Program

Workshop Day

Conference Day

May 22 at Betahaus Neukölln

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Scale

Integrate

9:00

Breakfast & Registration

10:00

10:50

break

11:00

Integrate

Making GitHub Actions actionable

Heard the buzz about GitHub Actions and curious to learn more in a hands-on setting? This session is for you. In this workshop, you’ll learn everything you need to know about using Actions to automate workflows. We’ll show you how to build your Actions using different programming languages, how to integrate with other Actions, and share what resources you’ll need to begin creating more advanced Actions. Some programming language knowledge will be helpful, but isn’t required for this workshop. No matter your experience level, you’ll walk away with key concepts to take back to your teams and the next steps you need to get started with GitHub Actions.

11:00

Dr. Claire Knight, Software Engineer (GitHub)

Claire is a polyglot remote developer who has worked in many areas of tech over the years. She has been a senior/lead developer for *cough* years now which means she has experienced most things technology companies can throw at you. Claire currently works at GitHub as part of the Ecosystem API team, where she helps developers all over the world do their best work. She also spends time herding cats from her home office, since that turns out to be great practice for working with developers.

Nick Holden, Software Engineer (GitHub)

Nick Holden joined GitHub in 2018 to help build GitHub Marketplace.

Nick has been excited about programming since his first open source contribution in 2002—the groundbreaking “Guess My Number” app in the QBasic Development project on SourceForge. After studying economics and communication at Boston University, he worked to promote science and engineering programs for middle and high school students from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds at MIT.

In 2014, Nick completed UC Berkeley’s Agile Development Using Ruby on Rails professional certificate program, which convinced him to move into software development full time. Ever since, he’s been hooked on optimizing for programmer happiness and convention over configuration.

12:00

Lunch

13:00

13:50

break

14:00

Scale

Deep clean your Git repositories

Git repositories naturally grow over time. They can grow for the wrong reasons up until a point where they are hard to work with. Join Lars Schneider, a GitHub DevOps Engineer, to learn how Git works internally, what the implications are for large files in GIt repositories, how large files can be detected, and how large files can be cleaned from Git repositories properly and efficiently.

14:00

Lars Schneider, DevOps Engineer (GitHub)

Lars is a DevOps Engineer on GitHub's Professional Services Team, working out of Berlin, Germany. He loves to work hands-on with customers to make their Git and/GitHub experience more productive and fun. He is also a Git core and Git LFS open source contributor during working hours, and a hiker and water sports enthusiast during his free time.

Victoria Lam, Solution Architect (GitHub)

Victoria is a Solution Architect on the Professional Services Team at GitHub. She has a consulting background with extensive experience in application architecture, DevOps, SAP, and software development. Victoria enjoys working and helping customers to achieve their goals.

15:00

Workshops End

May 23 at Kraftwerk

Connect

Learn

8:00

Breakfast & Registration

9:30

10:45

Break

10:55

11:30

Break

11:40

Learn

Continuous Integration and Deployment: Five Lessons Learned

As builders, we love taking a step back, learning from our users and understanding how they use the tools we build. We looked at some of the most popular open source projects on GitHub, and we talked with enterprises using GitHub for their code, collaboration and automation. In this presentation, we 'll share five lessons learned when it comes to continuous integration and deployments.

You'll leave the room with new ideas on how to improve your workflows, ship with higher confidence and deliver better quality products.

11:40

Simina Pasat, Director of Product Management (GitHub)

Simina Pasat is a Director of Product Management at GitHub, where she manages partnerships and special projects. She builds products in a customer-focused way and loves to ship solutions in quick iterations, learn from them and then make fast improvements. Prior to GitHub, Simina worked as a Product Manager at Microsoft, on mobile developer and CI tools. In her free time, she enjoys traveling and spending time outdoors.

Jamie Cool, Director of Program Management (Microsoft)

Jamie is the Director of Program Management for the Azure DevOps team. A 20 year Microsoft veteran, the majority spent building platforms and tools for developers. He is currently based out of North Carolina where he is working to make Azure Devops a great set of foundational developer services for both Microsoft and it’s customers.

12:15

Lunch

13:15

Learn

Software security, trust, and public policy

Through funding, regulation, and agenda setting, public policy can and does make software more secure—and less secure.

This session will dig into case studies in Europe of how public policy has supported security, or inadvertently threatened to make software more fragile, including how these policies came about, how they impact software security, and how developers influenced the policies. We’ll also cover how developers and industry are working with policymakers and governments to ensure policy supports rather than undermines security and trust, and what you can do as a developer, team member, and citizen to help.

