Rich Bowen
where else to find them
website:https://rcbowen.com
website:https://centos.org
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- FOSS Backstage3 editions2022–2026
all 11 in the filters
on a stage with
- Brian Exelbierdonce
- Claude Warrenonce
- Johnny Hughesonce
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who talks about the same things
- Jim Jagielski9 talks
- Dawn M Foster63 talks
- Amy Marrich13 talks
- Donnie Berkholz14 talks
- Faeka Ansari9 talks
- JJ Asghar25 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Plan to fork (So you don't have to fork) | FOSS Backstage 2026 | 2026-03-16 |
Writing a detailed plan to fork acts as a disaster recovery checklist: enumerate triggers (license change, vendor gravity, stalled maintainers), count how many… | ||
| Community Over Code Europe 2024, Bratislava, Slovakia | Community Over Code EU 2024 | 2024-06-03 |
Conference is a small, intimate event in Bratislava, Slovakia with four simultaneous tracks and an explicit goal of cross-project conversation rather than… | ||
| Community Over Code EU Day 3 | Community Over Code EU 2024 | 2024-06-03 |
A short on-site series documents two days of interviews with Apache volunteers, capturing what roles exist, which projects moved forward over recent months and… | ||
| Talking with management about open source | Community Over Code EU 2024 | 2024-06-03 |
Argues that open source must be framed as part of the company supply chain with measurable ROI, not charity; cites Log4j emergency as a visible example and… | ||
| Talking with management about open source | FOSS Backstage 2024 | 2024-03-04 |
Explains how to translate open source into management terms by showing ROI, supply-chain risk and concrete remediation costs (e.g., replacing a tiny project… | ||
| Talking with Management About Open Source | Open Source Leadership Summit @ Open Source Summit North America 2023 | 2023-05-10 |
Practical advice on persuading managers: argue with numbers, not philosophy — quantify how much revenue or user flows depend on an open source component and… | ||
| Delivering Bad News: Helping your community through a rough patch | FOSS Backstage 2022 | 2022-03-17 |
CentOS Linux moves from downstream to CentOS Stream, cuts the supported lifetime from 10 years to 5 years, and ends CentOS Linux 8 eight years early, provoking… | ||
| Delivering Bad News: Helping your Community Through a Rough Patch | Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 2021 | 2021-09-27 |
Covers the CentOS Linux shutdown announced Dec 8 and EOL set for Dec 31 next year, the community reaction (multiple forks and “two prominent” replacements plus… | ||
| ApacheCon@Home 2021: Inside ApacheCon | ApacheCon@Home 2021 | 2021-09-21 |
September 21–23 online conference runs 1300–2030 UTC each day and uses the Hopin platform; schedule highlights three keynotes (Ashley Wolfe on inclusivity… | ||
| Thursday Opening Remarks: ApacheCon @Home 2021 | ApacheCon@Home 2021 | 2021-09-21 |
Opening remarks report concrete conference metrics and logistics: 3,500 registrations with about 50–58% turnout, attendees split 36% North America, 36% Europe… | ||
| ApacheCon @Home 2021: Wednesday Opening Remarks | ApacheCon@Home 2021 | 2021-09-21 |
Welcome to day two with logistics and schedule specifics: a poll in Event tab asks how many ApacheCons attendees have been to, conference t‑shirts are… | ||
| ApacheCon@Home 2021: Tuesday opening remarks | ApacheCon@Home 2021 | 2021-09-21 |
Opening announcements list concrete facts: the event draws 3,000 attendees across the globe, features 250 speakers presenting in 195 breakout sessions, and… | ||
| Board of Directors | CentOS Dojo FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-04 |
Board members explain concrete changes: a GitLab rollout and merged authentication, bug reports moving to bugzilla.redhat, and builds continuing on the koji… | ||
| Pass the Torch Without Dropping the Ball: Lessons in Community Management | LISA18 | 2018-10-29 |
A year‑long handover produces a 30‑page transition document that spells out daily/weekly/monthly tasks, a cron‑based daily to‑do list, the cast of community… | ||
| Keynote: The Apache Way | MesosCon Europe 2017 | 2017-10-25 |
Mesos sits inside the Apache Software Foundation, which now hosts 315 projects and runs an incubator with 60 projects learning Apache governance; projects must… | ||
| Lightning Talks, sponsored by Capital One | ApacheCon North America 2017 | 2017-05-16 |
Quick hits: a working office IoT shower uses a magnetic door sensor sending events to Apache HTTPd + a CGI hook fronted by corporate SSO so staff check shower… | ||
| Introduction to OpenStack | LinuxCon + ContainerCon North America 2016 | 2016-08-22 |
OpenStack is a vendor‑neutral foundation running 57 subprojects with about 600 companies and ~55,000 community members. Core services are Keystone, Nova… | ||
| What's New in Apache httpd 2.4 | LinuxCon + CloudOpen Europe 2013 | 2013-10-21 |
Apache HTTPD 2.4 makes the event worker event MPM becomes default and moves MPMs to runtime-loadable MPMs, so you can switch threading models without… | ||
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