Conference Schedule
FOSSY 2023 Thursday, July 13, 2023
Conference times are in PDT (UTC-0700). Current talks will be highlighted.
12:30PM–02:00PM
Registration and Welcome Lunch
ends 2 p.m.
02:00PM–03:00PM
What is it like to run a datacenter with AArch64?
Lance Albertson
AArch64/ARM64 Servers and Open Source - The Who, What, Why, and How —
Room 1
ends 3 p.m.
Plom: A free solution for paperless open marking
Edith Coates
FOSS For Education —
Room 2
ends 3 p.m.
Growth: Accelerate your project’s adoption, usage and community engagement
Emily Omier, Matt Yonkovit
Grow Your Project Workshop —
Room 3
ends 6:30 p.m.
Free BSD Workshop
Deb Goodkin, Drew Gurkowski
Free BSD Workshop —
Room 4
ends 6:30 p.m.
XMPP Connectivity & Security
moparisthebest
XMPP —
Room 5
ends 3 p.m.
Language Tools For Creators
Paco Xander Nathan
FOSS at Play: Games, creative development, and open technology —
Room 6
ends 3 p.m.
Room 7
ends 6:30 p.m.
03:00PM–04:00PM
ARMing yourself for the future!
Erik Benner
AArch64/ARM64 Servers and Open Source - The Who, What, Why, and How —
Room 1
ends 4 p.m.
Music Blocks: Computation in and through music
Devin Ulibarri, Walter Bender
FOSS For Education —
Room 2
ends 4 p.m.
Building open standards-based ecosystems
Matthew Wild
XMPP —
Room 5
ends 4 p.m.
Developing games with Godot Engine and other open source software
Tom Lechner
FOSS at Play: Games, creative development, and open technology —
Room 6
ends 4 p.m.
04:00PM–04:30PM
Coffee/tea break
AArch64/ARM64 Servers and Open Source - The Who, What, Why, and How —
Room 1, Room 2
ends 4:30 p.m.
XMPP —
Room 5
ends 4:30 p.m.
FOSS at Play: Games, creative development, and open technology —
Room 6
ends 4:30 p.m.
04:30PM–05:00PM
How Changing Your Server Architecture Can Help Save the World
Aaron Williams
AArch64/ARM64 Servers and Open Source - The Who, What, Why, and How —
Room 1
ends 5:30 p.m.
UniTime - Born of Research, Now Fostering Open Research Through Competition
Stephanie Youngman
FOSS For Education —
Room 2
ends 5:30 p.m.
My XMPP Past, Present, and Future
Stephen Paul Weber
XMPP —
Room 5
ends 5:30 p.m.
'Space Station 13': Transitioning to Open Source
Kai Richardson
FOSS at Play: Games, creative development, and open technology —
Room 6
ends 5 p.m.
05:00PM–05:30PM
A Little Game Called Mario: Managing a chaotic OSS community
Emilia Lazer-Walker
FOSS at Play: Games, creative development, and open technology —
Room 6
ends 5:30 p.m.
05:30PM–06:00PM
AArch64/ARM64 Servers and Open Source - The Who, What, Why, and How —
Room 1
ends 6 p.m.
Hands-On Teaching with JupyterLab
Moshe Zadka
FOSS For Education —
Room 2
ends 6 p.m.
Setting Up A Snikket Server
Root
XMPP —
Room 5
ends 6 p.m.
Create your own crossword puzzles
Rosanna Yuen
FOSS at Play: Games, creative development, and open technology —
Room 6
ends 6 p.m.
06:00PM–06:30PM
AArch64/ARM64 Servers and Open Source - The Who, What, Why, and How —
Room 1
ends 6:30 p.m.
Advanced Video for your Campus: The Opencast Video Ecosystem
Carlos Turró-Ribalta
FOSS For Education —
Room 2
ends 6:30 p.m.
XMPP Introduction and Overview
Sam Whited
XMPP —
Room 5
ends 6:30 p.m.
FOSS at Play: Games, creative development, and open technology —
Room 6
ends 6:30 p.m.
06:30PM
Day End
FOSSY 2023 Friday, July 14, 2023
Conference times are in PDT (UTC-0700). Current talks will be highlighted.
