Open Source and AI
| Sat 03 Aug 9:45 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Presented by
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Bradley M. Kuhn is the Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, as an early adopter of Linux-based systems and contributor to various FOSS projects, including Perl. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn’s non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). As FSF’s Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF’s GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn began as SFC’s primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first staff person in 2011. Kuhn's work at SFC focuses on enforcement of the GPL agreements, FOSS licensing policy, and non-profit infrastructural solutions for FOSS. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Kuhn’s Master’s thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free Software programming languages. Kuhn received the Open Source Award in 2012, and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 2021 — both in recognition for his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing and its enforcement.
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Allison Randal
https://www.lohutok.net
Dr. Allison Randal is a free software and open hardware developer and strategist. She is chair of the board at the Software Freedom Conservancy, vice-chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group. In the past three decades, she has served as chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, president and board member of the Open Source Initiative, president and board member of the Perl Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chair of the board at the Parrot Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, conference chair of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), technical architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at Hewlett Packard, Distinguished Engineer at SUSE, and Principal Engineer at Rivos. She collaborates in the Debian and RISC-V projects.
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Joey has devoted his career to free software development for 25 years. A veteran of the Debian project, he now mostly works on git-annex.
He lives in an off-grid passive house in the woods of Appalachia. When not helping scientists with reproducible data versioning or hacking on his latest idea, he enjoys reading lots of SF and playing board games.
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julia ferraioli
@juliaferraioli
https://juliaferraioli.com
julia ferraioli is an open source strategist, researcher, and practitioner with over a decade of experience in launching, managing, and optimizing open source projects at scale. She works as the AI/ML Open Source Strategist at AWS, and her current research centers around open source sustainability, history, and impact. Her community work includes co-leading Open Source Stories, a community-led effort with the goal of making the people of open source and their lived experiences more visible. julia is a fierce supporter of LaTeX, the Oxford comma, and small pull requests.
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Bradley M. Kuhn is the Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, as an early adopter of Linux-based systems and contributor to various FOSS projects, including Perl. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn’s non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). As FSF’s Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF’s GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn began as SFC’s primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first staff person in 2011. Kuhn's work at SFC focuses on enforcement of the GPL agreements, FOSS licensing policy, and non-profit infrastructural solutions for FOSS. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Kuhn’s Master’s thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free Software programming languages. Kuhn received the Open Source Award in 2012, and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 2021 — both in recognition for his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing and its enforcement.
Allison Randal
https://www.lohutok.net
Dr. Allison Randal is a free software and open hardware developer and strategist. She is chair of the board at the Software Freedom Conservancy, vice-chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group. In the past three decades, she has served as chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, president and board member of the Open Source Initiative, president and board member of the Perl Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chair of the board at the Parrot Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, conference chair of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), technical architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at Hewlett Packard, Distinguished Engineer at SUSE, and Principal Engineer at Rivos. She collaborates in the Debian and RISC-V projects.
Joey has devoted his career to free software development for 25 years. A veteran of the Debian project, he now mostly works on git-annex.
He lives in an off-grid passive house in the woods of Appalachia. When not helping scientists with reproducible data versioning or hacking on his latest idea, he enjoys reading lots of SF and playing board games.
julia ferraioli
@juliaferraioli
https://juliaferraioli.com
julia ferraioli is an open source strategist, researcher, and practitioner with over a decade of experience in launching, managing, and optimizing open source projects at scale. She works as the AI/ML Open Source Strategist at AWS, and her current research centers around open source sustainability, history, and impact. Her community work includes co-leading Open Source Stories, a community-led effort with the goal of making the people of open source and their lived experiences more visible. julia is a fierce supporter of LaTeX, the Oxford comma, and small pull requests.
Abstract
Bradley Kuhn will lead our panelists in a lively conversation on the keynote stage about the different efforts out there to define what free/open AI should mean and how the technology
actually being made does and doesn't meet those possible definitions. We
may even have a panelist or two willing to question whether the
technology even should be held to such a definition.
Bradley Kuhn will lead our panelists in a lively conversation on the keynote stage about the different efforts out there to define what free/open AI should mean and how the technology actually being made does and doesn't meet those possible definitions. We may even have a panelist or two willing to question whether the technology even should be held to such a definition.