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FOSSASIA Summit 2023 Schedule – Participate Onsite or Online

The schedule is out and the FOSSASIA Summit will finally take place again in-person! Please join us for the event at the Lifelong Learning Institute Singapore from April 13-15, 2023. During the three day event professionals, developers, companies, researchers and tech communities get together to share projects and ideas, learn from each other, and network. Over 150 International speakers will join us and show what is possible with technology today. Catering is provided throughout the event. For community members we have a promotion with the link here. For online participants virtual tickets are free and you can win a Tshirt in the lucky draw if you ask a question via Twitter/Mastodon to a speaker.* The opening is at 9:00 AM on Thursday April 13 with a keynote on the Open Source tech community in 2023. The exhibition with more than 40 exhibitors opens at 8.30 AM daily featuring job opportunities in tech and latest trends in the industry. Sessions are also going to be streamed to YouTube and services in China. Find out more about the highlights at the event, sponsors and exhibition partners below. Please also join our Telegram chat here. We can’t wait to meet you again at the summit!   Tracks and Topics A big topic currently everywhere is AI and ChatGPT. In the artificial intelligence track we will talk about how to build, deploy and run large AI systems using in-house data and Open Source and discuss how the technology can benefit humanity in a rapidly changing world. Areas that are also receiving more and more attention recently are robotics, hardware, firmware, and microchips. How can open source robotics and open hardware help to solve the challenges in public health, renewable energy, food production and climate change? Other dedicated tracks cover everything from cloud, DevOps and databases to Blockchain, web & mobile, InnerSource and open source standards where we exchange about standardization and approaches that ensure interoperability, security and the economical use of our resources and energy. In tracks about kernel, platform, operating systems and security experts get together to discuss the latest solutions in the industry. Highlights Workshops: Join us for three intensive workshop tracks on Friday and Saturday on “Cloud and DevOps”, “Databases and Optimization” and “Artificial Intelligence” with experts from around the world. FOSSASIA Academy with BuildingBloCS: Join us for introductory levelled technology workshops conducted by students from Singapore. Topics include Introduction to Graph Neural Networks, AI in Astronomy and Physics, Processing data with Python, Steganographic malware embedding in AI models, and the Forward-Forward Algorithm. Sign up to reserve. 12 Conference Tracks: Join talks by industry experts and sponsors from OpenEuler, OnlyOffice, PagerDuty, Oracle, Google, YDB, ExpressVPN, Instaclustr by NetApp, Varnish Software, Temporal, NARlabs, Grafana Labs, AngelHack, Mercari, UI-licious, and participants from GovTech, OPNTEC, Microsoft, Datadog, Shopify, AWS, MariaDB, Percona, Intrinsic, Viettel, GitLab, Thoughtworks, Nextcloud, Gojek, Grab, Wavestone, Pythian, IEEE, SODA Foundation, Hyperledger Foundation, Apache Foundation, LionsForge, and open source projects like VLC, LibreOffice, Kaiyuanshe 开源社, Debian, AlmaLinux, KDE, openKylin, SCoRE Lab, Keploy and communities like HackerspaceSG, GOSH, Calyx Institute, COSCUP, Korean FOSS Community, WomenWhoCode, SegmentFault, The IO Foundation, Hack Club, SalvageGarden Assistive Makerspace, CivicTechLab as well as hardware experts from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Precursor, and many more. Find the complete schedule…

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FOSSASIA Virtual Summit 2021 Schedule and Highlights

