Open Source Leadership Summit @ Open Source Summit North America 2023
2023-05-10..2023-05-12
Vancouver, Canada
as the organisers put it
Open Source Leadership Summit fosters innovation, growth and partnerships among the leading projects and corporations working in open technology development. It is a must-attend for business and…
who it's for
open source program office leads, community managers, project maintainers, developer relations engineers, engineering managers, corporate legal and compliance
topics
maintainer onboarding and growth; community governance and codes of conduct; open source program office strategy; profitable non-VC open source business models; software supply chain and SBOM adoption; project trademark policies and downstream use; innerSource and engineering culture metrics; product-led growth for open source projects; unikernel deployment with Unikraft; open standards adoption and impact; managing toxic contributors and retention; long-term sustainability strategies
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Lessons Learned in Building an Interdependent Open Source Team | Jasmine Wang | 43m |
Open source team design for Alluxio focuses on measurable work: a three‑function split (Community, DevRel, OSS/R&D), concrete metrics (GitHub + community… | ||
| Jerks Are Killing Your Projects | Donnie Berkholz | 40m |
Shows concrete cases where a few toxic members stall or shrink projects: Gen2/Gentoo contributor counts plateau until toxic developers are removed, glibc… | ||
| Unikraft: From Research / Academia to Deployment Reality | Razvan Deaconescu | 35m |
Unikraft is a specialization-first unikernel that builds single-image VMs to cut memory and OS overhead, claim performance parity with containers while using… | ||
| Creating a Profitable Open Source Company Without Venture Capital | Ann Schlemmer | 41m |
Percona describes a 17‑year customer‑funded path that stays profitable by design, moves from incident consulting to recurring support contracts and managed… | ||
| A Vision of FOSS @Mercedes-Benz | Wolfgang Gehring | 37m |
Mercedes‑Benz adopts a six‑year plan: creates an OSPO with FOSS coordinators, publishes the Mercedes‑Benz FOSS Manifesto (CC0, on GitHub) to allow company‑time… | ||
| Clear Your Own Path to Open Source Maintainer | Martin Hickey | 46m |
Practical roadmap for moving from first contribution to maintainer: use Helm and related projects (Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry) as case studies, follow the Helm… | ||
| Contributor Growth Strategies for OSS Projects | Dawn M Foster | 41m |
Maintainer burnout causes contributor shortfalls so the talk lays out concrete fixes: use CNCF templates for governance and contributor ladders, add good first… | ||
| Applying the Principles of Product-Led Growth to Your Open Source Project | Emily Omier | 38m |
Argues that open source needs intentional product-led growth: pick a clear success metric, measure activation (aim for activation rate >40%), and reduce time… | ||
| Open Standards are Empowering the World: Key Findings from the State of... | Jory Burson, Mike Dolan | 40m |
Survey of 496 valid respondents finds 91% involved in open standards and 74% engaged with non-public standards, with 95% reporting stable or increasing value… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Managing Open Source... | Jeffrey Borek, Nithya A. Ruff, Rao Lakkakula, Andrew Aitken | 45m |
Open source now makes up 80–90% of modern applications, creating huge transitive dependency graphs — average apps went from ~70–80 packages to over 500 and… | ||
| Adapting to the New Era of Social Platforms in Open Source | Fatima Sarah Khalid | 29m |
Describes concrete migration steps: audit current outreach, list improvements, favor owned channels like newsletters and self‑hosted Discourse over rented… | ||
| Don’t Love It to Death: Best Practices for Downstream Use of Project Trademarks | Daniel Scales | 33m |
Open source trademarks must identify the project as the source or risk confusion, alienating contributors and even invalidating trademark rights. Practical… | ||
| Leadership in Open Source and Why Companies Care | Dmitry Vinnik | 43m |
Company open source strategy centers on community, leadership, productivity and branding with concrete practices: Meta maintains 700+ Meta projects, publishes… | ||
| Building and Supporting Open Source Communities Through Metrics | Georg Link | 43m |
CHAOSS defines more than 70 measurable metrics and ships analysis tools like Grimoire Lab, Augur and hosted dashboards such as cauldron.io. Examples: WordPress… | ||
| Developing a Long-Term Strategy for Sustainability | Rebecca Rumbul, Gracie Gregory | 43m |
A three-to-five year strategy organizes work around five strategic pillars — infrastructure and ecosystem management, community development, storytelling… | ||
| Building & Retaining Great Teams in a Volatile Market | Clyde Seepersad, Jautau White | 43m |
Data from the 2023 state of tech talent shows layoffs hit senior engineers disproportionately while hiring continues at entry level, and many affected people… | ||
