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SUMMARY:Data That Travels: Cross-Domain Insights from our Open Source Jour
 ney in Education - Caitlin Augustin\, Dave Parry\, Larry Kilroy
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UID:pretalx-open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026-ADJZEC@pretalx.com
DESCRIPTION:Higher education runs on sprawling edtech stacks built on prop
 rietary\, opaque data models — fragmentation that deepens vendor lock-in
 \, drives up costs\, and blocks institutions from building the trustworthy
 \, AI-ready tools their students need.\n\nAt DataKind\, we've spent years 
 building the alternative: open source infrastructure and products now used
  by 100+ broad-access institutions serving over 1 million students. This t
 alk shares how we use Apache Spark\, Apache Airflow\, and Apache ECharts t
 o power two freely available\, open core education products designed to su
 pport student graduation success.\n\nEducation is where this panel starts
 \, but not where it ends. Our work in education has sharpened our view on 
 an open source data infrastructure approach — one that turns fragmented 
 institutional data into a reusable foundation that can unlock impact acros
 s student success support\, institutional technology transformation\, and 
 sector AI innovation.\n\nWe will share our work on a deployable open data 
 model and associated infrastructure for staging\, mapping\, transformation
 \, and access\, built around four pillars of trust (modular pipelines for 
 institutional autonomy\, public versioned code\, standardized data diction
 aries\, and schema lineage tracking) and discuss practical challenges — 
 including data quality\, system interoperability\, and explainability — 
 to translate open infrastructure into tools that non-technical teams can a
 ctually use.\n\nAttendees will leave with access to open source public-goo
 d infrastructure for student success\; frameworks for evaluating shared da
 ta models and AI-ready infrastructure\; practical approaches to institutio
 nal deployment\; and opportunities to join a community building an interop
 erable foundation on which an ecosystem — not a single organization — 
 can innovate.
LOCATION:Academia and EdTech
URL:https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/talk/ADJZEC
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SUMMARY:Who Pays for Adoption? Rethinking How We Fund Open Software After 
 It's Built - Caitlin Augustin\, Dave Parry
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DESCRIPTION:Open source is often presented to mission-driven organizations
  as a technology choice. Our research suggests that durable adoption requi
 res a different operating model\; it requires both an investment in softwa
 re creation\, but also the necessary adoption infrastructure to sustain it
 s use. \nAs DataKind expanded its own software portfolio\, we studied impl
 ementation partnerships\, governance arrangements\, procurement structures
 \, and business operations across four sector contexts. The pattern was co
 nsistent: technically mature open-source solutions fail to scale or persis
 t when implementation\, stewardship\, and support capabilities remain exte
 rnal to the institutions responsible for long-term use. \n\nWe call the mi
 ssing piece adoption infrastructure — the governance\, implementation se
 rvices\, maintenance capacity\, and partner ecosystems that turn open tech
 nology into durable public infrastructure. Proprietary vendors bake these 
 functions into their business model. Open source ecosystems usually don't 
 — leaving them fragmented\, underfunded\, or dependent on grant cycles t
 hat were never designed to sustain them.\n\nThis panel asks who should clo
 se that gap\, and how. We'll examine the case for treating interoperabilit
 y standards and shared IP as long-term public goods rather than one-off de
 liverables\; why procurement processes built to buy licenses struggle to b
 uy the implementation work adoption actually requires\; and what it would 
 mean for philanthropy specifically to fund infrastructure and stewardship 
 rather than repeatedly funding new software.\nAttendees will leave with a 
 framework for diagnosing why open solutions stall after launch\, and a set
  of priorities for funders\, procurement teams\, and adopting organization
 s who want their investments to actually last.
LOCATION:Governance\, compliance and business
URL:https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/talk/PBD9AV
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