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Friday, 18th Mar

09:00 - 09:30
ChorusText is an open assistive device built with Arduino, Linux SBC and a few sliders and buttons. It is a text-editing device that lets the user do text editing by means of touch and hearing, without eyesight. It is an ongoing project and the goal of the project is to come up with an assistive device that enables the visually challenged to edit text effectively, and with open-source code + design files such that anyone interested can build one themselves.
Implementing democratised Internet-of-Things services/solutions
PSL@FOSSASIA aims to deliver low-cost lab equipments to millions of students and young scientists and enable them to learn science by experimenting and exploring. The main components of PSL are ExpEYES: Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists and MicroHope: Micro-controllers for Hobby Projects and Education (www.expeyes.in) In this space open science experiments developed during GSoC-15 project will be exhibited. The demonstrations include Coupled oscillations, Electromagnetic Induction, PSL-Laser Show, Weather station using ExpEYES and Raspberry-Pi and various other science hacks. At this space we will also be presenting and inviting ideas for Science Hack Day India.
Free Real-time communications lounge
Ring, a project from Savoir-faire Linux, creators of SFLphone, uses a distributed hash table instead of a central SIP server to find other users. This peer-to-peer network is also accessible from other applications using the project's OpenDHT library. Signaling protocols, like SIP, XMPP and IAX, typically rely on central servers to help users locate each other and initiate sessions. Ring is an evolved version of the SFLphone SIP client adding support for true peer-to-peer calling without any central server. The peer-to-peer network transport is implemented using the OpenDHT library, making it a universal solution that can be used for any arbitrary real-time signalling requirement from any application.
FOSSASIA Exhibition
Deepin Desktop System showcase.
If you work on an open source project and need design help with User Experience, Branding or Visual User Interface , come and present your project. Hopefully we can get http://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/ on board and post jobs on the website.
coala [1] provides an abstraction for static code analysis that is useful while still applicable to any text based language. coala provides convenient user interfaces for multiple usecases which takes away a lot of common tasks from the developer. In this process coala makes research available for production immediately and combines rapid prototyping with instant usability. coala also facilitates people entering the world of open source by providing them valuable feedback on coding standards and formatting in one consistent way for all languages. [1] http://coala-analyzer.org/
RedHat Community - Helping our open source projects and standards be wildly successful
The World's Most Popular Open Source Database
The YouthMobile Initiative builds on the experience of many worldwide initiatives that introduce young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-learn). It also seeks to build on experiences targeting young women who are vastly underrepresented in this field. Finally it builds on the consideration that for millions of young people, the smartphone in their pocket is a very powerful computer, it will be their only computer, and they use it for nearly every aspect of their lives: communicating, learning, taking pictures, and playing games.
Innovation depends on developing creative solutions for the complicated challenges we will be facing in the future, but what happens if we want to start innovating but we believe that we are not creative? The experiential booth will have tools and materials for participants to stop by and create a personalized coaster or greeting. Each participant can stay up to 20 min, as to let other people have a chance at making.
The exhibition showcases the use of open source hardware and software e.g. Intel Galileo, Arduino etc to support student learning needs, for student exposure to open source tools and as outreach to potential students
The Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation (MSc TIP) programme is a 1-year full-time programme or 2-year part-time programme. It is also offered in Chinese language as a 1-year full-time programme.
09:30 - 10:00
Welcome to the 8th year of FOSSASIA. A friendly community of Open Technologists meets at the Science Centre Singapore.
09:35 - 10:05
The FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit 2016 welcomes more than 200 speakers, in over 300 Sessions, 16 tracks, with 3 Tech Kids tracks, hosted in the wonderful venue of the Science Centre Singapore. How we got here, who are our partners today and why we need the - Open - Internet of Things.
09:45 - 10:15
The Science Centre Singapore (Abbreviation: SCS, Chinese: 新加坡科学馆), is a scientific institution in Singapore, specialising in the promotion of scientific and technological education for the general public. With over 850 exhibits spread over eight exhibition galleries, it sees over a million visitors a year today.
09:55 - 10:25
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10:20 - 10:50
Last year at Burning Man 2015, we demonstrated an open hardware & software, 900 MHz radio-connected platform based on our Orchard IoT platform in the form of a conference badge. The badges bore a circular set of LEDs which would flash in a pattern unique to that badge. Attendees with other badges customized their light patterns by finding badges with patterns they like and "having sex" with them. The description of the light patterns is based on a diploid genome, and the process of breeding lights is modeled after the biological process of having sex. The overall protocol to exchange light genomes was designed to require explicit consent of both parties, thus layering a social experiment on top of a hardware experiment. By requiring explicit consent, the badges also served as an icebreaker and a seed for many fun conversations.
10:40 - 11:10
The story of how SingPost built the drone delivery system & gain global coverage in 3 months.
11:00 - 11:30
Break in the Marquee room with coffee, tea and snacks.
11:15 - 11:45
The YouthMobile Initiative builds on the experience of many worldwide initiatives that introduce young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-learn). It also seeks to build on experiences targeting young women who are vastly underrepresented in this field. Finally it builds on the consideration that for millions of young people, the smartphone in their pocket is a very powerful computer, it will be their only computer, and they use it for nearly every aspect of their lives: communicating, learning, taking pictures, and playing games.
11:35 - 12:05
Recognizing the vital role that open source software plays at Google, the Open Source Programs Office is tasked with maintaining a healthy relationship with the open source software development community.
11:55 - 12:25
“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .
12:15 - 12:45
Lunch Catering at Hall A, Scientist for a Day. Speakers Lunch in the Marquee Theatre tent.
13:30 - 14:00
Managing an open-source community is easy when your project is small but grows harder the larger your project becomes. Learn from Mike McQuaid, Homebrew maintainer for 6 years and GitHub employee, about how to grow your project’s community and ensure that it remains a healthy, happy and fun place.
This workshop will be for students from 12-17. We plan to teach them some basics of android by doing a sample android project.
In this 2 hour workshop, we will be introducing the idea of Design Making and how it can be relevant to Education today.Design Making is an approach to problem solving with a focus on making-and-iterating. Tapping on the idea of Design Thinking, making turns concepts into actual prototypes and getting it to market for feedback allows robust iterations to happen for a better product-demand fit.
Dynamix enables mobile apps and Web apps to fluidly interact with the physical world through advanced sensing, control and actuation plug-ins that can be installed into the user’s Android device on-demand. A Dynamix-enabled device can also serve as a gateway between mutually incompatible smart devices that are situated in the user’s environment. 1. Overview of the Framework 2. Features 3. Plugin Development Overview 4. Web Integration 5. Simple Demo
Lots of Open Source technologies are developed by Red Hat. Our applications are used in companies around the world.
Open Detection (OD) is a novel standalone open source project for object detection and recognition in images and 3D point clouds. Open Detection is released under the terms of the BSD license, and thus free for commercial and research use. The project was originated under Google Summer of Code 2015 with the aim of having a vision tool for robotics (in particular for Robocomp, an open source robotics framework). The library is built with a very specific goal - to answer the fundamental problem of Computer Vision - Object Recognition and Detection. We make available to everyone the existing solution in this direction in a common, intuitive and user-friendly APIs. Our simple and user-friendly APIs make this a great tool for Robotics Applications and robots and Computer Vision beginners and enthusiasts. And of course, the method dependent parameters to fine-tune detections to the limit, makes this a great tool for Computer Vision researchers and experts.
https://youtu.be/HNrfr4Mp-Wk
14:00 - 14:30
systemd is a core component of most Linux distributions and the Linux platform. If you run any of today's bigger distribution you'll come into contact with it. In this talk I'd like to give an overview over recent additions and changes.
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Get your hands dirty with various open source software for working with drones, including DroneKit, MAVLink, and Mission Planner.
Yaniv will present overview of oVirt, Foreman and Katello, then will dive into how oVirt integrates with Foreman and Katello to ease different flows in variant systems and data-centers. oVirt 3.5 integration with Foreman allows us to bring new bare-metal hardware to a fully operational hypervisor in one click. In oVirt 3.6 we introduce an integration with Katello to allow oVirt users to see available updates (ERRATA) on hosts and VMs that are managed by Foreman, and in addition on the oVirt engine machine itself. This gives oVirt users a wider view of the updates available for both the virtualized and infrastructure resources. The integration between the projects is still in progress and we plan add functionality to it for better management options for various entities in the data-center hardware - such as provision phase, package management, configurations control and upgrade flows.
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As the internet trickles through society it starts to transform the very places where people live. Some think it can change cities in this century as much as electricity did in the last one. The governments of the world, the weary giants of flesh and steel, also tap into this new home. This talk will step away from the computer screen to look at the design patterns of current toolchains for the so-called "smart city" and their implications. Is there a way the free/libre open (source software) spirit can be baked into the infrastructure that society runs on?
14:30 - 15:00
Legalese helps entrepreneurs take the law into their own hands, by turning contracts into templates, configuration, and code – all on Github. Instead of paying lawyers for access to their proprietary precedents, founders and freelancers can use opensource tools to draft their own NDAs, ESOPs, and angel/seed investment agreements. After a short demo of the system we escalate quickly into a review of the 30-year history of legal informatics, deontic calculi, and programming language theory which Legalese is now productizing with its own DSL.
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Containers and Docker are quite the rage, and people are comparing to the their lightweight approach compared with traditional virtualization (e.g. with KVM). This talk will dispel some myths, and introduce the concepts of hardware- and operating-system- level virtualization. Will also list pros and cons of both the approaches.
I developed an extension - Collaborative Spelling Dictionary, during my intern with the Wikimedia Foundation under the Outreach program of Gnome. After my intern, I created issues in the same extension for newbies to fix and guided them constantly giving them an easy and smooth entry into the open source community. I also mentored the extension's issues in Google Code In this year and had several students submitting their patches for the same, successfully closing number of the open issues. I'll use the opportunity to explain and demonstrate this extension to the FOSSASIA attendees and talk about the step by step process involved in building an extension. This would particularly be useful for anyone aiming to work on and develop extensions to be used for any wiki-project (which are already quite popular these days). Moreover, the extension still has scope for further development. In order to be able to contribute to the extension, it is important to understand how the extension works currently, so I would like to explain about this project and its code architecture and also discuss the possible features and their implementations during my talk. I also plan on giving a demo of my work on my laptop (if time allows) so that the audience gets a better idea about the project.
Who controls the hardware own's the hardware! Vendors taking more and more power of our devices with no return for us - the end user. They want to decide what software it runs on the hardware they sell to us. Why? Because of security. Security means to prevent the user from owning the device and gives the vendor more power to feel good. This security also restricts the usage of hardware to a certain use case. The open source world has shown there are a lot more use cases than advertised with any given hardware. The talk also gives a short overview of coreboot and how coreboot can solve some problems.
14:55 - 15:25
ScienceScope Ltd is a tier 1 partner in the BBC micro:bit development program. This novel coding device will be delivered to every 11 year old students in the UK in the next month. It features sensors, Bluetooth Smart and a 5x5 matrix led display. This development will be a game changer in inspiring students to engage with technology.
15:00 - 15:30
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NVDIMM is very hot topic now a days. It has many fabulous features. One of them is namespaces. NVDIMM support block and persistent memory name spaces. Both has different advantages and use cases. Namespaces may have attributes unavailable through other means, like different block sizes for block devices, the choice of powerfail write atomicity, and the ability. Let’s understand block window, BTT, SPA and their challenges in this session. I will cover how NVDIMM is solving modern memory requirement. Based on its ability to fill the gap between cache memory and SSD. I will cover how Linux community is proceeding to solve namespaces in NVDIMM.
Globalization is a collaborative work done by internationalizing, localizing your software. Most developers write software code but they used to forgot to internationalize their software. This talk will present what is mean by Globalization, why is it important. Then we will look at what Localization is and how to add internationalization in your code by showing some code examples. We will look into what translation platforms are available which is also important part of Globalization.
This talk will cover: 1. Visualization on near-real-time data on Singapore taxi with sharing of observable trends. 2. Heavy obfuscation of this public API by LTA. 3. Serverless architecture: How the whole system, consisting of data collection engine, unobfuscated API endpoints, database and visualization, is built without without having to spin up a single server.
Organisational budgets are shrinking and stakeholders are putting increasing pressure on public sector organisations to be efficient without jeopardising service delivery. There is a multitude of ways to share and reuse software amongst organisations and the public sector employs (and has employed) a variety of different approaches. This session will specifically focus on open source software and the factors influencing the adoption of open source software within public sector organisations. The primary objective of the session is to explore open source software benefits for public sector organisations, discuss the current state of adoption, and review the motivators and a-motivators affecting adoption. A secondary objective of the session is to investigate where organisations are utilising open source software and whether organisations consider open source software as a means of achieving business goals.
15:20 - 15:50
The IoT is poised to change how we interact with and perceive the world around us, and the possibilities are nearly boundless. As more and more connected devices generate data, we will need to solve the problem of how to collect, store, and make sense of IoT data by leveraging the power of database systems. MySQL 5.7 is the best release ever of the world's most popular open source database and provides a new, advanced feature set designed to enable those who are building the next generation of web-based and embedded applications and services including IoT and BigData.
15:30 - 16:00
The number of electronic devices we have around us is gigantic. We need a new interaction model to deal with all these devices, and having a separate native app for each device is impractical. The concept of the ‘Physical Web’ attempts to assign devices with their very own URL, which can be accessed by everyone using their web browser. This opens up a lot of possibilities for developers to create new and amazing applications, taking the user’s immediate physical presence into play. We’ll take a look at some use cases, including, but not limited to treasure hunts, contact sharing and indoor navigation. We’ll dive deep into how JavaScript can be used along with Bluetooth-LE and the Eddystone protocol to create great web apps, and understand the concepts at hand.
Containers are a hot topic on Linux. In this talk I'd like to give a quick overview what systemd provides in the area of containers, how it integrates with the various container managers, and how to use systemd's own minimal container manager systemd-nspawn. I'd like to specifically focus on the more recent changes in the area, and how this functionality has been adopted by the rkt container runtime.
I have worked as a contractor for the leading European fashion retailers and analysed Big Data of their competitors. What do you want to know about it?
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15:45 - 16:15
Introducing our very own Espresso Lite V2, the latest Arduino-compatible ESP8266 Wi-Fi development board for makers and novice learners to build their very own Internet-of-Things (IoT) projects.
16:00 - 16:30
Micro Bit (or micro:bit) is an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. It will be given to every 11 year old student in UK. MicroPython is an "official" solution for the micro:bit. The Python Software Foundation are one of the partners in the project and the BBC asked us to provide such a solution (ntoll is leading the efforts from the PSF side of things). "Mu" is a community generated (i.e. from the Python community) editor that *initially* targets the micro:bit. In the wider Python context, there's been talk of a kid/teacher/beginner friendly editor that's recommended for Python "in general". Plans are afoot to make "mu" meet this requirement.
Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.
Open Source offers opportunities for collaboration between companies in Vietnam and global enterprises. VFOSSA contributes to a sustainable Open Tech ecosystem involving stakeholders and developer networks in Vietnam and connecting them to the global tech community. During my talk, I will introduce about Vietnam Free and Open Source Software Association (VFOSSA), the FOSS ecosystem in Vietnam and more deeply into one of the newest but most active FOSS project, OpenCPS.
16:10 - 16:40
This presentation is about the Sensor Plug-ins developed for ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab as a part of my GSoC-2015 project with FOSSASIA. We have added many new sensors plug-ins to measure a variety of parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, acceleration, tilt angle, magnetic field etc. With this development we at FOSSASIA are aiming to provide low-cost, effective and open source laboratory equipment to students all over the world. I will also be talking about the low-cost weather data-acquisition system developed and interfacing Gas sensors with ExpEYES. A Poster covering details of GSoC work will also be displayed at the venue. In the end I will add little about my experience of GSoC journey with my mentors Mario Behling, Hong Phuc Dang and Andre Rebentisch, with some critical piece of knowledge or a new lesson to learn everyday…..this may encourage and help future GsoC students.
16:30 - 17:00
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Saturday, 19th Mar

