A decade of lessons from ASF Incubator releases, Justin Mclean, #FOSSASIA Summit 2026 #opensource101

A decade of lessons from ASF Incubator releases, Justin Mclean, #FOSSASIA Summit 2026 #opensource101

Video by FOSSASIA via YouTube
A decade of lessons from ASF Incubator releases, Justin Mclean, #FOSSASIA Summit 2026 #opensource101

What can 10 years of open source release votes teach us about healthier communities? This talk analyzes 1,600+ Apache Incubator release vote threads from 2015 to 2025 across more than 160 projects to reveal how collaboration, governance, and project growth have evolved.

Discover how better documentation, mentoring, and automation transformed a stressful compliance process into a positive learning experience. Learn why projects now see fewer rejections, faster reviews, and a more collaborative culture.

We’ll also explore how release cadence can signal community health, plus early warning signs that a project may be slowing down. Perfect for maintainers, mentors, and contributors who want stronger open source workflows and communities.

FOSSASIA Summit 2026 held in Bangkok, is Asia’s leading Open Source tech conference featuring sessions on #AI, #Cloud, #DevOps, #Open Hardware, #Security, #Web #Mobile Technologies, #Web3, and #Databases. Learn more: http://summit.fossasia.org

Session slides: https://eventyay.com/ev/88882f3e/talk/UP4CDQLX5A9F/

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What does collaboration in the CNCF ecosystem actually look like in practice?

What does collaboration in the CNCF ecosystem actually look like in practice?

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What does collaboration in the CNCF ecosystem actually look like in practice?

Dominik Mayer, Chief of Staff at CUE Labs, shares how his team worked with the Perses project to give their users a schema for their tool. The two teams connected, worked through the challenge together, and published a blog documenting the process.

It’s a real example of what makes the cloud native community work.

#CloudNative #CNCF #OpenSource

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The Promotion Paradox | SUDO Show 77

The Promotion Paradox | SUDO Show 77

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The Promotion Paradox | SUDO Show 77

Description:
SUDO Show 77, “The Promotion Paradox,” is all about what happens when the best nerd in the room gets handed a calendar full of 1:1s, budgets, and “peopleware” instead of terminals and tickets. Bill, Neal, and Noel swap stories about micromanagers, open office nightmares, open source maintainers, and why learning to lead humans is way harder—and ultimately more rewarding—than just being the fastest person at fixing servers.

Show Links:
The Manager’s Path – Camille Fournier
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-managers-path/9781491973882/
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management – Will Larson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45303387-an-elegant-puzzle
Linus Torvalds & Dirk Hohndel – Open Source Summit North America 2026 keynote

Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro – The Promotion Paradox
00:00:31 The Peter Principle Meets Tech
00:01:33 From Sysadmin to Manager – The Identity Shift
00:04:45 Team Lead – The First Rung on the Ladder
00:06:52 Metrics, Micromanagement, and Identity Crisis
00:09:43 Promotion by Tenure – Why That Fails
00:11:37 Bill’s Journey – Letting Go of “Best Tech”
00:13:46 Imposter Syndrome in Management
00:14:40 Two Bosses – Upward and Downward Management
00:20:07 Neal – From Startups to Big Companies
00:21:45 Prioritize the First Hire
00:25:49 Effective Managers Know the Skills
00:27:48 What Is an MBA?
00:28:18 Open Offices, Power, and Culture Jokes
00:29:40 The Maintainer Trap – Linus, Dirk, and FOSS
00:31:41 Keeping Hands in the Code – Linus’s Approach
00:32:49 My AI Assistant Is Here
00:33:36 Recognition, Rewards, and Motivation
00:34:31 Decompressing as a Manager (with a Little AI)
00:36:19 AI Managers
00:40:12 The Governance of Managing People
00:43:43 Understanding Company Culture for Better Management
00:46:56 Everybody Fails – How Do You Handle It?
00:48:57 Even Linux Has Had Catastrophic Management Failures
00:50:46 Management Pays Off If You Learn the Lessons Along the Way
00:53:04 Start Teaching Leadership Skills at a Young Age
00:55:16 We Need to Talk More About Education
00:56:03 What Are Our SUDO Solutions?
01:02:06 Outro

