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[Luis (lu.is)]

Hi, all-
Slightly tangential to this group’s work, but my company put on a conference yesterday on “the accidental supply chain”, talking about how volunteer open source maintainers got co-opted into a global supply chain. The entire schedule is here but I wanted to call out a few talks in particular that might be of interest:

• My keynote, explaining why we call this an “accidental” supply chain and what implications that might have for long term anti-fragility work in this space: https://youtu.be/ouKd1c6_NC0
• Mike Milinkovich, of the Eclipse Foundation, talking about the challenges of maintainership when usage and regulation changes drastically: https://youtu.be/N_qWn7ccUDA
• Me with Ben Adida of Voting Works, talking mostly about voting machine security, but also about the challenge of maintaining voting machines and deciding when to swap old ones out for new ones: https://youtu.be/nryaXB8SMsE
• Me with Catherine Stihler of Creative Commons and David Widder of CMU on the ethics of AI’s supply chain; this isn’t a maintenance talk per se, but I think there’s going to be very significant maintenance-like challenges in the AI supply chain very soon (arguably we’re there already) and so this may be interesting to many of you, especially as an intro to David’s research work on the way software supply chains are used to avoid ethical considerations in software.

Hope some of you find this interesting!

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