SFScon19 - Andrew Wilson - On Technological Liberty
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I start from the premise that the FOSS movement has an underlying political philosophy, namely classical liberalism. Classical political liberalism has a rich intellectual history and provides a powerful framework for analyzing concepts of software freedom. I discuss three prominent thinkers in the liberal tradition -- John Stuart Mill, Isaiah Berlin, and Erich Fromm -- and map their concepts of liberty on to the open source licensing and development models. This mapping generates some surprising insights. I then speculate about the future of open source. In the larger world, political liberalism is under siege; and so, too, in the FOSS world, the value of liberty is being questioned, and new technologies present new challenges. How can we preserve technological liberty and extend it into a new era? BTW, I understand a talk about abstract ideas in political philosophy might be a little dry. :-) Consequently, I try to make the presentation style engaging. 1980s dance music is also invoked.
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Software freedom can be defined in many ways but in legal terms it is squarely defined by a set of approved FSF and OSI software licenses. Yet everyone realizes that beyond these licenses the goal of software freedom and digital sovereignty cannot be achieved without the ability to master and create hardware components and systems - and beyond that, to rely on open digital infrastructure (servers, datacenters, and resources) . This talk will present the challenges around these topics and what we, collectively in Europe already do and can do to ensure our independence and our freedoms.SFSCON23 - Charles H. Schulz - Why open digital infrastructure matters
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This lightning talk will explore the transformative potential of integrating Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Mass Customization (MC). There is a significant collective impact of these technologies on businesses, enabling the delivery of personalized products and exceptional customer experiences. Besides giving an overview of MC and the potential ways of integrating IoT and AI, the focus will be on the process of real-time data collection and facilitation of the customization process by IoT on one hand, and on the role of AI in data analysis and generation of personalized recommendations on the other hand. By presenting real-world case studies to demonstrate the practical implementation of IoT and AI in providing customized products and seamless customer experiences, attendees will gain insights into the future of customization and learn actionable strategies to effectively leverage IoT and AI.SFSCON23 - Thomas Aichner - How IoT and AI are revolutionizing Mass Customiza...
SFSCON23 - Thomas Aichner - How IoT and AI are revolutionizing Mass Customiza...South Tyrol Free Software Conference
As open source software becomes the foundation to build digital products, to run the backbones of ICT infrastructure and to ensure digital sovereignty and cyber resilience, both the technology as well as the communities that develop it inevitably move into the focus of regulators. The European Union is advancing a number of policy initiatives that regulate liability, cyber security, data handling and AI applications in digital products, among others. This is a challenge for the still quite decentralised and globally operating open source community. How could the open source community participate in legislative processes, and what may be the potential impacts of the upcoming regulation on the open source development process and community dynamics?SFSCON23 - Mirko Boehm - European regulators cast their eyes on maturing OSS ...
SFSCON23 - Mirko Boehm - European regulators cast their eyes on maturing OSS ...South Tyrol Free Software Conference
The public transport in South Tyrol is going through a huge transformation: new investments, many new green vehicles and a brand new software. Transition will take time and how do we develop a fleet monitoring system to use during the transition without spending a fortune ? maybe with free software!SFSCON23 - Marco Pavanelli - Monitoring the fleet of Sasa with free software
SFSCON23 - Marco Pavanelli - Monitoring the fleet of Sasa with free softwareSouth Tyrol Free Software Conference
AICS is the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation that started operating in 2016 with the ambition of aligning Italy with the main European and international partners in the commitment to development. KNOWAGE Labs are developing for AICS a platform that is probably unique in the world and will allow both the Agency and the public to access all the major indicators on the UN Sustainable Development Goals provided by international sources (World Bank, WTO, ILO..) and easily compare them. The solution will allow analysis to start from 3 different touch points: the infographic of SDG goals, the advanced search criteria, and the virtual assistant. Then, a customized dashboard will be provided to the user, allowing to further expand the analysis by interacting with charts, maps, tables, etc. This talk will show the state of art of the solution, highlighting objectives and expected results of the project, but also the new developments of KNOWAGE related to AI.SFSCON23 - Marco Cortella - KNOWAGE and AICS for 2030 agenda SDG goals monito...
