Publications, talks, activities

Talks/ presentations

Press/ Articles

Activities

2022

Clare Dillon, Ana Jimenez Santamaria, John Mark Walker, Tim Willoughby, Isabel Drost-Fromm, InnerSource and OSPOs: Institutionalizing Open Source Culture Change, FOSS Backstage, 03/2022

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Remote und doch zusammen - Wie die Teamkommunikation in hybriden Modellen gelingt, Java Magazin, 03/2022

President and director at InnerSource Commons
Member of the Apache Software Foundation

2021

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Tackling InnerSource Challenges, Huawei internal talk, 02/2021
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Stefan Rudnitzki, Paul Berschick, Nina Müller, FOSS Backstage Opening address, 02/2021
Leslie Hawthorn, Danese Cooper, Isabel Drost-Fromm, How InnerSource Accelerates Culture Change, Open Source in Business interview, 04/2021
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Solving team dependencies the Open Source way, FOSS North, 05/2021
Isabel Drost-Fromm, An introduction to InnerSource, sevDesk internal talk, 06/2021
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Georg Grütter, InnerSource in Action, InnerSource Community Call, 09/2021
Isabel Drost-Fromm, President's Address, InnerSource Summit, 11/2021

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Rob Tompkins, Open Source Community Goverance the Apache Way, Open Source Expanded column of IEEE Computer, 04/2021
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Sebastian Spier, Herausforderungen zielgenau adressieren - neue InnerSource Patterns, Java Magazin, 12/2021

President and director at InnerSource Commons
Member of the Apache Software Foundation

2020

Isabel Drost-Fromm, From remote first towards async first, Open Source Summit, 11/20
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Remote first: What you can learn from Open Source, InnerSource Summit Fall, 09/20
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Remote first - avoiding video conference overload, FrOSCon, 2020
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Keynote: Dealing with Growth - how InnerSource helps, InnerSource Summit Barcelona, 03/20
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Stefan Rudnitzki, Paul Berschick, Nina Müller, FOSS Backstage Opening address, 03/20
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Apache Way, internal eBay mobile, Berlin, 02/20

Isabel Drost-Fromm Remote First, Java Magazin 8/20
Isabel Drost-Fromm Becomming a remote first company by practicing openess, Open Org Distributed Work Guide 07/20
Robin Anil, Gokhan Capan, Isabel Drost-Fromm, Ted Dunning, Ellen Friedman, Trevor Grant, Shannon Quinn, Paritosh Ranjan, Sebastian Schelter, Özgür Yilmazel, Apache Mahout:Machine Learning on Distributed Dataflow Systems, JMLR 21, 6/20

Director at InnerSource Commons
Volunteer at United Nations Technology Innovation Lab - Open Source and Intellectual Property Advisory Group
Member of the Apache Software Foundation

2019

Isabel Drost-Fromm, InnerSource: Open Source Collaboration patterns beyond public FOSS projects, GitHub Summit Berlin, 2019
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Lilly Seyther-Besecke, Europace and GitHub, NOAH19, Berlin, 2019
Isabel Drost-Fromm, A user's perspective on Open Source (keynote), Berlin Buzzwords, Berlin 2019
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Upstream First, FrOSCon 2019, Sankt Augustin
Isabel Drost-Fromm, InnerSource - Was interne Projekte von Open Source lernen koennen, STEP Innovation Days 2019, Berlin 2019
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Talking users into contributing patches, ApacheCon EU Berlin, 2019
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Do you really read all those board reports?, ApacheCon EU Berlin, 2019
Many ASF members, Trillians and Trillans served, ASF feature, 2019
Many ISC volunteers, InnerSource Learning PathISC training material, 2019

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Tobias Gesellchen, Öffnet die Quellen, Java Magazin 4/19
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Johannes Tigges, Michael Dorner, Maximilian Capraro, Christian Kirsch, Gemeinsam statt einsam, heise Zeitschriften Verlag, iX 7/2019 S. 128
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Europace Tech Blog content, mostly on InnerSource topics, 2019
Dr. Johannes Mainusch, Interview mit Isabel Drost-Fromm: Open-Source-Software für 4 Milliarden Menschen, Objektspektrum 06/2019

Volunteer at InnerSource Commons
Volunteer at United Nations Technology Innovation Lab - Open Source and Intellectual Property Advisory Group
Member of the Apache Software Foundation

