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FOSSASIA Summit 2016 Science Centre Singapore – Wrap Up

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:June 5, 2016
Post category:Event FOSSASIA loklak

FOSSASIA 2016 took place from 18th -20th March in Singapore. Hong Phuc Dang, Mario Behling, Harish Pillay, and Roland Turner were leading the organization efforts for the 2016 summit supported by many volunteers, speakers and the community. With a good mix of 37 nationalities, we are proud to be one of most international developer events in Asia. We would like to especialy thank our host venue and the wonderful team of the Science Centre Singapore, our partner UNESCO Youth Mobile and our sponsors Red Hat, Google, GitHub, MySQL, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, gandi.net, General Assembly and the Internet Society Singapore for their support and participation. Thanks to everyone who helped to make FOSSASIA 2016 in Singapore possible! FOSSASIA 2016 Group Photo at Science Centre Singapore by Michael Cannon FOSSASIA’16 NUMBERS & FACTS We reached the number of 2,917 attendees over 3 days including 230 speakers and 72 volunteers. With a good mix of 37 nationalities, we are proud to be one of most international developer events in Asia. There were 201 scheduled sessions and lightning talks, and more 50 exhibitors. This was the first year we organised Tech Kids program with 14 hands-on workshops that covered Mobile Development, Electronics, Digital Fabrication, Pocket Science and 3D Modeling. Dozens of talks are already available as videos. Thousands of photos have been uploaded to social networks. 1500+ tweets with the FOSSASIA hashtag were posted during the event. A trend analysis of FOSSASIA shows that web technologies, data analytics and Internet of Things have a huge momentum. The attention of developers is also increasingly turning to open hardware. Opening HallMario Behling the superman behind our programCat Allman Happy Volunteers Day 1 Opening of FOSSASIA The first day started at the OpenTech and IoT track with a warm welcome message from Mr. Lim Tit Meng, the director of Science Centre, follow by some of our keynotes including Cat Allman with her inspiring story on Science & Education Program at Google; Harish Pillay with his intriguing title ‘A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To The Science Centre’ revealing the history of Internet and Open Source; Bernard Leong caught a huge attention on ‘Rethinking Drone Delivery with Open Source’; and Davide Storti introduced the exciting MobileYouth Program at UNESCO. The day continued with many other interesting talks/discussions and five other tracks were opened that afternoon of the same day namely Tech Kids, Hardware and IoT, DevOps, Big Data, Internet Society and Community. More Photos: [Photo 1], [Photo 2], [Photo 3] - Tech Kids Track Day 2 Intensive day of workshops and more discussion Stephanie Taylor opened the second day of FOSSASIA with her informative presentation on Google Summer of Code Program and Google Code-In. Many GSoC and GCI students from Asia attended this year FOSSASIA. The day continued with series of workshops and discussions on Hardware, IoT, and DevOps. Four new tracks were added into the program including OpenTech Workshop, Python, WebTech and Databases. Popular DevOps Track Harish Pillay proudly presenting his first computer Day 3 Hack Sunday and the closing notes At the last day, we opened another three new tracks: Privacy and…

FOSSASIA and Openclipart Launch Internet of Things T-shirt Design Contest

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:February 11, 2016
Post category:FOSSASIA Open Event

Special prizes await international designers, students and artists who join the competition and create T-shirt designs for Asia’s premier Open Technology event taking place from March 18-20 at the Science Centre Singapore.FOSSASIA and Openclipart are launching a contest for International students, artists and designers to design a T-shirt graphic representing “The Internet of Things for Me.” 1st place winner of the contest will win a FiftyThree Pencil and final design placement on the official FOSSASIA 2016 T-shirt. Second and third place winners’ graphics will be used as design elements at the conference main party on the second day of the event.“FOSSASIA 2016’s theme is about the Internet of Things for Me,” said chair of FOSSASIA, Hong Phuc Dang. “What better way to represent this idea visually than to unleash local Singaporean and international designers, artists, professionals and students to make artwork representing their ‘things’ and expression about this topic.”FOSSASIA 2016 challenges all participants to join the contest at Openclipart, the world’s largest collection of original and free to use clipart. The contest begins February 11, 2016 and runs for two weeks until February 24, 2016 where three judges will select the top three compositions. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will be selected, awarded, and announced publicly.“Since 2004, Openclipart has been a dynamic creative community of artists and designers producing more than 89,000 clipart by more than 4,900 artists,” stated Openclipart founder, Jon Phillips. “This competition is to bring creativity to the conference, and use the powerness of Open to create image composition of what the Internet of Things is all about. Even better, all the artwork made in the competition will be released into the public domain using Creative Commons Zero 1.0 license so that anyone may use the images for any reason, even commercially.”Judges for the competition will be Singapore-based artist and designer Gloria Chiang, chair of FOSSASIA Hong Phuc Dang and technologist and co-organizer Mario Behling. After the two-week competition ends on February 24, 2016, results will be announced March 2, 2016.“Singapore is a hub of software and cultural innovation,” said Singapore-based artist, Gloria Chiang. “FOSSASIA 2016 is a brilliant place to showcase international innovation trends and work with local artists, designers and students to illustrate these concepts.”“FOSSASIA 2016 T-shirt design competition participants artwork will be showcased not only on T-shirts and publicly on the web, it will also be used to create an atmosphere for the 2nd night of the FOSSASIA 2016 conference,” said organizer Hong Phuc Dang. “All participants of the FOSSASIA 2016 conference are invited to attend this special event and share the works found at our party with the hashtag #FOSSASIA. With lots of surprises, you will not want to miss FOSSASIA 2016.”Join the competition at: http://openclipart.org/fossasia2016

Participate in FOSSASIA Summit 2016 in Science Center Singapore, March 18th-20th

Post author:Hong Phuc
Post published:January 12, 2016
Post category:Event FOSSASIA

Please join us at FOSSASIA 2016 in Singapore, the premier Open Technology event in Asia. The event will take place from March 18-20 at the Singapore Science Center and already on 17th March the pgDay Asia conference is part of the pre-event activities. The FOSSASIA weekend from Friday to Sunday is dedicated to the “Internet of Things and Me” covering open technologies and software that make todays connected devices run. In workshops kids can start learning with the Pocket Science Lab. In the Science Hack track attendees will learn how to participate in the Citizen Science community. Please: get your FOSSASIA Summit Ticket become a Volunteer or submit your talk until February 2 at Speaker Registration. More than 120 speakers from Asia and around the world will join the event from communities and companies such as Google, RedHat, and Github. There will be talks and hands on workshops on topics including: Open Hardware, Makers, Internet of Things Open Source Software, Data and Free Knowledge DevOps, Docker, Programming languages, Python, Go, and more Science Hacks and Open Design Tech and Science for Kids Info on the FOSSASIA Summit 2016 at the Event Website Read the Call for Speakers here. Join the FOSSASIA Meetup Group in Singapore and reserve your spot in workshops as soon as they are announced. Follow us on Twitter. Check out the photos from last year on Flickr.