The Open Source Way

Standardisation and Open Source - Why and when an OSS project should consider engaging with standardisation

What are the pros (and cons) if a project wants to make the underlying technology or APIs an official standard at an SDO (Standards Defining Organisaton) like ISO JTC or CEN/CENELEC.
We will discuss with a group of experts who either have a strong background in standardisation or have run through such a process in the past with "their" open source projects.

Experience level:

Beginner

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Keynote: "Open Source for Good" plus Daily Opening

Open source has eaten the world in fostering collaboration on fixing technical problems. With our panelists, we call on open source to the rescue for fighting planned obsolescence, reducing the environmental cost of technology, and -- in short -- for making the world better. Join us for this session, and start your conference day with a dose of energizing insights!

Experience level:

Beginner

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Building a Product-centric OS Abstraction

Amit Kucheria (Self-employed)

You're a company that is working on a suite of products that spans every conceivable gadget built for the smarthome - from a simple thermostat to security alarms, from set top boxes to internet gateways, mobile phones and tablets and even servers running in the cloud.

Experience level:

Beginner

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Open Compliance Reference Tooling in a Linux system context

Marcel Kurzmann (Bosch.IO GmbH)

The tooling group (also part of the OpenChain Tooling Workgroup) works on open source solutions for automated Open Source Management and already came up with "Open Compliance Reference Tooling" representations for some typical use cases (Java, NPM, Python, etc.). Approaches for automated Open Source Compliance Management for Linux systems were already discussed too, but the challenges seem to be of a different nature.

Experience level:

Beginner

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Equipping the Next Generation of Open-Source Developers

YK Chang (IBM)

Kathryn Kodama (IBM)

Karim Ali (University of Alberta)

Jeff Cho (Student)

Open Source has become the defacto way to build software. Everywhere we go, whether in the industry or not, we will come across open-source software and open-source software development. How and what are we doing in enabling the next-generation of up-and-coming developers to participate in open-source software development?

Experience level:

Beginner

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Why a "traditionalist" decides to move to an open-source model

Philippe Magne (ARCAD Software)

During this session, we will explain you in detail why, after 29 years relying upon a traditional ISV licensing model, we have decided to take a leap into the open-source world. The reasons are equally internal and external, as strategic, technological and organizational.

Experience level:

Intermediate

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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

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Open source in RegTech, solving a billion dollar problem

Neil Mackenzie (Bird Software Solutions Ltd)

RegTech has become a mature part of Fintech, and is growing fast.

As hundreds of banks use hundreds of different software implementations and data models to implement the same mandatory regulatory calculations, banks and regulators are starting to catch on to the power of open source to reduce the billion dollars spent collectively on this tasks by banks.

Experience level:

Beginner

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A Hitchhiker's Guide how to create an Open-Source Business

Philip Wenig (Lablicate GmbH)

Running an Open-Source Business?! No such thing easier than that!

Experience level:

Beginner

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CI/CD/CC: open source compliance integrated in development.

Carlo Piana (Array)

Alberto Pianon (Array)

Compliance with copyright can be a nightmare, especially if the project faces it late in development. Everybody is now figuring out how to use tools and how this could help.

Our experience with an operating system developed on Yocto/Bitbake probably tested the limit. A compliance excercise that would take months/man if not years to complete, and we know there are many facing similar problems. If you start late, you will finish late.

Experience level:

Beginner

The Open Source Way