Daniel Riek
Daniel is a Technologist with more than 25 years of experience in the Open Source business, global product management, engineering management, and product strategy for a world leading enterprise product, solid experience in a global leadership role at a S&P 500 company, sales and solution architect positions, IT consulting, management of software development teams, different management position in SMB, VC financed, and publicly traded companies, 23 years Linux administration and programming as a hobby. Also exposure to the end-user side of IT in the financial industry and to proprietary software business.
He currently works at a small stealth-mode startup. His previous roles include creating Red Hat's AI Center of Excellence, running cross-product integration, as well as RHEL Product Management.
His is especially interested in the intersection of Open Source, Decentralization, Web3, and AI.
Session
Free Software started out as movement to empower the downstream user and give end-users a way to be in control of their own technology. But with the rebranding to Open Source and the commercial success, this aspect has taken backseat to corporate interests and cloudification has driven a general trend to centralization that has not spared Open Source. At the same time, a rift has appeared between very much Open Source-based decentralization movements - namely Fediverse and Web2 - and the mainstream Open Source development. Some of this rift is a reflection of different technology philosophies, some of a broader cultural rift.
This talk explores the issues and attempts to map a path for overcomming the rift.