Open Source Summit North America 2022

As the world accelerates towards decarbonisation, the need for climate impact accounting at scale becomes more pressing. One of the greatest challenges in this regard is the description, comparison and aggregation of impact claims due to the multitude of existing accounting and reporting standards. The reconciliation and aggregation of these claims, in the interest of climate impact “bookkeeping” at a global scale, requires a common underlying semantic structure – which currently does not exist. The Standards Working Group (Standards WG) of the Hyperledger Climate Action and Accounting Special Interest Group (CA2-SIG) aims to lay out such a semantic structure. Working from the premise that agents engage in activities that impact environments, the WG is actively searching out standards to distill their semantic structures into an ontology that most adequately describes these elements and the relationships between them. The ontology is by design open source, collaborative, dynamic and technology agnostic. The presentation will provide an overview of the WG's work to date, introduce the latest version of the basic ontology, and demonstrate the ontology's application by means of an exemplary use case.

The world is facing ever greater challenges spurred by climate change including a warming planet, more frequent and destructive disasters, and inequitable outcomes for vulnerable communities. But as this threat grows, it's matched by a fast-growing group of new problem solvers who are bringing more than just programming skills to the fight. Those developers are supported by over a dozen "Call for Code with The Linux Foundation" open source projects and a diverse community that takes on the world's greatest challenges, including disaster mitigation, economic and environmental sustainability, and racial justice. In this session, you'll learn about the framework that Call for Code uses to initiate, incubate, and deliver impact through its projects together with an ecosystem of partners. You'll also learn how you can advance any of these projects whether you are technical or not - including two new projects added in 2022 (OpenTempus and Green Farm) - and get started with your first open source contribution. Finally, you'll hear about this year's Call for Code Global Challenge which is your opportunity to build something new for the annual competition to tackle these important issues with your own cutting-edge innovation based on the latest emerging technology.