09:30AM–10:30AM
Keynote Session
ends 10:30 a.m.
10:30AM–11:30AM
Free Software Policy with Semi-Firm Firmware
Kyle Rankin
Copyleft and Compliance —
Room 1
ends 11:30 a.m.
Public Schools, Public Code: Fostering Openness and Social Justice in Education
Mariah Villarreal
FOSS For Education —
Room 2
ends 11:30 a.m.
YES YOU CAN - Creating a profitable open source company without venture capital
Ann Schlemmer
Sustainable Open Source Business —
Room 3
ends 11:30 a.m.
Contributor Growth Strategies for OSS Projects
Dawn Foster
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 4
ends 11:30 a.m.
Break
Room 5
ends 12:30 p.m.
Break
BSD Unix —
Room 6
ends 12:30 p.m.
Where does "sustaining" open source fall down?
Richard Littauer
Wild card —
Room 7
ends 11:30 a.m.
11:30AM–12:00PM
What we really want: an enforcer's perspective
Bradley M. Kuhn
Copyleft and Compliance —
Room 1
ends 12:30 p.m.
Hidden Gems: Enabling Open Source Communities & Building up Talent Pipelines Through Mentorship
Stephanie Lieggi, Carlos Maltzahn, Jayjeet Chakraborty
FOSS For Education —
Room 2
ends 12:30 p.m.
Dear Open Source, let’s do a better job of asking for money
John Robb
Sustainable Open Source Business —
Room 3
ends noon
Let's stop reinventing the wheel: Community management in 3 steps
Karsten (quaid) Wade
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 4
ends noon
The Business Case for Open Source Laptops
Mike Jang
Wild card —
Room 7
ends 12:30 p.m.
12:00PM–12:30PM
Our adventure in launching an open source community & business
Ed Huang
Sustainable Open Source Business —
Room 3
ends 12:30 p.m.
You're Doing Great! The underappreciated art of appreciation
Loren Crary
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 4
ends 12:30 p.m.
12:30PM–02:00PM
Lunch
ends 2 p.m.
02:00PM–03:00PM
Break
Copyleft and Compliance —
Room 1
ends 4 p.m.
Developing Labs for Teaching Kids Webdev
Matt Cengia
FOSS For Education —
Room 2
ends 3 p.m.
Embracing Building an Open Source Business: Balancing Profit and Community Without Compromise
Matt Yonkovit
Sustainable Open Source Business —
Room 3
ends 3 p.m.
Community Strategy: two dirty words that might just save you someday
Rynn Mancuso, Libby Meren
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 4
ends 3 p.m.
Room 5
ends 3 p.m.
NetBSD on your home router
Alexander Vasarab
BSD Unix —
Room 6
ends 3 p.m.
FOSS in World Affairs
Delib
Wild card —
Room 7
ends 3 p.m.
03:00PM–04:00PM
Helping Faculty Bring Students into Open Source - Kits and Education-Oriented Projects
Grant Braught, Karl R. Wurst
FOSS For Education —
Room 2
ends 4 p.m.
Case Study: Zig Software Foundation
Andrew Kelley
Sustainable Open Source Business —
Room 3
ends 4 p.m.
Open Source Anti-Patterns
Tom "spot" Callaway
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 4
ends 4 p.m.
Room 5
ends 4 p.m.
Falling in Love with FreeBSD, Again
Michael Dexter
BSD Unix —
Room 6
ends 4 p.m.
Break
Wild card —
Room 7
ends 4 p.m.
04:00PM–04:30PM
Coffee/tea break
ends 4:30 p.m.
04:30PM–05:00PM
Break
Copyleft and Compliance —
Room 1
ends 6:30 p.m.
Academic OSPO as RSE Group: Harnessing Student Developers for Collaborative Innovation
Daniel Shown
FOSS For Education —
Room 2
ends 5:30 p.m.
Positioning your Open Source Project and Commercial Product for Fun and Profit
Emily Omier
Sustainable Open Source Business —
Room 3
ends 5:30 p.m.
Building and Supporting Open Source Communities Through Metrics
Georg Link
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 4
ends 5:30 p.m.
Room 5
ends 5 p.m.
