Fatih is a Senior Manager, Core Platforms QE at SUSE, specializing in automation, infrastructure, CI/CD, DevOps, and QE.

Before joining SUSE, Fatih served as the Executive Director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) at the Linux Foundation, where he led initiatives to enhance cross-industry and cross-community collaboration in the CI/CD domain. Prior to that, he was a Principal Developer at Ericsson, where he played a key role in several large-scale CI/CD initiatives.

Fatih is an active contributor to the open-source community. He has served on the OPNFV TSC and the CDF TOC. He founded the OPNFV Cross Community CI (XCI) project, the CDF SIGs on Interoperability and Software Supply Chain, and co-founded the OpenCI Initiative

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Companies vs. Foundations: Who Should Steer Your Open Source Project?

Recently, several open source companies attracted a lot of attention after their announcements of license changes. Not surprisingly, these shifts sparked backlash from open source enthusiasts, prompting some to create community-driven forks under open source foundations.

Now there is growing skepticism toward (single) company backed open source projects, with many arguing that open source projects should be run by neutral foundations to prevent future bait-and-switch tactics. In this session, we'll explore if a foundation is always the right model for open source projects. 

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