My first-ever keynote! At LambdaConf 2025, I’ll be speaking on how critical open source software has become to software projects in general. Because OSS is a public good — because maintainers’ time is a “commons” — , it is essential that we treat OSS as what it is: infrastructure. But how do we do that without losing the other goods of OSS?!? Come to my talk!

The abstract in full:

Over the past decades, open source software has evolved from a novelty — frightening to some, dazzling with promise for others — to the bedrock of nearly all software development. (Consider: Thirty years ago, almost no major programming language was free or open source. Now it is all-but-unthinkable to launch a new language which is closed source, still less to charge for a compiler license.) It is tempting to construe open source projects as commons: cultural and natural resources we all inherit. But they are not. They are infrastructure. It is time we started treating them accordingly. The future of open source software — indeed, the future of software — depends on it.

LambdaConf is always a thoroughly interesting conference, and I am honored to have been invited to deliver a keynote!