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Meetup of Beijing Linux User Group with Dang Hong Phuc from FOSSASIA

Please join our FOSSASIA Bejinglug meetup with Dang Hong Phuc in Bejing, China on December 6, 2015. Hong Phuc will give insights about the FOSSASIA network, the programs of FOSSASIA and the FOSSASIA summit 2015 in Singapore.FOSSASIA runs contributors, Open Source developers and hardware maker programs in cooperations with companies and communities such as Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In (current Code-In program until January 19).For our programs in 2015 we are looking for mentors and students of Open Technology projects who would like to join us and register their groups on the FOSSASIA community network.The FOSSASIA summit will take place from March 13-15 in Singapore. The call for papers is open until December 20. If you are interested to present at the event, please register here: fossasia.org/speaker-registration/Time: 18:00 Date: Saturday, December 6, 2014 Location: Jazz Island Coffee （爵士岛咖啡二楼） Address (Chinese): 东城区东直门内大街东扬威街11号楼(来福士大厦对面北侧) Map: mapbar (via dianping) Subway: Dongzhimen Exit A Phone: 010-8406-1040Links:Beijinglug Announcement: http://beijinglug.org/...FOSSASIA Community Network: http://fossasia.netFOSSASIA Summit Speaker Registration: http://fossasia.org/speaker-registration/FOSSASIA Code-In: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/google/gci2014/fossasia

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Join the FOSSASIA Community Network

The FOSSASIA.net project is an initiative to bring the Asian Free and Open Source Software and OpenTech community together and foster cooperation. We make it easy to find communities and projects on a map with links to the websites, social media channels, and automatically updated info from community blogs. Communities store their information decentrally anywhere on the web - on their server, a blog, or git service. FOSSASIA.net collects information through a stardardized API file on the web. You can generate the API file with the FOSSASIA API generator on our website. Then you add your community to the FOSSASIA network website. Simply add the link of your API file to our list of communities on github. FAQ How does it work? You need to provide a file for our API and add the file to our communities repository. Then fill in the link to your API on our directory on github. That is it! Where can I store my file? We prefer that you store your file in our github repository of communities: https://github.com/fossasia/fossasia-communities. It is also possible to store it anywhere on the web, where it is publicly available, e.g. in a blog or CMS page as an attachment. However the github repo is the preferred method currently. How about updating my file? If you need to update your links, just upload a new file in the same location. How do I start? To make it easier, we created a FOSSASIA API Generator, where you can simply fill in your data here: http://api.fossasia.org/generator When you are finished copy the info from the form on the top right into an empty file or use the download button. How do I find Geolocation data of my community? You can find this data from OpenStreetmap. OpenStreetmap shows maps using a URL of the form: www.openstreetmap.org/#map=[Zoom Level]/[Latitude]/[Longitude] So go to www.openstreetmap.org and zoom to the area of your community. For example, if you are zoom into Mumbai, you will get the URL http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/19.0715/72.9499 Then 19.0715 will be the latitude and 72.9499 the longitude. What is an API? In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. An API expresses a software component in terms of its operations, inputs, outputs, and underlying types. An API defines functionalities that are independent of their respective implementations (e.g. It does not matter what CMS is used), which allows definitions and implementations to vary without compromising each other. Compare: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Links * Website http://fossasia.net * Map http://fossasia.net/map/map.html * FOSSASIA Community Network Tweets https://twitter.com/fantwk

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New York City Hack Manhattan Hackerspace Meetup

Hackerspaces are community-operated physical spaces, where people can meet and work on their projects. Hackerspaces around the world are listed on the hackerspace wiki. Yesterday I had the chance to visit Hack Manhattan.Hack Manhattan is operated as a non-profit community hackerspace in New York City. Equipments includes a mini-mill, sewing machines, soldering irons and reflow tools and several 3D printers. Members work on all kinds of projects. Many are in electronics, 3D printing, and software, but we also brew beer, keep bees on the roof, and garden. I was very happy to meet Real John Connor, Stephen Lynch, and Dave Reeves and learn about their work.I hope we see more hackerspaces in Asia and I would love to support people who are starting them. Let me know on twitter about your hackerspace! http://twitter.com/hpdangLinksHack Manhattan: https://hackmanhattan.comHackerspaces on the Web: http://hackerspaces.org

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FOSSASIA joining Google Code-In Program for Students Age 13-17

We are proud to announce that FOSSASIA has been chosen as a mentor organization for Google Code-In 2015. FOSSASIA is one of twelve global organizations participating in the program for students from the 13-17 years old.Google Code-In is a global, online contest for 13-17 year old pre-university students interested in learning more about Open Source development. Students work on bite-sized tasks for real-world open source projects in a variety of categories.Students can register and take over tasks starting from December 1, 2014 and work on tasks until January 19. All tasks are listed on the website at http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2014Contest TimelineDecember 1, 2014, 9:00 AM Pacific Time / 17:00 UTC: Contest opens for entries by student participantsJanuary 18, 2015, 9:00 AM Pacific Time/ 17:00 UTC: No more tasks can be claimed by students after this timeJanuary 19, 2015, 9:00 AM Pacific Time / 17:00 UTC: All work stops, Contest endsJanuary 26, 2015: Mentoring Organizations submit their grand prize winner nominees to Google Open Source Programs OfficeFebruary 2, 2015: Google Open Source Programs Office announces the grand prize winners via blog postJune 2015: Grand Prize trip to Google and northern California Links* Google Code-In http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2014* FOSSASIA at Google Code-In http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/google/gci2014/fossasia

