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Los Angeles, CA
July 2022

Presentations

Vint Cerf

Join Internet pioneer and co-creator of TCP/IP for SCALE's closing keynote. Dr. Cerf will discuss importance of open source to the Internet's success, lessons learned and what he would approach differently if doing it again. 

Joe Smith
Audience: Beginner
Topic: Cloud Native

When a grizzled Site Reliability Engineer decides to create a home lab, we get a chance to see our tools in a new light. The world-class production infrastructure running some of the largest websites in the world can also scale down to a small number of servers, and work very well! Learn about a full-stack solution to create a reliable, codified, production-ready architecture with a few servers you already have at home! We'll talk about MaaS, k3s, prometheus, and how to run Task Warrior on our local Kubernetes cluster!

Demetris Cheatham
Audience: Everyone

Diversity and inclusion within open source is being approached the way software development was prior to the creation of open source. Most efforts, in spite of significant resources and financial investment, are very fragmented, not openly shared, only address part of the challenges, and are not collaborative with those outside of a single organization or very few partnerships. We have to approach this differently in order to yield different results. We must drive diversity and inclusion as an open source community, utilizing relevant data and building on existing research and initiatives.

Kyle Rankin
Audience: Everyone
Topic: General

Apps have a bad habit of snitching on their owners. While this is a much bigger problem on Android and iOS, it's still valuable to detect when apps phone home on Linux. Unfortunately most Linux firewall software is designed for servers and focused on inbound connections.

This talk will cover using and tuning OpenSnitch, Linux software that prompts you whenever an app makes outbound connections and allows you to make sophisticated per-app rules to have tight control over your apps' network connections. This adaptive software works both in desktop and mobile Linux.

Kat Cosgrove
Audience: Developer
Topic: Cloud Native

Join me for a developer-focused introduction to Kubernetes and learn how to stand up all of your infrastructure and deploy an application to it in just a few minutes, using a programming language you’re probably already familiar with!

Seamus Blackley

Freedom to think of solving problems in new ways is the beating heart of innovation. Unix, at its start, carried that spirit, and Linux resurrected it and pushed it forward. Seamus will talk about the inextricable link between innovation, tools, and spirit, with silly examples and serious questions.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Audience: Developer
Topic: Developer

Flakiness is a part of the reality for developers everywhere, causing frustrations, failing pull requests, adding more stress to a hotfix delivery, and so on. Join Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins, to learn how software teams around the world have tackled this problem, so that you can tackle this too.

Aeva Black

Current national attention on software supply chain security is an indirect response to the success of open source -- but what exactly is open source? Is it a cultural movement or a business strategy or a type of software license or a radical expression of creativity and First Amendment rights? Hint: it's all of these.

In this session, Aeva will reach thirty years into our history to discuss what open source maintainers can begin doing to prepare for federal SBOM (software bill of materials) requirements under discussion in Congress today.

Davide Cavalca
Audience: Intermediate

This talk will go over our experience working with CentOS and founding the CentOS Hyperscale SIG.

Darryl Hwang, Mark Roden
Audience: Everyone
Topic: Open Medical

To address the shortage of respiratory PPE, Tetra Bio Distributed (TBD) created a half-facepiece powered air purifying respirator (PAPR) named PAPRa. We designed and iterated upon 3D printed models and custom electronics to create a PAPR which meets N95 fit standards yet could be built using resources common in the US maker community. We are now focused on manufacturing a NIOSH regulatory compliant device while maintaining open source designs and licensing, a balance that, to our knowledge, has not been achieved in the powered respirator space.