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ORT Community Days 2023

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Join us at the ORT Community Day, on 15 & 16 March 2023 in Berlin, Germany for a two-day in-person workshop to learn and collaborate with OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) users from a variety of organizations.

If you want to learn how other organizations are using ORT to manage their open source licensing, security, SBOMs or engineering ways of workings / InnerSource, colloborate on new features, talk to its maintainers or getting started, then this is the event for you.

To join the ORT Community Day remotely, register for a ticket via this LinkedIn event page, if you want to attend in-person please e-mail us and we try to get you a seat.

Schedule

You can find a preliminary agenda below. We hope to be able to share a more complete schedule by March 4.

Interested in presenting how ORT is used your organization? Or want to propose a different community discussion or hackathon topic? Please reach out to us.

Day 1, March 15 - Talks & Evening Social

Agenda Time Session Details
Doors open and hallway track 08:45 - 09:00
Welcome 09:00 - 09:15 Community Day organizers
Community Poll 09:15 - 09:30 A quick poll of attendees expectations and their #1 hot topic
ORT within Bosch 09:30 - 10:00 Marcel Kurzmann (Bosch) will present their Open Source management setup and ORT's role within it
All you need to know about ORTHW 10:00 - 10:30 Frank Viernau (EPAM) and Helio Castro (CARIAD) will talk about ORTHW, a tool ORT users can use to simplify and speed up common tasks performed when processing ORT scan results
Break 10:30 - 10:45
ORT within Hella 10:45 - 11:15 Jens Erdmann (Hella): How we started with ScanCode and ORT and were we struggle.
Fireside chat with ORT Technical Steering Committee 11:15 - 11:45 Informal interview / Q&A session moderated by Surya Santhi
Lunch 11:45 - 13:15 Find yourself a nice restaurant nearby (you pay for your own meal)
ScanCode and MatchCode 13:15 - 14:00 Philippe Ombredanne (NexB) will provide an update on the ScanCode, a copyright & license scanner that can be used in combination with ORT. He will also share details about the new MatchCode Toolkit a ScanCode post-scan plugin that fingerprints the directories to find package matches
ClearlyDefined 14:00 - 14:30 Nick Vidal, the new community manager for ClearlyDefined, will provide a brief background on the project and later focus on gathering feedback from the audience as to the next steps for how ClearlyDefined can best serve the community.
Break 14:30 - 14:45
Update on ORT server 14:45 - 15:15 Martin Nonnenmacher (Bosch) will share an update on the upcoming ORT server - a way to scale ORT using Kubernetes
ORT within the Eclipse Foundation 15:15 - 15:30 Boris Baldassari will share details about Eclipse Foundation adoption of ORT within its IP clearance process
ORT within EPAM 15:30 - 15:45 Thomas Steenbergen (EPAM) will share details about its ORT setup and commercial support offering
Break 15:45 - 16:00
ORT role within ecosystem 16:00 - 17:15 Community discussion moderated by Marcel Kurzmann and Thomas Steenbergen. ORT is part of a larger ecosystem of best practices, tools and capabilities. What ORT role within this ecosystem. What should ORT do, stop doing, start doing?
Closing words Day 1 17:15 - 17:30 Community Day organizers
Evening Social 18:00 - 21:00 Restaurant to be announced, participants pay for themselves

Day 2, March 16 - Hackathon / Workshop

Time
08:45 - 09:00 Doors open
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and hallway track
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09:30 - 11:30 Hackathon Onboarding Users Data Visualization
Room 2A.M3 Room 2A.M2 Room 2B.M1
Video call Video Call Video Call
Chat #ocd-hackathon Chat #ocd-onboarding-users Chat #ocd-data-visualization
09:30 - 9:45 Session outcome definition Session outcome definition Session outcome definition
Hack on initial Bazel support Gaps in ORT documentation for new users Visualizing all of ORT's capabilities - closing the gaps in ORT's reports
Hack GitLab/BitBucket for ORT based on GitHub Action for ORT Contribution ladders - growing users into contributors ORT dashboards - what numbers/charts do people like to see? What tools can be used or should we integrate with?
Building an ORT website
10:00 - 11:00 Discuss roadmap with regular contributors that have mid-to-long-term goals (to identify conflicts and synergies) plus API for curating copyrights. Join remotely via this Teams call.
11:30 - 12:00 Tracks present in 10 mins their outcomes in room 2B.M1, live stream via this video call
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12:00 - 13:30 Lunch - Find yourself a nice restaurant nearby (you pay for your own meal)
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13:30 - 16:30 Continuation Continuation Continuation
16:00 - 16:30 Tracks present in 10 mins their outcomes in room 2B.M1, live stream via this video call
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16:30 - 17:00 Sebastian Schuberth to share some personal thoughts on the future of the technologies to be used in ORT (aka "crazy ideas")
17:00 - 17:15 Closing words Day 2

Venue and Travel

The ORT Community Day will held Ullsteinstraße 128 12109 Berlin, on Day 1 will be in the office from Hella Aglaia and Day 2 in the Bosch IoT campus - both rooms are in the same building.

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Public Transport

  • From the Berlin airport (~45 mins): Take the S45 train direction S-Bahnhof Südkreuz, change at Tempelhof station to the U6 underground direction Alt-Mariendorf and disembark the train at Ullsteinstraße station.
  • From the Berlin central train station (~30 mins): Take the S3, S5, S7 or S75 from platform 15 and change after 1 stop at Friedrichstraße station to the U6 underground direction Alt-Mariendorf and disembark the train at Ullsteinstraße station.

Car

There is street parking available around the Ullsteinstraße for which you may need to pay.

Event Policies

The Community Day will be under Chatham House Rule, ORT's Code of Conduct and the Linux Foundation's antitrust policy.

Note that photographs and video recordings may be taken at the event for publicity purposes by the ORT project. By attending this event you consent to being included in photographs and video recordings, if you do not wish to be included you must contact the community day organizers prior to the event.

FAQ

How can I register?

You can register via this LinkedIn event page to join the ORT Community Day remotely. If you want to attend in-person please e-mail us.

Is there option to register without using LinkedIn?

Although Community Day organizers prefer you use LinkedIn, you can also register via e-mail.

Will there be an option to join remotely?

Yes, a Microsoft Teams session will be shared to registered attendees via a meeting invite for the talks on Day 1. For Day 2 the schedule include links to Jitsi rooms for the various tracks.

Note that the event will not be recorded as it's under Chatham house rule. We do our best to share online what happening in the room using our own laptops.

How can I be a speaker at the event?

Simply email an abstract of your talk to [email protected] to get the ball rolling.

How long are the speaker slots?

You have 30 minutes to present, including a minimum 5 minutes Q&A session.

I would like to propose a different hackathon or roundtable topic. How do I do that?

Simply email your proposal for a hackathon / roundtable topic and why you find it interesting to [email protected] to get the ball rolling.

Is there option to sponsor the ORT Community Day?

Currently we don't need sponsors but this may change in the future. Feel free to drop us an e-mail if you are interested in sponsoring or want to provide swag.

How can my organization host an ORT Community Day?

Simply email [email protected] to get the ball rolling.

Why is a 2-day event called ORT Community Day?

Orginally ORT Community Day was suppose to be a 1 day event but we as community had so many great topics to discuss that we added another day ;-)

Contact

You can reach the ORT Community Day organizers at [email protected] or on the #events Slack channel.

ORT Community Day Organizers

  • Jens Erdmann
  • Marcel Kurzmann
  • Surya Santhi
  • Thomas Steenbergen