Presentations

Ildiko Vancsa
Audience: Beginner

Learn about how StarlingX takes well-known open source platforms, such as Kubernetes and OpenStack, and enables them to build geographically distributed infrastructure for the most demanding use cases, like 5G and telecommunications netoworks, industrial IoT, and more.

This session will highlight how the platform takes datacenter building blocks and provides users with the ability to manage them remotely, as one large system on a massive scale. The audience will also learn what is new in the latest, 10.0 release and get an early seek peak into the 11.0 roadmap.

Joe Thompson
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: Cloud Native

If you're an experienced sysadmin but a Kubernetes novice, trying to understand how Kubernetes does things, this workshop will show you how to use traditional Linux tools you probably already know to understand Kubernetes today -- from the basic Kubernetes components themselves to higher-level workload concepts like service discovery.

Greg Spektor
Topic: Kwaai Summit

Greg will discuss the challenges of building an open-source AI ecosystem, the importance of privacy and autonomy in AI design, and the key milestones ahead. Attendees will gain insight into how Kwaai is redefining AI ownership, empowering individuals to control their data while leveraging AI’s full potential. The session will also explore opportunities for developers, contributors, and organizations to participate in shaping the future of personal AI.

Christophe Pettus
Audience: Developer
Topic: PostgreSQL

Language is a Virus: Locales and PostgreSQL

This is a pragmatic look at PostgreSQL's support for locales, in particular around character encoding and collations. This is intended for DBAs and developers who want to make use of PostgreSQL's extensive locale features with a minimum number of gotchas. Among the topics are:

* A quick overview of locales, character encodings, and collations.
* What a "locale provider," and how do you use it?
* How do various collations perform?
* What are the use cases for various locales?
* And what is this horrible thing about index corruption I hear ab

Farid Zakaria
Topic: PlanetNix

Learning Nix can be off-putting, as many introductions dive into complex terminology and academic concepts, missing the chance to simplify Nix's advantages. Having given talks both internally and externally, I've shifted to showcasing fun, practical examples first, leaving the nuances for later. Join me to see some straightforward examples of what Nix can offer and why it might be worth adopting.

Igor Donchovski
Audience: Beginner
Topic: MySQL

Managing MySQL in the cloud presents unique challenges and opportunities for optimization. This article highlights key lessons learned, including best practices for performance tuning, scalability, and disaster recovery in cloud-based environments.

Federico Gonzalez-Waite
Audience: Everyone

This will be a casual presentation by a former Mexican government official. The talk will touch upon legislation established in federal law in Mexico and government agencies structured to promote the use of open source while driving sovereignty. It will also cover some experiences and lessons learned by the presenter in their experience of driving open-source projects from within the government and some examples that are currently in operation.

Syed Usman Ahmad
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: MySQL

This talk is about users who uses MySQL either as a normal user or as a Database Administrator (DBA) or someone who just want to view the query result for analytics and need to visualize the result so that be able to monitor and observe it and even send out alerts if detect a change in patterns or KPIs using Grafana OSS and Alerting module.

Armstrong Foundjem
Audience: Everyone

In today's AI-driven development landscape, the OpenInfra community has a unique opportunity to lead in integrating foundational models (FMs) and AI agents into open-source workflows. By leveraging datasets and collaboration frameworks within the OnpenInfra ecosystem project teams, I have trained and fine-tuned open-source models—including LLaMA 3, SantaCoder, Mistral-7B, and OpenLLaMA-13B—to assist contributors in over 21 socio-technical tasks. These efforts have led to noticeable productivity improvements and offer a roadmap for how OpenInfra can harness AI to meet its objectives.

Audience: Everyone
Topic: BoFs

The challenge of making buildings smarter! Open discussion on how Linux can make a different in making our commercial buildings be safer, more comfortable and more sustainable.