Building Bridges in Open Source: Connecting Academic Talent with Indu...
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University-run open source program AROS connects companies (IBM, Red Hat, Boeing) to students who build and maintain real artifacts like a CNI test suite using Cilium, Kubernetes and Terraform; hundreds of projects and over 1,000 alumni projects since 2006 demonstrate sustained output. Expect mentors to supply weekly engineering guidance, sponsors to provide infrastructure or stipends, and measurable hiring benefits: Linux Foundation data cited — 69% of employers seek cloud/container skills, 93% report open source talent is hard to find. Projects emphasize documentation, onboarding, and reproducible test tooling that actually ships.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:02University partnerships
- 2:27Cloud native security challenges
- 4:14Security education gaps
- 6:19University open source centers
- 9:07AROS program
- 11:12Company benefits
- 13:41Student benefits and DevSecOps
- 15:06Bottom-up security training
- 16:31Getting involved with programs
- 18:38Call to action
- 19:19Q&A
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