Intel’s Katherine Druckman and the Impact of Developer Relations

What's in the SOSS? An OpenSSF Podcast

In this episode, CRob discusses the finer points of developer relations (DevRel) with Katherine Druckman, Open Source Evangelist at Intel and co-chair of the OpenSSF Marketing Advisory Council and DevRel Community. Katherine enjoys sharing her passion for a variety of open source topics and is a long-time open source advocate, developer and podcaster. She’s currently the host of Open at Intel and co-host of the FLOSS Weekly and Reality 2.0 podcasts. She spent over a decade at Linux Journal. A passionate Drupalist since she first downloaded a tarball in 2005, she has also been a Drupal contributor and engineer.

Additionally, Katherine will be a featured speaker at SOSS Fusion/24 in Atlanta on Oct. 22-23. SOSS Fusion/24 is a collaborative and forward-thinking initiative dedicated to securing open source software. This event will bring together a diverse community of professionals from the public sector, software developers, security engineers to cybersecurity experts, CISOs, CIOs, Founders and tech pioneers.

Katherine will be an active participant at SOSS Fusion/24 and will share her insight at the following presentations:

• Roundtable: Building Developer Confidence in Software Security with the DevRel Community, with Lori Lorusso, Percona; Tabatha DiDomenico, G-Research. Oct 22, 11:30 a.m.
• Keynote: Fireside Chat with Window Snyder, Founder & CEO, Thistle Technologies, Oct. 23, 9:30 a.m.
• Keynote: Back to Security Basics: Evaluating, Consuming, and Contributing Open Source Software, Oct. 23, 9:55 a.m.

Check out the full schedule for SOSS Fusion/24.

• 01:42 - Katherine shares her non-traditional journey into open source
• 03:30 - DevRel’s definition varies, depending on the organization
• 06:11 - Tips for making connections with developers
• 08:23 - How DevRel professionals can help integrate security practices and tooling into everyday maintainer activities
• 09:38 - Katherine answers CRob’s rapid-fire questions
• 11:05 - Katherine’s belief that all knowledge can be relevant — even if it’s outside of your field
• 12:23 - Developers and security folks should be working together

Episode links:

• Katherine Druckman on LinkedIn
• OpenSSF DevRel Community
• Open at Intel podcast
• SOSS Fusion/24
• Get involved with the OpenSSF community