Speaker
Description
Project sovereignty isn't just about hosting infrastructure, it's about shipping an experience as intended by the people who create it.
In this talk I will explain why I think GNOME and KDE should not only make their own operating systems, but to use them in a way to drive modern linux development - all for a better user experience. I will cover how this matters for each pillar of discussion:
Digital Sovereignty - More than ever projects are working to ensure supply chain security as well as infrastructure independence. I will talk about how open standards make that happen. We overdiscuss implementation details sometime, I want to focus on the "APIs" we can use to make this happen.
AI and Machine Learning - I will discuss the impact of AI in Linux infrastructure and how it will affect our projects and communities.
Ecosystem Growth, Innovation, and Platform diversity - I will discuss the importance of growing a developer community around modern Linux.
And where do GNOME and KDE place their operating systems? Linux distributions have been strategic partners for these organizations for decades. Who is competing with who? I plan on discussing how the cloud native community handles this sort of situation in a way that gets everybody wins.
The work done by the UAPI Group and cloud-native projects like bootc have certainly caught the eyes of infrastructure folks. I will explain how we can leverage this massive investment in modern linux for the desktop. I have been collecting 5 years of data on this, and look forward to sharing it with the community. There will be charts and dinosaurs in this talk.
Author(s) Bio
Senior Developer Relations and Head of Ecosystems at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). That's a fancy title for a community engineer, specializing in Open Source. A combination of engineering, contributor health, and end-user advocacy.
Twitter and/or Mastodon Handle
@jorge@hachyderm.io
| Participation | In-person |
|---|---|
| Track | Main Track |
| Level of Difficulty | Beginner |
| Pronouns | he/him |
