Chris Ferris | Open Source CTO | In the Open with Luke and Joe

IBM Developer Podcast

In this episode, we are pleased to bring you a conversation with the Open Technology CTO and IBM Fellow Chris Ferris.

Chris Ferris, IBM Fellow & CTO Open Source Technology, @christo4ferris

Joe Sepi, Host, Open Source Engineer & Advocate, @joe_sepi

Luke Schantz, Host, Developer Advocate, Quantum Ambassador, @IBMDeveloper, @lukeschantz

Key Takeaways:

• [00:05 - 00:28] Intro to the episode
• [04:54 - 07:40] Chris shares his IBM story
• [07:57 - 11:51] IBM's open source story
• [13:20 - 16:05] The Value of Open Source in the Cloud Era
• [17:32 - 19:10] Important skills for those in open source
• [19:27 - 22:08] How IBM shares open source knowledge internally and with customers
• [23:44 - 27:19] The Open Source Security Foundation
• [32:23 - 36:17] Some things Chris is working on and excited about
• [41:12 - 42:54] The new data license agreement

Resources:

IBM's open-source story: https://www.ibm.com/opensource/story/

Red Hat State of Enterprise Open Source Report: https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-open-source-report/2022

Open Source Security Foundation: https://openssf.org/

IBM’s Project CodeNet -- a large dataset aimed at teaching AI to code: https://research.ibm.com/blog/codenet-ai-for-code

Project Ray -- Fast and Simple Distributed Computing: https://www.ray.io/

New collaborative data license agreement created to make sharing data sets easier -- Linux Foundation AI releases Community Data License Agreement v2 license, 364 words of data-sharing clarity: https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/new-collaborative-data-license-agreement-makes-sharing-data-sets-easier/

LinuxOne (Z/Linux) builds a platform for OSS projects: https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/utilize-linuxone-as-a-platform-to-build-open-source-technology/