Come Meet the Google Open Source Team at OSCON!

Google Cloud is proud to be a Diamond Sponsor at OSCON, and we’re excited for another year of connecting, learning, and sharing with the open source community! Google is deeply grateful to all of your amazing open source efforts, so to celebrate, our booth will have an Open Gratitude wall where we will acknowledge your contributions, and where we encourage you to express your gratitude for those who have helped you in open source!

Once you’ve recognized your open source heroes on the Open Gratitude wall, stick around at the Google Open Source booth to learn about topics such as open source governance, documentation, open source in ML and gaming, encouraging non-code contributions, and about Google’s open source outreach programs in general. At our booth sessions you can also explore open source projects such as Kubernetes, Istio, Go, and Beam (as well as other Apache projects). Booth office hours run from 10:15am to 7pm Wednesday, July 17, and from 10:15am to 4:10pm on Thursday, July 18. The full schedule will be posted at the booth—please come by and check it out!

In addition to the events at the booth, the Google open source team has two workshops on Tuesday, July 16:

• 9:00 –12:30: Zero to Docs: Hands-On Documentation Workshop

This half-day workshop kicks off with an overview of research-backed documentation best practices. Andrew Chen, Erin McKean, and Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy lead you through a hands-on exercise in which you'll create the skeleton of a ready-to-deploy documentation website for your open source project.

• 1:30 – 5:00: Hands-on Kubernetes New Contributor Workshop

Paris Pittman takes you through the ins and outs of the Kubernetes contributor community so you can land your first PR. You'll learn about SIGs, the GitHub workflow, its automation and continuous integration (CI), setting up your dev environment, and much more. Stick around until the end, and you'll have time to work on your first PR with the help of current contributors.

We also hope you attend the main conference sessions presented by Googlers, especially the keynotes on Wednesday (Built to last: What Google and Microsoft have learned growing open source communities) and Thursday (Be a Docs Star), and the sessions on Wednesday:

• 11:00 – 11:40: Live coding a machine learning model from scratch
• 1:45 – 2:25: Flutter meets the Physical World
• 1:45 – 2:25: Introducing Kubeflow w/ Special Guests Tensorflow & cross-cloud machine learning
• 4:15 – 4:55: Real-time streaming APIs: from data-center to Internet clients

And Thursday:

• 11:50 – 12:30: Open Source Citizenship
• 1:45 – 2:25: CI/CD in a cloud native world
• 2:35 – 3:15:Break me if you can: practical guide to building fault-tolerant systems
• 2:35 – 3:15: Serverless On Your Own Terms using Knative
• 4:15 – 4:55: Code Generation: Principles and Challenges

As part of our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive community, we’ve redirected our conference swag budget into diversity scholarships. (We believe you’d prefer to have more interesting conversations with a wider range of people over another pair of socks!) But if you are looking for a souvenir of your time in Portland there will be a special Portland-themed sticker featuring Pancakes, the (extremely adorable) gRPC mascot, and we encourage projects to take and leave stickers in our sticker-swap space!

OSCON is one of the highlights of the year for those of us who love open source—we’re thrilled to be able to share what we’ve learned with you, and to learn what you’re interested in and excited about (and also what you think could improve). See you in Portland!