Publications, talks, activities
Talks/ presentations
Press/ Articles
Activities
2024
- Isabel Drost-Fromm, InnerSource - Open Source Arbeitsweisen im Unternehmen, Chemnitzer Linuxtage, 2024
- A. Fromm, Isabel Drost-Fromm, Inviting kids - and in particular girls - into tech, lightning talk, FOSS Backstage 2024
- Isabel Drost-Fromm, InnerSource - One step towards Open Source, InnerSource Commons Community Call, September 2024
- Isabel Drost-Fromm, InnerSource Patterns workshop, InnerSource Summit 2024
- External expert for general investments at Sovereign tech fund
- Member of the InnerSource Commons
- Member of the Apache Software Foundation
2023
- Christian Grobmeier, Brian Behlendorf, Isabel Drost-Fromm, B3 im Dialog: Log4j und Consequences, 2023
- Isabel Drost-Fromm, A. Fromm, Buchlesung: Ada und Zangemann, FrOSCon 2023
- Daniel Izquierdo, Isabel Drost-Fromm, Georg Grütter, Danese Cooper, Panel: Looking at the Future of InnerSource, InnerSource Summit 2023
- Isabel Drost-Fromm, We are social beings after all, InnerSource Summit 2023
- External expert for input to the policy paper "Government's Role in Fostering Open-Source Software Security - Blueprint for a Cybersecurity Open Source Program Office", Stiftung neue Verantwortung
2022
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
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
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
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
- 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
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
- 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
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
- 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.
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]
- 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
- 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.
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
2008
Member of FSFE booth staff at Chemnitzer Linux Tage and Linux Tage Berlin
Up to 2007
- 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)