The Linux Foundation Announces Schedule for WasmCon 2023

Inaugural event aims to unite developers, engineers, architects, and business leaders interested in the latest deployments and use cases for WebAssembly 

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the schedule for WasmCon, a new event for developers, engineers, architects, and business leaders exploring the vast potential of WebAssembly (Wasm). WasmCon takes place September 6-7, 2023 at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue, Washington. View the full schedule here.

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The inaugural WasmCon aims to provide a forum for attendees to learn from and network with industry experts about the latest tools, trends, and emerging technologies in the WebAssembly community. The event will feature keynotes, technical sessions, and hands-on workshops led by industry technologists who will cover a breadth of WebAssembly subjects such as cloud, emerging technologies, tooling and ecosystems, real-world use cases, and security, among others.

WasmCon Schedule Highlights Include:

WasmCon will also feature co-located events and workshops including Rust Global, an event hosted by The Rust Foundation to foster learning and discussion among global business leaders and Rust programming language advocates. Taking place on September 6, Rust Global is an opportunity for technology decision makers, business leaders, and Rust advocates to connect with, learn from, and inspire one another. View the full schedule here.

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Rust Global Schedule Highlights Include:

RegistrationEarly Bird registration for WasmCon is offered for US$399 now through August 7, which represents a savings of US$200. Special registration rates of US$199 are also available for hobbyists, academics, and students.

To register for Rust Global, please register for WasmCon and add on Rust Global for US$15.

Members of The Linux Foundation receive a 20 percent discount off registration and can contact events@linuxfoundation.org to request a member discount code.

Event SponsorsWasmCon 2023 is made possible thanks to event sponsors including:

For information on becoming an event sponsor, click here or email sponsorships@linuxfoundation.org.

PressMembers of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact Kristin O'Connell.

Social Media Join the conversation on social media by using the hashtag #WasmCon.

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Linux Group Shares Its First Open Dataset for Creating Real Google Maps Alternatives

If you’re not Google (or, to a much lesser extent, Apple), map apps are damned hard to make. Last year, several major heavy hitters in tech, including the likes of Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon, decided to lay down their arms and meet under a flag of parlay held aloft by the Linux Foundation to make mapping just a little easier, cheaper, and less dominated by two companies. Alone, none could establish a big enough data pool to rival the likes of Google Maps, but with their individual hoards of business location data, satellite mapping tech, and more support from smaller tech firms, they could perhaps gather enough data together to help create a whole new series of up-to-date map apps.

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On Wednesday, this pooled initiative, called the Overture Maps Foundation, shared its first alpha release for its mapping data. It contains millions of examples for buildings, roads, and geographic boundaries. It’s only the first large release for the planned massive dataset, but the hope is there will be much more to come as companies sign on.

Marc Prioleau, the executive director of the Overture Maps Foundation, was named as head of the project back in May. He’s been around mapping projects for many years, having worked in the start of the GPS market back in 1995, and later moved on to the likes of Meta and Uber for their location-based services. He said if there’s one thing that strikes at the difficulty of building a high-quality app with exacting road and place information, it’s the ephemeral nature of public infrastructure.

“The hardest thing in mapping is knowing what’s changed in the world,” Prioleau told Gizmodo in a video chat. Essentially, map apps are some of the hardest to design simply because of the massive amount of data required to build the systems. Not only do they need to be accurate, but they need to be constantly updated when businesses close and new ones open.

The first Overture release contains about 59 million points of interest that the group claims has not yet been released as open data before. A POI could be anything—a public landmark, a specific building, or a local business. Otherwise, the data contains about 750 million building footprints alongside road data that’s mostly collated from the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap project.

So how much of the world does this alpha release truly cover? Prioleau said the POI data makes up around 60 to 70% of a worldwide dataset. In his mind, a good number to shoot for is somewhere between 80 and 100 million places. It’s something of a Goldilocks problem. With around 200 million POIs, Prioleau said you’d likely be hoarding a lot of “junk,” but too little means you’re obviously missing out on locations, especially from less represented countries.

