SFScon 2024
November 8-9, 2024
Venue: NOI Techpark, Bolzano.
https://www.sfscon.it/

The South Tyrol Free Software Conference, SFSCON, is one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software. SFSCON promotes the use of Free Software in digital infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness. Here decision-makers and developers meet, learn and get inspired.

RIOS, as OW2 associate organization will represent OW2 and the OSPO Alliance at SFScon 2024. 

Visit us on the OW2 booth run by OnMyDisk and SpareCores, two projects from the NGI-Search initiative. 

OW2 Track Agenda

 
Schedule: Friday November 8 at 16:40.
Room: Seminar 4. 

Talk #1: How to set up an Open Source Program Office? Get insights and use cases from the OSPO Alliance

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Schedule: Friday 8, 16:40 to 17:00.
Speaker: Valentina Del Prete, Seacom, RIOS.

Abstract: The Good Governance Initiative (GGI) developped by the OSPO Alliance proposes a methodological framework to assess open-source awareness, compliance and governance in any kind of organizations, helping them to structure and improve the use of FOSS towards an OSPO. This presentation will highlight the main progresses and new features achieved since last year's introduction at SFScon, such as the translation of the GGI Good Governance in five languages, the recent Success Stories presented in the OnRamp meeting series, and many more. 

Talk #2: Decentralized Search Over Decentralized Storage

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Schedule: Friday 8, 17:00 to 17:20.
Speaker: Alexey Volkov, On My Disk founder, software engineer with background in telecommunications.

Abstract: In this session, we will explore an innovative decentralized search system developed in collaboration between On My Disk, a personal cloud storage solution, and PeARS, a self-hosted search engine and an NGI Searchfounded projects. This system is designed to enable user-friendly, AI-powered, multilingual search capabilities directly over a decentralized storage environment, empowering individuals to manage and search their data across devices without relying on third-party servers. By combining cutting-edge AI with a robust, local-first approach, this solution allows users to maintain complete control over their data, ensuring secure, fast, and personalized search results in a user-controlled environment. Learn how this technology is setting a new standard for privacy and autonomy in data storage and retrieval.

Talk #3: Optimizing Cloud Compute Resources with Spare Cores

 
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Schedule: Friday 8, 17:20 to 17:40.
Speaker: Gergely Daroczi, PhD, author of a book on data analysis.

Abstract: Spare Cores, an NGI Search founded project, is a vendor-independent, open-source, Python ecosystem that offers a comprehensive inventory and performance evaluation of compute resources across cloud server providers. We start all server types publicly (GHA) to run hardware inspection tools and benchmarks for different workloads. Our findings are published as open data and open source tools to help you identify and optionally start the most cost-efficient instance type for your specific use cases (e.g. ML model training or CI/CD pipelines) in your cloud environment. Additionally, Spare Cores provides a seamless SaaS solution built on this open source ecosystem, managing the entire lifecycle of containerized batch jobs without requiring direct vendor engagement.

See the OW2 track agenda on SFScon website: https://www.sfscon.it/tracks/ow2-track-2024/.