Open Source Summit North America

The Set of Programmers: How Math Restricts Us

January 10, 2020

Let's start a discussion about how we are introducing new developers to programming. Most textbooks, tutorials, and trainings begin by using mathematics lessons to teach newcomers to code. Many course …

Transparent Huge Pages on Steroids

January 10, 2020

In big memory machines, hugepages can play a large role in increasing system performance. However, using hugepages manually for different segments of memory adds to application complexity. Linux has a …

Building Trust: Testing SPDX Generation Tools

January 9, 2020

Having open source tooling that can generate SPDX documents is an important first step in automating detection and summarizing of the license compliance information found in source or binary code. How …

Data Science for Community Managers

January 9, 2020

We will present some typical community management worries about community health, productivity and visibility and how some open source tools could be used to face them. Open source development transpa …

email2git: A Cregit Plugin to Link Reviews to Git Commits

January 9, 2020

The Linux project's email-based reviewing process is highly effective in filtering open source contributions on their way from mailing list discussions towards Linus' Git repository. However, once int …

Growing Open Source Talent via Certification

January 9, 2020

Open source software has traditionally relied on individuals taking the initiative to become a developer or a user. The expectation was that people would 'teach themselves' and use fora such as IRC to …

Improved Buffer Sharing Synchronization for Graphics & Media

January 9, 2020

Isn't it time we had all new and exciting devices running mailing kernel? Robust and efficient Graphics & Media stacks are a must for most of these devices, yet mainline always fell behind in these ar …

Nightmares of a Container Orchestration System

January 9, 2020

A lot of talks will tell you how to setup a systems correctly. This talk is about what not to do with your Apache Mesos and DC/OS cluster. We will share some of our favorite/scariest support stories …

Replace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google

January 9, 2020

With the WikiLeaks release of the vault7 material, the security of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware used in most PCs and laptops is once again a concern. UEFI is a proprietary …

Seamless Integration of Heterogeneous Automotive Busses into Linux

January 9, 2020

Information technologies and infotainment are at the heart of todays automotive innovations. Over the last two decades, numerous technologies and communication busses have been integrated in vehicles …

What's in Your Containers? Tracing the Origin of Binaries

January 9, 2020

We are all building containers from base images with possibly questionable pre-built binaries every day. Why? We do not know what is in our own containers. Modern software is routinely assembled from …

Collaborative Security: Securing Open Source Software

January 8, 2020

There is no set of practices that can guarantee that software will never have defects or vulnerabilities, whether that software is open source or proprietary. Even formal methods can fail if the speci …

Control-flow Enforcement Technology

January 8, 2020

Hackers often look for buffer overflow opportunities in an application and feed it illegal input data to overwrite function return addresses, combining with gadgets, manipulate normal program execut …

How We Built Fuel OpenStack Community: Challenges of OpenSource Projects

January 8, 2020

OpenStack allows easily add a new project into its ecosystem. But for that project itself to be alive and successful, its very important to build a community of developers and users around it. We at …

Mixed License FOSS Projects: Unintended Consequences, Worked Examples, Best Practices

January 8, 2020

Many projects start out with the intention of staying single license FOSS projects. As your project grows, reality hits: some components or files may need to use different licenses than originally ant …

Open Source and Cross-Platform Tools for Azure Developers

January 8, 2020

Azure is built around the open source developer. From our emphasis on .NET Core, PowerShell Core, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux to services like linux VMs, linux web apps, and support for contai …

Our Experiences Deploying Kubernetes with IPv6

January 8, 2020

IPv6 will turn 20 years old in 2018, IPv4 addresses are nearly extinct, it is time to give IPv6 a real chance. This talk will cover the process of deploying Kubernetes with IPv6 step by step. We will …

Performance Analysis Superpowers with Linux BPF

January 8, 2020

Advanced performance observability and debugging have arrived built into the Linux 4.x series, thanks to enhancements to Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF, or eBPF) and the repurposing of its sandboxed virt …

Understanding the Impact of the Scheduler on Your Application

January 8, 2020

For today's applications, one of the challenging aspects is to optimally utilize the linux task scheduler. This is because the scheduler is expected to provide optimal performance across a wide range …

WTF My Container Just Spawned a Shell!

January 8, 2020

While there have been many improvements around securing containers, there is still a large gap in monitoring the behavior of containers in production. Enter Sysdig Falco, the open source behavioral ac …

CephFS The Stable Distributed Filesystem

January 7, 2020

Ceph is an open source distributed object store, network block device, and file system designed for reliability, performance, and scalability. The POSIX-compatible CephFS was declared stable in its ea …

Copyleft.org: The Definitive Guide for Copyleft Education and Compliance

January 7, 2020

Every organization involved with Open Source and Free Software has called for more educational resources about Free Software licensing. Historically, materials were written by a myriad of organizatio …

First 90 Days - Building an OSS Practice

January 7, 2020

I have started and grown OSS practices and strategy inside 2 companies both of which may seem like unlikely OSS cultures. I will talk about my first 90 days of starting the OSS practice inside both co …

Giving Everyone Access To Open Source Best Practices: The OpenChain Curriculum

January 7, 2020

This talk will explain how the OpenChain Curriculum team assembled and released extensive compliance training material under CC-0 licensing. It will expand on how this material can be either used for …

hugetlbfs, Still Alive and Kicking

January 7, 2020

Linux support for huge pages has been around since the early 2.6 time frame. When support was added, it followed the 'everything is a file' model and the result was hugetlbfs. hugetlbfs represents a p …

Isolated Container Runtime for Docker Images

January 7, 2020

Isolated Container Runtime (Harshal Patil, IBM) - Docker by default uses a container runtime called runc to run containers using cgroups and namespaces. But Docker by design can run one or many runt …

Migrating Legacy Monoliths to Cloud Native Microservices Architectures on Kubernetes

January 7, 2020

Cloud Native architectures, such as those built on Kubernetes, are envied for their ability to segment different parts of an application into microservices that can separately be containerized, so tha …

Open Source Licensing 101

January 7, 2020

The differences between FOSS licenses can be subtle and large. Sometimes, the importance of a FOSS license itself isn't totally understood. An overview of the various FOSS license types available to t …