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2026-10-30

Keynote at OLF Conference

I will be delivering the opening keynote at the OLF Conference in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday, November 21.

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2026-03-08

You’d better start believing in supply chains because you’re in one (SCaLE 23x)

At SCaLE 23x, I’ll debut “You’d better start believing in supply chains because you’re in one.” This talk started as a silly joke, but it covers a serious and timely topic.

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2025-08-28

Keynote: Improving Security Data With ORBIT

Co-presented with Eddie Knight at OpenSSF Community Day Europe 2025.

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2025-08-28

GUAC+Trustify: Building a Common Supply Chain Knowledge Graph (OpenSSF Community Day)

Co-presented with Dejan Bosanac at OpenSSF Community Day Europe 2025.

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2022-12-14

The flywheel theory of community engagement

The Flywheel Theory says that the long term sustainability of a community project depends on having someone who can keep the momentum going.

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2022-11-25

Your bug tracker and you (OLF Conference)

At the OLF Conference, I’ll delivered “Your bug tracker and you” and held a book signing for “Program Management for Open Source Projects.”

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2022-10-07

Oh no! The community is growing! (InvenioRDM meeting)

The InvenioRDM community invited me to speak at their 2022 Partner Meeting. Abstract: A growing open source community is a blessing and a curse. When your user base grows, you need to grow your contributor community to keep up. How do you grow your contributors in a sustainable way? Part of it requires building up processes to make the work...

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2022-07-28

Exploring our bugs, part 2! (Nest With Fedora)

At Nest With Fedora, I took an updated look at stats from years of Fedora Linux bug reports. Abstract: This talk picks up where last year’s “Exploring our bugs” talk left off. It updates stats to include F33 and F34 bugs. But it also adds new dimensions to talk about process changes: how have our blocker and freeze exception bugs...

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2022-07-21

Your bug tracker and you (SCaLE)

At SCaLE 19x, I presented “Your bug tracker and you.” This is an extended version of my SeaGL 2021 talk. For SeaGL, I said “I got it completely written and then realized that I had focused on entirely the wrong aspects and had to rewrite it.” Since my time slot at SCaLE is twice as long, you’ll get the parts...

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2021-11-06

Your bug tracker and you (SeaGL)

At SeaGL2021, I presented my talk on bug tracking for the first time. One fun fact about this talk: I got it completely written and then realized that I had focused on entirely the wrong aspects and had to rewrite it. I’m pleased with how it turned out, though. I plan on proposing it for future conferences. Slides Abstract: Your...

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