 Welcome to our open source summit, uh, EU. Uh, we, uh, or should I say, do we have to say Europe now, instead of EU? I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. I couldn't, listen, America has a lot of problems too, okay? Uh, so, uh, welcome. How many people here is it, it's your first time at the event? Oh wow, so quite a lot of, oh excellent. Welcome, welcome, very, very good. How many here people are from France? Many of you from France here? All right, quite a few, quite a few. What a wonderful country. Uh, I got the, uh, chance to sample some of your wines, uh, yesterday. Very, very good. Uh, my daughter actually, she's 11 years old and she goes to a French school in, uh, the United States. And the reason we send her to the French school is because she's going to be my translator when we come here to enjoy your wine. So it's very nice. We have an amazing event this week, three, uh, great days planned for everyone. Uh, before we get started, I want to take a little bit of time to thank our sponsors, uh, in particular, uh, Intel, uh, for making this event possible. Intel has been a long-term friend of the Linux Foundation and is a terrific sponsor. Uh, in addition to Intel, our Platinum sponsors, uh, CNCF, Google, uh, IBM, ST, uh, all want to thank you for, couldn't be possible. Let's give them a round of applause. Uh, I also want to thank our program chairs, uh, who did an amazing job putting together all the content. The hardest part about being a program chair is you have to turn down a lot of good talks. So what you're seeing, uh, at this event is really the, the cream of the crop of, of an amazing set of talks. Uh, a few brief housekeeping notes before we get started, uh, the sponsor showcase is at, uh, the forum level in forum four and five. So go check it out. We've got, uh, great sponsors who are showing off all their, uh, interesting tech and services today. Uh, there are also coffee breaks, which are located, uh, there as well and, and also plenty of meeting and hackspace. So please take advantage of all of that. Uh, Wi-Fi is on the back of your conference schedule. So if you need the, the Wi-Fi, go ahead and check it out there. Uh, I also want to call out, uh, that we have a schedule on the go on sketch.com. So if you want to get that, go ahead and download it please. That would be great. Uh, in addition, I'd like to highlight our diversity and inclusion, uh, initiative. Uh, so we have two, uh, events tomorrow. There's a woman in open source lunch at 1255. Uh, we, every event we do, uh, we try and do something like this and we get great feedback. So if, uh, you would like, please go check it out. You have to pre-register though. Uh, and then we have a speed mentoring event at 225 tomorrow as well in St. Clair three. So go check all those things out. Uh, and then, uh, final reminder, we have a code of conduct. It's, uh, prominently displayed all over. Uh, please adhere. We want to make this a friendly and welcoming, uh, space to everyone. And, uh, we every year kind of look at how this event grows and grows and grows. And I think what's interesting is how much this event grows with the growth of, uh, open source. Uh, open source now has become sort of a fundamental building block for almost every, uh, technology product and service. And, uh, today I wanted to talk a little bit about, uh, where the Linux foundation as a part of the open source movement has been and where the Linux foundation is going. And, uh, for anyone who's been around, uh, the Linux foundation for a while, we very rarely talk about the Linux foundation itself. I love talking about Linux. Uh, we love talking about Kubernetes and Node.js and all of the wonderful projects at the foundation. But rarely do I kind of talk about what is the overall, uh, Linux foundation doing and what things are we seeing, uh, on our radar. And I thought today I would spend a little bit, uh, of time breaking, uh, the first rule of the Linux foundation, which is don't talk about the Linux foundation. Uh, but before we do that, one of the things that I wanted to show you to sort of set, uh, what I'm talking about is to think about how open source has not only transformed all of the tech industry, but is now moving beyond traditional technology companies and really is, uh, the, the method of open source is being used in industries that you wouldn't have necessarily expected. And the first one I want to highlight is an effort we launched recently with the motion picture and film industry. And, uh, when you see a movie today, uh, all of these movies are created with, uh, software and digital effects. Uh, and it's really amazing to see how we were able to work with a whole new industry to show them how to use open source, uh, to improve, uh, the work that they were doing. Let's check out this video and see, uh, how that's being done. Every single part of the filmmaking process is touched by software. And a lot of that software is open source software. The Academy Software Foundation exists to provide a great home for open source projects that we as an industry use every day. Whether you are a user of open source software or an engineer or a company that relies on open source software, we want to create the right ecosystem for you to get the most out of the open source software that you need to use. Find us at aswf.io and join the mailing list and see how you can get involved. Pretty amazing, isn't it? So the gentleman in that video is the chairman of the Academy Software Foundation. His name is Rob Brito. He's the president of Industrial Light and Magic. Uh, he was nominated for an Oscar this year for his work on the solo film. Uh, and it's just an amazing person. And in talking with him, what he has told me is we are looking for new people to come into our industry through this open source project. And, you know, in California in particular, getting into the movie industry, particularly at that level, working on films like Star Wars and The Avengers is really tough. And he has said, if you go in and start working on these projects, you know, open VDB, open EXR, that's your foot in the door, that they're actively looking to hire people. And I think it's an important statement from the president of a major, major part of the film industry to say, you know, code is the new resume. And we're really looking to recruit people from the open source world. I also think what's fascinating about the Academy Software Foundation is that we're partnering with the Oscars, which is super cool. And, you know, name another open source project that has such a cool promotional video, right? Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Avengers, I mean, Linux, you know, all Linux has is this penguin. You know, that's cute. Although I should be fair, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has Fippy and Friends, so equally good. And our net, I was sort of telling all of the different Linux Foundation projects, you know, be more like the Academy Software Foundation. They have these great promotional videos and logos, and it's really compelling. And so our networking group also came up with what they thought would be a good way to promote and explain their project. Here it is right there. They're really those networking people. But certainly open source has become one of the most successful enablers of global innovation in the world. Just the raw amount of code and innovation that's coming out of all of these projects every year continues to go up and to the left. Now we're just seeing it center around these huge ecosystems, whether it's the JavaScript ecosystem, embedded systems, operating system software, the film industry, cloud computing. It's just the automotive sector. I was just at a meeting last week for our auto project, Automotive Grid Linux. It's really everywhere. And, you know, the Linux Foundation has been a part of that. And I thought it would be interesting to look at where we've been and where we're headed. Because at the Foundation, our communities are really pushing us to take that open source innovation model and move it beyond just software itself. And I thought it would be interesting for all of you to see what the future looks like for a lot of new and up-and-coming projects at the Foundation. You know, we kind of all got our start at the Foundation with Linux, providing a home for Linus Torvalds, the legal and intellectual property support infrastructure around that, events like this. And soon we started working adjacent to Linux on open source projects, whether it's embedded systems with Yachto, which Yachto, I think, I don't know where Kate Stewart is, is now the majority share of kind of the embedded build tool for any kind of custom Linux distribution. KeraGrid Linux was an important effort to get open source software into the telecommunications industry early on. But very soon, beyond just things related to Linux, the Foundation began working on software plumbing up the stack or down the stack, in the case of networking, and many other things that started transforming the way that software is impacting the telecommunications and networking sector. And about three to four years ago, things started to really explode, where we started working in the auto sector. Our automotive grade Linux initiative is in 20 million or more production vehicles today from companies like Toyota and Daimler Chrysler and Hyundai and many others. The cloud native computing foundation home to Kubernetes has created the de facto standard for how people create, deploy and manage their cloud computing infrastructure. The one Linux foundation project you may not know of is our Let's Encrypt project. How many people here know Let's Encrypt? All right, good. A lot of you. It's a good audience. It's the Linux Foundation and Let's Encrypt is the world's largest certificate authority. What Let's Encrypt has really done is created so many more websites that HTTPS is the default for, and that has improved the privacy and security of all of our lives. But beyond software, about two years ago, we started really working on the concept of both software development and open standards development. It's funny that people in the open source community are often critical of standards bodies and so forth, but both standards and software are actually critical for the adoption of much of the technology that the industry and all of us require so that things work properly together. Whether that's through a de facto standard like Kubernetes or a Azure standard where something like OCI or GraphQL, these are really important. We started working through efforts underneath the Linux Foundation umbrella like the Joint Development Foundation, GraphQL Foundation and OCI to create standards in a rapid way that are compatible with the intellectual property frameworks of open source. We think it's important that if you're going to do standards development, that it be done in an open way and that it be compatible with the way that open source software gets developed. From Linux to a broad array of open source software projects to open standards, that's been the path we've been charting. But this year, we've started to also enter into a couple of new areas. The first new area is around open hardware. More and more what we're seeing are open hardware initiatives that can help people work on either specifications or actual implementations around some of the physical assets that are needed. Things like open power, risk five and our chips alliance. These are open hardware designs. And the idea here is we think this open model can accelerate innovation in a whole new way around a field that's primarily been done in a proprietary fashion. If you are not familiar with these