Open Source and AI
| Sat 03 Aug 9:45 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Presented by
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Denver Gingerich
https://ossguy.com/
Denver is a software right-to-repair and standards activist who is currently Director of Compliance at Software Freedom Conservancy, where he enforces software right-to-repair licenses such as the GPL, and is also a director of the worker co-operative that runs JMP.chat, a FOSS phone number (texting/calling) service. Denver writes free software in his spare time: his patches have been accepted into Wine, Linux, and wdiff. Denver received his BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He gives presentations about digital civil rights and how to ensure FOSS remains sustainable as a community and financially, having spoken at conferences such as FOSSY, CopyleftConf, LibrePlanet, LinuxCon North America, CopyCamp Toronto, FOSSLC's Summercamp, and the Open Video Conference.
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Allison Randal
https://www.lohutok.net
Dr. Allison Randal is a free software and open hardware developer and strategist. She is chair of the board at the Software Freedom Conservancy, vice-chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group. In the past three decades, she has served as chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, president and board member of the Open Source Initiative, president and board member of the Perl Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chair of the board at the Parrot Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, conference chair of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), technical architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at Hewlett Packard, Distinguished Engineer at SUSE, and Principal Engineer at Rivos. She collaborates in the Debian and RISC-V projects.
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Joey has devoted his career to free software development for 25 years. A veteran of the Debian project, he now mostly works on git-annex.
He lives in an off-grid passive house in the woods of Appalachia. When not helping scientists with reproducible data versioning or hacking on his latest idea, he enjoys reading lots of SF and playing board games.
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julia ferraioli
@juliaferraioli
https://juliaferraioli.com
julia ferraioli is an open source strategist, researcher, and practitioner with over a decade of experience in launching, managing, and optimizing open source projects at scale. She works as the AI/ML Open Source Strategist at AWS, and her current research centers around open source sustainability, history, and impact. Her community work includes co-leading Open Source Stories, a community-led effort with the goal of making the people of open source and their lived experiences more visible. julia is a fierce supporter of LaTeX, the Oxford comma, and small pull requests.
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Denver Gingerich
https://ossguy.com/
Denver is a software right-to-repair and standards activist who is currently Director of Compliance at Software Freedom Conservancy, where he enforces software right-to-repair licenses such as the GPL, and is also a director of the worker co-operative that runs JMP.chat, a FOSS phone number (texting/calling) service. Denver writes free software in his spare time: his patches have been accepted into Wine, Linux, and wdiff. Denver received his BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He gives presentations about digital civil rights and how to ensure FOSS remains sustainable as a community and financially, having spoken at conferences such as FOSSY, CopyleftConf, LibrePlanet, LinuxCon North America, CopyCamp Toronto, FOSSLC's Summercamp, and the Open Video Conference.
Allison Randal
https://www.lohutok.net
Dr. Allison Randal is a free software and open hardware developer and strategist. She is chair of the board at the Software Freedom Conservancy, vice-chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group. In the past three decades, she has served as chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, president and board member of the Open Source Initiative, president and board member of the Perl Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chair of the board at the Parrot Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, conference chair of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), technical architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at Hewlett Packard, Distinguished Engineer at SUSE, and Principal Engineer at Rivos. She collaborates in the Debian and RISC-V projects.
Joey has devoted his career to free software development for 25 years. A veteran of the Debian project, he now mostly works on git-annex.
He lives in an off-grid passive house in the woods of Appalachia. When not helping scientists with reproducible data versioning or hacking on his latest idea, he enjoys reading lots of SF and playing board games.
julia ferraioli
@juliaferraioli
https://juliaferraioli.com
julia ferraioli is an open source strategist, researcher, and practitioner with over a decade of experience in launching, managing, and optimizing open source projects at scale. She works as the AI/ML Open Source Strategist at AWS, and her current research centers around open source sustainability, history, and impact. Her community work includes co-leading Open Source Stories, a community-led effort with the goal of making the people of open source and their lived experiences more visible. julia is a fierce supporter of LaTeX, the Oxford comma, and small pull requests.
Abstract
Denver Gingerich will lead our panelists in a lively conversation on the keynote stage about the different efforts out there to define what free/open AI should mean and how the technology
actually being made does and doesn't meet those possible definitions.
Denver Gingerich will lead our panelists in a lively conversation on the keynote stage about the different efforts out there to define what free/open AI should mean and how the technology actually being made does and doesn't meet those possible definitions.