13:15

Mike Linksvayer, Director, Policy (GitHub)

Mike Linksvayer is the Policy Director at GitHub, supporting the company's efforts to advocate for developers in the public policy realm. Mike has worked in the open source space for a long time, including as a volunteer director of Software Freedom Conservancy, and previously as VP and CTO of Creative Commons. Before that, Mike was a software engineer.

Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament (European Parliament)

Marietje Schaake is a Dutch politician and has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. She is a member of D66, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) political group. She is Coordinator on the International Trade committee, where she is the ALDE spokesperson on transatlantic trade and digital trade. Schaake also serves on the committee on Foreign Affairs and the subcommittee on Human Rights. She is the Vice-President of the US Delegation and serves on the Iran Delegation and the Delegation for the Arab peninsula. Furthermore, Schaake is the founder of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda for Europe. In 2017 she was Chief of the European Union Election Observation Mission in Kenya. Since 2014, Schaake is a ‘Young Global Leader’ with the World Economic Forum and she was recently appointed as co-chair of the WEF Global Future Council on Agile Governance. Schaake is a Member of the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity, the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and chair of the CEPS Taskforce on Software Vulnerability Disclosure in Europe. Furthermore, she is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor to the Center for Humane Technology. Schaake was featured by Politico as one of the 28 most influential Europeans in the ‘class of 2017’.

13:50

Break

14:00

Connect

Maintaining the maintainers: Supporting independent open source tools

Maintainers often lack adequate resources, face communication issues, and work themselves to exhaustion to keep tools we love running. And sometimes, they’re rewarded for their efforts with harassment and trolling instead of gratitude.

This panel will debate whether formalized support like an accelerator program for maintainers could provide motivation in the face of these challenges or if the risks of corporatism outweigh the benefits. At the center of this discussion will be the core question, “How do we help more people to work in open source independently?”

14:00

Don Goodman-Wilson, Developer Advocate, EMEA (GitHub)

Don is a philosopher-engineer, and a developer advocate at GitHub. He focuses on empowering software developers, and especially open-source software maintainers by helping them identify the best tools, and best practices for their craft. In previous lives, Don has worked with startups and established companies in such diverse fields as web security, chatbots, streaming media, embedded hardware, and model railroading; he also holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis. Don enjoys statically typed languages and sailing, and lives with his wife and daughter in Amsterdam.

Floor Drees, Product Marketing Manager (Microsoft)

Floor works as a Developer Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft (Azure), with a focus on OSS and Linux solutions. Floor spent her career so far in tech start-ups in roles connecting engineering and communication, ran a co-working space and start-up accelerator. Privately she spends her time organizing Ruby and OSS community events, and doing write-ups for meetups and conferences

K Rain Leander, OpenStack Liaison (Red Hat)

K Rain Leander is a systematic, slightly psychic, interdisciplinary community liaison with a Bachelor’s in dance and a Master’s in IT. An epic public speaker, she has disappeared within a box stuffed with swords, created life, and went skydiving with the Queen. Seriously. Rain is an active technical contributor with OpenStack, RDO, TripleO, Fedora, CentOS and DjangoGirls. Come say hello. Bring cake.

Panel

Learn

Open source security: who’s responsible?

No software is immune from vulnerabilities. We’ve seen some of the world’s largest companies crippled by them. With always-evolving open source software and growing dependencies within it, staying on top of security can feel like an impossible task. That’s why it’s vital for any organization to have the right people and products for the job.

The speakers in this panel will explore different roles within development teams that keep code safe and how the open source community can work together to prioritize and collaborate on security solutions.

14:00

Rimas Silkaitis, Senior Director, Product Management (GitHub)

Rimas leads product management for teams and team collaboration at GitHub. Rimas has a passion for helping groups leverage their data to create better outcomes. He's run product for services like Heroku Postgres and Heroku Redis, made teams successful at using data with data visualization Chartio, and built data-intensive features as an engineer.

Lothar Schulz, Engineering Manager (Moovel Group GmbH)

Lothar is an Engineering Manager at Moovel Group GmbH. He brings decades of technical development and project management experience in the software, internet, mobile, telecommunication, and font industries from companies like Zalando, T-Systems, and Nokia.

Anna Debenham, Director of Product (Snyk)

Anna is a Director of Product at Snyk in London, working on a dev tool that helps make open source software more secure. Before moving to Product, she was an Engineer. Her goal is to make finding and fixing security vulnerabilities so easy that it becomes a standard part of every developer's workflow.

