Conference Schedule

09:15AM–09:45AM

ends 9:45 a.m.

09:45AM–10:30AM

ends 10:30 a.m.

10:45AM–11:30AM

PostgreSQL’s Rise to Power: Why the Open Source Giant is Dominating the Database Landscape
Kellyn Gorman

Databases — 327
ends 11:30 a.m.

Herding Hackers and Hawking Code: The Hustle of a Developer Advocate
Nate Boot

Supporting User Groups — 328
ends 11:30 a.m.

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 11:30 a.m.

How do sponsored open source ecosystems manage feature deployments?
Matt Gaughan

Science of Community — 333
ends 11:30 a.m.

Everything I Need to Know about FOSS Politics I Learned from Poker
Bradley M. Kuhn

Wild Card — 338
ends 11:30 a.m.

11:30AM–11:45AM

ends 11:45 a.m.

11:45AM–12:30PM

CloudNativePG 101
Gabriele Quaresima

Databases — 327
ends 12:30 p.m.

Raising the bar on your conference presentation
Rich Bowen

Supporting User Groups — 328
ends 12:30 p.m.

Empowering Teams in Open Source EdTech Communities
Joshua Wilson

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 12:30 p.m.

The Creative Trade-Off: Governance, Conflict, and Their Impact On Innovation In Open-Source Software
Dr. Justin Ribeiro, PhD

Science of Community — 333
ends 12:30 p.m.

Reimagining Online Deliberation: Why Open Source is Critical for Civic Infrastructure
Samantha Shireman

Wild Card — 338
ends 12:30 p.m.

12:30PM–02:00PM

ends 2 p.m.

02:00PM–02:45PM

“Biased by Design: Why Data Ethics Must Lead the AI Revolution”
Autumn Nash

Databases — 327
ends 2:45 p.m.

Cooking Up Community: Build the Fire, Embrace Every Ingredient, Always Stir the Pot
Rick Turoczy

Supporting User Groups — 328
ends 2:45 p.m.

Nurturing the Next Generation of Open Source Contributors
Tyler Menezes

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 2:45 p.m.

Open source your repository: a roadmap
Mike Jang

Science of Community — 333
ends 2:45 p.m.

GNU/Linux Loves All
Timmy James Barnett

Wild Card — 338
ends 2:45 p.m.

02:45PM–03:00PM

ends 3 p.m.

03:00PM–03:20PM

Databases and Diversity
Stacey Haysler

Databases — 327
ends 3:20 p.m.

Supporting User Groups — 328
ends 3:20 p.m.

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 3:20 p.m.

Designing for Collaboration: A Toolkit for Open and Inclusive Environmental Research
Cathy Richards

Science of Community — 333
ends 3:20 p.m.

Making P2P apps with Spritely Goblins
Diana Belle

Wild Card — 338
ends 3:20 p.m.

03:25PM–03:45PM

Apche Gravitino: The universal catalog for data and AI
Justin Mclean

Databases — 327
ends 3:45 p.m.

Supporting User Groups — 328
ends 3:45 p.m.

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 3:45 p.m.

Science of Community — 333
ends 3:45 p.m.

How to Hold It Together When It All Falls Apart: Surviving a Toxic Open Source Project Without Losin
Cami Kaos

Wild Card — 338
ends 3:45 p.m.

03:45PM–04:30PM

ends 4:30 p.m.

04:30PM–05:15PM

Observing Postgres in action using OpenTelemetry
Basil Bourque

Databases — 327
ends 5:15 p.m.

Taking your open source project to the next level - Promoting your project to users and contributors
Tom "spot" Callaway, Hannah Aubry

Supporting User Groups — 328
ends 5:15 p.m.

Which Way Do We Go? Understanding Sustainable Pathways for Academic Open Source
Stephanie Lieggi

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 5:15 p.m.

Science of Community — 333
ends 5:15 p.m.

The Cathedral and the Bizarre, or Dual-Booting for Fun and Prophet: Using Linux to Enhance TempleOS
Toby Betts

Wild Card — 338
ends 5:15 p.m.

05:15PM–05:30PM

ends 5:30 p.m.

05:30PM–06:15PM

RAGtime with Postgres: AI Power with pgvector and Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Jimmy Angelakos

Databases — 327
ends 6:15 p.m.

DevOps is a Foreign Language (or Why There Are No Junior SREs)
Joshua Lee

Supporting User Groups — 328
ends 6:15 p.m.

Transliteration of Renaissance period Spanish Text.
Shashank Shekhar Singh

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 6:15 p.m.

Science of Community — 333
ends 6:15 p.m.

Reversing Metcalfe's Law: undermining the software-service–industrial complex with .zip files
Nathan Willis

Wild Card — 338
ends 6:15 p.m.

06:15PM

Day End

09:15AM–09:45AM

ends 9:45 a.m.

09:45AM–10:30AM

ends 10:30 a.m.

10:45AM–11:30AM

XMPP — 327
ends 11:30 a.m.

