Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026: Full Schedule

May 18-20, 2026
Minneapolis, MN
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11:00am CDT

Lightning Talk: AI Can Contribute. It Can't Lead - Lahari Chowtoori, AWS

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:10am CDT

200J (Level Two)

AI is doing real work in open source. Answering questions, reviewing PRs, writing patches. Some communities ban it, others label it. Most will accept it because policing AI is exhausting and the tooling is useful.

Here's what bothers me. Everyone argues about allowing AI contributions. Nobody talks about what we lose when humans stop doing the work. AI can write code. But it can't show up to community calls for two years. It can't help someone push their first PR. It can't convince a burned-out maintainer to stay. Leadership isn't a pull request. It's a relationship.

We have a leadership problem. Projects lose maintainers faster than they grow new ones. AI makes it worse by paving over entry-level work that used to get people involved.

The policy landscape is messy. Apache requires disclosure. OpenTelemetry treats AI as a tool. Linux Kernel won't accept patches without a human behind them. These policies reveal how communities define contribution, accountability, and belonging.

My argument is simple. Stop fighting AI. Start investing in what it can't do. Mentoring. Building trust. Growing leaders. That's what's at risk.

Speakers

Lahari Chowtoori

Open Source TPM, AI/ML, AWS

Lahari Chowtoori is an AI enthusiast and Technical Program Manager at AWS, focusing on open source, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. With a background in Data Science and Machine Learning, she is passionate about democratizing AI knowledge and fostering community collaboration.She... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:10am CDT
200J (Level Two)

OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

Audience Experience Level Any

11:00am CDT

State of Embedded Linux - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT

208A+B (Level Two)

This talk offers a comprehensive look at what's changed in the embedded Linux world over the past year. Walt will walk through the latest kernel developments most relevant to embedded developers, survey key userspace projects shaping modern embedded designs, and cover the broader community, industry, and legal landscape — from the status of major processor architectures to initiatives at the Linux Foundation and beyond.

Whether you're tracking changes to subsystems you already rely on or looking for new tools and techniques to improve your workflow, this session will help you stay current in a fast-moving ecosystem. Come find out what's new, what's shifting, and what it means for your embedded Linux work.

Speakers

Walt Miner

AGL Community Manager, The Linux Foundation

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
208A+B (Level Two)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Any

11:00am CDT

Small Government, Big Problems: Utilizing OSS To Support Our Citizens - Bob Henderson, Cass County Government

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT

200A (Level Two)

Small and local governments face an outsized challenge: rising expectations from citizens paired with shrinking budgets, limited staff, and a complex technology landscape. Finding modern, secure, and sustainable solutions often feels impossible when proprietary systems are expensive, rigid, and dependent on vendors that may not fully understand public sector realities. Staffing constraints make it even harder—small teams are expected to maintain critical services, manage security, and deliver innovation.

This session explores how open source software can help governments break out of that cycle. We’ll examine how open source provides flexibility, transparency, and long-term sustainability, while reducing vendor lock-in and enabling collaboration across agencies. We’ll also address common concerns around support, security, and staffing, and discuss practical models for leveraging vendors and community expertise without sacrificing control.

Finally, we’ll tackle the fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) that often surrounds open source in government, separating myth from reality and showing how open source can empower small governments to deliver big outcomes for their citizens.

Speakers

Bob Henderson

Director of Information Technology, Cass County Government

20+ years in Public Sector IT, from individual contributor to leadership. Advocate of the right tool for the right job, at the right time.

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200A (Level Two)

OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

Audience Experience Level Any

11:00am CDT

Sim‑to‑Flight: Why Starting With Simulation Is the Fastest Path To Successful Flight Testing - Anthony Comer, Oklahoma State University & Eric Hillsberg, MathWorks

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT

200D (Level Two)

Many flight‑control and autonomy programs still begin with hardware prototyping, only to discover late in development that controller tuning, transition behavior, and system coupling are difficult to resolve without a reliable model. This session presents a practical simulation‑to‑flight workflow based on recent university flight‑test research, demonstrating why starting with simulation is critical for reducing risk and accelerating development while helping teams avoid costly UAV crashes and hardware damage. Using a subscale eVTOL case study, we show how aerodynamic modeling, propulsion modeling, and six‑degree‑of‑freedom dynamics are integrated into a digital twin that directly informs control‑law design, hardware deployment, and flight testing. The workflow culminates in direct PX4 implementation and a comparison of simulation predictions against real flight‑test data across hover, transition, and forward flight, highlighting close agreement between model and reality. The talk emphasizes how a simulation‑first approach enables faster iteration, safer testing, and more predictable flight performance for the broader aerospace and UAS community.

