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The Linux Foundation’s post-event report says Open Source Summit North America 2022 brought 2,771 attendees to a hybrid event spanning Austin and virtual participation. Held June 20–24, 2022, the summit brought together 14 component events and a program focused on open-source technologies, community topics, and security.

What happened at OSS NA22?

Open Source Summit North America 2022 (OSS NA22) was an umbrella conference organized by The Linux Foundation, with in-person attendance in Austin, Texas, alongside virtual participation. The Foundation’s post-event report describes 14 component events covering technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source.

The scale figures in that report are distinct measures: attendee headcount, in-person attendance, organizations represented, and countries represented.

Measure Reported figure
Total attendees 2,771
In-person attendees in Austin 1,286
Organizations represented 1,041
Countries represented 68
Component events 14

These are figures reported by The Linux Foundation in its 2022 event report; the organization count is not an attendee count.

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Who attended?

The Foundation reported that 54% of attendees held technical positions and that developers accounted for more than a quarter of attendees. Those are separate descriptions of attendees’ roles, not percentages that should be added together.

The report’s rounded regional shares show a predominantly North American audience, with participants from other regions as well:

Region Share of attendees reported by The Linux Foundation
North America 77%
Europe 11%
Asia 8%
South America 2%
Oceania 1%
Africa 1%

The regional shares are the rounded values printed in the report.

What was on the program?

Before the event, The Linux Foundation announced a schedule of 300 talks across keynotes, conference sessions, tutorials, and birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions. That is the announced schedule count, not a figure in the post-event attendance report. Examples in the announcement ranged from LinuxCon’s “Memory Folios” to a CloudOpen session about a petascale telemetry backend with OpenTelemetry and an Embedded Linux Conference session on V4L2 M2M as a driver framework for video-processing IP.

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The umbrella included events such as LinuxCon, Embedded Linux Conference, SupplyChainSecurityCon, CloudOpen, OSPOCon, Emerging OS Forum, and ContainerCon. The April 21, 2022 schedule announcement describes the range of the conference program.

Why did security feature prominently?

Open-source security was a visible theme across several summit components. In a July 26, 2022 recap, The Linux Foundation highlighted OpenSSF Day, Critical Software Summit, SupplyChainSecurityCon, and Global Security Vulnerability Summit. The Foundation characterized the discussions as a community effort involving stakeholders, collaboration, tools, and training; this is its description of the program, rather than an independent assessment of the event’s impact.

Read the Foundation’s security recap for its account of those sessions and themes.

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Where can you find the report and recordings?

The official OSS NA22 event archive links to the post-event report and 2022 session recordings. The archive establishes that recording links are provided, but it does not establish that every session was recorded or that the recordings remain accessible now.

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