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Open Source Summit North America 2017

September 11-14, 2017 - Los Angeles, CA
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Georg Link

Bitergia
Director of Sales
Omaha, NE

Georg Link is an Open Source Strategist. Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional in its use of community metrics and analytics. Georg co-founded the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active contributor to several open source projects and has presented on open source topics on many occasions. Georg has an MBA and a Ph.D. in Information Technology. As the Director of Sales at Bitergia, Georg helps organizations and communities with adopting metrics and making open source more sustainable. In his spare time, Georg enjoys reading fiction and hot-air ballooning.

7:30am PDT

Breakfast Platinum Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:25am PDT

Keynote: Open Source Software as Activism - Christine Corbett Moran, NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, CALTECH Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:45am PDT

Keynote Lightning Talk: Human Enablement - Alan Clark, Director, Industry Initiatives, Emerging Standards and Open Source, SUSE Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:50am PDT

Keynote: A Conversation with Linux and Git Creator Linus Torvalds Diamond Ballroom 4-5

10:20am PDT

Keynote: The Impact of the Ecosystem - Jono Bacon, Community/Developer Strategy Consultant and Author Diamond Ballroom 4-5

11:00am PDT

Community Health Analytics Open Source Software (CHAOSS): An Open Source Community for Advancing Project Transparency - Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Bitergia; Matt Germonprez; University of Nebraska; Harish PIllay... Plaza I/II Building Predictable Community: Strategy, Incentives, Value, and Psychology - Jono Bacon, Community/Developer Strategy Consultant and Author Diamond Ballroom 10

11:50am PDT

Leading By Experience: The Unvarnished Truth about Community Leadership - Jeffrey Osier-Mixon, Intel Corporation Diamond Ballroom 10

2:00pm PDT

Scaling Open Source - Lessons Learned at the Apache Software Foundation - Phil Steitz, Apache Software Foundation Diamond Ballroom 10

2:50pm PDT

Seven Lessons Learned from Growing a Project Too Fast - Matt Butcher, Microsoft Diamond Ballroom 10

3:30pm PDT

Coffee Break Platinum Foyer

4:00pm PDT

Why I Forked My Own Project and My Own Company - Frank Karlitschek, ownCloud Diamond Ballroom 10

4:50pm PDT

Increasing Student Participation in Open Source - Gregory Hislop, Drexel University & Heidi Ellis, Western New England University Diamond Ballroom 10

5:40pm PDT

BoF: Community Health Analytics for Open Source - Matt Germonprez & Georg Link, University of Nebraska at Omaha Georgia I/II

6:30pm PDT

Partner Reception (Invitation Required) The Rooftop at The Standard, Downtown LA

7:30am PDT

Breakfast Platinum Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: The Difference Between a Crowd and a Community - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Actor, Founder and Director of HITRECORD Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:35am PDT

Keynote: Harnessing Billions to Save Millions - Barry Baker, Vice President, Offering Management, IBM Z & LinuxONE, IBM & Shaun Frankson, Co-founder, The Plastic Bank Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:50am PDT

Keynote Lightning Talk: Openness in a Cloud Centric World - Aparna Sinha, Group Product Manager for Kubernetes and Container Engine, Google Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:55am PDT

Keynote: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble - Dan Lyons, Fortune Columnist & Author Diamond Ballroom 4-5

10:20am PDT

Keynote: How Open Source Powers the Cloud to the Edge - Imad Sousou, Vice President and General Manager, Software & Services Group, Intel Diamond Ballroom 4-5

11:05am PDT

How to Build a Community in Your Organization from the Ground-Up - Shilla Saebi, Comcast Diamond Ballroom 10

1:55pm PDT

Bootstrapping Community - Colin Charles, Percona Diamond Ballroom 9 Fora, Q&A, Mailing Lists, Chat...Oh My! - Jeremy Garcia, LinuxQuestions.org / Datadog Diamond Ballroom 10

