wjat

You might want to consider just open sourcing portions of your code that you believe could benefit from community involvement, and keep certain things proprietary. If that is an option you could have separate repos and publish the ones you want to share.

If that’s not an option, it may be that opening up the code doesn’t fit your business model

If you are not feeling confident in approaching strangers to start conversations, you might be tempted to start every conversation with something like, “Hi. I don’t know anybody here and I was hoping to …”. It’s okay to be thinking that but skip over all those words as you speak and just say something like, “Hi! Are you enjoying the conference so far?” You will (usually) get an immediately warm and polite response. If you like the person, keep chatting. If it isn’t, wish them well and keep moving.

How about requiring devices to implement key security-relevant features in an immutable way, such as via FPGA, so that attackers have no way of circumventing those features even post EoS.