The Linux Foundation is pleased to offer a virtual mentoring series, entitled LF Live: Mentorship Series. Open Source Maintainers and community leaders will host virtual mentorship sessions designed to provide expert knowledge and valuable interactive discussion across a range of topics related to the Linux Kernel and other OS projects, primarily around development.

These Mentorship Webinars are free for anyone to attend, and are being offered to support the development of skills and further empowerment of the community.

Confirmed mentorship sessions are listed below. To be alerted when registration is live for each session, please subscribe at the bottom of this page. New sessions and mentors will continue to be added.

PAST MENTORSHIP SESSIONS

January 22	Designing Custom Linux Schedulers with sched_ext Mentors: Andrea Righi, Principal Software Engineer, NVIDIA View Recording >> View Slides >>
November 13	Using Clang and LLVM to Build the Linux Kernel Mentors: Nathan Chancellor, Linux Kernel and LLVM Developer View Recording >> View Slides >>
October 9	The Maple Tree: Structure and Algorithms Mentors: Liam R. Howlett, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle View Recording >> View Slides >>
October 2	Speeding Up Kernel Development With virtme-ng Mentor: Andrea Righi, Principal Software Engineer, NVIDIA View Recording >> View Slides >>
September 4	Kernel Livepatching: Hands On Mentors: Marcos Paulo de Souza, Software Engineer, SUSE and Joe Lawrence, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat View Recording >> View Slides >>
May 22	Kernel Livepatching: An Introduction Mentors: Marcos Paulo de Souza, Software Engineer, SUSE and Joe Lawrence, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat View Recording >> View Slides >>
April 3	rtla timerlat: Debugging Real-Time Linux Scheduling Latency Mentor: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat View Recording >> View Slides >>
March 21	KernelCI: Travel Guide 2024 Mentor: Guillaume Tucker, Former KernelCI Chair (2021-2023) View Recording >> View Slides >>
February 22	The Ticking Beast: a Deep Dive Into Timers, Timekeeping, Tick and Tickless Kernels Mentor: Joel Fernandes, Staff Software Engineer, Google View Recording >> View Slides >>
December 7	ALSA: Writing the Soundcard Driver Mentor: Ivan Orlov, Software Engineer, Codethink View Recording >> View Slides >>
November 2	Run Fast! Catch Performance Regressions in eBPF with Rust Mentor: Everett Pompeii, Founder + Maintainer, Bencher View Recording >> View Slides >>
October 31	Video Codecs and the Virtual Stateless Decoder Driver (visl) Mentor: Daniel Almeida, Consultant Software Engineer, Collabora View Recording >> View Slides >>
October 3	Demystifying the Linux Kernel Security Process Mentor: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation View Recording >> View Slides >>
September 12	Linux Kernel Debugging Tricks of the Trade Mentor: Joel Fernandes, Staff Software Engineer, Google View Recording >> View Slides >>
August 2	Kernel Tracing Using eBPF Mentor: Vandana Salve, Independent Linux Kernel Consultant View Recording >> View Slides >>
July 26	The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer Mentor: Marco Elver, Senior Software Engineer, Google View Recording >> View Slides >>
June 7	Debugging Linux Memory Management Subsystem Mentor: Khalid Aziz, Consulting Linux Kernel Engineer, Oracle View Recording >> View Slides >>
May 2	Tools and Techniques to Debug an Embedded Linux System Mentor: Sergio Prado, Consultant & Trainer, Embedded Labworks View Recording >> View Slides >>
April 19	Testing the Media Subsystem: Compliance Tests and Virtual Drivers Mentor: Hans Verkuil, Senior Software Engineer R&D, Cisco Systems Norway View Recording >> View Slides >>
March 15	How to Report and Handle Linux Kernel Regressions Mentor: Thorsten Leemhuis, Linux Kernel Regression Tracker View Recording >> View Slides >>
February 15	A Whistlestop Tour of Embedded Linux Mentor: Mark Brown, Principal Software Engineer, Arm View Recording >> View Slides >>
December 7	Make Linux Developers Fix Your Kernel Bug Mentor: Thorsten Leemhuis, Linux Kernel Regression Tracker View Recording >> View Slides >>
September 29	Setting Up an Environment for Writing Linux Kernel Modules In Rust Mentor: Wedson Almeida Filho, Software Engineer View Recording >> View Slides >>
August 9	Trust and the Linux Kernel Development Model Mentor: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation View Recording >> View Slides >>
July 13	Writing Linux Kernel Modules In Rust Mentor: Wedson Almeida Filho, Software Engineer, Google View Recording >> View Slides >>
June 7	Software Engineering and Functional Safety Mentor: Peter Brink, Functional Safety Engineering Leader, kVA by UL View Recording >> View Slides >>