We are very happy to share with you the schedule of the FOSSASIA Virtual Summit 2021! 190+ speakers from 42 countries and 6 continents are joining us.We are covering a diverse range of topics at the event such as Quantum computing, machine learning, open robotics, CAD and hardware development, search, databases, Covid-19 and open health, Blockchain, digital privacy, microservices, cloud, Kubernetes, kernel development, licensing and many more.More than 180 sessions, talks, panels and workshops are taking place online. Plus, trainers conduct 28 hours of hands-on onsite sessions at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Singapore. Get your free ticket here! The summit will spread out over the week of March 13-21 and will run on our open source virtual event platform eventyay. In the virtual exhibition you can meet our sponsors and partners like Microsoft, Oracle, MySQL, OpenTAP Keysight, Linux Professional Institute, Elasticsearch, OpnTec, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, FreeBSD, UI-licious, Lifelong Learning Institute Singapore and the UNESCO. And you can get together with developers and contributors from Free and Open Source projects, makerspaces, developer clubs and university IT groups. At summit hubs across Asia we are connecting to participants online and locally. FOSSASIA Summit Highlights 5 keynotes from Hong Phuc Dang (Founder, FOSSASIA) and Mario Behling (Co-Founder FOSSASIA, CEO OpnTec), Frank Karlitschek (CEO, Nextcloud), Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Kernel Maintainer), Brian Behlendorf (Executive Director, Hyperledger) and Bunnie Huang (CEO, Precursor)150+ sessions covering tech areas of Quantum computing, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, pocket science, open robotics, FreeCAD, hardware development, search, databases, Debian packaging, Covid-19, Hyperledger, Open Source event solutions, digital privacy, microservices, cloud, Kubernetes, and Linux Kernel development.30+ hands-on workshops focusing on getting started with Python, creating MySQL shell utilities and custom plugins, setting up PostgreSQL databases, creating test automation, machine learning, and science measurements.Panel discussions about Open Source licensing vs. available source licenses, firmware development, digital sovereignty, Blockchain and diversity in tech.Virtual exhibition with video rooms and exhibitor tours where participants can connect with companies and active tech communities from across Asia. FOSSASIA Summit Exhibition and Hubs Apart from company partners you can meet communities, students and developers from Asia and around the world in our virtual exhibition. Groups include OpenFIESTA Tsinghua University, Shenzhen DIY Community, Open Source Hong Kong, OpenStack Indonesia, Mozilla Philippines, Ubuntu Korea, FOSS Myanmar, KDE, BuildingBloCS Singapore, SUTD, Python Software Foundation, LibreOffice, KiwiTCMS, Nextcloud Sourcefabric, LambdaChip, and more. Hubs bring attendees together locally or online. Participating hubs include the International Organisation of Software Developers, Open Source Club at Saintgits Engineering College Kerala, Biohacking Space Peshawar Pakistan, Society for Data Science at BIT Mesra India, Mar Athanasius College of Engineering India, Developer Student Community in BHILAI Institute of Technology Durg and Team Aveon Racing of BIT Mesra India. FOSSASIA Summit Daily Focus Topics Each day has different focus topics and tracks. Sat, 13 Mar: Robotics, Open Hardware, Pocket Science Lab, Python/Web development, Digital Sovereignty Sun, 14 Mar: Open Hardware, open science, lightning talks, Python/Web development Mon, 15 Mar: Blockchain, hardware, design, learn how to solder Tue, 16 Mar: DevOps, cloud, containers, Kernel & Platform, Quantum computers, Kubernetes Wed, 17 Mar: Databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Monitoring Thu, 18 Mar: Security, Privacy,  Digital Sovereignty,…

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Read more about the article Participate in the #OpenTechNights Program today and Win a Free Stay during the FOSSASIA Summit 2018 from the Open Source Initiative and UNESCO

Participate in the #OpenTechNights Program today and Win a Free Stay during the FOSSASIA Summit 2018 from the Open Source Initiative and UNESCO

The FOSSASIA Summit 2018 takes place in Singapore from Thursday, March 22 – Sunday, March 25. Open Source contributors can now apply for a free ticket to the event, and accommodation throughout the conference. In addition, you’ll be eligible to participate in: Featured cloud workshops, the UNESCO hackathon, and celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Open Source Initiative. All you have to do is convince us, that you are an awesome Open Source contributor and book your trip to Singapore! About #OpenTechNights Developers from all over the world are joining the FOSSASIA Summit. We want to connect established and new Open Tech contributors alike. With the support of UNESCO, the Open Source Initiative, and other partners, we are inviting Free and Open Source Software contributors to join us. Winners will receive free lodging at a shared accommodation in the centre of Singapore, and a free ticket to the conference. Winners are expected to join the summit each day, to participate in the workshops, and the Hackathon on Saturday/Sunday, March 24/25. We would also hope you can support the Open Source Initiative at their booth. How do I sign up? Step 1: Please fill in our form here before February 28, 2018. Step 2: We will notify all winners within three days of their submission, however judging will begin immediately, and continue until all open spots are filled, so the earlier you apply, the higher your chances to win. Please note, winners will receive free accommodations in Singapore. Flight and other travel costs are not included and are the responsibility of the attendee. Step 3: Selected applicants must confirm their itinerary and tickets before March 1st to insure their free stay in Singapore. Earliest check-in possible is Wednesday March 21, latest check-out is Monday, March 26. Please indicate your arrival and departure times in the application form. Expectations of Participants – Share what you learn Attendees support volunteers, speakers and participants at the event, and take a shift at the Open Source Initiative’s booth. Let’s bring the spirit of sharing Open Technologies and learning together! Please confirm your participation at the opening event at 12PM, Thursday, March 22, 2018 and participate in the specially featured cloud workshops on Friday, March 23, 2018 from 9.00 AM – 5.00PM. Attendees participate in the UNESCO Hackathon on Saturday, March 24 (2.00 PM - 10.00PM) and on Sunday, March 25 (9.00 AM - 5.00PM). Attendees help reach out to community members who cannot join us at the event, make tweets, share what you learn on social media, publish photos and put up blog post about the summit. Apply Now Apply for a free stay with #FOSSASIA #OpenTechNights supported by the Open Source Initiative and the UNESCO and participate in the FOSSASIA Summit 2018 now here! More Information More updates, tickets and information on speakers on our website: https://2018.fossasia.org Links Open Source Initiative: https://opensource.org UNESCO: http://unesco.org

