OPEN SOURCE Open Source 201: Next steps Martes 24, 14:30 - 15:05 @ Stream A

"Open Source 201: The Next Steps" is a continuation of the talk "Free and Open Source Software and Hardware for Your Career" given at Nerdearla in 2020. While the presentation in 2020 talked about what Open Source was, "The Next Steps" shows how Open Software, Hardware and Data can be used to create products that you could sell and support locally. Before attending "Open Source 201" you should review the talk in 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jud7CwzX234 In my talk I cover various products that people could assemble, sell and support. One of those is Odoo, an Open Source Point-of-Sale (POS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. This is the same type of system that you see in restaurants, markets, etc. but at a fraction of the price of systems sold by large companies. Odoo is an Open Source solution, so you can tailor it to meet the needs of your customer. If you find there are things you do not know how to do, you can subcontract to other people to help your customer. To demonstrate what can be done Mr. Marcos Mendez of Popsolutions (popsolutions.co) has shared a demonstration of a production system they created for AnaRosa Cocktails in Brazil that you can try out. To try this demo, go to https://pos.pop.coop and log in as user: [email protected] with password: project-caua Once you log in, click on the nine dots in the upper left-hand corner and then choose the “Point of Sale” button on the screen. This will take you to the live demo. You will then see “BAR ANAROSA” and a button that says “Continue Selling”. Once you click on that button you will see a screen with green squares that represent tables with orders that are in progress. You can easily add customers to each table and items ordered per customer.
Odoo is very flexible to allow different interface languages, different currencies and (because it is Open Source) allow tailoring to each customer's needs. Cararra Linux Argentina (cararralinux.com.ar) will have a table at Nerdearla from Thursday to Saturday to discuss support that you might need in learning and supporting Odoo for your customers.

Sobre Jon "maddog" Hall: Jon "maddog" Hall is currently the Board Chair Emeritus of the Linux Professional Institute (lpi.org) having been the Board Chair from 2015 to 2024, Co-founder and Senior Adviser to Caninos Loucos (caninosloucos.org), the President of Project Cauã and the Executive Director of Linux International. During his career in commercial computing which started in 1969 (over a half-century ago), Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager, educator, author, CEO, mentor and consultant. Mr. Hall has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, IBM, SGI, Futura Networks (Campus Party) and Linaro as well as being a private consultant for other companies. Mr Hall has worked on many systems, both proprietary and open, having concentrated on Unix systems since 1980 and Linux systems since 1994 (over a quarter century ago), when he first met Linus Torvalds and correctly recognized the commercial importance of Linux and Free and Open Source Software. Mr. Hall served, and continues to serve, as the Executive Director of Linux International. Mr. Hall has taught full time at Hartford State Technical College (where he was Department Head of Data Processing from 1977 to 1980) and part-time at Merrimack College and Daniel Webster College. Mr. Hall still likes talking to students over pizza and beer (the pizza can be optional). Mr. Hall is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies". He currently writes a monthly article for Linux Pro Magazine and occasionally blogs for them on their web site. Mr. Hall has consulted with the governments of China, Malaysia, Canada, Vietnam and Brazil as well as the United Nations and many local and state governments on the use of Free and Open Source Software, Open Hardware and Free Culture (Creative Commons). Mr. Hall has served and serves on the boards of several companies, universities and several nonprofit organizations. Mr. Hall is currently very active with the University of Sao Paulo's Centro Interdisciplinar Em Tecnologias Interativas (CITI), acting as a member of their advisory board. Mr. Hall has traveled the world (over 100 countries) speaking on the benefits of Free and Open Source Software, and received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973), and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York (1977).

