Open Source Leeds – September 2022

Open Source Leeds is back with three great speakers! Join us on Tuesday 20 September to hear talks by:

• Hilary Carter, VP Research, The Linux Foundation
• Neil Stevenson, Principal Architect, Hazelcast
• Michael Gray, Principal Engineer, ClearBank

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AGENDA

17:30 // Arrival drinks and food

18:00 // ‘European Open Source Insights: Highlights from Linux Foundation Research’ // Hilary Carter

Europe marks the first region explored in the new ‘World of Open Source’ research series launched by the Linux Foundation, exploring geographic trends and dynamics. In this session, findings from the 2022 Europe Spotlight study will be discussed, including the industries, countries, and technologies most impacted by open source project communities.

18:25 // 'My Open Source Journey with Hazelcast' // Neil Stevenson

In this talk, Neil will outline his experiences with open source software in general, and Hazelcast in particular. Initially unconnected to Hazelcast, Neil came across the software via the Spring Framework and became a keen user. This evolved into becoming a contributor, and then evolved again to becoming an employee.

So, the key theme of the talk will be around how open source projects blend community and paid staff as contributors; what each can bring to the software and how this works in practice – for Hazelcast, at least. Still a contributor to Hazelcast, Neil is also working on a couple of other open source projects, currently around tracing and web sessions.

18:45 // Break/Refreshments

19:00 // 'How ClearBank embraces an open engineering culture to unlock team potential' // Michael Gray

ClearBank has a clear focus on maintaining a positive engineering culture both inside and outside the bank, encouraging an open-first engineering culture in its organisational design.

As Michael will explain in his talk, ClearBank leverages InnerSource to encourage interaction inside the bank whilst engaging in open source to contribute upstream solutions to established and mainstream open source projects. This in turn promotes true business agility with rapid change, fast feedback, and loose coupling.

19:30 // Event close/Networking drinks

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If you are interested in presenting, please contact Claire Cocks ([ccocks@scottlogic.com](mailto:ccocks@scottlogic.com)). We particularly welcome talk submissions from women speakers, speakers from ethnic minorities, and speakers from other under-represented groups.

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