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openPASS - from a simulator to a modular ecosystem

Tuan Duong Quang (TUEV SUED Auto Service GmbH)

Over the last years, there has been a significant shift in the automotive industry from real-world testing to virtual methods when it comes to the assessment of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving (AD) functions. This trend can be seen at the regulatory site, e.g. UN regulation ALKS R157 which allows to use simulation to verify the safety concept of the Automated Lane Keeping System under specific conditions.

Experience level:

Beginner

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Mind Mapping Open Source Program Offices

ana jimenez santamaria (work for another org)

Mind Mapping Open Source Program Offices

Open Source Program Offices and similar initiatives serve many organizations to provide strategy and alignment on top of the organization's open source efforts. However, due to the wide scope of skills, responsibilities, sizes, and ways of working, the entry barriers to fully understand its ecosystem can turn intro a difficult and low process.

Experience level:

Beginner

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The Rabbit Hole of being an Experienced Open Source Developer

Helio Chissini de Castro (BMW Group)

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

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The Open Source Effect

Benjamin Muskalla (GitHub)

Have you ever wondered why there are so many rock star developers working on open source projects? Wondered why it is usually not a single developer but multiple great engineers working on a project together? Is it maybe that they have more time on their hands than others? Or is it maybe, just maybe, that those people became better engineers because they started contributing to open source? In this talk, I’ll share some lessons learned from contributing to open source, the people I’ve met, worked with and most importantly, learned from.

Experience level:

Beginner

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Policy as [versioned] Code

Chris Nesbitt-Smith (Self-employed)

In this talk Chris will trace back the origins of how policies are often incepted, how it can get out of hand, be slow if not impossible to update and measure compliance, and often lead us to question of **is the policy helping or hindering**.

From this talk you'll learn how to use a software development pattern and product ways of thinking towards how your organization can manage policy; achieve continual updates to policy allowing the risk mitigations to move as fast as the risk does, not get in the way and be easy to measure compliance.

Experience level:

Beginner

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Why You Should Adopt an Open-Source Code of Conduct

Reza Rahman (Microsoft Corp.)

Technology communities almost by definition need to be open, welcoming, diverse, and inclusive to do the most good for the most amount of people. Yet without adequate checks and balances technology communities have an unfortunate track record to be anything but – especially for people on the wrong side of power dynamics such as women and minorities.

Experience level:

Beginner

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