09:00 - 09:30
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ChorusText is an open assistive device built with Arduino, Linux SBC and a few sliders and buttons. It is a text-editing device that lets the user do text editing by means of touch and hearing, without eyesight. It is an ongoing project and the goal of the project is to come up with an assistive device that enables the visually challenged to edit text effectively, and with open-source code + design files such that anyone interested can build one themselves.
Implementing democratised Internet-of-Things services/solutions
Implementing democratised Internet-of-Things services/solutions
PSL@FOSSASIA aims to deliver low-cost lab equipments to millions of students and young scientists and enable them to learn science by experimenting and exploring. The main components of PSL are ExpEYES: Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists and MicroHope: Micro-controllers for Hobby Projects and Education (www.expeyes.in) In this space open science experiments developed during GSoC-15 project will be exhibited. The demonstrations include Coupled oscillations, Electromagnetic Induction, PSL-Laser Show, Weather station using ExpEYES and Raspberry-Pi and various other science hacks. At this space we will also be presenting and inviting ideas for Science Hack Day India.
Free Real-time communications lounge
Ring, a project from Savoir-faire Linux, creators of SFLphone, uses a distributed hash table instead of a central SIP server to find other users. This peer-to-peer network is also accessible from other applications using the project's OpenDHT library. Signaling protocols, like SIP, XMPP and IAX, typically rely on central servers to help users locate each other and initiate sessions. Ring is an evolved version of the SFLphone SIP client adding support for true peer-to-peer calling without any central server. The peer-to-peer network transport is implemented using the OpenDHT library, making it a universal solution that can be used for any arbitrary real-time signalling requirement from any application.
FOSSASIA Exhibition
Deepin Desktop System showcase.
To the people who already know what a CryptoParty is: We are doing it, come! To everyone else: Online communication is an important part of our lives. Unlike physical communication, we cannot control who can reach our data when we send it through the "inter-tubes." Fortunately, there are techniques to prevent people from eavesdropping your online conversations. In this workshop, I will talk about easy-to-use security tools that you can use to keep your conversations private: how to encrypt emails and instant messaging. It will be a not-so-technical workshop aimed to include anybody who knows how to use email.
If you work on an open source project and need design help with User Experience, Branding or Visual User Interface , come and present your project. Hopefully we can get http://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/ on board and post jobs on the website.
coala [1] provides an abstraction for static code analysis that is useful while still applicable to any text based language. coala provides convenient user interfaces for multiple usecases which takes away a lot of common tasks from the developer. In this process coala makes research available for production immediately and combines rapid prototyping with instant usability. coala also facilitates people entering the world of open source by providing them valuable feedback on coding standards and formatting in one consistent way for all languages. [1] http://coala-analyzer.org/
RedHat Community - Helping our open source projects and standards be wildly successful
The World's Most Popular Open Source Database
The YouthMobile Initiative builds on the experience of many worldwide initiatives that introduce young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-learn). It also seeks to build on experiences targeting young women who are vastly underrepresented in this field. Finally it builds on the consideration that for millions of young people, the smartphone in their pocket is a very powerful computer, it will be their only computer, and they use it for nearly every aspect of their lives: communicating, learning, taking pictures, and playing games.
Innovation depends on developing creative solutions for the complicated challenges we will be facing in the future, but what happens if we want to start innovating but we believe that we are not creative? The experiential booth will have tools and materials for participants to stop by and create a personalized coaster or greeting. Each participant can stay up to 20 min, as to let other people have a chance at making.
The exhibition showcases the use of open source hardware and software e.g. Intel Galileo, Arduino etc to support student learning needs, for student exposure to open source tools and as outreach to potential students
The Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation (MSc TIP) programme is a 1-year full-time programme or 2-year part-time programme. It is also offered in Chinese language as a 1-year full-time programme.
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Observe - Reflect - Make' is the mantra for software success. Getting software requirement and intends right is a complex challenge. One approach to tackle the complexity is the discipline called 'Design Thinking' as promoted by IBM. The talk will introduce into 'Design Thinking', what it is, how it works, how it helps to create better software. Where does it fit into the greater scheme of things and how can it be adopted in your development.
Deep Learning is a hot topic, but has a steep initial learning curve. To ease the pain, the second part of this workshop will *require* participants to have VirtualBox installed on their laptops. The workshop will start from the very basics (with a little mathematics), and quickly progress to getting hands-on with open source software including the training of a deep network on simple problems. This will be followed by a more in-depth portion : Using a pre-built VM, participants will experiment with a much larger pre-trained model, and get an understanding of application to both e-commerce and generative art.
With over one billion devices activated, Android is an exciting space to make apps to help you communicate, organize, educate, entertain or anything else you’re passionate about. Clearly there’s a demand for Android app development, and it’s turning the platform with the lovable green mascot into more and more of a strong first choice rather than just a secondary option. So if you’ve been intent on, thinking about, or simply playing with the idea of learning Android… Make Your First Android App is here for you! The session aims at introducing budding developers with the basic concepts and terminology in Android Development. It shall begin from scratch and discuss how to setup the environment and build a very own personal Android App with a Splash Screen for starters.
Let's learn how to model 3D in the browser. This workshop is for kids who are interested in 3D modeling and would like to learn the first steps into the 3D world before they progress to 3D print outs.
Introducing kids to different types of digital fabrication techniques. (3D printing, laser cutting, CNC milling.)
Smart Guidance for blind: Shoes(can be replaced by some other way) for the blind based on detecting obstructions and showing a path using sensors, cameras and principles of machine learning in Matlab using image processing: https://video-sit4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xlp1/v/t42.3356-2/12662214_1716573171899154_409955334_n.mp4/video-1454345564.mp4?vabr=369772&oh=ac6e29831a91c5c4eaed0e82b16af039&oe=56B70EB1&dl=1 We started working on this project three weeks back for Hackathon5.0 organized by Lakshya Foundation. Our main aim of this project is to give the total guidance for the blind.Have you all ever thought of the problems faced by the blind people? No will be the answer unless otherwise you are a blind.Even we didn't realise the problems before starting our project.First we started with listing down the problems faced by the blind people and then started finding the solutions for it. So we came up with the following problems. 1. Difficulty in finding the obstructions on their path. 2. Difficulty in reading the road signs and traffic signals.So they can't either drive or walk safely on the road. 3. Difficulty in reading the price tag.So sellers can cheat them. 4. Difficulty in reading books.Since all the books are not translated to Braille letters. 5. Can't watch TV. So we divided these problems into easy, advance and crazy to work on it.First we started working on the basic problems.The first solution we came up was using ultrasonic sensors to detect the obstructions.We created an app which is user friendly (blind person just have to tap) to give the voice output.So we just fixed 3 ultra sonic sensors( per shoe front,back,left/right) and depending on the sensor output the voice will be given as output.Still we have problem in detecting in hanging obstructions and pits.We are trying to replace something with shoe which can fulfil all the conditions.Within a span of two weeks we have completed this task.Further we are working with image processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence to find the solutions for reading road signs(Image processing) and traffic signals(Colour recognition), reading books(Text to speech conversion) and finally for watching TV. As an engineer I suggest others also to work on the projects which would help the highly needed people. Because we never know the problems faced by the poor people and differently-able people. And they don't have enough knowledge or capability to work on their own problems. ------------------------------------------ Problem Background: Corneal Blindness is one of the most common causes of blindness in India. India shoulders the largest burden of global blindness, about 3.5 million across the country with 30000 new cases being added each year. People who are visually impaired face no shortage of problems in India, where living with disabilities can be especially challenging. Pedestrians are often forced off of side walks that are cluttered with vendors, animals and other obstacles. And because of the difficulty of moving independently, accessing services is also difficult. Blind people typically use canes, of course, but the traditional cane can't detect objects higher than the waist. Problem Statement: The problem is now to provide them with an alternative guide to the cane, a guide with a more human like approach. Proposed Solution: Our proposed solution is to develop shoes starting from the most basic level to a highly advanced AI version of those shoes. The steps are as follows: ⦁ Develop a model of shoes with 4 sensors for 4 different directions. These sensors can be distance or IR Led ones. A microcontroller interface would be in place to transmit voice messages through a communications module to the headset of the person wearing the shoes. ⦁ In the intermediate stage the model would contain 4 cameras instead of sensors. The camera’s working on basic image processing would be able to make out textures, landscapes and obstructions to a degree as defined by the manufacturer. ⦁ The final stage would involve trying to get the shoes to define the situations it are placed in by themselves using image processing and machine learning. End users: The blind people around the world. Since our final product doesn't make use of smart/mobile phone, the person who can use it need not be aware of it. The output will be given as sound through headsets. Devices: Shoes, 4 cameras, 4 sensors, headset, a micro controller and other electronic components Platforms, Technologies to be used: Machine learning in Matlab using image processing, interfacing camera, sensor and headset Data set, tools, resources useful in developing solution: Can choose any image processing tools and other technologies.
Terraform is an open-source tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. We can use it to build the infrastructure in many cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, GoogleCloud, Docker, OpenStack etc. Moreover it has an provisioners like chef, which we can use to automate for configuration Management. It can be seen as similar to cloud-formation from AWS. Within this short workshop with this tool I am creating a basic two-tier infrastructure stack in a single command. What I will do it in one stroke of command is Create a complete infrastructure in AWS VPC running an app server, What are the things happening in this one command: - Creating a VPC. - Creating a subnets one public and private. - Creating respective security groups and rules. - Creating a load balancer. - Creating a app server running an web server called nginx. - Attaching a server to ELB and giving us a public DNS by which we can access the app. - And it gives a simple sketch diagram of our infrastructure as well. Thus we have full fledged app running on Cloud in single Command. Links : https://www.terraform.io | https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform
What if you could “file a bug on the internet” in a public space where developers, users and browser vendors could be made aware of compatibility issues? You can report issues to browser vendors today, through bug trackers or other feedback mechanisms, some public and some not. But frequently you cannot see the results of such a report—or see what related issues others have reported. It can feel like a black hole experience. This talk is about introduction to webcompat.com, where we provide simple, open interface to web compatibility issues that affect us all as users of the web, regardless of our browsers or devices of choice. Perhaps more importantly, we hope to foster and enable a community of people who are passionate about a web for everyone to help out.
This talk is about the speaker's journey as he ventured into the world of freelancing, the ups & downs, the lessons learnt and most of all, the support he got from his local IT community in Singapore.
Regional folklores are dying in today's world and we need to save it. Wikilore is a proposed project that will focus on collecting folklores from around the world. It will help to preserve folk songs, folk narratives, folk wisdom, folk medicine, folk customs, folk music, child lore, folk art, folk foodways and a lot more.
In recent years, the applicable enterprise area of PostgreSQL has been significantly enlarged by performance and functionality enhancement. As a result, there is a emerging demand to migrate database systems to PostgreSQL from Oracle. In this presentation, we will report on the following two tools which greatly help our migration projects: * SQL Imcompatibility detection tool (db_syntax_diff) * Oracle emulating function libraries "orafce" and our enhancement We are working at the open source software center (OSS center) at NTT which is the largest telecommunications company group in Japan. For the purpose of software cost reduction, we have been carried out a lot of database migration projects so far. Most of our customers are preferring so called "DB migration project", in which only the middle-ware DBMS will be replaced and AP itself will be reused. This is because such projects are usually considered more effective in terms of development time and cost than the "rebuild" projects, in which the system will be build again from scratch. Nevertheless, the differences between old and new DBMSs often block the migration projects technically, and considerable number of projects may be giving up eventually. We found the major factors that make the migration difficult is following two: * Cost of the estimation work * Technical difficulty of the estimation work itself As a solution of these problems, we have developed a non-compatible SQL auto-detection tool named db_syntax_diff. This tool can extract PostgreSQL incompatible SQLs in AP for Oracle and append each of them a difficulty index for migration. We've performed more than 30 database migration projects using this tool. As another effort to solve migration problems, we are also working on function enhancement of orafce (Oracle emulation libraries). Based on the knowledge of frequently seen incompatibilities in the above estimations, we have added a large number of new entries to the orafce.
From San Francisco to Dubai, Singapore and Beijing. Science Hack Days in Asia and around the world.
10:15 - 10:45
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HELP US PRESERVE THE ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SYRIA BY CREATING A VIRTUAL #NEWPALMYRA DIGITAL TOOLS TO BUILD THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST #NEWPALMYRA is: * A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS. * A Cultural Development project, hosting live workshops and building a network of artists, technologists, archaeologists, architects, and others to research, construct models, and create artistic works. * A Curatorial project, creating exhibitions and experiences in museums and institutions globally, celebrating the cultural heritage of Syria and the world through the lens of architecture embodying culture and power. Together with our international affiliates, #NEWPALMYRA sources archaeological and historical data, shares it with the community, and outputs art exhibitions, salons, and creative works using this data to carry the rich history of Palmyra forward to new generations.
10:24 - 10:54
Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky. Constellations and clothing patterns are mathematically difficult to construct. This talk begins with the origins of the project and explains the challenges posed by the data, the data structures, and the user workflow. The revolutionary nature of this open source fashion design tool is revealed in social, political, ecological and technical terms.
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How a combination of technical and social engineering has led to a multi-million lexical database, accessible for all. It has over two million words in 150 languages, organized into concepts and linked in a semantic network. The data is downloadable and available as linked open data. Every year we add tens of thousands of new senses (concept-word pairs), and richer links between them. We will talk about how we organize the data, how we freed it and the Python API for accessing it.
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I'm going to give an overview about the machine tool industry and how manufacturing takes place at a scale. I'm going to give details about the processes and the machines used to achieve production at that scale. I'll also discuss some popular case studies like Foxconn manufacturing line for Apple. It will be insightful for start-ups to understand the the ecosystem and challenges when you manufacture at scale and the challenges to bring a product from a prototype to production stage.
Businesses demand fast paced development of highly scalable, web centric applications. This puts lot of pressure on developers and then scalability, higher throughput, UI etc becomes their focus points. At the same time DBA & Ops team too are accountable for robustness and performance. Both the teams approach same applications with different perspective and it creates some challenges. For example while DBA team is concerned about consistency of data, developers are more often concerned about ease of development. How do we address these challenges and work together. As a DB Architect for a solutions company I have been interacting with various customer’s development teams and getting to know their views on how they use databases. In the process, I have shared some inputs with them which they have found quite useful and in turn I have picked up a few tips from them. During my presentation I would like to share about 7 such important lessons that should be pinned to every developer’s and data architect’s desk while developing a web-scale app. These tips are about improvement in the application design and architecture but they come from a Database Architect’s perspective. To illustrate these tips I would be using popular features of an open source database – PostgreSQL.
FOSSASIA API is a set of tools and interfaces designed to collect and visualize data from ASIA open-source communities. In this talk I want to present the history, the design, the challenge and usefulness of collecting communities data in a distributed manner. Then, let's see what are ways of evolving & promoting FOSSASIA API so that it can reach out to more users and developers.
Test driven development (TDD) is a very useful software development strategy, but it is not yet taught and practiced as widely as it should. Learning TDD practice in Python can be challenging because there are several "competing" packages without an obvious "best way" to do it. Simplicity and readability are core concepts of Python, and in this talk I will try to show how it can be applied to testing by doing a side-by-side comparison of unittest/selenium vs pytest/splinter in a simple web application development context.
Change the mindset of proprietary software users and the stereotypical idea of contributing to free and open-source software.
There are plenty of public datasets out there available, in this talk we will showcase opensource tools from BigData ecosystem available for practitioner to mine them, at scale and on a budget.
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10:33 - 11:03
It is possible to create and make your own PCB without the use of dangerous chemicals. Simply by using Vineger, Hydrogen Peroxide and Salt you are able to make fairly complex PCB boards. The process is simple and fast and gives you the flexibility to make 1 single board or multiple different prototype boards for testing. This workshop will introduce participants to the process of making PCB boards using a laser printer, transfer media paper and a heat press machine. Participants will get to make and assemble a working PCB board.
10:42 - 11:12
This presentation is about the Sensor Plug-ins developed for ExpEYES : Pocket Science Lab as a part of my GSoC-2015 project with FOSSASIA. We have added many new sensors plug-ins to measure a variety of parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, acceleration, tilt angle, magnetic field etc. With this development we at FOSSASIA are aiming to provide low-cost, effective and open source laboratory equipment to students all over the world. I will also be talking about the low-cost weather data-acquisition system developed and interfacing Gas sensors with ExpEYES. A Poster covering details of GSoC work will also be displayed at the venue. In the end I will add little about my experience of GSoC journey with my mentors Mario Behling, Hong Phuc Dang and Andre Rebentisch, with some critical piece of knowledge or a new lesson to learn everyday…..this may encourage and help future GsoC students.
10:51 - 11:21
“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .
11:00 - 11:30
Self-made twitter, Internet of Things and large-scale social graph for everyone
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Just how easy is it to make a thing move from anywhere in the world?
coala provides an abstraction for static code analysis that is useful while still applicable to any text based language. It also provides a convenient user interface which takes away a lot of common tasks from the developer. In this process coala makes research available for production use. coala also facilitates people entering the world of open source by providing them valuable feedback on coding standards and formatting. This talk features a short introduction into the thoughts behind coala, its ability to speed up research as well as increase productivity and a demonstration of our command line and other interfaces.
My talk is about WebAPI, focus on how to use WebAPI to develop application in FinTech, HealthTech, Government, Smart Homes & Cities. By learning WebAPI developer and user can create the application they need and also helping the community by contributing in the development of WebAPIs. In my talk there's also topic about Hybrid application using webapi and firefox.
This talk will be showcasing the various projects within the Fedora Infrastructure. Even though this talk is in the Python track, this talk will interest the people who are interested in the tracks DevOps and Open Source and Free Software. My talk will divided into 2-3 minutes chunks, where I would be talking about architecture, functionality of various projects (pagure, fmn, bodhi etc) within the Fedora Infrastructure. My primary focus would to enlighten the participants on how this various applications interact within themselves so that the contributors can visualize the infrastructure as a whole. I also intent to speak on Federated Message Bus (fedmsg) within the infra through which the message passing takes place. At the end of the talk I plan to tell them on how to pick their first bug and the communication channels through which they can contact the Fedora upstream.
Harish Pillay looks at the Internet Society from a global perspective from Singapore and Asia.
The problem of analysis and anomaly detection in time series data arises in many applications, and is especially problematic when systems must cope with high scalability, volume, frequency, and cardinality requirements. We present a system for ingesting and analyzing time series data under such constraints with better performance characteristics than many currently-used systems.
Upwork is the world’s largest freelance talent marketplace, with 10+MM freelancers and 4+MM clients, and pays out more than $1+B annually in salaries. The data processing pipeline at Upwork consists of PG production DB, GPDB data warehouse, and multiple Vitesse DB data marts. I will detail the distinctive role of each system, and provide details on the setup of the pipeline, specifically how data flow from production to DW to data mart. If time permits, I will also give some examples of how the platform works for the data scientists at Upwork.
Let's see what outcome we can get at the end of the Science Hack Day on Sunday evening. First step, we form groups to work on the hacking ideas.
11:30 - 12:00
Using only open source tools, the OpenStack Infrastructure team operates a code review driven infrastructure for the OpenStack project. This talk will highlight the tooling used to accomplish this and how using code review and testing in our DevOps work has made us a more effective team.
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Why it is changing? 1. modifyable by end user companies themselves. 2. transforming all companies into IT companies. 3. available for any size of company. 4. complete independence of your vendor. 5. Interfacing easily with other systems. 6. contunuously adapted to the changing business. 7. Yes slowly because businesses are very conservative 8. Total open source for every part of the total installation. 9. data bases sharable. 10. devops for continuous deployment and more.....
Tunir is CI made for developers in mind. It is very simple and easy to configure. Each job only takes a json file, and .txt file as configuration. It can boot up cloud image on any laptop/server or can use Vagrant images to test any project. One of the latest feature is about testing on AWS EC2 instances. For any given AMI & authentication details, it can spin up the instance, and execute the tests on it. Currently Fedora Project is using tunir to automatically test its own cloud, atomic, and Vagrant images. We write the test cases using Python 3 unittest module. The documentation of the project can be found at https://tunir.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. In 20 minutes, I will give an introduction about Solr to help you understand and how to customize it to build a search engine of your own. In the last part, I will cover one of its implementation in IBM Watson Retrieve & Rank API
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Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
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Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
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Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
13:00 - 13:30
InMobi is worlds largest independent mobile advertising network serving 150 billion ads per month. PostgreSQL is one of the data stores behind this scale and this talk is about various issues which we encountered in production and also how did we solve the same.
13:30 - 14:00
Lightning talks are designed to be short presentations between five to ten minutes long, but are usually capped at five minutes. Most conferences will allot a segment of roughly 30 to 90 minutes long to speakers. Talks are arranged one after the other during the sessions. The talks are usually given at conferences in order for the event to have many speakers discuss a multitude of topics. The conferences are held in order for individuals to be able to share their ideas and concepts to people who have experience in the specific field. Lightning talks are brief which requires the speaker to make his or her point clearly and rid the presentation of non-critical information. This causes the audience to be more attentive to the speaker and gain a broader array of knowledge from the presentations given.
Anomaly detection is very important problem and extensive research has been done about it’s various applications and domains. In this report I’ve documented my research on anomaly detection in cloud computing architectures like OpenStack, Microsoft Azure & Amazon Web Services(AWS). Cloud computing systems create a big jungle of Logs and Metrics and these can provide a cloud operator tremendous insight into the systems and answer the most important questions about architecture’s health. My research shows that cloud computing architectures face completely different types of anomalies than discussed in other domains and these metrics are not very useful if used in single dimension but if we perform anomaly detection on multiple dimensions together and correlate thus generated insights with Logs we can increase our efficiency and decrease false positive cases by a huge margin. When dealing with this amount of logs and metrics we need to come up with novel distributed architectures. In this research I’ve focused on multiple dimensional anomaly detection on storm like distributed system using locality sensitive hashing and sequence mining. I hope that this research will provide us with a better understanding of different directions in which research and implementations have been done on the domain of anomaly detection, and how techniques which are proposed and implemented for a domain can be applied in different domains for which it was not initially intended to begin with.
As developers these days follow agile processes and hence want automation of repetitive tasks. This is an opportunity for them to leverage the power of IntelliJ IDEA SDK to build plugins for IntelliJ Idea and Android Studio in Java. This will be a hands on training session in which developers will : -> setup the dev environment for plugin development -> get an overview of plugin architecture, manifests etc. -> Write a couple of plugins and will be able to deploy them on their IDEs.
Satellite communication is moderately difficult. It can be achieved with handheld antennas but (a) this is more difficult than it needs to be and (b) this limits your ability to communicate in marginal conditions. Building a rotator/elevator that is capable of automatically tracking a satellite across the sky frees up one hand which simplifies the process and increases pointing precision, meaning that you're better able to communicate in marginal conditions than you would be with a handheld antenna. In this talk I'll describe my build of the "Tricked-Out WRAPS" system and, if we're really lucky, demonstrate it live.
oVirt is management software for server and desktop virtualization, as such it to manage shared storage used by the system managed VMs which can run on different hypervisors. The challange to do so increases as the demand for high performance rises as well as the number of managed hypervisors/vms and the potential number point of failures. This session will focus in the different approaches taken in oVirt to manage shared storage in the virtualization world, the pros of each approach and its drawbacks
Will talk about the current efforts of Mozilla on Connected Devices (IoT), MozVR (Virtual Reality for the Open Web), and Firefox Developer Tools.
Python has a tonne of packages related to designing a nice command line interface. There's the stdlib's argparse and various other packages like docopt, clint, click, etc. This talk will talk about when to use each of these packages and when to not. I'll also talk about some of the DOs and DON'Ts of creating a good CLI application.
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) assists with the creation and distribution of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in support of humanitarian relief efforts. OSM is the Free Wiki World Map – an openly licensed map of the world being created by volunteers using local knowledge, GPS tracks and donated sources. One of the online tools developed by HOT to assist this effort is the Export Tool, which creates custom OSM downloads in a number of file formats for various regions around the world. The user can simply choose an area of geographic interest, select the OSM features they wish to export and specify a file format. This export can then be used on a variety of GIS tools such as ArcMap, QGIS, Google Earth, the OsmAnd mobile app and the Garmin GPS device. The ability to easily obtain updated OSM data can greatly contribute to relief efforts on the ground, as well as being used for personal interests, business ventures and research purposes. In the case of the devastating earthquake that shook Nepal in April 2015, post-disaster road and building data from OSM was used to manoeuvre people and supplies to where they were most needed.
The developer, design and maker community in Singapore is young, but growing rapidly. Through the automatic curation of open events and open data at https://webuild.sg and collecting the data trends at http://data.webuild.sg, we see some exciting works of this community that we can all learn from. What else can be done to support and promote this open community? We would love to share and hear from you!
Science Hack Begins with project groups working on * Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA * Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky * DIY Circuit Board Workshop * ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab - Developing Open Source Science Experiments with FOSSASIA * #NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
13:35 - 14:05
A quick introduction on how developers can set up an OAuth2 Authorization Server and start managing/monitoring the interactions of third party applications with their system/API's. Spring Security makes it really easy to protect endpoints, authorize requests and implement RBAC. The talk will quickly run through the different aspects of Spring Security and OAuth2 and how to customize your Authorization Server
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This talk aims to introduce the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery workflow for the Open Source projects FOSSology and OpenStack. Attendees will learn about the benefits of CI/CD and also how CI/CD works through problems faced on these two projects. They will learn to leverage the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery workflow into their Open Source and Free Software development. * Introduction * What's CI/CD * Why important for Open Source and Free Software development * Typical Workflow * Use FOSSology project as example to introduce the typical workflow and tools * Problems: typical workflow don't scale to large open source projects * OpenStack Workflow * OpenStack workflow and tools * OpenStack infrastructure * Problems solved * How to leverage the OpenStack way
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The talk will be started with a brief introduction about KDE and Labplot. Following that I will demonstrate the final result of integration between LabPlot and Cantor. I will demonstrate with the help of few python and maxima scripts what a user can do using the LabPlot. I will also give a brief about what will be its future, how this functionality will eventually help users and how can others start contributing to the code. I will then put some light on the other two projects. Firstly, Ming Ngo added visualization of 3D-data to LabPlot using the powerful VTK library. This helped data to be visualized as points in 3D-space, curves and surfaces. Another project by Ankit Wagarde, he added a very useful tool to LabPlot that allows users to extract data from images. After importing of an image and setting the reference points, the user starts to select the data points on the image that get automatically converted into numbers.
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FarmMind Technologies ==================== 1 PROBLEM STATEMENT ---------------------------------------------- This smart centralized system will help farmers to take a step into precision agriculture being monitored by wireless sensors in and around their farms. This covers problems like irrigation management, crop maintenance, soil fertility maintenance, crop yield improvement, pesticide management in compliance with good agricultural practices. 2 WORK FLOW ---------------------------- The innovation focuses on developing a smart centralized system to control different requirements for a farm per crop being grown. An IoT based system integrates the cloud AI services with that of the hardware and sensors in the farms / fields which constantly stream real-time information to the servers. Depending on various other parameters like humidity, temperature and other meteorological data, predictions of the requirements of the farm is calculated and the hardware device which automatically opens the valves for irrigation / warns the farmer about doing a scheduled check in the localized language is made via SMS. This provides a centralized GIS collection of the soil data allowing extensive research and work by the agricultural scientists to guide the farmers in a given area for the crop they're growing. Simultaneously it provides the data for governments to optimize on the water irrigation routes / canals so that other drought struck areas can ensure water in times of need. The hardware solution consists of various sensors connected to the GSM chip module on board which allows the farmers to irrigate the farms when needed or transmit data to the required scientists/soil experts in the area who could help. • It keeps updating the data base on parameters such as soil temperature, humidity, air temperature, determine frost and heat events, forecast harvest time. • It maps the fields from phone using GPS and input field sampling information. • This systems aims for mobile first and cloud first implementation. • It integrates pest management system by observing, inspecting, and identifying certain trends in the pests and pesticides. It keeps the track record. • Last but not the least, it proposes high yielding plans and best crop management plans even under disasters. 3 FIELDS ARE THE NEW OFFICES AND DATA IS DRIVING THE TRACTORS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are trying to use the emerging Cloud based technologies in AI, machine learning and big data to solve important problems as well as to get the problem notified to the related person in real time. This system allows farmers to monitor and maintain the quality of their farms by sitting at their home just using simple services like SMS in case there is no internet connectivity present in the area or by using the app built for android phones. The hardware is also sending data of the farm to the agricultural scientists who can use it to make data driven decisions. Integrations with the other meteorological information helps to offer the best advice for irrigation. This system can also be used to inform the farmers in a particular area in case of an agricultural outbreak risk in that area. The other solutions include animal breeding and maintaining the data informing the farmers about the required medication needed for the cattle. Mainly focuses on reliable, safety, interoperable, low cost implementation.
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Talk about PyData Singapore meetups
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Real time tracking systems are expensive and difficult to maintain, at the same time they take a lot of network resources like 4G/3G/2G data for the mapping to a real world location. In developing countries like India where the internet is still expensive. This is exactly where our IoT platform steps in, with a mission to build a scalable and extensible real time tracking system. We would be having a small IoT device installed in your vehicle which would able to transfer data back and forth to the server. It will help in tracking different vehicles in real time. It would be scalable to any possible vehicle runs on the road. For example, Truck owner would able to track his Trucks travelling in different part of the country, it will give him power to not only track his vehicles but also notifies him during vehicle accident. This technology is the future of the Shipping Industry, Land-Cargo Industry and also for personal use for tracking your vehicle or in the case of car-theft.
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Roassal is a highlevel framework for visualizing data written in Smalltalk. In this workshop we will use it to build an interactive mind-mapping application. You will learn about development in Pharo Smalltalk in a hands-on approach.
Our smart nation of tomorrow starts up planting seeds of education today. A future of authentic learning is already here as we work with microcontrollers, sensors and connectivity to learn about our environment and make smarter decisions. Explore how the potpurri of sensors, big data and deep learning for kids can make everyday learning part of future education.
This workshop serves as an introduction to electronics to beginners. They will learn how to make simple circuits and also be introduced to electronic chips that go behind some of the toys that kids play with. Each Participant will get to play with an 3 in 1 DIY electronic kit. Course Objectives 1) Learn Basic Breadboarding 2) Be introduced to components such as resistors,leds and buzzers. 3) Know how IC chips work 4) Learn how to build a LED blinker with Melody
Hacking with various ARM deivces on Linux, Android, RaspberryPi and Chromebook. In this session, I will talk ARM Linux with the user point of view. Let's play Linux with customized.
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Chat bots
Zanata Python client is a client that communicates with a Zanata server [http://zanata.org/] to push text for translation (from publican documents or gettext-based software), and pull translated text back for inclusion in software or documentation builds. It also provides support for creating projects/versions in Zanata and retrieving information about projects.
Open source geospatial software is lesser known application stack to governments. This talk intended to introduce the stack and the application possibilities with FOSS4G. The talk will focus on GeoServer, PostGIS, QGIS and Mapbox technologies
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The talk will focus on PostgreSQL and Hadoop working together and how they can be used together to function better and perform advanced stuff.
India's #Netneutrality campaign generated over a million comments following one of the most extensive public campaigns on the Web in recent history. The session discusses how India's Internet users, open web advocates, internet startups and FOSS activists run a campaign for #netneutrality and open Internet and what it means for asian countries, since this discussion is shaping up the global south discourse around this topic.
HELP US PRESERVE THE ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SYRIA BY CREATING A VIRTUAL #NEWPALMYRA DIGITAL TOOLS TO BUILD THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST #NEWPALMYRA is: * A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS. * A Cultural Development project, hosting live workshops and building a network of artists, technologists, archaeologists, architects, and others to research, construct models, and create artistic works. * A Curatorial project, creating exhibitions and experiences in museums and institutions globally, celebrating the cultural heritage of Syria and the world through the lens of architecture embodying culture and power. Together with our international affiliates, #NEWPALMYRA sources archaeological and historical data, shares it with the community, and outputs art exhibitions, salons, and creative works using this data to carry the rich history of Palmyra forward to new generations.
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ExpressJS is one of the best NodeJS web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications. Lots of NodeJS developer use it as their main web application framework. They have their own coding-style for the application route and also its middleware. Now, imagine if there are several backend engineers, developing a big web application and they never write any code documentation, only in several function/method. If there's a new engineer join the development, he/she has been given tasks by their lead engineer to enhance several endpoints and they don't know the flow of the endpoint. Hence, it will consume more time for new engineer to read other engineers code. That's why PipaJS come to the rescue. PipaJS is a module for ExpressJS which will help developers to understand the flow of each route by just reading the route and its middleware flow.
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Tracking fuel level in a gas cylinder is still an unexplored area where age old practices are followed to measure and track in developing countries like India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and many more. Gas-o-Gauge is an IoT based application which uses a Load sensor and a GPRS module in an embedded system to track and poll level of fuel to a server on cloud. It enables users and vendors to track and decide gas cylinder stock in a smart way. With the increasing interconnection between people’s lives and the devices that they interact with in their daily lives, this IoT device is a scalable platform that allows users to integrate their daily kitchen needs and consumption to provide real time data for business intelligence to gas agencies and vendors as well as integrate daily requirements like ordering groceries, recipe trackers, restaurants listing during a low gas level as well as instructions and resources to drive/ride to the location. This prototype has been the runner up at the Indian School of Business, engineering design awards. Link for Opensource Repository: https://github.com/kranthikiran01/Gas-o-Gauge.git
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This talk tells about how to contribute F/OSS project with Inkscape (icons, splash, wallpaper and other artwork stuff)
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I was a GSoC 2015 Student with FOSSASIA working on the distributed tweet search server and scraper Loklak. In this talk i'd be talking about the architecture, the functionality and the features that loklak offers in comparison to the twitter API, At the same time I'd also be talking about the p2p functionality and the ability for building applications centered around the tweets obtained from twitter, specifically for customer services. At the same time i'd also be talking about the timeline search and navigation system in loklak.net and how the features offered in them would be game changers to the way conferences are held and allowing users to share maps.
14:25 - 14:55
The talk will explain all about the project that I have done in the summer based on the enhancement of command line tools for sTeam collaboration platform and aware the people about the open source programming language called Pike. This will take the audience through the advantages/disadvantages to pick up this language as well as what difficulties(technical) I faced while learning this in a short time. This talk will also target the functioning of sTeam and how these "enhancements" were done (code wise) and the strategies applied to get it to work. Lastly, it will also encourage students to take up GSoC and Google code-in to boost their knowledge domain and be a part of the open source community.
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Functional programming provides a powerful set of tools for procedural generation of content for games, art and product design. In this workshop we will explore the use of the Clojure programming language to create a wide range of visual effects, from game textures to procedurally generated animations.
I will be talking about Outreachy: overview, participation, details about the program, organisations that take part and end with discussion on my own project with HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team).
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Tizen is an open source operating system for consumer electronics such as Mobile, Wearables, TVs, Vehicles, Cameras, the world of IoT & much more. It is heavily supported and worked on today by Samsung Electronics and community. It has already shipped several million products and is expanding. The goal is for it to be a real community effort between OEMs and all other interested parties to have a truly free and open operating system that can be used to develop products without restrictions. This will introduce what Tizen is, some of its history and where it is going, but will try and aim to be more of an interactive session to answer questions and gather feedback. Bring your curiosity and positivity and perhaps we can all build a better future for our gadgets together.
In the session Yaniv will present "The oVirt Way" - What hides behind virtualization management, how great community with strong developers can build an open source project which looks and feels awesome, comfortable, stable and full of great features. oVirt provides an alternative for other projects and products that aim to manage complex virtualized environments, and can help you empower your data-center. In the session Yaniv will show how various management flows can be done easily with oVirt such as network configurations, new servers deployment, enhanced storage manipulations, enhanced live flows, QoS and many more. Yaniv will discuss what currently possible to do with oVirt, and what the oVirt road-map for future versions... and in addition how you, audience, can contribute to oVirt!
Is there any credible way to build a trustworthy communications platform without using free software? At FOSDEM 2013, leading developers of free real-time communications software dared to get up on stage and ask the question "Can we replace Skype, Viber, Twitter and Facebook?". Was this the right question and how does it relate to free software development today and in the future? Pocock talks about what has changed since then and where things are going in this domain in the year ahead, especially with the emergence of WebRTC and the ubiquity of browsers that support it and the opportunities this has created for the world of web development and interaction with other open systems.
Understanding of basic concepts in science, math and technology is the most important thing in every students life. But sometimes science lectures aren't just boring, they are ineffective too and result in loss of interest among students. Learning science can be fun if we could visualize the concepts and relate them with the real world. Python programming language has the potential to change a dull teaching learning process in to more stimulating active learning. Equations in physics and maths always look dull and boring. With the power of python one can see the beauty behind those equations and can find real world connections. With the effective use of python programs a teacher can actively engage the students and help them visualize the concepts and have better understanding. In this presentation I will talk about my teaching experiments with Python in Physics with live demo of some scientific python programs.
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In an era increasingly marked by project-based innovation, the modality that Open Source has ushered in is creating unprecedented levels of innovation. As participants in global projects build upon each others ideas and inventions to be able to innovate in an iterative manner, a culture of co-opetition is emerging which allows companies to successfully collaborate and compete at the same time. As part of this evolution from silo'd invention inside individual companies to collaborative project-based innovation, a parallel culture of patent non-aggression has developed through the creation of the Open Invention Network (OIN) which over the last 10 years has grown into the largest patent non-aggression community in the history of technology. Keeping pace with the growth and proliferation of Linux and other OSS-based platforms into key markets such as mobile, home, auto and finance, OIN has doubled in size twice over the past 36 months and now is a community of over 2,000 entities and individuals explicitly committed to patent non-aggression in core technologies that enable innovation in these new markets/sectors. The how and why of OIN's successful expansion and the benefits of participation in this free community will be discussed.
Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky. Constellations and clothing patterns are mathematically difficult to construct. This talk begins with the origins of the project and explains the challenges posed by the data, the data structures, and the user workflow. The revolutionary nature of this open source fashion design tool is revealed in social, political, ecological and technical terms.
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Many problems of recent interest in the banks are detection of fraud analysis as well as insurance analysis that can be put in the framework of convex optimization. Due to the explosion in size and complexity of modern datasets, it is increasingly important to be able to solve problems with a very large number of fea- tures or training examples. As a result, both the decentralized collection or storage of these datasets as well as accompanying distributed solution methods are either necessary or at least highly desirable. H2O makes it possible for anyone to easily apply math and predictive analytics to solve today’s most challenging business problems. Combine the power of highly advanced algorithms, the freedom of open source, and the capacity of truly scalable in-memory processing for big data on one or many nodes. These capabilities make it faster, easier, and more cost effective to harness big data to maximum benefit for the business. Some Key features of using H2O are Easy-to-use WebUI and Familiar Interfaces – Set up and get started quickly using either H2O’s intuitive Web-based user interface or familiar programming environ- ments like R, Java, Scala, Python, JSON, and through our powerful APIs. Massively Scalable Big Data Analysis – Train a model on complete data sets, not just small samples, and iterate and develop models in real-time with H2O’s rapid in-memory distributed parallel processing. Real-time Data Scoring – Use the Nanofast Scoring Engine to score data against models for accurate predictions in just nanoseconds in any environment. Enjoy 10X faster scoring.
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My journey in FOSS with Pharo & FOSSASIA aims to walk through the speaker's involvement in Open Source especially FOSSASIA with programs like Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in and the Pharo Community. The session will have a special emphasis on describing the not widely known but a powerful environment of Pharo. Attendees shall get to know more about Pharo/Smalltalk, its projects and how to kick-start contributing to it apart from the vast range of opportunities available in the world of open source ranging from coding to documentation, training, outreach and research. The session aims to inspire budding open source developers.
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JSPM is the javascript package manager from future. It natively supports the new ES2015 module loader. When compared to other package managers like Browserify and Webpack, JSPM shines by supporting all the existing module loading configuration like commonJS, AMD, ES2015. It also allows to bundle the package for production, hence doing away with grunt, gulp or any other task runner. Under the hood it is powered by SystemJS to load the packages. Inside, it is nothing but a polyfill for the proposed ES2015 module loader, to make good use of the future javascript today. JSPM is going to be at the forefront of package/dependency management in the long run as hacks like minification and bundling soon become unnecessary in an attempt to make our web applications faster.
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Spatial data mining is the process of discovering interesting, useful, non-trivial patterns from large spatial datasets. A growing attention has been paid to spatial data mining and knowledge discovery (SDMKD). This paper presents the principles of SDMKD, proposes three new techniques, and gives their applicability and examples. First, the motivation of SDMKD is briefed. Second, the intension and extension of SDMKD concept are presented. Third, three new techniques are proposed in this section, i.e. SDMKD-based image classification that integrates spatial inductive learning from GIS database and Bayesian classification, cloud model that integrates randomness and fuzziness, data field that radiate the energy of observed data to the universe discourse. Fourth, applicability and examples are studied on three cases. The first is remote sensing classification, the second is landslide-monitoring data mining, and the third is uncertain reasoning. Finally, the whole paper is concluded and discussed.
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New MariaDB major release is out of the door. It has new unique features (at rest encryption of the database, integrated Galera Cluster, GIS enhancements), performance enhancements (optimistic parallel replication, max statement timeouts, dump thread enhancements in replication), as well as better MySQL compatibility (temporal literals like 5.6). This talk will go over everything new that MariaDB 10.1 has to offer. It will describe all new features, both MySQL compatible, and MariaDB-only ones and show usage examples and practical use cases.
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I will be giving a talk about my GSoC'15 project which I successfully completed for Moin Moin Wiki Engine(Python Software Foundation).
This workshop will enable participants to build client apps by consuming an open source Twitter API from the Loklak server. The workshop will help participants install and setup the Loklak server on their systems. Once setup is complete, there will be a hands-on tutorial on how to consume the Loklak API to build client apps on various devices and languages. This will cover an overview and short tutorial of using the API wrappers and a thorough walk-through of the API methods. There will be demos of apps made for web, mobile and IOT. By the end of the workshop, participants will be ready with their own app consuming the Loklak API on a device and language of their choice. We can then have a short presentation session by the participants showcasing the apps they built during the workshop.
Using PostgreSQL for your data warehouse gives great benefits in performance, scale and cost. Simply switching your data warehouse or data mart from SQL Server or Oracle could save your organisation hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this session we will explore features that make PostgreSQL a great DW solution, with a mix of presentation and demonstration. By the time the session ends, you will understand the technical and business benefits of PostgreSQL, as well as some cool integration tips for your first project.
Software patent, a pdf file containing large amount of texts, piles of sections, drawings. Software Patents turns out to be very difficult and vague to many of the developers. In this talk we will go through a software patent, and try to identify the key parts and the legal aspect of the same. Intellectual Property and different kinds of the same. When one can acquire different types of intellectual property rights at the same time for the different parts of the same property. * Face of a patent (the metadata legal department cares a lot about) * Inventor, and inventorship * Can we destroy a patent? (Hint: talk to the owner) * Synopsis of the Patent * Title, abstract, and figures * The thick part (the body of the patent, or as we call it "specification") * The claims (Heart of the patent) * Indentation :) Unless and until a software patent is tested, in a court of law, by running of it, it is impossible to say if something matches with the claim of the patent or not. At the end of the talk we will go through various other resources which one can visit from where one can learn more.
It is possible to create and make your own PCB without the use of dangerous chemicals. Simply by using Vineger, Hydrogen Peroxide and Salt you are able to make fairly complex PCB boards. The process is simple and fast and gives you the flexibility to make 1 single board or multiple different prototype boards for testing. This workshop will introduce participants to the process of making PCB boards using a laser printer, transfer media paper and a heat press machine. Participants will get to make and assemble a working PCB board.
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A lot of DIY track maker in Japan. They have several hundred professional quality DIY tune, these are enjoyed people such as KARAOKE every day. That unique culture born from not only technology, need unique ecosystem. Most famous Voice synthesizers called HATSUNE MIKU. That software is proprietary, but some open source voice synthesizers are common also. This session is talk about DIY music technology, community, and ecosystem in Japan.
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In this class, we are imagining that we have to build a new and fun product for our imaginary customer. It is supposed to be a gamification of the existing product. So we will learn how to attach an Espresso Lite board to an existing thing and turn it into an input or an output. We will show you how to network these things with each other, with a computer application (most likely a computer game), and your phone. Bring some random not too valuable things (from your used coke can to some dollar store items) which you are not too sad about if they might get altered in a way that they might be not useful for unknown people anymore. We will provide aluminum foil, card stock, scissors, and glue for your alterations. Besides this bring a laptop, your team spirit, and lots of creativity.
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Scratch a software developed by MIT is used to develop games through logical skills. Through the ease of the scratch software interface it is now used to control the Arduino Microcontroller to blink lights and also the use of sensors to control the Scratch Character Course Objectives 1) Use Scratch to develop logical and critical reasoning skills to build games. 2) Learning how Scratch can be used to interface with Arduino and Electronics 3) Learn to use sensors to control the “behaviour” of the character. 4) Build a “Motion detection” System
This talk will give a brief and enlightening look into how GraphQL can help you address common weaknesses that you, as a web / mobile developer, would normally face with using / building typical REST API systems. Let's stop fighting about whether we should implement the strictest interpretation of REST or how pragmatic REST-ful design is the only way to go, or debate about what REST is or what it should be. A couple of demos (In Golang! Yay!) will be shown that are guaranteed to open up your eyes and see that the dawn of liberation for product developers is finally here. Background: GraphQL is a data query language and runtime designed and used at Facebook to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps since 2012. Hafiz Ismail (@sogko) is an active contributor to Go / Golang implementation of GraphQL server library (https://github.com/graphql-go/graphql) and is looking to encourage fellow developers to join in the collaborative effort.
ircb1 is a IRC Bouncer as a service, made for humans. It's currently functional as a basic IRC bouncer, however, unlike mainstream IRC bouncers, it supports multiple client connections for the same IRC network connection for a user. It aims to provide a scalable bouncer service along with easy setup, deployment and management. It also envisions to provide a low barrier entry point for users, where users can join and start using the service in an automated fashion, without going through manual processes. Although, ircb is a standalone product, it is also one of the core components of waartaa2. waartaa is our attempt to create an open source SAAS communication and collaboration tool, around IRC. We also participated in GSoC under the Fedora umbrella. However, we hit various roadblocks with the initial code base given to it's monolithic structure. So, we started breaking down the app into micro services. Thus, ircb, the scalable IRC bouncer to empower waartaa, was born. IRC networks limit the number of connections for an IP, and this limit has to be manually negotiated, and the process takes time. We came to know of this during maintaining a demo instance of waartaa on a single node, when Freenode will stop rejecting IRC connections from our IP. That's why we are looking forward to have a multi node model for ircb, where we can intelligently distribute the IRC network connections, as needed. We are also brainstorming to figure out an intelligent way to load balance connections from IRC clients to the bouncer service in a stateless fashion. You can find some insight about it in our initial design docs3. We are also trying to develop a reactive store layer to empower realtime applications, in our case, waartaa.
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Open Invention Network is a consortium who is dedicated to protecting a mode of collaborative invention. Specifically, it tries to safeguard the Linux open-source software ecosystem. It is time we work together to expand the safeguard.
This presentation is about the Sensor Plug-ins developed for ExpEYES : Pocket Science Lab as a part of my GSoC-2015 project with FOSSASIA. We have added many new sensors plug-ins to measure a variety of parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, acceleration, tilt angle, magnetic field etc. With this development we at FOSSASIA are aiming to provide low-cost, effective and open source laboratory equipment to students all over the world. I will also be talking about the low-cost weather data-acquisition system developed and interfacing Gas sensors with ExpEYES. A Poster covering details of GSoC work will also be displayed at the venue. In the end I will add little about my experience of GSoC journey with my mentors Mario Behling, Hong Phuc Dang and Andre Rebentisch, with some critical piece of knowledge or a new lesson to learn everyday…..this may encourage and help future GsoC students.
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The Node.JS & npm ecosystem is oft praised for it's "culture of extreme modularity", which has led to the proliferation of hundreds of thousands packages on npm. How do modular patterns translate into the construction of evolving, real-world applications? Many functional programming learning resources will teach you to write functional code, but it's often highly indirect, deeply abstracted, requires understanding complex relationships between custom library calls, and doesn't represent the reality of how people actually write JavaScript. The goal of this workshop is to create realistic problems that can be solved using terse, vanilla, idiomatic JavaScript.
Over the past one year, me and my teammate worked on developing a rapid prototyping framework for the Internet of Things. Repository can be found at: https://github.com/kres/zygote The idea was to make IoT development as simple as Lego, i.e. connecting blocks to build a system. In this case the system is made out of sensors, actuators and are connected to the cloud. The user visualizes all the sensor and actuator endpoints as simple building blocks on the browser. Interconnecting these blocks virtually on the browser creates a actual data flow in the real world (basically over the air configuration of all sensors and actuators). The user can then add triggers, events, timers, filters to the flow to create more complex IoT systems. The top three highlights of the framework: * Setting up the IoT application can be completely visual. i.e. no programming required. (But code can be added if the user wants to) * The system can work over any wired/wireless medium - like bluetooth, WiFi, Zigbee, etc. * The framework is platform neutral. Though it is been developed on the Beaglebone Black, it will run fine on Raspberry Pi, Cubie board, etc. Not limited by the hardware. During the proposed talk I will be talking about design and implementation of the project including the challenges we faced, sample application and future work. This work was presented at an International IEEE conference held in IIT Madras earlier this year.
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Recently the applications of radioactivity in the industry and medical fields are on the rise but the education in this area has not shown any progress. Nuclear physics experiments are included in undergraduate and graduate Physics syllabus of many Indian universities. However, the required facilities are scarce due to high cost of the equipment and difficulties in obtaining radioactive sources. To provide an effective solution to this problem Phoenix project of IUAC, New Delhi (www.iuac.res.in) has developed some open source set-ups for nuclear physics experiments. In this presentation we will be discussing about Alpha Spectrometer, Multi Channel Analyser Radiation Detection System and USB Geiger Müller Counter. All the development is open sourced and major part of the software is written in python.
Jenkins easily allows you to build and test your projects continuously. But creating similar Jenkins jobs could be mundane sometimes, how about automating that part with Jenkins Job Builder by writing JJB configuration files for creating a number of Jenkins Jobs at once. One can keep job descriptions in human readable text format in a version control system to make changes and auditing easier. Creating a bunch of similarly configured jobs is also easy with templating. In this workshop, I 'll start with a brief introduction to Jenkins (if required) and Jenkins Job Builder. We shall do a hands-on session with writing JJB configuration files and see how the jobs are created in jenkins, how can we create multiple jobs and manage them.
A short talk describing a technique of writings tests for APIs written in Go that allows to generate documentation instantly (Swagger, RAML).
This is a workshop targeting existing Python developers, and any new programmer in Python world. We will go through the basics of Python 3 while keeping an eye for the changes from Python 2 in various parts of the language.
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In this talk I will talk about doing KNN (nearest neighbor) search in Postgres with PostGIS and ordering the result based on more than just physical distance. This ordering is the core of the dating app Tantan, which I will use to illustrate the talk. At Tantan we have more than one million users every day that look through 200 million potential matches each day, and we need to optimize what we show to maximize the potential chance for a match. We do that by ordering the potential matches based on a number of criteria, such as distance from you, recent activity and popularity.
As a student, we want to raise the awareness of using open source software online for free. The environment of using the open source software in Taiwan is monopolized by expensive software, such as Microsoft series, Adobe and Photoshop. People seldom get a chance to realize that they actually have easy access to resources online which is free and much more convenient. Moreover, most of the budget of our country is used to buy the copyrights of software packages, but in practice we only use the basic functions of them. Simply put, we waste a lot of money buying something which is unnecessary. We discover it is the language barrier that makes people in Taiwan less likely to use open source software programs. Getting the deeper understanding of the serious problem we faced with, we come up with some solutions. Using big data to analyze vocabularies which are used frequently, we gather the information to indicate language barriers. Moreover, we can list out all the words which is hard for people, so that engineers can use the software and check the vocabularies at the same time. By using methods to remember the vocabularies, engineers can easily use the software. We can even use big data to analyze the steps which are used frequently and visualize them as a report. Like, we make a brief introduction to summarize the basic functions. So people only need to recognize the steps and check it through the introduction when they need. We launch a workshop to teach them step by step in English how to use the open source software. By enhancing engineers’ English ability, now we can create a community to start influencing the general public. We create a community to overcome the language barrier and to change the habits of Taiwanese for using software. We start from NCKU and share with other schools. We create a platform for sharing the information of updated software. By translating the information from the internet like opensource.com, we provide not only the materials for target group, but also chances to the general public to know the advantages of open source software. On the other hand, we translate the video of “opensoucephysics” to use the materials in our education system. By using the interesting videos and materials, teachers can inspire students to think outside the box and use their imagination to understand some difficult science concepts in classes. Furthermore, we can integrate the education materials with “ezgo” and provide a chance for students to begin self-learning. We use three main methods to promote the use of open source software. First, we are going to launch a program which is composed of different schools such as NCKU, NCTU and NTU to create an engineering social media. Second, we cooperate with the professors and schools to open a course to invite students to join our translating program. Third, we create a social media and launch “hour of translate” and invite friends to join us. Furthermore, we cooperate with the summer and winter camps to share our passion for open source software. To promote our ideas, we submit the application to teach for classes in other level of schools, such as elementary schools, junior schools and high schools. It is necessary a waste that we seldom make the most of free resources online. We spend a lot of budget buying the software which is replaceable and deal with problems in an ineffective way. That is why we start this project to help others in an efficient way.
“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .
16:10 - 16:40
After a demonstration of OpenSpace's visualisation of New Horizons' encounter with Pluto last year, Carter and his technical team will describe the OpenSpace system in some detail.
16:30 - 17:00
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The talk will introduce React the JavaScript framework from Facebook. It will explain the unique approach adopted by React to ease development of JavaScript based web applications. It unpack React with examples and demonstrations to equip the audience with the a conceptual model that will enable them to understand the essence of React and adopt it more easily in their projects.
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Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed search and analytics engine under the Apache License version 2, designed for horizontal scalability, reliability, and easy management. It combines the speed of search with power of analytics via a developer-friendly query language covering structured, unstructured, geo-spatial and time-series data. In this workshop, we introduce Elasticsearch and its ecosystem. We share how to get started utilizing Elasticsearch for search and analytics. We also share our experience in using Elasticsearch for research in Living Analytics Research Centre. At the end of the workshop, you will have basic understanding of Elasticsearch and immediately can start using Elasticsearch to power up your search and analytics.
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This presentation will present to the audience about how the Indonesian government using FOSS in conducting the election. Anything that is used in the election. How FOSS help elections. What is achieved by the use of FOSS. What can be done with FOSS to improve governance.
“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .
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16:50 - 17:20
The OpenMRS platform and core modules are worked on by a central team of contributors who design and release these features through coordinated communication. But there are over 200 publicly available modules that have been developed to work on OpenMRS by over 500 different developers/organizations who maintain it without much coordination between themselves. There are modules that have moved between maintainers. Implementations of EHR systems have customized, release forks of modules in the true spirit of a bazaar model. There are over 25 projects that started in the OpenMRS community but have become their own companies, platforms, distributions that are used by implementers in over 50 countries. This fragmented community allows for freedom, but wastes resources, creates difficulties for new implementers and results in friction and dissatisfaction in the community. As central OpenMRS leadership, we have planned a certification process that will allow better management and governance of the community, but still improving the freedom of contributors to fork and establish smaller, specialized communities of practice. The talk summarizes the historical divergence due to forks and communities of practice, by showing evolution of the community over last 10yrs. Later in the talk I discuss how the certification process brings visibility, coordination and accessibility to new members of the community.
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The project deals with the usage of open hardware and combining the effort with javascript in helping build file servers, media servers etc. The concentration of the project would be more about optimizing existing core node modules.
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Many questions are lying ahead in the field of Internet, Society, Policies, and Community - What's next? Participants from the track will get together and discuss next steps and how to collaborate after the FOSSASIA 2016 summit.
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17:15 - 17:45
Are you wondering how to create an app which allow us to manage all conferences events? Open Event consist of three components(web, android and server). I will explain how I developed an Open event orga server project, which framework and language I used. Easly running your Orga Server by your own on local enviroment using Vagrant.
17:30 - 18:00
By using GPIO to connect the Raspberry Pi to a circuit board, the LEDs and buzzer on the board can be controlled with Python code to make a simple memory game of repeating a pattern. The Raspberry Pi and circuit components are relatively inexpensive, making it a good project for students who want to learn more about hardware and circuitry, and see a physical manifestation of how software can interface with hardware. In the talk, we will go though both the hardware and software aspects of using GPIO, as well as how the project can be further enhanced for other practical IoT purposes.
Everyone is crazy about IoT & this has been very popular because you can easily use the simple electronic boards like Arduino, Raspberry Pi etc and get started for your IoT project. I would want to introduce another approach to IoT, i.e, using the Firefox OS. Firefox OS is written using the web technologies only and the simple JavaScript API makes it very easy to interact with the sensors and hardware. This will be a beginners to intermediates work to learn what is IoT & how to get started with IoT using the Firefox OS.
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At FOSDEM 2013, leading developers of free real-time communications software dared to get up on stage and ask the question "Can we replace Skype, Viber, Twitter and Facebook?". Was this the right question and how does it relate to free software development today and in the future? Pocock talks about what has changed since then and where things are going in this domain in the year ahead, especially with the emergence of WebRTC and the ubiquity of browsers that support it and the opportunities this has created for the world of web development and interaction with other open systems. Can you imagine a world where phone communication works with all the benefits of email (but without spam)? Per-minute charges eliminated, flexibility for developers to customize the experience with standard scripting languages like Python or JavaScript and organizations of any size able to assert their identity and brand securely using SIP and XMPP addresses? Is this a worthwhile vision? What do each of us - developers, sysadmins and end users - need to do to make it happen? What will be the alternative outcome - for both society in general and fans of free technology in particular - if we stand back and allow proprietary solutions to run rampant? This session will survey some of the free software solutions that exist today and ways you can participate in their improvement and deployment to help realize this vision.
18:00 - 18:30
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With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
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Sunday, 20th Mar

