OS in the Public Sector & Society

Content Experience Level Any

10:45am PST

Diversity in Open Source, an Asian Perspective - Masae Shida, Broadcom

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:45am - 11:15am PST

Silverado East

Many open source communities struggle to achieve strong community participation from Asia despite the region representing 60% of the entire world population. Although there are numerous participants from India and China, the number is disproportionately low when compared with the US and Europe. An obvious reason could be time zones, however, as a Japanese woman who grew up and worked in Japan, and as a working mother, it seems probable this could also be explained by culture and other social barriers like language. Although we appreciate the benefit of diversity, it remains challenging to have an optimally balanced community. Do we compromise by having some people in each region to convince ourselves that we’ve achieved a target? Or do we look for ways to overcome the barriers enabling real benefit? Many DEI categories are grouped together which removes our ability to identify areas needing improvement. Asia consists of 40 countries with different culture, and Asians who grew up in the US have different views. Diversity is defined by a combination of multiple factors. Let’s look at our goals more closely and see what communities can actually do to bring real value.

Speakers

Masae Shida

Staff Program Manager, Broadcom

Masae is a Staff Program Manager at VMware OSPO leading open source business and community strategy alignment and consultations. Previously she led numerous telecoms and cloud computing programs including M&A at Cisco, information security/compliance process implementation and product... Read More →

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:45am - 11:15am PST
Silverado East

Global Collaboration & Diversity

Content Experience Level Any

12:00pm PST

SPDX: From Software to Systems - Gary O'Neall, Source Auditor Inc. & Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation

Thursday November 21, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm PST

Sebastiani & Beringer

The “Software” Product Data Exchange was created in 2010 to provide machine and human readable metadata for licensing information to consumers of open source software. Over the years, the SPDX community has added support for a wide range of additional use cases. Complex software component interactions between open source and proprietary as well as the requirements to support SBOMs optimized for security risk management have been driving forces for many of the changes. With the SPDX 3.0 release and work being done for the upcoming SPDX 3.1 release, the scope of SPDX has expanded beyond software to entire systems including datasets, AI models, services and hardware. This will enable consumers to satisfy additional use cases in areas like product safety and export regulation compliance. With the SPDX 3.0, we’ve renamed SPDX from “Software” Product Data Exchange to “System” Product Data Exchange to better reflect where the project is aiming. In this talk, we’ll go over changes we’ve made to the SPDX model to support systems, the additional profiles that are focused on system level problems and what this means to both the producers and consumers of SPDX data.

Speakers

Kate Stewart

VP Dependable Embedded Systems, Linux Foundation

Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. She has launched the ELISA and Zephyr Projects, as well as supporting other embedded projects. With more than 30 years of experience... Read More →

Gary O'Neall

Founder and Principal Consultant, Source Auditor Inc.

Gary is a contributor to the Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX™) - an open standard for communicating software bill of material information, including components, licenses, copyrights, and security references. Gary has contributed several open source tools. Gary O’Neall is... Read More →

Thursday November 21, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm PST
Sebastiani & Beringer

Legal Track Sessions

Content Experience Level Any

2:00pm PST

Forked Communities: Project Re-Licensing and Community Impact - Dawn Foster, CHAOSS & Stephen Walli, Microsoft

Thursday November 21, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST

Silverado East

Many popular open source projects are owned and driven by corporations, and in today's difficult economic climate, those companies are under increasing pressure to protect their businesses or show stronger returns for investors.. One response to this pressure has been the relicensing of popular open source projects to more restrictive licenses. In some cases, this relicensing has resulted in a hard fork of the original project. Both the relicensing and the resulting fork create turmoil for the users of that project and the community of contributors, and this impact can have a ripple effect throughout the ecosystem. In this session, we’ll discuss the following topics using a data-driven approach: dynamics around relicensing that results in such hard forks; examples of several forks along with the impact on the communities; and thoughts about what this means for the future of open source. The audience will walk away with an appreciation of why relicensing results in hostile forks and how to think about this issue when selecting which open source projects to use.

Speakers

Dawn Foster

Director of Data Science, CHAOSS

Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for CHAOSS where she is also a board member / maintainer. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community... Read More →

Stephen Walli

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

I'm a principal program manager at Microsoft in the Azure Office of the CTO. I've worked with Docker, been a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett-Packard, technical director at the Outercurve Foundation, founded a start-up, and been a writer and consultant. I've been around open... Read More →

Thursday November 21, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Silverado East

Sustainability & Innovation in Open Source

Content Experience Level Any

3:45pm PST

From Security to Trust: Why and How to Make This Transition in the Age of AI - Wenjing Chu, Futurewei Technologies Inc.

Thursday November 21, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm PST

Sebastiani & Beringer

Security terminology often portraits a simple picture; e.g. good v. bad guys, inside v. outside, trusted v. zero-trust. This picture was never quite as simple, but with the advent of modern AI powered systems, this simplest picture is entirely obsolete and that means many of the technical building blocks of security and privacy as well. In this talk, Wenjing will discuss in non-technical terms why and how we should transition from security oriented language and mindset to a trust oriented one. Trust is a very human concept that can be applied to both human and intelligent AI systems or agents. Messy? Yes. But it's much closer to the real world reality, esp. when populated with a lot of AI agents/systems. Wenjing is co-Chair of the AI and Metaverse task force in the Trust over IP Foundation, and also the Governing Board and TAC of the OpenWallet Foundation.

Speakers

Wenjing Chu

Senior Director of Technology Strategy, Futurewei Technologies Inc.

Wenjing is a senior directory of technology strategy at Futurewei leading initiatives on trust in the future of computing. He is a Steering Committee member of the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation and co-Chairs the TSP and AI & Metaverse task forces. He is a Board Member of the OpenWallet... Read More →

Thursday November 21, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm PST
Sebastiani & Beringer

Security & Trust & Ethics in Open Source

Content Experience Level Any