This presentation explores the crucial role of ethics in open source software.
Speaker
David Pearson
Agenda
6:00pm - Refreshments and networking
6:30pm - Presentation starts
7:30pm - Questions/networking
8:30pm - Event close
Synopsis
This presentation explores the crucial role of ethics in open source software, how ethical practices foster trust, collaboration, and innovation among contributors, ensuring transparency and fairness. Attendees will learn about licensing and compliance, ethical contribution practices, challenges and best practices, highlighting the importance of responsible and sustainable open source practices.
For venue attendees, the venue address is Room VH.0.04, Verena Holmes Building, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury CT1 1QB.
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About the speaker
David Pearson
David Pearson MBCS CITP CEng has over three decades of client facing experience in IT consulting, solution architecture, software and sales engineering roles gained from his career with Lotus Development and IBM. He now works at Red Hat in the UK as a senior technical architect. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Chartered Member of the BCS (CITP MBCS), where he also chairs the Open Source specialist group (OSSG). An active in a number of open source areas including automation, Python, Mobile Apps / Apple Swift, IBM Power & zSystem platforms and container storage solutions. Outside work, he lives in Kent (UK) loves Jaguar cars, football (West Ham United & England) and interested in parapsychology.
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This event is brought to you by: Kent branch, supported by Dorset branch, Hampshire branch, Open Source specialist group and GreenIT specialist group
