Opportunity Open Source Conference

Unifying the open source landscape with CHAOSS Asia

Aug 24, 2024, 1:15 PM

20m

Room 1: Plenary

Talk (20 min) Community

Speaker

Divya Mohan

Regional Lead, Asia, The CHAOSS Project

Description

Asian participation in the global ecosystem is limited due to the inherent differences in culture, time zones, language, and levels of awareness. Not only does this lead to the formation of fragmented local ecosystems that are disconnected from the wider global ecosystem, but also they are fewer in number and are challenging to sustain, grow, and justify. With the rebooting of the Asian chapter within the CHAOSS Project, under the Linux Foundation, the aim is to unify all these local efforts and nurture Asian participation in the ecosystem. As the lead for the chapter, Divya aims to walk the audience through what the overarching goals of the chapter are, who the intended audience is, what areas they can get involved in, and how they can get started right away.

Special accommodations

I'm happy to do this live virtually since
- I've planned prior official commitments that require me to stay in my place of residence.
- I was notified of this CfP on July 12th, which is a pretty short time to arrange for travel.

Session author's bio

Divya is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, where she contributes to Rancher’s cloud native open source projects. Having previously worked extensively in the systems engineering space during her tenure with HSBC & IGate Global Solutions Pvt Ltd, she brings a decade's worth of experience in maintaining the documentation for the Kubernetes project and a community for the Bytecode Alliance. A co-creator of the KCNA exam & the regional lead for Asia within the CHAOSS project, she is heavily invested in making technical communities & technologies more accessible & inclusive.

Any other info we should know?

As a technology advocate, I'm happy to talk about our technical initiatives in more detail, such as metric/metric-model visualization, dependent on the interest level of the audience. Please advise if this is the case.