OPEN SOURCE The Power of FOSS: Insights from Mercedes-Benz Martes 24, 15:05 - 15:40 @ Stream A

The Open Source world is expanding rapidly as more and more enterprises of all sizes are joining the movement, realizing that FOSS is absolutely essential for innovation and modern software development. In order to benefit from the full potential of FOSS, it is not sufficient to just use Open Source libraries in your development; you need to embrace all aspects of FOSS. Let me draw a picture of what it means for a modern company to do exactly that: From the realization that you need an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) to implement a dedicated FOSS strategy, to taking all your employees with you on your journey to become a fully FOSS-savvy company. We will illustrate this with the example of Mercedes-Benz who builds upon the Mercedes-Benz FOSS Manifesto as its cornerstone; we will look at what we learned, what the crucial points were in implementing the strategy, and what we wish we had already known at the beginning. And perhaps this can help you, too, in your own FOSS endeavors.

Sobre Wolfgang Gehring: Dr. Wolfgang Gehring is an Ambassador for Open and Inner Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within Mercedes-Benz. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to help enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. He has a passion for communities, leads Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation’s Open Source Program Office, is a member of the Mercedes-Benz FOSS Center of Competence, and a Director of the Eclipse Foundation.

OPEN SOURCE Network Time Protocols and Network Time Foundation Martes 24, 15:40 - 16:09 @ Stream A

Network Time Foundation is the home of various open source network time-related (duh) projects including the NTP Project (one of the very longest-running Internet protocols), the LinuxPTP Project, the Khronos Project, several SyncE projects, and the General Timestamp API and Library Project. This session will provide a brief history of why Network Time Foundation was created, describe the projects hosted and supported by NTF, the status and goals of these projects, the challenges we're facing, and how people can contribute.

Sobre Harlan Stenn: A well-versed entrepreneur, Harlan has blah blah blah for decades. At some point during the 1980s, he started using and submitting bug fixes and portability improvements to the Network Time Protocol codebase. He has worked directly with NTP since 1992, and in 1996 became NTP’s Project Manager and Release Engineer. In 2011 he created Network Time Foundation to provide bring together and nurture collaborative Open Source projects that focus on Network Time. The first project to join was, of course, the NTP Project. Shortly thereafter the PTPd, RADclock and Linux PTP projects joined, followed by NTF's General Timestamp API Project, the Ntimed Project, the libptpmgmt Project, the Khronos Project, and several SyncE projects. He has been active in open-source communities since 1976.

OPEN SOURCE Building Bridges: How Open Source Contributions Enhance Your Development Career Martes 24, 16:10 - 16:35 @ Stream A

This talk explores the relationship between personal career development and contributions to Open Source projects. We will look at the skills developers can level up, the visibility they can gain in the tech community, and the doors that can open through regular contributions and participation in Open Source. The goal is that after this talk, attendees will leave with tips on how to start contributing, how to choose projects that align with their career goals, and how to document their contributions for career growth.

Sobre Pachi Parra: Pachi works as a Developer Relations and Community Manager, After nannying for years, she started learning to code while building meaningful connections within the dev community. She is passionate about creating newbie-friendly content and believes a tech career should be accessible to all. When she's not live coding on Twitch, Pachi watches anime, reads too many romance novels, and enjoys the reaction she gets when she tells people they're awesome.

OPEN SOURCE 30 years of open source with the FreeDOS Project Martes 24, 16:35 - 17:15 @ Stream A

The FreeDOS Project turned 30 years old this year; that's a long time for any open source software project! In this remote presentation, Jim will share a history of the FreeDOS Project, including a demonstration of what FreeDOS is and what you can do wiht FreeDOS in 2024. Because some attendees may not know what "DOS" is, Jim will start with "what is DOS" and explain "where FreeDOS came from" then talk about "why FreeDOS is an interesting open source project in 2024." Jim will have some slides at the start to talk about history, but the rest of the talk will be a live demo using FreeDOS.

Sobre Jim Hall: Jim Hall is an open source software developer and advocate. His first contribution to open source was in 1993 with a patch to GNU Emacs, but is probably best known for his work on FreeDOS, the open source version of the DOS operating system.