09:00 - 09:30
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ChorusText is an open assistive device built with Arduino, Linux SBC and a few sliders and buttons. It is a text-editing device that lets the user do text editing by means of touch and hearing, without eyesight. It is an ongoing project and the goal of the project is to come up with an assistive device that enables the visually challenged to edit text effectively, and with open-source code + design files such that anyone interested can build one themselves.
Implementing democratised Internet-of-Things services/solutions
Implementing democratised Internet-of-Things services/solutions
PSL@FOSSASIA aims to deliver low-cost lab equipments to millions of students and young scientists and enable them to learn science by experimenting and exploring. The main components of PSL are ExpEYES: Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists and MicroHope: Micro-controllers for Hobby Projects and Education (www.expeyes.in) In this space open science experiments developed during GSoC-15 project will be exhibited. The demonstrations include Coupled oscillations, Electromagnetic Induction, PSL-Laser Show, Weather station using ExpEYES and Raspberry-Pi and various other science hacks. At this space we will also be presenting and inviting ideas for Science Hack Day India.
Free Real-time communications lounge
Ring, a project from Savoir-faire Linux, creators of SFLphone, uses a distributed hash table instead of a central SIP server to find other users. This peer-to-peer network is also accessible from other applications using the project's OpenDHT library. Signaling protocols, like SIP, XMPP and IAX, typically rely on central servers to help users locate each other and initiate sessions. Ring is an evolved version of the SFLphone SIP client adding support for true peer-to-peer calling without any central server. The peer-to-peer network transport is implemented using the OpenDHT library, making it a universal solution that can be used for any arbitrary real-time signalling requirement from any application.
FOSSASIA Exhibition
Deepin Desktop System showcase.
To the people who already know what a CryptoParty is: We are doing it, come! To everyone else: Online communication is an important part of our lives. Unlike physical communication, we cannot control who can reach our data when we send it through the "inter-tubes." Fortunately, there are techniques to prevent people from eavesdropping your online conversations. In this workshop, I will talk about easy-to-use security tools that you can use to keep your conversations private: how to encrypt emails and instant messaging. It will be a not-so-technical workshop aimed to include anybody who knows how to use email.
If you work on an open source project and need design help with User Experience, Branding or Visual User Interface , come and present your project. Hopefully we can get http://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/ on board and post jobs on the website.
coala [1] provides an abstraction for static code analysis that is useful while still applicable to any text based language. coala provides convenient user interfaces for multiple usecases which takes away a lot of common tasks from the developer. In this process coala makes research available for production immediately and combines rapid prototyping with instant usability. coala also facilitates people entering the world of open source by providing them valuable feedback on coding standards and formatting in one consistent way for all languages. [1] http://coala-analyzer.org/
RedHat Community - Helping our open source projects and standards be wildly successful
The World's Most Popular Open Source Database
The YouthMobile Initiative builds on the experience of many worldwide initiatives that introduce young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-learn). It also seeks to build on experiences targeting young women who are vastly underrepresented in this field. Finally it builds on the consideration that for millions of young people, the smartphone in their pocket is a very powerful computer, it will be their only computer, and they use it for nearly every aspect of their lives: communicating, learning, taking pictures, and playing games.
Innovation depends on developing creative solutions for the complicated challenges we will be facing in the future, but what happens if we want to start innovating but we believe that we are not creative? The experiential booth will have tools and materials for participants to stop by and create a personalized coaster or greeting. Each participant can stay up to 20 min, as to let other people have a chance at making.
The exhibition showcases the use of open source hardware and software e.g. Intel Galileo, Arduino etc to support student learning needs, for student exposure to open source tools and as outreach to potential students
The Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation (MSc TIP) programme is a 1-year full-time programme or 2-year part-time programme. It is also offered in Chinese language as a 1-year full-time programme.
09:30 - 10:00
Science Hack Day continues with project groups working on * Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA * Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky * DIY Circuit Board Workshop * ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab - Developing Open Source Science Experiments with FOSSASIA * #NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
10:00 - 10:30
This is a lead up talk for the Creative Confidence Innovation depends on developing creative solutions for the complicated challenges we will be facing, but what happens if we want to start innovating but we believe that we are not creative? During this talk I will share some of the lessons I've learned along the way and how Making helped me increase my creative confidence and how others could increase theirs. The talk will gravitate around 3 key points: Breaking free from the "I'm not creative mentality". What would happen if we all increase our creative confidence?
This workshop will be for students from 12-17. We plan to teach them some basics of android by doing a sample android project.
A GitHub Workshop: This is a self-directed and hands-on workshop for people who want to learn Git, GitHub, or GitHub Pages. You’ll leave with a merged Pull Request, a square on your contributions graph, and confidence to get more involved in the open source community. If you’re an experienced GitHub user, we’d love for you to join the session as a mentor.
This workshop serves to give a non intimidating introduction to the Raspberry Pi. Aimed at the total beginner, it serves to give a non intimidating introduction to Raspbian and the commandline, and allow workshop participants to gain confidence in playing with the Pi The hardware specs and capabilities of the Raspberry Pi — Installing the operating system - Basic understanding of Linux - First time Configuration - Networking setup - Remotely accessing the Pi - GPIO pins - A small preview of Python
A hands-on workshop on using Ansible to manage configurations/software on remote appliances/boxes
If you want to increase your skills with either JavaScript or Node.js, NodeSchool is easily the best way to do it. We will be hosting hands-on workshops for both beginners and experienced node developers. This event is for both newcomers and prior attendees!
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Micro Social networks and messaging platforms are playing a huge role in shaping up the major internet usage in the world. There is a tremendous potential of using these platforms, these platforms already provide high security levels ensuring that the over head of security can be safely taken a step later and the developers can lay their core focus only on the main prototype. In this workshop we can explore the possibilities of using these message platforms in various ways, to control IOT at home and business as well as to create artificial intelligence to build better and more engaging customer experiences
Content Translation is a tool that has used to translate more than 50,000 Wikipedia articles worldwide till date. It makes it easy to create new articles on Wikipedia that already exist on other language Wikipedia. With this tool categories, references and interwiki links are added by themselves and all you need to do is to translate the text.
Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts.
The MySQL Performance Schema is a feature for monitoring Oracle's MySQL Server execution at a low level. This versatile and tightly integrated component collects performance and session data from various subsystems within the server during runtime with minimal impact on overall server performance. This feature was introduced in MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.7 GA has been released with great enhancements in it for performance monitoring and tuning.This talk aims to give an overview of Performance Schema and how/what statistical information user is provided with using Performance Schema. With the help pf few use cases, it also explains how that information can be used for monitoring and trouble shooting to track an issue back to the relevant file and line of code in source file. This talk also aims to give a glimpse of new interesting features/monitoring information added in MySQL 5.7 GA. This talk is targeted to many database users which includes DBA, Database Application developers, Database developers, Students etc.
The Web of Trust is the decentralised PKI in the OpenPGP world. It depends on people participating by signing other people's keys. However, when following best practises, the act of signing a key involves secure transfer of the OpenPGP key which contemporary casual key signing protocols for small groups address by exchanging the fingerprint of the key to be signed. The key will then be downloaded over an untrusted channel and the key obtained needs to be manually verified. This presentation shows a novel approach to signing keys which makes it easy to sign a person's key. It enables very small groups of people to casually hold very small key signing parties. The key idea is to automatically authenticate the key material before the transfer via a secure audible or visual channel. A Free Software implementation of the protocol will be shown and people are invited to sign their keys :-)
HELP US PRESERVE THE ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SYRIA BY CREATING A VIRTUAL #NEWPALMYRA DIGITAL TOOLS TO BUILD THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST #NEWPALMYRA is: * A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS. * A Cultural Development project, hosting live workshops and building a network of artists, technologists, archaeologists, architects, and others to research, construct models, and create artistic works. * A Curatorial project, creating exhibitions and experiences in museums and institutions globally, celebrating the cultural heritage of Syria and the world through the lens of architecture embodying culture and power. Together with our international affiliates, #NEWPALMYRA sources archaeological and historical data, shares it with the community, and outputs art exhibitions, salons, and creative works using this data to carry the rich history of Palmyra forward to new generations.
Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky. Constellations and clothing patterns are mathematically difficult to construct. This talk begins with the origins of the project and explains the challenges posed by the data, the data structures, and the user workflow. The revolutionary nature of this open source fashion design tool is revealed in social, political, ecological and technical terms.
Let's talk systemd in this BoF-like workshop. If you have any question regarding systemd, about using it, about hacking on it, about its future and our plans, then come this session. If you'd like to know more about the any facet of systemd, and never dared to ask, this is the place to come! The idea of this session is that we discuss whatever interests you, the audience! Hence, please come up with good topics!
10:30 - 11:00
VLC "plays everything" ? Well, we're trying to. This talk will introduce the landscape and challenges of opensource multimedia for the most popular and versatile media player, and will highlight some of the upcoming VLC 3.0 features and new platforms.
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As Big Data and the Internet of Things generate significant transformations in the way organizations capture and analyze new and diverse data streams, find out how using MySQL solutions with Hadoop can enable you to yield more insight than was ever previously imaginable. MySQL is the leading open source database for Web-based and Cloud-based applications; and is integrated within numerous Big Data platforms.
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It is possible to create and make your own PCB without the use of dangerous chemicals. Simply by using Vineger, Hydrogen Peroxide and Salt you are able to make fairly complex PCB boards. The process is simple and fast and gives you the flexibility to make 1 single board or multiple different prototype boards for testing. This workshop will introduce participants to the process of making PCB boards using a laser printer, transfer media paper and a heat press machine. Participants will get to make and assemble a working PCB board.
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My interpretation of future of User Interface (UI). The user interface of the future will be better, more engaging but above all, it will be aware of your surrounding, usage habits and even your psychology. I will also share my open source project (AwareUI) and how it can be used to make your user interface more intelligent and awesome!
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One common misconception about a lot of Open Source projects is that the quality is variable and/or is of a secondary concern. This is supported to a certain degree by a lot of projects which do minimal testing upstream and rely on downstream consumers, vendors, or distros to do an additional set of testing after a release. But, there is no reason that an open project can not also do QA in the open as part of the community. While the term QA will likely evoke a combination of fear, disdain, or any of a plethora of negative emotions from anyone who has worked in a traditional enterprise development environment and probably scare them off. The top down approach, strict bureaucracy, and other issues which are often synonymous with QA teams doesn't have to be the case. There can be real benefits to having a dedicated QA effort on an open source project. It enables transparency in how testing is done, lets anyone contribute and collaborate, and can signal to consumers the stability of a project. Larger projects can especially reap a lot of benefit from having people working on the QA side of a project upstream. This talk will use OpenStack as an case study to explore how a large open source project can do QA in an open manner and the potential benefits it can provide. It'll cover how the OpenStack community does QA, how it's evolved over time, and share lessons of some best practices which have been learned over time.
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Web services were divided in three parts: Scalable frontends, application servers, and infrastructure. No, four parts, for one indomitable component still held out against the recent trend of containerization: Datastores. While setting up stateless web- and application servers is considered best practise today, creating ethemeral datastores is still tricky. The talk will show that ethemeral datastores aren't implicit contradictions and discuss how to implement this idea. The main problem is to deal with scale-out and scale-back situations. There are several ways to tackle that challenge, including, but not limited to to active-passive-clusters, read slaves, active-active-solutions ora couple of NoSQL solutions. Most of them are pretty complex to set up and operate, though. Crate is an open source database that speaks SQL to the frontend, but scales horizontally by just adding more nodes. A demo shows how to set up a distributed application with a database cluster using Docker in less than 15 lines of orchestration code and compares it to other database clusters. Software architects, web developers, and system engineers who have experienced the pains of scaling a database up to a big data level will learn in this session how to resolve the bottleneck of poorly performing data backends. It includes a working demo participants may download and extend.
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Loklak's APIs are very powerful, To make the utilization of these APIs much more, i had created the python-loklak-api which works as the main bridge to build the telegram bots in python as well as the main backbone behind the software solution called GEAR (Govt. Enhanced Administrative Resource) which is a dedicated open source software for tracking complaints registered with the government's. Started in 2014 December, this software is now being pilot tested in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the loklak API serves as the main tool for the governments to interact with citizens, A rant on twitter can now be taken seriously by the governments to improve the way they function.
The FOSSASIA Open Event Project aims to make it easier for events, conferences, tech summits (maybe more types in future) to easily create Web and Mobile (only Android right now) micro Apps. The project comprises of a data schema for easily storing event details, a server and web frontend that are used to view, modify, update this data easily by the event organisers, a mobile-friendly webapp client to show the event data to attendees, an Android app template which will be used to generate specific apps for each event. I made this with arnav, rafal, mohit, mario and duke as part of my GSoC project
MySQL Replication provides a solution for High Availability and Read Scale-Out. Replication ensures that data written on one MySQL server is made available on other MySQL servers at run time in a fast, consistent and fault tolerant manner with minimal impact to the overall performance of the server. Traditionally, MySQL Replication supports a single master and many slaves, and it is either asynchronous or semi-synchronous. A new replication plugin for MySQL has been around for some time and this is named MySQL Group Replication. This plugin provides multi-master update everywhere capabilities, making it possible to update data, concurrently, on any server in a group. It provides additional synchronization between servers that makes them coordinate regarding transactions that are committed in the group. This talk explains how MySQL Group Replication facilitates and improves High Availability and simplifies replication and application management - it will also include a demo. Takeaways: - What's MySQL Group Replication and its evolution. - Understanding the architecture of MySQL Group Replication. - Demo on how to use MySQL Group replication for improved High Availability.
It’s been almost a year since the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability, a flaw which started a trend of the branded vulnerability, changing the way security vulnerabilities affecting open-source software are being reported and perceived. Vulnerabilities are found and fixed all the time, and just because a vulnerability gets a name and a fancy logo doesn’t mean it is of real risk to users. This talk is about these branded security flaws and talk about the ones which matter.
This presentation is about the Sensor Plug-ins developed for ExpEYES : Pocket Science Lab as a part of my GSoC-2015 project with FOSSASIA. We have added many new sensors plug-ins to measure a variety of parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, acceleration, tilt angle, magnetic field etc. With this development we at FOSSASIA are aiming to provide low-cost, effective and open source laboratory equipment to students all over the world. I will also be talking about the low-cost weather data-acquisition system developed and interfacing Gas sensors with ExpEYES. A Poster covering details of GSoC work will also be displayed at the venue. In the end I will add little about my experience of GSoC journey with my mentors Mario Behling, Hong Phuc Dang and Andre Rebentisch, with some critical piece of knowledge or a new lesson to learn everyday…..this may encourage and help future GsoC students.
At this workshop we want to dive into the systemd journal, and how to use it for your daily devops or administrator work. The systemd journal is systemd's logging infrastructure and hence a core component of pretty much all modern Linux systems. Specifically, we'll play around with "journalctl" and related tools and what they can do for you. We'll particularly focus in filtering log output and structured logging, and everything else that makes the journal more powerful than "cat /var/log/syslog". Please bring your own laptop to this workshop. Please install a major distribution (Fedora, Ubuntu, …), that has adopted systemd (which is pretty much any, as long as it is somewhat recent). Some of the features we'll show rely on very new features of the systemd journal, hence the newer version you pick the better. But even if you don't want to bring your own laptop, it should still be useful to follow this workshop without any.
develop VR website with open source tools such as Aframe, WebVR boilerplate, Cannonjs, threejs and webvr markup
11:30 - 12:00
HELP US PRESERVE THE ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SYRIA BY CREATING A VIRTUAL #NEWPALMYRA DIGITAL TOOLS TO BUILD THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST #NEWPALMYRA is: A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS. A Cultural Development project, hosting live workshops and building a network of artists, technologists, archaeologists, architects, and others to research, construct models, and create artistic works. A Curatorial project, creating exhibitions and experiences in museums and institutions globally, celebrating the cultural heritage of Syria and the world through the lens of architecture embodying culture and power. Together with our international affiliates, #NEWPALMYRA sources archaeological and historical data, shares it with the community, and outputs art exhibitions, salons, and creative works using this data to carry the rich history of Palmyra forward to new generations.
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The FOSSASIA Open Event Project aims to make it easier for events, conferences, tech summits (maybe more types in future) to easily create Web and Mobile (only Android right now) micro Apps. The project comprises of a data schema for easily storing event details, a server and web frontend that are used to view, modify, update this data easily by the event organisers, a mobile-friendly webapp client to show the event data to attendees, an Android app template which will be used to generate specific apps for each event. I made this with arnav, rafal, mohit, mario and duke as part of my GSoC project
Storage of database metadata has always been a very interesting problem involving database design. For a long time MySQL was using file based system for metadata storage. MySQL is designing and implementing a new and improved data dictionary for MySQL. Main goals of Data dictionary is : - Store dictionary information in transactional storage. - Consolidate distributed dictionary information for the server into a unified dictionary - Store all dictionary information in a uniform way, with uniform APIs for all dictionary objects - Get rid of filesystem-property induced problems
Privly extensions help in viewing and posting encrypted information through social media and email.
“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .
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Traditionally open source projects are not very famous for their good design. But there’s a new generation of modern, well-designed and widely used open source apps. There’s also a few more designers working in open soure now and an upcoming Open Source Design movement. But we still need to improve, and we need to collaborate! I worked as designer with lots of open source software projects and will present the methods I use every day at ownCloud to drive forward open source design. Some topics I will cover: - how to establish a design culture in your project - how to work together with developers - making designers develop and developers design - getting university students involved - the importance of cross-project collaboration - the Open Source Design movement in general
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Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
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Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
GNOME 3.20 is just around the corner! It's due on 21st of March. With that release, many visible improvements will be delivered to users around the world. While many people already excitedly use GNOME 3 with the new user experience, some features of the new and elegant desktop like LibreOffice integration or editing photos with non-destructive GEGL operations are not yet wildly known. We also did many things on the plumbing layer such as allowing GNOME to run Wayland. The talk will introduce to some of the design philosophies inherent in GNOME 3 as well as the main changes brought to users and developers. Also, since GNOME 3.20 is another step of a long lasting incrementally improved user experience, the future of GNOME's development will be speculated on.
12:15 - 12:45
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
12:30 - 13:00
Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.
13:00 - 13:30
LibreOffice 5 is the newest series of LibreOffice releases. It introduced the usual code cleanups, refactoring and new features as other releases however it also introduced some new directions - a more active UX team that resulted in many user experience improvements, development of LibreOffice for Android and a cloud office suite LibreOffice Online. In my talk I will highlight the changes done in the LibreOffice 5 series until now.
We are going to explore the vast galaxy of native app development, but not on iOS, Android or Windows. But on the very familiar JavaScript framework. NativeScript is fully open sourced, so developers now have an option to build truly native mobile applications without the need to code in many different languages. We will get some hands on during this workshop to play with NativeScript and explore some of its amazing capabilities.
Innovation depends on developing creative solutions for the complicated challenges we will be facing in the future, but what happens if we want to start innovating but we believe that we are not creative? During this workshop, participants will be exposed to tools and techniques that will help them understand that enhancing their creative confidence is like a muscle, you need to exercise it and practice daily. During the workshop the participants will be able to start their maker journey by personalizing a notebook/treasure box. Workshop is focus for following ages: 4- ­6 with parents, 7-13, 15 onwards
In this workshop, we will show you our own special twist on the Internet of Things. Using an Espresso Lite (that's no coffee - this is actually a little computer with wifi) we will turn some household goods and some wire into your own multiplayer game controller. You will learn a lot about electronics, networking, and how much fun it is to build an open source community when we explore some of the open source projects, who enabled me to build the software for these controllers. And of course, we will play at least one fun open source multiplayer game with our own controllers in the end of the class. I will also point you to many other open source game projects you can adapt to use your new customized game controller with the knowledge of this class. Bring some basic computer literacy (no programming required but it helps to dig deeper), some curiosity, a laptop, team spirit, and the willingness to do some crafting (yes there will be scissors and glue).
The talk is based upon the quick introduction to Docker. This talk covers what Docker is, why you might want to use it, how it works, as well as explaining some key terminology. The key idea is to show how Docker helps for the DevOps and how one can use it for the deployment & productions. The talk finishes up with a few demos demonstrating the functionality of Docker. This talk is also useful to quick start with Docker system.
Nodeschool
This talk will be focused on process of migration from Bash testing framework to Python using Red hat Directory Server(RHDS) as an example. RHDS is the enterprise-class LDAP server for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its IPA. RHDS is already being used by many well known names in professional industry and it handles many of the largest LDAP deployments in the world.
This workshop will enable participants to build client apps by consuming an open source Twitter API from the Loklak server. The workshop will help participants install and setup the Loklak server on their systems. Once setup is complete, there will be a hands-on tutorial on how to consume the Loklak API to build client apps on various devices and languages. This will cover an overview and short tutorial of using the API wrappers and a thorough walk-through of the API methods. There will be demos of apps made for web, mobile and IOT. By the end of the workshop, participants will be ready with their own app consuming the Loklak API on a device and language of their choice. We can then have a short presentation session by the participants showcasing the apps they built during the workshop.
Graph databases are the future. Many organizations adopted graph databases - IoT, health care, financial services, telecommunications and governments. What are the reason for this trend? What are the use cases and what are the Open Source databases you should look into for your scenario? We'll dive into a few of them and equip the attendees with everything they need to start using a graph database. This workshop is based on our research and implementation of a graph database at Sanguine, a medical startup from LA.
Ring, a project from Savoir-faire Linux, creators of SFLphone, uses a distributed hash table instead of a central SIP server to find other users. This peer-to-peer network is also accessible from other applications using the project's OpenDHT library. Signaling protocols, like SIP, XMPP and IAX, typically rely on central servers to help users locate each other and initiate sessions. Ring is an evolved version of the SFLphone SIP client adding support for true peer-to-peer calling without any central server. The peer-to-peer network transport is implemented using the OpenDHT library, making it a universal solution that can be used for any arbitrary real-time signalling requirement from any application.
Science Hack continues with project groups working on * Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA * Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky * DIY Circuit Board Workshop * ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab - Developing Open Source Science Experiments with FOSSASIA * #NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
13:30 - 14:00
Scientific Data is in general freely available. This applies also to experimental data in chemical / biological research. There is however often a barrier preventing the re-use and re-analysis of obtained raw data due to expensive proprietary instrument software. In the field of Imaging Mass Spectrometry, we started an open source project to solve this problem. The project is now hosted on https://www.bioconductor.org, a large repository for open source life science software in the programming language R.
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In this workshop we will take a look at how Kubernetes (k8s) simplifies application deployment and management in distributed environments. We will introduce the basic concepts of Pods, Replication Controllers and Services and show how these concepts decouple the applications from the distribution.
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In this workshop, attendees will learn how to derive, simulate, control, and visualize the motion of a multibody dynamic system with Python tools. These methods and techniques play an important role in the design and understanding of robots, vehicles, spacecraft, manufacturing machines, human motion, etc. In particular, the attendees will develop code to simulate the motion of a human balancing while standing using specific Joints. We have found that a broad audience enjoys the topic. Attendees should be familiar with the basics of the SciPy stack, in particular NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, and IPython and have some familiarity with classical mechanics specially common joints like pin joint and sliding joints.
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An overview of Linux Btrfs and its recent development.
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Whilst anyone can inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, most Linux distributions provide binary (or "compiled") packages to end users. The motivation behind "reproducible" builds is to allow verification that no flaws have been introduced during this compilation process by promising identical binary packages are always generated from a given source. This prevents against the installation of backdoor-introducing malware on developers' machines - an attacker would need to simultaneously infect all developers attempting to reproduce the build. Furthermore, a reproducible build has a wide variety technical advantages, including implicitly removing non-deterministic or unsafe behaviour (such as downloading third-party code from the internet), detecting corrupted build environments, reducing time-to-detection of a build host compromise, as well as numerous other debugging and testing advantages. In this sense, reproducible builds are finally fulfilling the original promise of free software - that you have actual control over what is being run on your computers.
You love code. You also love art. You want to merge the two wonderful worlds, but it can be hard. How can we create art with code and make writing code an art? In comes generative art! Generative art is art created by an independent, non-human system, for example, art generated by algorithms. Remember screensavers from the 90s? Yeah, something along those lines. You'll learn how to create art in the browser with Processing.js. I'll demo the basics of animation and we'll explore how algorithmic and mathematical concepts such as recursion, tiling, and geometry can result in unexpectedly beautiful visuals.
14:00 - 14:30
The Hyperledger Project is a collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features and currently missing requirements, for a cross-industry open standard for distributed ledgers that can transform the way business transactions are conducted globally. This session discusses the underpinning technology focuses, future possibilities, and a quick demo to show a use case of Hyperledger.
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Pocket Science Lab is yet another ambitious project from FOSSASIA with the objective to develop open source hardware and software technology to improve science education by changing the way we teach and learn. PSL@FOSSASIA aims to deliver low-cost lab equipments to millions of students and young scientists and enable them to learn science by experimenting and exploring. The main components of PSL are ExpEYES: Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists [1] and MicroHope: Micro-controllers for Hobby Projects and Education [2] , projects by Dr. Ajith Kumar B P of IUAC, New Delhi [3]. ExpEYES is an Open Hardware and Free Software framework for developing science experiments, classroom demonstrations and projects without getting in to the details of electronics or computer programming. It converts your PC into a portable science laboratory. In this workshop participants will be able to do hands-on science experiments covering various concepts like electricity, electromagnetic induction, sound, interference, oscillations etc... This workshop is for kids of any age [10 to 100 years :) ] who are interested in science hacks :) [1] ExpEYES: http://www.expeyes.in [2] MicroHope: http://www.microhope.org [3] IUAC: http://iuac.res.in/ [4] PSL: http://fossasia.github.io/pslab.fossasia.org/
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Learning JavaScript from beginner to master level. Self-driven workshops with coaching by mentors.
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With the emerging security threats on this age, it is wiser to have an integrity checker on a daily basis to audit the system. And in my workshop, I will showcase the implementation and use of AIDE. AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Enviornment) is a tool to check the file integrity. It is an opensource substitute for commercial tool TRIPWIRE. It allows to take snapshots of all the major configuration files, binaries as well as libraries stats. And helps to find which binaries have been changed in case of compromisation of the system.
With ftrace - a mature tracing mechanism in Linux kernel, you can really see what system is going on, in order to learn and to solve the problems you are facing.
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Game Automators is an effort that's made to automate android games using Matlab, OpenCV, PIL etc.., Using these we are automating the games with the adb tools. The talk will focus on what the project is all about, the community to automate mobile gaming using image processing, the possible academic research areas and the future of gaming with game automation. It's also an exciting effort to build algorithms to focus on solving larger and more dynamic mobile games. We are currently putting all the findings and the tutorials into a book and FOSSASIA would be a great platform to showcase and reach out to other researchers, students and enthusiasts about the ongoing work.
14:30 - 15:00
According to a Forrester Research in 2014, smartphone penetration across the Asia Pacific region will reach 36 percent of the entire population in 2015. With higher smartphone penetration, the number of mobile apps , also increases at an alarming rate. This heats up the pressure on individual mobile developers to find ways to stand out from the crowd and generate revenues. While a great app is a good start, developers who wants to build a serious business also need a solid monetization strategy.
You can control devices in your home from your computer with no new wiring. This session covers controlling lights, bells, and motors using open source software. Wireless remotes can also control devices. Sensors can provide information about motion, sunset, temperature. Capturing caller id and auto-dialing is also covered. X10 is an ideal system for home automation, and there are methods to improve reliability. Computers can easily send X10 signals across your electrical network. The session concludes with a live demo showing a home with 38 computer-controlled devices and sensors. URLs of slides: http://momjian.us/main/writings/home_automation.pdf http://momjian.us/main/writings/home_automation_software.pdf
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Docker and other container technologies have exploded recently as a way to improve Application delivery and DevOps processes. This talk will introduce the open-source technologies and tools available now and where they are heading in the near future.
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In this tutorial I will introduce attendees to SymPy, a computer aided algebra system (CAS) written in Python. I will show the basics of constructing and manipulating mathematical expressions in SymPy, the most common issues and differences from other computer algebra systems, and how to deal with them. In the last part of this tutorial, I will show how to solve practical problems with SymPy. This will include showing how to interface SymPy with popular numeric libraries like NumPy.
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JSON is deemed to be the most widely used format for the Internet of Things. MySQL 5.7, launched October last year, has incorporated a native JSON support into its very popular RDBMS. With the advancement of JSON in MySQL 5.7, and the growth of Big Data, we are sure to witness many new breathtaking innovations in this area.
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This talk consist of two parts: At first, we will give a review of existing academic research on usability and open source culture, as well as some beginning steps on how to make a start in contributing to OSS projects. Then an open discussion will follow: - How to choose what project you want to work on? - Where to find a project? - What you have to know to make your first contribution? This discussion is open for everyone: designers, researchers, developers.
14:45 - 15:15
Hack demos of project groups being with * Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA * Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky * DIY Circuit Board Workshop * ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab - Developing Open Source Science Experiments with FOSSASIA * #NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
15:00 - 15:30
Word processors are good for basic documents, but are distracting when you're messing about with fonts, alignment issues, and other problems. I've been using Asciidoc for a few consulting projects and have found that its great for creating uniform documents that are free from common problems that come with a WYSIWG word processor. In this talk, I'll share my Asciidoc journey.
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An intro to the Web Audio API through a series of self-guided workshops. We'll be using WebAudio School, which is a NodeSchool style interactive workshop, led by a mentor. We will go through interactive lessons in a browser, and learn the WebAudio API (Javascript) which allows real-time synthesis and analysis of sound in a browser. We will primarily focus on using the Web Audio API for music, but the concepts here could be applied to game sound and other creative uses. Reminder to participants : Bring headphones.
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Although high quality, general-purpose dictation is just barely outside our reach, modern speech recognition is well adapted to small-vocabulary, structured grammars like programming languages and voice user interfaces (VUIs). By providing alternative input mechanisms to traditional IDEs, we can improve accessibility for visually impaired programmers, and free developers from the paradigm of menu- and button- based navigation. In this presentation, we will demonstrate an open source tool that can navigate code, recognize simple commands, and help you write Java, just by listening to your voice. Written in Java and built on open source libraries, you too can integrate speech recognition in an IDE or desktop application of your choice, by using a few simple recipes.
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15:30 - 16:00
Distributed teams are a necessity in today's globally connected environment. No longer are our customers, people, and offices all locally located. In fact, they might not even be on the same continent much less the same side of the world. To promote a healthy environment and ensure clients and products are getting the results needed, sustainable management of distributed teams is a requirement. This presentation will cover the understanding for forming, storming, norming, and performing of remote teams.
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Concurrency & Parallelism became a popular topic in Computer Science because of Multi Core Processors. My talk is about, how we can create great Applications with full power of Concurrency & Parallelism by the help of Ruby
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HELP US PRESERVE THE ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SYRIA BY CREATING A VIRTUAL #NEWPALMYRA DIGITAL TOOLS TO BUILD THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST #NEWPALMYRA is: * A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS. * A Cultural Development project, hosting live workshops and building a network of artists, technologists, archaeologists, architects, and others to research, construct models, and create artistic works. * A Curatorial project, creating exhibitions and experiences in museums and institutions globally, celebrating the cultural heritage of Syria and the world through the lens of architecture embodying culture and power. Together with our international affiliates, #NEWPALMYRA sources archaeological and historical data, shares it with the community, and outputs art exhibitions, salons, and creative works using this data to carry the rich history of Palmyra forward to new generations.
Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky. Constellations and clothing patterns are mathematically difficult to construct. This talk begins with the origins of the project and explains the challenges posed by the data, the data structures, and the user workflow. The revolutionary nature of this open source fashion design tool is revealed in social, political, ecological and technical terms.
It is possible to create and make your own PCB without the use of dangerous chemicals. Simply by using Vineger, Hydrogen Peroxide and Salt you are able to make fairly complex PCB boards. The process is simple and fast and gives you the flexibility to make 1 single board or multiple different prototype boards for testing. This workshop will introduce participants to the process of making PCB boards using a laser printer, transfer media paper and a heat press machine. Participants will get to make and assemble a working PCB board.
This presentation is about the Sensor Plug-ins developed for ExpEYES : Pocket Science Lab as a part of my GSoC-2015 project with FOSSASIA. We have added many new sensors plug-ins to measure a variety of parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, acceleration, tilt angle, magnetic field etc. With this development we at FOSSASIA are aiming to provide low-cost, effective and open source laboratory equipment to students all over the world. I will also be talking about the low-cost weather data-acquisition system developed and interfacing Gas sensors with ExpEYES. A Poster covering details of GSoC work will also be displayed at the venue. In the end I will add little about my experience of GSoC journey with my mentors Mario Behling, Hong Phuc Dang and Andre Rebentisch, with some critical piece of knowledge or a new lesson to learn everyday…..this may encourage and help future GsoC students.
“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .
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“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .
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16:30 - 17:00
“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
Short Abstract for the event
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.
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Dalton Hall
Grand Opening
Grand Opening (09:30 - 10:00)