2:00pm PDT

CHAOSS Project Breakout Session Diamond Ballroom 2

2:45pm PDT

Marketing Your Open Source Project - Deirdre Straughan Diamond Ballroom 9 Panel Discussion: Building and Maintaining Open Source Communities - Moderated by Jonas Rosland, {code} Diamond Ballroom 10

3:25pm PDT

Coffee Break Platinum Foyer

4:00pm PDT

Keynote: Re-Interpreting Open Source in a World where Computing is Closing - Zeynep Tufekci, Professor, New York TImes Writer, Author and Technosociologist Diamond Ballroom 4-5

4:25pm PDT

Keynote: Open Source & Cloud Application Platform: Our Learnings from a Developer-First Journey - Julia Liuson, Corporate Vice President, VS & .NET, Developer Division, Microsoft Diamond Ballroom 4-5

4:45pm PDT

Lightning Keynote: Bridging the Divide: Bringing Network and DevOps People Together to Build a Unified Cloud Native Future - Ed Warnicke, Principal Engineer, Cisco Diamond Ballroom 4-5

4:55pm PDT

Keynote: Open-Sourced Inspiration - The Present and Future of Tech - AI - Tanmay Bakshi, Algorithm-ist & Cognitive Developer, Author and TEDx Speaker Diamond Ballroom 4-5

5:15pm PDT

Onsite Attendee Reception & Sponsor Showcase Platinum Ballroom

8:00am PDT

Breakfast Platinum Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Cloud Native Updates - Chris Aniszczyk, COO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:20am PDT

Keynote: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal, Behavorial Designer and Bestselling Author Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:45am PDT

Lightning Keynote: Containers, Culture & Community - Chris Wright, VP & Chief Technologist, Office of Technology, Red Hat Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:50am PDT

Keynote: Partnered Leadership - Bindi Belanger, Executive Program Director, Ticketmaster Diamond Ballroom 4-5

10:15am PDT

Keynote: Open Source & Operational Excellence - Mark Cavage, Vice President of Software Development, Oracle Diamond Ballroom 4-5

10:30am PDT

Coffee Break Platinum Foyer

11:00am PDT

Data Science for Community Managers - Manrique Lopez, Bitergia Diamond Ballroom 9 Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions - VM (Vicky) Brasseur Diamond Ballroom 10

11:50am PDT

email2git: A Cregit Plugin to Link Reviews to Git Commits - Alexandre Courouble, Polytechnique Montreal Diamond Ballroom 3 How We Built Fuel OpenStack Community: Challenges of OpenSource Projects - Evgeniya Shumakher, Mirantis Diamond Ballroom 9

2:00pm PDT

Selling Open Source, Keeping Your Soul - Jessica Rose, Crate.io Diamond Ballroom 10

2:50pm PDT

The Trouble with Open Source Software - Stephen Walli Diamond Ballroom 10

3:30pm PDT

Coffee Break Platinum Foyer

4:00pm PDT

Venture Capital Community: Applying Open Source Principles to Disrupt a Traditional Industry - Cory Bolotsky, Underscore VC Diamond Ballroom 9

4:50pm PDT

Why and How We Build and Run a Global OSS Community - Masafumi Ohta, Japanese Raspberry Pi Users Group Diamond Ballroom 9

6:30pm PDT

All Attendee Evening Event at Paramount Picture Studios - Sponsored by Cloud Native Computing Foundation, CoreOS, {code}, and Ticketmaster Paramount Picture Studios

8:00am PDT

Breakfast Platinum Foyer

9:00am PDT

Chaos Theory + Civil Rights = 21st Century Corporate Practices - Kate Ertmann, GO Gold 2

9:20am PDT

A Woman in Tech: Journey through VFX and Animation - Munira Tayabji, Digital Supervisor of Technology, Dreamworks Animation Gold 2

10:05am PDT

You're Not a *Real* Software Engineer - Amy Chen, Rancher Labs Gold 1

10:50am PDT

Diversity and Collaboration - Tameika Reed, Women in Linux Gold 1

11:35am PDT

Time for Action - Innovating for D&I in Open Source Communities - Emma Irwin & Larissa Shapiro, Mozilla Gold 1