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Open Source Summit + ELC Europe 2018

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
October 21 & October 25 | Co-Located Events, Tutorials, & Workshops
October 22-24 | Conference
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Georg Link

Bitergia
Director of Sales
Omaha, NE

Georg Link is an Open Source Strategist. Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional in its use of community metrics and analytics. Georg co-founded the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active contributor to several open source projects and has presented on open source topics on many occasions. Georg has an MBA and a Ph.D. in Information Technology. As the Director of Sales at Bitergia, Georg helps organizations and communities with adopting metrics and making open source more sustainable. In his spare time, Georg enjoys reading fiction and hot-air ballooning.

06:45 BST

Sight-Seeing Bus Tour - SOLD OUT (Pre-Registration Required) Lobby, EICC

07:30 BST

Registration Strathblane Hall, Level 0

09:00 BST

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation Pentland Auditorium, Level 3

10:40 BST

Coffee Break Atrium & Strathblane Hall, Level 0

11:15 BST

Between the Millstones: Lessons of Self-Funded Participation in Kernel Self Protection Project - Alexander Popov, Positive Technologies Kilsyth Room, Level 0

12:45 BST

Lunch (Attendees on Own) TBA

14:15 BST

Handling When Things Go Wrong: The Right Way - Jono Bacon, Jono Bacon Consulting Cromdale Hall A, Level -2

15:05 BST

How to Pay Your Contributors and Get Away with It - Erlend Sogge Heggen, Discourse Cromdale Hall A, Level -2

15:45 BST

Coffee Break Atrium & Strathblane Hall, Level 0

16:00 BST

Office Hours: Jono Bacon, Jono Bacon Consulting Level -2 Built-In Seating

19:00 BST

All-Attendee Reception at the National Museum of Scotland National Museum of Scotland

08:00 BST

Open Source Career Breakfast Platform 5 Cafe, Level 1

10:40 BST

Coffee Break Atrium & Strathblane Hall, Level 0

11:30 BST

Revitalizing Open Source Contributions and Participation across Mozilla - Daniel Izquierdo, Bitergia & Riccardo Iaconelli, Mozilla Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

12:20 BST

Collaboration is the Better Way - Erik Riedel, Dell EMC & Lauri Apple, Workday Harris I & II, Level 1

13:00 BST

Lunch (Attendees on Own) TBA

14:30 BST

Metrics that Matter for Diversity & Inclusion in Open Source - Emma Irwin, Mozilla Harris I & II, Level 1

15:10 BST

Afternoon Speed Networking & Mentoring Session Lowther Suite, Level -1 Coffee Break Atrium & Strathblane Hall, Level 0

17:30 BST

Onsite Attendee Reception & Sponsor / Technical Showcase Atrium & Strathblane Hall, Level 0

19:00 BST

Partner Reception at Edinburgh Castle (Invitation & Pre-registration Required) Edinburg Castle

09:00 BST

Keynote: Astronomy with Gravitational Waves - Dr. Alexander Nitz, Gravitational-wave Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Pentland Auditorium, Level 3

10:00 BST

Keynote: Open Source Banking: End Poverty One Line of Code at a Time - Ed Cable, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mifos Initiative Pentland Auditorium, Level 3

10:20 BST

Coffee Break Atrium & Strathblane Hall, Level 0

11:15 BST

Mentorship Panel: An Exploration of Insights & Issues Related to Mentoring Programs - Moderated by Jeffrey Osier-Mixon, Intel Harris I & II, Level 1

12:05 BST

How Having Kids from Hard Places Helped Me Serve Open Source Communities - John Mertic, The Linux Foundation Harris I & II, Level 1

12:45 BST

Lunch (Attendees on Own) TBA

14:15 BST

Panel Discussion: How to be an Effective Ally and Help Create Inclusive Communities - Moderated by Nithya Ruff, Comcast Harris I & II, Level 1

15:45 BST

Coffee Break Atrium & Strathblane Hall, Level 0

16:15 BST

Tutorial: How to Prepare a Diversity and Inclusion Report for your Community - Georg Link, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Daniel Izquierdo, Bitergia; Dawn Foster, The Scale Factory & Emma Irwin, Mozilla Harris I & II, Level 1 Cracking the Code - How Mozilla is Helping University Students Contribute to Open Source - Christos Bacharakis, Mozilla Cromdale Hall B, Level -2