Speakers

Eric Hillsberg

Product Marketing Manger - Aerospace, MathWorks

Eric Hillsberg is a Product Marketing Manager for Aerospace Products at MathWorks. He recently graduated from University of Michigan with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and a minor in Computer Science. During school, he interned with NASA Ames Research Center to investigate how... Read More →

Anthony Comer

Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University

Dr. Anthony Comer is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University and Director of the Simulation to Flight Applied Research Lab. His research focuses on configuration-independent flight control architectures for VTOL aircraft and he developed the patent-pending Trajectory Control... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200D (Level Two)

PX4 Dev Summit

Audience Experience Level Any

11:55am CDT

From Tools To Platforms: MCP Patterns for Building Open Agent Ecosystems - Guangya Liu, JPMC

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT

211A+B (Level Two)

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a foundational interface for agent–tool interaction, but most implementations today stop at simple, single-server tool exposure. This session explores practical MCP design patterns that move beyond “one server, one agent” toward scalable, interoperable, and ecosystem-friendly architectures.

Based on real-world experimentation and open-source implementations, we will walk through a set of MCP patterns, including:
1. Single MCP Server patterns for tool and data exposure
2. Multi-Server composition and routing patterns
3. MCP Host / Gateway patterns for aggregation and policy control
4. Plugin-style extension patterns that allow third-party MCP servers to integrate without code changes
5. Read vs. write MCP patterns for observability, automation, and feedback loops

The talk focuses on when and why to apply each pattern, common pitfalls, and architectural trade-offs. Attendees will leave with a mental model for designing MCP-based systems that scale from local experiments to ecosystem-level platforms, enabling agents, tools, and platforms to evolve independently while remaining interoperable.

Speakers

Guangya Liu

Executive Director, JPMC

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)

Open AI & Data

Audience Experience Level Any

12:45pm CDT

Bring Your Lunch, We'll Bring Our Notebooks: Securing Software Workflows - Tabatha DiDomenico, G-Research Open Source; Kadi McKean, ReversingLabs; Stacey Potter, OpenSSF & Katherine Druckman, JetBrains

Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm CDT

200C (Level Two)

Somewhere along the way, the security ecosystem started asking you to add more steps, update more plugins, and generate more outputs without asking what that actually costs you.

We asked for feedback during a lunch time session at cdCon last year. The feedback was blunt, honest and exactly why we are back for this open-floor discussion hosted by the OpenSSF Developer Relations (DevRel) community. No slides, no demos, no pitches. This is a no-shame venting session with purpose; bring your lunch, your coffee, and your honest feedback. We want to hear from the people implementing and operating these tools. Share where security tools are missing the mark and what's standing between "this is a good idea" and "this is actually working for us."

This session leads directly into sessions with OpenSSF project maintainers, so the people who can act on your feedback will already be in the room.

Speakers

Katherine Druckman

Head of Community and Partnership Engagement, JetBrains

Katherine Druckman is a senior technologist, speaker, and longtime advocate for open ecosystems. She specializes in developer experience, combining software ecosystem strategy, content creation, and community building, grounded in a foundation of hands-on software engineering experience... Read More →

Tabatha D.

OSS Security Engineer, G-Research Open Source

Tabatha DiDomenico is part of the Open Source team at G-Research focusing on supply chain security, secure open source practices, and community and developer relations.

