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When BGP meets Big-data

When BGP meets Big-data

January 20, 2020

The Internet is very much alive, with millions of BGP events occurring every day. BGP monitoring and reporting tools have been in use for many years now and are …
Leading By Experience: The Unvarnished Truth about Community Leadership

Leading By Experience: The Unvarnished Truth about Community Leadership

January 19, 2020

As community manager for a large-scale collaborative project involving over 20 organizations, many of whom compete directly with each other, I have learned a lot of lessons and made a huge number of m …
Providing Services to Cloud Native Platforms with the Open Service Broker API

Providing Services to Cloud Native Platforms with the Open Service Broker API

January 11, 2020

In a digital world, widely adopted and easy to use APIs are the cornerstone of collaboration and interoperability. As Cloud technologies mature and become commonplace, the absence of standards surface …
Collaborative Security: Securing Open Source Software

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

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 …
BoF: CO.LAB: A Collaborative, Mobile Learning Experience

BoF: CO.LAB: A Collaborative, Mobile Learning Experience

January 4, 2020

Good things happen when we come together to create something new. Connections are formed. Discoveries are made. Fresh ideas emerge. And obstacles are overcome. That's why Red Hat believes that creativ …
Creating public value through data collaboratives

Creating public value through data collaboratives

January 4, 2020

The data collaborative is a new form of public-private partnership that seeks to create public value for the worlds most marginalized children through the exchange of data and data science expertise. Natalia Adler offers an overview of the Data Collaboratives initiative, led by UNICEF and the GovLab at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering.
Taking Up the Slack: Building Real-Time Community at Autodesk

Taking Up the Slack: Building Real-Time Community at Autodesk

December 27, 2019

Building strong, collaborative communities continues to be a critical component to the success of open source. However, too often companies attempt to manufacture community (both internally and extern …
Build smart applications with your new super power: Cloud AI (sponsored by Google Cloud)

Build smart applications with your new super power: Cloud AI (sponsored by Google Cloud)

December 26, 2019

Google has invested deeply in machine learning for many years and is using it successfully across its highly successful consumer businesses. Philippe Poutonnet explains how to leverage the power of ML with Google Cloud, using the platform's powerful data management tools, support for collaborative experiments, and predictions at Google scale.
Collaboration and automated operation as literate computing for reproducible infrastructure

Collaboration and automated operation as literate computing for reproducible infrastructure

December 23, 2019

Jupyter is useful for DevOps. It enables collaboration between experts and novices to accumulate infrastructure knowledge, while automation via notebooks enhances traceability and reproducibility. Yoshi Nobu Masatani shows how to combine Jupyter with Ansible for reproducible infrastructure and explores knowledge, workflow, and customer support as literate computing practices.
Humans in the loop: Jupyter notebooks as a frontend for AI pipelines at scale

Humans in the loop: Jupyter notebooks as a frontend for AI pipelines at scale

December 22, 2019

Paco Nathan reviews use cases where Jupyter provides a frontend to AI as the means for keeping humans in the loop. This process enhances the feedback loop between people and machines, and the end result is that a smaller group of people can handle a wider range of responsibilities for building and maintaining a complex system of automation.
Music and Jupyter: A combo for creating collaborative narratives for teaching

Music and Jupyter: A combo for creating collaborative narratives for teaching

December 21, 2019

Music engages and delights. Carol Willing explains how to explore and teach the basics of interactive computing and data science by combining music with Jupyter notebooks, using music21, a tool for computer-aided musicology, and Magenta, a TensorFlow project for making music with machine learning, to create collaborative narratives and publishing materials for teaching and learning.
Project Jupyter: From interactive Python to open science

Project Jupyter: From interactive Python to open science

December 21, 2019

Fernando Prez opens JupyterCon with an overview of Project Jupyter, describing how it fits into a vision of collaborative, community-based open development of tools applicable to research, education, and industry.
Documentation Sprints: Involving the Community and Getting It Done

Documentation Sprints: Involving the Community and Getting It Done

December 20, 2019

Documentation does not have to be a slow, arduous and lonely task. Similar to collaborative code sprints, a documentation sprint is an intensive and tightly focused content creation session to write …
Inclusive Team Dynamics; An Open Approach

Inclusive Team Dynamics; An Open Approach

December 17, 2019

This talk will share the story of how Red Hat utilized an open collaborative approach to promote inclusion within our global teams. We identified 4 key themes for improving team dynamics; including ot …
Building the culture and collaboration layer for DevOps (sponsored by Atlassian)

Building the culture and collaboration layer for DevOps (sponsored by Atlassian)

December 10, 2019

While most conversations around DevOps revolve around tool X or tool Y or the automation of X and Y, the reality is that DevOps requires high-performing people and teams. Sean Regan runs a brief DevOps Health Monitor live on stage and shares the other 26 team playbooks that emerged from Atlassian's Agile, DevOps, and microservices journey.
How knowledge graphs can help dramatically improve recommendations

How knowledge graphs can help dramatically improve recommendations

December 3, 2019

Collaborative filtering is great for recommendations, yet it suffers from the cold-start problem. New content with no views is ignored, and new users get poor recommendation. Aurlien Gron shares a solution: knowledge graphs. With a knowledge graph, you can truly understand your users' interests and make better, more relevant recommendations.
Multinode restricted Boltzmann machines for big data

Multinode restricted Boltzmann machines for big data

December 1, 2019

Nikolay Manchev offers an overview of the restricted Boltzmann machine, a type of neural network with a wide range of applications, and shares his experience using it on Hadoop (MapReduce and Spark) to process unstructured and semistructured data at a scale.
Building a real-time recommendation engine with Neo4j

Building a real-time recommendation engine with Neo4j

November 27, 2019

William Lyon explains how to use a graph database to generate real-time recommendations using real-world data. William introduces graph data modeling and querying concepts using Neo4j and Cypher, the query language for graphs to import and query data, before demonstrating how to apply graph algorithms and NLP using Python data science tools to enhance your recommendations.
Contributing to Hyperledger

Contributing to Hyperledger

November 26, 2019

Regardless of whether or not you are a developer, there are many ways for you to get involved in open source. Tracy Kuhrt offers an overview of Hyperledger and its projects and outlines the ways that you can participate. You'll leave with a set of initial steps to begin your journey with this growing community.
Meet the Expert with Tameika Reed (Women in Linux)

Meet the Expert with Tameika Reed (Women in Linux)

November 22, 2019

Come chat with Tameika, the founder of Women in Linux, about community building. She can answer your questions about how to create an inclusive and collaborative community.
Mr. Gerkins: InnerSource's first open tool

Mr. Gerkins: InnerSource's first open tool

November 22, 2019

InnerSource brings open development to all collaboration. Bijil Abraham Philip explains what happened when his team hopped on the InnerSource bandwagon. They immediately ran into tooling issues, so they created InnerSource's first open source tool, Mr. Gerkins, to automate the many mundane tasks associated with repository management in a collaborative organization.
Transforming telecommunications through open source software

Transforming telecommunications through open source software

November 19, 2019

The telecommunications industry's major network operators and vendors have not traditionally engaged with open source. Now, under pressure to transform their networks to support mobile devices and the demand for video, this is changing. William Snow tells the story of how Open Networking Laboratory has transformed the industry through open source and where the industry is headed using open source.
Computers are easy; people are hard

Computers are easy; people are hard

November 17, 2019

Bridget Kromhout compares the architectural patterns of modern distributed systems with the communication patterns of successful teams, explaining how to apply the principles and practices of a DevOps culture to ensure we build systems designed for humans.