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Google Reunion in Silicon Valley with FOSSASIA

Being at the get together of more than 500 mentors and students of over 200 projects from 50 countries at the 10th anniversary of Google Summer of Code and join the celebrations at the Reunion 2014 is an amazing experience. It was the first time that Google brought together such a large number of contributors in Silicon Valley for a fantastic Unconference, a great day out at the “Great America” and a Gala at the San Jose Tech Museum with Linus Torvalds and a catering with an outstanding American Fusion cuisine.Yes, 10 years! Google Summer of Code is the only program of a company supporting hundreds of Open Source projects for many years and bringing them together with students from around the world. The magnitude of this support shows the real commitment of Google to Free and Open Source Software and I would like to thank everyone involved including Carol Smith, Cat Allman and Stephanie Taylor, and all the other fantastic people at the Open Source office supporting us. The idea of free sharing and collaboration across borders has always inspired me. And I could not be happier to enter the conference room in San Jose - full of creators, developers, contributors of many amazing Open Source projects such as Mozilla, KDE, Python, Haiku, Blender, GNU, Debian, Inkscape and many more.In previous years, the program brought together mentors of each active organization, but for this years celebration Google also flew in mentors of former years and even some students of the program. As an organizer of our annual FOSSASIA event I know what a challenge it can be to bring in a few dozen speakers from different parts of the world, but flying in 500 Open Source contributors from around the world is a logistic masterpiece. Organizing this event takes a huge amount effort and resources. Two thumbs up for the organizing team, they did an amazing job. I am grateful to be among the participants.Great Day Out at the Great AmericaEvery year the Mentor Summit spreads out in two days filled with interesting unconference sessions, lighting talks, and plenty of spaces for group discussing and code sprints. This time Carol and the team went an extra mile to surprise participants with an additional day-out at the Great America Theme Park (exclusively for us!). Believe it or not the majority of my lovely geek friends apparently have never been to an amusement park in their lives. We had such a great morning and afternoon there. I am sure some of us will never forget that very first roller coaster ride. It is great that Google makes this experience possible for mentors and appreciates their contributions.Gala at the Tech Museum San Jose with Linus TorvaldsAnother of the highlights of this year was the Gala at the Tech Museum in San Jose. Everyone dressed up in beautiful garments. It was fun to see all the developers who kind of always wear black shirts suddenly dressed up. And, on top of organizing everything…

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FOSSASIA Summit 2015 Call for Speakers and Projects

FOSSASIA is the leading Free and Open Source technology organization in Asia organizing the annual FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit for developers, startups, and contributors. In 2015 the event takes place from March 13-15 for the first time in Singapore. Talks, workshops and projects at FOSSASIA range from Open Hardware, to design, Libre Graphics, Maker projects and Open Source Software. For our 2015 feature event we are looking for speakers that share our passion about code and community. We are interested in topics including: Big data and Open data Javascript, Mobile and Mozilla Open Web Geolocation software, maps and mesh ups Lightweight technologies Maker projects, 3D technologies Open design software, open manufacturing, wearables Cloud solutions Dev-Ops Participants from Asia and the world are expected to join a three day event. FOSSASIA was established in 2009. Previous events took place in Cambodia and Vietnam. We are looking forward to your proposals. Submission deadline is 23rd December 2014. Website FOSSASIA Community: http://fossasia.org Event Site: http://2015.fossasia.org Proposals Please submit your talk and workshop proposals or projects at site at http://2015.fossasia.org/speaker-registration/ Deadline Submission deadline is: December 23, 2014. Speakers and Projects will be accepted until January 5, 2015.

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Community Networks and Freifunk: Help to translate

Community networks extend the model of Open Source to networks and enable people to share services and Internet connections locally. I translated a video of the Freifunk community to Vietnamese. Versions in different languages are available. Join us and translate the video! The translation pad is here http://pad.freifunk.net/p/Spot2013 Links:Freifunk: http://blog.freifunk.netOpenWrt: http://openwrt.org

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Libre Graphics Meeting Leipzig – Dejavu Fonts

Happy to see Ben Laenen and Denis from DejaVu font getting Vietnamese school notebooks for their #typography studies at #LGM . Let's work on getting more cooperations of projects and contributors between Europe and Asia started!Ben and Dennis from DejaVu fonts Links:Libre Graphics Meeting: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org

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FOSSASIA 2015 in Singapore from March 13-15

The FOSSASIA team is proud to announce that FOSSASIA 2015 will take place in Singapore from March 13-15. The event core team will again consist of: Hong Phuc Dang, MBM Asia Founder, http://twitter.com/hpdang and Mario Behling, FashionTec Berlin, http://twitter.com/mariobehling A team of local and international contributors and partners is joining the team: Harish Pillay, RedHat, https://twitter.com/harishpillay Justin Lee, Geekcamp.sg, https://twitter.com/triplez82 Walter Heck, Onlindata, https://twitter.com/walterheck Preetam Rai, Barcamp, http://twitter.com/preetamrai Sebastian Deckers, Entrepreneur & Developer, https://twitter.com/pandion

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