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FOSSASIA Summit 2018 Singapore – Call for Speakers

The FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit is Asia’s leading Open Technology conference for developers, companies, and IT professionals. The event will take place from Thursday, 22nd – Sunday, 25th March at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Singapore. During four days developers, technologists, scientists, and entrepreneurs convene to collaborate, share information and learn about the latest in open technologies, including Artificial Intelligence software, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Linux, Science, Hardware and more. The theme of this year's event is "Towards the Open Conversational Web". For our feature event we are looking for speaker submissions about Open Source for the following areas: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Search Engines, Cognitive Experts Open Design, Hardware, Imaging Science, Tech and Education Kernel and Platform Database Cloud, Container, DevOps Internet Society and Community Open Event Solutions Security and Privacy Open Source in Business Blockchain There will be special events celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Open Source Initiative and its impact in Open Source business. An exhibition space is available for company and project stands. Submission Guidelines Please propose your session as early as possible and include a description of your session proposal that is as complete as possible. The description is of particular importance for the selection. Once accepted, speakers will receive a code for a speakers ticket. Speakers will receive a free speakers ticket and two standard tickets for their partner or friends. Sessions are accepted on an ongoing basis. Submission Link: 2018.fossasia.org/speaker-registration Dates & Deadlines Please send us your proposal as soon as possible via the FOSSASIA Summit speaker registration. Deadline for submissions: December 27th, 2017 Late submissions: Later submissions are possible, but early submissions have priority Notification of acceptance: On an ongoing basis Schedule Announced: January 20, 2018 FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit: March 22nd – 25th, 2018 Sessions and Tracks Talks and Workshops Talk slots are 20 minutes long plus 5-10 minutes for questions and answers. The idea is, that participants will use the sessions to get an idea of the work of others and are able to follow up in more detail in break-out areas, where they discuss more and start to work together. Speakers can also sign up for either a 1-hour long or a 2-hours workshop sessions. Longer sessions are possible in principle. Please tell us the proposed length of your session at the time of submission. Lightning talks You have some interesting ideas but do not want to submit a full talk? We suggest you go for a lightning talk which is a 5 minutes slot to present your idea or project. You are welcome to continue the discussion in breakout areas. There are tables and chairs to serve your get-togethers. Stands and assemblies We offer spaces in our exhibition area for companies, projects, installations, team gatherings and other fun activities. We are curious to know what you would like to make, bring or show. Please add details in the submission form. Developer Rooms/Track Hosts Get in touch early if you plan to organize a developer room at the event. FOSSASIA is also looking for team members who…

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FOSSASIA Summit 2017 Wrap Up