BSD Unix —
Room 6
ends 5:30 p.m.
Break
Wild card —
Room 7
ends 6:30 p.m.
05:00PM–05:30PM
Room 5
ends 5:30 p.m.
05:30PM–06:00PM
Students Favor Open Source, but Don’t Really Understand It
Gregory W. Hislop, Heid Ellis
FOSS For Education —
Room 2
ends 6:30 p.m.
Discussion: If we had money, what FOSS would we build?
Denver Gingerich, Stephen Paul Weber
Sustainable Open Source Business —
Room 3
ends 6:30 p.m.
From Commit Bits to Bylaws: Governing Your Open Source Project
Shauna Gordon-McKeon
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 4
ends 6:30 p.m.
Room 5
ends 6 p.m.
BSD Unix —
Room 6
ends 6:30 p.m.
06:00PM–06:30PM
Break
Room 5
ends 6:30 p.m.
06:30PM
Day End
FOSSY 2023 Saturday, July 15, 2023
Conference times are in PDT (UTC-0700). Current talks will be highlighted.
09:30AM–10:30AM
Keynote Session
ends 10:30 a.m.
How you write matters in open source
Kyle Davis
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 2
ends 11:30 a.m.
Break
FOSS in Daily Life —
Room 3
ends 12:30 p.m.
Break
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 12:30 p.m.
Can we combat maintainer burnout with proactive metrics?
Sophia Vargas
Science of Community —
Room 5
ends 11:30 a.m.
Keeping Open Source in the public Interest
Stefano Maffulli
Issues in Open Work —
Room 6
ends 11:30 a.m.
FOSS Mirroring on a budget: how a question turned into 253gbps of worldwide bandwidth in under a yea
John 'Warthog9' Hawley
Wild card —
Room 7
ends 11:30 a.m.
11:30AM–12:00PM
How to procure open source (you don't)
Anne-Marie Scott
FOSS For Education —
Room 1
ends noon
FreeBSD: Why This Open Source Project Has Endured
Drew Gurkowski
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 2
ends noon
Community lead user research and usability in Science and Research OSS: What we learned
Eriol Fox
Science of Community —
Room 5
ends noon
Make The Commit – Community Best Practices for Patent Risk
Keith Bergelt
Issues in Open Work —
Room 6
ends 12:30 p.m.
Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
Edward Betts
Wild card —
Room 7
ends 12:30 p.m.
12:00PM–12:30PM
Introduction to Incubation at Apereo
Benito Gonzalez, Laura Fernandez Moran, Patrick Masson
FOSS For Education —
Room 1
ends 12:30 p.m.
Lessons Learned From Scaling An Open Source Community By 10,000%
Angie Byron
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 2
ends 12:30 p.m.
Research Data Management Skills Development Leveraged by an Open Source Portfolio
Shoji Kajita
Science of Community —
Room 5
ends 12:30 p.m.
12:30PM–02:00PM
Lunch
ends 2 p.m.
02:00PM–02:30PM
We shared some open ed tech. YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!
Clint Lalonde, Anne-Marie Scott
FOSS For Education —
Room 1
ends 3 p.m.
"I didn't sign up for this": The invisible work of maintaining and scaling FOSS projects
Stuart Geiger
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 2
ends 3 p.m.
You don't carry a phone?! Improving societal acceptance of abnormal people
Denver Gingerich
FOSS in Daily Life —
Room 3
ends 2:30 p.m.
What is Open Source Without Collaboration?
Ildikó Váncsa
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 3 p.m.
Lightning Talks - Science of Community
Matthew Gaughan, adam hyde, Kaylea Champion
Science of Community —
Room 5
ends 3 p.m.
Driving Sustainable Digital Public Goods: Lessons from Guiding Companies to Embrace Open Source
Vipul Siddharth
Issues in Open Work —
Room 6
ends 3 p.m.
Break
Wild card —
Room 7
ends 4 p.m.
03:00PM–03:30PM
Open Source in Higher Ed is Different
Patrick Masson
FOSS For Education —
Room 1
ends 4 p.m.
Forging Strong Open Source Communities: Insights and Lessons from the Sakai LMS Community
Joshua Wilson
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 2
ends 4 p.m.
