Apereo Foundation invites you to join us for our monthly micro conferences!
Apereo Foundation’s MicroConferences bring together leaders from across open source education technology to discuss the latest topics and trends impacting higher education.
Each month, leaders and influences in the open source world will speak about topics ranging from research and community building to policy shifts impacting the world of open source and education.
This free service provided by the Apereo Foundation and our partners requires registration to attend the live event. Contact registrar@apereo.org to join the invitation list. All are welcome!
June 2024
Speakers: Patrick Masson, Apereo Foundation Executive Director, will host a panel discussion as part of the breakout Open source in education, science & research session at OW2 Con'24
Topic: Hot Topics in Open source in Education, Science & Research
Past Micro Conferences
May 8 - Dr. Heidi Ellis and Dr. Greg Hislop
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
Time 11:00 AM Eastern, US Time
Two researchers who have focused on the topics of teaching open source and open source communities!
Dr. Heidi Ellis, professor of Computer Science at Western New England University, is one of the founding members of the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) project, which focuses on involving students in FOSS projects that improve the human condition. And...
Dr. Greg Hislop is a professor in the Information Science Department of the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. Dr. Hilsop is an advocate for the educational and societal benefits of the free and open source movement. He facilitates the coordinating committee of Teaching Open Source, a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
Dr. Ellis and Dr. Hilsop will join the Apereo community to discuss Teaching Open Source.
Please invite your professorial, teaching, and learning colleagues for this May 8th discussion.
Be sure to let us know if you’d like to join the invitation list for micro conferences by emailing registrar@apereo.org.
April 10 - Vicky Brasseur
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
Time is 2 PM, US Eastern Time
Topic: Open Source Governance By Example
Our speaker will be Vicky Brasseur, author of Forge Your Future with Open Source, the only book detailing how to contribute to free/open source (FOSS) projects. Vicky has been a moderator and author for opensource.com, an author for Linux Journal, the Vice President of the Open Source Initiative, and is a frequent and popular speaker at free/open source conferences and events. Join us on April 10th to hear this dynamic thinker!
With so many new open source projects arriving on the scene every year, it's easy for most people to lose sight of the fact that it's about more than code. A successful free and open source project and community needs a solid governance structure to ensure the safety and productivity of its members and users. Governance is a tricky thing, but thankfully we can do what all good FOSS Folks do: we can learn from and build upon the work of those who came before us.
In this talk I'll talk about some of the most commonly applied governance elements for FOSS projects, why you might want to use them for your FOSS project, show you many different examples of governance structures, and provide you with a resource for finding more examples that you can build upon for your project's needs.
By the end of this talk the audience will know how to approach governance in their FOSS project and where to find more help.
Be sure to let us know if you’d like to join the invitation list for micro conferences by emailing registrar@apereo.org.
March - Ben Cotton
Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
12 PM Eastern U.S./6 PM Central European
Ben Cotton, a longtime contributor to the Fedora Linux project and author of Program Management for Open Source Projects: How to Guide Your Community-Driven, Open Source Project will join us March 13th to discuss Coopetition: open source projects working together. We think this will be highly relevant for anyone in our community that has a need and/or desire to cooperate and collaborate with those working on other projects.
Be sure to let us know if you’d like to join the invitation list for micro conferences by emailing registrar@apereo.org.
February 14, 2024
Time: 10 AM Eastern U.S./4 PM Central European
Speaker: Philippe Krief, Director of Research Relations at Eclipse Foundation, France
Topic: Research @ Eclipse: 10 Years of commitment and support
Contact: registrar@apereo.org
January 17, 2024
Time: 1 PM Eastern U.S.
Speaker: Simon Phipps, Director of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation
Topic: Discussion ranging several open source topics such as:
- Do open source projects need foundations to host them?
- How should projects and adopting organizations respond to the coming waves of software regulation?
- What impact will/does open source have on AI, IoT and Cloud?
Contact: registrar@apereo.org
December 13, 2023
Speaker: Wayne Mackintosh, managing Director of the OER Foundation headquartered at Te Pūkenga – the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology and holds a UNESCO Chair in OER
Topic: Reflecting on anomalies in OER: Is ‘Open’ broken, and if so, can education fix it?
November 2023
Speaker: Anne-Marie Scott, Board Chair of the Apereo Foundation
Topic: OSPOs in the Academic World
September 2023
Speaker: Georg Link, Open Source Strategist and Founder of Linux Foundation's CHAOSS Project
Topic: Project Health in Academic Open Source
August 2023
Speaker: Samson Goddy, co-founder of Open Source Community Africa
Topic: From Users to Contributors: Strategies for effective community management
June 2023
Speaker: Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
Topic: Defining an Open Source AI
May 2023
Speaker: Mike Milinkovich of the Eclipse Foundation
Topic: Government Regulation of Open Source Is Here
April 2023
Speakers: Wes Turner, Senior Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Director of the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS); Alice Bibaud, RCOS Student Leadership team member
Topic: Getting Students Involved in Open Source Software
March 2023
Speaker: Hong Phuc Dang, Founder of FOSSASIA; Open Source Business Alliance Board Member; Vice Chair of the Open Source Committee, IEEE SA OPEN; Innersource Manager, Zalando SE
Topic: Opportunities through Open Source in Education in Asia
February 2023
Speakers: Deb Nicholson, Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation, and OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello
Topic: Open Source 2023 - Professionalization Benefits and Challenges
January 2023
Speakers: Dr. Cable Green, Director of Open Knowledge at Creative Commons, and Deb Bryant, former senior director in Red Hat's Open Source Program Office and current policy director for the Open Source Initiative and Eclipse Foundation
Topic: Open Source 2023 - A short list of important trends in open source software + public policy