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Open Source Summit Europe and AI_dev Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Europe Reveal 2025 Speaker Lineup Showcasing Global Open Source and AI Innovation
Leading open source technology and AI events provide insight and direction for fast-changing landscape SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the schedule for Open Source Summit Europe 2025 (OSS EU), taking place this year in Amsterdam, Netherlands from 25-27 August 2025; and the schedule for AI_dev Open Source GenAI & ML Summit, co-located on 28-29 August 2025. The premier events for open source technology and AI developers, community leaders and end users features the latest in open source innovations, from the evolution of the Linux Kernel to the game-changing power of open source reasoning models. A Linux Foundation Research report on open source maturity in Europe found that 64% of European organizations saw a rise in business value from using open source software, and 43% believe AI and ML are key areas that will benefit from open source. 'Europe is at a pivotal point in open source adoption and innovation driven by government investment, a heightened emphasis on global collaboration, and the meteoric growth of open source AI,' said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation. 'Open Source Summit Europe, and the addition of AI-dev Open Source & GenAI Summit, provides an opportunity to showcase the breadth of innovation being made with open source technologies by developer and member communities. Together, we will expand the global vision for the future of open source software.' The Evolving European Open Source Ecosystem 'We're excited to bring Open Source Summit Europe to the Netherlands, one of the most historically innovative and open source savvy locations in Europe,' said Gabriele Columbro, General Manager of Linux Foundation Europe. 'As open source plays an ever more critical role in the European technology strategy in the age of AI, we are thrilled for this community to influence the direction of global open source development. No doubt the collaboration and lessons learned during the conference will shape the future of the world's foundational technologies.' Highlights at OSS EU 2025 include: Cloud and Containers: Powering Scalable Innovation Modern digital infrastructure runs on open source cloud native projects. OSS EU brings together leaders and maintainers of the world's most impactful cloud and container projects, ushering in the next generation of infrastructure innovation. Speaker Highlight:'No Internet – No Problem? Air-Gapped Kubernetes on Bare Metal' – Christian Bendieck and Carolin Dohmen, Cloud Engineers, BWI GmbH The curated cloud and container track includes 26 sessions and lightning talks; visible here. Standards & Specifications: The Future is OpenA new report finds 78% of organizations using or contributing to open source software expect their responsibilities to change under the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). OSS EU will bring the European community together to provide a practical, detailed look at future cybersecurity and vulnerability handling obligations. Speaker Highlight:'The CRA, Where Are We Six Months After Its Approval' – Timo Perala, Head of Open Source Network and Service Automation, Nokia The curated Standards & Specifications track includes 11 sessions and lightning talks; visible here. Linux: A Shared FoundationLinux remains the world's most collaborative software effort, evolving the core of modern computing. OSS EU will showcase the latest advancements in Linux technology, powerful use cases and insight into the future of Linux. Speaker Highlight:'Three Decades in Kernelland' – Jonathan Corbet, Executive Editor, The curated Linux track includes 21 sessions and lightning talks; visible here. Additional conference tracks include Open Source Leadership, OpenGovCon, Embedded Linux Conference, Safety Critical Software, Digital Trust, Operations Management, Open Source 101 and more. Explore the tracks here. Artificial Intelligence: By and For the Open Source CommunityOpen source adoption is skyrocketing – especially as AI booms. A recent report found that 89% of organizations are using open source in their AI stack. Not only does the open source community drive AI innovation, but it also helps govern AI by keeping it transparent and accessible. Given this explosion in use, attendees of OSS EU will have the opportunity to register for AI_dev Open SourceGenAI & ML Summit; a co-located event on 28-29 August. This event will explore the full impact of AI and how open source supports the democratization of AI. 'Open source AI has evolved from simply powering applications to leading innovation and driving global competition,' said Ben Lorica, Strategic Content Chair, AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit. 'By gathering the community and organizations behind leading AI technology in Europe, AI_dev is the nexus event for developers looking to build the next game-changing AI application.' Speaker Highlight:'Making AI Unconditionally Open for All' – Emmanouil (Manos) Koukoumidis, CEO, Oumi The summit includes 60+ sessions and lightning talks; visible in the schedule. RegistrationRegistration for OSS EU and its co-located events are open. Discounted registration is available for academics, government employees, hobbyists, and small businesses – view full details here. Members of the Linux Foundation receive a 20% discount on registration and may contact events@ to request a discount code. To request a press pass, contact pr@ Event SponsorsThank you to the sponsors who help make OSS EU 2025 possible, including: Diamond Sponsors: Amazon Web Services, Google and OpenEuler Platinum Sponsors: OpenSearch Software Foundation Gold Sponsors: Automattic, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Coder, LavinMQ, Red Hat, Sony and SUSE Silver Sponsors: Arm, CAMARA, CETIC, Civil Infrastructure Platform, New Relic and Sentry For information on becoming an event sponsor, see here. About the Linux FoundationThe Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world's infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, LF Decentralized Trust, ONAP, OpenChain, OpenSSF, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, Zephyr, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see its trademark usage page: Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Media ContactKristi PiechnikThe Linux FoundationPR@
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Yahoo
Will young developers take on key open source software?
