Stormy Peters is Head of Open Source Strategy & Marketing at AWS. Throughout her career, Stormy has been passionate about open source software and has worked to educate companies and communities on how open source software is changing the software industry.

Previously, she was VP of Communities at GitHub where she led the teams responsible for enabling the online creators and open source communities on GitHub, including GitHub’s community product efforts, developer relations, education, and other strategic programs. Prior to GitHub, Stormy was the Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft, enabling 30,000+ developers to consume and contribute to open source effectively. She’s also held leadership positions working with the open source community at Mozilla, Red Hat, OpenLogic and Hewlett-Packard, as well as non profit organizations such as serving as a board member of the Linux Foundation, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation and Kids on Computers.

Stormy graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science. She lives in Northern Colorado with her family. In her free time, she likes to run with her dog, challenge herself with high intensity interval workouts, give historical walking tours of the New Orleans French Quarter, and read lots of sci-fi.

Presentations

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Is AI Killing Open Source Software? Data, Myths, and What Leaders Must Do Now

AI is changing how developers learn, collaborate, and contribute.

Are AI coding tools eroding community participation? Is Stack Overflow’s decline a warning sign? Will AI-generated contributions overwhelm maintainers? How do people contribute to open source when using AI tools?
This session uses real data on developer behavior, GitHub contribution patterns, and changes in project development. You’ll learn what’s actually changing, where AI is truly supporting open source work, and where it risks undermining long-term sustainability.

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Engineering at Ludicrous Speed: How AI Is Reshaping Infra and Engineering

What happens when open source, cloud infrastructure, and AI collide? Join Kelsey Hightower, Stormy Peters (AWS), James Bayer (Flox, Ex-Hashicorp), and Ron Efroni (Flox & NixOS, Ex-Meta) to hear what the fastest-moving engineering teams are doing today and what that means for the rest of us. From infra to developer tools to OSS contribution patterns, this panel will surface the real shifts happening across engineering velocity, team structure, and software delivery.

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Kids on Computers

Come learn what it's like to travel to different countries setting up labs for underprivileged kids. With our 7 years of experience setting up labs in Mexico, India, Morocco, Nepal and Argentina, Kids on Computers has learned the impact that a small group of active volunteers can make in the lives of many. Using free and open source software, donated equipment and grants, we set up computer labs in schools around the world. Come learn and talk to us about your dreams for helping others.

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Open Source Is Awesome

As a counterpoint to Bryan Lunduke's Linux Sucks presentation, join us as we show some Linux, Free and Open-Source software projects that have changed lives. From helping the homeless to educating our youth see how our community is using free and open-source software to make our world a better place.

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You Can Save the World

We all want more contributors and more diversity in our projects. However, to be successful at keeping those new contributors, you’ll need to help your project transition its culture to something new, different and hopefully better! Come learn how to help your proejct grow.

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Come learn about Cloud Foundry, the open source, cloud native platform

Cloud Foundry is an open source platform to deploy, monitor, recover, scale and update your apps. Come learn about Cloud Foundry,  about how it’s developed and see a demo. As an open source software project, it’s developed in the open, by organizations (including SAP, Pivotal, HP, GE, IBM and many others) using methods like pair programming and dojos.

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Grow an organization by planting volunteers

Come learn the best practices that many open source software projects have discovered and evolved for growing volunteer communities.

 

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Kids on Computers: Enabling Education through Technology

Kids on Computers is a nonprofit providing free computers and FOSS to kids worldwide in order to increase educational opportunities. We have set up 16 computer labs in 5 countries. You'll hear from KOC volunteers about their experiences visiting countries and communities they've never been to, what it's like to set up a lab, and how they feel they made a difference. Come learn how you can join and make the world a better place by teaching kids and teachers about technology and FOSS!

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