projects, these are the ones that you should watch. Just the risk five foundation alone has hundreds of members and is one of the fastest growing projects at the Linux Foundation today. But it's not just open hardware where we're seeing a lot of growth. Another area where we're seeing a tremendous amount of growth is in open data. And this is an area where I think in 2020 we're going to start seeing a huge amount of growth in data sharing and in efforts to improve the state of open data. As data becomes more critical to a lot of modern computing that's needed for machine learning applications and artificial intelligence, we've started working on ways to make the sharing of that data easier. The first thing that we did was worked on an open data license. So one of the things that we heard from everyone is, you know, even if I want to share my data, I have to go create an agreement with every single other counterparty that I need to share that data with. And our thought was, hey, what if we could take the concepts around software and open source software licensing and apply those similar concepts to a data sharing agreement that everyone could agree upon, standardize on, just like people have agreed upon a set of open source software licenses. And so we created a community data license agreement. There are two of these agreements. One is a copy left style license, sort of that share and share alike that you see in GPL licenses and the EPL license in the software side of the world. And then a more permissive license, more of an Apache style or MIT style license. So you can choose whether you want to require a shareback for that data or whether you don't require that. But both of these licenses are available on the Linux Foundation website and were created in conjunction with, I think, over 50, where's our attorney? Mike, how many 50 attorneys from the major Linux Foundation member companies who are the ones who are actually creating these data sharing agreements themselves and came to consensus on these particular models? So I think that's one that's really interested in checking out. We're also working on best practices around how to actually do data sharing. So we have a project called datapractices.org. It's another one that I think is worth checking out. To show how you can structure data, open it up, create APIs, make those smooth in terms of the IP agreements that govern them as well. And we've seen a huge amount of interest in organizations who are taking advantage of those best practices around both open data sharing and the practices themselves. We're also starting to see vertical industries participate in data sharing, which I think is incredibly interesting. This is largely being driven by both the energy sector and the telecommunication sector. So the Linux Foundation Energy Initiative, which has a lot of participants actually here in France, are working to share data that isn't necessarily proprietary data, but if every grid operator or every energy refridger shared this data, they could use it to create a more efficient energy grid management system, and that would obviously improve all of the output around climate change and things that are directly impacted by the energy sector. In the telecommunications industry, we're seeing this exact same thing play out where network operators globally are sharing big data sets in order to improve cell phone tower maintenance, as an example, or exchanging data around certain telemetry in order to improve cybersecurity for their networks. So open data and open hardware, the two things that as you look at where the industry, where the communities are starting to head, these are two big areas that you should really keep your eye on. That doesn't mean that there's not going to be less open source projects, but these are areas where we're really seeing a lot of excitement and energy around it. So this is really where the Foundation is heading, from major open source software initiatives to standardization initiatives and an open way to open hardware to open data. That's really been the path, and that's what you'll see in subsequent months that the Linux Foundation supports. And today, to that end, I would like to welcome some new people and projects at the Foundation. We seem to be adding a new project at least once a week and many times several a week, so it's been a crazy year at the Foundation, but today we have some special announcements and I'm excited to have some people join me here. So I'd like to kind of give you the high-level framework and then we'll start having some of these people come out. So we have a new Linux Foundation family member that I'm going to be announcing here quickly, some new legal initiatives that are important to help make sure that all of you can have confidence in the open source software that you're implementing, and then a new project to improve the Linux kernel. We've got Greg Crow Hartman here from the kernel project who will tell us about how they're doing that. So the first person that I would like to introduce is the newest member of the Linux Foundation family. Robin Gin comes to us as the new executive director of the OpenJS Foundation. How many people know the OpenJS Foundation here? Not all of you? How many people here know NoJS? All right, we guess we're on to applause here. So NoJS Foundation and the JS Foundation merged earlier this year into the OpenJS Foundation. This is sort of the center of a lot of work in the JavaScript community, and we were lucky enough to get Robin to come from a more than 10-year run at Microsoft where she led a lot of the early initiatives at Microsoft around open source software. She's agreed to come and become the new executive director of the OpenJS Foundation. We are delighted to have her. Please welcome to the stage the executive director of the OpenJS Foundation, Robin Gin.