About the session

Welcome to the 8th year of FOSSASIA. A friendly community of Open Technologists meets at the Science Centre Singapore.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:30 - 10:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


The story of FOSSASIA 2016, The Internet of Things and Me
The story of FOSSASIA 2016, The Internet of Things and Me (09:35 - 10:05)

About the session

The FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit 2016 welcomes more than 200 speakers, in over 300 Sessions, 16 tracks, with 3 Tech Kids tracks, hosted in the wonderful venue of the Science Centre Singapore. How we got here, who are our partners today and why we need the - Open - Internet of Things.

Speakers

Mario Behling

OpenTech Society

Mario Behling is a German born technologist with more than a decade of experience in software development and start ups. He helped to get the lubuntu community started, and as the founder of FOSSASIA and the OpenTechSummit, he works closely with International partners to develop open ICT solutions for social change in countries such as Afghanistan, Vietnam and Cambodia. Mario presently works on the big data startup loklak from his Berlin base. He also continues to cooperate with organizations like the UNESCO, Mozilla and Intel.
       

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:35 - 10:05

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Welcome at the Centre of Science Education in Singapore
Welcome at the Centre of Science Education in Singapore (09:45 - 10:15)

About the session

The Science Centre Singapore (Abbreviation: SCS, Chinese: 新加坡科学馆), is a scientific institution in Singapore, specialising in the promotion of scientific and technological education for the general public. With over 850 exhibits spread over eight exhibition galleries, it sees over a million visitors a year today.

Speakers

Lim Tit Meng

Science Centre Singapore

TM was given Tit in his name because his father wanted to put him on a straight path (Tit is straight in Teochew). According to Dad, he looked bright as a new born (hence named Meng, which means bright), but Dad suspected that he might grow up becoming a bad guy! TM has been the Chief Executive at the Science Centre Singapore since January 2010. He is a Singaporean, graduated with a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in UK after obtaining a BSc (Hons) degree from the National University of Singapore. He is a husband of one, father of two, and known to be a straight talker, befitting the Tit. :-)
 

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:45 - 10:15

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  • OpenTech and IoT


A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To The Science Centre
A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To The Science Centre (09:55 - 10:25)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Speakers

Harish Pillay

RedHat

Harish Pillay is the president of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter. He is a pioneer on the Internet having gotten on to the ARPAnet and UUCP networks in 1985. He is a ham and his callsign is 9V1HP.
     

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:55 - 10:25

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Sex, Circuits, and Deep House
Sex, Circuits, and Deep House (10:20 - 10:50)

About the session

Last year at Burning Man 2015, we demonstrated an open hardware & software, 900 MHz radio-connected platform based on our Orchard IoT platform in the form of a conference badge. The badges bore a circular set of LEDs which would flash in a pattern unique to that badge. Attendees with other badges customized their light patterns by finding badges with patterns they like and "having sex" with them. The description of the light patterns is based on a diploid genome, and the process of breeding lights is modeled after the biological process of having sex. The overall protocol to exchange light genomes was designed to require explicit consent of both parties, thus layering a social experiment on top of a hardware experiment. By requiring explicit consent, the badges also served as an icebreaker and a seed for many fun conversations.

Speakers

Bunnie Huang

Sutajio Ko-Usagi PTE LTD

bunnie huang is best known for his work hacking the Microsoft Xbox, as well as for his efforts in designing and manufacturing open source hardware, including the chumby (app-playing alarm clock), chibitronics (peel-and-stick electronics for craft), and Novena (DIY laptop). He received his PhD in electrical engineering from MIT in 2002. He currently lives in Singapore, where he runs a private product design studio, Kosagi, and he actively mentors several startups and students of the MIT Media Lab.
       

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 10:20 - 10:50

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Rethinking Drone Delivery with Open Source
Rethinking Drone Delivery with Open Source (10:40 - 11:10)

About the session

The story of how SingPost built the drone delivery system & gain global coverage in 3 months.

Speakers

Bernard Leong

Singapore Post

Dr Bernard Leong is the Head of Digital Services for Singapore Post Pte Ltd, overseeing the Group’s digital, mobile & social media strategy, along products and innovation across the organization with the recent authenticated drone delivery system that received world wide coverage. When not donning his corporate hat, Dr Leong plays a key role in the Southeast Asia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, serving as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD Business School and mentor for JFDI.Asia, the region’s leading startup incubator. He is the founder of a weekly podcast called Analyse.Asia where he discussed the latest trends in business, technology and media in Asia.
       

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 10:40 - 11:10

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Tea and Coffee Break
Tea and Coffee Break (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Break in the Marquee room with coffee, tea and snacks.

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


UNESCO YouthMobile
UNESCO YouthMobile (11:15 - 11:45)

About the session

The YouthMobile Initiative builds on the experience of many worldwide initiatives that introduce young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-learn). It also seeks to build on experiences targeting young women who are vastly underrepresented in this field. Finally it builds on the consideration that for millions of young people, the smartphone in their pocket is a very powerful computer, it will be their only computer, and they use it for nearly every aspect of their lives: communicating, learning, taking pictures, and playing games.

Speakers

Davide Storti

UNESCO

WHO BENEFITS FROM YOUTHMOBILE? »Youth and Youth organizations Informal learning opportunities for youth to engage in society and earn livelihoods as mobile app entrepreneurs. ICT-enabled youth organizations creating a sustainable pool of trainers, support staff, and mentors. »Secondary School Students Acquiring high-level 21st century skills and confidence to develop/promote mobile apps to resolve local issues of sustainable development. »Teachers and Principals Teaching a new, innovative course in mobile apps development, acquiring ICT-pedagogy skills, connecting the school to other schools nationally and globally. » By gathering training materials to teach young people to develop mobile apps. The materials will be high-level and open-licensed for translation, localization, and innovations. Training materials will be pedagogically accurate for accreditation and employer recognition. » By training teachers to teach the students. UNESCO will be identifying all schools worldwide with existing programs for advanced computer studies. » By linking the learners to mobile app competitions, through the creation of the first global list of app competitors: encouraging trained students to submit apps for prizes, recognition, and employment opportunities; and let them meet and learn from those who made it.
     

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 11:15 - 11:45

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Science and Open Source Program at Google
Science and Open Source Program at Google (11:35 - 12:05)

About the session

Recognizing the vital role that open source software plays at Google, the Open Source Programs Office is tasked with maintaining a healthy relationship with the open source software development community.

Speakers

Cat Allman

Google

Cat is the Science Outreach Program Manager at Google. She manages outreach to the global FOSS community with her team. They run student programs such as Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in, sponsor and host FOSS project events, and fund a wide variety of projects. She speaks at conferences, and in her spare time is a co-organizer and the logistics lead for Science Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only un-conference for scientists. This "spare time" activity has turned into a 2nd team to manage around outreach to science and maker communities.
     

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 11:35 - 12:05

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  • OpenTech and IoT


#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti" (11:55 - 12:25)

About the session

“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .

Speakers

Jan Nikolai Nelles

Artist of "The Other Nefertiti"

Jan Nikolai Nelles is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin. He graduated from Offenbach University of Art and Design in 2011. His work oscillates between visual and media art. In the past he founded an independent art gallery in Offenbach, Germany, and co-founded a photography magazine. Since 2009, he also collaborates with Nora Al-Badri on several artistic interventions.
   

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 11:55 - 12:25

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Lunch Catering at Hall A, Scientist for a Day. Speakers Lunch in the Marquee Theatre tent.

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Managing A Healthy GitHub Community
Managing A Healthy GitHub Community (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Managing an open-source community is easy when your project is small but grows harder the larger your project becomes. Learn from Mike McQuaid, Homebrew maintainer for 6 years and GitHub employee, about how to grow your project’s community and ensure that it remains a healthy, happy and fun place.

Speakers

Mike McQuaid

GitHub/Homebrew

Mike McQuaid is a software engineer at GitHub. He maintains the Homebrew OS X package manager and has contributed to a wide array of open-source projects.
       

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


What's new in systemd in 2016?
What's new in systemd in 2016? (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

systemd is a core component of most Linux distributions and the Linux platform. If you run any of today's bigger distribution you'll come into contact with it. In this talk I'd like to give an overview over recent additions and changes.

Speakers

Lennart Poettering

Red Hat

Lennart works in the Server Experience Group at Red Hat, and lives in Berlin.
   

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Legalese.io: smart contracts, dumb lawyers, and you
Legalese.io: smart contracts, dumb lawyers, and you (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Legalese helps entrepreneurs take the law into their own hands, by turning contracts into templates, configuration, and code – all on Github. Instead of paying lawyers for access to their proprietary precedents, founders and freelancers can use opensource tools to draft their own NDAs, ESOPs, and angel/seed investment agreements. After a short demo of the system we escalate quickly into a review of the 30-year history of legal informatics, deontic calculi, and programming language theory which Legalese is now productizing with its own DSL.

Speakers

Meng Weng Wong

Legalese.io

Meng started and exited two startups in the US. Returning to Singapore, he perpetuated the cycle of abuse as an angel investor and mentor at JFDI.Asia. At JFDI, in the course of developing a portfolio of 60+ startups, Meng had to help draft and execute dozens of legal agreements for each startup. To his horror he discovered startup financing is currently a manual process involving corporate secretaries and expensive lawyers, hence a ripe opportunity for software innovation and the basis for an opensource startup serving a global market. Meng programs in Perl and Javascript, and is now learning Prolog, Clojure, and Haskell.
       

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


BBC micro:bit - Next generation teaching tools
BBC micro:bit - Next generation teaching tools (14:55 - 15:25)

About the session

ScienceScope Ltd is a tier 1 partner in the BBC micro:bit development program. This novel coding device will be delivered to every 11 year old students in the UK in the next month. It features sensors, Bluetooth Smart and a 5x5 matrix led display. This development will be a game changer in inspiring students to engage with technology.

Speakers

David Crellin

ScienceScope Ltd

David was educated at Bristol, and Cambridge Universities. In 1982 He joined PA’s, Technology division where he was responsible for managing a number of major electronic product development projects. In 1986 David set up his own business (Abington Partners). Abington originated data-logging software and hardware for schools. The company has won three SMART awards. In 2011 Abington Partners transferred the educational datalogging products business was to a new company. ScienceScope Ltd with David as CEO. The range and extent of the educational datalogging products range has grown to be one of the most innovative and comprehensive available. In 2013 ScienceScope won an £800,000 Technology Strategy Board funded project (DISTANCE) to develop an Internet of School Things (IOST) demonstrator. Partners in the project include Intel, xively and three UK universities, University College London , The Open University and Birmingham. ScienceScope is currently working with the IDA in Singapore to carry out a proof of concept project for the IOST. ScienceScope is also a key partner of the BBC in delivering the micro:bit project. The micro:bit is a nano computer designed to inspire kids to get involved in coding. Every student aged 11 in the UK will get a free micro:bit at the beginning of 2016. David lives with his wife in Bath.
     

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:55 - 15:25

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


Going through era of IoT with MySQL 5.7
Going through era of IoT with MySQL 5.7 (15:20 - 15:50)

About the session

The IoT is poised to change how we interact with and perceive the world around us, and the possibilities are nearly boundless. As more and more connected devices generate data, we will need to solve the problem of how to collect, store, and make sense of IoT data by leveraging the power of database systems. MySQL 5.7 is the best release ever of the world's most popular open source database and provides a new, advanced feature set designed to enable those who are building the next generation of web-based and embedded applications and services including IoT and BigData.

Speakers

Ricky Setyawan

MySQL

Ricky Setyawan has been in the IT industry for 17 years with the good last 15 years working as RDBMS specialist. He is currently MySQL Principal Sales Consultant for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Pakistan. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a Principal DBA doing database design and management on Oracle and DB2 on RedHat Linux on continuous availability server. He has been working on a number of RDBMS throughout his career such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL.
 

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:20 - 15:50

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  • OpenTech and IoT


IOT with Espert
IOT with Espert (15:45 - 16:15)

About the session

Introducing our very own Espresso Lite V2, the latest Arduino-compatible ESP8266 Wi-Fi development board for makers and novice learners to build their very own Internet-of-Things (IoT) projects.

Speakers

William Hooi

ESPert

William Hooi is currently the CEO of Espert Pte Ltd, a new start-up venture that develop Wi-Fi-enabled (ESP8266-based) development and production hardware as well as cloud and mobile SDK to help makers to build their own IoT product, solutions and services. Previously, he was involved in organising the annual Singapore Mini Maker Faire while he was with the Science Centre Singapore. Having served in the public school system in various capacities for the past 15 years, he started his own private practice 2 years ago to create platforms for citizen innovation for the Maker Movement. He is also concurrently the Executive Director of the SG Makers Association and a director of the OneMaker Group, a maker ecosystem developer in Singapore.
   

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:45 - 16:15

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  • OpenTech and IoT


ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab - Developing Open Source Science Experiments with FOSSASIA
ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab - Developing Open Source Science Experiments with FOSSASIA (16:10 - 16:40)

About the session

This presentation is about the Sensor Plug-ins developed for ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab as a part of my GSoC-2015 project with FOSSASIA. We have added many new sensors plug-ins to measure a variety of parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, acceleration, tilt angle, magnetic field etc. With this development we at FOSSASIA are aiming to provide low-cost, effective and open source laboratory equipment to students all over the world. I will also be talking about the low-cost weather data-acquisition system developed and interfacing Gas sensors with ExpEYES. A Poster covering details of GSoC work will also be displayed at the venue. In the end I will add little about my experience of GSoC journey with my mentors Mario Behling, Hong Phuc Dang and Andre Rebentisch, with some critical piece of knowledge or a new lesson to learn everyday…..this may encourage and help future GsoC students.

Speakers

Praveen Patil

ExpEYES

A Physics Teacher and a free software enthusiast. FOSSASIA GSoC student alumnus and GCI mentor. Working on ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab, Involved in FOSS training programs for science teachers and students. E-content developer for National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) for School Education and member of committee for “Development of ICT Refresher Course for students and teachers”by Central Institute of Education Technology (CIET), NCERT, New Delhi. Talks at International Events: FOSSASIA - 2014 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia RMLL-2014 at Montpellier, France FOSSASIA -2015 at NUS Singapore PyCon Sg at Singapore
     

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 16:10 - 16:40

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  • OpenTech and IoT


End of Sessions
End of Sessions (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Pub Crawl at Clarke Quay
Pub Crawl at Clarke Quay (19:00 - 19:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Dalton Hall

Friday, 18th Mar, 19:00 - 19:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Digital Design Studio
Mobile development for students
Mobile development for students (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

This workshop will be for students from 12-17. We plan to teach them some basics of android by doing a sample android project.

Speakers

Manan Wason

IIIT Delhi

This will be a workshop in which we plan to teach students some basics of android by writing code for a sample project. We will be also covering some material design basics and basic android architecture.
       

Digital Design Studio

Friday, 18th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • Tech Kids I


Design Making Program
Design Making Program (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

In this 2 hour workshop, we will be introducing the idea of Design Making and how it can be relevant to Education today.Design Making is an approach to problem solving with a focus on making-and-iterating. Tapping on the idea of Design Thinking, making turns concepts into actual prototypes and getting it to market for feedback allows robust iterations to happen for a better product-demand fit.

Speakers

Jamen Loh

OneMaker Group

Participants experience the prototyping and iteration stages of Design Thinking, working on proposed challenge statements after which they will start prototyping. The solutions will be subjected to a round of feedbacks before improving them on a second iteration which will see vast improvements from the first version. This program is suitable for participants from 12 and above.
 

Digital Design Studio

Friday, 18th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Digital Design Studio

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Digital Design Studio

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Digital Design Studio

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Digital Design Studio

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Digital Design Studio

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Digital Design Studio

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Eco Garden Lab
Ambient Dynamix: Adaptive gateway to IoT
Ambient Dynamix: Adaptive gateway to IoT (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Dynamix enables mobile apps and Web apps to fluidly interact with the physical world through advanced sensing, control and actuation plug-ins that can be installed into the user’s Android device on-demand. A Dynamix-enabled device can also serve as a gateway between mutually incompatible smart devices that are situated in the user’s environment. 1. Overview of the Framework 2. Features 3. Plugin Development Overview 4. Web Integration 5. Simple Demo

Speakers

Shivam Verma

Ambient Dynamix/National University of Singapore

       

Eco Garden Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • Hardware and IoT


Open Source Drones
Open Source Drones (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Get your hands dirty with various open source software for working with drones, including DroneKit, MAVLink, and Mission Planner.

Speakers

Jiin Joo Ong

Garuda Robotics

Ong Jiin Joo is the co-founder and CTO of Singapore-based drone solutions and services company, Garuda Robotics.
     

Eco Garden Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Eco Garden Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • Hardware and IoT


Unleash the potential of NVDIMM Namespaces
Unleash the potential of NVDIMM Namespaces (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

NVDIMM is very hot topic now a days. It has many fabulous features. One of them is namespaces. NVDIMM support block and persistent memory name spaces. Both has different advantages and use cases. Namespaces may have attributes unavailable through other means, like different block sizes for block devices, the choice of powerfail write atomicity, and the ability. Let’s understand block window, BTT, SPA and their challenges in this session. I will cover how NVDIMM is solving modern memory requirement. Based on its ability to fill the gap between cache memory and SSD. I will cover how Linux community is proceeding to solve namespaces in NVDIMM.

Speakers

Parmeshwr Prasad

dell

Parmeshwr Prasad is associated with Dell server Division from past 3 years. He is having varied experience in embedded system, servers, cloud and Open Source. He has been an active Linux kernel developer for more than 7 years. Keen passion for continuous learning, innovation and adoption of new ideas from lateral technology domains. Patents across diverse areas covering UEFI, ESRT and PCIe. He was the speaker for open source events like CentOS-dojo, ESTF and OSIdays.
     

Eco Garden Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


Treasure Hunts, Indoor Navigation and the Physical Web: Adventures in JavaScript and Bluetooth Beacons
Treasure Hunts, Indoor Navigation and the Physical Web: Adventures in JavaScript and Bluetooth Beacons (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

The number of electronic devices we have around us is gigantic. We need a new interaction model to deal with all these devices, and having a separate native app for each device is impractical. The concept of the ‘Physical Web’ attempts to assign devices with their very own URL, which can be accessed by everyone using their web browser. This opens up a lot of possibilities for developers to create new and amazing applications, taking the user’s immediate physical presence into play. We’ll take a look at some use cases, including, but not limited to treasure hunts, contact sharing and indoor navigation. We’ll dive deep into how JavaScript can be used along with Bluetooth-LE and the Eddystone protocol to create great web apps, and understand the concepts at hand.

Speakers

Shwetank Dixit

Opera

Shwetank is PM of the Extensions platform in Opera as well as part of Opera's Developer Relations team. Over the years, he was worked to evangelize open web standards and cutting edge web technologies. He has written technical articles for a variety of publications and regularly talks at various developer conferences around the world.
     

Eco Garden Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

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  • Hardware and IoT


BBC micro:bit and Python
BBC micro:bit and Python (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Micro Bit (or micro:bit) is an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. It will be given to every 11 year old student in UK. MicroPython is an "official" solution for the micro:bit. The Python Software Foundation are one of the partners in the project and the BBC asked us to provide such a solution (ntoll is leading the efforts from the PSF side of things). "Mu" is a community generated (i.e. from the Python community) editor that *initially* targets the micro:bit. In the wider Python context, there's been talk of a kid/teacher/beginner friendly editor that's recommended for Python "in general". Plans are afoot to make "mu" meet this requirement.

Speakers

Kushal Das

Fedora Project

Kushal Das is a core developer of CPython, and a fellow at Python Software Society. He is a long time Fedora contributor. He is currently working as Fedora Cloud Engineer in the Fedora Engineering team at Red Hat.
     

Eco Garden Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


End of Sessions
End of Sessions (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Eco Garden Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Hardware and IoT


Pub Crawl at Clarke Quay
Pub Crawl at Clarke Quay (19:00 - 19:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Eco Garden Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 19:00 - 19:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


Einstein Room
Why are we (Still) wasting food? How technology can help
Why are we (Still) wasting food? How technology can help (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

https://youtu.be/HNrfr4Mp-Wk

Speakers

Maxime Pourrat

Winnow Solutions

Maxime has more than a decade of experience in Hospitality, Private Equity, Startups and MNCs spanning from Beijing to London, Geneva and Singapore. He first move to Asia to join Kempsinki Hotels in Beijing with their Asia business development team. Following this he worked at one of China's first foreign-owned private equity firms. He managed portfolio investments in F&B and tech start-ups. Prior to Winnow Solutions, he worked in project management at Caterpillar where he realised it was time to return where he belongs - Asia and the Startup world.
     

Einstein Room

Friday, 18th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • Internet, Society, Community


The Smart City - Where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky
The Smart City - Where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

As the internet trickles through society it starts to transform the very places where people live. Some think it can change cities in this century as much as electricity did in the last one. The governments of the world, the weary giants of flesh and steel, also tap into this new home. This talk will step away from the computer screen to look at the design patterns of current toolchains for the so-called "smart city" and their implications. Is there a way the free/libre open (source software) spirit can be baked into the infrastructure that society runs on?

Speakers

Herr Flupke

🐰

herr flupke explains machines to humans and humans to machines. His work involves security and privacy, community and ethics.
 

Einstein Room

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Who owns my notebook? or why I want to run coreboot on every device
Who owns my notebook? or why I want to run coreboot on every device (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Who controls the hardware own's the hardware! Vendors taking more and more power of our devices with no return for us - the end user. They want to decide what software it runs on the hardware they sell to us. Why? Because of security. Security means to prevent the user from owning the device and gives the vendor more power to feel good. This security also restricts the usage of hardware to a certain use case. The open source world has shown there are a lot more use cases than advertised with any given hardware. The talk also gives a short overview of coreboot and how coreboot can solve some problems.

Speakers

Alexander Couzens

freelancer

I'm an open source developer doing low level delelopment like OpenWrt and coreboot.
     

Einstein Room

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Adoption of open standards and FLOS Software in the public sector
Adoption of open standards and FLOS Software in the public sector (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Organisational budgets are shrinking and stakeholders are putting increasing pressure on public sector organisations to be efficient without jeopardising service delivery. There is a multitude of ways to share and reuse software amongst organisations and the public sector employs (and has employed) a variety of different approaches. This session will specifically focus on open source software and the factors influencing the adoption of open source software within public sector organisations. The primary objective of the session is to explore open source software benefits for public sector organisations, discuss the current state of adoption, and review the motivators and a-motivators affecting adoption. A secondary objective of the session is to investigate where organisations are utilising open source software and whether organisations consider open source software as a means of achieving business goals.

Speakers

Norvan Vogt

Queensland Health

Norvan is passionate about open source technology and using ICT to make a difference in the world. At age 18, Norvan co-founded an open source software company in Canberra. In 2004, he was responsible for leading the campaign that concluded with the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) legislative assembly changing legislation, where they are preferencing open source software during procurement. Furthermore, Norvan has spent at least five years working internationally on ICT projects, creating open source solutions through community development methodologies, for the United Nations, AusAID and the World Bank, in Vanuatu, Cambodia and Guatemala. Norvan has served in a range of high level advisory roles, such as the Prime Minister’s Youth Roundtable, Defence Reserves Support Council and the United Nations International Symposium on Volunteering. He is currently employed by Townsville Hospital as the Chief Information Officer for the health district and is also studying a PhD part-time at James Cook University.
   

Einstein Room

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • Internet, Society, Community


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Einstein Room

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

  •  
  • Internet, Society, Community


The FOSS ecosystem and business development in Vietnam
The FOSS ecosystem and business development in Vietnam (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Open Source offers opportunities for collaboration between companies in Vietnam and global enterprises. VFOSSA contributes to a sustainable Open Tech ecosystem involving stakeholders and developer networks in Vietnam and connecting them to the global tech community. During my talk, I will introduce about Vietnam Free and Open Source Software Association (VFOSSA), the FOSS ecosystem in Vietnam and more deeply into one of the newest but most active FOSS project, OpenCPS.

