title	conference	date
Educating the next generation of open source contributors	FOSS Backstage 2026	2026-03-16
Chaos project runs an education program that launches structured courses and office hours to onboard newcomers, with 27 courses launched January 2025 and a… Talk on
Panel Discussion: Educating the Next Generation of Open Source Project Contributors	Open Source Summit Europe 2025	2025-08-25
Covers concrete programs and outcomes: Google Summer of Code origins and evolution into university courses, a Carnegie Mellon model that moves from one-student… Panel on
Power Dynamics, Rug Pulls, and Other Corporate Impacts on OSS Sustainability	Open Source Summit Europe 2025	2025-08-25
Covers data on relicensing and hard forks with concrete cases — Elasticsearch → OpenSearch, Terraform → OpenTofu, Redis → Valky, Puppet → Openbox — showing… Talk on
Panel Discussion: The Impact of Funding f...	Open Source Summit North America 2025	2025-06-23
Many critical open source projects run on one person’s shoulders and that matters: 55% of top 10,000 critical projects are single-user-owned, creating huge… Panel on
Panel Discussion: From First PR To Lifelong Impact: Helping People Thrive in Open Source	Open Source Summit North America 2025	2025-06-23
CHAOSS Africa (est. 2022) scales newcomer onboarding by running workshops, creating beginner-friendly working groups (design, docs, dev), and running social… Panel on
From Data To Action: Resources for Building Sustainable Graduated Projects	CNCF Maintainer Summit Europe 2025	2025-03-31
Practical playbook for keeping graduated CNCF projects alive: stepwise governance templates (maintainer council, multi‑repo, elected steering) and contributor… Talk on
TOC Project Reviews WG: Let's Work on It Together!	CNCF Maintainer Summit Europe 2025	2025-03-31
The Project Reviews WG lays out concrete review stages with checklists for Day Zero (architecture and UX), Day One (install, config, rollback, enablement) and… Talk on
Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding for FOSS	FOSS Backstage 2025	2025-03-10
A practical toolkit maps how public funding changes projects and ecosystems with concrete examples: the Next Generation Internet program funds 1,200 projects… Talk on
Data to Action: Build Healthy & Sustainable OSS Communities	FOSS Backstage 2025	2025-03-10
CHAOSS provides MIT‑licensed CHAOSS Practitioner Guides and tooling (notably Augur and GrimoireLab) to turn public repository data into actionable metrics; the… Talk on
From Data Tsunami to Actionable Insights	OSPOCon @ Open Source Summit Europe 2024	2024-09-16
Claims that CHAOSS metrics plus a sane data workflow turn overwhelming open source telemetry into actions, using Augur to populate a relational database and… Talk on
From Data Tsunami to Actionable Insights	Open Source Summit Europe 2024	2024-09-16
Augur ingests git URLs into a relational Augur database so repeated analyses are quick, and an 8Knot dashboard built on Python + Dash reads that DB to show… Talk on
Panel Discussion: OSS Viability and Project...	OSPOCon @ OSS NA 2024	2024-04-16
CHAOSS builds concrete metric collections — e.g., viability metric model (governance, community, compliance, security) and smaller six-metric starters — using… Panel on
A Strategic Approach to Assessing Viability of OSS Projects	FOSS Backstage 2024	2024-03-04
Practical checklist for deciding tonight: evaluate governance, community, security and compliance with concrete metrics instead of buzzwords; run the Augur or… Talk on
Panel Discussion: Demonstrating OSPO Value	OSPOCon @ Open Source Summit Europe 2023	2023-09-19
Panel lays out concrete ways OSPOs measure value: build a metrics lake to ingest GitHub, Jira and Slack data; use CHAOSS tools like Grimoire Lab and Augur and… Panel on
Contributor Growth Strategies for OSS Projects	Open Source Summit Europe 2023	2023-09-19
Argues that projects stop burning out by using concrete templates and metrics not vague community platitudes and gives CNCF governance and maintainer… Talk on
Panel Discussion: Demonstrating OSPO Value	Open Source Summit Europe 2023	2023-09-19
Panelists explain how OSPOs turn goals into measurable claims, using a metrics lake approach and tools like Grimoire Lab, Augur and OSS Compass to collect… Panel on
Panel Discussion: What Our OSPOs Have...	OSPOCon @ Open Source Summit North America 2023	2023-05-10
Practical playbook for measuring project health: how to pick one or two metrics tied to business strategy, run experiments, and retire misleading measures… Panel on
Contributor Growth Strategies for OSS Projects	Open Source Leadership Summit @ Open Source Summit North America 2023	2023-05-10
Maintainer burnout causes contributor shortfalls so the talk lays out concrete fixes: use CNCF templates for governance and contributor ladders, add good first… Talk on
Contributor Growth Strategies for OSS Projects	FOSS Backstage 2023	2023-03-13
Maintainer burnout is common and sustained contributor growth requires concrete investments: document governance and onboarding so new contributors can spin up… Talk on
Keynote - Leading in Open Source, a Strategic Approach	KCD Amsterdam 2023	2023-02-23