SFSCON23 - Marco Cortella - KNOWAGE and AICS for 2030 agenda SDG goals monito...South Tyrol Free Software Conference
Interoperability is a core element of the ongoing digitalisation of Europe. With the Interoperable Europe Act, the EU is aiming to create a dedicated legal framework for interoperability and to enhance cross-border digital public services across the European Union. This talk will give an overview of the state of play of this proposed regulation in the ongoing EU legislative process, some of its flaws, and the important role that Free Software and its community can play in it.SFSCON23 - Lina Ceballos - Interoperable Europe Act - A real game changer
SFSCON23 - Lina Ceballos - Interoperable Europe Act - A real game changerSouth Tyrol Free Software Conference
How to sharpen the demand for public code across Europe and monitor progress with TEDective
For six years, the Free Software Foundation Europe has been calling with a broad alliance for publicly funded software to be published as Free Software. This initiative has become a great success: Our demand "Public Money? Public Code!" has found its way into government strategy papers, party programs, as well as coalition treaties, and is being discussed in public administrations across Europe.
At the same time, we see less progress than expected and vendor lock ins remain a crucial issue. Digital sovereignty is redefined bypassing Free Software. There is openwashing in publicly funded companies, and government projects in favour of Free Software remain empty words. Public statistics on the procurement of Free Software are largely unavailable.
It is therefore no longer enough to promote the idea of "Public Money? Public Code!". We as the Free Software community should be even more vigilant than before – continuing to praise small steps in the right direction, but pointing out and criticising omissions and lack of implementation. We should become more like watchdogs.
In the talk we will look at some examples of lack of implementation of Free Software policies. We will discuss how we, as civil society, can identify such shortcomings and how to deal with them. We will present our initiative TEDective – a free-software solution that makes European public procurement data explorable for non-experts, aiming to provide you with a powerful tool to keep an eye on real progress towards "Public Money? Public Code!" across Europe.SFSCON23 - Johannes Näder Linus Sehn - Let’s monitor implementation of Free S...
SFSCON23 - Johannes Näder Linus Sehn - Let’s monitor implementation of Free S...South Tyrol Free Software Conference
The Internet today forms the backbone of the digitisation of our society and economy. As connectivity increases, the boundaries between the real and digital world get increasingly blurred. However, there has been an erosion of trust in the Internet following revelations about the exploitation of personal data, large-scale cybersecurity and data breaches, and growing awareness of the proliferation and impacts of online disinformation.
What can be done to improve the Internet as a platform for future generations? What initiatives are currently in place to build key technological blocks of an Internet that supports human-centric values, such as privacy, security, and inclusion, while reflecting the values and norms all citizens should enjoy in Europe?
This talk will explore why the current state of the internet must be re-imagined and re-engineered in order to support healthy societies, the existing European Commission initiative to work towards doing so, and the role of Free Software in accomplishing these goals.SFSCON23 - Gabriel Ku Wei Bin - Why Do We Need A Next Generation Internet
SFSCON23 - Gabriel Ku Wei Bin - Why Do We Need A Next Generation InternetSouth Tyrol Free Software Conference
KNOWAGE is the open source analytics and business intelligence suite made in Italy. KNOWAGE aims to provide company and organizations with analytical capabilities to exploit data to increase their efficiency and sustainability. Also thanks to the open source community support, the suite is constantly evolving combining the reliability of the most popular business intelligence solutions with the security and the transparency guaranteed by open source.
This talk will show the last year advancements and new features towards a more mobile, accessible and user-friendly product, focusing on the newly rewritten dashboarding tool.SFSCON23 - Davide Vernassa - Empowering Insights Unveiling the latest innova...
SFSCON23 - Davide Vernassa - Empowering Insights Unveiling the latest innova...South Tyrol Free Software Conference
[Context:] Technical leverage is the ratio between dependencies (other people's code) and own codes of a software package. It has been shown to be useful to characterize the Java ecosystem and there are also studies on the NPM ecosystem available. [Objective:] By using this metric we aim to analyze the Python ecosystem, how it evolves, and how secure it is, as a developer would perceive it when deciding to adopt or update (or not) a library. [Method:] We collect a dataset of the top 600 Python packages (corresponding to 21,205 versions) and used a number of innovative approaches for its analysis including the use of a two-part statistical model to deal with excess zeros, a mathematical closed formulation to estimate vulnerabilities that we confirm with bootstrapping on the actual dataset. [Results:] Small Python package versions have a median technical leverage of 6.9x their own code, while bigger package versions rely on dependencies code a tenth of their own (median leverage of 0.1). In terms of evolution, Python packages tend to have stable technical leverage through their evolution (once highly leveraged, always leveraged). On security, the chance of getting a safe package version when choosing a package is actually better than previous research has shown based on the ratio of safe package versions in the ecosystem. [Conclusions:] Python packages ship a lot of other people's code and tend to keep doing so. However, developers will have a good chance to choose a safe package version.SFSCON23 - Ranindya Paramitha - Technical leverage analysis in the Python eco...
