All Things Open 2025
2025-10-12..2025-10-14
Raleigh, United States
[All Things Open 2019, All Things Open 2020, All Things Open 2021, All Things Open 2022, All Things Open 2023, All Things Open 2024, All Things Open 2025]
who it's for
open source maintainers, AI engineers, data engineers, platform engineers, community managers, engineering managers, accessibility engineers
topics
Apache Beam (Dataflow) pipelines; Apache Kafka low-latency movement; Apache NiFi data flow; Apache Iceberg interoperable storage; Apache Spark and Spark ML; BigQuery managed tables and recommendations; autonomous AI agents and security risks; repo-trained assistants and contributor CRMs; training-data contamination and model collapse; open source licensing, governance and maintainer funding
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source Icon Award: Acceptance speech | Jim Jagielski | 06m |
Acceptance remarks argue that open source was once a David against Goliath and won concrete battles that changed industry practice, but now faces subtler… | ||
| X-rAI Specs, Submarines & Juice | Christian Heilmann | 09m |
Anecdotes ground the claims: a World War II submarine U1206 sinks after a toilet flushing error leaving three dead and 46 captured because a valve mistake… | ||
| AI Should Not Replace Well-Built Data Fundamentals | Shane Glass | 18m |
Claim: AI speeds construction but does not replace a robust foundation; reliable systems require explicit storage, movement, and transformation design… | ||
| The Third Decade Of Open Source | Nithya A. Ruff | 14m |
Open source now underpins critical infrastructure from banking to electrical grids and faces regulatory pressure such as CRA, AI Act requiring manufacturers to… | ||
| From agent soup to proper software design: Mellea puts developers back in control | David Cox | 15m |
Mellea is a Python generative‑AI library that claims to replace monolithic prompts with instructions not prompts, enforces task decomposition and information… | ||
| The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of Open Source AI | Matt White | 13m |
Argues that open source AI rebounds in 2025 with Chinese labs (DeepSeek, Alibaba Qwen, Moonshot AI, Z.AI) and releases like Grok 2 and GPT-OSS, critiques… | ||
| Building The Future: DIX Park And the Innovation Of Place | Kate Pearce | 15m |
Dix Park claims to be a living lab: an opened Gibson Play Plaza with an automated stormwater system underground, visitor measurement via Placer AI and… | ||
| The Upside Of Being Unreasonable | Jason Lengstorf | 33m |
Asks for I need a half a million dollars then gets refused and keeps chasing a slow hunch, quits a corporate VP job, builds Code TV and a season zero of WebDev… | ||
| The Next Era Of Open Source: Humans + AI, Not Humans vs AI | Kunal Kushwaha | 10m |
Surveys claim 76% developers use or plan to use AI and 94% of open source organizations run generative AI for automation or docs, and platforms report tasks… | ||
| From Kernel To CoPilot: Microsoft's Open Source | Lachlan Evenson | 16m |
Microsoft claims a concrete open source trajectory: 20,000 lines to the Linux kernel marks the start, then 518 million projects on GitHub and Azure becoming… | ||
| Future Proofing Your Career with AI | Taylor Desseyn | 19m |
Claims that AI job postings are up 7x since 2024 and that AI-related titles have surged, cites company plans like Microsoft $80B and Amazon $100B in AI spend… | ||
| Finding Future Maintainers | Brian Douglas | 22m |
Claim: 46% generated code and AI floods repos with low‑context PRs. Tools and results: built opensour merged into LFX, a contributor‑CRM, and a live… | ||
| How Block Operationalized MCP At Scale | Angie Jones | 22m |
Claims rapid rollout: Block scales MCP across a 12,000 person company in two months and achieves measurable gains. Engineers using Goose save about 8–10 hours… | ||
| Open Source Accessibility | Ed Summers | 11m |
GitHub explains a four‑part accessibility strategy and names concrete deliverables: an open-sourced AI-powered accessibility scanner… | ||
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