Open — 328
ends 11:30 a.m.

Open Source Software in Higher Education: A Comunity Report
Patrick Masson

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 11:30 a.m.

Things I've Learned as a Linux Kernel Maintainer
Darrick J. Wong

Science of Community — 333
ends 11:30 a.m.

Never Mind the Checkboxes, Here's Reproducible Builds!
Vagrant Cascadian

Wild Card — 338
ends 11:30 a.m.

11:30AM–11:45AM

ends 11:45 a.m.

11:45AM–12:30PM

XMPP — 327
ends 12:30 p.m.

Open — 328
ends 12:30 p.m.

Belonging in the Pipeline: Building Inclusive Futures in FOSS
Aarti Ramkrishna

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 12:30 p.m.

Power Dynamics, Rug Pulls, and Other Impacts on FOSS Sustainability
Dr. Dawn Foster

Science of Community — 333
ends 12:30 p.m.

DRM, security, or both? How do we decide?
Matthew Garrett

Wild Card — 338
ends 12:30 p.m.

12:30PM–02:00PM

ends 2 p.m.

02:00PM–02:45PM

Setting Up A Simple XMPP Server
Root

XMPP — 327
ends 2:45 p.m.

Open — 328
ends 2:45 p.m.

Where Open Research Meets Open Source: The OSF as a Gateway to Academic Collaboration
Daniel Steger

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 2:45 p.m.

Lessons from a Decade of Open Source Sustainability Research
Igor Steinmacher

Science of Community — 333
ends 2:45 p.m.

Securing Your Web Server With Post Quantum Cryptography
Ted Matsumura

Wild Card — 338
ends 2:45 p.m.

02:45PM–03:00PM

ends 3 p.m.

03:00PM–03:25PM

Telecomms for Preppers
Phillip

XMPP — 327
ends 3:25 p.m.

Open — 328
ends 3:45 p.m.

HAX Lab: FOSS community becomes the classroom
Bryan T Ollendyke

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 3:45 p.m.

Glue Work Makes the Community Work: Sustaining OSS Through Invisible Labor
Zixuan Steve Feng, Anita Sarma

Science of Community — 333
ends 3:45 p.m.

Making Esoteric Beauty Accessible: Befunge in 2025
Robin Brown

Wild Card — 338
ends 3:25 p.m.

03:25PM–03:45PM

Messaging interoperability with MLS, MIMI and XMPP
Marvin W.

XMPP — 327
ends 3:45 p.m.

BlueHats: Public servant advocates for software freedom
Michael Downey

Wild Card — 338
ends 3:45 p.m.

03:45PM–04:30PM

ends 4:30 p.m.

04:30PM–05:15PM

Adventures in Onboarding: Helping New Users Navigate Federated Services
Gideon Mayhak

XMPP — 327
ends 5:15 p.m.

Open — 328
ends 5:15 p.m.

A Multi-Campus Survey of Open Source Contributors at the University of California
Virginia Scarlett

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 5:15 p.m.

Agile/Scrum for Open Source Community Projects
Tess Gadwa

Science of Community — 333
ends 5:15 p.m.

Up Against the WAL: The Write-Ahead Log in PostgreSQL
Christophe Pettus

Wild Card — 338
ends 5:15 p.m.

05:15PM–05:30PM

ends 5:30 p.m.

05:30PM–06:15PM

How do you solve a problem like iOS?
Stephen Paul Weber

XMPP — 327
ends 6:15 p.m.

Open — 328
ends 6:15 p.m.

FOSS in Education — 329
ends 6:15 p.m.

Plausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source Cybersecurity
Dr. Kaylea Champion

Science of Community — 333
ends 6:15 p.m.

Building AI applications with Open-source database - PostgreSQL
Gauri

Wild Card — 338
ends 6:15 p.m.

06:15PM

Day End

09:15AM–09:45AM

ends 9:45 a.m.

09:45AM–10:30AM

ends 10:30 a.m.

10:30AM–12:30PM

ends 12:30 p.m.

12:30PM–02:00PM

ends 2 p.m.

02:00PM–02:45PM

327
ends 2:45 p.m.

328
ends 2:45 p.m.

329
ends 2:45 p.m.

333
ends 2:45 p.m.

338
ends 2:45 p.m.

02:45PM–03:00PM

ends 3 p.m.

03:00PM–03:45PM

327
ends 3:45 p.m.

328
ends 3:45 p.m.

329
ends 3:45 p.m.

333
ends 3:45 p.m.

338
ends 3:45 p.m.

03:45PM–04:30PM

ends 4:30 p.m.

04:30PM–05:15PM

327
ends 5:15 p.m.

328
ends 5:15 p.m.

329
ends 5:15 p.m.

333
ends 5:15 p.m.

338
ends 5:15 p.m.

05:15PM–05:30PM

ends 5:30 p.m.

05:30PM–06:30PM

ends 6:30 p.m.

06:30PM

Day End