Valerie Young

Join co-op representatives as they swap stories, compare notes, discuss tactics and problems with each other, and answer any questions you have about what it's like to work with free software in a co-op--a relative rarity--in the tech industry.

Other people: Clayton Craft Aaron Wolf Dan Fourie Denver Gingerich Joel Brock Keegan Rankin Watson

Igalia is an open source tech co-op success story. We have been around for 22 years; we have 140 members. We play an essential role in several open web platform projects such as Chromium/Blink, WebKit (WPE & WebKitGTK), Firefox and Servo. We have contributed to GNOME / GTK+ / Maemo, WebKit / WebKitGtk+ / JSC, Blink / V8, Gecko / SpiderMonkey projects, amongst others. The reason we started as a co-op and the reason the focus of our work is Free and Open Source software are one and the same. Both are implementations of our values, in a word: egalitarianism. In this talk you will hear a bit about our history. We will focus on how we found our FOSS business niche and how we grew from a few friends to 140 people in more than 25 countries all the while maintaining our flat organization structure. You will learn what it's like to participate in a company that is run by an Assembly, the decision making body that includes every Igalian, instead of a hierarchy of bosses. We hope that this talk will expand the limits of your imagination on what a company can look like, and that next time you think about starting your own company or looking for a new job, you consider a co-op!

The Internet has made it possible for large, decentralized groups of people from around the world to collaborate with each other, but large-scale collaboration is difficult, and the best practices for effective collaboration are still being worked out by organizers, developers, and collaborators. Free software has provided working examples of large-scale collaborative communities, as well as practical tools for those communities to use. Tools like MediaWiki, Loomio, Discourse, Etherpad, and Git all provide functionality useful for decentralized collaboration. In this panel, organizers, developers, and collaborators will discuss best practices and pitfalls of using these and other tools in real-world collaborations.

Other people: Edward Platt Christopher Webber Amy Zhang

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Other people: Ximin Luo Vagrant Cascadian

This workshop will give a hands-on look at the tools that we use at the Reproducible Builds project to analyze build products and make them more reproducible. We'll go through how to use tools like diffoscope and reprotest, and give a few exercises for participants to try out. Then we'll do a brief tour of the Debian reproducibility toolchain, pointing out things like SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and strip-nondeterminism. Finally, we'll pick out an unreproducible package from Debian unstable and apply what we've learned to try to make it reproducible.

Bring a laptop and a project you want to make reproducible, including its build dependencies. We'll install diffoscope and reprotest during the session, but if you're not on a Debian system then you're welcome to test that these programs work on your OS beforehand and submit bugs if they don't.

Other people: Ximin Luo Vagrant Cascadian