Open Source Summit + ELC North America

Advantages of Embedded Linux in Industrial Automation and IIoT

February 16, 2020

The industrial internet of things (IIoT) has been a buzzword in the industrial automation field for a while now. We can see the vision of more productive and profitable ways to manufacture and process …

AI on the Edge Unlocking New Opportunities in IoT

February 16, 2020

It is a great time to get started with IoT! Simplifying connectivity, device management, and turning insights into actions to drive digital transformation across many industries while building IoT sol …

Deploy on Kubernetes for Pennies on a Dollar

February 16, 2020

With the rapid growth in popularity and adoption rate of container technology and Kubernetes the need for cost monitoring is increasing. Having a good cost accountant will help in providing insights f …

Improving Embedded Systems Boot Time by Hibernation: An Overview on the State of the Art and a Case of Study on i.MX family of Processors

February 16, 2020

Improving boot time is always a delicate matter and literature is very rich. Linux based OSes benefit from standard optimization approaches however, Android is still far away from having exciting resu …

Measuring and Improving the Efficiency of Software Delivery

February 16, 2020

Imagine you start work on a feature on Monday at 10 am, and it goes live on Thursday at 10 am. We call that difference Delivery Lead Time – in this case, a very respectable three days.When you decrea …

MM101: Introduction to Linux Memory Management

February 16, 2020

This is an introduction to Linux memory management. It covers the basics of paging and memory allocation. Understanding basic hardware memory management and the difference between virtual, physical an …

RISC-V - Open and Thriving

February 16, 2020

Open Source ISA RISC-V has been experiencing a phenomenal development growth, bootstrapping a new architecture, however requires a lot of effort to port the software to seed the ecosystem. Its importa …

The Importance of Continuous Regression for HW & SW Development: Improving Performance Over the Lifetime of a Product

February 16, 2020

Listen to Travis Lazar from Ampere Computing - a high-performance arm-based (aarch64) microprocessor development company - talk about how innovative continuous testing techniques have driven rock-soli …

Tracing Resource-constrained Embedded Systems using eBPF

February 16, 2020

Even though eBPF/IOVisor provide safe and powerful tools to trace both systems in development and in production in general, one encounters very significant problems when trying to run these tools on e …

Aktualizr-lite: Be Secure and Never use /bin/dd Again - Andrew Doan &

February 15, 2020

Life's too short to be running dd on sd cards all day. The Aktualizr project includes a new tool called aktualizr-lite that can handle secure OSTree updates in a highly scalable manner. Aktualizr is …

CHAOSS: Making Open Source Project Health Transparent and Actionable

February 15, 2020

This presentation will focus on the work of the CHAOSS project during its first two years. The presentation will highlight efforts to-date from the project working groups as well as the open source so …

Demystifying Decentralization for Open Source

February 15, 2020

This session will explore how open source companies and projects are using decentralization to sustain and build revenue that supports developer communities.Storj Labs CEO Ben Golub share how decentra …

Fine-grained Authorization in a Containerized World - Ashutosh Narkar, Styra Inc.*

February 15, 2020

Organizations use containerized workloads to build and deploy applications. Although diverse in nature these deployments must conform to company-wide constraints around cost, security, and performance …

Kubernetes on the Edge

February 15, 2020

Rancher Labs created K3s to solve a problem anyone who works with constrained resources understands: Kubernetes doesn't run in those environments. We removed alpha and optional features, converted oth …

Let's Think Independently Together

February 15, 2020

The Linux kernel is often a labor of love of a community that truly thinks independently together. As a community, we value the diversity of thought in solving technical problems. Like many technical …

Navigating Open Source Governance

February 15, 2020

Enterprise Governance is often one of the most neglected topics in many project implementation centric organizations. As companies begin to, or broaden, their adoption of Open Source technologies the …

Tested for Business: An Open and Transparent Quality Kit

February 15, 2020

With the proliferation of OpenJDK binaries for a business to choose from, one factor in determining the selection is quality. How do you know your choice is up to snuff? The AdoptOpenJDK Quality Kit …

Introduction to Test-kitchen and InSpec

February 14, 2020

Whether youre using Chef, Puppet or Ansible, youre going to need a set of tools which help enable you to develop and test your infrastructure. One set of tools that we use at the OSU Open Source Lab …

Introduction to the LED subsystem

February 14, 2020

This tutorial will cover the Linux LED subsystem and invite students to exercise what they have learned on hardware.The lecture portion of the tutorial will cover the anatomy of the subsystem from dr …

Learn Kubernetes: Create a Kube From Scratch

February 14, 2020

Demystify Kubernetes!Many consider creating a cluster from scratch to be an unattainable goal–or a mindless copy-paste "adventure." But shouldn't installing a software be the simplest part of using i …

OSS Review Toolkit: Using FOSS Tools for FOSS Reviews in CI/CD World

February 14, 2020

In an ideal world, a FOSS review is highly automated and done often and early so that any FOSS issues - whether technical, licenses or security - can be caught and resolved as they appear. However, de …

Panfrost: Open Source Meets Arm Mali GPUs

February 14, 2020

Over the past years support for the different Arm Mali series of GPUs has been crystalizing in the Open Source space.The first few steps towards supporting some Arm GPUs hardware were taken in 2012, a …

Rapid Developing and Testing Linux Kernel in Docker Containers

February 14, 2020

In this session, Leon will present his development workflow based on dockers to rapidly develop and test Linux kernel changes for real and emulated hardware.Being Mellanox RDMA maintainer and active d …

The 7 (Unhealthy) Habits of Highly Effective IoT Marketing

February 14, 2020

A myriad of connected electronic devices can now be monitored and controlled using a smart phone, or via voice commands. User-friendly interfaces are making smart products, aka Internet of Things (I …

The Road to Safety Certification: How the Xen Project is Making Progress within the Auto Industry and Beyond

February 14, 2020

Safety certification is one of the essential requirements for software to be used in highly regulated industries. The Xen Project, a secure and stable hypervisor that is used in many different markets …

A Community-generated Content Strategy that Works

February 13, 2020

Go behind the scenes at Opensource.com to learn how we are building a community and creating the world's premier open source story telling platform. On average, we publish 90 articles, generate 1.5M p …

Emulating Media Hardware in the Kernel Level - News from the Virtual Media Controller Driver (vimc)

February 13, 2020

Vimc is a virtual media controller with the ability to emulate a real media device. Testing applications that involve media devices can be tricky if you don't have the hardware that you are testing. T …

Evolution of (OTA) Update in the IoT World

February 13, 2020

The update of the software in an embedded Linux System has gained importance and it is nowadays an essential part of any product. But upgrading an embedded system in field is a complex task and must b …