2018

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Tobias Gesellchen InnerSource: Open-Source-Kollaboration nicht nur in &ooml;ffentlichen Projekten, W-Jax, München, 2018
Isabel Drost-Fromm, The Apache Way, Flink Forward, Berlin, 2018
Isabel Drost-Fromm, The Apache Way! ... ?, Sankt Augustin, FrOSCon, 2018
Isabel Drost-Fromm, InnerSource: Open Source collaboration patterns beyond public FOSS projects, Sankt Augustin, FrOSCon, 2018
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Open Source is not just about the source, isn't it? - Apache Way in 40 min, Berlin, DataWorks Summit, 2018
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Stefan Rudnitzki, FOSS Backstage? What's that?, Berlin, re:publica, 2018

Isabel Drost-Fromm, tech.europace.de content, Tech Blog Europace, 2018
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Borrowing Open Source Practices at Europace, in "Adopting InnerSource - Principles and Case Studies", by Danese Cooper, Klaas-Jan Stol, O'Reilly 2018

Founder of FOSS Backstage Micro Summit 2017 and conference 2018
Member of board of directors of the Apache Software Foundation
Helped pull Berlin ASF members together e.g. through new member orientation breakfast

2017

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Open Source is just about the source, isn't it?, Brussels, FOSDEM, 2017
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Open Source is just about the source, isn't it?, Keynote Open Source Summit Adobe, Basel, 2017
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Open Source is just about the source,isn't it?, Keynote Scala Days Europe, Copenhagen, 2017
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Teaching machines new tricks, Keynote FrOSCon, Sankt Augustin 2017
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Open Source is Just About the Source, Isn't It?, Open Source Summit Europe, Prague, 2017

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Daten anders speichern - NoSQL Datenbanken - der Stand der Dinge, iX 7/2017, page 76
Isabel Drost-Fromm, How FinTech Company Europace Is Modeling Its Coporate Structure on Open Source Principles, Linux Foundation Blog, 2017
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Open Source - Warum eigentlich selbst aktiv veröffentlichen?, Tech Blog Europace, 2017

Founder of FOSS Backstage Micro Summit 2017 and conference 2018
Inofficial mentor support for Apache MxNet project

2016

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Make your tests fail, Berlin, Voxxed, 2016
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Elasticsearch für Einsteiger, Chemnitz, Chemnitzer Linuxtage, 2016
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Recommender Systeme für Pragmatiker: Personalisierung schrittweise aufbauen, Berlin, Code-Talks commerce 2016
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Recommender Systeme für Pragmatiker; Personalisierung mit Elasticsearch schrittweise aufbauen, Berlin, Berlin Expert Days 2016
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Open source is just about the source, isn't it?, Sankt Augustin, FrOSCon 2016
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Open source is just about the source, isn't it?, Dresden, Datenspuren 2016
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Make your tests fail, Dresden, Datenspuren 2016

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Pere Urbon-Bayes, Ab in den Index - Event- und Log-Daten aufbereiten mit Logstash, iX 10/2016, Page 132
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Besser suchen - Neuerungen in Elasticsearch 5, iX 11/2016, Seite 60

Director Apache Software Foundation
Founder and organiser of first meetup on managing distributed teams Berlin
Mentor of OpenWhisk at Apache Incubator
Jury member of Prototype Fund, a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) directing funds towards independent open source developers in Germany

2015

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Make your tests fail How randomisation adds a whole new dimension to finding bugs in your code, Brussels, FOSDEM 2015
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Make your tests fail, Sankt Augustin, Froscon 2015
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Make your tests fail, Berlin, Java User Group Berlin Brandenburg 2015
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Make your tests fail, Berlin, BED Con 2015
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Make your tests fail, Berlin, GoTo Con 2015

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Die Ueber-Suchmaschine, Verteilte Suche mit Elasticsearch, Sonderheft Suche, Heise Zeitschriftenverlag, 2015

2010-2015 - Co-Organizer of Berlin Buzzwords
2015 - Co-Organizer of the FOSDEM Open Source Search Dev Room

2014

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Your search doesn't work, Sankt Augustin, Froscon 2014
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Your search doesn't work, Hamburg, Code Talks 2014
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Your Search Does not work - How to Find Out Whether or Not the Search Box You Offer Users is Helpin, Budapest, Apache Con 2014
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Patches Welcome - contributing to Apache projects in a nutshell, Budapest, ApacheCon 2014

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Die Ueber-Suchmaschine, Verteilte Suche mit Elasticsearch, ct 10 2014, heise Zeitschriftenverlag, 10/2014

Co-Organiser Berlin Buzzwords

2013

Isabel Drost-Fromm, Making text classification trivial - combining Apache Lucene and Mahout, London, Strata EU 2013
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Making text classification trivial - combining Apache Lucene and Mahout, Dublin, Lucene Revolution 2013
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Talking people into creating patches, Sankt Augustin, FrOSCon 2013
Isabel Drost-Fromm, How to quickly fail your big data project, Berlin, Invited talk at Neofonie GmbH
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Easy text classification with Apache Lucene and Mahout, Mainz, JAX 2013 [slides]
Isabel Drost-Fromm, I was voted to be committer - now what?, Portland/ Oregon, Apache Con NA, February 2013 [slides]

Interview with Blandine LaFargue for the Big Data Guide on the history, current status, impact and future of Apache Hadoop.