Running an Open Source Hackerspace
Tracy Homer
FOSS in Daily Life —
Room 3
ends 3:30 p.m.
Thinking about FOSS, systemically
Anna e só
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 4 p.m.
Science of Community —
Room 5
ends 4 p.m.
Open Source and Automated Science
Sayeed Choudhury
Issues in Open Work —
Room 6
ends 4 p.m.
03:30PM–04:00PM
IndieWeb 101: owning your content and identity
Wm Salt Hale
FOSS in Daily Life —
Room 3
ends 4 p.m.
04:00PM–04:30PM
Coffee/tea break
ends 4:30 p.m.
04:30PM–05:00PM
Open Standards in Higher Ed and the Challenges of Interoperability
Benito Gonzalez, Laura Fernandez Moran
FOSS For Education —
Room 1
ends 5:30 p.m.
Let's talk about Non-profit Boards
Deb Nicholson
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 2
ends 5:30 p.m.
Thoughts after daily driving postmarketOS for 3 years
Anjan Momi
FOSS in Daily Life —
Room 3
ends 5 p.m.
The Open Social Compact: A Citizenship Model for Digital Communities
Coraline Ada Ehmke
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 5:30 p.m.
Science of Community —
Room 5
ends 5:30 p.m.
Issues in Open Work —
Room 6
ends 5:30 p.m.
Right to Repair, FOSS, and restoring hardware ownership
Kevin O'Reilly
Wild card —
Room 7
ends 5:30 p.m.
05:00PM–05:30PM
Resiliency Maps: Open source tools and open data for disaster risk reduction
Nicole Martinelli
FOSS in Daily Life —
Room 3
ends 5:30 p.m.
05:30PM–06:00PM
Improving Diversity in Computing by Teaching Humanitarian Free and Open Source
Heid Ellis, Grant Braught, Heid Ellis
FOSS For Education —
Room 1
ends 6:30 p.m.
How To Steal From Maintainers
Richard Schneeman
Community: Open Source in Practice —
Room 2
ends 6:30 p.m.
Steadfast Self-Hosting: Rapid-Rise Personal Cloud
Adam Monsen
FOSS in Daily Life —
Room 3
ends 6 p.m.
Beyond Diversity: Creating an Inclusive Culture in FOSS Communities
Enock Kasaadha
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 6 p.m.
Science of Community —
Room 5
ends 6 p.m.
Issues in Open Work —
Room 6
ends 6:30 p.m.
Break
Wild card —
Room 7
ends 6:30 p.m.
06:00PM–06:30PM
Planning a wedding with FOSS
Pono Takamori
FOSS in Daily Life —
Room 3
ends 6:30 p.m.
From Conversations to Action: Creating a healthy, diverse open source community.
Anita Sarma, Zixuan Steve Feng
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 6:30 p.m.
Science of Community —
Room 5
ends 6:30 p.m.
06:30PM
Day End
FOSSY 2023 Sunday, July 16, 2023
Conference times are in PDT (UTC-0700). Current talks will be highlighted.
09:30AM–10:30AM
Keynote Session
ends 10:30 a.m.
10:30AM–11:30AM
Break
Room 1
ends 12:30 p.m.
Inside Igalia: Scaling a Co-Op Beyond 100 Members
Valerie Young
Software Worker Coops —
Room 2
ends 11:30 a.m.
Enabling Accelerated AI and Data Workflows on CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs through oneAPI
Sriram Ramkrishna
Open Source AI + Data —
Room 3
ends 11:30 a.m.
Onboarding Newcomers - More Than Just CONTRIBUTING.md
Elizabeth Barron, Justin W. Flory
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 11:30 a.m.
Finch: simple/open/extensible
Weike Qu, Kyle Davis
Container Days —
Room 5
ends 11:30 a.m.
Room 6
ends 12:30 p.m.
Challenges in open, self-sovereign identity
Tom Marble
Security —
Room 7
ends 11:30 a.m.
