Comcast Open Source Day

 The 7th iteration of Comcast Open Source Day is taking place on Thursday September 26th, 2019 in Philadelphia, PA! This is a conference for Comcast technologists, Comcast open source contributors and Comcast open source consumers to collaborate, and learn about the latest in open source at Comcast. Our objective is to kickoff the sharing of best practices from both internal speakers at Comcast as well as external speakers, and we'd love to see where we need to go next in terms of building our OSS competency, practices and strategy as a company.   Each year, the Comcast Open Source Program Office hosts an Open Source Day where we bring in external speakers and guests into the Comcast offices in Philadelphia, PA to talk about open source. It’s a day is to celebrate and showcase open source work and to increase learning for Comcast employees/contractors and the larger community.   -------------------------   FEATURED SPEAKERS:   ABIGAIL CABUNOC MAYES, is the Working Open Practice Lead at the Mozilla Foundation. Abby mobilizes and mentors leaders in the Internet Health movement by building and running programs like Mozilla Open Leaders. Before this, she was Lead Developer of the Mozilla Science Lab, transforming science on the web. Prior to joining Mozilla, Abby worked as a bioinformatics software developer at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and at Michigan State University where she applied open source and machine learning to research problems. With a background in bioinformatics, open source and community organizing, she is fueling a culture of openness in research and innovation. Named in "100 awesome women in open source" by source{d}.   Twitter: @abbycabs GitHub: @acabunoc   -------------------------      PAST OSPO EVENTS W/ JUST SOME OF OUR NOTABLE EXTERNAL SPEAKERS: * June 21, 2017 - PHILADELPHIA Open SOURCE DAY - Shane Curcuru [https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanecurcuru/] (Apache SW Foundation), Arpit Joshipura [https://www.linkedin.com/in/arpit-joshipura-722259/] (Linux Foundation) * July 26, 2017 - Open SOURCE AND INNER SOURCE WORKSHOP BY Johan Linåker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanlinaker/] (Lund University) * December 15, 2017 - PHILADELPHIA Open SOURCE DAY - Chris Aniszczyk [https://www.linkedin.com/in/caniszczyk/] (CNCF), Ben Balter [https://www.linkedin.com/in/benbalter/], (GitHub), Sarah Novotny [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahnovotny/] (Google), Kim Bannerman [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimbannerman/] (Google) * June 28, 2018 - PHILADELPHIA Open SOURCE DAY - Stormy Peters [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stormy/] (RedHat), Zaheda Bhorat [https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaheda-bhorat-143121/] (Amazon Web Services) * November 7, 2018 - PHILADELPHIA Open SOURCE CONFERENCE - Bridget Kromhout [https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridgetkromhout/] (Microsoft), Tim Spann [https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=Tim%20Spann%20&origin=GLOBAL_SEARCH_HEADER] (Hortonworks), Lisa-Marie Namphy [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lnamphy/] (Portworx) * November 13, 2018  - Mini Open Source Day Seattle * November 14, 2018 - Mini Open Source Day Denver * December 5, 2018 - Open SOURCE WORKSHOP BY James Vasile [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesvasile/] * September 26, 2019 - Strategic IP and Comcast Mini Open Source Day Sunnyvale * February 8, 2019 - Meet Dan Kohn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dankohn/], Executive Director of CNCF - Q&A, Open Discussion * June 20, 2019 - Denver Open SOURCE CONFERENCE - Jilayne Lovejoy [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jilaynelovejoy/] (Canonical), Guy Martin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/guywmartin/] (Autodesk Inc.), Munira Tayebji [https://www.linkedin.com/in/munira-tayabji-9388561/] (Dreamworks) PAST OPEN SOURCE DAY EVENTS: * Philadelphia - Convene June 2017 * Philadelphia - 45JKL December 2017 * Seattle - November 2018 * Denver - November 2018 * Sunnyvale - May 2019 * Philadelphia - 45JKL June 2018