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Into The Open: Discover Financial Services at ATO

October 17, 2022

Discover Financial Services is a proud sponsor of ATO 2022 and we look forward to seeing all of you in Raleigh, NC. We recognize the power of open source to drive innovation, scale, and interoperability for the financial industry. Discover’s open source practices promote reuse and collaborative development. We champion our core values of community,…

Supporting your open source community at every scale

Creating an open source project is one challenge. Building an enduring open source community, one that covers everything from setting clear expectations and empowering members with mentorship opportunities to establishing governance structures and formalizing fiscal sponsorship, is another challenge.  At Common Room, we believe that community is where growth happens, and that growth is faster, healthier, and more enduring when it’s centered…

IBM @ ATO

IBM is excited to sponsor ATO as they celebrate their 10th year! At our booth we will have amazing giveaways, a fun Liberty Space Rover Challenge, and our SME’s to engage on all things open. IBM Developer is a community dedicated to bringing developers together around open and emerging technologies in hybrid cloud, AI, quantum and more, to tap into our collective power to innovate.  Make…

Salesforce Gives Back Through FOSS Fund

In 2020, Salesforce’s Open Source Programs Office wanted to take a more significant role in giving back to the open source projects that make Salesforce products what they are today. We know that a sustainable open source ecosystem is essential for our technical future, and financially supporting these projects is one of the ways we…

One Trick We Used to Improve Our Community’s Diversity

By Ben Lloyd Pearson, Mattermost TL:DR: We provide direct financial incentives to contribute, which opened our community to more participants from underserved groups. The history of open source is full of developers who gave their time and ideas freely to produce software code that is valuable to others, and that’s a beautiful thing. However, these…

Calling All Volunteers!

October 13, 2022

Volunteers and volunteer coordination are being made possible by the team at Fidelity Investments. Since 2013 incredibly wonderful and talented people have heeded our call for volunteers, and we could not be more grateful and appreciative.  Day 1 volunteers from the 2019 event We’re making that call again for the 10th time in 2022. If…

Working together for a more inclusive open source community

October 12, 2022

By Killian Murphy, Engineering Director at Meta The open source community thrives by making software available to all. At Meta, we believe this includes removing some of the barriers for developers to contribute to open source projects, and also using open source as a vehicle to improve technology for a diverse and broad audience. The…

System76 – In-Person at ATO 2022!

October 11, 2022

Our friends at System76 are working with us to make 4 amazing machines available at ATO! “What are they and how do I get one?”, you might ask?  Monday, October 31 Attend the Community Leadership Summit (CLS) and/or a workshop and be eligible to win a Galago Pro Linux laptop. We’ll draw a winner randomly from everyone in…

We Have a New Ad!

We’re thrilled to announce we have a new ad running on social media platforms! It’s super simple and only 15 seconds, but we feel it “does the trick” and captures the essence of ATO. If you live in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) and surrounding areas of North Carolina (Charlotte, Winston-Salem/Greensboro), be on the lookout…

2 Major Live Stream Updates

We’re excited to announce two major live stream updates! And the wonderful team at OpenNMS is making it all possible. 1. We’re going to live stream the Inclusion & Diversity event taking place Sunday, October 30. Good news! We will be live streaming the Inclusion & Diversity event taking place in-person on Sunday, October 30 at the Raleigh Convention…