title	conference	date
Panel: Cómo ser parte del software y la cultura libre	Nerdearla 101 2022	2022-08-05
Argues that adoption is practical and widespread: all 500 fastest computers run Linux and more than half of enterprise servers use GNU/Linux, so skills pay… Talk on
Virtual Book Signing – VM Brasseur	All Things Open 2020	2020-10-19
A new practical guide claims to be the first full book on how to contribute to open source for nonprogrammers and covers how to find the right project, set… Talk on
Entering the Open Source Emerging Market	Open Source 101 at Home 2020	2020-05-12
Free and open source software is an emerging market for many corporations and businesses and it requires concrete moves not slogans: define the exact business… Talk on
The real costs of Open Source Sustainability	PyCon AU 2019	2019-08-02
Claim: funding alone does not make open source sustainable. Evidence: the 2016 roads and bridges report triggers many new funding platforms — Tidelift, GitHub… Talk on
Ask Not What Brands™ Can Do For You	OSCON 2019	2019-07-15
Companies routinely treat "free" as price and assume that dumping source is enough; the concrete claim is that lack of guidance breaks projects and business… Talk on
The Real Costs of Open Source Sustainability	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019	2019-06-24
2016 Roads and Bridges sparks a rush of VC‑backed funding platforms, but the claim is that money alone fails: sustainability requires three simultaneous… Talk on
The Real Costs of Open Source Sustainability	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019	2019-06-24
2016’s Roads and Bridges exposes that critical projects lack maintainers and many maintainers work 60–100 hours/week, yet most industry responses focus only on… Talk on
A Well-Grounded Cloud: Exploring the Foundations of Cloud Native	Montréal Cloud Native Day 2019	2019-06-11
Claims three concrete foundations: a formal cloud native definition (published June 2018) that lists techniques like loosely coupled systems and automation, a… Talk on
The Human Nature of Failure and Resiliency	REdeploy 2018	2018-08-16
Condenses 3,000 pages of research and a 200‑item bibliography into forty minutes, claiming humans are the primary cause of system failures and that latent… Talk on
Speaker Panel - Day 1	REdeploy 2018	2018-08-16
Panel argues chaos engineering works when teams opt-in not opt-out and carefully limit blast radius — one early experiment took down QA for a week. Adoption… Panel on
The human nature of failure & resiliency	PyCon 2018	2018-05-11
Distills roughly 3,500 pages of failure research into a 40-minute checklist of concrete tactics: pre-mortem and post-mortem prompts, how to list and verify… Talk on
The Business of Community	PyCon AU 2017	2017-08-03
Advocates a concrete plan with three parts: benefit‑cost‑implementation framework, clear goals and measurable success criteria, and slow, trust‑first… Talk on
Passing the Baton: Succession planning for your project	PyCon AU 2017	2017-08-03
Argues succession planning as a skills pipeline, not just CEO backup, using concrete practices: inventory critical roles, list duties, refactor big roles into… Talk on
Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions	PyCon AU 2016	2016-08-12
Argues that a rising count of one-off “drive‑thru” commits signals project health and shows the contribution process works, based on interviews and metrics… Talk on
Care and Feeding of a Healthy Job Hunt	Open Source Bridge 2015	2015-06-23
Actionable rules and precise tactics for a job hunt are here apply even if you dont meet all the listed requirements; treat postings as nice to haves not… Talk on
Crash Course in Tech Management	Open Source Bridge 2014	2014-06-24
Argues that management is a craft with three concrete duties: get things done, manage people, and make informed technical/business decisions. Recommends… Talk on
Internet Archive: More than the Wayback Machine	Open Source Bridge 2014	2014-06-24
Nonprofit library with about $12M/year budget, roughly 50 petabytes of spinning disk (duplicated) and 32 scanning centers that scan ~1,000 books/day, the… Talk on
No, I Won't Contribute to Your Open Source Project	Open Source Bridge 2013	2013-06-18
Survey-driven claims: 107 responses across three tracks with 23 organizers, 52 contributors and 32 non‑contributors. Findings: poor onboarding and missing Step… Talk on
FAIL is Not a Four-Letter Word	Open Source Bridge 2013	2013-06-18
Claims a decade of research and 1100 pages of research show failure is common — roughly 10% of companies vanish annually and many new ventures fail within five… Talk on
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