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Talks & Presentations Collection

Brilliant pebbles
December 19, 2019

Brilliant pebbles

Small is beautiful. Mark Shuttleworth explains why your next million is more likely to come from an afternoon tinkering on your laptop and a tiny PC than beating your neighbor to web scale on the cloud. From smart switches to smart drones, from the home to the office to the farm to the space station, the next wave is all about delivering your best bits to brilliant pebbles.

Building a powerful data tier from open source datastores

Building a powerful data tier from open source datastores

December 19, 2019

In the past few years, there has been a proliferation of production-ready open source databases, giving developers and operators more choices than ever. Joseph Lynch explores how Yelp has combined complimentary data stores to provide a powerful data tier for our developers. Along the way, Joseph shares lessons learned about deployment, configuration, and monitoring from a production environment.
Chatbots, conversation and AI as an interface

Chatbots, conversation and AI as an interface

December 19, 2019

Benedict Evans talks about how interfaces and development opportunities are evolving beyond the old "Web versus apps" model, with voice, bots, and many other things emerging as new models.
Design and user experience

Design and user experience

December 19, 2019

Voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa have become compelling platforms for bot creators, and voice will become an essential part of any bot creator's toolkit as APIs for Siri, Cortana, and Google Now become available. However, translating functionality into voice user interfaces can be extremely difficult. We've invited Cathy Pearl, an authority on VUI design, to give an overview of the field.
Introduction to artificial intelligence for bots

Introduction to artificial intelligence for bots

December 19, 2019

Peter Skomoroch, an authority on data science and practical AI, offers a deep survey of the artificial intelligence landscape, covering recent developments, popular toolkits and services, and current thinking on strategies for AI.
Platform overview

Platform overview

December 19, 2019

Facebook, Slack, Amazon, and Microsoft all offer important platforms for bots. Google and Apple are on their way, as are a variety of other services such as Snapchat, Kik, Line, and Telegram. Andy Mauro offers an overview of the platform landscape, from demographic and UX strategy to technical features.
The bait and switch of open source

The bait and switch of open source

December 19, 2019

Open source sells itself as being about technical problemsdelightfully thorny technical problems at that. However, successful projects are filled with people, which introduces a whole different set of problems. Katrina Owen illustrates the many ways in which things went wrong for Exercism because she didnt treat people problems as first-class citizens.
Toolkit overview

Toolkit overview

December 19, 2019

To make sense of the bot development landscape, weve asked Amir Shevat, who runs developer relations at Slack, to give an overview of bot development tools from his perspective as a platform manager. He'll weigh the pros and cons of the popular bot frameworks and describe the strategic decisions that go into building the right bot stack.
Building an open source culture at Europes largest fashion platform

Building an open source culture at Europes largest fashion platform

December 18, 2019

In March 2015, the leadership of Berlin-based Zalando gathered the companys entire tech team and announced a new way of workingsomething called Radical Agility. Lauri Apple explains how Radical Agility deeply transformed Zalandos open source development efforts by freeing up engineers to experiment, create, and innovate.
Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice

December 18, 2019

In order to make an Open Source project successful, we often need the help of others. By sharing the problem in public, we find other people who have the same problem. They have the same need and are looking too for ideas how to satisfy that need. Creating a Community of Practice is often key to finding solutions that also benefit people who lack the skills to solve the problem on their own.
Data flow architecture with Redux and Angular 2

Data flow architecture with Redux and Angular 2

December 18, 2019

This workshop is all about modern SPA architecture, focused on popular architectural design pattern Redux. Redux introduces a unidirectional data-flow and a predictable state container that scales. Through a series of live code examples, Nir Kaufman walks you through a complete flow of a typical application, using Angular2 as the presentation layer.
Dealing with cultural diversity and internal advocacy within a distributed team

Dealing with cultural diversity and internal advocacy within a distributed team

December 18, 2019

Scaling company culture can be difficult even when the majority of your company is in the same office. Nowadays, this is rarely the case; most of the time youre split over multiple continents. Laura Czajkowski breaks down the cultural challenges faced when working in a distributed team and looks at some solutions that can be brought in to help.
Distributed consensus: Making impossible possible

Distributed consensus: Making impossible possible

December 18, 2019

Heidi Howard explains how to construct resilient distributed systems on top of unreliable components. Starting almost two decades ago, with Leslie Lamports Paxos protocol, Heidi leads a journey to todays data centers, covering interesting impossibility results and demonstrating how to construct new fault-tolerance systems that you can depend upon everyday.
Evolving the JavaScript ecosystem

Evolving the JavaScript ecosystem

December 18, 2019

Join Kris Borchers for a talk on evolving the JavaScript ecosystem.
Exploring privilege in open source communities