| InnerSource Metrics for Changing Engineering Culture and Driving Open-Source... | Daniel Izquierdo | 48m |
Argues that measurable InnerSource pays off and shows how to do it with GrimoireLab dashboards and a goal→question→metric approach; surfaces actionable signals… | ||
| Focusing on the Developer and Partnering with the Linux Foundation Helps.. | Denny Lee, Carly Akerly | 30m |
Delta Lake reports 1.7 exabytes processed per day, 7,000 customers in production and a 663% jump in contributor strength after open sourcing; monthly releases… | ||
| The FLOSSbok Project: Defining a Body of Knowledge About Open Source | Anthony I Wasserman | 34m |
Project aims to assemble a body of knowledge about open source modeled on SWEBOK/PMBOK, with an initial outline posted as a FLOSSbok.org WordPress document… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Finding the Right Comms for Your Community... | Dave Clements, Sarah Kaiser, Nyah Macklin, Sophia Yang, JOCELYN | 44m |
Uses Matrix + Element for open, linkable chat and Discourse for long-form Q&A; some communities run on Slack (free-tier rolling deletes and the 90-day/10k… | ||
| How Far Will Open Source Innovation Go and What It Means for Patent Non-Aggression | Keith Bergelt | |
Open Invention Network runs a patent cross-license that now covers 3,800 members and encumbers tens of thousands of patents (roughly 60k at peak) to create a… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Landing Among the Stars: How Community... | Adriana Villela, Austin Parker, Reese Lee, Rynn Mancuso, Libby Meren | 41m |
OpenTelemetry grows from 2019 into one of the Linux Foundation’s largest projects with hundreds of contributors and thousands of users, using concrete plays… | ||
| Simplifying Coordinating Vulnerabilities & Disclosures in Open Source... | CRob, Madison Oliver | 45m |
Explains concrete steps and tools: publishes two OpenSSF guides on GitHub (maintainer and reporter), recommends publishing a clear security policy, setting a… | ||
| Steady and Deliberate: Enabling Contributions in a Regulated Industry | Brian Warner, Nick Penston | 41m |
Fidelity builds an internal open source practice from a three-month pilot, then scales via Nano contributions (1–3 hour doc or small-bug PRs), project… | ||
| Creating an Inclusive Community | Tracy Kuhrt | 39m |
Hyperledger community practices that actually change retention: keep docs current with step-by-step install and developer workflows, provide Docker/dev scripts… | ||
| How to be an Ethical Engineering Leader | Adriana Villela | 27m |
Eight concrete leadership rules: a numbered list of eight guidelines focused on ethics and engineering at Lightstep, including POC is not the final product… | ||
| Project Vs. Product - Finding the Right Balance in Corporate Open... | Libby Clark, Colleen Betik | 39m |
Finch CLI uses nerdctl containerd buildkit Lima and AWS launches it early, solicits feedback, secures public endorsements from Akihiro Suda and Justin Cormack… | ||
| What is Open Source Without Collaboration? | Ildikó Váncsa | 43m |
Claims that 52 million new GitHub projects and 413 million contributions landed in 2022 frame a problem: massive growth plus 70–90% of modern software… | ||
| Implementing the OpenSSF Best Practices Badges & Scorecards Into Your Project | CRob, David Wheeler | 53m |
OpenSSF Best Practices defines measurable criteria (passing/silver/gold) that require a security policy, vulnerability reporting, at least one automated test… | ||
| Open Source Is Winning but We Can Still Lose | Dave Stokes | 39m |
Open source databases overtake proprietary ones in late 2021, but the ecosystem shows concrete risks: projects average ~600 OSS components, 91% of audited… | ||
| Fostering an Open Source Culture | Arun Gupta | 43m |
Argues that an Open Source Program Office is the operational center that reduces friction, ensures license compliance and coaches teams to push changes… | ||
| Talking with Management About Open Source | Rich Bowen | 39m |
Practical advice on persuading managers: argue with numbers, not philosophy — quantify how much revenue or user flows depend on an open source component and… | ||
| BoF: What’s Interesting about OSS Developer Communities to You? A... | Cali Dolfi, James Kunstle | 43m |
Project OSS Aspen builds a public visualization web app called eightnot backed by auger’s relational Postgres developer events database and a research arm… | ||
| A Lawyer and an Engineer Walk Into a Bar and Talk Open Source | Ravi Devineni, Shantanu Singh | 30m |
Enterprise case study from Northwestern Mutual shows adoption stats (90% enterprises use OSS, 96% of codebases include it) and that fewer than 50% have formal… | ||
| How to Foster Cross-Community Collaboration – Lessons Learned | Ke Wang, Bin Fan | 32m |
Collaboration integrates Alluxio with Presto to deliver an SSD caching feature driven by a prototype (Raptor) that targets a 10x speedup; work starts end of… | ||
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