Speakers

Anh Tuan Truong

VFOSSA

Start working after being graduated since 1995, I have worked as almost roles in software industry, from software developer, team leader, project manager, product manager to general managers like CTO, CIO and Company president. I love the freedom in free and/or open source software so I spend almost my time on working together with friends and colleagues to develop, promote FOSS and FOSS communities more and more. I am currently member of many FOSS communities, domestic as well as international, generic as well as product specific, such as: HanoiLUG, AsiaSource 2, Zimbra, OTRS, Drupal, Fedora, CentOS linux, etc. I am currently Vietnam Free and Open Source Software Association Vice President.
     

Einstein Room

Friday, 18th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • Internet, Society, Community


End of Sessions
End of Sessions (16:30 - 17:00)

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Short Abstract for the event

Einstein Room

Friday, 18th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

  •  
  • Internet, Society, Community


Pub Crawl at Clarke Quay
Pub Crawl at Clarke Quay (19:00 - 19:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Einstein Room

Friday, 18th Mar, 19:00 - 19:30

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Fermi Lab
opendetection.com
opendetection.com (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Open Detection (OD) is a novel standalone open source project for object detection and recognition in images and 3D point clouds. Open Detection is released under the terms of the BSD license, and thus free for commercial and research use. The project was originated under Google Summer of Code 2015 with the aim of having a vision tool for robotics (in particular for Robocomp, an open source robotics framework). The library is built with a very specific goal - to answer the fundamental problem of Computer Vision - Object Recognition and Detection. We make available to everyone the existing solution in this direction in a common, intuitive and user-friendly APIs. Our simple and user-friendly APIs make this a great tool for Robotics Applications and robots and Computer Vision beginners and enthusiasts. And of course, the method dependent parameters to fine-tune detections to the limit, makes this a great tool for Computer Vision researchers and experts.

Speakers

Marco A. Gutiérrez

Robolab, University of Extremadura, Spain

Marco A. Gutiérrez is a PhD student in cognitive vision for robotics systems at the Robotics and Artificial Vision Laboratory (RoboLab) from the University of Extremadura, Spain since 2011. He is currently holding an A*STAR Research Attachment Programme (ARAP) scholarship in the Human Language Technology Department at I2R, A*STAR, Singapore. He has contributed to several open-source robotics and computer vision related projects like RoboComp and the Point Cloud Library as organization administrator and mentor (respectively) for several editions of the Google Summer of Code programme (2013, 2014 and 2015).
       

Fermi Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • Big Data/Open Data


Collaborative Spelling Dictionary
Collaborative Spelling Dictionary (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

I developed an extension - Collaborative Spelling Dictionary, during my intern with the Wikimedia Foundation under the Outreach program of Gnome. After my intern, I created issues in the same extension for newbies to fix and guided them constantly giving them an easy and smooth entry into the open source community. I also mentored the extension's issues in Google Code In this year and had several students submitting their patches for the same, successfully closing number of the open issues. I'll use the opportunity to explain and demonstrate this extension to the FOSSASIA attendees and talk about the step by step process involved in building an extension. This would particularly be useful for anyone aiming to work on and develop extensions to be used for any wiki-project (which are already quite popular these days). Moreover, the extension still has scope for further development. In order to be able to contribute to the extension, it is important to understand how the extension works currently, so I would like to explain about this project and its code architecture and also discuss the possible features and their implementations during my talk. I also plan on giving a demo of my work on my laptop (if time allows) so that the audience gets a better idea about the project.

Speakers

Ankita Shukla

IIT Roorkee

Ankita is a Computer Science senior at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. She has been a contributor to FOSS for almost 3 years now. In 2014, she interned with Wikimedia under Gnome’s Outreach Program for Women (now Outreachy) on a project entitled “Collaborative Spelling Dictionary”. Ankita mentored for Mediawiki projects this year at Google Code In 2015 and Gnome Outreachy. She’s also guiding two high-school mentees under the #include fellowship program this year.
       

Fermi Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Uncovering of a heavily obfuscated public API by Singapore Government
Uncovering of a heavily obfuscated public API by Singapore Government (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

This talk will cover: 1. Visualization on near-real-time data on Singapore taxi with sharing of observable trends. 2. Heavy obfuscation of this public API by LTA. 3. Serverless architecture: How the whole system, consisting of data collection engine, unobfuscated API endpoints, database and visualization, is built without without having to spin up a single server.

Speakers

U-Zyn Chua

Zynesis

U-Zyn's primary interests are blockchain, sysops and security. He runs Zynesis, a sysops and blockchain consultancy, during the day and hacks around at night.
       

Fermi Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Ask Me Anything about Search Engines History and Future (altavista -> Google -> Bing -> Wolfram Alpha -> Social Graph -> ?)
Ask Me Anything about Search Engines History and Future (altavista -> Google -> Bing -> Wolfram Alpha -> Social Graph -> ?) (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

I have worked as a contractor for the leading European fashion retailers and analysed Big Data of their competitors. What do you want to know about it?

Speakers

Michael Christen

YaCy.net

I made YaCy and loklak
       

Fermi Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

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  • Big Data/Open Data


End of Sessions
End of Sessions (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Pub Crawl
Pub Crawl (19:00 - 19:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 19:00 - 19:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A
Master of Science Technopreneurship & Innovation Programme (MSc TIP)
Master of Science Technopreneurship & Innovation Programme (MSc TIP) (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation (MSc TIP) programme is a 1-year full-time programme or 2-year part-time programme. It is also offered in Chinese language as a 1-year full-time programme.

Speakers

Claire Tan

NTU Nanyang Technopreneruship Center

The Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation (MSc TIP) programme aims to develop and equip global entrepreneurs with the skills and stamina to turn novel ideas into successful ventures in the fast-paced economy today. Modelled after the venture creation cycle, this programme enables candidates to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and the essential business knowledge. Participants learn effective entrepreneurship problem-solving techniques and business decision making approaches through the unique TIP pedagogy: Experiential Learning, Global Immersion and Transformational Experience. Imparting managerial theories and technical skills, the distinguished faculty members and business mentors inspire the participants with their strong domain expertise and hands-on approaches. Further to that, the programme fosters a global entrepreneurship learning ecosystem which includes visit to leading technology hotbeds such as Silicon Valley, Boston, New York City, Beijing Zhongguanzun Science Park and Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), and learning exchange at world-class universities such as Stanford, Berkley, Tsinghua, and Peking University.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Creative Confidence
Creative Confidence (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Innovation depends on developing creative solutions for the complicated challenges we will be facing in the future, but what happens if we want to start innovating but we believe that we are not creative? The experiential booth will have tools and materials for participants to stop by and create a personalized coaster or greeting. Each participant can stay up to 20 min, as to let other people have a chance at making.

Speakers

Elda Webb

One Maker Group

I have a very curious mind and I strive to integrate design, technology and learning in all my endeavors. I’m currently the Lead Curriculum Developer for OneMaker Group and my main objective is to help makers of all ages build up their creative confidence by breaking the barriers of the mind, and show that everybody have the potential to be a maker and a designer. Before joining OMG, I worked at Autodesk for over 9 years in Singapore as a Learning Content Developer. I hold a B.A in Architecture from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and has worked as a 3D modeler and Graphic Designer in Mexico, USA and Canada. She is actively involved in the Singapore Maker community.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


UNESCO YouthMobile
UNESCO YouthMobile (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The YouthMobile Initiative builds on the experience of many worldwide initiatives that introduce young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-learn). It also seeks to build on experiences targeting young women who are vastly underrepresented in this field. Finally it builds on the consideration that for millions of young people, the smartphone in their pocket is a very powerful computer, it will be their only computer, and they use it for nearly every aspect of their lives: communicating, learning, taking pictures, and playing games.

Speakers

Misako Ito

UNESCO

WHO BENEFITS FROM YOUTHMOBILE? »Youth and Youth organizations Informal learning opportunities for youth to engage in society and earn livelihoods as mobile app entrepreneurs. ICT-enabled youth organizations creating a sustainable pool of trainers, support staff, and mentors. »Secondary School Students Acquiring high-level 21st century skills and confidence to develop/promote mobile apps to resolve local issues of sustainable development. »Teachers and Principals Teaching a new, innovative course in mobile apps development, acquiring ICT-pedagogy skills, connecting the school to other schools nationally and globally. » By gathering training materials to teach young people to develop mobile apps. The materials will be high-level and open-licensed for translation, localization, and innovations. Training materials will be pedagogically accurate for accreditation and employer recognition. » By training teachers to teach the students. UNESCO will be identifying all schools worldwide with existing programs for advanced computer studies. » By linking the learners to mobile app competitions, through the creation of the first global list of app competitors: encouraging trained students to submit apps for prizes, recognition, and employment opportunities; and let them meet and learn from those who made it.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


MySQL
MySQL (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The World's Most Popular Open Source Database

Speakers

Ricky Setyawan

MySQL

Ricky Setyawan has been in the IT industry for 17 years with the good last 15 years working as RDBMS specialist. He is currently MySQL Principal Sales Consultant for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Pakistan. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a Principal DBA doing database design and management on Oracle and DB2 on RedHat Linux on continuous availability server. He has been working on a number of RDBMS throughout his career such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


RedHat
RedHat (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

RedHat Community - Helping our open source projects and standards be wildly successful

Speakers

Harish Pillay

RedHat

Harish Pillay is the president of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter. He is a pioneer on the Internet having gotten on to the ARPAnet and UUCP networks in 1985. He is a ham and his callsign is 9V1HP.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


coala
coala (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

coala [1] provides an abstraction for static code analysis that is useful while still applicable to any text based language. coala provides convenient user interfaces for multiple usecases which takes away a lot of common tasks from the developer. In this process coala makes research available for production immediately and combines rapid prototyping with instant usability. coala also facilitates people entering the world of open source by providing them valuable feedback on coding standards and formatting in one consistent way for all languages. [1] http://coala-analyzer.org/

Speakers

Ankit Verma

coala

Ankit has contributed mainly in coala-artwork and helped out in website design for coala. He also did the gitmate.io website. He is also a GNOME foundation member. Udayan who will also be helping with the stall has been involved with coala since February 2015. He may also be giving a talk at FOSSASIA if selected. coala was his GSoC project where he worked on core coala features and developing a GUI for it. Since then he has been involved with coala in some capacity.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Enriching Student Experience
Enriching Student Experience (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The exhibition showcases the use of open source hardware and software e.g. Intel Galileo, Arduino etc to support student learning needs, for student exposure to open source tools and as outreach to potential students

Speakers

Peter LIM

Nanyang Polytechnic

Open source software and hardware kit has enabled solutions to be developed rapidly. To enhance student learning experience, students having been taught on fundamental concepts and knowledge, use open source hardware and software to reinforce the understanding through the application development. Students have benefited from the methods greatly.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


ChorusText open assistive device
ChorusText open assistive device (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

ChorusText is an open assistive device built with Arduino, Linux SBC and a few sliders and buttons. It is a text-editing device that lets the user do text editing by means of touch and hearing, without eyesight. It is an ongoing project and the goal of the project is to come up with an assistive device that enables the visually challenged to edit text effectively, and with open-source code + design files such that anyone interested can build one themselves.

Speakers

David Effendi

ChorusText

ChorusText is an open assistive device built with Arduino, Linux SBC and a few sliders and buttons. It is a text-editing device that lets the user do text editing by means of touch and hearing, without eyesight. It is an ongoing project and the goal of the project is to come up with an assistive device that enables the visually challenged to edit text effectively, and with open-source code + design files such that anyone interested can build one themselves.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


ESPresso Lite
ESPresso Lite (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Implementing democratised Internet-of-Things services/solutions

Speakers

William Hooi

ESPert

William Hooi is currently the CEO of Espert Pte Ltd, a new start-up venture that develop Wi-Fi-enabled (ESP8266-based) development and production hardware as well as cloud and mobile SDK to help makers to build their own IoT product, solutions and services. Previously, he was involved in organising the annual Singapore Mini Maker Faire while he was with the Science Centre Singapore. Having served in the public school system in various capacities for the past 15 years, he started his own private practice 2 years ago to create platforms for citizen innovation for the Maker Movement. He is also concurrently the Executive Director of the SG Makers Association and a director of the OneMaker Group, a maker ecosystem developer in Singapore.
   

Ulrich Norbisrath

ulno.net

Ulrich Norbisrath, PhD has more than 20 years of industrial and academic experience in Software Engineering and Systems Integration. He has supported the start-up of several software development companies as well as consulted tech companies in questions of Systems Integration, Mobile, and Cloud Computing. He provides a deep technical understanding of mobile technologies and their integration with cloud services -- both from an academic as well as an industrial perspective. He raised significant grants on Cloud, Mobile, and High Performance Computing at universities in Europe and Central Asia. He is a published book author in the area of Software and Requirements Engineering. Being connected through his immediate family to US Diplomatic services, he is very well traveled and can call on a worldwide network of international experts. He is currently employed as a professor at the University Applied Sciences Upper Austria in their Mobile Computing program.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Science Hacks with PSL@Fossasia
Science Hacks with PSL@Fossasia (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

PSL@FOSSASIA aims to deliver low-cost lab equipments to millions of students and young scientists and enable them to learn science by experimenting and exploring. The main components of PSL are ExpEYES: Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists and MicroHope: Micro-controllers for Hobby Projects and Education (www.expeyes.in) In this space open science experiments developed during GSoC-15 project will be exhibited. The demonstrations include Coupled oscillations, Electromagnetic Induction, PSL-Laser Show, Weather station using ExpEYES and Raspberry-Pi and various other science hacks. At this space we will also be presenting and inviting ideas for Science Hack Day India.

Speakers

Minal Patil

ExpEYES

A Physics Teacher and a free software enthusiast. FOSSASIA GSoC student alumnus and GCI mentor. Working on ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab, Involved in FOSS training programs for science teachers and students. E-content developer for National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) for School Education and member of committee for “Development of ICT Refresher Course for students and teachers”by Central Institute of Education Technology (CIET), NCERT, New Delhi. Talks at International Events: FOSSASIA - 2014 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia RMLL-2014 at Montpellier, France FOSSASIA -2015 at NUS Singapore PyCon Sg at Singapore
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Free Real-time communications lounge
Free Real-time communications lounge (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Free Real-time communications lounge

Speakers

Daniel Pocock

Debian

Professional software engineer and consultant. Daniel Pocock has developed enterprise grade solutions for some of the giants of the financial services industry, including secure connectivity for UBS (using Apache Camel), the first customer-facing WebRTC contact solution on Wall Street at Interactive Brokers, enterprise-wide real-time monitoring for Barclays Capital (based on Ganglia) and a wide range of real-time financial trade capture and risk management solutions for Thomson Reuters. Despite the highly proprietary nature of these enterprises, Pocock has remained a champion of efficient, cost effective open source solutions to meet demanding business requirements. Pocock actively contributes to a range of free software projects with a focus on real-time communications (RTC) and VoIP, in particular, Lumicall, JSCommunicator, DruCall, reSIProcate, Ganglia and flactag. Pocock is the author of the RTC Quick Start Guide and is part of the team behind the O'Reilly book Monitoring with Ganglia Pocock is a Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora Developer and an OpenCSW package maintainer. He is a licensed radio amateur with the callsigns VK3TQR and M0GLR.
   

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Ring a decentralized and secure communication platform
Ring a decentralized and secure communication platform (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Ring, a project from Savoir-faire Linux, creators of SFLphone, uses a distributed hash table instead of a central SIP server to find other users. This peer-to-peer network is also accessible from other applications using the project's OpenDHT library. Signaling protocols, like SIP, XMPP and IAX, typically rely on central servers to help users locate each other and initiate sessions. Ring is an evolved version of the SFLphone SIP client adding support for true peer-to-peer calling without any central server. The peer-to-peer network transport is implemented using the OpenDHT library, making it a universal solution that can be used for any arbitrary real-time signalling requirement from any application.

Speakers

Alexandre Lision

Ring developped by Savoir-faire Linux

Alexandre has been working as a free software consultant at Savoir-faire Linux in Montréal since 2013. He has developped a wide panel of mobile apps, from sport statistics collection, to industrial metal testing. End of 2014, he joined the Ring team to port Ring on Mac OSX, working on low level video development (libav/ffmpeg), packaging, and UI/UX.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


FOSSASIA
FOSSASIA (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

FOSSASIA Exhibition

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Deepin Desktop System Demo
Deepin Desktop System Demo (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Deepin Desktop System showcase.

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Derek Dai

Deepin

Derek is a Linux user and developer. Interesting in how to measure and improve system performance recently.
   

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Developers looking for designers? Show off your project!
Developers looking for designers? Show off your project! (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

If you work on an open source project and need design help with User Experience, Branding or Visual User Interface , come and present your project. Hopefully we can get http://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/ on board and post jobs on the website.

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Victoria Bondarchuk

Seoul Tech Society, Dmajor

UX Researcher from Seoul. Interested in Open Source and Open Fashion.
       

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


End of Exhibition
End of Exhibition (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Exhibition


Pub Crawl at Clarke Quay
Pub Crawl at Clarke Quay (19:00 - 19:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Friday, 18th Mar, 19:00 - 19:30

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  • Exhibition


Planck Lab
Technologies developed by Red Hat
Technologies developed by Red Hat (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Lots of Open Source technologies are developed by Red Hat. Our applications are used in companies around the world.

Speakers

Harish Pillay

RedHat

Harish Pillay is the president of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter. He is a pioneer on the Internet having gotten on to the ARPAnet and UUCP networks in 1985. He is a ham and his callsign is 9V1HP.
     

Planck Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • DevOps


oVirt Integration With Foreman And Katello - Bringing Your Virtualized Data-Center Into The Next Level
oVirt Integration With Foreman And Katello - Bringing Your Virtualized Data-Center Into The Next Level (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Yaniv will present overview of oVirt, Foreman and Katello, then will dive into how oVirt integrates with Foreman and Katello to ease different flows in variant systems and data-centers. oVirt 3.5 integration with Foreman allows us to bring new bare-metal hardware to a fully operational hypervisor in one click. In oVirt 3.6 we introduce an integration with Katello to allow oVirt users to see available updates (ERRATA) on hosts and VMs that are managed by Foreman, and in addition on the oVirt engine machine itself. This gives oVirt users a wider view of the updates available for both the virtualized and infrastructure resources. The integration between the projects is still in progress and we plan add functionality to it for better management options for various entities in the data-center hardware - such as provision phase, package management, configurations control and upgrade flows.

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Yaniv Bronhaim

Red Hat

The audience require basic knowledge with virtualization and hardware provisioning - mostly aimed for users, ITs and product managers.
       

Planck Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • DevOps


Comparing virtualization and containers
Comparing virtualization and containers (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Containers and Docker are quite the rage, and people are comparing to the their lightweight approach compared with traditional virtualization (e.g. with KVM). This talk will dispel some myths, and introduce the concepts of hardware- and operating-system- level virtualization. Will also list pros and cons of both the approaches.

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Amit Shah

Red Hat

Amit has been working on KVM virtualization for the last 8 years, and has been working on Linux for more than 15 years. He has worked on Free Software for most of his professional life.
 

Planck Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • DevOps


Globalizing your software
Globalizing your software (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Globalization is a collaborative work done by internationalizing, localizing your software. Most developers write software code but they used to forgot to internationalize their software. This talk will present what is mean by Globalization, why is it important. Then we will look at what Localization is and how to add internationalization in your code by showing some code examples. We will look into what translation platforms are available which is also important part of Globalization.

Speakers

Parag Ashok Nemade

Red Hat

Parag Nemade is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat. Parag has 10 years of experience in Open Source and Linux. He has worked on developing open source softwares related to Internationalization. He is an active contributor to Fedora project, sponsor for packager group, provenpackager, helped in improving Fedora packaging, testing Fedora updates. He is also currently working in Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. He has been working since many years helping new contributors to become Fedora packagers and existing contributors in reviewing their new packages in Fedora.
       

Planck Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • DevOps


Containers and systemd
Containers and systemd (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

Containers are a hot topic on Linux. In this talk I'd like to give a quick overview what systemd provides in the area of containers, how it integrates with the various container managers, and how to use systemd's own minimal container manager systemd-nspawn. I'd like to specifically focus on the more recent changes in the area, and how this functionality has been adopted by the rkt container runtime.

Speakers

Lennart Poettering

Red Hat

Lennart works in the Server Experience Group at Red Hat, and lives in Berlin.
   

Planck Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

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  • DevOps


The Julia Programming Language
The Julia Programming Language (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.

Speakers

Viral B. Shah

Julia Computing

Co-author of @RebootingIndia. Co-inventor of @JuliaLanguage. Founding Partner of Julia Computing, Inc and @FourthLion_IN.
     

Planck Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

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  • DevOps


End of Sessions
End of Sessions (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • DevOps


Pub Crawl at Clarke Quay
Pub Crawl at Clarke Quay (19:00 - 19:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Friday, 18th Mar, 19:00 - 19:30

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  • DevOps


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Dalton Hall
Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In
Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In (09:30 - 10:00)

About the session

provide later

Speakers

Stephanie Taylor

Google

Stephanie is the program manager of the open source team at Google. She manages Google Summer of Code Program as well as the recently launched Google Code-in, a global contest introducing teenagers to open source software development. Stephanie hosts open source events at Google.
 

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:30 - 10:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


You got Design with that? Design Thinking for your projects
You got Design with that? Design Thinking for your projects (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Observe - Reflect - Make' is the mantra for software success. Getting software requirement and intends right is a complex challenge. One approach to tackle the complexity is the discipline called 'Design Thinking' as promoted by IBM. The talk will introduce into 'Design Thinking', what it is, how it works, how it helps to create better software. Where does it fit into the greater scheme of things and how can it be adopted in your development.

Speakers

Stephan Wissel

IBM Singapore

Stephan is a veteran of the software industry, best known for his expertise in IBM Collaboration solutions. He mentors developers of all shades: open source, startups and corporate and is a frequent speaker on technical events. He covers all levels of expertise, from novice introductions to technical deep dives. Despite being German his talks are rated entertaining.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Linking the word's languages in the Open Multilingual Wordnet
Linking the word's languages in the Open Multilingual Wordnet (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

How a combination of technical and social engineering has led to a multi-million lexical database, accessible for all. It has over two million words in 150 languages, organized into concepts and linked in a semantic network. The data is downloadable and available as linked open data. Every year we add tens of thousands of new senses (concept-word pairs), and richer links between them. We will talk about how we organize the data, how we freed it and the Python API for accessing it.

Speakers

Francis Bond

Nanyang Technological University

Francis Bond is an Associate Professor at the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.He worked on machine translation and natural language understanding in Japan, first at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and then at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan, where his focus was on open source natural language processing. He is an active member of the Deep Linguistic Processing with HPSG Initiative (DELPH-IN) and the Global WordNet Association. His main research interest is in natural language understanding. Francis has developed and released wordnets for Chinese, Japanese, Malay and Indonesian and coordinates the open multilingual wordnet. He is a member of the Internationalization Program of the Internet Architecture Board.
   

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Big Data with Short Messages
Big Data with Short Messages (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Self-made twitter, Internet of Things and large-scale social graph for everyone

Speakers

Michael Christen

YaCy.net

I made YaCy and loklak
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Code Review for DevOps
Code Review for DevOps (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Using only open source tools, the OpenStack Infrastructure team operates a code review driven infrastructure for the OpenStack project. This talk will highlight the tooling used to accomplish this and how using code review and testing in our DevOps work has made us a more effective team.

Speakers

Elizabeth Joseph

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Elizabeth K. Joseph is a Systems Administrator at HPE working on the OpenStack Infrastructure team which runs the fully open source infrastructure built for OpenStack development. She also does work in the Ubuntu community and is the co-author of the 8th edition of The Official Ubuntu Book.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • OpenTech and IoT


OpenTech Lightning Talks
OpenTech Lightning Talks (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Lightning talks are designed to be short presentations between five to ten minutes long, but are usually capped at five minutes. Most conferences will allot a segment of roughly 30 to 90 minutes long to speakers. Talks are arranged one after the other during the sessions. The talks are usually given at conferences in order for the event to have many speakers discuss a multitude of topics. The conferences are held in order for individuals to be able to share their ideas and concepts to people who have experience in the specific field. Lightning talks are brief which requires the speaker to make his or her point clearly and rid the presentation of non-critical information. This causes the audience to be more attentive to the speaker and gain a broader array of knowledge from the presentations given.

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Distributed Multi Dimensional Anomaly Detection in OpenStack Logs
Distributed Multi Dimensional Anomaly Detection in OpenStack Logs (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Anomaly detection is very important problem and extensive research has been done about it’s various applications and domains. In this report I’ve documented my research on anomaly detection in cloud computing architectures like OpenStack, Microsoft Azure & Amazon Web Services(AWS). Cloud computing systems create a big jungle of Logs and Metrics and these can provide a cloud operator tremendous insight into the systems and answer the most important questions about architecture’s health. My research shows that cloud computing architectures face completely different types of anomalies than discussed in other domains and these metrics are not very useful if used in single dimension but if we perform anomaly detection on multiple dimensions together and correlate thus generated insights with Logs we can increase our efficiency and decrease false positive cases by a huge margin. When dealing with this amount of logs and metrics we need to come up with novel distributed architectures. In this research I’ve focused on multiple dimensional anomaly detection on storm like distributed system using locality sensitive hashing and sequence mining. I hope that this research will provide us with a better understanding of different directions in which research and implementations have been done on the domain of anomaly detection, and how techniques which are proposed and implemented for a domain can be applied in different domains for which it was not initially intended to begin with.

Speakers

Sarvesh Ranjan

Cisco

OpenStack
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Become an OAuth2 provider using Spring Security
Become an OAuth2 provider using Spring Security (13:35 - 14:05)

About the session

A quick introduction on how developers can set up an OAuth2 Authorization Server and start managing/monitoring the interactions of third party applications with their system/API's. Spring Security makes it really easy to protect endpoints, authorize requests and implement RBAC. The talk will quickly run through the different aspects of Spring Security and OAuth2 and how to customize your Authorization Server

Speakers

Mayank Sharma

OpenMRS

Mayank is the Manager of Developer Tools for OpenMRS. He also worked as the Release Manager for OpenMRS Platform 2.0. He's a two time GSoC student and an avid FOSS contributor. He likes to travel, do hackathons and work on cool tech.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:35 - 14:05

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for Open Source and Free Software Development
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for Open Source and Free Software Development (13:40 - 14:10)

About the session

This talk aims to introduce the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery workflow for the Open Source projects FOSSology and OpenStack. Attendees will learn about the benefits of CI/CD and also how CI/CD works through problems faced on these two projects. They will learn to leverage the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery workflow into their Open Source and Free Software development. * Introduction * What's CI/CD * Why important for Open Source and Free Software development * Typical Workflow * Use FOSSology project as example to introduce the typical workflow and tools * Problems: typical workflow don't scale to large open source projects * OpenStack Workflow * OpenStack workflow and tools * OpenStack infrastructure * Problems solved * How to leverage the OpenStack way

Speakers

Dong Ma

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Dong Ma (Vincent) has worked at Hewlett Packard (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise) since 2007. He worked on the FOSSology project from 2009, with a focus on the CI/CD system. He now works on the OpenStack infrastructure project, focusing on Jenkins and openstackci.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:40 - 14:10

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  • OpenTech and IoT


LabPlot, interactive graphing and analysis of scientific data
LabPlot, interactive graphing and analysis of scientific data (13:45 - 14:15)

About the session

The talk will be started with a brief introduction about KDE and Labplot. Following that I will demonstrate the final result of integration between LabPlot and Cantor. I will demonstrate with the help of few python and maxima scripts what a user can do using the LabPlot. I will also give a brief about what will be its future, how this functionality will eventually help users and how can others start contributing to the code. I will then put some light on the other two projects. Firstly, Ming Ngo added visualization of 3D-data to LabPlot using the powerful VTK library. This helped data to be visualized as points in 3D-space, curves and surfaces. Another project by Ankit Wagarde, he added a very useful tool to LabPlot that allows users to extract data from images. After importing of an image and setting the reference points, the user starts to select the data points on the image that get automatically converted into numbers.

Speakers

Garvit Khatri

KDE

* Presently KDE contributor and working as a freelancer Web Developer for various startups for past 3 years * GSOC Student 2015 with KDE, worked on integration of LabPlot with Cantor. * Season of KDE 2014 Student, worked on porting KNetwalk to KF5. My Contribution: I was selected as Google Summer Code 2015 Student for KDE Org. I worked on the project LabPlot, where I integrated another application Cantor[1] into LabPlot[2]. LabPlot is a scientific data plotter application while Cantor is a front-end to powerful mathematics and statistics package. Data sources in LabPlot originate from a spreadsheet where the user types in the data by hand or import the data from an external ASCII-file to a spreadsheet. So, I integrated the worksheet capability of Cantors and extensibility to work on various back-ends such as Maxima, Octave, Python 2 and 3, R, Sage etc. to LabPlot. Now user can use those back-ends to create a worksheet inside of LabPlot and then export data from these worksheets to Plot and do a lot more with graphs than what Cantor offered before. Refer to my blog[1] for a detailed example. I have also been associated with KDE before GSOC 2015, I contributed in porting various KDE Applications to new KDE Frameworks 5 including LabPlot. [1]: https://edu.kde.org/cantor/ [2]: https://edu.kde.org/applications/science/labplot/ [3]: http://garvitdelhi.blogspot.in/2015/08/final-evaluation.html
     

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:45 - 14:15

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  • OpenTech and IoT


FarmMind Technologies
FarmMind Technologies (13:50 - 14:20)

About the session

FarmMind Technologies ==================== 1 PROBLEM STATEMENT ---------------------------------------------- This smart centralized system will help farmers to take a step into precision agriculture being monitored by wireless sensors in and around their farms. This covers problems like irrigation management, crop maintenance, soil fertility maintenance, crop yield improvement, pesticide management in compliance with good agricultural practices. 2 WORK FLOW ---------------------------- The innovation focuses on developing a smart centralized system to control different requirements for a farm per crop being grown. An IoT based system integrates the cloud AI services with that of the hardware and sensors in the farms / fields which constantly stream real-time information to the servers. Depending on various other parameters like humidity, temperature and other meteorological data, predictions of the requirements of the farm is calculated and the hardware device which automatically opens the valves for irrigation / warns the farmer about doing a scheduled check in the localized language is made via SMS. This provides a centralized GIS collection of the soil data allowing extensive research and work by the agricultural scientists to guide the farmers in a given area for the crop they're growing. Simultaneously it provides the data for governments to optimize on the water irrigation routes / canals so that other drought struck areas can ensure water in times of need. The hardware solution consists of various sensors connected to the GSM chip module on board which allows the farmers to irrigate the farms when needed or transmit data to the required scientists/soil experts in the area who could help. • It keeps updating the data base on parameters such as soil temperature, humidity, air temperature, determine frost and heat events, forecast harvest time. • It maps the fields from phone using GPS and input field sampling information. • This systems aims for mobile first and cloud first implementation. • It integrates pest management system by observing, inspecting, and identifying certain trends in the pests and pesticides. It keeps the track record. • Last but not the least, it proposes high yielding plans and best crop management plans even under disasters. 3 FIELDS ARE THE NEW OFFICES AND DATA IS DRIVING THE TRACTORS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are trying to use the emerging Cloud based technologies in AI, machine learning and big data to solve important problems as well as to get the problem notified to the related person in real time. This system allows farmers to monitor and maintain the quality of their farms by sitting at their home just using simple services like SMS in case there is no internet connectivity present in the area or by using the app built for android phones. The hardware is also sending data of the farm to the agricultural scientists who can use it to make data driven decisions. Integrations with the other meteorological information helps to offer the best advice for irrigation. This system can also be used to inform the farmers in a particular area in case of an agricultural outbreak risk in that area. The other solutions include animal breeding and maintaining the data informing the farmers about the required medication needed for the cattle. Mainly focuses on reliable, safety, interoperable, low cost implementation.

Speakers

Damini Satya Kammakomati

Kony, Inc.

I'm a senior undergraduate from BVRIT Hyderabad, also interning at Kony labs.I'm a tech savvy who always believe in developing products for the people rather than developing which I can.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:50 - 14:20

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  • OpenTech and IoT


PyData Singapore
PyData Singapore (13:55 - 14:25)

About the session

Talk about PyData Singapore meetups

Speakers

Eugene Teo

OpenTech

Eugene Teo is the organiser of PyData Singapore.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:55 - 14:25

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Building Real time Tracking System using IoT and Django
Building Real time Tracking System using IoT and Django (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Real time tracking systems are expensive and difficult to maintain, at the same time they take a lot of network resources like 4G/3G/2G data for the mapping to a real world location. In developing countries like India where the internet is still expensive. This is exactly where our IoT platform steps in, with a mission to build a scalable and extensible real time tracking system. We would be having a small IoT device installed in your vehicle which would able to transfer data back and forth to the server. It will help in tracking different vehicles in real time. It would be scalable to any possible vehicle runs on the road. For example, Truck owner would able to track his Trucks travelling in different part of the country, it will give him power to not only track his vehicles but also notifies him during vehicle accident. This technology is the future of the Shipping Industry, Land-Cargo Industry and also for personal use for tracking your vehicle or in the case of car-theft.

