The Free Software Foundation (FSF) started promoting the idea of sharing code way back in 1985, and since then it's defended the rights of computer users and developers. The FSF says that the terms "open" and "closed" are not effective words when classifying software, and instead considers programs either freedom-respecting ("free" or "libre") or freedom-trampling ("non-free" or "proprietary"). Whatever terminology you use, the imperative is that computers must belong, part and parcel, to the users, and not to the corporations that owns the software the computers run. This is why the GNU Project, and the Linux kernel, Freedesktop.org, and so many other open source projects are so important.
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SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. The Expo's educational focus is composed of (but not limited to) technical seminars and booths where, among other things, both commercial software and hardware vendors, and local non-profit groups (for example, Linux Users Groups), participate in product display, and software demonstrations and tutorials, respectively.
Keynote Speakers
- Aeva Black, Office of the CTO, Azure Microsoft
- Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Featured Speakers
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ApacheCon North America 2022
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives will hold its annual ApacheCon North America 2022 conference at the Canal Street Sheraton in New Orleans, LA, from October 3-6, 2022.
ApacheCon this year will feature four days of sessions, with seven tracks each day. Tracks will focus on Search, Big Data, Internet of Things, Community, Geospatial, Cassandra, Financial Tech, and many other topics. For the full schedule, see https://apachecon.com/acna2022. Each evening will also feature Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, where communities will have an opportunity for freeform discussion and planning around our various projects.
Keynotes will feature Demetris Cheatham, Senior Director, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Strategy at GitHub, and William Hurley (Whurley), Technology Entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of Strangeworks.
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5th openEHR Asia Summit
This event will be the 5th openEHR Asia Summit
Program
- Opening remarks and openEHR updates 2021-2022, Shinji Kobayashi, NPO openEHR Japan
- Modeling clinical knowledge, Heather Leslie, Atomica Informatics
Toward implementing an open source CDR fulfilling nation-wide deployment, Christian Chivalley, Adoc Corp.- Smart on openEHR, Sidharth Ramesh, Medblocks project
- Recent Progress of openEHR in China, Xudong Lu, Zhejiang University
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A Guide To Productivity Management In Open Source Projects
By Thabang Mashologu | July 13, 2022
Open source is one of the most important technology trends of our time. It’s the lifeblood of the digital economy and the preeminent way that software-based innovation happens today. In fact, it’s estimated that over 90% of software released today contains open source libraries. There's no doubt the open source model is effective and impactful. But is there still room for improvement? When comparing the broader software industry’s processes to that of open source communities, one big gap stands out: productivity management. By and large, open source project leads and maintainers have been slow to adopt modern productivity and project management practices and tools commonly embraced by startups and enterprises to drive the efficiency and predictability of software development processes. It’s time we examine how the application of these approaches and capabilities can improve the management of open source projects for the better.
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Interview With Free Software Foundation Executive Director Zoë Kooyman
By Seth Kenlon | July 8, 2022
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On the Critical Role of Site Reliability Engineering
By Robert Kimani | June 20, 2022
Understanding the basics and best practices for establishing and maintaining a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) program in an organization...SREs are responsible for maximizing reliability, performance availability, latency, efficiency, monitoring, emergency response, change management, release planning, and capacity planning for both infrastructure and software. As applications and infrastructure grow more complex, SRE teams help ensure that these systems can evolve.
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Top 8 open source project management tools for agile teams
By Seth Kenlon, Robin Muilwijk, and Jason B | June 13, 2022
Opensource.com has surveyed the landscape of popular open source project management tools. We've done this before—but this time we've added a twist. This time, we're looking specifically at tools that support agile methodology, including related practices such as Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. The growth of interest in and use of agile is why we've decided to focus on these types of tools this year. A majority of organizations say they are using agile approaches at least sometimes. In addition, agile projects are 28% more successful than projects managed with traditional approaches. For this roundup, we looked at the project management tools we covered in 2014, 2015, and 2016 and plucked the ones that support agile, then did research to uncover any additions or changes. Whether your organization is already using agile or is one of the many planning to adopt agile approaches, one of these seven open source project management tools, in no particular order, may be exactly what you're looking for.
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Attract Contributors To Your Open Source Project With Authenticity
By Rizel Scarlett | June 4, 2022
It's not a secret that maintaining an open source project is often thankless and time-consuming work. However, I've learned that there's one shared joy among open source maintainers: They love building with a group of technologists who passionately believe in their vision...Check out these methods that open source maintainers can use to attract contributors in a genuine manner.
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The Platform Revolution Comes to Healthcare: A Deep Dive at the 2022 MIT Platform Strategy Summit
The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy is excited to announce the innagural 1/2 day event leading into the 10th Annual MIT Platform Strategy Summit the following day, on July 14.* Through several feature keynotes and panel sessions involving industry experts, this event designed to explore how digital health platforms are key enablers of transformation in healthcare. For example, healthcare platforms have the potential to:
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Upstream 2022
Live, one-day virtual event on June 7 brings together the application developers who use open source and the maintainers who create it. Upstream 2022 is an event for those who create and use open source software to build applications. Upstream will consist of more than 30 virtual sessions that attendees will be able to attend live or access following the event. Upstream is a free, one-day event that brings together developers, open source maintainers, and the extended network of people who care most about their work.
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