Per Ploug, Open Source Community Manager (Zalando SE)

Per Ploug is an Open Source Community Manager at Zalando, working to empower 2,000 developers involved in open source. Previously, he was a key figure in building and nurturing the commercial open source CMS project Umbraco, serving a community of 250,000 developers and powering 500,000 websites globally.

Tracy Miranda, Director of Open Source Community (CloudBees)

Tracy Miranda is Director of Open Source Community at CloudBees, where she works closely with the Jenkins & Jenkins X communities. A developer and open source veteran, Tracy is on the governing board for the CD.Foundation, after helping launch the foundation as the new home for open source software for Continuous Delivery. Tracy has a background in electronics system design and holds patents for her work on processor architectures. Tracy is a regular conference speaker and writes for JAXenter.com and Opensource.com on tech, open source, and diversity.

Panel

14:40

Break

14:50

Connect

Open source for good: the people and projects driving change

As we strive to make progress on looming social issues like class divides, climate change, and access to education, innovation is key. New technologies are one of the most effective ways we can manage the complexity of these problems—bringing together institutions, developers, and companies to build collaborative open source solutions—and many of them are being built on GitHub.

In this session you’ll hear from people who are working at the intersection of social change and open source technology and walk away inspired by their stories of impact on some of the most important issues of our time.

14:50

Admas Kanyagia, Senior Director of Social Impact (GitHub)

Admas Kanyagia is the Senior Director of Social Impact at GitHub, where she leads the philanthropic and CSR efforts on behalf of the company. She has over fifteen years of working across the social sector—with foundations, corporations, nonprofits and government. Prior to GitHub, Admas was a Director at FSG, a nonprofit strategy consulting firm, where she gained deep expertise in corporate social responsibility, shared value, equity, community engagement and mobilization, systems change, human-centered design and systems thinking. Prior to FSG, Admas worked for Accenture’s Public Sector practice and guided federal agencies and non-profit organizations in strategy development, organizational design and business process improvement. Admas has a M.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A from Stanford University.

Catherine Stihler, CEO (Open Knowledge Foundation)

Catherine Stihler has been chief executive of Open Knowledge Foundation since February 2019. Prior to this, she represented Scotland as a Member of the European Parliament since 1999. As Vice-Chair of the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, she worked on digital policy, prioritising the digital single market, digital skills, better accessibility of digital products for the disabled, as well as citizen online data protection and privacy. As leader and founder of the All-Party Library Group she promoted and advocated for the importance of libraries and how libraries can remain relevant in the new digital age.

Born in Bellshill in 1973, Catherine was educated at Coltness High School, Wishaw and St Andrews University, where she was awarded a MA (Hons) Geography and International Relations (1996), and a MLitt in International Security Studies (1998). Before becoming a MEP, Catherine served as President of St Andrews University Students Association (1994-1995) and worked in the House of Commons for Dame Anne Begg MP (1997-1999). She has a Master of Business Administration from the Open University, and in 2018 was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews. Catherine was elected to serve as the 52nd Rector of the University of St Andrews between 2014 and 2017.

Hong Phuc Dang, Founder (FOSSASIA)

Hong Phuc Dang founded FOSSASIA in 2009 as a community devoted to improve people’s lives through sharing open technologies, knowledge and fostering global connections. Hong was recently elected as a board director of the Open Source Initiative. She also acts as the InnerSource manager at Zalando where she helps to bring open source culture and practices within the corporate walls and supports the company to become a good open source citizen.

Learn

There and back again: An adventure through the realms of open source software

Join Devon in exploring the distant lands of open source. She's brought us back customs from programming communities far and wide, to borrow and remix to solve problems back at home, wherever that may be.

Through hundreds of conversations with open source maintainers, Devon discovered that each niche of the developer ecosystem has come up with ingenious techniques and thoughtful methods of coordinating work, investment, and decision-making.

In this talk, we'll discuss a few local practices that Devon finds particularly inspiring. These communities are different from one another, but they share many of the same challenges, so it's valuable to look at what others have figured out, learn from those experiences, and to build on those innovations.

And her journey isn't over—Devon is eager to hear the best practices in your communities, too! The second half of the talk will open as a conversation, where Devon will invite the audience to come up in front of the stage area for a more direct discussion of what other practices we can borrow and build on from one another.

14:50

Devon Zuegel, Product Manager of the Open Source Economy team (GitHub)

Devon is the Product Manager of the Open Source Economy team at GitHub. She is a writer and programmer based out of San Francisco, and she blogs about cooperation problems, market design, and urban economics.

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