Presentations

Jason Hibbets
Audience: Everyone
Topic: Open Data

What do you get when you blend open data, open source, citizen programmers, and government challenges? Answer: Civic hacking. There is a secret recipe for successful civic hacking and this session has those details.

Andrew Hall

Companies, organizations, and individuals are increasingly adopting open-source licenses for commercial purposes. At the same time, open-source software in increasingly becoming the subject of license enforcement and software-related litigation. This talk will address the use and enforcement of open-source licenses, including a discussion of several recent lawsuits featuring open-source software.

Eduardo Silva
Audience: Beginner
Topic: Cloud

Applications are now deployed on-demand, specifically on cloud environments this can happen in the order of thousands per second. Most of orchestration systems provides proper handling of containerized environments and different challenges needs to be addressed such as Logging. 

The following presentation will introduce the concepts of log forwarding and aggregation patterns for conainerized environments. 

Ben Kero
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: SysAdmin

Many think that SSH is only a tool to get a shell on a remote computer. In fact, SSH has a powerful array of features unique to it that make it an extremely useful tool.

This talk will cover often-overlooked features of SSH that can save your privacy. We'll be covering things such as keys and the distribution thereof, forward and reverse port forwardings, tunneling between systems, multiplexing connections, integration with windowing systems and more.

If you want to expand your knowledge of SSH, this talk is for you.

Gina Likins

An Introduction by Gina Likins will open the OSSIE (Open Source Software In Education) track by providing a high-level picture of what open source in education looks like today, along with an overview of opportunities and challenges.

Pono Takamori
Audience: Intermediate

The Macro and Micro of Donating to Infrastructure

Hunyue Yau
Audience: Beginner
Topic: Embedded

The session would cover the many different roles embedded Linux plays in the IoT eco system. Common IoT roles and their requirements are identified. Pro's and Con's of using embedded Linux each role is discussed. Relationships between barebone and embedded Linux will be convered including reasons for choosing each one. Common constraints of each role will be identified and compared to both embedded and desktop Linux requirements. Embedded Linux IoT security in the context of each role will be covered.

Jos Poortvliet, Frank Karlitschek
Audience: Everyone
Topic: Ubucon

The vision behind Nextcloud has always been to give people control over their data. As the User Data Manifesto states, this means people should have the freedom to choose a platform for storing their data, control over data access and know where their data is.

But running a server is hard and not something the 'average' user does. This is where the Nextcloud Box comes in: thanks to snaps, we can built a platform that requires less technical skills than any other solution before it, yet keeps you and your data safe!

Lee Calcote
Audience: Everyone

Networking is an inherent component to any distributed application, and one of the most complicated and expansive technologies centric to microservices. Container networking needs to be developer-friendly and application-driven. With application developers busily adopting container technologies, the time has come for network engineers and operators to prepare for the unique challenges brought on by cloud-native applications. 

Nate DAmico, Rich Pelavin
Audience: Everyone
Topic: Big Data

Just when you thought it was a container based future here comes "serverless computing".  Serverless is the new kid on the block and shiniest of shiny new toys that application/service deployments can leverage.  Why should you use Serverless deployments and when is it most applicable?  How does it integrate with existing applications and backend services?  We will cover these questions and more as well as some specifics around a couple of the usable options available such as AWS Lambda & Open Whisk.