Recent & Upcoming Talks

The EU Cyber Resilience Act sets standards for how software should be designed, developed and distributed with security in mind. Any regulation of how software is developed also affects FOSS. How do individual developers and communities adapt to the new regulatory environment?

SFSCON 2023, Bolzano, Italy As open source software becomes the foundation to build digital products, to run the backbones of ICT infrastructure and to ensure digital sovereignty and cyber resilience, both the technology as well as the communities that develop it inevitably move into the focus of regulators.

Malcolm Bain, Andrew Katz and I presented a workshop at FOSS Backstage 2018 (also the first FOSS Backstage event) in Berlin in June 2018. We presented an introduction to OpenChain and a few use cases, and a introduction and demonstration of Quartermaster.

The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology holds a workshop series on “Open Source and Smart Services”. I was invited to present the findings of our paper “Standard Setting Organisations and Open Source Communities - Partners or Competitors?

Quartermaster was presented at the BCS Open Source Specialist Group hosted event on Yanking the Chain: Open Source Software Compliance in the Supply Chain` on March 22 in London. Introduction to Quartermaster The presentation was focused on how static and build time need to be combined to acquire an accurate picture of the code and dependencies that end up in a software package.

The talk at the Linux Foundation Open Source Leadership Summit marked the first time we could present Quartermaster to a wider management level audience. It raised quite some interest: This is the abstract of the talk:

The Open Invention Network (OIN) protects the Open Source ecosystem against litigation of software patents. This networked, royalty-free cross-licensing community can be joined by all and is defined by three pillars - the patents that are cross-licensed to participants, the community of licensees, and the field of use that is covered by the cross-licensing agreement.