Speakers

Rajat Ujawane

National Institute of Technology Warangal

I am an undergraduate student of National Institute of Technology Warangal, majoring in Computer Science. I am passionate about computers, technologies, open source and love to work on Projects which make a difference in people’s day to day life and make it easier and I am glad, I had worked on a project during my undergraduate which impacts half a million of people’s life everyday. These things apart I love watching cartoons, travelling and eating good food.
     

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


PipaJS - a module for ExpressJS
PipaJS - a module for ExpressJS (14:05 - 14:35)

About the session

ExpressJS is one of the best NodeJS web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications. Lots of NodeJS developer use it as their main web application framework. They have their own coding-style for the application route and also its middleware. Now, imagine if there are several backend engineers, developing a big web application and they never write any code documentation, only in several function/method. If there's a new engineer join the development, he/she has been given tasks by their lead engineer to enhance several endpoints and they don't know the flow of the endpoint. Hence, it will consume more time for new engineer to read other engineers code. That's why PipaJS come to the rescue. PipaJS is a module for ExpressJS which will help developers to understand the flow of each route by just reading the route and its middleware flow.

Speakers

Faris Muhamad Ali Fadloli

CryoWerx

Faris is a polyglot full-stack (and mobile) developer who have won several Hackaton in Indonesia. He is also a foodie and an amateur food-photographer.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:05 - 14:35

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  • OpenTech and IoT


GoG(gas-o-gauge) - A smart IoT based solution for tracking fuel levels and Kitchen Intelligence
GoG(gas-o-gauge) - A smart IoT based solution for tracking fuel levels and Kitchen Intelligence (14:10 - 14:40)

About the session

Tracking fuel level in a gas cylinder is still an unexplored area where age old practices are followed to measure and track in developing countries like India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and many more. Gas-o-Gauge is an IoT based application which uses a Load sensor and a GPRS module in an embedded system to track and poll level of fuel to a server on cloud. It enables users and vendors to track and decide gas cylinder stock in a smart way. With the increasing interconnection between people’s lives and the devices that they interact with in their daily lives, this IoT device is a scalable platform that allows users to integrate their daily kitchen needs and consumption to provide real time data for business intelligence to gas agencies and vendors as well as integrate daily requirements like ordering groceries, recipe trackers, restaurants listing during a low gas level as well as instructions and resources to drive/ride to the location. This prototype has been the runner up at the Indian School of Business, engineering design awards. Link for Opensource Repository: https://github.com/kranthikiran01/Gas-o-Gauge.git

Speakers

Kranthi Kiran Guduru

Thinkbroad

Open source enthusiast with interests in fields of Business intelligence, data science, ML and IoT
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:10 - 14:40

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Contributing to F/OSS Project with Inkscape
Contributing to F/OSS Project with Inkscape (14:15 - 14:45)

About the session

This talk tells about how to contribute F/OSS project with Inkscape (icons, splash, wallpaper and other artwork stuff)

Speakers

Kukuh Syafaat

BlankOn Project

GNU/Linux Enthusiast, UI/UX Designer, F/OSS Contributor
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:15 - 14:45

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Loklak - Building the twitter integration to Distributed tweet search server and endless possibilities
Loklak - Building the twitter integration to Distributed tweet search server and endless possibilities (14:20 - 14:50)

About the session

I was a GSoC 2015 Student with FOSSASIA working on the distributed tweet search server and scraper Loklak. In this talk i'd be talking about the architecture, the functionality and the features that loklak offers in comparison to the twitter API, At the same time I'd also be talking about the p2p functionality and the ability for building applications centered around the tweets obtained from twitter, specifically for customer services. At the same time i'd also be talking about the timeline search and navigation system in loklak.net and how the features offered in them would be game changers to the way conferences are held and allowing users to share maps.

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Sudheesh Singanamalla

Loklak / National Institute of Technology Warangal

I am an open source enthusiast and contribute to FOSSASIA, Loklak, Yacy, PSF, Mozilla and Fedora actively. I've been an intern with Microsoft and Redhat in the past and was a GSoC 2015 Student with fossasia and a mentor in GCI 2015.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:20 - 14:50

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Have you met Pike?
Have you met Pike? (14:25 - 14:55)

About the session

The talk will explain all about the project that I have done in the summer based on the enhancement of command line tools for sTeam collaboration platform and aware the people about the open source programming language called Pike. This will take the audience through the advantages/disadvantages to pick up this language as well as what difficulties(technical) I faced while learning this in a short time. This talk will also target the functioning of sTeam and how these "enhancements" were done (code wise) and the strategies applied to get it to work. Lastly, it will also encourage students to take up GSoC and Google code-in to boost their knowledge domain and be a part of the open source community.

Speakers

Trilok Tourani

sTeam

Trilok is a software developer and a tech enthusiast who loves to solve problems and keep learning something new every day. Trilok is fascinated by the security, and machine learning domains and is currently trying to build something with the knowledge in the same. Trilok is currently pursuing his Bachelors in Computer science and engineering at PES Institute of Technology in Bangalore and is looking for more and more opportunities to build tools for the open source community.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:25 - 14:55

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Open Source and Free Software
Open Source and Free Software (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

I will be talking about Outreachy: overview, participation, details about the program, organisations that take part and end with discussion on my own project with HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team).

Speakers

Arushi Vashist

International Institute Of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

Outreachy is one program that motivates a number of female coders around the world to contribute to Open Source. I would love to see more participation in the upcoming years and therefore want to spread awareness about it.
   

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Data Science in Financial Institutes
Data Science in Financial Institutes (14:35 - 15:05)

About the session

Many problems of recent interest in the banks are detection of fraud analysis as well as insurance analysis that can be put in the framework of convex optimization. Due to the explosion in size and complexity of modern datasets, it is increasingly important to be able to solve problems with a very large number of fea- tures or training examples. As a result, both the decentralized collection or storage of these datasets as well as accompanying distributed solution methods are either necessary or at least highly desirable. H2O makes it possible for anyone to easily apply math and predictive analytics to solve today’s most challenging business problems. Combine the power of highly advanced algorithms, the freedom of open source, and the capacity of truly scalable in-memory processing for big data on one or many nodes. These capabilities make it faster, easier, and more cost effective to harness big data to maximum benefit for the business. Some Key features of using H2O are Easy-to-use WebUI and Familiar Interfaces – Set up and get started quickly using either H2O’s intuitive Web-based user interface or familiar programming environ- ments like R, Java, Scala, Python, JSON, and through our powerful APIs. Massively Scalable Big Data Analysis – Train a model on complete data sets, not just small samples, and iterate and develop models in real-time with H2O’s rapid in-memory distributed parallel processing. Real-time Data Scoring – Use the Nanofast Scoring Engine to score data against models for accurate predictions in just nanoseconds in any environment. Enjoy 10X faster scoring.

Speakers

Saif Niazi

Data Scientist

Saif Niazi is a data analyst in Barclays. Interest also include Hadoop, Big data, statistics and data mining.
   

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:35 - 15:05

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  • OpenTech and IoT


My journey in FOSS with Pharo & FOSSASIA
My journey in FOSS with Pharo & FOSSASIA (14:40 - 15:10)

About the session

My journey in FOSS with Pharo & FOSSASIA aims to walk through the speaker's involvement in Open Source especially FOSSASIA with programs like Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in and the Pharo Community. The session will have a special emphasis on describing the not widely known but a powerful environment of Pharo. Attendees shall get to know more about Pharo/Smalltalk, its projects and how to kick-start contributing to it apart from the vast range of opportunities available in the world of open source ranging from coding to documentation, training, outreach and research. The session aims to inspire budding open source developers.

Speakers

Jigyasa Grover

Women Who Code

An enthusiastic Open Source crusader, I am a feminist by heart. Helping bridge the gender gap in the technology world, I have been involved with global communities as the Director of Women Who Code Delhi Network, Leading Google Women Techmakers Delhi chapter and also mentoring and organizing Learn IT, Girl ! . Pursuing Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Delhi Technological University INDIA, I have successfully completed Google Summer of Code 2015 and have also mentored pre-university students step into the world of open-source development via Google Code-In under FOSSASIA. I have been recognized as one of the contributors in Pharo 4.0 IDE released in April 2015 and has also authored tutorials published in the official documentations of Pharo. I have also been contributing to many Open Source Projects in Pharo/Smalltalk, Android and Python and have also won hackathons and app development challenges. I am also involved with tech societies like The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Google Developers Group New Delhi.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:40 - 15:10

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  • OpenTech and IoT


JSPM is the javascript package manager from future
JSPM is the javascript package manager from future (14:45 - 15:15)

About the session

JSPM is the javascript package manager from future. It natively supports the new ES2015 module loader. When compared to other package managers like Browserify and Webpack, JSPM shines by supporting all the existing module loading configuration like commonJS, AMD, ES2015. It also allows to bundle the package for production, hence doing away with grunt, gulp or any other task runner. Under the hood it is powered by SystemJS to load the packages. Inside, it is nothing but a polyfill for the proposed ES2015 module loader, to make good use of the future javascript today. JSPM is going to be at the forefront of package/dependency management in the long run as hacks like minification and bundling soon become unnecessary in an attempt to make our web applications faster.

Speakers

Kushan Kushan Joshi

DA-IICT

I was working as a remote full stack developer at Playpower Labs, during my 5th semester of college. https://lyearnreact.herokuapp.com I am an active contributor to OpenStreetMaps, JSCS, Electron, Cesium and Firefox. https://github.com/kepta | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?login=0o3ko0%40gmail.com My atom plugin has got 58 stars on github. https://github.com/kepta/atom-css-to-inline I created my college’s lecture portal. https://daintranet.com | https://github.com/kepta/daintranet I am currently in top 1% of India leaderboard at hacker rank. http://hackerrank.com/kepta Created my college’s annual festival website
   

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:45 - 15:15

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Spatial Data Mining
Spatial Data Mining (14:50 - 15:20)

About the session

Spatial data mining is the process of discovering interesting, useful, non-trivial patterns from large spatial datasets. A growing attention has been paid to spatial data mining and knowledge discovery (SDMKD). This paper presents the principles of SDMKD, proposes three new techniques, and gives their applicability and examples. First, the motivation of SDMKD is briefed. Second, the intension and extension of SDMKD concept are presented. Third, three new techniques are proposed in this section, i.e. SDMKD-based image classification that integrates spatial inductive learning from GIS database and Bayesian classification, cloud model that integrates randomness and fuzziness, data field that radiate the energy of observed data to the universe discourse. Fourth, applicability and examples are studied on three cases. The first is remote sensing classification, the second is landslide-monitoring data mining, and the third is uncertain reasoning. Finally, the whole paper is concluded and discussed.

Speakers

Phuc Pham

Gcall Pte.Ltd

Spatial analysis or spatial statistics includes any of the formal techniques which study entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties. Spatial analysis includes a variety of techniques, many still in their early development, using different analytic approaches and applied in fields as diverse as astronomy, with its studies of the placement of galaxies in the cosmos, to chip fabrication engineering, with its use of "place and route" algorithms to build complex wiring structures. In a more restricted sense, spatial analysis is the technique applied to structures at the human scale, most notably in the analysis of geographic data. Complex issues arise in spatial analysis, many of which are neither clearly defined nor completely resolved, but form the basis for current research. The most fundamental of these is the problem of defining the spatial location of the entities being studied. Classification of the techniques of spatial analysis is difficult because of the large number of different fields of research involved, the different fundamental approaches which can be chosen, and the many forms the data can take.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:50 - 15:20

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Meet MariaDB Server 10.1
Meet MariaDB Server 10.1 (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

New MariaDB major release is out of the door. It has new unique features (at rest encryption of the database, integrated Galera Cluster, GIS enhancements), performance enhancements (optimistic parallel replication, max statement timeouts, dump thread enhancements in replication), as well as better MySQL compatibility (temporal literals like 5.6). This talk will go over everything new that MariaDB 10.1 has to offer. It will describe all new features, both MySQL compatible, and MariaDB-only ones and show usage examples and practical use cases.

Speakers

Colin Charles

MariaDB Corporation

Colin Charles works on the MariaDB Server at MariaDB Corporation. He has been the Chief Evangelist for MariaDB since 2009, with work ranging from speaking engagements to consultancy and engineering works around MariaDB. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within open source communities in APAC, and has spoken at many conferences to boot.
   

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Modular vs Monolith – The Structure of Node.JS Applications
Modular vs Monolith – The Structure of Node.JS Applications (15:40 - 16:10)

About the session

The Node.JS & npm ecosystem is oft praised for it's "culture of extreme modularity", which has led to the proliferation of hundreds of thousands packages on npm. How do modular patterns translate into the construction of evolving, real-world applications? Many functional programming learning resources will teach you to write functional code, but it's often highly indirect, deeply abstracted, requires understanding complex relationships between custom library calls, and doesn't represent the reality of how people actually write JavaScript. The goal of this workshop is to create realistic problems that can be solved using terse, vanilla, idiomatic JavaScript.

Speakers

Tim Oxley

CampJS

Tim Oxley is an an Australian JavaScript developer living in Singapore working with NodeSource. Tim is a co-host of the NodeUp podcast, author of NodeSchool's functional JavaScript workshop, founder of the CampJS conference, founder of the SingaporeJS meetup and an avid open-source contributor.
     

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:40 - 16:10

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  • OpenTech and IoT


A trip to Pluto with OpenSpace
A trip to Pluto with OpenSpace (16:10 - 16:40)

About the session

After a demonstration of OpenSpace's visualisation of New Horizons' encounter with Pluto last year, Carter and his technical team will describe the OpenSpace system in some detail.

Speakers

Carter Emmart

Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History

Carter uses astronomy and computational modelling to create scientifically accurate, three-dimensional tours of our universe.
     

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:10 - 16:40

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Network of networks in the OpenMRS medical records platform
Network of networks in the OpenMRS medical records platform (16:50 - 17:20)

About the session

The OpenMRS platform and core modules are worked on by a central team of contributors who design and release these features through coordinated communication. But there are over 200 publicly available modules that have been developed to work on OpenMRS by over 500 different developers/organizations who maintain it without much coordination between themselves. There are modules that have moved between maintainers. Implementations of EHR systems have customized, release forks of modules in the true spirit of a bazaar model. There are over 25 projects that started in the OpenMRS community but have become their own companies, platforms, distributions that are used by implementers in over 50 countries. This fragmented community allows for freedom, but wastes resources, creates difficulties for new implementers and results in friction and dissatisfaction in the community. As central OpenMRS leadership, we have planned a certification process that will allow better management and governance of the community, but still improving the freedom of contributors to fork and establish smaller, specialized communities of practice. The talk summarizes the historical divergence due to forks and communities of practice, by showing evolution of the community over last 10yrs. Later in the talk I discuss how the certification process brings visibility, coordination and accessibility to new members of the community.

Speakers

Saptarshi Purkayastha

OpenMRS

Saptarshi Purkayastha is a core developer for DHIS 2 and OpenMRS, both large communities developing health information systems. As a researcher, he has implemented health information systems in developing countries and has consulted the WHO in South Asia region. He is a visiting assistant professor in health informatics at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, USA . Previously worked as a research fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has industry experience in financial systems, but has moved to healthcare since last 8 years.
       

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:50 - 17:20

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Open Event Orga Server Project
Open Event Orga Server Project (17:15 - 17:45)

About the session

Are you wondering how to create an app which allow us to manage all conferences events? Open Event consist of three components(web, android and server). I will explain how I developed an Open event orga server project, which framework and language I used. Easly running your Orga Server by your own on local enviroment using Vagrant.

Speakers

Rafal Kowalski, Manan Wason

Open Event

Open Event Project aims to make events, conferences to easily create an Android and Web App. Therefor It consist of three components(web, android and server). Database stores a lot of details about events for example speakers, tracks and sessions. Open Orga server is responsible for managing data in admin panel and providing a detailed events data to Android and Web App via API.
     

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:15 - 17:45

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Free Communication with Free Software
Free Communication with Free Software (17:40 - 18:10)

About the session

At FOSDEM 2013, leading developers of free real-time communications software dared to get up on stage and ask the question "Can we replace Skype, Viber, Twitter and Facebook?". Was this the right question and how does it relate to free software development today and in the future? Pocock talks about what has changed since then and where things are going in this domain in the year ahead, especially with the emergence of WebRTC and the ubiquity of browsers that support it and the opportunities this has created for the world of web development and interaction with other open systems. Can you imagine a world where phone communication works with all the benefits of email (but without spam)? Per-minute charges eliminated, flexibility for developers to customize the experience with standard scripting languages like Python or JavaScript and organizations of any size able to assert their identity and brand securely using SIP and XMPP addresses? Is this a worthwhile vision? What do each of us - developers, sysadmins and end users - need to do to make it happen? What will be the alternative outcome - for both society in general and fans of free technology in particular - if we stand back and allow proprietary solutions to run rampant? This session will survey some of the free software solutions that exist today and ways you can participate in their improvement and deployment to help realize this vision.

Speakers

Daniel Pocock

Debian

Professional software engineer and consultant. Daniel Pocock has developed enterprise grade solutions for some of the giants of the financial services industry, including secure connectivity for UBS (using Apache Camel), the first customer-facing WebRTC contact solution on Wall Street at Interactive Brokers, enterprise-wide real-time monitoring for Barclays Capital (based on Ganglia) and a wide range of real-time financial trade capture and risk management solutions for Thomson Reuters. Despite the highly proprietary nature of these enterprises, Pocock has remained a champion of efficient, cost effective open source solutions to meet demanding business requirements. Pocock actively contributes to a range of free software projects with a focus on real-time communications (RTC) and VoIP, in particular, Lumicall, JSCommunicator, DruCall, reSIProcate, Ganglia and flactag. Pocock is the author of the RTC Quick Start Guide and is part of the team behind the O'Reilly book Monitoring with Ganglia Pocock is a Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora Developer and an OpenCSW package maintainer. He is a licensed radio amateur with the callsigns VK3TQR and M0GLR.
   

Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:40 - 18:10

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  • OpenTech and IoT


End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only)
End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only) (18:00 - 18:30)

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Dalton Hall

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Digital Design Studio
3D Modeling for Kids
3D Modeling for Kids (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Let's learn how to model 3D in the browser. This workshop is for kids who are interested in 3D modeling and would like to learn the first steps into the 3D world before they progress to 3D print outs.

Speakers

Elda Webb

One Maker Group

I have a very curious mind and I strive to integrate design, technology and learning in all my endeavors. I’m currently the Lead Curriculum Developer for OneMaker Group and my main objective is to help makers of all ages build up their creative confidence by breaking the barriers of the mind, and show that everybody have the potential to be a maker and a designer. Before joining OMG, I worked at Autodesk for over 9 years in Singapore as a Learning Content Developer. I hold a B.A in Architecture from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and has worked as a 3D modeler and Graphic Designer in Mexico, USA and Canada. She is actively involved in the Singapore Maker community.
 

Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Tech Kids II


Workshop: Make Your First Android App
Workshop: Make Your First Android App (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

With over one billion devices activated, Android is an exciting space to make apps to help you communicate, organize, educate, entertain or anything else you’re passionate about. Clearly there’s a demand for Android app development, and it’s turning the platform with the lovable green mascot into more and more of a strong first choice rather than just a secondary option. So if you’ve been intent on, thinking about, or simply playing with the idea of learning Android… Make Your First Android App is here for you! The session aims at introducing budding developers with the basic concepts and terminology in Android Development. It shall begin from scratch and discuss how to setup the environment and build a very own personal Android App with a Splash Screen for starters.

Speakers

Jigyasa Grover

Women Who Code

An enthusiastic Open Source crusader, I am a feminist by heart. Helping bridge the gender gap in the technology world, I have been involved with global communities as the Director of Women Who Code Delhi Network, Leading Google Women Techmakers Delhi chapter and also mentoring and organizing Learn IT, Girl ! . Pursuing Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Delhi Technological University INDIA, I have successfully completed Google Summer of Code 2015 and have also mentored pre-university students step into the world of open-source development via Google Code-In under FOSSASIA. I have been recognized as one of the contributors in Pharo 4.0 IDE released in April 2015 and has also authored tutorials published in the official documentations of Pharo. I have also been contributing to many Open Source Projects in Pharo/Smalltalk, Android and Python and have also won hackathons and app development challenges. I am also involved with tech societies like The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Google Developers Group New Delhi.
       

Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:00 - 11:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:00 - 11:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Tech Kids I


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • Tech Kids I


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • Tech Kids II


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

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Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • Tech Kids II


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

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Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • Tech Kids I


Building a mind-mapping application in smalltalk using roassal
Building a mind-mapping application in smalltalk using roassal (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Roassal is a highlevel framework for visualizing data written in Smalltalk. In this workshop we will use it to build an interactive mind-mapping application. You will learn about development in Pharo Smalltalk in a hands-on approach.

Speakers

Martin Bähr

BLUG

Martin Bähr is using and developing Free Software and Open Source for more than 20 years because he believes that knowledge should not be owned by a few people but freely shared with everyone and contribute to the advancement of civilization. He is a contributor to the Pike programming language, the Foresight Linux distribution and several other Free Software Projects. He co-edited a book on Pike and organized developer conferences. Throughout his career Martin focused on developing and advocating Free Software. He likes to learn new programming languages, currently Smalltalk and Common Lisp. He is born in Europe and has lived and worked in several countries around our planet Earth. He came to china in 2008. He is currently the CTO at eKita, a startup in Bangkok, and the General Manager at Realsoftservice, a Linux service firm in Beijing. He is also serving as the secretary of the Beijing GNU/Linux User Group.
 

Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Tech Kids I


IoT for kids
IoT for kids (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Our smart nation of tomorrow starts up planting seeds of education today. A future of authentic learning is already here as we work with microcontrollers, sensors and connectivity to learn about our environment and make smarter decisions. Explore how the potpurri of sensors, big data and deep learning for kids can make everyday learning part of future education.

Speakers

Syabiqah Phang

OneMaker Group

Kids will explore how to create connected devices and how to send automated actions to these objects over the internet. This will help them to be confident when navigating the exciting yet unknown IoT world of the future.
 

Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:30 - 16:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

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  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:30 - 16:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

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  • Tech Kids I


End of Sessions
End of Sessions (18:00 - 18:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • Tech Kids II


End of Sessions
End of Sessions (18:00 - 18:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • Tech Kids I


Eco Garden Lab
Smart guidance for blind
Smart guidance for blind (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Smart Guidance for blind: Shoes(can be replaced by some other way) for the blind based on detecting obstructions and showing a path using sensors, cameras and principles of machine learning in Matlab using image processing: https://video-sit4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xlp1/v/t42.3356-2/12662214_1716573171899154_409955334_n.mp4/video-1454345564.mp4?vabr=369772&oh=ac6e29831a91c5c4eaed0e82b16af039&oe=56B70EB1&dl=1 We started working on this project three weeks back for Hackathon5.0 organized by Lakshya Foundation. Our main aim of this project is to give the total guidance for the blind.Have you all ever thought of the problems faced by the blind people? No will be the answer unless otherwise you are a blind.Even we didn't realise the problems before starting our project.First we started with listing down the problems faced by the blind people and then started finding the solutions for it. So we came up with the following problems. 1. Difficulty in finding the obstructions on their path. 2. Difficulty in reading the road signs and traffic signals.So they can't either drive or walk safely on the road. 3. Difficulty in reading the price tag.So sellers can cheat them. 4. Difficulty in reading books.Since all the books are not translated to Braille letters. 5. Can't watch TV. So we divided these problems into easy, advance and crazy to work on it.First we started working on the basic problems.The first solution we came up was using ultrasonic sensors to detect the obstructions.We created an app which is user friendly (blind person just have to tap) to give the voice output.So we just fixed 3 ultra sonic sensors( per shoe front,back,left/right) and depending on the sensor output the voice will be given as output.Still we have problem in detecting in hanging obstructions and pits.We are trying to replace something with shoe which can fulfil all the conditions.Within a span of two weeks we have completed this task.Further we are working with image processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence to find the solutions for reading road signs(Image processing) and traffic signals(Colour recognition), reading books(Text to speech conversion) and finally for watching TV. As an engineer I suggest others also to work on the projects which would help the highly needed people. Because we never know the problems faced by the poor people and differently-able people. And they don't have enough knowledge or capability to work on their own problems. ------------------------------------------ Problem Background: Corneal Blindness is one of the most common causes of blindness in India. India shoulders the largest burden of global blindness, about 3.5 million across the country with 30000 new cases being added each year. People who are visually impaired face no shortage of problems in India, where living with disabilities can be especially challenging. Pedestrians are often forced off of side walks that are cluttered with vendors, animals and other obstacles. And because of the difficulty of moving independently, accessing services is also difficult. Blind people typically use canes, of course, but the traditional cane can't detect objects higher than the waist. Problem Statement: The problem is now to provide them with an alternative guide to the cane, a guide with a more human like approach. Proposed Solution: Our proposed solution is to develop shoes starting from the most basic level to a highly advanced AI version of those shoes. The steps are as follows: ⦁ Develop a model of shoes with 4 sensors for 4 different directions. These sensors can be distance or IR Led ones. A microcontroller interface would be in place to transmit voice messages through a communications module to the headset of the person wearing the shoes. ⦁ In the intermediate stage the model would contain 4 cameras instead of sensors. The camera’s working on basic image processing would be able to make out textures, landscapes and obstructions to a degree as defined by the manufacturer. ⦁ The final stage would involve trying to get the shoes to define the situations it are placed in by themselves using image processing and machine learning. End users: The blind people around the world. Since our final product doesn't make use of smart/mobile phone, the person who can use it need not be aware of it. The output will be given as sound through headsets. Devices: Shoes, 4 cameras, 4 sensors, headset, a micro controller and other electronic components Platforms, Technologies to be used: Machine learning in Matlab using image processing, interfacing camera, sensor and headset Data set, tools, resources useful in developing solution: Can choose any image processing tools and other technologies.

Speakers

Jaminy Prabaharan

Smart guidance for blind

I am currently studying in third year of B.Tech in Electronic and communication Engineering in National Institute of Technology,Warangal under Rajiv Ghandhi Memorial scholarship scheme(provide by ICCR). Awards, achievements and certificates Awarded certificate of merit (High Distinction) for Australian National Chemistry Quiz conducted by Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 2009. Awarded certificate of merit (Distinction) for Australian National Chemistry Quiz conducted by Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 2011 Awarded certificate of merit in the Essay Competition 2007 (English Medium) conducted by the Sri Lanka-Thailand Society in association with the Royal Thai Embassy. Awarded certificate of Distinction for Sri Lankan Mathematical Olympiad 2010 conducted by Sri Lanka Olympiad Mathematics Foundation. Projects Worked Developed VHDL model for “Jewellery Lock” and MIPS and implemented on FPGA board. Developed Line following robot for National Robotic Competition. Designed our own microcontroller board within 24 hours of time for Hackathon 3.0 organized by Lakshya Foundation. Developed Bluetooth controlled temperature indicator using Galileo board. Developed password controlled door lock model within 12 hours of time for Electronic weekend. Worked on “Smart Bin” for Hackathon organized by GHCI (Grass Hopper Celebration in India). Developed the basic prototype for sensor based wireless valve controller. This project was selected for pitch talk in AugustFest-India’s largest startup conference. Conferences attended Developed the basic prototype for sensor based wireless valve controller. This project was selected for pitch talk in AugustFest-India’s largest startup conference. Other qualification Able to work with C programming language, photoshop, MATLAB & AutoCAD. Have good knowledge in working with Arduino UNO, Galileo board, FPGA board. Capable of completing project within the time limits. Capable of learning new languages easily Languages Proficiency – English, Tamil, Sinhala, Telugu
   

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


Machine Tools: How companies like Apple, Xiaomi and Samsung manufacture at scale?
Machine Tools: How companies like Apple, Xiaomi and Samsung manufacture at scale? (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

I'm going to give an overview about the machine tool industry and how manufacturing takes place at a scale. I'm going to give details about the processes and the machines used to achieve production at that scale. I'll also discuss some popular case studies like Foxconn manufacturing line for Apple. It will be insightful for start-ups to understand the the ecosystem and challenges when you manufacture at scale and the challenges to bring a product from a prototype to production stage.

Speakers

Abhishek Agrawal

Makino Asia Private Limited

I graduated with a master's degree from the School of EEE, NTU in 2012 and have been working in the machine tool industry with a major Japanese machine tool company. I have been a researcher all my career and have authored several patents which have been spun into hardware start-ups or have been licensed by the industry.
 

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • Hardware and IoT


#IoT REX: Kinetic Origami
#IoT REX: Kinetic Origami (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Just how easy is it to make a thing move from anywhere in the world?

Speakers

Saad Chinoy

Tusitala Digital Storytelling

https://hackpad.com/IoT-REX-NpFlg9J1mNl
       

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Hardware and IoT


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • Hardware and IoT


Building an open-source satellite tracker to talk via satellites
Building an open-source satellite tracker to talk via satellites (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Satellite communication is moderately difficult. It can be achieved with handheld antennas but (a) this is more difficult than it needs to be and (b) this limits your ability to communicate in marginal conditions. Building a rotator/elevator that is capable of automatically tracking a satellite across the sky frees up one hand which simplifies the process and increases pointing precision, meaning that you're better able to communicate in marginal conditions than you would be with a handheld antenna. In this talk I'll describe my build of the "Tricked-Out WRAPS" system and, if we're really lucky, demonstrate it live.

Speakers

Roland Turner

FOSSASIA

Roland has been playing with electronics since he was 7, built his first radio transmitter when he was 10, started programming when he was 12 and passed his ham radio exams when he was 17. He has been involved in the founding and organising of technology community groups since the late 1980s, most recently HackerspaceSG and FOSSASIA respectively. In addition to building a sensor network to map the haze in order to work out where [not] to run and advising early-stage technology startups because they are interesting, he is working on bouncing radio waves off the moon simply because it is there.
       

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • Hardware and IoT


Hacking with ARM devices on Linux
Hacking with ARM devices on Linux (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Hacking with various ARM deivces on Linux, Android, RaspberryPi and Chromebook. In this session, I will talk ARM Linux with the user point of view. Let's play Linux with customized.

Speakers

Kenji Shimono

Netwalker Laboratory, Tokaido Linux Users Group

I belong to the Tokaido Linux User Group in Japan. I'm hacking the ARM Linux in the user point of view.
   

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


Tizen - An open platform for consumer electronics - What is it & what do you want it to be
Tizen - An open platform for consumer electronics - What is it & what do you want it to be (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Tizen is an open source operating system for consumer electronics such as Mobile, Wearables, TVs, Vehicles, Cameras, the world of IoT & much more. It is heavily supported and worked on today by Samsung Electronics and community. It has already shipped several million products and is expanding. The goal is for it to be a real community effort between OEMs and all other interested parties to have a truly free and open operating system that can be used to develop products without restrictions. This will introduce what Tizen is, some of its history and where it is going, but will try and aim to be more of an interactive session to answer questions and gather feedback. Bring your curiosity and positivity and perhaps we can all build a better future for our gadgets together.

Speakers

Carsten Haitzler

Samsung Electronics

Carsten has worked in the Linux and related industries for about 20 years in several countries on all sides of the globe, has contributed to several open source projects and is best known for founding the Enlightenment window manager project and having written lots of graphics related code for X11. He currently lives in Korea and works as a Master Engineer for Samsung Electronics and helps architect and drive graphics, toolkits and related code for Tizen.
   

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • Hardware and IoT


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

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Short Abstract for the event

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


Open Source Voice synthesizer and DIY Pop music in Japan
Open Source Voice synthesizer and DIY Pop music in Japan (15:20 - 15:50)

About the session

A lot of DIY track maker in Japan. They have several hundred professional quality DIY tune, these are enjoyed people such as KARAOKE every day. That unique culture born from not only technology, need unique ecosystem. Most famous Voice synthesizers called HATSUNE MIKU. That software is proprietary, but some open source voice synthesizers are common also. This session is talk about DIY music technology, community, and ecosystem in Japan.

Speakers

Masakazu Takasu

teamLab, and Nico-Tech

Masakazu Takasu, Catalyst at teamLab, takes us on a journey to his homeland of Japan and their exciting ways of using technology, design and science. teamLab combines these disciplines to create innovative digital solutions often with physical elements of interaction. Through playing and experimentation, connecting prototyping with 3D graphics, art and much more, they're creating a whole new world of gaming, interactive decorations and augmented reality.
     

