[00:00.000 --> 00:18.120]  So, hello and welcome to FOSDEM 2023 and I hope everyone is awake and looking forward
[00:18.120 --> 00:23.640]  to two days packed with lots of talks, at least I am.
[00:23.640 --> 00:33.120]  And we, that's Christy, Thorsten and me, we are the organizers or deaf room managers
[00:33.120 --> 00:39.640]  for this room, so if you have any questions, you can approach us, we are here to guide
[00:39.640 --> 00:45.920]  through the day and we are also the ones who submitted the idea of the sovereign cloud
[00:45.920 --> 00:54.880]  deaf room to the FOSDEM and we did that because, well, with our day work, we actually work
[00:54.880 --> 01:02.280]  in that space, so Thorsten is from the Operate First project by Red Hat, I work on the sovereign
[01:02.280 --> 01:09.440]  cloud stack, which is also a project that is centered with a focus on sovereign cloud
[01:09.440 --> 01:16.440]  infrastructure and standards and of course, as we work with that on a day to day base,
[01:16.440 --> 01:24.080]  we think it's an important topic and also the term sovereignty, digital sovereignty
[01:24.080 --> 01:31.400]  is often a term that is used a lot lately and it actually needs proper definition and
[01:31.400 --> 01:36.560]  it also, there needs to be a discussion about it, what it actually means and what is needed
[01:36.560 --> 01:43.280]  in order to work towards sovereign infrastructure and that, if you look at the talks that are
[01:43.280 --> 01:52.520]  happening today in this room, that will be discussed a lot and, yeah, I don't really
[01:52.520 --> 01:58.040]  have much more to add to that, Thorsten, do you want to?
[01:58.040 --> 02:03.360]  Again, yeah, so I'm working with Red Hat and I'm in the Project Operate First, which
[02:03.360 --> 02:09.120]  is the idea of open operations, you can see the stickers here and if you want to pick
[02:09.120 --> 02:18.160]  them up, the idea there is that we offer more or less free service by where you can open
[02:18.160 --> 02:25.440]  up your own Kubernetes clusters, you can deploy your project there and you have also a kind
[02:25.440 --> 02:31.080]  of open SRE there because you can see the different infrastructure data and so that's
[02:31.080 --> 02:37.120]  the basic idea of open operations and with open operations, you get the chance to be
[02:37.120 --> 02:41.400]  sovereign with your data because it's easy to move, it's easy to see and we are totally
[02:41.400 --> 02:45.480]  hybrid so it doesn't matter if it's on your own premise or in whatever cloud or you're
[02:45.480 --> 02:51.120]  switching in between, so Operate First is kind of the idea, one of the proof of concept
[02:51.120 --> 02:56.200]  that the idea of sovereign cloud can work in a practical idea.
[02:56.200 --> 03:04.080]  Hi, I'm Kristin Nicola, I'm a software engineer with Boston University, I work on the MOC
[03:04.080 --> 03:10.280]  Alliance project out of Boston University whose goal is to create an open cloud for
[03:10.280 --> 03:16.440]  academia but not only, I also work on OpenStack, I am on the OpenStack Technical Committee
[03:16.440 --> 03:22.880]  and I am a maintainer of the OpenStack Keystone project which is for identity management,
[03:22.880 --> 03:29.960]  I also work on varying degrees on Operate First with Thorstein on Open Infra Labs and
[03:29.960 --> 03:37.040]  on various acronym rich things like NERC, Nessie, etc.
[03:37.040 --> 03:46.320]  And working on open source and having worked on deploying and maintaining open clouds,
[03:46.320 --> 03:51.760]  the topic of sovereign clouds is very important to me and I see it as the next step in not
[03:51.760 --> 03:56.320]  just opening up the telemetry and how you're deploying it and how you're running it but
[03:56.320 --> 04:02.720]  also opening up the governance and all of those other aspects to actually create a place
[04:02.720 --> 04:08.800]  where everyone can contribute to on all aspects of the cloud and not just take what you're
[04:08.800 --> 04:15.320]  doing and apply it to a different degree.
[04:15.320 --> 04:19.720]  So with that I, Boston already had the first highlight for me because I did not know that
[04:19.720 --> 04:25.840]  you are the PTL for Keystone so that's really useful for me to know because we just submitted
[04:25.840 --> 04:34.600]  patches to Keystone for federated authentication and so we should really talk a lot more.
[04:34.600 --> 04:42.080]  So with that the first one who will talk will be my colleague Max and he will prepare and
[04:42.080 --> 04:47.960]  then we will give a proper introduction to Max and start with that in 10 minutes, right?
[04:47.960 --> 04:51.200]  Yeah, in 10 minutes, right.
[04:51.200 --> 04:57.440]  And feel free, here's some candy, some chocolate, if you want to, there are stickers there and
[04:57.440 --> 05:20.200]  yeah enjoy the day, right?