Company contributions come from individuals whose leadership travels with them, so strategic alignment with business goals prevents churn and preserves… Talk on
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome to Become a Conference Speaker!	Diversity Empowerment Summit Europe 2022	2022-09-13
20+ years in open source, a PhD, and over 100 conference talks inform concrete steps: pick a focused topic (avoid product pitches), map conferences to CFP… Talk on
How to Be a Good Corporate Citizen in Open Source	Open Source in Finance Forum London 2022	2022-07-13
Explains concrete practices for company participation: maintain a curated list of 18 VMware projects plus 14 third‑party strategic projects, dedicate engineers… Talk on
Does Your OSPO Help or Hinder Contributions?	Open Source Summit North America 2022	2022-06-21
Practical checklist for an OSPO that helps rather than blocks: align contributions to business goals and pick strategic projects (currently 18… Talk on
The Maintainer's Toolkit: Must-know CNCF Resources for Project O...	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022	2022-05-16
TAG Contributor Strategy provides ready-made governance and contributor tooling: a repo of contributing.md template, contributor ladder and three governance… Talk on
Good Governance Practices for CNCF Projects	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022	2022-05-16
CNCF provides ready-to-use templates (maintainer, contributor ladder, reviewing, subprojects) and expects projects to document roles, processes and security… Talk on
Measuring the Health of Your CNCF Project: Going Beyond Stars and Forks	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021	2021-10-11
Stars and forks don’t prove health; measurable signals do. The talk shows using devstats and CHAOSS-derived metrics to track time-to-first-response, median… Talk on
Good Governance Practices for Healthy Open Source Projects	OSPOCon Europe 2021	2021-10-06
Argues that simple, explicit governance prevents confusion and churn by documenting mission, scope, values, roles and decision processes; recommends concrete… Talk on
Navigating Open Source Risk: A Strategic Approach	Open Source Strategy Forum London 2021	2021-10-04
Shows concrete risk signals: OpenSSL’s Heartbleed maintenance gap (≈$2k/year donations, single maintainer), companies relicensing with SSPL (MongoDB, Elastic)… Talk on
Getting Over Your Imposter Syndrome to Become a Conference Speaker	Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 2021	2021-09-27
Conference speaking accelerates careers: public talks lead to travel, networking and visibility, and one person reports giving over 100 talks and using… Talk on
Navigating Open Source Project Risk	Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 2021	2021-09-27
Open source risk assessment focuses on concrete signals: governance docs, release cadence, security policy, contributor diversity and ownership. Examples… Talk on
Panel Discussion: A New Era: Emerging and Evolving OSPOs	Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 2021	2021-09-27
Survey finds 23 orgs ≤50 people among respondents and a measurable drop in companies contributing upstream, while adoption spreads into hospitals, universities… Panel on
Evaluating Business Risk for Open Source Cloud Native Projects	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021	2021-05-04
Compares projects under neutral foundations (CNCF, Linux Foundation, Apache) versus company-controlled ones and shows concrete failure modes: OpenSSL runs on… Talk on
Collaborative Leadership: Governance Beyond Company Affiliation	FOSS Backstage 2021	2021-02-10
Projects controlled by neutral foundations have lower risk for users and vendors because boards, trademark ownership, and CLAs determine neutrality; check for… Talk on
Collaborative Leadership: Governance Beyond Company Affiliation	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual	2020-11-17
Argues that contributing projects into neutral foundations reduces vendor lock‑in using concrete examples: Kubernetes in the CNCF enabled multi‑vendor… Talk on
CNCF Project Paperwork Working Session	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual	2020-11-17
Explains exact CNCF paperwork: clone the templates repo on GitHub, use Apache-2 and the CNCF Code of Conduct, add a contributing guide and lightweight roadmap… Talk on
Is this Open Source Project Healthy or Lifeless?	All Things Open 2020	2020-10-19
Look for concrete thresholds and evidence: respond within two business days on issues and PRs, run metrics only on projects with 60 commits over six months… Talk on
A Week in the Life of the Kubernetes Community	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019	2019-11-18
Weekly schedule maps actual entry points: SIGs own code areas, OWNERs files assign ownership, calendar YAML feeds 17 meetings on Tuesday and public… Talk on
Dawn Foster - Ignite OSCON 2014	Ignite OSCON 2014	2014-07-20
Reads 73 books a year and uses those stories to extract concrete community rules: treat communities like the TARDIS—look inside before acting; prioritize… Talk on
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