Exploring privilege in open source communities

December 18, 2019

While it's not easy to talk about, exploring privilege is necessary if we want to make sure open source is truly open for everyone. Taylor Barnett explores a number of sources of privilege, including axes of identity like race and gender and factors such as family responsibilities, financial resources, and the luxury of free time, and considers how they can affect participation in open source.
Forking successfully

Forking successfully

December 18, 2019

Forking in the open source world means going with different goals and design directions. How do you pick a winner? Colin Charles offers practical examples from the MariaDB world (MySQL fork), as well as lessons from other projects like LibreOffice, LibreSSL, SuiteCRM, and Jenkins. If you have to fork and want to do it well, this journey through the MariaDB server world is for you.
Hacking your head: Managing information overload

Hacking your head: Managing information overload

December 17, 2019

There are limits to our ability to learn and process information. Overload impacts productivity by causing psychological and physiological stress. Jo Pearce relates findings from cognitive psychology that help us understand how, as developers, we might be overloading both ourselves and those we work withand what to do about it.
How InnerSource is like FLOSSing

How InnerSource is like FLOSSing

December 17, 2019

Danese Cooper explains how InnerSource is like FLOSSing.
How you got here

How you got here

December 17, 2019

Open licenses have served us well for more than two decades, but they need help if we're going to survive the era in which computers invade our bodies and the structures we keep those bodies in. Cory Doctorow explains that we can lock the whole future Web open, if we do it right.
Introducing Electrode, an open source release from @WalmartLabs

Introducing Electrode, an open source release from @WalmartLabs

December 17, 2019

@WalmartLabs has successfully transitioned its application platform to React and Node.js. That platform is now open sourced for the world to use. Laurent Desegur discusses the problems @WalmartLabs aims to solve and the benefits of Electrode.
Is software freedom a social justice issue?

Is software freedom a social justice issue?

December 17, 2019

With so many important issues on a global scale, just how important is software freedom? Karen Sandler shares the evolution of her own thoughts about free and open source software on a bigger political and social scale and examines the ways we should frame discourse around the issue.
Learning microservices in the open with GameOn!

Learning microservices in the open with GameOn!

December 17, 2019

There are plenty of talks out there about how to get started with microservices, but in reality you learn by doing. Erin Schnabel and Katherine Stanley explore lessons learned while creating GameOn!, an interactive text-based adventure game that allows you to get hands-on with a microservice architecture to find out what works and what doesn't, and how we as a community can learn from each other.
Marketing for developers

Marketing for developers

December 17, 2019

"If you build it, they will come," they say. Not so! Marketing is crucial for anything you build that you want people to find and use. How should you market your app, your open source project, your mobile app, or anything else you buildespecially as a time-strapped developer? Tracy Osborn offers marketing tips and recommendations to make sure that what you build is seen and used.
MVI: An architecture for reactive programming

MVI: An architecture for reactive programming

December 17, 2019

MVI (Model-View-Intent) is a new architecture made for reactive programming leveraging the power and flexibility of observables. Luca Mezzalira explores why reactive programming will remain a hot topic over the next decade and explains how you can structure an application in pure reactive programming using Cycle.js, React, and hyperscript.
Open funding data: 360Giving's journey so far

Open funding data: 360Giving's journey so far

December 17, 2019

At present, it's not possible to find a complete dataset on all charitable grants in the UK. Alice Casey and Edafe Onerhime offer an overview of 360Giving, which supports funding organizations in publishing their grants data in an open, standardized way and helps people to understand and use that data to support decision making and learning across the charitable giving sector.
Power, design, and possibilities: Designing digital services that are accountable, understood, and trusted

Power, design, and possibilities: Designing digital services that are accountable, understood, and trusted

December 17, 2019

Politics is about the distribution of power in society. In the early 21st century, digital products are exerting influence on how power is distributed among us. Richard Pope explains why software is now politics and what your responsibilities are in this new world.
Project umbrellas for Europe

Project umbrellas for Europe

December 17, 2019

Do you need to start an open source foundation? Many open source projects choose to become legal entities to support their collaboration. In the US, there are several general purpose bodies for hosting open source projects, but up to now there have been none in Europeso Simon Phipps and Moritz Bartl started one. They explain what they are doing to address the need and how you can benefit.
Something New: Building an open source political party

Something New: Building an open source political party

December 17, 2019

Openness is a political idea, and our democracy is changing for the network age. Something New is a startup political party in the UK built for the network age and founded on open source principles. The party created an open source manifesto, ran it in the 2015 general election, and is now building momentum for the future. Join James Smith to learn what an open source democratic future looks like.