Reviewer of "Zookeeper" by O'Reilly
Member of the program committee for O'Reilly Strata EU
2010/11/12/13 - Co-Organizer of Berlin Buzzwords
Chair of "Hadoop Applied" track for Hadoop Summit Amsterdam

2012

CANCELLED: Isabel Drost-Fromm, How to fail your big data project quickly, Berlin, Apache Hadoop Get Together, December 2012 [slides]
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Von Nutzern lernen - mit Apache Hadoop Analysen skalieren und lokale Trends aufspueren, Beuth Hochschule, December 2012 [slides]
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Choosing the right tool for your data analysis task - Apache Mahout in Context, Sinsheim Apache Con EU, November 2012 [slides]
Isabel Drost-Fromm, I was voted committer. Now what?, Sinsheim Apache Con EU, November 2012 [slides]
Isabel Drost-Fromm and Hannes Kruppa, How to fail your big data project quick and rapidly, London, Strata EU, October 2012 [slides]
Isabel Drost, Scale your data application with Apache Mahout, Poznan, GeeCon, May 2012 [video|interview]

Article in Jaxenter Hadoop special issue, Hadoop - Think Big, JavaTech Journal by Jaxenter.

Reviewer at Knowledge and Information Systems Journal
Member of the program committee for O'Reilly Strata EU
Co-advisor for Apache Mahout student research project @ HU Berlin
Helping hand for Apache Dinner Berlin
Member of FSFE booth staff at Chemnitzer Linux Tage

2011

Isabel Drost, Apache Mahout for intelligent data analysis, Vancouver Apache Con NA, November 2011
Isabel Drost, Talking people into creating patches, Vancouver Apache Con NA, November 2011
Isabel Drost, Data driven applications based on Apache projects, Amsterdam gotocon, October 2011
Isabel Drost, Distributed data processing with Apache Hadoop, Vienna con-fess, April 2011
Isabel Drost, Scaling Data Analysis with Apache Mahout, Amsterdam Apache Mahout User Group, Amsterdam, February 2011
Olivier Grisel, N. Maillot, Isabel Drost, Data Dev Room @ FOSDEM, Brussels, February 2011
Isabel Drost, Scaling Data Analysis with Apache Mahout, O'Reilly Strata Conference, Santa Clara, February 2011

Isabel Drost, Neues von Apache, heise Open Source, November 2011.
Isabel Drost, Shaping the future with participation, "Apache Asserts" track in Computer World UK blog, October 2011.

2008-11 - Organizer of the quarterly Hadoop Get Together Berlin
2009-11 - Google Summer of Code mentor Apache Mahout
2010/11 - Reviewer for "Mahout in Action" by Sean Owen, Robin Anil, Ted Dunning, Ellen Friedmann to appear at Manning
2010/11 - Co-Organizer of Berlin Buzzwords
Lecturer on Apache Mahout/ scalable data mining with Apache Hadoop at TU Berlin
Co-advisor for Apache Mahout student research project @ HU Berlin
Reviewer for JMLR MLOSS
Organiser Apache Mahout Hackathon, c-base Berlin
Co-Organiser of Data Dev Room, FOSDEM, Brussels
Helping hand for Apache Dinner Berlin

2010

Isabel Drost, Introducing Apache Hadoop to Berlin hackers, c-base, Berlin, December 2010
Isabel Drost, Intelligent data analysis - Apache Mahout, Devoxx, Antwerp, November 2010 [slides]
Isabel Drost, Apache Mahout, codebits, Lisbon, November 2010 [slides|video]
Isabel Drost, Apache Mahout - making data analysis easy, Apache Con NA, Atlanta, November 2011 [slides]
Isabel Drost, PR work presentation for DICODE KickOff workshop, September 2010 [slides]
Isabel Drost, Keynote for DICODE KickOff workshop, Web Scale Data Analysis with Open Source Software Today", September 2010 [slides]
Isabel Drost, A NoSQL Guide, FrOSCon, Sankt Augustin, August 2010
Free software development at Apache - an introduction for HPI students
Apache Hadoop - Scaling data analysis @ FOSDEM 2010/ Brussles