Many of us have prepared instructions and critical information for our family in the event of our sudden demise. For Daniel Stenberg, that includes passwords for his Google and GitHub accounts. That's because he's the founder of curl, an open source internet transfer engine that has been downloaded billions of times and is used to transfer data to and from computer servers. It was first released by Mr Stenberg in 1996 and is now used by millions ever day. It's important that someone is able to maintain curl when he steps away. 'I just want to make sure that everything is there so the day I go away, someone can take over,' Mr Stenberg says. It's a problem confronting many of the open source software pioneers who transformed the technology world in the 1990s and early 2000s. Their ethos was that anyone could contribute to the development of an open source application or operating system – and the software and underlying code could be used, modified, and distributed for free. The open source movement broke the stranglehold of big technology companies, spurred innovation and underpins much of today's technology landscape. In 1999, Loris Degioanni made his first contributions to an open source network analysis tool that eventually became Wireshark, as part of his master's thesis. 'My concern was graduating,' he says, not succession planning or the long-term future of the project. Almost 30 years on, Mr Degioanni is now CTO and founder of cybersecurity firm Sysdig, which is a key sponsor of Wireshark. 'We're approaching the time when the founders of these early open source projects are starting to get old,' he says. While projects do come and go, he explains, some remain relevant over the years, and founders and maintainers usually want to ensure they live on while there is demand. That's not just because they've invested time in developing the code itself, but also because they have spawned communities, both virtual and in the real world. But while the likes of Mr Stenberg and Mr Degioanni can take action to ensure the keys to the kingdom are passed on, ensuring there is someone to pass them to can be a challenge. Many in the open source community worry there are not enough younger developers willing to get involved in contributing to or maintaining projects. This is often unpaid work afterall. Even Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, the operating system which kick-started the open source revolution in the early 1990s, noted at the Open Source Summit Europe in September that the 'kernel maintainers are aging'. Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, a non-profit organization which represents the UK's open technology community, says younger developers might not appreciate the grip that closed software companies had in earlier decades. 'You've got a next generation who haven't engaged as a philanthropic community and volunteer community in the same way, at the same scale.' There are technology barriers to address too. Many key open source projects were originally written in C, a coding language first developed in the early 1970s. While C is still taught in universities, it is no longer widely used in the commercial world, Mr Degioanni explains. 'The fact that C is the main language makes it harder to attract a younger generation.' There are ways to work around this. Mr Degioanni says both Wireshark and another project he founded, Falco, rely on 'plug-ins', which can allow new functionality to be written in different languages. Mr Torvalds has given his blessing to the adoption of Rust as a programming language for Linux, while noting the 'Rust versus C discussion has taken almost religious overtones in certain areas.' When it comes to steering projects into the future, leaders and maintainers have the option of handing over control to foundations. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, for example, oversees 208 projects, with more than 250,000 contributors. Wireshark has its own independent foundation, with Mr Degioanni as a board member. Not everyone subscribes to the foundation model. Stenberg and his collaborators have kept curl completely independent. 'I'm much better off without being in their neighbourhoods and just running my own neighbourhood,' he says. And foundations still face the issue of ensuring a steady supply of fresh developers to keep projects alive, he notes. Miss Brock says it's essential that the open source community consider how it encourages younger people to participate. This is about showing that while being a contributor can be challenging it's also career enhancing, giving young people an entry into established ecosystems and an opportunity to finesse and highlight their technical skills. 'It's a way to help STEM talent flight,' Miss Brock adds. 'Because people can work from home in the UK or whatever country they're in.' Degioanni is more sanguine. Even if there's 'probably less visceral enthusiasm' for the concept of open source, he says, the fundamental idea of being able to modify software is now a given. And, he continues, 'I've worked with open source my whole life. I've created my own projects. I've seen people join the projects that I created. I've seen people start their own open source projects.' Ultimately, he says, there is a 'joy, especially for a young person' in creating software, seeing it being used and sparking a community. 'That feeling doesn't get old,' he says. Even if the pioneers who popularized the earliest open source projects do. Inside Iceland's futuristic farm growing algae for food Sweden's green industry hopes hit by Northvolt woes Why is vintage audio equipment booming?