11:30AM–12:00PM
Agaric Technology Collective
Louis Elkner-Alfaro, Keegan Rankin
Software Worker Coops —
Room 2
ends noon
How AI can help sustain open source, not destroy it
Justin Dorfman
Open Source AI + Data —
Room 3
ends noon
Open Source Your Inclusive Language Initiatives
Monica Ayhens-Madon
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends noon
Incremental Arm64 migration with multi-arch containers and heterogeneous Kubernetes clusters
Dave Neary
Container Days —
Room 5
ends noon
Doing a TUF: Secure Any Shared Storage
Nisha Kumar
Security —
Room 7
ends noon
12:00PM–12:30PM
Software Worker Coops —
Room 2
ends 12:30 p.m.
Dashboards are dead, long live dashboards!
James Kunstle
Open Source AI + Data —
Room 3
ends 12:30 p.m.
Breaking Down Barriers: Tips for Accessible Tech Writing
Vishal Pallerla
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 12:30 p.m.
Open Source Dev Containers with DevPod
Rich Burroughs
Container Days —
Room 5
ends 12:30 p.m.
Security —
Room 7
ends 12:30 p.m.
12:30PM–02:00PM
Lunch
ends 2 p.m.
02:00PM–03:00PM
Break
Room 1
ends 4 p.m.
Co-ops: 'Open Source' Capitalism
Joel Brock
Software Worker Coops —
Room 2
ends 3 p.m.
Using Python with Proprietary Compute Power to Leverage Big Data Analytics
Joseph Castle, PhD
Open Source AI + Data —
Room 3
ends 3 p.m.
Discussion: Mentoring and internship challenges
Sage Sharp
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 3 p.m.
Power Up with Podman
Paige Cruz
Container Days —
Room 5
ends 3 p.m.
Room 6
ends 4 p.m.
Breaking the Chains of Trusting Trust: Reproducible Builds and More!
Vagrant Cascadian
Security —
Room 7
ends 3 p.m.
03:00PM–03:30PM
The Open Source Demos: Who is Entitled to Vote in an Open Source Organization?
Watson
Software Worker Coops —
Room 2
ends 3:30 p.m.
Accelerate Model Training with an Easy to Use High-Performance AI/ML Stack for the Cloud
Michael Clifford
Open Source AI + Data —
Room 3
ends 4 p.m.
Automating Day 2 Operations with Kubebuilder and Operator SDK
Steve Sklar
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 4 p.m.
Getting Started with vcluster in Production
Mike Petersen, Carl Montanari
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 4 p.m.
Winning Over Compliance Skeptics
Aaron Williams, Kenaz Kwa
Security —
Room 7
ends 4 p.m.
03:30PM–04:00PM
Software Worker Coops —
Room 2
ends 4 p.m.
04:00PM–04:30PM
Afternoon tea
ends 4:30 p.m.
04:30PM–05:30PM
Break
Room 1
ends 6:30 p.m.
The Cooperative Model in It: A Utopia of the Left or a Reality
David Beauchemin
Software Worker Coops —
Room 2
ends 5:30 p.m.
Open Source AI + Data —
Room 3
ends 5:30 p.m.
Framing DEI Globally
Jen Madriaga
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 5:30 p.m.
Container Days —
Room 5
ends 5:30 p.m.
Room 6
ends 6:30 p.m.
Security —
Room 7
ends 5:30 p.m.
05:30PM–06:00PM
Software Worker Coops —
Room 2
ends 6:30 p.m.
Secure Data Sharing: Homomorphic Encryption and Confidential Computing
Surya Prakash Pathak, AAKANKSHA DUGGAL
Open Source AI + Data —
Room 3
ends 6 p.m.
Conflu, con crud, and COVID-19: the time for Health and Safety policies is yesterday
Josh Simmons
Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS —
Room 4
ends 6:30 p.m.
The Cloud Native Burrito
Josh Berkus
Container Days —
Room 5
ends 6 p.m.
Security —
Room 7
ends 6:30 p.m.
06:00PM–06:30PM
Empowering Data Driven Strategies with Open Source Machine Learning: Tools, Techniques and Tips
Hema Veeradhi, Surya Prakash Pathak
Open Source AI + Data —
Room 3
ends 6:30 p.m.
A Pep Talk for Running Data Workloads in Kubernetes
Melissa Logan
Container Days —
Room 5
ends 6:30 p.m.
06:30PM
Day End