Workshop outline
Online security concerns have accelerated along with the rise in global cyberwarfare, and open source projects have little to no control over how their programs are used in open source projects, which are often “open” for contributors. Maintainers and contributors are largely responsible for a project’s success but not its security. Since everything in open source is transparent, the community can quickly identify vulnerabilities, assuming there is a community at all. In this session,
● We will create a user-friendly template for reporting privacy violations in open-source projects.
● Design a tool that enables users to assess a project’s degree of privacy,
● Notifies the project owners and gathers input based on privacy.
The effect of open source methods on security has generated a lot of discussion among security professionals. The fact that open source exposes the source code to study by both attackers and defenders is one of the main problems.
Reference: What is open-source software, and why should you avoid it?

What will you gain?
● A chance to contribute to an open source design collaborative session.
● Design a template/tool that can be used to report privacy violations in open source
projects.
● The session would be turned into a case study and published by the open source design
community. Collaborators would be credited as authors.

Victory Brown has worked in the Technology space for over three years and is an expert in user experience research. Among the open-source projects, she has been involved with are the Linux Foundation’s public health initiative, the open-source design community, CHAOSSBadging, and RestQA.

Victory Brown is the founder of Dezignhers, which provides support, training, and mentoring to women in the design community. She is a diversity, inclusion, and equity strategist on the IEEE SA Open community DEI sub-group committee. She is involved with open-source diversity initiatives and the SustainOSS. Among her open-source contributions are international conferences and open-source event organizations. These events include All things open, FOSDEM, GUADEC, Linux Summit, and DrupalCon. She is also on the DrupalCon Prague 22 advisory board.