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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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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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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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FOSSASIA 2014 Phnom Penh

FOSSASIA 2014 in Phnom Penh has been an amazing experience. We had 3 Days of Pure Knowledge Sharing, 71 International Speakers, 15 Presenters from Cambodia, 121 Talks, Workshops and Panels, 8 tracks per day, Hands-on Labs and Hacking practice for everyone. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the event, the organization team, Norton University and our sponsors! Participants at FOSSASIA 2014   Links Event Site: http://2014.fossasia.org

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FOSSASIA Summit 2013 Wrap Up

With many new meetups and coding events we saw an expansion of the FOSSASIA community in 2013. A particular focus was on Cambodia, where workshops took place at the Open Institute and local startup spaces in preparation of the FOSSASIA summit. FOSSASIA 2013 Planning Meeting at Small World Phnom Penh FOSSASIA Meetup at Norton University Phnom Penh Chantra Be with Hong Phuc Dang in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Community Workshops in Cambodia Links Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2013 Tweets: twitter.com/fossasia

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FOSSASIA Summit 2014 Call for Speakers and Projects

The FOSSASIA Summit 2014 is looking for talks and projects in the area of Open Source Software, Hardware, Open Maps, Fonts, Geo-data, and Open technology solutions to improve living conditions for people in emerging countries. Please join us at FOSSASIA 2014 in Phnom Penh, the gate to Cambodia and the Mekong Delta from February 28 - March 2! FOSSASIA Gate to Cambodia Tech Community The presentation sessions at the FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit will be scheduled a) for 30 minutes and b) for one hour blocks of time. Hands on labs/Workshops can be held in dedicated classrooms. At the entrance we offer an exhibition area for your community projects with space for tables, posters and stands. The deadline for submission is 15 January 2014. Please submit your talk, workshop or project now at our website at: http://fossasia.org. FOSSASIA Organization Committee meeting

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FOSSASIA 2014 at Norton University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from February 28 – March 2

We are excited to announce FOSSASIA 2014 in Phnom Penh. After taking place several times in Vietnam, it is the first time FOSSASIA takes place in Cambodia. The event will be held at Norton University from February 28 – March 2, 2014. Hong Phuc Dang at Norton University Phnom Penh, Cambodia FOSSASIA is an event that offers students, developers and start ups a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is a premier place for Open Source communities in Asia to get together with International developers and an opportunity to experience Open Source technologies. Previous events attracted up to 1400 participants and speakers from 20 countries. Apart from Open Source Software FOSSASIA 2014 will feature a number of Open Hardware projects. In the FOSSASIA business lounge participants can learn about start up ideas and practices and connect with International companies and outsourcing partners. Norton University Phnom Penh, Cambodia hosting Tech and Developer Community at FOSSASIA

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OpenTech and Open Knowledge in the Mekong Delta and throughout Asia

The FOSSASIA organization has been very active and I would love to give you a few updates on our activities. One thing why we love to work in this community is because you get the chance to meet some of the most awesome and friendly tech people of the world. Jonas Smeedegaard from the Debian community is one of our guests who has been visiting us three times already and conducted workshops at our events and even stayed several weeks in Can Tho to train students using and developing Debian. Jonas Smeedegaard at Workshop: Bringing Asian and International developers together Meetups and Code Sprints Of course we could not do all of this alone and we would like to thank some of the most outstanding folks we are working together with including HanoiLUG and Saigonlug in Vietnam, Singapore Hackerspace and the Beijinglug. Coding Projects We have recently involved and organized activities with the following projects and are glad to feature the following projects on this blog: Wikipedia OpenWrt Crypto-Stick LXDE MoonOS Android GNOME Debian Fedora Gimp Inkscape Linux conversion libraries OpenStreetMap and many more FOSSASIA Event in Ho Chi Minh City Internships In 2012 we welcomed interns in Can Tho. Fifteen students participated in the program as full time interns in the office of MBM International in the biggest city in the Mekong delta. The program took place for 2 months and a core part of it was to learn how to use collaborative tools liker issue trackers and contribute to OpenStreetMap. Our students also love the Wikipedia sprints and we got a lot of positive vibes as everyone was happy to learn how to set up the Mediawiki software, that empowers the encyclopedia, share their ideas and spread Open Knowledge and Open Data about the Mekong Delta. Event activities We also continued to organize the FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit in 2010 and 2011 in Raffles College and Van Lang University in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam. Plus we had a Mini-Debconf in Saigon and organized the event series OpenDesign.Asia Weeks bringing together designers and Open Source developers. We have links to the LXDE project and GNOME community and we have sent developers to the GNOME.Asia Summit 2012 in Hong Kong and supported the TYPO3 conference 2012 in Phnom Penh. Also globally FOSSASIA starts to receive more attention. We have received the opportunity to introduce Asian projects at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal (2011) and Brussels (2011), at the Linuxtag in Berlin (2012) and many other community events. Please Join us and Get in Touch The FOSSASIA organization supports activities and Open Tech development and Open Knowledge projects of the community active in Asia. If you are interested to cooperate for a project, need support for a development sprint or an event, please contact us on the FOSSASIA mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/fossasia  

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FOSSASIA community meetup at GNOME.Asia 2012

GNOME.Asia Hong Kong 2012 FOSSASIA members had a wonderful get together at GNOME.Asia 2012 in Hong Kong. About GNOME.Asia Summit. The event is Asia’s GNOME user and developer conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia. The event focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop and other devices that use GNOME, and also covers GNOME-based applications and GNOME development platform tools.It brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments and businesses to discuss both the present technologies and future developments.The FOSSASIA team presented the two projects: crypto-stick and the x-mario gaming distribution.A big thanks for this fantastic event goes to the local and global organization team and the GNOME Foundation, in particular to Max, Haggen So and Sammy Fung.Hong Phuc Dang also received travel sponsorship from the GNOME Foundation and thus increased the participation numbers from Vietnam to three contributors. GNOME.Asia Hong Kong 2012

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