What to expect from the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Europe 2024

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is zoning in on the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Europe 2024.

The event is held from the 16-18 September in Vienna, Austria.

Designed to showcase the work of the open source community,  Open Source Summit Europe (or #OSSummit to its friends) will feature the full spectrum of open source software application development technologies from the hobbyist level, through to free and open source community projects and onwards to enterprise-grade open technology platforms and tools.

Key speakers include Linus Torvalds himself, simply listed as “creator” of Linux and Git.

Other speakers include Emily Fox in her capacity as security lead for emerging technologies & security community architect at Red Hat. Verizon’s Dirk Hohndel, head of open source program office is also present alongside Sophia Yang, who is head of developer relations at Mistral AI. Google software engineer Alice Ryhl will also speak, as will the European Union’s Paolo De Rosa in his role as CTO for the European Digital Identity Framework.

Apologies to those speaker we have missed (they are all listed on the website), but let’s also make mention of Daniela Barbosa, general manager of decentralized technologies, The Linux Foundation – Ryan Waite, who is responsible for open source strategy and incubations at Microsoft and of course Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation.

“Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella, composed of a collection of events covering the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today,” notes the organisation.

We asked the organisation who would typically attend an event like this (we know the answer already, but we wanted to hear the answer) and the Linux Foundation said that the event is targetted at developers (obviously) and also systems engineers working on embedded solutions, wider enterprise applications and those engineers who span work related to kernels & operating systems.

It’s also an event for operations staff from architects, to Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), system administrators and DevOps teams. The event also welcomes technical managers, community managers, executive leaders, legal & compliance specialists and academics… and they also mention ‘media’ too, which is nice.