Tobie Langel is the founder of UnlockOpen, a boutique consulting firm that helps large organizations build a strong open source culture and leverage it to recruit, retain, and foster top software engineering talent, improve team efficiency, and boost innovation.
His clients include companies such as Google, Microsoft, Intel, Mozilla, or Airtable.
Tobie is the facilitator of AMP’s Advisory Committee, a voting member of the OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council, and sits on the Advisory Council of OASIS Open Projects.
Previously, he was a member of Facebook’s Open Source and Web Standards team, and was Facebook’s Advisory Committee representative at W3C.
Tobie Langel is known for having co-maintained the Prototype JavaScript Framework. He also edited a number of Web standards, including WebIDL, and led W3C’s Web platform testing effort.
Twitter: @tobie
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tobielangel
Website: unlockopen.com
Pronouns: he/him
With the push towards regulation around software supply chain security that’s happening both in the US and in the EU, I think it’s fundamental to anchor back to fundamentals: a shared definition of open source licenses (the OSI’s) and the liability clause of open source licenses to clarify, once and for all, that although it is essential to adopt “Shift Left” security practices, liability belongs in the contractual relationship between software providers and customers, not between maintainers and the people using that software.