Last updated on November 22, 2024
All of this year’s presentations that took place in the three large “ballrooms” at the Raleigh Convention Center will be available online soon.
If you’ve been hearing good things about this year’s All Things Open event (and if you’re heard anything at all, it was likely good) you don’t have to fret because you weren’t able to go and you think you missed out. That’s because even though ATO organizers didn’t offer a live virtual version of the conference this year, they did make video recordings of a lot of the stuff that happened, and they’re now making those recordings available in a piecemeal fashion online.
Available Recordings
The first batch went up today, which means that the keynotes for both days of the event are available, as well as the entirety of Inclusion & Diversity, a free event sponsored by ATO that took place the day before the big tent went up for the main conference. Organizer’s promise that the rest of the recorded sessions will be available soon and will presumably be accessible from the same URL as the batch released today.
Again this year, the keynotes were emceed by Jono Bacon, an open source consultant who became well known in open source circles during his tenure as Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical. Among others, the keynote speakers included Craig McLuckie, who revealed that his startup, Stacklok, was donating its Minder project to OpenSSF, and Chris Coyier, co-founder of CodePen and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Not all sessions were recorded, however. As far as I can tell only the events that took place in the three ballrooms (the largest rooms utilized by the conference) were recorded. This includes all of the presentations on the DevOps, Developer 1, and Machine Learning/AI 1 tracks. In addition, sessions that took place in the Case Study/Demo 1 and Case Study/Demo 2 tracks were recorded.
In case I’m wrong about that, for the time being this year’s schedule remains available online, which means you can determine for yourself whether an event you’d like to see will eventually be available, regardless of whether it’s in one of the tracks I listed or not. Just go to the schedule and click on the name of a presentation you want to see to bring up its description. If it was recorded, it’ll say “this session will be recorded” at the bottom of the description.
All Things Open 2025
The date for All Things Open 2025 has already been announced. As always, it’ll be in the spooky Halloween month of October, but will be a little earlier in the month than it’s lately been, on October 12-14.
If you think you might want to go, I suggest that you sign up for email updates sooner rather than later. Last December the event ran a “flash sale” that offered admission to both days of the event for $79 dollars, which was a discount of more than $200. If you think you want to go, I’d grab that deal if it becomes available again.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article failed to include Case Study/Demo 1 and Case Study/Demo 2 as tracks that had been recorded for later release.
Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