Tabatha is president of Security BSides Orlando, co-host of the GR-OSS Out podcast and holds an MS in Cybersecurity from the University of South Florida. She has spoken at conferences including Black Hat Tools Arsenal, SOSS Fusion, ShmooCon, and Grace Hopper Celebration... Read More →

Kadi McKean

OSS Community Manager, ReversingLabs

Kadi is passionate about the DevOps / DevSecOps community since her days of working with COBOL development and Mainframe solutions. At ReversingLabs she collaborates with developers and security researchers to help entities prioritize their open source risk, reduce technical debt... Read More →

Stacey Potter

Community Manager, OpenSSF

Stacey brings extensive experience in open source community building, marketing, and event coordination. With a background spanning projects like Minder, Flux and Flagger, OpenFeature, and Keptn, she has played a key role in fostering engagement and driving adoption across cloud-native... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm CDT
200C (Level Two)

cdCon

Audience Experience Level Any

2:10pm CDT

Practical Insights Into Interactive Debugging of Linux MMC Block Device Drivers - Akhilesh Patil, Amazon

Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT

208A+B (Level Two)

Transitioning from bare-metal firmware development to Linux kernel development presents unique challenges, particularly in debugging methodologies. Traditional approaches such as halting execution via JTAG alone may not straightforwardly work for embedded Linux.

In this presentation we talk about challenges I faced and techniques I came across to debug Linux MMC block device drivers interactively using tools such as T32/GDB debuggers on embedded systems. This talk briefly covers MMC driver and block layer interactions and key golden breakpoints to use for MMC bus driver debugging. I will also discuss tools and techniques to take full control of eMMC block drivers, generating block IO requests as needed, setting up triggers and probing signals on an oscilloscope for detailed waveform level debugging.

key topics: Embedded Linux setup for interactive debug (single CPU, KASLR, WDT, ramfs, RCU, softlocks), strategic SDHCI breakpoints, GPIO-triggered oscilloscope capture signals, handling filesystem mounts; leveraging mmc_test module for generating controlled transactions for debug.

Speakers

AKHILESH PATIL

Embedded Software Developer, Amazon

Akhilesh is an embedded software engineer at Amazon working with the devices Linux kernel team. He is working on various BSP packages including linux drivers, runtime firmware and bootloaders. He has a background of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and is passionate about embedded... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Any

2:10pm CDT

Uncouth Users, Dopey Developers and Crazy Cryptographers OR Why It's Never the Architect's Fault - Mike Bursell, Confidential Computing Consortium & Christopher Robinson, OpenSSF

Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT

200H (Level Two)

In this session, two jaded cybersecurity architects will present a taxonomy of personae who passively or actively get in the way of good security, explain why it's all definitely your fault and express frustration that the Golden Age of Cybersecurity[tm] is always eluding their grasp. With examples and humour/humor (if they can agree on a spelling), your hosts will encourage you to do better next time and point out all the obvious (to them) things you've been doing wrong all these years. And why open source would fix all of them. Almost.

Speakers

Mike Bursell

Executive Director, Confidential Computing Consortium

Mike Bursell is the Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium. He is one of the co-founders of the Enarx project (https://enarx.dev), and was CEO and co-founder of Profian, a start-up based on Enarx. He currently holds advisory board roles with various start-ups... Read More →

Christopher "CRob" Robinson

Chief Architect - OpenSSF, OpenSSF

Christopher Robinson (aka CRob) is the Chief Security Architect for the Open Source Security Foundation. With over 25 years of Enterprise-class engineering, architectural, operational and leadership experience, CRob has worked at several Fortune 500 companies with experience in the... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200H (Level Two)

Open Source 101

Audience Experience Level Any

2:10pm CDT

Building Sustainable Open Source: The Harper Story - Ethan Arrowood, Harper

Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT

200A (Level Two)

Open sourcing a core product is easy to celebrate, but hard to initiate and sustain. This is a practical story about economic viability and how Harper open sourced our core product while protecting business health, funding continued engineering, and creating the conditions for durable community growth.
Geared towards founders, CTOs, investors, and developer relations and engineering managers, I share Harper’s intimate story of transforming our nearly decade-old, closed source code base into an actively growing open source community. I share what we learned from customer growth patterns, where adoption stalled, and how we recognized the potential of open source. From there, I dive deep into our execution strategy; separating the open source core from the commercial operations customers valued.
You’ll learn how licensing choices and clear boundaries between shapes trust, and how we approached the organizational and technical realities of moving a long-lived product into the open. If you're building or funding open source and need a sustainable model supporting profitability and momentum, this session offers a concrete path grounded in lived experiences.

