Upcoming Events Summary

OpenForce 2022 (March 3-31) https://www.openforce.tech/

OpenForce 202 is an initiative taken up for the students to provide them with the best learning environment and help them gain the principal knowledge about the fastest-growing fields in "Open Source." The event is organized by Codeflow, an organization that serves the ultimate purpose of "Learning must go on", whose main motive is to empower the student community by organizing webinars, hackathons, and open source events.

It provides a contribution period, where the open source organizations in the program will provide OpenForce Specific Issues which participants can resolve; as well as panel mentorship, where mentors from the organizations are available for students for any kind of help or doubts.

SphereEx has been fully supportive and engaged throughout the process by supporting the ShardingSphere community.

On 5 March, Yacine Si Tayeb, Apache contributor & SphereEx Head of International Operations, talked about "A Student's Open Source Handbook: Tips & How to Land Your Dream Job" in the dedicated session.

The Apache ShardingSphere community has created nearly over 100 Github issues at all levels for contributors of all levels to contribute to open source. SphereEx also provides 3 mentors - Trista Pan, SphereEx Co-Founder & CTO, Apache Member & Apache Incubator Mentor and Apache ShardingSphere PMC; Haoran Meng, SphereEx Senior Development Engineer and Apache ShardingSphere PMC; M.V. Thanoshan, Apache ShardingSphere Committer, Google Summer of Code Contributor 2021. The community has been providing timely help to students with all kinds of questions on several platforms.

The event is ongoing, and more issues are expected as the Apache ShardingSphere project appears to be very popular among the students.

FOSS Backstage (March 17-18) https://foss-backstage.de/

FOSS Backstage is dedicated to encouraging more discourse about the non-coding aspects of successful open source projects. It provides a space to discuss a broad spectrum of issues related to community management, vendor neutrality and leading projects without discretionary power.

Conference topics will include open source project leadership best practices, community management, open source project metrics, open source strategy for enterprise, adopting open source collaboration in corporations, legal matters when dealing with open source and many more.

Trista Pan, SphereEx Co-Founder & CTO, Apache Member & Apache Incubator Mentor and Apache ShardingSphere PMC will deliver a speech on 18 March, sharing "How to Grow and Mentor an Open Source Community & Achieve Collaboration with Over 170 Listed Corporations."

Trista will share her empowering journey and valuable experience of being the CTO at an open source commercial start-up, how women in tech can take the challenges they face and turn them into opportunities, and best practices for open source project leadership.

Devcon 2022 (March 25-26) https://dev-con.dev/speakers/

DevCon 2022, is the largest platform for the developer ecosystem in the Asia Pacific region. Developers, technology leaders and dev-tool companies come together at DevCon to learn, discuss and debate the key opportunities and challenges. It’s the ultimate platform for the developer ecosystem with the best of resources, communities and practices. Over 30,000 developers, 2000 CTOs and 1000 Product & Design Leaders are attending the event.

Trista Pan, SphereEx Co-Founder & CTO, Apache Member & Apache Incubator Mentor and Apache ShardingSphere PMC will deliver a speech on 25 March, sharing "How to Grow and Mentor an Open Source Community & Achieve Collaboration with Over 170 Listed Corporations."

FOSS ASIA (April 7-9) https://fossasia.org/

FOSS ASIA is an organization developing Open Source software applications and Open Hardware together with a global community from its base in Asia. Its goal is to provide access to open technologies, science applications and knowledge that improve people's lives, with the wish to enable people to adapt and change technology according to their own ideas and needs and validate science and knowledge through an Open Access approach.

Trista Pan, SphereEx Co-Founder & CTO, Apache Member & Apache Incubator Mentor and Apache ShardingSphere PMC will deliver a speech at the event, sharing "PostgreSQL Distributed & Secure Database Ecosystem Building."

Trista will share how to empower PostgreSQL databases with incremental capabilities such as data sharding, data encryption and other functions, thanks to the ecosystem provided by Apache ShardingSphere - an open source distributed database, plus an ecosystem users and developers need for their database to provide a customized and cloud-native experience.

Big Data EU 2022 (November 21-24) https://bigdataconference.eu/

Big Data Conference Europe is a four-day conference with technical talks in the fields of Big Data, High Load, Data Science, Machine Learning and AI. The conference brings together developers, IT professionals and users to share their experience, discuss best practices, describe use cases and business applications related to their successes.

Trista Pan, SphereEx Co-Founder & CTO, Apache Member & Apache Incubator Mentor and Apache ShardingSphere PMC will deliver a speech on November 21, sharing "PostgreSQL Distributed & Secure Database Ecosystem Building."