BBC News
27-01-2025
- BBC News
Will young developers take on key open source software?
Many of us have prepared instructions and critical information for our family in the event of our sudden demise. For Daniel Stenberg, that includes passwords for his Google and GitHub because he's the founder of curl, an open source internet transfer engine that has been downloaded billions of times and is used to transfer data to and from computer was first released by Mr Stenberg in 1996 and is now used by millions ever day. It's important that someone is able to maintain curl when he steps away.'I just want to make sure that everything is there so the day I go away, someone can take over,' Mr Stenberg says. It's a problem confronting many of the open source software pioneers who transformed the technology world in the 1990s and early ethos was that anyone could contribute to the development of an open source application or operating system – and the software and underlying code could be used, modified, and distributed for open source movement broke the stranglehold of big technology companies, spurred innovation and underpins much of today's technology 1999, Loris Degioanni made his first contributions to an open source network analysis tool that eventually became Wireshark, as part of his master's thesis. 'My concern was graduating,' he says, not succession planning or the long-term future of the 30 years on, Mr Degioanni is now CTO and founder of cybersecurity firm Sysdig, which is a key sponsor of Wireshark.'We're approaching the time when the founders of these early open source projects are starting to get old,' he says. While projects do come and go, he explains, some remain relevant over the years, and founders and maintainers usually want to ensure they live on while there is demand. That's not just because they've invested time in developing the code itself, but also because they have spawned communities, both virtual and in the real while the likes of Mr Stenberg and Mr Degioanni can take action to ensure the keys to the kingdom are passed on, ensuring there is someone to pass them to can be a in the open source community worry there are not enough younger developers willing to get involved in contributing to or maintaining projects. This is often unpaid work afterall. Even Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, the operating system which kick-started the open source revolution in the early 1990s, noted at the Open Source Summit Europe in September that the 'kernel maintainers are aging'.Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, a non-profit organization which represents the UK's open technology community, says younger developers might not appreciate the grip that closed software companies had in earlier decades.'You've got a next generation who haven't engaged as a philanthropic community and volunteer community in the same way, at the same scale.'There are technology barriers to address too. Many key open source projects were originally written in C, a coding language first developed in the early C is still taught in universities, it is no longer widely used in the commercial world, Mr Degioanni explains. 'The fact that C is the main language makes it harder to attract a younger generation.' There are ways to work around this. Mr Degioanni says both Wireshark and another project he founded, Falco, rely on 'plug-ins', which can allow new functionality to be written in different Torvalds has given his blessing to the adoption of Rust as a programming language for Linux, while noting the 'Rust versus C discussion has taken almost religious overtones in certain areas.'When it comes to steering projects into the future, leaders and maintainers have the option of handing over control to foundations. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, for example, oversees 208 projects, with more than 250,000 contributors. Wireshark has its own independent foundation, with Mr Degioanni as a board member. Not everyone subscribes to the foundation model. Stenberg and his collaborators have kept curl completely independent. 'I'm much better off without being in their neighbourhoods and just running my own neighbourhood,' he foundations still face the issue of ensuring a steady supply of fresh developers to keep projects alive, he Brock says it's essential that the open source community consider how it encourages younger people to is about showing that while being a contributor can be challenging it's also career enhancing, giving young people an entry into established ecosystems and an opportunity to finesse and highlight their technical skills.'It's a way to help STEM talent flight,' Miss Brock adds. 'Because people can work from home in the UK or whatever country they're in.' Degioanni is more sanguine. Even if there's 'probably less visceral enthusiasm' for the concept of open source, he says, the fundamental idea of being able to modify software is now a he continues, 'I've worked with open source my whole life. I've created my own projects. I've seen people join the projects that I created. I've seen people start their own open source projects.'Ultimately, he says, there is a 'joy, especially for a young person' in creating software, seeing it being used and sparking a community.'That feeling doesn't get old,' he says. Even if the pioneers who popularized the earliest open source projects do.