The FOSSASIA Summit 2017 was an unforgettable event thanks to everyone who helped to make it possible! We would like to thank our co-organiser the Science Centre Singapore and all sponsors, supporters, speakers and volunteers. Below are interesting numbers and facts of 2017 and information on highlights of the event. FOSSASIA Summit 2017 Numbers & Facts 3,145 people attended the event over 3 days including 229 speakers and 60 volunteers. 41 nationalities participated in the summit: 70.8% from Singapore, followed by India, Indonesia, Germany, China, Japan, Vietnam and many others There were 23.6% female attendees. 60% of attendees were IT professionals. 5 keynotes, 231 scheduled sessions, 22 lightning talks, and over 30 projects and companies presented their work in the exhibition. Talks are already available as videos. Hundreds of photos have been uploaded to social networks. 2000+ tweets [tw] with the FOSSASIA hashtag were posted during the event. FOSSASIA Summit 2017 Highlights The three-day program with nearly 20 parallel tracks made FOSSASIA Summit the biggest open tech event in the region. One very interesting fact was the entire conference was fully managed by FOSSASIA built open source event management system, EventYay. All the technical setting was also done in-house by the FOSSASIA Team. In the effort of making the event the best experience for visitors, FOSSASIA team organized a series of extracurricular activities including pre-event meet&greet, pub crawl, culture walk, social event, see you again cocktails, and a lucky draw. Day 1 Opening Day with Keynotes Chan Cheow Hoe, GovTech’s Chief Information Officer, emphasized how the Singapore Government’s central information technology systems and infrastructure drive the development and delivery of innovative public services for citizens and businesses. Follow-up by an interesting story by Øyvind Roti who currently leads Google's international team of Cloud Architects. He spoke about how to get involved and contribute to the Google Cloud Open Source products and related projects, including machine learning, systems, client-side libraries and data analytics tools. Andrey Terekhov brought Microsoft into the Open Source picture with some insights that many were not aware of. MS actually are the top contributors to Github and they are hosting many Open Source projects themselves. Andrey explained in details Microsoft’s open source strategy and developing business in Asia Pacific region, with a particular focus on scaling up open source workloads on Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The final keynote of the day was conducted by a German privacy activist - Frank Karlitschek the founder of ownCloud and later Nextcloud, an open source and fully federated and distributed network for files and communication. As the topic of the privacy and personal data on the internet are under attack by hackers and international espionage programs, Frank shared with the audience how the Internet can be used as a free and democratic medium again.  Open Source AI Topics  The highlight of the day was the introduction of SUSI AI - FOSSAISA’s Open Source Personal Assistant. Michael Christen, founder and also core developer talked about SUSI’s current development stage as well as project’s ambition and the plan for the future. He demonstrated some amazing things you can…

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FOSSASIA Summit 2017 Singapore – Call for Speakers

The FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit is Asia's leading Open Technology conference for developers, startups, and IT professionals. In 2017 the event will take place from March 17th - 19th at the Science Centre Singapore. During three days, thousands of developers, technologists, scientists, entrepreneurs and artists get together to showcase latest technologies, communicate, exchange ideas, learn from each other, and collaborate. Topics range from information technology and Open Source software development to hardware and maker projects, open design tools, machine learning, DevOps, knowledge tools, and citizen science. For our 2017 feature event we are looking for speaker submissions for the following tracks: * Open Source Software * Design, Art & Culture, * Internet, Society & Politics, * Hardware & Making, * Health and Technology * Science * Kernel Track and * Startup and Business Development Apart from the conference program, the FOSSASIA Summit offers an exhibition space for company and project stands and areas for community assemblies, and developer meetings. Submission Guidelines Please propose your session as early as possible and include a description of your session proposal that is as complete as possible. The description is of particular importance for the selection. Once accepted, speakers will receive a code for a speakers ticket. Please indicate on the submissions form if you would like to apply for a sponsored community ticket. Submission Link: 2017.fossasia.org/speaker-registration Dates & deadlines Please send us your proposal as soon as possible via the FOSSASIA Summit speaker registration. December 20th, 2016: Deadline for submissions January 18th, 2017: Notification of acceptance March 17th - 19th, 2017: FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit Sessions and Tracks Talks and Workshops Talk slots are 20 minutes long plus 5-10 minutes for questions and answers. You can also sign up for either a 1-hour long or a 2-hours workshop. Longer sessions are possible in principle. Please tell us the proposed length of your session at the time of submission. Lightning talks You have some interesting ideas but do not want to submit a full talk? We suggest you go for a lightning talk which is a 5 minutes slot to present your idea or project. You are welcome to continue the discussion in break out areas. There are tables and chairs to serve your get-togethers. Stands and assemblies We offer spaces in our exhibition area for companies, community projects, installations, workshops, team gatherings and other fun activities. We are curious to know what you would like to make, bring or show. Please add details in the submission form. Developer Rooms/Track Hosts Get in touch early if you plan to organize a developer room at the event. FOSSASIA is also looking for team members who are interested to co-host and moderate tracks. Please sign up to become a host here. Publication Audio and video recordings of the lectures will be published in various formats under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This license allows commercial use by media institutions as part of their reporting. If you do not wish for material from your lecture to be published or streamed, please let us know in your submission. Sponsorship & Contact If you would like to sponsor FOSSASIA…

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Science Hack Day Singapore Nov 11 – 12, 2016