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AI in the OSPO: Automating Open Source Risk Management | Mark Paulsen

AI in the OSPO: Automating Open Source Risk Management | Mark Paulsen

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AI in the OSPO: Automating Open Source Risk Management | Mark Paulsen

Mark Paulsen (Head of the Open Source Program Office at TD Bank) and Harry Toor explore how financial institutions can leverage generative AI and machine-readable policies to automate OSPO risk management. They deliver a live demonstration showing how AI can pinpoint compliance red flags, end-of-life dependencies, and licensing conflicts in seconds.

🇬🇧 Join us in London! Catch the latest on OSPO Strategy and Risk Management at OSFF London on June 25, 2026: https://hubs.ly/Q041YV9Z0 (Use Code: 26YTOSFFLN20C)

🕒 Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: Managing OSPO Risk via AI
0:59 TD Bank’s Scale and Open Source Footprint
1:30 Three Key Questions: OSPO, Risks, and AI
1:44 What is an OSPO? Right-Sized Governance
2:31 Understanding Complex Corporate Software Risks
3:07 Leveraging Open Sourced Corporate Policies
3:45 Ingress, Egress, and Internal Control Points
4:45 How AI Comprehends and Problem-Solves Policy
5:37 Inside Control Point: SBoM and Dependency Decisions
6:25 Egress Control Point: Automated Code and Contribution Reviews
7:10 License Classification and Sheldon Cooper’s Dilemma
7:55 Practical Step: Translating Bank Policies into Machine-Readable Formats
10:12 Live Demo: Appeasing the Demo Gods
11:06 Live Walkthrough: Reviewing Open Source Licenses with AI
13:35 Analyzing the Output: Red Flags and Archived Repositories
15:00 Case Study: Kamunda 7 and the End-of-Life Tracking Problem
16:57 Audience Q&A: Overcoming AI Hallucinations via Human-in-the-Loop Architecture

📊 The Problem: The Manual License Review Bottleneck Open source software is inside every modern bank, whether leadership realizes it or not. However, managing compliance at banking scale involves handling massive volumes of Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), complex license classifications, and security reviews. Relying purely on manual checks means multiple cross-departmental alignment sessions with compliance, legal, and cyber security, which drastically slows down engineering velocity.

🏗️ The Solution: Machine-Readable Policies & Automated Reviews
Mark Paulsen demonstrates how to apply generative AI to bridge the gap between high-level policy and automated execution:
* The Three-Point Framework: Constructing specialized AI automated guardrails at the three critical bank touchpoints: Ingress (code entering), Egress (contributions going out), and Internal (code already inside).
* Machine-Readable Taxonomy: Converting prose-heavy legal text into structured formats (like JSON) that LLMs can accurately parse against external open-source codebases.
* Automated Risk Triaging: Giving AI clear policy guidance to automatically highlight critical non-compliance indicators, such as unmaintained or archived GitHub repositories.

⚙️ Why This Matters for Financial Engineering
* Deterministic Audit Trails: By forcing the AI to output its explicit rationale alongside its decision, banks generate a clear, documented audit trail that satisfies internal risk and regulatory compliance bodies.
* Superpowered Efficiencies: Moving from weeks of review meetings to a multi-second initial screening allows risk teams to focus exclusively on highly nuanced edge cases.

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AI Reasoning Models: Understand LLM Thinking Process

AI Reasoning Models: Understand LLM Thinking Process

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AI Reasoning Models: Understand LLM Thinking Process

"Let’s take a look at hidden LLM calculations and monologues, which make AI answers transparent and understandable.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 389

Late Night Linux – Episode 389

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Late Night Linux – Episode 389

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A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-389/

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How Mead Johnson Nutrition Built a Trusted Foundation for AI with SAP Business Data Cloud

How Mead Johnson Nutrition Built a Trusted Foundation for AI with SAP Business Data Cloud

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How Mead Johnson Nutrition Built a Trusted Foundation for AI with SAP Business Data Cloud

When trusted AI matters, trusted data comes first. See how Mead Johnson Nutrition is building its data foundation with SAP Business Data Cloud.

