Open Source Summit + ELC Europe 2018: Full Schedule

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
October 21 & October 25 | Co-Located Events, Tutorials, & Workshops
October 22-24 | Conference
Find out more information for Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference & OpenIoT Summit Europe 2018

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11:15 BST

How Adobe is Changing its Culture Around Open Source - Jen Gray, Adobe

"You think we don't, but we do"

Adobe is likely not the first company you think of when you think open source. Adobe has always had small pockets of open source across the company, but it's never been core to the culture.

Jen Gray, Open Source Office at Adobe, will talk about why Adobe is embracing open source now more than ever and how Adobe is changing their development culture. Jen will also cover the nitty gritty of driving cultural and organizational change at a large company including getting leadership buy-in, launching new programs, developing new tools and resources and lessons learned along the way.

Speakers

Jen Gray

Sr. Marketing Manager, Adobe

Jen Gray joined Adobe almost 4 years ago working on Adobe PhoneGap and Apache Cordova and has been hooked on the Open Source community since. As a Sr. Marketing Manager she helped found the Adobe Open Source Office and now works on the Developer Relations team helping to build the... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 11:15 - 11:55 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Beginner

12:05 BST

Authentic Developer Outreach - Jessica Rose, FutureLearn

Working in developer relations or developer marketing requires outreach professionals to connect with our audiences as humans as well as representatives of our products. In this talk we'll examine how to enter and move through communities authentically, listening to the needs of our users, and contributors. Finding ways that you can reach developers with your products and vision for the future can provide you with a solid base to grow and innovate from. We’ll explore how developer relations efforts focused on listening and sharing knowledge can help drive your support efforts and product roadmap while building your user and contributor bases.

Speakers

Jessica Rose

Head of Developer Relations, CodeSee

Jessica Rose is an advocate for more equitable access to technical education and meaning work in the tech industry. She's heading up CodeSee's devrel efforts, working on tooling that helps developers better read and understand complex codebases. She's on too many nonprofit boards... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 12:05 - 12:45 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Intermediate

14:15 BST

Tutorial: FOSSology Hands-On: License Analysis of OSS Components - Michael C. Jaeger, Siemens AG

Analyzing OSS license compliance requires expert knowledge. The use of the FOSSology software requires understanding of license analysis problems and how they are covered by FOSSology. This training will provide the following elements:

* Challenges in real world examples at license analysis of open source components

* Learning how to cope with license proliferation and custom license texts

* Efficiently managing large open source components with heterogeneous licensing

* Saving work with reusing license conclusions of open source packages when analyzing a newer version

* An example workflow for component analysis with FOSSology

This session encourages for performing the presented functionality at the same time. Attendees use their computers to perform presented tasks on their own FOSSology. As an open source project, anyone can install FOSSology using a pre-built docker image or virtualbox on most platforms.

Speakers

Michael C. Jaeger

Project Lead, Siemens AG

Michael C. Jaeger is one of the maintainers for Linux Foundation\\'s FOSSology and Eclipse SW360 projects, both available on Github and both in the area of OSS handling w.r.t. license compliance and component management. At Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany, Michael... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 14:15 - 15:45 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track, Tutorials / Labs / Workshops

Experience Level Intermediate

16:15 BST

Open Source Software at European Commission's IT Department - Marek Przybyszewski & Saranjit Arora, European Commission - DIGIT

DIGIT has a long history of recognising the value of open source software solutions. The first Open Source Software Strategy was formulated in 2000 and has been regularly updated since then.

During the first part of the talk we will go through the history of open source software use at the European Commission, the key challenges and roadblocks to using open source software even more within public administrations, and the future outlook.

The EU-FOSSA project is aiming at improving the security of open source software in use by the European institutions. The second iteration of the project, EU FOSSA 2, is continuing in 2017-2019 with a higher budget of 2.6 M€. It proposes several novelties including bug bounties and implementing security improvements of open source software in use by the EU institutions.

During the second part of the talk, we will dive into the EU-FOSSA initiative.