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:20 - 15:50

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  • Hardware and IoT


Project Zygote - Lego for the Internet of Things
Project Zygote - Lego for the Internet of Things (15:40 - 16:10)

About the session

Over the past one year, me and my teammate worked on developing a rapid prototyping framework for the Internet of Things. Repository can be found at: https://github.com/kres/zygote The idea was to make IoT development as simple as Lego, i.e. connecting blocks to build a system. In this case the system is made out of sensors, actuators and are connected to the cloud. The user visualizes all the sensor and actuator endpoints as simple building blocks on the browser. Interconnecting these blocks virtually on the browser creates a actual data flow in the real world (basically over the air configuration of all sensors and actuators). The user can then add triggers, events, timers, filters to the flow to create more complex IoT systems. The top three highlights of the framework: * Setting up the IoT application can be completely visual. i.e. no programming required. (But code can be added if the user wants to) * The system can work over any wired/wireless medium - like bluetooth, WiFi, Zigbee, etc. * The framework is platform neutral. Though it is been developed on the Beaglebone Black, it will run fine on Raspberry Pi, Cubie board, etc. Not limited by the hardware. During the proposed talk I will be talking about design and implementation of the project including the challenges we faced, sample application and future work. This work was presented at an International IEEE conference held in IIT Madras earlier this year.

Speakers

Deepak Karki Aishwarya Kaliki

Beagleboard

I have been an opensource developer and enthusiast for the past four years. I have worked extensively with the beagleboard organisation, first as a GSoC student and later as a GSoC mentor. I had also given a talk on the beagleboard ecosystem. Most of my open source projects are Python or Javascript based. I currently work on hyperconverged and cloud systems at Nutanix India as a full time employee.
     

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:40 - 16:10

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  • Hardware and IoT


Open Source Hardware and Software for Radiation Physics
Open Source Hardware and Software for Radiation Physics (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Recently the applications of radioactivity in the industry and medical fields are on the rise but the education in this area has not shown any progress. Nuclear physics experiments are included in undergraduate and graduate Physics syllabus of many Indian universities. However, the required facilities are scarce due to high cost of the equipment and difficulties in obtaining radioactive sources. To provide an effective solution to this problem Phoenix project of IUAC, New Delhi (www.iuac.res.in) has developed some open source set-ups for nuclear physics experiments. In this presentation we will be discussing about Alpha Spectrometer, Multi Channel Analyser Radiation Detection System and USB Geiger Müller Counter. All the development is open sourced and major part of the software is written in python.

Speakers

Udaykumar Khadke

Department of Physics, BKIT, Bhalki, Karnataka, INDIA

Speaker 1. Dr. Udaykumar Khadke is Professor in Engineering Physics. He is a free software enthusiast and involved in promoting FOSS in Education. He is working as a volunteer for ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab Project. Dr. Udaykumar is actively involved in Radiation Physics Research and currently he is guiding SIX research students in various fields of material science and radiation physics. Speaker 2: Praveen Patil A Physics Teacher and a free software enthusiast. FOSSASIA GsoC-14 and GsoC-15 student alumnus and GCI mentor. Working on ExpEYES: Open Source Pocket Science Lab, Involved in FOSS training programs for science teachers and students. Pursuing PhD in Material science and Radiation Physics
   

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:30 - 17:00)

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Short Abstract for the event

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Hardware and IoT


Javascript and IOT
Javascript and IOT (17:00 - 17:30)

About the session

The project deals with the usage of open hardware and combining the effort with javascript in helping build file servers, media servers etc. The concentration of the project would be more about optimizing existing core node modules.

Speakers

Akhil Pandey

Mozilla

Working with IOT and javascript is , but the talk is just a mere display of the scope in which a js enthusiast can find the interaction handy.
     

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:00 - 17:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


Making Interactive Circuits with GPIO and Raspberry Pi
Making Interactive Circuits with GPIO and Raspberry Pi (17:30 - 18:00)

About the session

By using GPIO to connect the Raspberry Pi to a circuit board, the LEDs and buzzer on the board can be controlled with Python code to make a simple memory game of repeating a pattern. The Raspberry Pi and circuit components are relatively inexpensive, making it a good project for students who want to learn more about hardware and circuitry, and see a physical manifestation of how software can interface with hardware. In the talk, we will go though both the hardware and software aspects of using GPIO, as well as how the project can be further enhanced for other practical IoT purposes.

Speakers

Jerrayl Ng

Dunman High School

We are JC computing students, thus, having a passion for all things tech, we love to see how technology can improve lives, or at least let people have fun. Our aspiration is to make good use of coding to bring value to our society, and to inspire others to learn to code.
   

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:30 - 18:00

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  • Hardware and IoT


End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only)
End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only) (18:00 - 18:30)

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Short Abstract for the event

Eco Garden Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • Hardware and IoT


Einstein Room
Journey as a Freelance Web Developer
Journey as a Freelance Web Developer (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

This talk is about the speaker's journey as he ventured into the world of freelancing, the ups & downs, the lessons learnt and most of all, the support he got from his local IT community in Singapore.

Speakers

Zion Ng

intZone.com

Zion Ng is a Singaporean freelance web developer at intZone.com. Programming has been his favourite hobby since his teens, a tool to create solutions for himself, family and friends. He believes in lifelong learning as passion may die off but passion for learning will keep the flame alive. He graduated from the School of Computing, National University of Singapore and is also a Zend Certified Engineer (PHP and Zend Framework).
       

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Opening up yourself
Opening up yourself (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

Change the mindset of proprietary software users and the stereotypical idea of contributing to free and open-source software.

Speakers

Huiren Woo

Fedora Project

Here's a short run through of what the talk will be about: - Self Introduction - FOSS & OSS -- How I contribute to FOSS -- How you can contribute -- Why I contribute -- Why you should contribute -- Power of FOSS & OSS - About Fedora -- Brief dramatic history --- Argument of Fedora Devs with Linus - Why Fedora -- Cutting edge - How to Fedora -- Pidora -- Cloud images - Alternatives to proprietary software -- Skype alternatives, etc. - Conclusion
       

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • Internet, Society, Community


How to be an IETF champion
How to be an IETF champion (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Harish Pillay looks at the Internet Society from a global perspective from Singapore and Asia.

Speakers

Harish Pillay

RedHat

Harish Pillay is the president of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter. He is a pioneer on the Internet having gotten on to the ARPAnet and UUCP networks in 1985. He is a ham and his callsign is 9V1HP.
     

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Curating the open community of developers, designers and makers
Curating the open community of developers, designers and makers (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

The developer, design and maker community in Singapore is young, but growing rapidly. Through the automatic curation of open events and open data at https://webuild.sg and collecting the data trends at http://data.webuild.sg, we see some exciting works of this community that we can all learn from. What else can be done to support and promote this open community? We would love to share and hear from you!

Speakers

Sayanee Basu

We Build SG

Sayanee is a web developer with an interest in connecting low powered sensors to the Internet. She created developer tools screencasts at http://build-podcast.com and does some coding for the https://webuild.sg project. In her free time, she loves to attend developer meetups and conferences to share what she is learning.
       

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • Internet, Society, Community


India's fight for Netneutrality and Open Internet
India's fight for Netneutrality and Open Internet (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

India's #Netneutrality campaign generated over a million comments following one of the most extensive public campaigns on the Web in recent history. The session discusses how India's Internet users, open web advocates, internet startups and FOSS activists run a campaign for #netneutrality and open Internet and what it means for asian countries, since this discussion is shaping up the global south discourse around this topic.

Speakers

Anivar Ammanath Aravind

Mozilla India

Anivar A. Aravind is a Senior Program/Project Management professional based in Bangalore with 10+ year Industry experience. He is a well known Free Software/Culture Evangelist in South Asia with a 14 year active involvement record. Anivar has a long track record of initiating, sustaining and running various Technical, Policy and Developer platforms and mobilizing people support and participation in such initiatives. Anivar has significant expertise on ICT public policy, Internet Governance, Open standards, Language technology, FOSS Licensing, Accessibility, and coordinating remote and scattered teams. He has substantial experience in mentoring many free and open source software projects and start-ups in social technology space to find their feet, assisting in various capacities from part- time adviser to chief technologist. As a social entrepreneur and activist working in the field of ICT4D for the last 10 years, he has extensive experience working with many small and large organizations at the local, regional, national and international levels. He contributed to the launch and maintenance of many thematic and regional networks and his activism has always focused on bridging the awareness gap between digital rights activism and general public in India. He is the Executive Director of Indic Project and currently chairing Mozilla India Policy and Advocacy task force.
       

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Ensuring Patent Non-Aggression in Linux and OSS Projects
Ensuring Patent Non-Aggression in Linux and OSS Projects (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

In an era increasingly marked by project-based innovation, the modality that Open Source has ushered in is creating unprecedented levels of innovation. As participants in global projects build upon each others ideas and inventions to be able to innovate in an iterative manner, a culture of co-opetition is emerging which allows companies to successfully collaborate and compete at the same time. As part of this evolution from silo'd invention inside individual companies to collaborative project-based innovation, a parallel culture of patent non-aggression has developed through the creation of the Open Invention Network (OIN) which over the last 10 years has grown into the largest patent non-aggression community in the history of technology. Keeping pace with the growth and proliferation of Linux and other OSS-based platforms into key markets such as mobile, home, auto and finance, OIN has doubled in size twice over the past 36 months and now is a community of over 2,000 entities and individuals explicitly committed to patent non-aggression in core technologies that enable innovation in these new markets/sectors. The how and why of OIN's successful expansion and the benefits of participation in this free community will be discussed.

Speakers

Keith Bergelt

Open Invention Network

Keith Bergelt is the CEO of Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, organized to support freedom of action in Linux and open source software. OIN has more than 2,000 community members and owns more than 1,100 global patents and applications. OIN offers a free license to its owned patents and coordinates a broad OSS-centric member cross-license; both are available in one OIN license on a royalty free basis to any party that joins the OIN community. Prior to joining OIN, Mr. Bergelt served as CEO of two funds formed to unlock the considerable asset value of intellectual property in middle market companies. Previously, Mr. Bergelt's private sector experience includes service as a senior advisor to the technology investment division at Texas Pacific Group. He also headed business development, IP and licensing for Cambridge Display Technology. Additionally, he established and served as General Manager of the Strategic Intellectual Asset Management business unit and director of Technology Strategy at Motorola. Mr. Bergelt's public sector experience includes service as an American Diplomat in Washington, DC, New York, NY (United Nations), and Tokyo, Japan (American Embassy).
 

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Anatomy of a Software Patent for a foss developer
Anatomy of a Software Patent for a foss developer (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Software patent, a pdf file containing large amount of texts, piles of sections, drawings. Software Patents turns out to be very difficult and vague to many of the developers. In this talk we will go through a software patent, and try to identify the key parts and the legal aspect of the same. Intellectual Property and different kinds of the same. When one can acquire different types of intellectual property rights at the same time for the different parts of the same property. * Face of a patent (the metadata legal department cares a lot about) * Inventor, and inventorship * Can we destroy a patent? (Hint: talk to the owner) * Synopsis of the Patent * Title, abstract, and figures * The thick part (the body of the patent, or as we call it "specification") * The claims (Heart of the patent) * Indentation :) Unless and until a software patent is tested, in a court of law, by running of it, it is impossible to say if something matches with the claim of the patent or not. At the end of the talk we will go through various other resources which one can visit from where one can learn more.

Speakers

Anwesha Das

Fedora Project

Anwesha Das, an Advocate practicing law for 6 years. She is an active user of FOSS technologies. She contributes to Fedora Project. One of her major goal is to help the FOSS developers with the legal aspect of the software industry.
 

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • Internet, Society, Community


How we work together to reduce the patent risk on open source
How we work together to reduce the patent risk on open source (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

Open Invention Network is a consortium who is dedicated to protecting a mode of collaborative invention. Specifically, it tries to safeguard the Linux open-source software ecosystem. It is time we work together to expand the safeguard.

Speakers

Kevin Huang

Open Invention Network

To reduce patent risk around Linux system
   

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

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  • Internet, Society, Community


How to Share Open Source
How to Share Open Source (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

As a student, we want to raise the awareness of using open source software online for free. The environment of using the open source software in Taiwan is monopolized by expensive software, such as Microsoft series, Adobe and Photoshop. People seldom get a chance to realize that they actually have easy access to resources online which is free and much more convenient. Moreover, most of the budget of our country is used to buy the copyrights of software packages, but in practice we only use the basic functions of them. Simply put, we waste a lot of money buying something which is unnecessary. We discover it is the language barrier that makes people in Taiwan less likely to use open source software programs. Getting the deeper understanding of the serious problem we faced with, we come up with some solutions. Using big data to analyze vocabularies which are used frequently, we gather the information to indicate language barriers. Moreover, we can list out all the words which is hard for people, so that engineers can use the software and check the vocabularies at the same time. By using methods to remember the vocabularies, engineers can easily use the software. We can even use big data to analyze the steps which are used frequently and visualize them as a report. Like, we make a brief introduction to summarize the basic functions. So people only need to recognize the steps and check it through the introduction when they need. We launch a workshop to teach them step by step in English how to use the open source software. By enhancing engineers’ English ability, now we can create a community to start influencing the general public. We create a community to overcome the language barrier and to change the habits of Taiwanese for using software. We start from NCKU and share with other schools. We create a platform for sharing the information of updated software. By translating the information from the internet like opensource.com, we provide not only the materials for target group, but also chances to the general public to know the advantages of open source software. On the other hand, we translate the video of “opensoucephysics” to use the materials in our education system. By using the interesting videos and materials, teachers can inspire students to think outside the box and use their imagination to understand some difficult science concepts in classes. Furthermore, we can integrate the education materials with “ezgo” and provide a chance for students to begin self-learning. We use three main methods to promote the use of open source software. First, we are going to launch a program which is composed of different schools such as NCKU, NCTU and NTU to create an engineering social media. Second, we cooperate with the professors and schools to open a course to invite students to join our translating program. Third, we create a social media and launch “hour of translate” and invite friends to join us. Furthermore, we cooperate with the summer and winter camps to share our passion for open source software. To promote our ideas, we submit the application to teach for classes in other level of schools, such as elementary schools, junior schools and high schools. It is necessary a waste that we seldom make the most of free resources online. We spend a lot of budget buying the software which is replaceable and deal with problems in an ineffective way. That is why we start this project to help others in an efficient way.

Speakers

Menghsuan Tsai

National Cheng Kung University

I have a strong passion in dealing problems in an efficient way. No matter how much time it takes, I like to try things to benefit the society. I am willing to devote myself to spend thousands of hours to help others save an hour for their work. I believe the environment must be changed to make it a better world for us to do things effectively. Apart from the efficiency, I am interested in joining a community because it gives me an opportunity to acquire both determination and selflessness. Working together in the community makes me feel a part of something bigger; it teaches me not to only make decision from my perspective view but to take the whole community into consideration. Although practicing coding takes sweat, I am still willing to devote myself to help others finish the projects. Not until I overcome one failure after another can I learn that the turning points are meant to trigger your potential ability. Every obstacle happened in community is a chance for me to cultivate skills and enhance competitiveness. As the two main points mentioned above, with the ambition to challenge myself and to venture into the unknown, I would like to grab the chance to join FOSSASIA 2016. To wake myself up under the sleepy eyes of ignoring the cruel facts of the world, it’s necessary to be stimulated by the diversity. To gain more information and get to know more people, it is a great opportunity for me to face challenges and receive suggestions. I know I am still lack for experience and knowledge, so I hope, by joining FOSSASIA 2016, I can get more inspiration and innovation to make my project even better. And... One reason why I want to attend this program is because of my ambition for promoting the open source software. I am a sophomore at Cheng Kung University in Tainan the southern city in Taiwan. I am usually buried under a heavy load of homework during the week. So I usually try to take an adventure to try new software programs for making my work more convenient. “Technology happens when imagination meets need.” With the development of the technology, I can use open sources, such as Inkscape, Amara and Gimp online. One of the most terrifying assignment that I have ever had)was assigned by Professor Yung for the course “electrical circuit”. We had to read through papers about the electricity and find out what we can probe from our class materials, like noise filters or common base amplifiers. Moreover, I had to make an English presentation to give my proposal in this class. So when I finally have some free time on weekends, I can surf the internet to check out the latest information for open source. I easily use Inskape to redesign picture forms Openclipart to make eye-popping slides. Also as a English learner, I use Amara to translate video like Emma Watson’s speech in the EU from youtube. From this, I practice not only my listening skills, but also how to boost my impact of my communication in English. Simply put, I want to deliver the convince which I gain from the open source software. Open source software has changed the way I see my world, and now I want it to change the world that I see and live in.
 

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

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  • Internet, Society, Community


FOSS in Indonesia Election
FOSS in Indonesia Election (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

This presentation will present to the audience about how the Indonesian government using FOSS in conducting the election. Anything that is used in the election. How FOSS help elections. What is achieved by the use of FOSS. What can be done with FOSS to improve governance.

Speakers

Syah Dwi Prihatmoko

BlankOn

FLOSS Activist and Young Sysadmin
       

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Internet, Society, Community


What's next?
What's next? (17:00 - 17:30)

About the session

Many questions are lying ahead in the field of Internet, Society, Policies, and Community - What's next? Participants from the track will get together and discuss next steps and how to collaborate after the FOSSASIA 2016 summit.

Speakers

Harish Pillay

RedHat

Harish Pillay is the president of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter. He is a pioneer on the Internet having gotten on to the ARPAnet and UUCP networks in 1985. He is a ham and his callsign is 9V1HP.
     

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:00 - 17:30

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Demo Session
Demo Session (17:30 - 18:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:30 - 18:00

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  • Internet, Society, Community


End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only)
End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only) (18:00 - 18:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Einstein Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • Internet, Society, Community


Faraday Lab
Introduction to webcompat.com
Introduction to webcompat.com (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

What if you could “file a bug on the internet” in a public space where developers, users and browser vendors could be made aware of compatibility issues? You can report issues to browser vendors today, through bug trackers or other feedback mechanisms, some public and some not. But frequently you cannot see the results of such a report—or see what related issues others have reported. It can feel like a black hole experience. This talk is about introduction to webcompat.com, where we provide simple, open interface to web compatibility issues that affect us all as users of the web, regardless of our browsers or devices of choice. Perhaps more importantly, we hope to foster and enable a community of people who are passionate about a web for everyone to help out.

Speakers

Abdul Rauf

Mozilla

Open Source enthusiast, passionate about community organizing and events, Currently contributing to Mozilla as Community web opener, Community leader at DuckDuckHack(DuckDuckGo)
   

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • WebTech


A look at FOSSASIA API
A look at FOSSASIA API (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

FOSSASIA API is a set of tools and interfaces designed to collect and visualize data from ASIA open-source communities. In this talk I want to present the history, the design, the challenge and usefulness of collecting communities data in a distributed manner. Then, let's see what are ways of evolving & promoting FOSSASIA API so that it can reach out to more users and developers.

Speakers

Hai An DANG

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse

DANG Hai An is a computer engineering student in Toulouse, France. He participated in the development of FOSSASIA API during Google Summer of Code 2015, and really enjoyed the experience. He hopes to see the expansion of open-source organisations and projects all over ASIA.
       

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • WebTech


Firefox OS, WebAPI and Hybrid Application
Firefox OS, WebAPI and Hybrid Application (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

My talk is about WebAPI, focus on how to use WebAPI to develop application in FinTech, HealthTech, Government, Smart Homes & Cities. By learning WebAPI developer and user can create the application they need and also helping the community by contributing in the development of WebAPIs. In my talk there's also topic about Hybrid application using webapi and firefox.

Speakers

Rizky Ariestiyansyah

Mozilla Tech Speaker

Hola, my name is Rizky Ariestiyansyah and I’m a Full Stack Developer & Business Strategist with equal parts interest in business, tax, management development, and writing. Now I am active as Mozilla Representative and Mozilla Tech Speaker
       

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • WebTech


How open source ERP is slowly changing the business world
How open source ERP is slowly changing the business world (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Why it is changing? 1. modifyable by end user companies themselves. 2. transforming all companies into IT companies. 3. available for any size of company. 4. complete independence of your vendor. 5. Interfacing easily with other systems. 6. contunuously adapted to the changing business. 7. Yes slowly because businesses are very conservative 8. Total open source for every part of the total installation. 9. data bases sharable. 10. devops for continuous deployment and more.....

Speakers

Hans Bakker

AntWebsystems Co.,Ltd

Hans Bakker. AntWebsystems.com Self starter, self-made, highly motivated advocate of open source, especially Apache OFBiz ERP. Now managing the AntWebsystems company, which provides quality services for competitive rates around the Apache OFBiz open source ERP system using open source development and production tools only. Regular speaker at Apache conferences in Europe and the USA
       

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • WebTech


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

  •  
  • WebTech


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • WebTech


Mozilla on Connected Devices, MozVR & Firefox Developer Tools
Mozilla on Connected Devices, MozVR & Firefox Developer Tools (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Will talk about the current efforts of Mozilla on Connected Devices (IoT), MozVR (Virtual Reality for the Open Web), and Firefox Developer Tools.

Speakers

Robert Reyes

Mozilla Philippines Community

Bob is a Mozilla Representative & Reps Mentor from Manila, Philippines. He is a technopreneur managing his own IT Consultancy firm, with more than 15 years of experience in the field of aviation and more than 10 years of being a volunteer Mozillian.
   

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • WebTech


Chat bots
Chat bots (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Chat bots

Speakers

Dan Tran

GrabTaxi

Just introduce some application and use case of chat bot in Telegram and Slack
       

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • WebTech


Free Real-time Communications (SIP, XMPP, WebRTC)
Free Real-time Communications (SIP, XMPP, WebRTC) (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Is there any credible way to build a trustworthy communications platform without using free software? At FOSDEM 2013, leading developers of free real-time communications software dared to get up on stage and ask the question "Can we replace Skype, Viber, Twitter and Facebook?". Was this the right question and how does it relate to free software development today and in the future? Pocock talks about what has changed since then and where things are going in this domain in the year ahead, especially with the emergence of WebRTC and the ubiquity of browsers that support it and the opportunities this has created for the world of web development and interaction with other open systems.

Speakers

Daniel Pocock

Debian

Professional software engineer and consultant. Daniel Pocock has developed enterprise grade solutions for some of the giants of the financial services industry, including secure connectivity for UBS (using Apache Camel), the first customer-facing WebRTC contact solution on Wall Street at Interactive Brokers, enterprise-wide real-time monitoring for Barclays Capital (based on Ganglia) and a wide range of real-time financial trade capture and risk management solutions for Thomson Reuters. Despite the highly proprietary nature of these enterprises, Pocock has remained a champion of efficient, cost effective open source solutions to meet demanding business requirements. Pocock actively contributes to a range of free software projects with a focus on real-time communications (RTC) and VoIP, in particular, Lumicall, JSCommunicator, DruCall, reSIProcate, Ganglia and flactag. Pocock is the author of the RTC Quick Start Guide and is part of the team behind the O'Reilly book Monitoring with Ganglia Pocock is a Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora Developer and an OpenCSW package maintainer. He is a licensed radio amateur with the callsigns VK3TQR and M0GLR.
   

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • WebTech


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • WebTech


Introduction to GraphQL (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying about REST APIs)
Introduction to GraphQL (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying about REST APIs) (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

This talk will give a brief and enlightening look into how GraphQL can help you address common weaknesses that you, as a web / mobile developer, would normally face with using / building typical REST API systems. Let's stop fighting about whether we should implement the strictest interpretation of REST or how pragmatic REST-ful design is the only way to go, or debate about what REST is or what it should be. A couple of demos (In Golang! Yay!) will be shown that are guaranteed to open up your eyes and see that the dawn of liberation for product developers is finally here. Background: GraphQL is a data query language and runtime designed and used at Facebook to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps since 2012. Hafiz Ismail (@sogko) is an active contributor to Go / Golang implementation of GraphQL server library (https://github.com/graphql-go/graphql) and is looking to encourage fellow developers to join in the collaborative effort.

Speakers

Hafiz Ismail

WEHAVEFACES

This talk will give a brief and enlightening look into how GraphQL can help you address common weaknesses that you as a web / mobile developer would normally face with using / building typical REST API systems.
       

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

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  • WebTech


Go Apitest - test and document that!
Go Apitest - test and document that! (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

A short talk describing a technique of writings tests for APIs written in Go that allows to generate documentation instantly (Swagger, RAML).

Speakers

Ivan Kirichenko

SeeSaw Labs

- two people are coming to the scene (me and Max Titov, https://github.com/eolexe) - we describe problems which we encountered while developing REST API with Golang: hard-to-support documentation, fear of new release, etc - then we demonstrate a technique that allowed us to provide both API tests and documentation at once without changing the core of our code - link to the project (it's opensourced), Q&A
     

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • WebTech


Introduction to React JavaScript Framework
Introduction to React JavaScript Framework (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

The talk will introduce React the JavaScript framework from Facebook. It will explain the unique approach adopted by React to ease development of JavaScript based web applications. It unpack React with examples and demonstrations to equip the audience with the a conceptual model that will enable them to understand the essence of React and adopt it more easily in their projects.

Speakers

Mark Clarke

Jumping Bean

Mark Clarke is a developer, security professional and trainer who works at Jumping Bean, an open source integration company, in Johannesburg South Africa. He has over 15 year experience of leveraging open source and free software to build robust solutions for customers. He is passionate about technology and creating a vibrant and innovative start-up industry and culture in the developing world using open source and free software.
     

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

  •  
  • WebTech


Demo Session
Demo Session (17:00 - 17:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:00 - 17:30

  •  
  • WebTech


Firefox OS - Fast Track to IoT
Firefox OS - Fast Track to IoT (17:30 - 18:00)

About the session

Everyone is crazy about IoT & this has been very popular because you can easily use the simple electronic boards like Arduino, Raspberry Pi etc and get started for your IoT project. I would want to introduce another approach to IoT, i.e, using the Firefox OS. Firefox OS is written using the web technologies only and the simple JavaScript API makes it very easy to interact with the sensors and hardware. This will be a beginners to intermediates work to learn what is IoT & how to get started with IoT using the Firefox OS.

Speakers

Ram Dayal Vaishnav

Mozilla

Ram is a passionate web development & open source contributor. He is currently working with D E Shaw & Co and also volunteering to Mozilla as code contributor, community builder & Mozilla Representative. Apart from coding, he learns and enjoys being a hobbyist. In the leisure time he love to play musical instruments & like to solve puzzles like rubiks cubes, sudoku etc. He also love blogging & going out for adventures (like mountaineering, caving, cycling etc).
       

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:30 - 18:00

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  • WebTech


End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only)
End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only) (18:00 - 18:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • WebTech


Fermi Lab
Wikilore
Wikilore (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Regional folklores are dying in today's world and we need to save it. Wikilore is a proposed project that will focus on collecting folklores from around the world. It will help to preserve folk songs, folk narratives, folk wisdom, folk medicine, folk customs, folk music, child lore, folk art, folk foodways and a lot more.

Speakers

Satdeep Gill

Punjabi Wikimedians

Wikimedian since 2009, I realized that there is no single project which focus on folklore. This will help to translate folklores as well. I am student of Punjabi Language and Literature and I have studied Culture and Folklore as a part of my academic curriculum.
     

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Mining public large-scale datasets \w open-source tools: Apache Zeppelin (incubating), Spark and Juju
Mining public large-scale datasets \w open-source tools: Apache Zeppelin (incubating), Spark and Juju (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

There are plenty of public datasets out there available, in this talk we will showcase opensource tools from BigData ecosystem available for practitioner to mine them, at scale and on a budget.

Speakers

Alexander Bezzubov

NFLabs Inc, Apache Software Foundation

Apache Zeppelin (incubating) committer and PPMC, Engineer @NFLabs,
     

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Streaming anomaly detection for Big Data/Internet of Things
Streaming anomaly detection for Big Data/Internet of Things (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

The problem of analysis and anomaly detection in time series data arises in many applications, and is especially problematic when systems must cope with high scalability, volume, frequency, and cardinality requirements. We present a system for ingesting and analyzing time series data under such constraints with better performance characteristics than many currently-used systems.

Speakers

Adam Drake

Atazzo

Adam Drake has been in technology roles for nearly 20 years in a variety of industries including ecommerce, online travel, online marketing, financial services, healthcare, and oil and gas. His background is in Applied Mathematics, and his interests include online learning systems, high-frequency/low-latency data processing systems, recommender systems, and distributed systems.
     

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Introduction about Apache Solr, standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like API
Introduction about Apache Solr, standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like API (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. In 20 minutes, I will give an introduction about Solr to help you understand and how to customize it to build a search engine of your own. In the last part, I will cover one of its implementation in IBM Watson Retrieve & Rank API

Speakers

Thanh Son Le

IBM

A 15 min of talk about Apache Solr and 5 min about its implementation in IBM Watson Retrieve & Rank API
       

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

  •  
  • Big Data/Open Data


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • Big Data/Open Data


HOT Export Tool
HOT Export Tool (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) assists with the creation and distribution of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in support of humanitarian relief efforts. OSM is the Free Wiki World Map – an openly licensed map of the world being created by volunteers using local knowledge, GPS tracks and donated sources. One of the online tools developed by HOT to assist this effort is the Export Tool, which creates custom OSM downloads in a number of file formats for various regions around the world. The user can simply choose an area of geographic interest, select the OSM features they wish to export and specify a file format. This export can then be used on a variety of GIS tools such as ArcMap, QGIS, Google Earth, the OsmAnd mobile app and the Garmin GPS device. The ability to easily obtain updated OSM data can greatly contribute to relief efforts on the ground, as well as being used for personal interests, business ventures and research purposes. In the case of the devastating earthquake that shook Nepal in April 2015, post-disaster road and building data from OSM was used to manoeuvre people and supplies to where they were most needed.

Speakers

Mhairi O'Hara

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Mhairi O'Hara is a GIS specialist working with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) on a number of projects including technical development, mapping initiatives and the coordination of internships in open source. With a background in volcanology, she is now dedicated to disaster management and humanitarian efforts, and is an keen advocate of open data and software.
       

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Open Source Geospatial - Projects and Possibilities
Open Source Geospatial - Projects and Possibilities (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Open source geospatial software is lesser known application stack to governments. This talk intended to introduce the stack and the application possibilities with FOSS4G. The talk will focus on GeoServer, PostGIS, QGIS and Mapbox technologies

Speakers

Ganeshkumar Shanmugam

GeoICON Pte. Ltd

Open source geospatial software is lesser known application stack to governments. This talk intended to introduce the stack and the application possibilities with FOSS4G. The talk will focus on GeoServer, PostGIS, QGIS and Mapbox technologies
       

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


How to setup, make and build clients for open Twitter data
How to setup, make and build clients for open Twitter data (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

This workshop will enable participants to build client apps by consuming an open source Twitter API from the Loklak server. The workshop will help participants install and setup the Loklak server on their systems. Once setup is complete, there will be a hands-on tutorial on how to consume the Loklak API to build client apps on various devices and languages. This will cover an overview and short tutorial of using the API wrappers and a thorough walk-through of the API methods. There will be demos of apps made for web, mobile and IOT. By the end of the workshop, participants will be ready with their own app consuming the Loklak API on a device and language of their choice. We can then have a short presentation session by the participants showcasing the apps they built during the workshop.

Speakers

Aneesh Devasthale

Loklak

Aneesh Devasthale is a software developer and entrepreneur from New Delhi. He loves experimenting and combining different technologies. He is on a mission to make software that can solve the world's problems.
       

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

  •  
  • Big Data/Open Data


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • Big Data/Open Data


Elasticsearch: You know, for search! and more!
Elasticsearch: You know, for search! and more! (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed search and analytics engine under the Apache License version 2, designed for horizontal scalability, reliability, and easy management. It combines the speed of search with power of analytics via a developer-friendly query language covering structured, unstructured, geo-spatial and time-series data. In this workshop, we introduce Elasticsearch and its ecosystem. We share how to get started utilizing Elasticsearch for search and analytics. We also share our experience in using Elasticsearch for research in Living Analytics Research Centre. At the end of the workshop, you will have basic understanding of Elasticsearch and immediately can start using Elasticsearch to power up your search and analytics.

Speakers

Philips Kokoh Prasetyo

Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC)

Elastic software engineer (Medcl Zeng) LARC engineers (Philips Kokoh Prasetyo, Arinto Murdopo, Casey Vu)
   

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Demo Session
Demo Session (17:00 - 17:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:00 - 17:30

  •  
  • Big Data/Open Data


End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only)
End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only) (18:00 - 18:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A
RedHat
RedHat (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

RedHat Community - Helping our open source projects and standards be wildly successful

Speakers

Harish Pillay

RedHat

Harish Pillay is the president of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter. He is a pioneer on the Internet having gotten on to the ARPAnet and UUCP networks in 1985. He is a ham and his callsign is 9V1HP.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Developers looking for designers? Show off your project!
Developers looking for designers? Show off your project! (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

If you work on an open source project and need design help with User Experience, Branding or Visual User Interface , come and present your project. Hopefully we can get http://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/ on board and post jobs on the website.