Isabel Drost and Lars George, Datenmassenspeicher - Konzepte von NoSQL Datenbanken, Heise c't 15, 2010, pg. 168ff.
Isabel Drost and Uwe Schindler, Lucene unter der Motorhaube - Trie Range Queries, Java Magazin 8.2010.
Isabel Drost, Berlin Buzzwords in Berlin, Heise Newsticker, June 2010.
Isabel Drost, Apache Solr - Solr für Einsteiger, Java Magazin 7.2010.
Isabel Drost and Uwe Schindler, Lucene Token Stream API - Flexibleres Lucene, Java Magazin 7.2010.
Isabel Drost, Cloud Computing frei Haus. Heise c't 4/2010.

Co-Organizer of Berlin Buzzwords
Awarded Member of the Apache Software Foundation
Awarded PMC member of Apache Mahout
Author of the month Java Magazin 7.2010
Reviewer JMLR Open Source Track
2009/10 - Apache Mahout - lecturer for university project and seminar at TU Berlin

2009

Apache Mahout in 10 minutes @ Open Source Expo 2009/ Karlsruhe
Apache Mahout - Going from raw data to information @ Apache Con US 2009/ Oakland CA USA
Apache Mahout Introduction @ DevHouse 2009/ Berlin
Making more of your raw data: Apache Mahout @ Froscon August 2009/ Sankt Augustin
Invited talk at TU Berlin (DAI IRML group) on Mahout July 2009/ Berlin
Guest lecture on Apache Hadoop and large scale data analysis @ Beuth Hochschule Berlin, Information Retrieval course July 2009/ Berlin
Invited talk at Machine Learning research group TU Berlin on Mahout June 2009/ Berlin
Invited talk at DIMA TU Berlin on Mahout May 2009/ Berlin
Apache Mahout Introduction Tech Talk @ Google Zuerich May 2009/ Zuerich
Introducing Apache Mahout @ Hadoop User Group UK April 2009/ London
Mahout - Scaling Machine Learning @ Lucene Meetup March 2009/ Amsterdam
Introduction to Mahout @ Bar Camp Apache March 2009/ Amsterdam

Isabel Drost, ApacheCon 2009: Lucene, Hadoop und mehr. Heise Open, Heise Zeitschriften Verlag November 2009.
Isabel Drost, Jan Lehnardt - NoSQL-Konferenz in Berlin. Heise Open, Heise Zeitschriften Verlag Oktober 2009.
Isabel Drost, Simon Willnauer - Such-Engine Lucene in Version 2.9 erschienen. Heise Open, Heise Zeitschriften Verlag Oktober 2009.

Awarded PMC Member of the Apache Community Development project
Organizer of the NoSQL meetup Berlin
Member of the Program Committee of the WWW Developers Track
Member of FSFE booth staff at Chemnitzer Linux Tage

2008

An introduction to Mahout @ first German Hadoop developer meeting at Berlin June 2008
Mahout - Industrial strength machine learning. @ FrOSCon Sankt Augustin/ 2008
Apache Mahout - Bringing machine learning to industrial strength. Fast Feather Talk @ Apache Con EU Amsterdam/ 2008

Member of FSFE booth staff at Chemnitzer Linux Tage and Linux Tage Berlin

Up to 2007

Machine learning in a nutshell. Workshop at the 23C3 2006
Thwarting the nigritude ultramarine: Learning to identify link spam. Google Tech Talk 2005
Developing intelligent search engines. (invited talk) 22C3, 2005

Isabel Drost and Tobias Scheffer. Thwarting the nigritude ultramarine: learning to identify link spam. ECML 2005.
Isabel Drost, Steffen Bickel, and Tobias Scheffer. Discovering Communities in Linked Data by Multi-View Clustering. Proceedings of the Conference of the GfKl, 2005.
Isabel Drost. Clustering of Linked Data. IWKM, Informatiktag 2004.
Isabel Drost, Tobias Scheffer. Efficiency and Stability of Clustering Algorithms for Linked Data. Lernen, Wissensentdeckung und Adaptivität 2004.

2007 - Co-Founder of the Apache Mahout project
2006 - (Co-)Reviewer ECML/PKDD-06, Information Retrieval, special issue on Adversarial Information Retrieval, NIPS-06
2005 - (Co-)Reviewer ECML/PKDD-05, ICML-05, DS-2005, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
2004 - Co-Organizer, Workshops on Learning, Knowledge Discovery, and Adaptivity (LWA-04). (Co-)-Reviewer, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-04), European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-04), International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA-04), International Conference on Discovery Science (DS-2004)