opensource

I'm not a legal, but... feel concerned anyway. A copyright and license story.

Note that I'm actually not a legal person (and this is not legal advice).
As I have been training developers for over 10 years, I still feel a bit baffled by the lack of knowledge regarding licenses and copyright ownership among developers in general.
Probably, in opensource software communities, we are more aware of these subjects. But truth is, when you ask other developers whether they feel confident about their practices to ensure license compatibility, they'll often ask for the full presentation speech.

Experience level:

Beginner

Open Source Best Practices

34 keys is all you need: an ergonomic keyboard journey

Mattia Dal Ben (Eurotech)

In the latest years the custom mechanical keyboard scene has blown up significantly, reaching mainstream status among (not only) software developers. Nevertheless there's an overlooked niche of this hobby that greatly benefits from the open source ecosystem and the online community: ergonomic mechanical keyboard.

In this talk I'll walk you through the deep end of the custom ergonomic mechanical keyboard rabbit hole and explain why 34 keys is all you need (really!) and what are the benefits of such a keyboard.

Experience level:

Beginner

Other Cool Stuff

The Rabbit Hole of being an Experienced Open Source Developer

Helio Chissini de Castro (CARIAD SE)

Being an open source developer is an career itself. Been more than 20 years developing open source is way more than that.

That moment that you start to your first line of code and understand that the there's something else. There ALWAYS something else.

That moment that you discover that what you are doing can lead to another doing to another doing and never stops.

I want to show how my experience comes from an itchy to a necessity to and interest to a profession to the driver of my professional career,

Experience level:

Beginner

The Open Source Way

From a Swabian car manufacturer to an open source enthusiast

Martin Haselbach (Daimler TSS GmbH)

Basem Vaseghi (Daimler TSS GmbH)

For over 100 years we have striven for engineering excellence in our cars. Get into the seat of a Mercedes and the quality and the craftsmanship speaks for itself. We would like to tell the same story when it comes to the software in our cars. However, 10 years ago we came to realize that using a hardware approach to achieve quality was doomed to fail when it comes to the software side of it. Nowadays, a customer sees a car as a “phone on wheels” and expects the same level of usability, configurability, and ease of use, while being stylish and up-to-date with today’s standards.

Experience level:

Beginner

The Open Source Way

The Future of Digital In a COVID-19 Era (Sponsored by Huawei)

BRYAN CHE (Huawei)

COVID-19 has been a terrible blight upon the world. It has also greatly accelerated the adoption and transformation of digital technologies, especially around open source, cloud, and AI. Around the world, including in Europe and in China, there are also large new investments into digital technologies to spur economic recovery, such as Next Generation EU.

This presentation will discuss the future of digital technologies and the policies that will shape them in this COVID-19 era. And, it will also consider why there is good reason to hope for recovery based on these trends.

Experience level:

Beginner

Keynote

Making your first contribution to Theia

Anton Kosyakov (TypeFox GmbH)

Eclipse Theia is an IDE framework that runs in the cloud and on the desktop used by products like Gitpod, Google Cloud Shell, ARM Mbed Studio, Arduino Pro IDE, Eclipse Che, and many others.

This year version 1.0 was released after being under development for the last 3 years and receiving commits from over 100 contributors. There were many contributions from different adopters as well as casual contributors. More than 30 became official Theia committers.

Experience level:

Beginner

The Open Source Way

A harmonized open source platform for effectiveness assessment in the field of automated driving

Tuan Duong Quang (TUEV SUED Auto Service GmbH)

The rise of advanced driver assistance systems and partially automated driving functions leads to the need of virtual simulation to assess these systems and their effects. This especially refers, but is not limited, to safety effects in traffic. There are various methods and tools for prospective evaluation of safety systems with respect to traffic safety. Implementing the methodology by creating and maintaining the openPASS platform will support reliability and transparency of results obtained by simulation.

Experience level:

Beginner

The Open Source Way