We are happy to announce our upcoming Science Hack Day Singapore! The event will take place on Nov 11 - 12, 2016 at Suntec Convention Centre Hall 401 as a part of the ICM Youth Festival. Registration is now open at Eventbrite. There are limited seats for participants intending to take part in the programme for 2 days. Visitors to the ICM youth festival are welcome to visit the space and give their hands where required. Add your hack ideas here  Do not miss this opportunity to explore the wonder of Science, to team up with inspiring people around you and to enjoy the amazing working facilities at Suntec City. Join our event on facebook for further announcement.  What is Science Hack Day?   Science Hack Day is a two-day event where anyone excited about making weird, silly or serious things with science comes together in the same physical space to see what they can prototype. Designers, developers, scientists and anyone who is excited about making things with science are welcome to attend – no experience in science or hacking is necessary, just an insatiable curiosity. Recommended age is 13 and up, though younger students are welcome to attend, with parental accompaniment. The mission of Science Hack Day is to get excited and make things with science! People organically form multidisciplinary teams over the course of a weekend: particle physicists team up with designers, marketers join forces with open source rocket scientists, writers collaborate with molecular biologists, and developers partner with school kids. By collaborating on focused tasks during this short period, small groups of hackers are capable of producing remarkable results. Tentative program  Day 1 Friday Nov 11, 2016 11:00  Arrive and check-in 11:30 Welcome & introduction 11:45 Pitches and team building 12:15 Hack begins 13:30 Lunch break 14:30 Hacking continues 19:00 Door closes Day 2 Saturday Nov 12, 2016  11:00 Doors open 13:00 Lunch Break 15:00 Hack stops 15:30 Hack demos begin! (Typically 2-3 minutes per demo) 17:00 Winning teams announced  Organizers Science Hack Day Singapore is organised by Science Centre Singapore and FOSSASIA. Venue is sponsored by IDA. 

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FOSSASIA Summit 2016 Science Centre Singapore – Wrap Up

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…

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

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.

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FOSSASIA 2015 Singapore – Wrap Up

FOSSASIA 2015 in Singapore has been a fantastic success. Thanks to everyone who helped to make this event possible! We would also like to thank all sponsors, venue partners and our main supporters Red Hat and Google. FOSSASIA 2016 will take place from March 18-20 in Singapore. Below are some numbers and facts of 2015 now, some info about ‘What’s Next in 2015’ and our FOSSASIA GSoC program with 5,500 USD stipends for students (Deadline 27 March. Apply now).FOSSASIA’15 NUMBERS & FACTSWe had 128 speakers from 27 countries and 900+ attendees. 37 volunteers supported the event.There were 142 scheduled sessions and lightning talks, and 58 breakout and unconference sessions.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.Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, the Singapore Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation Initiative said at the event at a Q&A with Roland Turner: “Rest assured, we will continue to support Open Data and Open Source."Other keynotes included Lennart Poettering with systemd; Bunnie Huang gave insights to Open Hardware Development; Colin Charles about the future of MariaDB, and Gen Kanai talked about developer engagement at Mozilla.“Build your own minimum viable Internet” was a hot topic at the event set by Harish Pillay as well as the Internet of Things and enabling local production with digitization of machines like knitting machines.A first trend analysis of FOSSASIA shows that Python continues to receive increasing attention of developers and DevOps topics attracting a lot of interest. WHAT’S NEXT IN 2015Due to the large interest in DevOps at FOSSASIA we are teaming up with Red Hat to bring you some free Open Stack webinars including a 3-webinar series to learn how PaaS partnered with DevOps can improve application time to market. Please follow this link for the free webinar.And: DevOps can also join a free webinar to learn about the Keystone identity service, which is part of the OpenStack Platform. FOSSASIA is a mentor org for Google Summer of Code 2015. We are looking for students who would like to develop for Open Source projects and receive a stipend of 5,500 USD. We are particularly looking for mobile app developers and software developers for Open Hardware and the Internet of Things. Please check out our ideas list here: http://labs.fossasia.org/ideas and sign up before March 27 on Google Melange.The FOSSASIA community organizes events and developer meetups throughout the year. Please join our meetups in Singapore, in Dubai and many other cities in Asia.LinksSign up for GSoC before March 27: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/FOSSASIA Photos: https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=fossasiaFOSSASIA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fossasiaFOSSASIA Videos: https://www.youtube.com/chanFOSSASIA Sg Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/FOSSASIADevOps Webinars: https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxpKeystone identity service Webinar: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/events

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