Title: Cultivating Cultural Cooperation: Bridging Boundaries Through Collaborative Environments

Abstract: The term “international cultural cooperation” refers to formalized collaborations that involve cultural actors across national boundaries, and aim at disseminating knowledge, culture, and artworks. The actors involved are many and diverse.

In some countries, departments in foreign ministries and embassies are specifically dedicated to cultural cooperation, whilst in others, this task is sometimes conducted by private foundations, educational or cultural institutions, as well as by NGOs.

Join Hippie as we explore cultural cooperation beyond the open source ecosystem. Learn how we can help strengthen ties across projects and integrate contribution styles, discover common norms, share conventions as templates, and foster know-how exchanges and to favor the circulation of ideas. Some highlighted projects will include the K8s Conformance Program, the Infrastructure of Kubernetes, and the collaborative environment that helps get our eyes all on the same page.

Bio: Hippie Hacker has been working on collaborative technologies since the early 90s. Trying to help get our eyes onto the same page (sometimes literally the same “webpage”).

Hippie runs a ii.nz, a consulting organization with a focus on bringing cooperative innovations beyond industry and into community efforts and education. He’s recently moved back to Boulder after 15 years to cross-pollinate some of those efforts and ideas with the local University and Startup communities.

Hippie’s career spans Director of IT for Computer Science at Texas Tech University, Security R&D in telecom and banking industry, bootable infrastructure for seagoing vessels and developing nations, and for the last decade with Open Source communites and conformance under the Linux Foundation / Cloud Native Compute Foundation.