As far as the building data, he said that “feels pretty complete” as far as laying out worldwide structures, considering that the U.S. itself contains something around 100 million buildings. A good chunk of that data came from Meta through businesses listing their addresses on Facebook or Instagram. Microsoft also handed over some of its data through its work on Bing Maps, but the two sets combined included duplicates, which cut down on total numbers. The Overture director said the foundation has plans to add more datasets in the future from other sources centered on different continents.

The road data is a different beast entirely. The vast majority of it is based on the OpenStreetMap project, an open source, wiki-style resource compiled by internet users going on nearly 18 years. Prioleau said Overture has modified the project’s info to make it easier to attach new datapoints. The project has also worked to standardize and fact check the data contained on the project’s site. There’s also several benefits to using this Wikipedia-style map compared to how Google might spend billions maintaining its map data every year (or otherwise buying up the competition like it did with Waze). Users on the ground can archive and modify the map to note damage during a natural disaster.

“One of the things [OpenStreetMap] does incredibly well is build richness into the map, because what you map is no longer determined by what your commercial interest is, it’s what the community wants to map.”

Prioleau described himself as “the only full time employee” of the Linux Foundation-based group. Otherwise, the Foundation has depended on around 130 engineers from Meta, Microsoft, and more of the steering companies. As far as maintaining the data, the Overture head said that there’s no contractual agreement for companies to use the open source resources, but they’re still heavily encouraging all those who build upon their foundation to somehow deliver back to the data source with any new information they collect.

“The incentive is: if you want to fork [AKA build off] Overture, start building your own dataset and not deliver stuff back, then you’re on your own to maintain that dataset going forward.” Prioleau said. “So the incentive to giving back is that your data remains part of this consortium.”

What’s next is to create a “global entity reference system” for attaching data points to a map, which will then facilitate even more layers of information for new apps. Today’s map users aren’t just looking for ways to get from place to place, but from door to door. Delivery drivers need to know where they can pick up and drop off items. People with disabilities want to know where they can find ramp or elevator access.

“Maps are really digitization of things that are observable,” the Overture lead said. “We’re not mapping secret stuff. We’re mapping roads and addresses and places—things that are observable. And as the ways of capturing observable stuff gets better, the ability to build maps gets better.”

LF Asia, LLC & the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announce Schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023

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Back in person in Shanghai, the biggest open source event in China will showcase the growing cloud native momentum in the region and innovation across industries

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software and LF Asia, LLC, today announced the schedule for , taking place in Shanghai from September 26 – 29, 2023. The event will feature 123 sessions – with 28 maintainer track sessions – highlighting experts from organizations including Alibaba Cloud, DaoCloud, Intel, ByteDance, and more will cover the most pressing subjects in cloud native innovation.

Thousands of attendees from across China will connect at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China, including maintainers and end users of CNCF-hosted .

"Over the last year, there has been considerable momentum in both Chinese organizations joining as CNCF members and the amount of code contributions to CNCF projects," said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the CNCF. "It has been several years since they have been in person in China, and they are looking forward to coming together once again to discuss challenges, successes, and technical insights around cloud native technologies."  

A program committee of more than 69 experts led by conference co-chairs Fog Dong (董天欣) and Kevin Wang (王泽锋) reviewed 589 submissions to curate a relevant and educational line up. The agenda features talks that address community challenges, deep dives, technical overviews and much more. The schedule offers compelling content for attendees with all levels of technical background, and sessions will be presented in either English or Chinese; captioning will be available if translation is needed.

The community-curated for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023 will feature sessions including:

The full KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China program can be viewed .

Thank You, SponsorsKubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China is made possible thanks to the generous support from . You can find more information on sponsorships .

Registration Early Bird Pricing ends on August 9, 2023. now!

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About Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry's top developers, end users, and vendors, and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit LF Asia, LLC and the Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.

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