Empowering OSS maintainers in the age of AI
This talk addresses how we attempt to manage the changes to Open Source Maintainership resulting from the Agentic AI approach within the Apache Software Foundation. The Apache Way is About People — AI should free maintainers to do stuff that matters, not replace them; it should empower maintainers in the Age of AI.
Building Resilience: The Next Decade of Open Source
Over 25 years, open source has become vital digital infrastructure. However, its future relies on human resilience, not just code. To combat burnout, funding gaps, and new regulations, we must move beyond old methods and address sustainability through global policy, security, and community health.
Scientific Data Under Threat in Today’s America
A brief look at how scientific data came under political pressure during the presidency of Donald Trump, and how scientists and data repositories in Europe worked to protect public access to evidence-based research, ensuring access for data science in a well-structured way.
Escaping the Cloud: High-Performance AI in your Browser
Server-side inference is the bottleneck of modern AI, creating costs and privacy hurdles. But what if the solution is scaling down to the browser? This session investigates Client-Side AI using WebGPU, ONNX Runtime, and Transformers.js. We’ll explore the reality of hardware access, model size, and the 2026 trade-offs of browser based execution.
SPRUCE it up! Open Source GreenOps at scale
GreenOps adoption is stalled by missing data from cloud providers. SPRUCE is an open-source, scalable platform built on Apache Spark that enriches cloud usage reports with open models to quantify carbon impact, build insights, and help teams reduce both emissions and cloud spend.
No 0-day required, just target the AI coding assistant!
Discover how attackers can manipulate AI coding assistants through hidden text, typosquatting and code errors. Learn to detect concealed instructions and set up trusted dependencies to keep unsafe code out of your environment.
Low-Resource Languages as Stress Tests for NLP Data
Low-resource languages expose weaknesses in NLP systems that are often hidden by benchmark data. Drawing on experience annotating fieldwork data, this talk shows how ambiguity and annotation decisions reveal fundamental data quality issues relevant to real-world NLP pipelines.
Mentoring In Open Source in the Age of AI
Open source mentorship changed overnight with AI tools. Contributors submitted polished code they couldn’t explain, making learning harder to assess. This talk shares what we learned mentoring Outreachy contributors—what failed, what worked, and what we’re still figuring out.
OpenSearch Software Foundation: 1 Year of Open Governance
In this presentation, we will talk through moving a major open source project into a foundation and the benefits of open governance, and a vendor-neutral home has proven through a sustained growth in community contributions.