Speakers

Saranjit Arora

Project Manager, European Commission - DIGIT

After graduating from the University of Nottingham with Mathematics with Computing, Saranjit worked at Esso, PwC and FileNet before venturing into Entrepreneurship. Besides setting up and managing several businesses over the last 20+ years, Saranjit is an experienced Prince 2 certified... Read More →

Marek Przybyszewski

Edingburgh OSS and EU FOSSA 2 pdf

Monday October 22, 2018 16:15 - 16:55 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Intermediate

17:05 BST

Why I Forked My Own Project and My Own Company - Frank Karlitschek, Nextcloud

Frank Karlitschek founded the ownCloud open source project in 2010 and co-founded a company names ownCloud Inc. late 2011. After being the maintainer for over 6 years and CTO of ownCloud Inc. for over 4 years Frank decided to start over. Leave his own project and company to create a fork called Nextcloud. This talk will describe the reasons why ownCloud was founded as an open source project. The good and bad things when it was turned into a centure capital founded company, the thing that Frank and the core team do differently with Nextcloud and how the business model, licensing and community relations improved. This talk covers insights into different open source business models and how to create a working open source community and community.

Speakers

Frank Karlitschek

Founder, Nextcloud

Frank Karlitschek started the ownCloud project in 2010 to return control over the storing and sharing of information to consumers. In 2016 he initiated the Nextcloud project to bring this idea to the next level. He has been involved with a variety of Free Software projects including... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 17:05 - 17:45 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Intermediate

18:00 BST

BoF: Landscape and Use Cases for OSS-based Compliance Tooling - Michael Picht, SAP SE & Michael Jaeger, Siemens AG

During the recent years, as OSS gained more and more importance, the compliance community has come up with a number of OSS-based tools. Nowadays, for different tasks in license compliance a selection of different mature tools is available.

To understand which tools are available for which purpose, how they can interact and how they align and integrate in a generic dev ops scenario, we propose a structured approach and create a landscape of functional blocks that are required for compliance tooling.

We see this initial contribution to kick off a discussion about the OSS-based tooling landscape. The discussion will be focused for the identification of overlap and as well as current gaps, which is important for consolidation. Therefore, the session proposal is to present the landscape in the beginning and then start a discussion, gather feedback and collect ideas from the audience.

Speakers

Michael C. Jaeger

Project Lead, Siemens AG

Michael Picht

Chief Development Architect, SAP

Michael is part of the Open Source Program Office of SAP. At SAP, he had several roles as a software architect, project manager, and product manager, with focus on supply chain management, business processes and application integration. He helped to start and setting up SAP’s Open... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 18:00 - 18:40 BST
Lowther Suite, Level -1

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Intermediate

11:30 BST

Revitalizing Open Source Contributions and Participation across Mozilla - Daniel Izquierdo, Bitergia & Riccardo Iaconelli, Mozilla

In 2017, Mozilla embarked upon an effort to revitalize open source contribution and participation across the organization. Working with Bitergia, we analyzed 16 years of contribution data, ran surveys, and spoke with both employee and non-employee contributors.

A key finding was that while Mozilla was fully committed to OSS co-development, we didn't have a common framework to help us talk about how OSS project differs in terms of goals, environment, and resourcing. Our one-size-fits-all mental model meant we didn't always set correct expectations around a project or commit appropriately.

This presentation will show the work done with Bitergia to gain a more thorough understanding of what OSS contribution at Mozilla looks like and the Open Source Archetypes, which are a loose definition of OSS models as found in the wild, which we created with the help of Open Tech Strategies.

Speakers

Riccardo Iaconelli

Sr Open Source Strategist, Mozilla

Riccardo Iocanelli is from Milano, Italy, and has been a free software developer since the age of 13. As of October 2018, he's the lead Open Source Strategist for Mozilla. Most recently, he was the Open Source Project Leader for the Italian government's Digital Transformation Team... Read More →

Daniel Izquierdo

CEO, Bitergia

Primary speaker bio: Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open and InnerSource ecosystems. Currently holding the position of Chief Executive Officer, he is focused on the quality of the data... Read More →

Revitalizing Open Source Contributions and Participation across Mozilla pdf

Tuesday October 23, 2018 11:30 - 12:10 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Beginner

12:20 BST

Making Community Decisions without Consensus - George Dunlap, Citrix Systems R&D UK Ltd

Healthy open-source communities usually include a wide range of people with very different ideologies, goals, values, and points of view; from anarchists to CEOs of major corporations. The normal approach for making decisions that affect the entire community should be an attempt to reach consensus through discussion. But what if you're attempting to make a decision which is critically important, but for which you know there are irreconcilable differences in the community?