Speakers

Ethan Arrowood

Head of Open Source Engineering, Harper

Ethan Arrowood lives in Summit County, CO. He is the Head of Open Source Engineering at Harper, developing a distributed, real-time application platform. Additionally, he is a Node.js contributor that contributed to the development of Fastify, Undici, and Node.js' Fetch. He's also... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200A (Level Two)

OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

Audience Experience Level Any

2:10pm CDT

Package Managers Metadata and Cross Ecosystem Projects in the Era of SBOMs - Damián Vicino, Datadog

Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT

200G (Level Two)

Package managers do more than resolve dependencies—they shape how software and its metadata are distributed across the ecosystem. While they simplify development, they also introduce large, fast-moving transitive dependency trees that are rarely inspected in depth.
Despite evolving independently, most package managers share a common model: distributing artifacts alongside metadata. Yet metadata formats, completeness, and quality vary widely across ecosystems, creating challenges for security analysis, compliance, and supply chain risk management—especially in today’s hybrid, multi-language environments.
This talk examines how package metadata is increasingly used beyond builds, powering vulnerability management, license compliance, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation through standards such as SPDX and CycloneDX.
Based on the results from the first year of work from the CHAOSS Package Metadata Working Group—an analysis of more than 40 package managers—we’ll share emerging best practices, gaps we’ve identified, and recommendations for both new and existing ecosystems to improve metadata quality, interoperability, and transparency.

Speakers

Damián Vicino

Senior Open Source Specialist, Datadog

Damian Vicino is a Senior Open Source Specialist at Datadog’s OSPO and an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University. He began contributing to open source in the early 2000s, leading a local BSD user group and collaborating with a team on five BSDday Argentina events. He... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200G (Level Two)

Packages + Images + Containers

Audience Experience Level Any

2:10pm CDT

Unified Autonomy Stack - Nikhil Khedekar & Kostas Alexis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT

200D (Level Two)

This session introduces the open-source Unified Autonomy Stack (https://github.com/ntnu-arl/unified_autonomy_stack), a containerized, system-level solution enabling robust autonomy across diverse aerial and ground robot morphologies. The architecture centers on three modules -multi-modal perception, multi-stage planning, and multi-layered safety mechanisms- that together deliver end-to-end mission autonomy. Resulting behaviors include safe navigation into unknown regions, exploration of complex environments, and efficient inspection planning. The stack has been validated on multiple multirotor platforms and legged robots operating in GNSS-denied and perceptually degraded environments, demonstrating resilient performance in demanding conditions. To facilitate ease of adoption and extension, we additionally release a reference hardware design that integrates a full multi-modal sensing suite, time-synchronization electronics, and high-performance compute capable of running the entire ROS-based stack while leaving headroom for further development. Strategically, we aim to expand the Unified Autonomy Stack to cover most robot configurations across air, land, and sea.

Speakers

Nikhil Khedekar

Postdoctoral Researcher, Autonomous Robots Lab, Norwegian University of Science Technology (NTNU)

Nikhil Khedekar is a postdoctoral researcher in the Autonomous Robots Lab at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) leading the team’s perception research. Previously, he also led the development of LiDAR based estimation in ScoutDI AS and participated in the... Read More →

Kostas Alexis

Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Prof. Dr. Kostas Alexis is Professor of Robotics at NTNU, head of the Autonomous Robot Lab, and Director of the Norwegian Centre for Embodied AI. His research advances resilient robotic autonomy (intelligence & morphology) for high-risk, uncertain environments, spanning control, sensor... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200D (Level Two)

PX4 Dev Summit

Audience Experience Level Any

3:00pm CDT

GitOps Gone Wild: Hardening Delivery Pipelines for the AI Era - Julien Semaan, Kubex & Corey McGalliard, Akamai

Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm CDT

200C (Level Two)

GitOps promises safety and automation, but it will faithfully ship your mistakes at scale. With AI-assisted coding and emerging autonomous agents in the loop, those mistakes now move faster than humans can fully reason about their impact.

This talk dissects real-world GitOps failures where tiny configuration changes triggered outages, overly trusted pipelines amplified risk, and AI-generated patches were merged without understanding their consequences. None of these incidents were tooling failures. They were safety failures.