May 19	Stress-ng: How to Stress Test Your Computer (and Possibly Break It) Mentor: Colin Ian King, Principle Engineer, Intel View Recording >> View Slides >>
April 20	Rust for Linux: Code Documentation & Tests Mentor: Miguel Ojeda, Rust for Linux Maintainer View Recording >> View Slides >>
March 15	Huge Page Concepts in Linux Mentor: Mike Kravetz, Software Engineer, Oracle View Recording >> View Slides >>
February 23	Unraveling RCU-Usage Mysteries (Additional Use Cases) Mentor: Paul E McKenney, Software Engineer, Meta View Recording >> View Slides >>
January 20	An Upstream Friendly Source Control Model And Tooling Mentor: Andrew Delgadillo, Software Developer & Dylan Hatch, Software Engineer, Google View Recording >> View Slides >>
December 7	Unraveling RCU-Usage Mysteries (Fundamentals) Mentor: Paul E McKenney, Software Engineer, Facebook View Recording >>
November 11	Rust for Linux: Writing Safe Abstractions & Drivers Mentor: Miguel Ojeda, Rust for Linux Maintainer View Recording >> View Slides >>
October 6	Memoptimizer Watches Your Memory Usage So You Don’t Have To! Mentor: Khalid Aziz, Senior Software Engineer, Oracle View Recording >> View Slides >>
September 15	It’s Not Just About Embedded! The Yocto Project Mentors: Josef Holzmayr, Software Developer Embedded Systems, R-S-I Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG and Nicolas Dechesne, Yocto Project Community Manager, Linaro View Recoding >> View Slides >>
July 20	Developing Secure Open Source Software (OSS) Mentor: Dr. David A. Wheeler, Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security, The Linux Foundation View Recording >> View Slides >>
July 13	Extra Boot Configuration and Boot-time Tracing Mentor: Masami Hiramatsu, Tech Lead, Linaro View Recording >> View Slides >>
June 9	A Tour of cgroup2 Resource Control with resctl-demo Mentor: Tejun Heo, Software Engineer, Facebook View Recording >> View Slides >>
June 4	Tracing with Ftrace: Critical Tooling for Linux Development Mentor: Steven Rostedt, Open Source Engineer, VMware View Recording >> View Slides >>
May 6	An Introduction to Linux Tracing and its Concepts Mentor: Elena Zannoni, Senior Director of Linux Engineering, Oracle View Recording >> View Slides >>
April 27	Time for Disrupting the Status Quo: Diversity in Open Source Software Mentor: Vandana Singh, Associate Professor, iSchool at University of Tennessee – Knoxville View Recording >> View Slides >>
April 14	Kernel Validation With Kselftest Mentor: Shuah Khan, Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation View Recording >> View Slides >>
March 31	KUnit Testing Strategies Mentor: Brendan Higgins, Engineer, Google View Recording >> View Slides >>
March 25	Generating Software Bill of Materials Mentor: Kate Stewart, VP, Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation View Recording >> View Slides >>
March 2	Fuzzing Linux Kernel Mentor: Andrey Konovalov, Senior Software Engineer, Google View Recording >> View Slides >>
February 25	Dynamic Program Analysis for Fun and Profit Mentor: Dmitry Vyukov, Principal Software Engineer, Google View Recording >> View Slides >>
February 17	Which Hat Do I Wear Today? The Balancing Act of Working with Upstream and Product Teams Mentor: Shuah Khan, Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation View Recording >> View Slides >>
February 11	New Ideas for Smatch (Static Analysis) Mentor: Dan Carpenter, Software Developer, Oracle View Recording >> View Slides >>
February 2	Coccinelle: Automating Large-scale Evolution and Bug Finding in C Code Mentor: Julia Lawall, Senior Research Scientist, Inria View Recording >> View Slides >>
January 27	Static Analysis & Tools Mentor: Jan-Simon Möller, Release Manager, Automotive Grade Linux View Recording >> View Slides >>
January 22	2nd Place is the First Winner: Maintainership and Growing Your Influence in the Linux Kernel Community Mentor: Dan Williams, Principal Engineer, Intel View Recording >> View Slides >>
January 13	Open Source Licensing Mentor: Steve Winslow, Director of Strategic Programs, The Linux Foundation View Recording >> View Slides >>
December 8	Best Practices to Getting Your Patches Accepted Mentor: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Fellow, The Linux Foundation View Recording >> View Slides >>
December 2	How Do I Get Started with an Open Source Project? Mentor: Clyde Seepersad, SVP and GM, Training and Certification, The Linux Foundation View Recording >> View Slides >>
October 29	Writing Change Logs That Make Sense Mentor: Shuah Khan, Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation View Recording >> View Slides >>

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