Jason Hibbets, the managing editor for “We Love Open Source” at All Things Open, explains that the conference would like for you to tell them about the talk, tool, or hallway conversation that changed how you work.
All Things Open 2026 wrapped up in Raleigh in October, but the best ideas outlast the hallway conversations, and I want to hear what stuck with you.
Here’s why I’m asking. In August, Jim Hall, one of our community writers, published “The Copyright Problem with AI-Generated Code.” He argues open source licenses rest on copyright, and US courts keep finding that AI-generated work without enough human authorship isn’t eligible for it.
Wayan Vota read it. Wayan had never opened GitHub before May, and in four months a coding agent helped him publish 27 repositories. He’d added open source licenses to all of them after the fact:
“Then I read Jim Hall’s ‘The Copyright Problem with AI-Generated Code,’ and understood that adding an open source license may not have fixed my repos.”
That realization sent him into a full audit. He switched on Dependabot and CodeQL, found 270 dependency alerts and 27 code-scanning findings, and wrote up what he fixed, what he couldn’t verify, and what he still doesn’t know in “I Turned on Dependabot and Found 270 Alerts.”
One article sparked another, and readers got two honest perspectives on a question a lot of us are wrestling with. That’s the kind of conversation I want more of.
So, what did you learn at All Things Open?
- Did a talk change how you think about agentic AI, or what you’d let an agent do on its own?
- Did you discover a tool that’s already helping you get your work done faster?
- Did a hallway conversation solve a problem you’d been stuck on?
- Did you leave with a question you’re still chewing on?
You don’t need a polished thesis and you don’t need all the answers. Wayan’s piece works because he’s upfront about what he doesn’t know yet. A short write-up of one session, one tool, or one idea you’re trying out is exactly what other readers are looking for, especially the folks who couldn’t make it to Raleigh.
Write it up and send it our way by the end of the month (or really any time you feel inspired to share). And if your story sparks the next one, even better.
FOSS Force is a proud All Things Open Media Sponsor.
Editor’s note: Here at FOSS Force, we would also be interested in hearing from you. We’d like to hear your thoughts on our coverage of All Things Open and other conferences. You can use our online contact form to let us know what we could do to make our coverage more useful to you.
Jason Hibbets is the managing editor for We Love Open Source at All Things Open.
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