The XenProject community had such a decision to make in the wake of the XSA-7 security issue. This talk will cover the approach we took which (we think) allowed us to find a "center of gravity" for the community, and allowed everyone to feel that their viewpoint was considered, in the spite of the lack of any option with clear consensus. We hope this will help other communities navigate similarly difficult waters.

Speakers

George Dunlap

Principle Software Engineer, XenServer

George Dunlap worked with the Xen project while a graduate student at the University of Michigan before receiving his PhD in 2006. He is currently working as Staff Software Engineer for Citrix on the open-source Xen team in Cambridge, England. He has done work in many areas of Xen... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 12:20 - 13:00 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Beginner

14:30 BST

Playing Nicely Together: Large Scale Open Source Program Strategies - Jeffrey Osier-Mixon, Intel

This presentation discusses the development of a generic, universal strategy for guiding the collective enthusiasm of over 100k employees in creating and participating in open source projects.

Launching a single open source project is a wonderful thing to bring into the world, but like all one-off projects, you simply solve problems as they come up. Companies scale that effort by creating processes and following best practices in the formation of open source program offices. What if that company creates or participates in hundreds of projects every year? Do the practices scale, and how flexible can they be in following best practices while also maintaining coherence with legal, IP, and corporate policies?

The TODO Group's charter is to track program office best practices and share them with others. This presentation describes how Intel approaches this problem on a large scale.

Speakers

Jefro Osier-Mixon

Program Manager, Linux Foundation

"Jefro" Osier-Mixon has been an open source professional since the early 1990s as a technical writer and occasional developer as well as community manager, program manager, and OSPO leader. His primary activities over the years have included the Yocto Project, Zephyr Project, GNU... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 14:30 - 15:10 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Intermediate

15:50 BST

Open Source Contribution Policies that Don't Suck - Tobie Langel, Codespeaks LLC

Open source contribution policies are long, boring, overlooked documents, that generally suck. They're designed to protect the company at all costs. But in the process, end up hurting engineering productivity, and morale. Sometimes they even unknowingly put corporate IP at risk.

But that's not inevitable.

It's possible to write open source contribution policies that make engineers lives easier, boost morale and productivity, reduce attrition, and attract new talent. And it's possible to do so while reducing the company's IP risk, not increasing it.

In this talk, we'll look at the general structure of contribution policies, examples in the wild, and tactics to make them suck less.

We'll also look at how to turn these policies into self-service software, preventing the tedious email back and forth between engineering and legal in most cases and making open source contribution a breeze.

Speakers

Tobie Langel

Founder, Codespeaks LLC

Tobie Langel is the founder of Codespeaks LLC, a boutique consulting firm that focuses on helping companies with their open source strategy. His clients include top tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Intel, or Mozilla. Previously, he was Testing Lead at W3C, and before that... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 15:50 - 16:30 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Intermediate

16:40 BST

Software Philanthropy for Everyone - Kevin P. Fleming, Bloomberg

All large companies use open source software. Many of them contribute to open source software.

In addition to that many large companies have philanthropic arms; charitable foundations operated by the company or aligned with the company, and primarily funded by the company. These foundations have focus areas which include many charitable causes, but not open source software!

This presentation will talk about Bloomberg's journey to add software philanthropy to its charitable contributions, including the mundane aspects of volunteer coding events, soliciting mentors/leaders, organizing participation, and others, but also how this type of philanthropy can be included in 'employee giving'. Anyone who runs an Open Source Program Office, or similar group, in a company that also has a philanthropic arm should include open source software contributions in their plans.

