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Docs-as-code using AsciiDoc & Antora for open standardization

For the past three years the standardization organization ASAM e.V. has been working on a docs-as-code approach for the continued development of its open standards. This approach is built from the ground up to support modern collaborative workflows with open source solutions like Gitlab, AsciiDoc and, lately, Antora at its core. This presentation will provide some insight into the motivation behind the transition from classical approaches used in standardisation, the workflow we have setup, the challenges we encountered along the way and where we want to continue evolving the toolchain.

Experience level:

Beginner

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A Java OOS journey - from 0 to Adoptium contributor

Merlin Bögershausen (Employed Software Engineer)

One year ago, a bug fix was my first dip in the pond of Open Source contribution. From there, I've started my adventure as a nomad within the Apache Open Source world. I've participated in the graph database Apache Jena, prototyped a high available documentation approach for Adoptium with AsciDoctor and added bug fixes to their API-backend.

Experience level:

Beginner

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Mastering the Open source: Guiding principles

Gireesh Punathil (IBM)

Pasam Soujanya (IBM)

What is so special about open source? the code is open, and that should be it? It is the practices of open culture that works under the cover, that makes it great. Open source is now ubiquitous and widely used across every industry. Improved developer productivity, collaboration, quality, developer career growth are few characteristic features of open source model. This session will illustrate the key aspects of open source development and share some of the best practices. We will take specific examples and case studies to make the messaging comprehensive and robust.

Experience level:

Beginner

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Growing the Open Source Community, the Open Source way

Nikita Koselev (Mastercard)

Intro:

The world is dying.

Well, I might be overly pessimistic, but the number of challenges is great and the number of efficient contributors to software solutions is not high enough. It has never been.

We need developers to help save water and energy, and prolong the lives of both humans and animals. The list of challenges is too long to list all of them here.

Experience level:

Beginner

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OpenSource in the context of publicly funded Projects

Jürgen Albert (Data In Motion Consulting GmbH)

As a developer we tend to see OSS as a tool in our box we either want to use or on the other side want to maintain. On a company level the discussion about the ethics behind large corporations using Open Source and what they should contribute is already on its way, especially since the log4shell incident.

Experience level:

Beginner

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Practical wisdom to build your OSPO: The Good Governance Initiative

Boris Baldassari (Eclipse Foundation)

Daniel Izquierdo

Every organisation nowadays heavily relies on open source software and on its ecosystem, and Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) are becoming an essential component of our landscape. But for many of us, and for many organisations, the impact of open source software and ecosystem is still not clear, nor what should be done to properly manage it at a strategic level.

Experience level:

Intermediate

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Revising the Eclipse Foundation's Intellectual Property Due Diligence Process

Wayne Beaton (Eclipse Foundation)

Shawn Kilpatrick (Eclipse Foundation)

In this presentation, we'll present -- via a combination of discussion and demonstration -- the tools that the Eclipse Foundation is deploying to help Eclipse Foundation project committers implement in the Eclipse Foundation's Intellectual Property Due Diligence Process.

Experience level:

Intermediate

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Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft -- A Model for Non-profits and Open Source Projects

Stephen Walli (Microsoft Corp.)

Ferdinand Tönnies set out to develop concepts that could be used as analytic tools for understanding why and how the social world is organized in "Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft" (1887). What he couldn't realize is that he was giving us good tools for thinking about how open source software communities are organized and why there can be confusion and friction as project communities and non-profits mix.

Experience level:

Intermediate

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Metrics to Build a Healthy Software Development Life Cycle at Scale

Daniel Izquierdo

Whether you focus on one single development task or you focus on the whole software production chain, metrics are an essential tool of this process. From idea to deployment, each step depends on others and they may affect the production cycle.

As an example, why is CI system failing once and again? Is this because of the (in)formal code review process that we have? Are you even able to find the bug in the massive pile of commits that entered into that job? Can I have at least pointers to the issue?

Experience level:

Beginner

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The Evolution of an Open Source Project

Mark Sujew (TypeFox GmbH)

How open source projects change and evolve over time is usually opaque from the outside. Downstream users receive new versions but don't get to see what's going on behind the scenes. In this talk, we'll explore different aspects of software evolution in open source software.

Experience level:

Beginner

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