We’ll show how teams put guardrails back in place by enforcing policy before merge, using progressive rollouts to contain blast radius, applying Crossplane constraints to keep infrastructure changes reversible, and adding automated verification gates that catch problems before they reach production.

Speakers

Corey McGalliard

Engineering Manager, Akamai Cloud

My team and I power and protect life online by building an internal, opinionated Kubernetes platform that meets Akamai's change-safety, security, and compliance expectations while delivering an excellent developer experience. I'm interested in distributed computing and platform engineering... Read More →

Julien Semaan

Head of k8s Engineering @Kubex | CNCF TAG DevEx Tech Lead, Kubex

Julien is the Head of Kubernetes Engineering at Kubex and a Tech Lead with the CNCF TAG for Developer Experience. With deep roots in open source and cloud-native systems, he has been working with Kubernetes since 2017 and has led multiple product transitions to cloud-native archi... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm CDT
200C (Level Two)

cdCon

Audience Experience Level Any

3:05pm CDT

Hidden in Plain Sight: Discovering the Academic Open Source Landscape - Juanita Gomez, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT

200A (Level Two)

Academic Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) are emerging across universities to support open source, but how can they identify contributors and know what support is needed?

The University of California launched its OSPO network in 2024, connecting six campuses (UC Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego) to promote open source research, sustainability, and best practices. A major challenge is not only finding projects but understanding how they operate and engage contributors.

To address this, the UC OSPO Network is developing the Open Source Repository Browser (ORB), an interactive platform that maps activity, visualizes community health signals, tracks contributor patterns, and surfaces repository metadata. ORB enables OSPOs to guide targeted support, inform policy, and strengthen open source contributions across campuses.

The browser now visualizes data from 30+ universities, providing a multi institution view of project health, contributor patterns, and adoption of community standards. This talk will cover ORB’s design and implementation and share insights from multiple universities to inform OSPO strategies and engagement.

Speakers

Juanita Gomez

PhD Student, University of California, Santa Cruz

Juanita Gomez is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, where her research focuses on improving the security of scientific open source software in collaboration with the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at UCSC. She is a passionate programmer, mathematician, and... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200A (Level Two)

OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

Audience Experience Level Any

3:05pm CDT

Tiny Repos, Big Impact: Level Up Through Open-Source Teaching - Katie Kodes, Independent

Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT

200E (Level Two)

When you approach your public code repositories with teaching as the primary goal -- designing them specifically to help others learn -- you transform simple code sharing or tech blogging into open-source teaching.

Discover how documenting your technical learning journey through small, focused open-source projects can accelerate your learning, establish your expertise, and create value for both the open-source community and enterprise development teams.

Examples of my adventures in open-source teaching include:

* A 32-line working web application, and its 41-line fork that, in 9 lines, adds automated unit tests.
* A fully-CI/CD-tested OpenTofu module in less than 100 lines of code.

In this session, you'll learn practical strategies for right-sizing demo repos, choosing the right platforms for sharing, and capturing the unique value of your "beginner's mind" to help others learn.

Speakers

Katie Kodes

DevOps Architect

Katie is a DevOps architect who brings clarity to complex technical challenges across the entire stack. With experience ranging from infrastructure to front-end development, she helps teams build reliable, observable systems that deliver real business value. A passionate educator... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200E (Level Two)

OSS Enabling & Management, Technical Documentation

Audience Experience Level Any

4:20pm CDT

eBPF and Open Source Code Ensure the Security of Your Clusters CI/CD Pipeline. - Hudson Coutinho, Linker Bank

Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 4:40pm CDT

200C (Level Two)

In this talk, I'll show how what happens DURING the build and deployment can be fatal.
Using eBPF, we created an Open Source app that monitors the kernel in real time to detect access to secrets, suspicious commands, and data exfiltration at the exact moment they occur.
In my consulting work, I've seen real-world scenarios where compromised runners handed over database secrets and cloud keys without anyone noticing.
The pipeline is a huge blind spot in current security.