Speakers

Kevin P. Fleming

Open Source Community Builder, Bloomberg

Kevin operates the OSPO at Bloomberg in New York City, managing Bloomberg's interactions with the global open source community. He facilitates open source contributions, project publications, and supports the processes to bring open source tools and infrastructure into the company... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 16:40 - 17:20 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Beginner

11:15 BST

Open Source Compliance Tools - New Options Emerging - Hosted by Michael Jaeger, Fossology.org and eclipse/sw360

Five years ago only few OSS-based tools for license compliance existed. Nowadays, importance and awareness for this topic has led to new open source projects implementing different approaches. Different approaches are necessary to cover heterogenous technical needs raising from special technology stacks. Open source tools support the open source ecosystem because they enable all kinds of organisations to adopt free tools for using free software. In this session, some of the newer OSS-based tools are spotlighted to inform about current advances in this field.

Speakers

Mirko Boehm

Maximilan Huber

Michael C. Jaeger

Project Lead, Siemens AG

Michael Picht

Chief Development Architect, SAP

Wednesday October 24, 2018 11:15 - 12:45 BST
Cromdale Hall A, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

14:15 BST

ClearlyDefined: Enabling Project Success through Metadata - Jeff McAffer, Microsoft

The FOSS licensing and security information landscape is vast and varied. Projects without clear metadata are harder to adopt and so get fewer contributions and lower engagement -- they enjoy less success. On the consumer side, enormous effort is required to discover, comply with licensing obligations, and track security issues. Even simple things like the location of the source for a component can be painful to find.

This talk surveys this landscape and introduces a new OSI effort to crowd-source the discovery, curation and serving up of FOSS component licensing and security data in an effort to both enable project engagement and simplify the lives of consumers. Come see how it works and how you can participate.

Speakers

Jeff McAffer

Director, Open Source Programs Office, Microsoft

Jeff McAffer is the Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft where he and the team are helping drive the company’s transition to an “open source engagement first” model. He was one of the founders of the Eclipse open source project where he was an active community... Read More →

Wednesday October 24, 2018 14:15 - 14:55 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Any

15:05 BST

Building a Collaborative Open Source Program - Brian Hsieh, Uber & Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente, Bitergia

Building an open source program can be both rewarding and challenging. The broad scope of a successful open source program requires cross-functional coordination between multiple teams with differing goals, focus areas, perspectives, and timelines, including legal, engineering, design, product, business, marketing, and branding. When you’re operating at a global scale, these challenges are magnified. This talk will address how open source leads can serve as enablers of building a collaborative open source program at their company. This presentation will also discuss the challenges of building an open source program at a hypergrowth global company and how to streamline processes to develop a supportive and collaborative open source culture.

Speakers

Jose Manrique López de la Fuente

Bitergia, CEO, Bitergia

Manrique is the CEO and shareholder in Bitergia and a free, libre, open source software development communities passionate. He is a graduate Industrial Engineer with research and development experience from the Technological Center for Computer Science and Communications of the Principality... Read More →

Brian Hsieh

Head of Open Source, Uber

Brian Hsieh created and leads the Open Source Program Office at Uber. In this role, he builds and manages open source strategy, processes, governance, licensing compliance, ecosystem growth, brand identity, industry alignments, standards, and foundation relationships. He has experience... Read More →

OSS Summit EU 2018 pdf

Wednesday October 24, 2018 15:05 - 15:45 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Any

17:05 BST

Turning Policy into Tooling - Per Ploug, Zalando SE

As any large organisation, Zalando has developed plenty of compliance documents and policies on open source work. This is a natural side-effect of having 2000 developers on staff and a need to reduce risk.

However, open source policy does not have to be long documents (that no-one reads or understands anyway), it can be transformed into tooling and self-service systems which ensure safe and compliant behaviour without the paperwork.

Organisations who wish to encourage open source participation and collaboration must re-evaluate their compliance efforts and start building services rather than documents.

This session will outline concrete efforts, tools and services that Zalando have developed and uses to remove compliance barriers and lower the amount of paperwork for our developers.

Speakers

Per Ploug Krogslund

Open Source Manager, Zalando SE

Leading the open source team at Europe’s largest online fashion platform Zalando SE. Manages and grows the communities around 200 open source projects maintained by Zalando’s 2000 engineers. Previously co-founded Umbraco, one of the biggest open source content management systems... Read More →

Wednesday October 24, 2018 17:05 - 17:45 BST
Cromdale Hall C, Level -2

Open Collaboration Conference / TODO Track

Experience Level Intermediate