SFSCON23 - Ranindya Paramitha - Technical leverage analysis in the Python eco...South Tyrol Free Software Conference
Technical debt is a metaphor that describes not-quite-right code introduced for short-term needs. The effort to refactor it increases if it remains for a long in the software. When developers are aware of it and admit it in source code comments, the debt is called Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD). Thus, SATD indicates weak code that developers are aware of. The question is whether they are aware that this code may be vulnerable to attacks. This presentation will illustrate how artificial intelligence can be employed to recommend security fixes for vulnerabilities to developers.SFSCON23 - Jorge Melegati Moritz Mock Barbara Russo - Recommending security f...
SFSCON23 - Jorge Melegati Moritz Mock Barbara Russo - Recommending security f...South Tyrol Free Software Conference
FOSS is here to stay, displacing malevolent privative counterparts—great!
FOSS exposes bugs to be found and fixed by the community—great!
FOSS shows security issues than can be exploited by attackers—gr..what?
In the last decades, source code transparency has made the job of black-hat hackers increasingly easy. We now have security websites exposing vulnerabilities and even exploits online—and despite good practices like responsible disclosure, it is the sheer amount of (external) code what makes everyone ultimately vulnerable. In plain words, nobody's safe.
From that base, this talk puts forward the need for a concept of *probability of future exploits*. This is crucial for project management, but also at developer level, to see the risks of not upgrading (or yes upgrading!) a dependency. We show how this probability can, and must, be computed from a project's dependency tree, in a manner that only the use of FOSS can allow. We also show that the development history of the project and its dependencies is key to getting useful results.
Finally, we merge the dependency tree and development history of a project into a white-box model, which we use to estimate the probability of future exploits. We show how to do it for the Java-Maven environment, for which we can use the FOSS tool 'FIG'. FIG, written in C++ and released under GPLv3, was designed for statistical estimations and can compute the probability of attacks in complex scenarios like the ones at hand.SFSCON23 - Carlos Esteban Budde - Predict security attacks in FOSS
SFSCON23 - Carlos Esteban Budde - Predict security attacks in FOSSSouth Tyrol Free Software Conference
Cybersecurity is a compulsory, tough and expensive task for all organizations, private and public, large , medium and small.
No one can ignore it anymore, and building a viable Cybersecurity strategy is a complex task that needs to balance budget, keeping up with attacker technologies, available skills and a plethora of expensive tools on the market.
Let's discus s on how available Opensource solutions may greatly help ours organizations to be more effective in implementing their Cybersecurity posture, while optimizing available budget.SFSCON23 - Carlo Falciola - Opensource to help increase organizations Cyberse...
SFSCON23 - Carlo Falciola - Opensource to help increase organizations Cyberse...South Tyrol Free Software Conference
In this presentation, we present MBBS, a tetra-model behavioral biometric-based authentication scheme designed specifically for smartphones. MBBS utilizes four distinct modalities to authenticate users: touchscreen swiping patterns, taps on "text-independent" 8-digit numbers, name writing on the touchscreen, and micro-movements of the hand during the entry process. To enhance overall accuracy and security, MBBS incorporates a state-of-the-art Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) powered data augmentation architecture. This innovative approach allows us to demonstrate the effectiveness of MBBS using both real user samples and augmented samples, consisting of a combination of "real" and "GAN-generated" data, on an actual Android device. One of the key advantages of MBBS is its high usability, as it eliminates the need for users to remember any secret information. Instead, it leverages users' familiarity with natural processes, thereby increasing accuracy in real-time by employing GAN technology, all without requiring a large sample size from users. We will also present preliminary results from our performance, security, and usability analysis, which showcase a positive opinion regarding the effectiveness of our developed authentication mechanism.SFSCON23 - Attaullah Buriro - MBBS A Multimodal Behavioral Biometric Scheme ...
SFSCON23 - Attaullah Buriro - MBBS A Multimodal Behavioral Biometric Scheme ...South Tyrol Free Software Conference
The Good Governance Initiative (GGI) 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, 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. Stefano Pampaloni, vice-president of the Italian Open Source Network, will present the latest developments, elaborating on the RIOS Network's contribution to the project.SFSCON23 - Valentina Del Prete Stefano Pampaloni - RIOS (Rete Italiana Open S...
SFSCON23 - Valentina Del Prete Stefano Pampaloni - RIOS (Rete Italiana Open S...South Tyrol Free Software Conference
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