Devconf.cz 2023

In this session I am going to share my experiences as a new person entering into open-source from the outside and provide you with my view on the onboarding process and open-source communities in general.
As member of the RDO project, CentOS project and Fedora packager, I will talk about how the onboarding process looked like, what was most important in it and how I've gone from a new member to being an experienced contributing member.
I hope sharing my journey will help you to find and join a community of your own or help newcomers in communities you are engaged in.

Debian, openSUSE and Fedora have founded together the Linux Distributions Working Group at the Open Mainframe Project for achieving better support for the mainframe architecture s390x and collaboration for providing solutions. That has been such success, that SUSE, Red Hat, Canonical (Ubuntu), AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux have joint also. The question has popped up, whether we should be open only for all Linux Distributions or should we include also important upstream projects in our Linux Distributions Working Group. In this presentation we will represent the existing benefit for all Linux distributions, where we are and what we want to achieve for the future.

Come to listen how Open Source and Trashware are changing (for the better ;-) ) the life of real people with real needs and of the Planet, thanks to PCOfficina.
PCOfficina is an italian volunteer association focused on sharing computer knowledge on Linux, helping people fixing their PCs and offering refurbished computer to those who cannot afford it.
In this talk we'd like to share our ten years' experience, outlining the pitfalls we faced and sharing real stories and some practical hints for those who'd like to start a similar experience in trashware and volunteering,

Our presentation describes Red Hat's Kernel Development Learning Pipeline (KDLP) program. Run by Red Hat engineers, this program and its companion “Introduction to Linux Kernel Development” course, developed in-house, seeks to address the industry-wide shortage of qualified entry-level candidates for low-level software development positions. We're eager to hear your feedback and ideas.

The Ansible project and community have been going through tremendous amounts of change and growth in the past couple of years to adapt and scale with its adoption and uses. Carol will provide an overview of the Ansible community strategy for 2023 in response to some of these changes, highlight new initiatives in the community, plus outreach plans as we welcome back in-person events.

Don will delve into what we're doing with content journeys. The Ansible community team at Red Hat is building a new web presence for the Ansible community that gives everyone - from hobbyists, to open-source developers, collection maintainers, and even enterprise users - a central place to share knowledge and collaborate. Join us and find out how we've been identifying journeys and creating clear paths that foster adoption, increase collaboration, and support a huge variety of open-source automation use cases. We'll share some lessons learned, take a look at where we're headed, and share details on how you can join the Ansible community.

Yes, you know this happens in quite a few cases. Like in companies that open source and contribute a significant part of what they create - think Google, Facebook, PayPal. Or like in companies with a primary focus on an open source product as Mozilla for example. Or like in companies that heavily use a specific open source platform - and decide to give back through contributing to its development. But…

...but what if the company you work for doesn’t fit in any of these open source friendly profiles?

I’ll share our first-hand experience on how we achieved this - against all odds - and I hope to convince and inspire you to try our approach for making a viable case your company would invest in.

Hear the story of how we established a full-time dev team contributing to openHAB and Eclipse SmartHome projects - and how we made it in a win-win-win scenario (company-team-community). Without our company having any “need” to do it, nor hardly any interest in using the results of the team work.

In open source development, we’re used to quickly browse the source code of a project. It’s second nature. If the documentation isn’t comprehensive enough. Or if an error message wasn’t understandable or if we want to understand why an API didn’t return what we expected it to. We inspect the code, and we may end up forking it and proposing fixes to problems we’ve discovered. At times, we may also add new features.

Even though many managed services are open source, how do we discover that a service is open source? And how can we contribute to such a service? Where’s the “Fork me” button for our favorite service and where do we find examples and guidebooks on how to run such a service?

This session explores a proposal for “open source service” branding that Image Builder is currently piloting. The goal is to design a reusable user experience pattern that conveys that a service’s code is open, where it lives, and instructions on how to contribute.