Program for SeaGL 2021

presented by Deb Nicholson

Hopefully, you will never need this talk but if you do face a crisis you'll want a plan -- or at least a plan for making a plan. When a project hits crisis mode, often things will start to move very fast. Thinking about how you want to respond to emergencies and how you want to be seen at the end of the fiasco is worth thinking and talking about in advance. This talk is for folks who suspect th...

presented by Athan Spathas, Aaron Wolf, Wm Salt Hale

The important concepts in technology and collaboration that were pioneered by the Free Software Movement are also pertinent beyond software. Both the term "Free Software" and the common acronym FLOSS (Free / Libre / Open Source Software) are limited to software programs. So, we use the broader term FLO to bring our ethical and creative values to a wide range of other areas. FLO values...

presented by Mark Wong

The PostgreSQL community has participated in the international Google Summer of Code program for many years now. This program is focused on introducing students with developing open source software.

This presentation gives a brief overview of the program, the software projects that the PostgreSQL community mentored, and ...

presented by Molly de Blanc

We're defining predictive modeling as the intentional building of a model to predict someone's actions and desires. Predictive modeling can be a really useful tool -- it can help us customize environments to our emotional states, anticipate needs, and help us find the things we want even when we don't know we want them. Predictive modeling can also be a scary violation of privacy, letting other...

presented by der.hans

Nextcloud for private, secure cloud features such as collaboration tools, Enterprise File Sync and Share and phone syncing.

Your data, your cloud.

Nextcloud integrates with Collabora Online for collaborative office suite.

In addition to the Nextcloud Talk for video calls it integrates with Big Blue Button for full classroom and meeting style video conferencing.

Nextcloud also has op...

presented by Ski

Please see https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa21/presentation/kacoroski for a longer version of the talk as I gave it as a Keynote at the LISA 2021 conference. I would love to have more time, but will fit the key points into 20 minutes if that is all I have. Abstract is:

This talk covers a ransomware attack on medium size school district (23K students, 4K staff). We start with the timeli...

presented by Dawn Cooper

It's easy to tell stories about people whose experience in the tech industry is unusual. Some of those stories are focused on innovators, but others are focused on 'trailblazers' from marginalised and under-represented groups. Articles like these often focus on the characteristics that these trailblazers exhibit - strength, perseverance, resilience. However, that's only one part of the story...

presented by Georg Link

Each community is different and therefore requires different metrics for data-driven decisions about building and supporting it. The CHAOSS Project was started to help understand open source communities through metrics. We have had many conversations and realized that everyone cares about a different aspect of the community. This talk will share what we have learned in the CHAOSS Project about ...

presented by Bri Hatch

We'll discuss tried-and-true code snippets you can use to make your code more reliable, easier to read, and quicker to debug. Enjoy the elegance of "cd $(dirname $0)", performing actions only on successful exit, and informational help messages. We'll cover all those minor changes that continually come up in our code review sessions that reap outsized rewards.

presented by Dawn Cooper

Security is an integral part of software development. And yet, without a red team or a security budget, securing a non-commercial FOSS project can seem daunting. If you publish a package that has downstream dependencies, then any security issues can have wide-ranging impact. Even for standalone software, it can be hard to know where to start.

In order to secure an application end-to-end, ...

presented by davidmstokes

MySQL is a popular database but few understand that sometimes the authentication process actually works, that it can be too permissive, and sometimes too many have dangerous permissions provided to them. This session will cover how the server decides which accounts are allowed to access the server, password options, how to use roles, set up dual passwords, setting functional limits on accounts...

presented by Tobie Langel

From its inception, open source—and free software before it—was built around ethical notions: give people agency and power over their software so they could use, modify, and share it as they pleased to accomplish whatever it is that they wanted to do with it.

In a world where running software required programming skills, there was a lot of overlap between users and developers of open source,...

presented by Aeva Black

Aeva, a member of the Kubernetes Code of Conduct (CoC) Committee, will examine difficult topics related to CoC enforcement and provide concrete suggestions on how to implement a CoCC, based on their experience supporting the Kubernetes community through several complex incidents in the past two years.

Standard business approaches to interpersonal risk management (such as “just let HR handle ...

presented by Thierry Bultel

Cross debugging, and more generally, remote debugging, is something that may be unknown, or badly used, by either beginner engineers, or sometimes even by senior engineers, for several reasons. Some people simply do not know that remote debugging tools exists, some might consider the complex setup as a show-stopper, some other ones may not trust the tools (_and we can explain...

presented by jberkus

So, your open source project needs to adopt some kind of governance. But what kind? And are there models you can copy from? When you first contemplate governance, it seems baffling and random, but on analysis it turns out there are some great standard options and prior art. This session will help you understand, and then choose.

Based on work done by OSPOs and the CNCF Governance Working G...

presented by Richard Littauer

We all know that Canada Geese migrate. They're up there, honking away, going somewhere in spring, and then back again in autumn. But what most people don't know is that all of the cool birds - Cape May Warblers, Semipalmated Sandpipers, Gray-cheeked Thrushes, you name it - also migrate. They do this at night, and they give a lot of little traffic updates to their friends: "Beep beep, I'm over h...

presented by Jim Hall

The Open Source Initiative partnered with Brandeis University to deliver a series of micro courses about open source software. This Open Source Technology Management program includes several sub-topics. In early 2021, Jim taught the micro courses about Open Source Business Practices and how to Establish an Open Source Program Office.

This talk will share highlights from Open Source Business ...

presented by Dmitry Dolgov

It's indeed useful to get out of your comfort zone from time to time and apply your engineering skills in some new area. Once upon a time I've got interested about what kind of simple sound processing one could do using only command line tools at hand. Knowing nothing about the subject it proved to be a challenge for a total newbie like me, but an exciting one with pretty interesting resul...

presented by Stephen Michel

The Free Software movement's ideals are egalitarian. We aim to bring the benefits of computing freedom to all users. However, we often overlook an uncomfortable inequality: Software Freedom disproportionately empowers programmers and those wealthy enough to hire them.

For today's average "end users", freedomware leaves them with basically the same options as proprietary freeware: use it as-i...

presented by Ben Cotton

Your project surely has a bug tracker. But what does it tell you? In this talk, you'll learn how to set up your bug tracker to get the most information you can. You'll find out what you can learn—and can't—from mining your bugs.