For Mead Johnson Nutrition, supporting the health and nutrition of families and infants means every decision must meet a higher standard. In a highly regulated industry, AI can’t be directionally right, occasionally wrong, or unclear in how it reaches a recommendation. It needs trusted business context, strong governance, and transparency by design.

In this customer story, Mead Johnson Nutrition shares how SAP Business Data Cloud helps bring SAP and non-SAP data together with metadata, definitions, lineage, and governance intact. By replacing fragmented, market-specific data pipelines with a unified data fabric and reusable SAP data products, teams can spend less time wrangling numbers and more time acting on reliable insights.

With a trusted foundation in place, Mead Johnson Nutrition is preparing for enterprise AI that is consistent, governed, and scalable across the business. The result: better decisions made faster and with confidence, supporting availability, responsiveness, reliability, and the standards families depend on.

Explore SAP Business Data Cloud: https://www.sap.com/products/data-cloud.html

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I Answered Over 20 of Your Biggest Linux Questions

I Answered Over 20 of Your Biggest Linux Questions

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I Answered Over 20 of Your Biggest Linux Questions

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I recently did a live Linux Q&A, and this video is the edited down version from 5 Hours to 28 minutes answering 21 questions from the community. We cover distros, desktop environments, software, troubleshooting, anti-cheat, tips, Linux’s future, and a bunch of other Linux topics along the way.

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### Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:20 What do you think is driving the current surge of interest in Linux?
01:54 Do you think the steam machine is going to make a difference for Linux gaming, specifically multiplayer?
02:59 What market share do we need to get companies to support "kernel level anti-cheat"?
04:18 Do you think the distribution of proprietary software would be good for Linux?
05:14 What are some questions to ask when people ask you for which distro they should use?
07:39 How is video editing in Linux these days?
09:15 What is your workflow as a designer? Do you dual-boot with Windows?
10:38 Do you ever use Windows at all?
11:35 What’s your stance on vibe coding stuff for personal use?
12:43 If you tinker too much and break your system, what should you do?
13:45 Why is there so much hate towards Ubuntu?
17:57 How much older are the packages in Debian compared to RHEL?
19:19 is it a myth that Linux speeds up beard growth?
19:39 Are there any distros you have a very negative experience with?
20:19 Is learning by doing on an "advanced" distro going to increase the speed of learning Linux in-depth?
21:21 Do you think there’s a market share that Linux could get where Microsoft releases MS Office for Linux?
22:11 How do you feel about ARM and the Linux ecosystem?
24:11 Do you think Linux userbase will continue to expand or will Microsoft improve and slow down departures?
25:54 What do you think about making a Matrix space?
26:33 What shows are in your TuxDigital Network? Are there plans to add any new shows?
27:10 If Linus Torvalds said "I’m retiring", would you be concerned?
27:40 Outro

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Thanks For Watching!

#Linux #OpenSource

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Whiskey Pick: Teeling Small Batch Whiskey

Whiskey Pick: Teeling Small Batch Whiskey

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Whiskey Pick: Teeling Small Batch Whiskey

Every episode of TWiT’s Windows Weekly podcast ends in a brown liquor pick of the week. In this clip from episode 975, Richard Campbell teaches audiences the history of Dublin, the Church of England, Thomas Becket, the Golden Triangle, and Walter Teeling. While Scotland’s whisky business was based on farms, Ireland’s whiskey distribution was mostly urban. Teeling’s Small Batch is 46% ABV, triple distilled, and drinks nicely.
Teeling site: https://www.teelingwhiskey.com/
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Open Source Digest: AI Avatars, R Tools, and Security Fixes

Open Source Digest: AI Avatars, R Tools, and Security Fixes

Coworking & Community Social Coworking: Join sessions on Vale and text linting (improve writing quality) and debugging in R (troubleshoot code). Perfect for collaborative learning. Rencontres R 2026: The R conference heads to Nantes, France. Save the date for community talks and workshops. New Tools & Updates TMNT: A Python toolbox for graph-theoretic analysis of … Read more