Speakers

Hudson Coutinho

Hudson Coutinho, Devs On The Road

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, postgraduate degree in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
12 years of experience accelerating the delivery, scalability, and resilience of software for national and international companies, leading high-performance multidisciplina... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 4:40pm CDT
200C (Level Two)

cdCon

Audience Experience Level Any

4:20pm CDT

Being an OSS Maintainer in the Land of LLMs - Tiffany Jernigan, Grafana Labs

Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT

200J (Level Two)

As a maintainer of both Grafana Tempo and CNCF Jaeger, and a dev advocate, we've seen a large increase in LLM-supported contributions. Pull requests, issues, discussions, and design proposals have been flooding into these projects at a rate never before seen. The level of effort to submit a reasonable-looking PR has dropped to nearly 0. The level of effort required to review a reasonable-looking PR has also been reduced with LLM assistance, but not nearly to the same degree.

Within Jaeger and Tempo, we've begun discussing ways to approach these PRs. We want to encourage contributions to OSS projects, but need invested humans on the other side of the PRs in to merge them. Generally, we celebrate the lowering of both language and technical barriers for participation, but as gatekeepers of critical OSS projects, it's our responsibility to only merge stable, well-considered code.

Join to commiserate, discuss, or simply listen to some war stories about what it's like to be an OSS maintainer in the land of LLMs. We'll also survey responses we and others have taken across the OSS community. This submission was entirely human-generated and reviewed. We don't know if that matters :).

Speakers

Tiffany Jernigan

Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Tiffany is senior developer advocate at Grafana Labs and a CNCF Ambassador. She also formerly worked as a software developer and developer advocate at VMware, Amazon, Docker, and Intel. Prior to that, she graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in electrical engineering. In her... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200J (Level Two)

OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

Audience Experience Level Any

4:20pm CDT

BOF: Funding Open Source Sustainably - Georg Link, CHAOSS & Terence McCutcheon, Intersect MBO

Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT

200E (Level Two)

This birds of a feather (BOF) session is for two audiences to get together. OSS funders & members of OSS projects who are seeking funding. The goal of the BOF is to share experiences from both perspectives. To be clear, this is not a match-making session or a funding giveaway, but an exchange of experiences. The BOF facilitators will seed the discussion with insights from interviews of both audiences, also our personal experiences from implementing the funding programs of the “Paid Open Source Model” (POSM).

We’ll discuss the changing landscape of open source funding. Long-time funding programs, like the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) awards closed doors. However, new funding programs are designed to align with open source values are offering new opportunities, whether it is funding from blockchain treasuries like POSM or government programs like the German Sovereign Tech Fund.

The outcome of the BOF is two fold. One, maintainers and OSS project members who are seeking funding, can better understand how to access funding. Two, OSS funders can hear directly from projects to better understand what process improvements could help with funding more effectively and efficiently.

Speakers

Georg Link

Open Source Strategist, CHAOSS

Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional by using community metrics and analytics. Georg cofounded the CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active contributor to several projects and has often presents on open... Read More →

Terence McCutcheon

Open Source Program Manager, Intersect MBO

Tex is an up and coming Open Source Program Manager leading various efforts such as community-maintainer pilots, a Developer Advocate program, and increased transparency across multiple channels with a large Community. He excels at finding unconventional solutions to common problems... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200E (Level Two)

OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

Audience Experience Level Any

4:20pm CDT

Enhancing PX4's EKF2 Replay Module for Deterministic Integration Testing - Brian Fairservice & Kerry Snyder, KEF Robotics

Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT

200D (Level Two)

PX4's EKF2 replay module allows developers to tune estimator performance by re-running the EKF on prerecorded logs. This is useful for EKF2 development or for testing the impact of different parameters on performance. KEF robotics has patched the replay module so that replay progress can be controlled by an external program, enabling deterministic *integration* testing. We are using this patched replay module to test the integration of PX4 with an external vision navigation system.

We will cover:
- Using the replay module to assess performance of different EKF2 parameters.
- Development and testing considerations for a visual navigation system that integrates with PX4.
- Modifying the replay module so that it can be deterministically 'stepped' in sync with an external program
- Results from integration testing with the modified replay module

The audience will get a better understanding of the replay system, technical details on modifying the replay system for integration testing, and the benefits of integration testing with regard to visual navigation development with PX4. We will also share the patch we made to the replay system.

Speakers