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FOSSASIA Summit 2011 Wrap Up

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:November 15, 2011
Post category:Event FOSSASIA

The FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit 2011 was held at Van Lang University in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam from November 11 to 12, 2011.

The event attracted 798 participants in 2 days including students, developers, business professionals and government officials. Ninety percent of the participants were local from Vietnam. There were a total of 24 speakers, 60% were local speakers and 40% of them were from other countries, including USA, France, Denmark, Cambodia, Germany, and Singapore. There were 26 talks and many workshops took place over the two days of the event.

It has been a great event. Thank you for joining the community at Van Lang University in Ho Chi Minh City 2011!

Women in the Free Software Community discussions at FOSSASIA

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:November 12, 2011
Post category:FOSSASIA

The topic of women in IT and in the Free and Open Source community attracts a lot of intense discussions.

FOSSASIA 2011 in Saigon attracting Students and Developers

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:November 11, 2011
Post category:FOSSASIA

FOSSASIA 2011 in Van Lang University is attracting many developers and interested students. We have a big hall that is filled for most of the talks and some seminar rooms where we have some intense talks, discussions and workshop to get hands on experience.

FOSSASIA Social Meetup in Saigon Downtown

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:November 11, 2011
Post category:FOSSASIA

We had a get together of speakers and participants at the Spotted Cow Bar in the center of Saigon. It is a nice group of people and looks like everyone really enjoyed the first meet up at the FOSSASIA conference.

FOSSASIA Speaker Registration

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:October 4, 2011
Post category:FOSSASIA

The FOSSASIA Speaker Registration form is online available at http://fossasia.org/speaker-registration

We are using a simple Google form. So you can also access the form directly here: Speaker Registration Form

Please fill in your information to get a slot!

We are looking forward to welcome you at FOSSASIA 2011.

FOSSASIA Summit 2011 in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) from Nov. 11-12

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:August 7, 2011
Post category:Event FOSSASIA

FOSSASIA 2011 was announced officially during the Desktop Summit in Berlin by Chanrithy Thim and Mario Behling from the organization committee. FOSSASIA 2011 will take place from November 11-12 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with a special focus on “Women in IT” and “Mobile Applications”.

“We had amazing people gathering at events in previous years, starting with FOSS Bridge in 2007 and 2008, GNOME.Asia in 2009, and FOSSASIA and the Open Design Weeks Asia in 2010. With the fantastic support of people from all over the world FOSSASIA 2011 is a place to meet the community, government officials and open source IT businesses. There are many opportunities to learn about existing projects and to meet people to start new software projects.” says Hong Phuc DANG, chair of the event.

Hackerspace Singapore Vietnamese Tech Scene Meetup

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:March 11, 2011
Post category:FOSSASIA

Thanks to all you folks who came by and Thank you for Preetam on posting some nice comments and photos about the event. And last but not least, thank you to the great hosts from the Hackerspace.sg.

“One point they made strongly was that having a local partner would ease a lot of pain, right from registering your company to collecting market data. Hong Phuc talked about her method of working with local universities and government agencies to gather customer data.”

Join us at Hackerspace.sg

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:February 25, 2011
Post category:FOSSASIA

Vietnam has one of the fastest growing online population in the region, probably globally too. Vietnam is also seeing growth in IT companies exploring the local market and setting up offshoring centers.

Vietnam-based entrepreneurs and FOSSASIA event organizers Dang Hong Phuc and Mario Behling are visiting Singapore and will be talking about the startup and tech scene in VN and what opportunities there might be for collaboration (tech events, open source, women in IT etc.).

Event Details

When: Thursday 3rd March 2011

Time: 7pm

Where: Hackerspace.sg, 70A Bussorah Lane

http://sgentrepreneurs.com/2011/02/26/conversations-on-vietnam-tech-scene-3-mar

FOSSASIA 2010 press coverage

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:November 17, 2010
Post category:FOSSASIA

Our FOSSASIA event 2010 was covered in quite a few online media.

Press Articles

http://www.laodong.com.vn/Tin-Tuc/35-dien-gia-du-Hoi-nghi-phan-mem-ma-nguon-mo-Chau-A-tai-TPHCM/20121
http://vovnews.vn/Home/Ngay-1211-se-dien-ra-Hoi-nghi-FOSSASIA-nam-2010/201011/160026.vov
http://www.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Sap-dien-ra-Hoi-nghi-FOSSASIA-nam-2010-tai-TPHCM/201011/67336.vnplus
http://thethaovanhoa.vn/350N20101110003346856T0/sap-dien-ra-hoi-nghi-fossasia-nam-2010-tai-tphcm.htm
http://www.khoahocphothong.com.vn/news/detail/6626/hoi-nghi-cong-nghe-phan-mem-ma-nguon-mo-dien-ra-tu-12-14-11.html
http://e-info.com.vn/vn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43558&Itemid=99
http://www.baoangiang.com.vn/newsdetails.aspx?newsid=25553
http://www.thongtindoingoai.vn/c1006n20101110083153890/sap-dien-ra-hoi-nghi-fossasia-nam-2010-tai-tpho-chi-minh.htm
http://mic.gov.vn/tintucsukien/tintonghop/Trang/S%E1%BA%AFpdi%E1%BB%85nraH%E1%BB%99ingh%E1%BB%8BFOSSASIAn%C4%83m2010t%E1%BA%A1iTPHCM.aspx
http://www.baomoi.com/Info/1211-Khai-mac-Hoi-nghi-FOSSASIA-2010/76/5173201.epi
http://webtinhoc.vn/home/showthread.php?t=39953
http://news.ndthuan.com/viet-nam/ngay-1211-se-dien-ra-hoi-nghi-fossasia-nam-2010-275480/

How to get contributors from Asia for your Open Source project – Talk at Libre Graphics Meeting Brussels

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:May 28, 2010
Post category:FOSSASIA Open Event

I had the chance to talk about the topic of how to get contributors for Free/Libre/Open Source projects from Vietnam and Asia at the Libre Graphics Meeting Brussels. It was a a fantastic experience to meet developers and contributors from all over the world and I hope to support projects with the insights of this talk.

Libre Graphics Meeting 2010, Brussels, Presentation by Hong Phuc Dang from Hong Phuc

The situation in 2010 in Asia is, that many people still do not know about Free and Open Source. We need more people to support each other and help new users und developers. We need more developers in Vietnam to adapt existing solutions for Vietnamese and Asian users. We need people to organize events, where we can meet face to face. We need mentors, who developers and contributors can turn to. We need business people who understand business models and opportunities around Free and Open Source. We need you! FOSS can be a sustainable model for Vietnam as it is for other countries. Please join us in our effort for education, spreading knowledge, developement of better, faster and energy-saving software, designing easy to use interfaces and promoting opportunities for everyone with Free and Open Source.

Links

* Libre Graphics Meeting 2010: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010

* LGM: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org