The AGPL, Network Copyleft and the Cloud
2021-05-21 16:00 - 17:00 UTC
Richard Fontana is Senior Commercial Counsel at Red Hat. His work at Red Hat spans many aspects of software development, distribution and deployment, with a particular focus on open source-related legal matters. He is a former board director of the Open Source Initiative and was the chair of the OSI’s License Review Committee for several years. Fontana was previously Senior Director and Associate General Counsel for Cloud and Open Source at Hewlett Packard and Counsel at the Software Freedom Law Centre, where he worked on the drafting of the GPLv3 license family.

Open Source and Licensing in 2021
2021-06-11 16:00 - 17:00
Our final West Coast Edition of the Future Leaders Training will be with Luis Villa on Open Source and Licensing in 2021.
Luis Villa is a lawyer, executive, and (former) software developer, specializing in open source licensing, product counseling, technology transactions, and community strategy. He is the co-founder of Tidelift, who are creating a new way to support and use open source software.
Before Tidelift, Luis worked on some of the most high-profile technology projects in the world, including:

At the Wikimedia Foundation, Luis served as Deputy General Counsel, advising on product development, IP licensing, and many other aspects of the Foundation’s day-to-day operation; and then led the Community Engagement Department, a team of 40 employees tasked with supporting Wikimedia’s 80,000 regular volunteers.
At Mozilla, he led the revision of the Mozilla Public License.
At Greenberg Traurig, he counseled clients large and small on open licenses, technology transactions, and represented Google at trial in the Google-Oracle lawsuit.
As a volunteer, Luis has served on the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative, as an Invited Expert on the Patents and Standards Interest Group at the World Wide Web Consortium, and on the Legal Working Group of Open Street Map.
At the Berkman Center For Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, he was “geek in residence”, doing project management for Berkman projects like StopBadware and H2O, as well as general geekery of various and sundry sorts.
At Ximian, he was a proud member and occasional manager of the desktop team, which became Novell’s Linux Desktop group.
At GNOME, Luis was a founding member of the GNOME bugsquad, and was the ‘bugmaster’ for many GNOME releases. He was also elected to several terms on the GNOME Foundation Board.

Command-Line Interface Design: Philosophy and Practice
2021-06-25 12:00 - 13:00
If you’ve ever used a terminal, you know that it can be a confusing, inconsistent, even hostile experience. If you’ve ever tried to write programs for the terminal, you start to understand why: very few conventions and best practices exist, and those that do are hard to find.
This absence led me and some friends to write the Command Line Interface Guidelines (CLIG.dev), an open-source set of guidelines for designing command-line programs, based partly on experience building and maintaining programs such as Docker Compose. CLIG is part philosophy and part practical advice; in this talk, Aanand will take you through what he considers to be the most important parts of both, and hopefully inspire you to create delightful command-line programs of your own.
Aanand Prasad is an engineer and former startup founder who has been making command-line tools for 12 years, the most well-known one being Docker Compose. He’s originally from London, and is currently building frontend architecture at Squarespace in New York.

OpenUK State of Open Phases One & Two
2021-07-09 12:00 - 13:00
Join Amanda Brock CEO during our Future Leaders Session who will be going through Phases One and Two of OpenUK’s State of Open: The UK in 2021.
