Date: 8-9 November
Place: NOI Techpark, Bolzano, Italy (South Tyrol)
More: https://www.sfscon.it/
OW2 booth at SFScon'24
Check out the demo of On My Disk and Spare Cores at SFScon'24 on the OW2 booth shared with NGI Search. There, you'll have the opportunity to discuss with the software designers or representatives of both NGI founded projects.
OW2 Track in the conference
Schedule: Friday November 8 at 16:40
Room: Seminar 4
Talk #1: How to set up an Open Source Program Office? Get insights and use cases from the OSPO Alliance
Schedule: Friday 8, 16:40 to 17:00.
Speaker: Valentina Del Prete, Seacom, RIOS.
Abstract: The Good Governance Initiative (GGI) developped by the OSPO Alliance proposes a methodological framework to assess open-source awareness, compliance and governance in any kind of organizations, helping them to structure and improve the use of FOSS towards an OSPO. This presentation will highlight the main progresses and new features achieved since last year's introduction at SFScon, such as the translation of the GGI Good Governance in five languages, the recent Success Stories presented in the OnRamp meeting series, and many more.
Talk #2: Decentralized Search Over Decentralized Storage
Schedule: Friday 8, 17:00 to 17:20.
Speaker:Alexey Volkov, On My Disk founder, software engineer with background in telecommunications.
Abstract: In this session, we will explore an innovative decentralized search system developed in collaboration between On My Disk, a personal cloud storage solution, and PeARS, a self-hosted search engine and NGI Search founded projects. This system is designed to enable user-friendly, AI-powered, multilingual search capabilities directly over a decentralized storage environment, empowering individuals to manage and search their data across devices without relying on third-party servers. By combining cutting-edge AI with a robust, local-first approach, this solution allows users to maintain complete control over their data, ensuring secure, fast, and personalized search results in a user-controlled environment. Learn how this technology is setting a new standard for privacy and autonomy in data storage and retrieval.
Talk #3: Optimizing Cloud Compute Resources with Spare Cores
Schedule: Friday 8, 17:20 to 17:40.
Speaker: Gergely Daroczi, PhD, author of a book on data analysis.
Abstract: Spare Cores, an NGI Search founded project, is a vendor-independent, open-source, Python ecosystem that offers a comprehensive inventory and performance evaluation of compute resources across cloud server providers. We start all server types publicly (GHA) to run hardware inspection tools and benchmarks for different workloads. Our findings are published as open data and open source tools to help you identify and optionally start the most cost-efficient instance type for your specific use cases (e.g. ML model training or CI/CD pipelines) in your cloud environment. Additionally, Spare Cores provides a seamless SaaS solution built on this open source ecosystem, managing the entire lifecycle of containerized batch jobs without requiring direct vendor engagement.
Check out the SFScon website and join: https://www.sfscon.it/tracks/ow2-track-2024/