Program for SeaGL 2020

presented by mariah villarreal

U.S. public education systems are failing students and teachers in our digital world. Increasingly, teachers and students are told to use proprietary software, so they do, without much of a choice and without enough resources to consider the repercussions or alternatives. Unfortunately, this negatively impacts Black and Brown young people the most and our community needs to better address this....

presented by Neil McGovern

In August 2019, GNOME was notified that it was being sued in the state of California over a broad patent which allegedly covered Shotwell, a photo management application. The plaintiff? A prolific filer of patent suits, and a patent assertion entity. This was the first time that a FOSS project has been sued for patent infringement.

This talk is the story from the Executive Director of the GN...

presented by Stephen Wilson

The photographic workflow of a photographer using Open Source tools and Open Source friendly hardware.

With consolidation of the photographic space by a few large companies, photographers have been funneled in to proprietary workflows

Using hardware supporting open standards and open source software we’ll walk through how to move out of the proprietary photography workflow, take ownersh...

presented by der.hans

User freedom addresses software licensing from the perspective of those using the software.

What are advantages and disadvantages of different licensing models in relation to user freedom?

How does licensing impact individuals, organizations and businesses as we use software?

How does software distribution ( packages, cloud, bundled in a product ) impact user freedom?

The presentati...

presented by Suraj Kumar Mahto

Name - Suraj Kumar Mahto
Major - Information Technology (2018-22)
University - BIT Sindri, Dhanbad, India
Location - Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Timezone - GMT+5:30
FOSS Experience - GNU/Linux user since from 2+ years. Individual Contributor at KDE(Web)

Hello everyone, this is Suraj Kumar Mahto from BIT Sindri majoring in Information Technology. I have just completed my sophomore...

presented by Megan Guiney

Democratizing knowledge has always been a core value of open source and activist communities alike. However, as open source has grown into an institution in its own right, the norms of each community have become cemented, and thus barriers to participation built.

As these barriers have become increasingly apparent, we have seen the rise of a new kind of technical content- zines, which have...

presented by Mike Hamrick

Depending on your computing platform, there are a dizzying array of terminal emulators from which to choose. Which one will suit you best depends on which features and capabilities you require. Terminals and terminal emulators have come a long way since the teletype, the VT100, and even the relatively modern xterm. In this talk we'll explore the landscape of capabilities and features offered by...

presented by Elijah C. Voigt

In this talk we will write a small game in Rust using the Amethyst game engine. You will learn about Rust as well as some basic game programming principles like the Entity, Component, System (ECS). You will not need prior experience with games programming, Rust, nor Amethyst, but a passing familiarity with Rust will give you a head start.

Game's industry software is largely dominated by C an...

presented by Kaylea Champion

How do we measure and track the quality of the open source software we rely on? When a project is in trouble, how do we know? What have past approaches to this question gotten right, where have they gone astray, and what's still a mystery?

Predicting and measuring software quality is a subject of substantial academic research but not always discussed with the people who actually make softwar...

presented by Sumana Harihareswara

What off-the-wall licenses should the OSI consider next? Where's the fine line between maintainer success and maintainer burnout? Should we alias git reset --hard to git regret --hard?

I've been in free and open source software for years, and I perform stand-up comedy. Sit back and enjoy 20 minutes of jokes about our field.

presented by Elizabeth K. Joseph

In what could be called a grandfather of open source user groups, SHARE, the first enterprise IT user group, was formed in 1955. By 1960 they had collaboratively adopted and released the SHARE Operating System. This laid the groundwork for what was to become a tight relationship between the mainframe and users who collaboratively got together to develop and share software.

In this talk we’ll...

presented by Aeva Black

Fifteen years into a successful career in tech, I came out. I had a choice to make: whether to walk away, or try and salvage my professional network. I say I "came out" in 2017 though this process never really ends, and in this talk I'm going to come out to all of you again. And while my jobless period eventually came to a close, it lasted far longer than I expected. I'd like to share with you ...

presented by deblanc

Have you ever asked yourself: What is my responsibility to the people using the technology I make? How do I make decisions about what is right and wrong when choosing to work on something? What even is right and wrong?

Well, let's find some answers (or, really, more questions). This whirlwind tour of philosophical inquiry is designed for the FOSS community by the FOSS community. Our focus w...

presented by Justin W. Flory (he/him), Bhagyashree

[[ This is co-presented by Bhagyashree "Bee" Padalkar and Justin W. Flory. ]]

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) is not a new topic in Open Source. But what does D&I work look like in the context of open source communities? Bhagyashree “Bee” Padalkar and Justin W. Flory share lessons learned from five years of volunteering and leading D&I teams in ...

presented by Rachel Kelly

Ask the Chair of Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation anything about Kubernetes! Rachel Kelly will be moderating and passing the questions from the audience up to Elana!

presented by Wm Salt Hale

Do you have a pile of sticky notes, a folder full of spreadsheets, or a dusty box of business cards gathered at conferences? Have you ever had a donor approached by multiple people trying to gather the same information? Beyond an organizational context; are there friends that you haven't spoke to for some time and would like to, but how long has it been?

We meet new folks daily, whether ...

presented by Deb Nicholson

Sustainable open source starts with building sustainable communities. If our workplaces and our communities aren't sustainable then our projects won't be either. Constant chaos and breakneck speeds can only occasionally create sustainable projects, by accident. The next generation of software production will need to lean into relationship building, mission sharing and strategic planning. This t...

presented by Amanda Sopkin

Properly caring for and protecting citizen data requires the use of free software, but few public institutions adhere to this standard. Incidents like the breakdown of technology at this year’s democratic party caucuses in Iowa have (rightfully) made many citizens more wary of any government technology when it comes to our electoral processes. Encouraging the development and use of open source ...

presented by Elior Sterling

If all the networks are owned by a small handful of corporations, how can your network be free (as in speech)? If all the networks are surveilled by the government, how can any network by free? Is there any alternative?

This talk will tell you how to build several types of alternative networks with open source tools that can be used temporarily or for the long term, depending on need and con...

presented by Paris Buttfield-Addison, Tim Nugent

This session will introduce Swift, the popular free and open source programming language introduced by Apple and developed by a huge community. You’ll learn why Swift is such an in-demand skill, why Swift is such an interesting language, and how to get started with it.

More specifically, you’ll learn how you can use Google’s Swift for TensorFlow project for modern, powerful machine learning ...

presented by Nočnica Mellifera

Observability is a very popular buzzword for measuring your system's performance, and vendors are extremely excited to sell you tools that will grant meaningful insight to performance problems.

But real observability isn't a product you can buy in a box, it's about truly understanding your system, reducing the number of 'black box' components in your stack, and quickly finding the cause of p...