Karsten Wade

Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) are popping up everywhere, not just in corporations but now in universities, research insititutions, NGOs, public government, and international organizations. In this panel hear from OSPO leaders who are beginning their journey, from ones who are some years into it, and others who have been through this once or thrice.

Regardless of your technical roles or interests, adding the tools of data science can help you do more. Systems administrators, analysts, developers, technical support specialists, tech writers, and others have tasks that can be machine learning (ML) workloads, which can then be put in a cloud environment in an end-to-end ML workflow.

Come join us to learn about and work directly on The Open Source Way guide 2.0 release. This is a collaboratively written guide of best practices for open source community management. Contributions of all types are welcome. In this workshop, we’ll be leading new contributors through the participation and contribution process. There are activities for short (30 to 60 minutes) and longer (1 to 4 hours) periods of time.

As a community manager or any other contributor to an open source project, you'll find yourself learning and thinking of good methods and practices for having a happy, successful, and productive project. Community managers and other contributors share these practices with each other all the time -- in talks, in person, as blog posts, and sometimes as a stand-alone book. But has anyone ever really collaborated on a guide that is for practitioners and collaboratively written BY practitioners? Actually, yes: 10 years ago The Open Source Way 1.0 was written and released. Now 2.0 is here.

Have you ever thought, "It would be a good idea for our company/school/org to make sponsoring of open source projects something that we just DO"? Then you hit wall after wall, verbal support but no one with budget will open their checkbook and commit to the ideas? This session covers stories and lessons from a Red Hat community architect who has walked this path several times. Learn to hack the bureaucracy, uncover and plug into the corporate backplane, and create something that lives beyond you as champion.