Open Source Summit + ELC North America

Privacy, Consent and Security Within Modern Applications

February 24, 2020

Rapid application innovation is characterized in part using shared code from open source components. While open source development offers many benefits, when regulators change the rules our strengths …

Stop Calling Knative Serverless!

February 24, 2020

By now most people are familiar with what it means to be a serverless platform, features such as scale-to-zero, auto-scaling and source-to-build. And Knative certainly does all of that. But, by callin …

The Developer Goodie Bag

February 24, 2020

When you open source a project, you may have multiple objectives. Ultimately, driving adoption will help achieve those objectives. Without adoption, many other objectives, like getting community contr …

Welcome Back to Dependency Hell - OSS Compliance in the Age of Software Reuse

February 24, 2020

This talk is about meeting Open Source Software Compliance in our current state of SoftwareDevelopment. It is also a reckoning on our current state of Software Development with regards to Software Reu …

A Few Effective gcc/clang Optimizations for Embedded Systems

February 23, 2020

Compilers toolchains are at the core of the building the Embedded Linux Systems, it affects the full system from bootloaders, kernels to applications and platform software, compilers are software too, …

An Agile Approach to Threat Modeling for Securing Open Source Project EdgeX Foundry

February 23, 2020

Evaluating security risks and conducting threat modeling are challenging for open source project contributors and adopters. There are rarely enough people, or people with experience, to tackle these t …

Getting Started with LXD and System Containers

February 23, 2020

Want a simple, easy to deploy way to run just about any standard Linux distribution on any system without any overhead? Have you considered system containers?System containers run an entire Linux dist …

Introduction to Kernel Modules and Kbuild

February 23, 2020

Many people find the Linux kernel overwhelming place, and dont know where to start. This seminar will introduce the kernel Kbuild system, one which has been copied into most other Embedded code bases …

Monsters, Ghosts, and Bugs: How to Choose a Kernel

February 23, 2020

Most users and developers dont think too closely about what kernel is running, yet the kernel is a vital piece of software. There are many choices of what kernel to run, from a well-tested enterprise …

Open Source Tools for ML Experiments Management

February 23, 2020

The rise of new AI and ML requires new workflows and new tools: data versioning, ML pipeline versioning, experiments metrics visualization and others that have not been formalized and even named yet.T …

Shifting Incentives in Open Source Participation

February 23, 2020

Much as Open Source has changed industries, industry has also changed Open Source. We should expect Open Source to continue to evolve as other technologies and segments embrace and participate in Open …

Best Practices and Lessons Learned for Running Kubernetes on Bare-Metal at Scale

February 22, 2020

Platform9 offers a SaaS hybrid cloud solution, managing +300 cloud regions & thousands of nodes for our users, globally. Our offering is built on top of Kubernetes on bare-metal. When running Kubernet …

Comparison of Current Service Mesh Architectures

February 22, 2020

A service mesh provides visibility, traffic management, resiliency and security control for distributed application services. This presentation focuses on the differences between service meshes and se …

Demystifying Linux MIPI DSI Subsystem

February 22, 2020

Today every modern multimedia supported SoC's comprises of variety of display controller interfaces bounded with LCD panels or bridges and a GPU, to provide display acceleration. Out of many display c …

Migrating to Yocto: A Guide and Lessons Learned

February 22, 2020

Tauqir and Ram took it upon themselves to migrate the build system for the whole engineering organization about 2 years ago at Cisco Meraki. The need arose from a new platform that was very well-suppo …

News from the Embedded GFX Space

February 22, 2020

The embedded GPU space is seeing rapid changes with the introduction of new standards like Vulkan and new applications like VR and wearables.This of course affects the GPU hardware and what we expect …

Open Source License Variations in Linux and Android: Comprehensive Examples and Insights

February 22, 2020

To comply with open source licenses, users must include proper license text in their software. Unfortunately, many times they include poorly-worded texts instead. To help solve this problem, Microsoft …

Speaker Preparation: Simple Steps with a Tremendous Impact

February 22, 2020

A speaker struggling with extreme anxiety and ending up with a crumpled talk is one of the main fears of an event organizer. It is also the reason for rarely putting a complete speaker newbie on the c …

The San Francisco Open Source Voting Project: A Status Report

February 22, 2020

In 2016, San Francisco's Mayor and Board of Supervisors approved funding to study the development of open source voting technology for San Franciscos elections. The projects goal is to design and im …

Getting a Good Nights Sleep After a Fresh Kubernetes Deployment

February 21, 2020

WIth constantly increasing number of security threats, no Kubernetes cluster should stay vulnerable. How easy it is to make sure yours follows all of the best practices? Having an automated assessment …

How Linux Foundation is Changing the (machine-learning) World!

February 21, 2020

Open-source AI tools/solutions ARE available but theyre not easy to implement, arent always compatible, & each solve only a small piece of the puzzle. Thats why despite growing adoption AI is s …

K8s-based API Gateway

February 21, 2020

Looking for an open-source, Cloud Native, API gateway designed specifically for Kubernetes? In this talk, you will learn about Ambassador, which does exactly this and is based on Lyft's Envoy proxy. Y …

Navigating the Interface Between Open and Closed Source Software

February 21, 2020

Organizations of all shapes and sizes face pressure to increase the pace at which they work, and open source software contributes to acceleration. Yet a huge proportion of the systems used in most ind …

Seven Hard Truths About Open Source Community

February 21, 2020

In OSS, managing a project may not get easier as it gets more successful. We like to think that attracting lots of users means success, & success means spreading the workload. But sometimes managing a …

Workshop: Hands On FOSSology, SW360 and SPDX

February 21, 2020

FOSSology and SW360 are both software projects in the area of OSS license compliance. FOSSology can run license, copyright and export control scans and has a Web user interface providing a compliance …

Workshop: Zero-to-Canary With Spinnaker

February 21, 2020

So you keep hearing about Spinnaker, and you want to try to do something but don't know where to get started? We have the Tutorial for you!Instead of relying on a random Spinnaker 'HowTo' blog post on …

Zephyr on a Hearing Aid

February 21, 2020

The adventure of porting Zephyr to a hearing aid, a life-changing device that uses almost no power, almost no space and will be produced in millions.This is the story of molding Zephyr into a project …

Finding the Best Way to Use Linux Kernel - Status Update

February 20, 2020

Linux is the default choice of modern IT system including IoT, Embedded and many others. For IT system, historically, commercial distros are providing distribution with security and bug fixes in Long …