Speakers

Victoria Bondarchuk

Seoul Tech Society, Dmajor

UX Researcher from Seoul. Interested in Open Source and Open Fashion.
       

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


coala
coala (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

coala [1] provides an abstraction for static code analysis that is useful while still applicable to any text based language. coala provides convenient user interfaces for multiple usecases which takes away a lot of common tasks from the developer. In this process coala makes research available for production immediately and combines rapid prototyping with instant usability. coala also facilitates people entering the world of open source by providing them valuable feedback on coding standards and formatting in one consistent way for all languages. [1] http://coala-analyzer.org/

Speakers

Ankit Verma

coala

Ankit has contributed mainly in coala-artwork and helped out in website design for coala. He also did the gitmate.io website. He is also a GNOME foundation member. Udayan who will also be helping with the stall has been involved with coala since February 2015. He may also be giving a talk at FOSSASIA if selected. coala was his GSoC project where he worked on core coala features and developing a GUI for it. Since then he has been involved with coala in some capacity.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Free Real-time communications lounge
Free Real-time communications lounge (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Free Real-time communications lounge

Speakers

Daniel Pocock

Debian

Professional software engineer and consultant. Daniel Pocock has developed enterprise grade solutions for some of the giants of the financial services industry, including secure connectivity for UBS (using Apache Camel), the first customer-facing WebRTC contact solution on Wall Street at Interactive Brokers, enterprise-wide real-time monitoring for Barclays Capital (based on Ganglia) and a wide range of real-time financial trade capture and risk management solutions for Thomson Reuters. Despite the highly proprietary nature of these enterprises, Pocock has remained a champion of efficient, cost effective open source solutions to meet demanding business requirements. Pocock actively contributes to a range of free software projects with a focus on real-time communications (RTC) and VoIP, in particular, Lumicall, JSCommunicator, DruCall, reSIProcate, Ganglia and flactag. Pocock is the author of the RTC Quick Start Guide and is part of the team behind the O'Reilly book Monitoring with Ganglia Pocock is a Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora Developer and an OpenCSW package maintainer. He is a licensed radio amateur with the callsigns VK3TQR and M0GLR.
   

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


MySQL
MySQL (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The World's Most Popular Open Source Database

Speakers

Ricky Setyawan

MySQL

Ricky Setyawan has been in the IT industry for 17 years with the good last 15 years working as RDBMS specialist. He is currently MySQL Principal Sales Consultant for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Pakistan. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a Principal DBA doing database design and management on Oracle and DB2 on RedHat Linux on continuous availability server. He has been working on a number of RDBMS throughout his career such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


UNESCO YouthMobile
UNESCO YouthMobile (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The YouthMobile Initiative builds on the experience of many worldwide initiatives that introduce young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-learn). It also seeks to build on experiences targeting young women who are vastly underrepresented in this field. Finally it builds on the consideration that for millions of young people, the smartphone in their pocket is a very powerful computer, it will be their only computer, and they use it for nearly every aspect of their lives: communicating, learning, taking pictures, and playing games.

Speakers

Misako Ito

UNESCO

WHO BENEFITS FROM YOUTHMOBILE? »Youth and Youth organizations Informal learning opportunities for youth to engage in society and earn livelihoods as mobile app entrepreneurs. ICT-enabled youth organizations creating a sustainable pool of trainers, support staff, and mentors. »Secondary School Students Acquiring high-level 21st century skills and confidence to develop/promote mobile apps to resolve local issues of sustainable development. »Teachers and Principals Teaching a new, innovative course in mobile apps development, acquiring ICT-pedagogy skills, connecting the school to other schools nationally and globally. » By gathering training materials to teach young people to develop mobile apps. The materials will be high-level and open-licensed for translation, localization, and innovations. Training materials will be pedagogically accurate for accreditation and employer recognition. » By training teachers to teach the students. UNESCO will be identifying all schools worldwide with existing programs for advanced computer studies. » By linking the learners to mobile app competitions, through the creation of the first global list of app competitors: encouraging trained students to submit apps for prizes, recognition, and employment opportunities; and let them meet and learn from those who made it.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Creative Confidence
Creative Confidence (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Innovation depends on developing creative solutions for the complicated challenges we will be facing in the future, but what happens if we want to start innovating but we believe that we are not creative? The experiential booth will have tools and materials for participants to stop by and create a personalized coaster or greeting. Each participant can stay up to 20 min, as to let other people have a chance at making.

Speakers

Elda Webb

One Maker Group

I have a very curious mind and I strive to integrate design, technology and learning in all my endeavors. I’m currently the Lead Curriculum Developer for OneMaker Group and my main objective is to help makers of all ages build up their creative confidence by breaking the barriers of the mind, and show that everybody have the potential to be a maker and a designer. Before joining OMG, I worked at Autodesk for over 9 years in Singapore as a Learning Content Developer. I hold a B.A in Architecture from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and has worked as a 3D modeler and Graphic Designer in Mexico, USA and Canada. She is actively involved in the Singapore Maker community.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

  •  
  • Exhibition


Enriching Student Experience
Enriching Student Experience (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The exhibition showcases the use of open source hardware and software e.g. Intel Galileo, Arduino etc to support student learning needs, for student exposure to open source tools and as outreach to potential students

Speakers

Peter LIM

Nanyang Polytechnic

Open source software and hardware kit has enabled solutions to be developed rapidly. To enhance student learning experience, students having been taught on fundamental concepts and knowledge, use open source hardware and software to reinforce the understanding through the application development. Students have benefited from the methods greatly.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


ChorusText open assistive device
ChorusText open assistive device (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

ChorusText is an open assistive device built with Arduino, Linux SBC and a few sliders and buttons. It is a text-editing device that lets the user do text editing by means of touch and hearing, without eyesight. It is an ongoing project and the goal of the project is to come up with an assistive device that enables the visually challenged to edit text effectively, and with open-source code + design files such that anyone interested can build one themselves.

Speakers

David Effendi

ChorusText

ChorusText is an open assistive device built with Arduino, Linux SBC and a few sliders and buttons. It is a text-editing device that lets the user do text editing by means of touch and hearing, without eyesight. It is an ongoing project and the goal of the project is to come up with an assistive device that enables the visually challenged to edit text effectively, and with open-source code + design files such that anyone interested can build one themselves.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Ring a decentralized and secure communication platform
Ring a decentralized and secure communication platform (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Ring, a project from Savoir-faire Linux, creators of SFLphone, uses a distributed hash table instead of a central SIP server to find other users. This peer-to-peer network is also accessible from other applications using the project's OpenDHT library. Signaling protocols, like SIP, XMPP and IAX, typically rely on central servers to help users locate each other and initiate sessions. Ring is an evolved version of the SFLphone SIP client adding support for true peer-to-peer calling without any central server. The peer-to-peer network transport is implemented using the OpenDHT library, making it a universal solution that can be used for any arbitrary real-time signalling requirement from any application.

Speakers

Alexandre Lision

Ring developped by Savoir-faire Linux

Alexandre has been working as a free software consultant at Savoir-faire Linux in Montréal since 2013. He has developped a wide panel of mobile apps, from sport statistics collection, to industrial metal testing. End of 2014, he joined the Ring team to port Ring on Mac OSX, working on low level video development (libav/ffmpeg), packaging, and UI/UX.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Science Hacks with PSL@Fossasia
Science Hacks with PSL@Fossasia (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

PSL@FOSSASIA aims to deliver low-cost lab equipments to millions of students and young scientists and enable them to learn science by experimenting and exploring. The main components of PSL are ExpEYES: Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists and MicroHope: Micro-controllers for Hobby Projects and Education (www.expeyes.in) In this space open science experiments developed during GSoC-15 project will be exhibited. The demonstrations include Coupled oscillations, Electromagnetic Induction, PSL-Laser Show, Weather station using ExpEYES and Raspberry-Pi and various other science hacks. At this space we will also be presenting and inviting ideas for Science Hack Day India.

Speakers

Minal Patil

ExpEYES

A Physics Teacher and a free software enthusiast. FOSSASIA GSoC student alumnus and GCI mentor. Working on ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab, Involved in FOSS training programs for science teachers and students. E-content developer for National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) for School Education and member of committee for “Development of ICT Refresher Course for students and teachers”by Central Institute of Education Technology (CIET), NCERT, New Delhi. Talks at International Events: FOSSASIA - 2014 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia RMLL-2014 at Montpellier, France FOSSASIA -2015 at NUS Singapore PyCon Sg at Singapore
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


ESPresso Lite
ESPresso Lite (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Implementing democratised Internet-of-Things services/solutions

Speakers

Ulrich Norbisrath

ulno.net

Ulrich Norbisrath, PhD has more than 20 years of industrial and academic experience in Software Engineering and Systems Integration. He has supported the start-up of several software development companies as well as consulted tech companies in questions of Systems Integration, Mobile, and Cloud Computing. He provides a deep technical understanding of mobile technologies and their integration with cloud services -- both from an academic as well as an industrial perspective. He raised significant grants on Cloud, Mobile, and High Performance Computing at universities in Europe and Central Asia. He is a published book author in the area of Software and Requirements Engineering. Being connected through his immediate family to US Diplomatic services, he is very well traveled and can call on a worldwide network of international experts. He is currently employed as a professor at the University Applied Sciences Upper Austria in their Mobile Computing program.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Introduction to ESPresso Lite
Introduction to ESPresso Lite (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Implementing democratised Internet-of-Things services/solutions

Speakers

William Hooi

ESPert

William Hooi is currently the CEO of Espert Pte Ltd, a new start-up venture that develop Wi-Fi-enabled (ESP8266-based) development and production hardware as well as cloud and mobile SDK to help makers to build their own IoT product, solutions and services. Previously, he was involved in organising the annual Singapore Mini Maker Faire while he was with the Science Centre Singapore. Having served in the public school system in various capacities for the past 15 years, he started his own private practice 2 years ago to create platforms for citizen innovation for the Maker Movement. He is also concurrently the Executive Director of the SG Makers Association and a director of the OneMaker Group, a maker ecosystem developer in Singapore.
   

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Master of Science Technopreneurship & Innovation Programme (MSc TIP)
Master of Science Technopreneurship & Innovation Programme (MSc TIP) (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation (MSc TIP) programme is a 1-year full-time programme or 2-year part-time programme. It is also offered in Chinese language as a 1-year full-time programme.

Speakers

Claire Tan

NTU Nanyang Technopreneruship Center

The Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation (MSc TIP) programme aims to develop and equip global entrepreneurs with the skills and stamina to turn novel ideas into successful ventures in the fast-paced economy today. Modelled after the venture creation cycle, this programme enables candidates to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and the essential business knowledge. Participants learn effective entrepreneurship problem-solving techniques and business decision making approaches through the unique TIP pedagogy: Experiential Learning, Global Immersion and Transformational Experience. Imparting managerial theories and technical skills, the distinguished faculty members and business mentors inspire the participants with their strong domain expertise and hands-on approaches. Further to that, the programme fosters a global entrepreneurship learning ecosystem which includes visit to leading technology hotbeds such as Silicon Valley, Boston, New York City, Beijing Zhongguanzun Science Park and Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), and learning exchange at world-class universities such as Stanford, Berkley, Tsinghua, and Peking University.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


FOSSASIA
FOSSASIA (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

FOSSASIA Exhibition

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Deepin Desktop System Demo
Deepin Desktop System Demo (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Deepin Desktop System showcase.

Speakers

Derek Dai

Deepin

Derek is a Linux user and developer. Interesting in how to measure and improve system performance recently.
   

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


CryptoParty and/or key signing event
CryptoParty and/or key signing event (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

To the people who already know what a CryptoParty is: We are doing it, come! To everyone else: Online communication is an important part of our lives. Unlike physical communication, we cannot control who can reach our data when we send it through the "inter-tubes." Fortunately, there are techniques to prevent people from eavesdropping your online conversations. In this workshop, I will talk about easy-to-use security tools that you can use to keep your conversations private: how to encrypt emails and instant messaging. It will be a not-so-technical workshop aimed to include anybody who knows how to use email.

Speakers

Emin Aksehirli

Singtel

Dr. Emin Aksehirli is a computer engineer and he is currently working as a data scientist. He is a free software and free culture enthusiast.
       

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


End of Exhibition
End of Exhibition (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Exhibition


Social Event
Social Event (19:00 - 19:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Saturday, 19th Mar, 19:00 - 19:30

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  • Exhibition


Herschel Lab
Migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL - The problems and the solutions -
Migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL - The problems and the solutions - (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

In recent years, the applicable enterprise area of PostgreSQL has been significantly enlarged by performance and functionality enhancement. As a result, there is a emerging demand to migrate database systems to PostgreSQL from Oracle. In this presentation, we will report on the following two tools which greatly help our migration projects: * SQL Imcompatibility detection tool (db_syntax_diff) * Oracle emulating function libraries "orafce" and our enhancement We are working at the open source software center (OSS center) at NTT which is the largest telecommunications company group in Japan. For the purpose of software cost reduction, we have been carried out a lot of database migration projects so far. Most of our customers are preferring so called "DB migration project", in which only the middle-ware DBMS will be replaced and AP itself will be reused. This is because such projects are usually considered more effective in terms of development time and cost than the "rebuild" projects, in which the system will be build again from scratch. Nevertheless, the differences between old and new DBMSs often block the migration projects technically, and considerable number of projects may be giving up eventually. We found the major factors that make the migration difficult is following two: * Cost of the estimation work * Technical difficulty of the estimation work itself As a solution of these problems, we have developed a non-compatible SQL auto-detection tool named db_syntax_diff. This tool can extract PostgreSQL incompatible SQLs in AP for Oracle and append each of them a difficulty index for migration. We've performed more than 30 database migration projects using this tool. As another effort to solve migration problems, we are also working on function enhancement of orafce (Oracle emulation libraries). Based on the knowledge of frequently seen incompatibilities in the above estimations, we have added a large number of new entries to the orafce.

Speakers

Kazuki Uehara

NTT OSS Center

I'm dealing with PostgreSQL from 2014 at that company. The business in one's charge : * PostgreSQL support (inquiry correspondence, etc.) * Update verification of PostgreSQL major / minor for support Currently, we have conducted verification towards 9.5 support. In addition, we have also tested products related to PostgreSQL. I've investigated pgpool-II and pacemaker as a representative of the HA cluster.

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Databases


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

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Short Abstract for the event

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • Databases


Data Warehouse in a PG / Greenplum / Vitesse DB environment
Data Warehouse in a PG / Greenplum / Vitesse DB environment (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Upwork is the world’s largest freelance talent marketplace, with 10+MM freelancers and 4+MM clients, and pays out more than $1+B annually in salaries. The data processing pipeline at Upwork consists of PG production DB, GPDB data warehouse, and multiple Vitesse DB data marts. I will detail the distinctive role of each system, and provide details on the setup of the pipeline, specifically how data flow from production to DW to data mart. If time permits, I will also give some examples of how the platform works for the data scientists at Upwork.

Speakers

CK Tan

Vitesse Data

CK Tan is Founder at Vitesse Data, a database startup in Silicon Valley that provide data processing accelerators for Postgres, Greenplum DB and Spark. CK was Director of Data Services at Elance-oDesk (now Upwork) where he ran the data group. Prior to that, he was Sr Architect at Greenplum. Early in his career, CK worked on MPP database at Informix XPS. Before Informix, he worked as a research staff at UW-Madison Database Research on Shore Storage Manager and Exodus Storage Manager.
     

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Databases


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

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Short Abstract for the event

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Databases


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • Databases


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • Databases


Tales from Production with PostgreSQL at Scale
Tales from Production with PostgreSQL at Scale (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

InMobi is worlds largest independent mobile advertising network serving 150 billion ads per month. PostgreSQL is one of the data stores behind this scale and this talk is about various issues which we encountered in production and also how did we solve the same.

Speakers

Siva Kumar

InMobi

The issues are categorised under various umbrella and we will deep dive into the same during the course of the talk. 1. Database User Control 2. Change Control 3. Replication 4. Partitions 5. Reliability Issues 6. Performance 7. Miscellaneous
   

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

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  • Databases


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Databases


Hadoop and PostgreSQL -- An Odd Job?
Hadoop and PostgreSQL -- An Odd Job? (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

The talk will focus on PostgreSQL and Hadoop working together and how they can be used together to function better and perform advanced stuff.

Speakers

Atri Sharma

Pivotal

A PostgreSQL hacker
   

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Databases


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

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Short Abstract for the event

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • Databases


Data Warehousing on PostgreSQL
Data Warehousing on PostgreSQL (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Using PostgreSQL for your data warehouse gives great benefits in performance, scale and cost. Simply switching your data warehouse or data mart from SQL Server or Oracle could save your organisation hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this session we will explore features that make PostgreSQL a great DW solution, with a mix of presentation and demonstration. By the time the session ends, you will understand the technical and business benefits of PostgreSQL, as well as some cool integration tips for your first project.

Speakers

Ron Dunn

Ajilius Pty. Ltd.

Ron Dunn is a data warehouse specialist with over 30 years of experience in the field. As well as working with PostgreSQL data warehouses through his Evangelist role at Ajilius, he runs the PostgreSQL Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Meetup group in Australia. He has worked with companies across the Asia Pacific, ranging from small businesses to the largest conglomerates, and is firmly committed to the growth of PostgreSQL in enterprise computing.
     

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • Databases


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:30 - 16:00)

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Short Abstract for the event

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

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  • Databases


(Ab)using 4D indexing in PostGIS 2.2 with Postgres 9.5 to give you the perfect match
(Ab)using 4D indexing in PostGIS 2.2 with Postgres 9.5 to give you the perfect match (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

In this talk I will talk about doing KNN (nearest neighbor) search in Postgres with PostGIS and ordering the result based on more than just physical distance. This ordering is the core of the dating app Tantan, which I will use to illustrate the talk. At Tantan we have more than one million users every day that look through 200 million potential matches each day, and we need to optimize what we show to maximize the potential chance for a match. We do that by ordering the potential matches based on a number of criteria, such as distance from you, recent activity and popularity.

Speakers

Victor Blomqvist

Tantan

Victor plays a major role in the backend team at the Chinese dating company Tantan, where he handles all parts from development in Go to database management of PostrgreSQL. He was part of the original development team and has first-hand experience facing the tremendous growth and challenges Tantan has encountered along the way.
   

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

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  • Databases


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:30 - 17:00)

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Short Abstract for the event

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Databases


PostgreSQL fun at Lightning Talks
PostgreSQL fun at Lightning Talks (17:00 - 17:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Speakers

Bruce Momjian

EnterpriseDB

Bruce Momjian is co-founder and core team member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He has been employed by EnterpriseDB since 2006. He has spoken at many international open-source conferences and is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley. Prior to his involvement with PostgreSQL, Bruce worked as a consultant, developing custom database applications for some of the world's largest law firms. As an academic, Bruce holds a Masters in Education, was a high school computer science teacher, and is currently an adjunct professor at Drexel University.
 

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:00 - 17:30

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  • Databases


End of Sessions and Social Event for Speakers, Volunteers, Partners in Movie Studio
End of Sessions and Social Event for Speakers, Volunteers, Partners in Movie Studio (18:00 - 18:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Herschel Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • Databases


Lewis Lab
Deep Learning: From Inception to Dreams
Deep Learning: From Inception to Dreams (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Deep Learning is a hot topic, but has a steep initial learning curve. To ease the pain, the second part of this workshop will *require* participants to have VirtualBox installed on their laptops. The workshop will start from the very basics (with a little mathematics), and quickly progress to getting hands-on with open source software including the training of a deep network on simple problems. This will be followed by a more in-depth portion : Using a pre-built VM, participants will experiment with a much larger pre-trained model, and get an understanding of application to both e-commerce and generative art.

Speakers

Martin Andrews

Red Cat Labs

Martin has a PhD in Machine Learning, and has been an Open Source developer since 1999. After a career in finance, he decided to follow his original passion, and now works on Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence full-time. Previous presentations can be found at: http://redcatlabs.com/presentations
     

Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

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Short Abstract for the event

Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:00 - 11:30)

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Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

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Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

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Short Abstract for the event

Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Writing Plugins for IntelliJ IDEA
Writing Plugins for IntelliJ IDEA (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

As developers these days follow agile processes and hence want automation of repetitive tasks. This is an opportunity for them to leverage the power of IntelliJ IDEA SDK to build plugins for IntelliJ Idea and Android Studio in Java. This will be a hands on training session in which developers will : -> setup the dev environment for plugin development -> get an overview of plugin architecture, manifests etc. -> Write a couple of plugins and will be able to deploy them on their IDEs.

Speakers

Ishan Khanna

Mifos Initiative

I am a passionate product enthusiast and self-taught developer who loves open source technologies, tech conferences, and hackathons. I successfully graduated as a Google Summer of Code Intern in 2014 under Mifos and in 2015 under XMPP Standards Foundation. I manage the source code for the Android Client Project at Mifos as an open source contributor. Previously - -> I conducted this workshop at Droidcon'15 in Bangalore, India held on 17-18 December, 2015 -> I have spoken at Global Mifos Summit in Sharjah, U.A.E (March, 2015) on “Mifos Android Client - Architecture, and how to leverage the app to develop features for your organisation (Mifos Partners).” -> I have given two talks (2014) at Jamia Milia Islamia and Jaypee Institute of Information Technology on “How to use open source android libraries to increase productivity while developing android apps.” -> I gave a Talk at Delhi Technological University (January, 2015) on “How to get into Google Summer of Code”
       

Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

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Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Procedural Content Generation with Clojure
Procedural Content Generation with Clojure (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Functional programming provides a powerful set of tools for procedural generation of content for games, art and product design. In this workshop we will explore the use of the Clojure programming language to create a wide range of visual effects, from game textures to procedurally generated animations.

Speakers

Mike Anderson

Datacraft

Mike is a data scientist, technology consultant and open source enthusiast. Formally a strategy consultant at McKinsey&Co., he now runs Datacraft, a Singapore-based startup focused on data science and machine learning. Mike is a prolific open source contributor under the tag "mikera", focusing mainly on Java and Clojure libraries for data science and art.
     

Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

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Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Build your own IoT Empire - From Games to MQTT and Back
Build your own IoT Empire - From Games to MQTT and Back (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

In this class, we are imagining that we have to build a new and fun product for our imaginary customer. It is supposed to be a gamification of the existing product. So we will learn how to attach an Espresso Lite board to an existing thing and turn it into an input or an output. We will show you how to network these things with each other, with a computer application (most likely a computer game), and your phone. Bring some random not too valuable things (from your used coke can to some dollar store items) which you are not too sad about if they might get altered in a way that they might be not useful for unknown people anymore. We will provide aluminum foil, card stock, scissors, and glue for your alterations. Besides this bring a laptop, your team spirit, and lots of creativity.

Speakers

Ulrich Norbisrath

ulno.net

Ulrich Norbisrath, PhD has more than 20 years of industrial and academic experience in Software Engineering and Systems Integration. He has supported the start-up of several software development companies as well as consulted tech companies in questions of Systems Integration, Mobile, and Cloud Computing. He provides a deep technical understanding of mobile technologies and their integration with cloud services -- both from an academic as well as an industrial perspective. He raised significant grants on Cloud, Mobile, and High Performance Computing at universities in Europe and Central Asia. He is a published book author in the area of Software and Requirements Engineering. Being connected through his immediate family to US Diplomatic services, he is very well traveled and can call on a worldwide network of international experts. He is currently employed as a professor at the University Applied Sciences Upper Austria in their Mobile Computing program.
 

Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Build your own IoT Empire - From Games to MQTT and Back
Build your own IoT Empire - From Games to MQTT and Back (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Speakers

William Hooi

ESPert

William Hooi is currently the CEO of Espert Pte Ltd, a new start-up venture that develop Wi-Fi-enabled (ESP8266-based) development and production hardware as well as cloud and mobile SDK to help makers to build their own IoT product, solutions and services. Previously, he was involved in organising the annual Singapore Mini Maker Faire while he was with the Science Centre Singapore. Having served in the public school system in various capacities for the past 15 years, he started his own private practice 2 years ago to create platforms for citizen innovation for the Maker Movement. He is also concurrently the Executive Director of the SG Makers Association and a director of the OneMaker Group, a maker ecosystem developer in Singapore.
   

Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:30 - 17:00)

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Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (17:00 - 17:30)

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Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:00 - 17:30

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  • OpenTech Workshops


End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only)
End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only) (18:00 - 18:30)

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Lewis Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Observatory Room
Digital Fabrication For Kids
Digital Fabrication For Kids (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Introducing kids to different types of digital fabrication techniques. (3D printing, laser cutting, CNC milling.)

Speakers

Wilfred Wong

OneMaker Group

Introducing kids to different types of digital fabrication techniques. (3D printing, laser cutting, CNC milling.)
 

Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Tech Kids III


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

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Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • Tech Kids III


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:00 - 11:30)

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Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Tech Kids III


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

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Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Tech Kids III


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

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Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • Tech Kids III


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

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Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • Tech Kids III


Electronics Made Easy
Electronics Made Easy (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

This workshop serves as an introduction to electronics to beginners. They will learn how to make simple circuits and also be introduced to electronic chips that go behind some of the toys that kids play with. Each Participant will get to play with an 3 in 1 DIY electronic kit. Course Objectives 1) Learn Basic Breadboarding 2) Be introduced to components such as resistors,leds and buzzers. 3) Know how IC chips work 4) Learn how to build a LED blinker with Melody

Speakers

Gabriel Perumal

Ground Up Initiative

Kids are the future of the world it is our duty to provide them the necessary tech skills whether software or hardware but also by making it easy for them to learn step by step and to inspire them that if they have a willing mind and a good spirit u can accomplish everything if u put your mind to it
 

Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Tech Kids III


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

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Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • Tech Kids III


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

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Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids III


Scratch 4 Arduino
Scratch 4 Arduino (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

Scratch a software developed by MIT is used to develop games through logical skills. Through the ease of the scratch software interface it is now used to control the Arduino Microcontroller to blink lights and also the use of sensors to control the Scratch Character Course Objectives 1) Use Scratch to develop logical and critical reasoning skills to build games. 2) Learning how Scratch can be used to interface with Arduino and Electronics 3) Learn to use sensors to control the “behaviour” of the character. 4) Build a “Motion detection” System

Speakers

Gabriel Perumal

Ground Up Initiative

Kids are the future of the world it is our duty to provide them the necessary tech skills whether software or hardware but also by making it easy for them to learn step by step and to inspire them that if they have a willing mind and a good spirit u can accomplish everything if u put your mind to it
 

Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

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  • Tech Kids III


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:00 - 16:30)

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Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids III


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:30 - 17:00)

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Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Tech Kids III


End of Sessions
End of Sessions (18:00 - 18:30)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Observatory Room

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • Tech Kids III


Pauling Lab
Python at FOSSASIA 2016
Python at FOSSASIA 2016 (10:15 - 10:45)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Speakers

Kushal Das

Fedora Project

Kushal Das is a core developer of CPython, and a fellow at Python Software Society. He is a long time Fedora contributor. He is currently working as Fedora Cloud Engineer in the Fedora Engineering team at Red Hat.
     

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:15 - 10:45

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  • Python


Test driven development with pytest
Test driven development with pytest (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

Test driven development (TDD) is a very useful software development strategy, but it is not yet taught and practiced as widely as it should. Learning TDD practice in Python can be challenging because there are several "competing" packages without an obvious "best way" to do it. Simplicity and readability are core concepts of Python, and in this talk I will try to show how it can be applied to testing by doing a side-by-side comparison of unittest/selenium vs pytest/splinter in a simple web application development context.

Speakers

Ivan Zimine

Python User Group Singapore

Ivan earned his PhD in Physics in 2003 from University of Geneva, Switzerland. He spent 13 years doing academic research in medical physics, but then decided that he really preferred writing software to scientific papers, and moved to IT field. He has been an active member of the Python User Group Singapore since 2011.
   

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • Python


Dive deep into Fedora Infra
Dive deep into Fedora Infra (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

This talk will be showcasing the various projects within the Fedora Infrastructure. Even though this talk is in the Python track, this talk will interest the people who are interested in the tracks DevOps and Open Source and Free Software. My talk will divided into 2-3 minutes chunks, where I would be talking about architecture, functionality of various projects (pagure, fmn, bodhi etc) within the Fedora Infrastructure. My primary focus would to enlighten the participants on how this various applications interact within themselves so that the contributors can visualize the infrastructure as a whole. I also intent to speak on Federated Message Bus (fedmsg) within the infra through which the message passing takes place. At the end of the talk I plan to tell them on how to pick their first bug and the communication channels through which they can contact the Fedora upstream.

Speakers

Sayan Chowdhury

Fedora Project

I am Sayan Chowdhury. I work as a Fedora Infrastructure Engineer in the Fedora Engineering Team and also a Fedora Ambassador from India. I am an open source contributor. I have contributed to Fedora, Mozilla, VLC and various other Python open source projects.
       

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Python


Tunir the simple CI
Tunir the simple CI (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Tunir is CI made for developers in mind. It is very simple and easy to configure. Each job only takes a json file, and .txt file as configuration. It can boot up cloud image on any laptop/server or can use Vagrant images to test any project. One of the latest feature is about testing on AWS EC2 instances. For any given AMI & authentication details, it can spin up the instance, and execute the tests on it. Currently Fedora Project is using tunir to automatically test its own cloud, atomic, and Vagrant images. We write the test cases using Python 3 unittest module. The documentation of the project can be found at https://tunir.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Speakers

Kushal Das

Fedora Project

Kushal Das is a core developer of CPython, and a fellow at Python Software Society. He is a long time Fedora contributor. He is currently working as Fedora Cloud Engineer in the Fedora Engineering team at Red Hat.
     

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Python


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • Python


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • Python


Command Line Application Design in Python
Command Line Application Design in Python (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Python has a tonne of packages related to designing a nice command line interface. There's the stdlib's argparse and various other packages like docopt, clint, click, etc. This talk will talk about when to use each of these packages and when to not. I'll also talk about some of the DOs and DON'Ts of creating a good CLI application.

Speakers

Shadab Zafar

Jamia Millia Islamia

I am a CS undergrad student from Delhi, India and love to build things using my text editor.
     

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • Python


Using Python Client to talk with Zanata Server
Using Python Client to talk with Zanata Server (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Zanata Python client is a client that communicates with a Zanata server [http://zanata.org/] to push text for translation (from publican documents or gettext-based software), and pull translated text back for inclusion in software or documentation builds. It also provides support for creating projects/versions in Zanata and retrieving information about projects.

Speakers

Sundeep Anand

Red Hat

Sundeep works with Globalization Team at Red Hat. He has 5 years of experience, mostly in i18n software development. He holds B.E. (Hons) from Staffordshire University, UK. He loves to code, travel and explore.
   

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Python


Python in my Science Classroom
Python in my Science Classroom (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Understanding of basic concepts in science, math and technology is the most important thing in every students life. But sometimes science lectures aren't just boring, they are ineffective too and result in loss of interest among students. Learning science can be fun if we could visualize the concepts and relate them with the real world. Python programming language has the potential to change a dull teaching learning process in to more stimulating active learning. Equations in physics and maths always look dull and boring. With the power of python one can see the beauty behind those equations and can find real world connections. With the effective use of python programs a teacher can actively engage the students and help them visualize the concepts and have better understanding. In this presentation I will talk about my teaching experiments with Python in Physics with live demo of some scientific python programs.

Speakers

Praveen Patil

ExpEYES

A Physics Teacher and a free software enthusiast. FOSSASIA GSoC student alumnus and GCI mentor. Working on ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab, Involved in FOSS training programs for science teachers and students. E-content developer for National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) for School Education and member of committee for “Development of ICT Refresher Course for students and teachers”by Central Institute of Education Technology (CIET), NCERT, New Delhi. Talks at International Events: FOSSASIA - 2014 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia RMLL-2014 at Montpellier, France FOSSASIA -2015 at NUS Singapore PyCon Sg at Singapore
     

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • Python


Building a proper UI/UX for the wiki engine (GSoC'15 Project)
Building a proper UI/UX for the wiki engine (GSoC'15 Project) (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

I will be giving a talk about my GSoC'15 project which I successfully completed for Moin Moin Wiki Engine(Python Software Foundation).

Speakers

Yask Srivastava

Moin Moin Wiki

I will be giving a talk about my GSoC'15 project which I successfully completed for Moin Moin Wiki Engine (Python Software Foundation). MoinMoin is a high performance wiki engine written in Python, used by various organizations such as Ubuntu, Debian, Open Office,PSF.. etc. My project was to build a proper User Interface and User Experience for the wiki users. I will be talking about the various challenges I faced while working on this project and how I solved them.
       

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • Python


ircb - A versatile, scalable IRC Bouncer, as a service, for humans
ircb - A versatile, scalable IRC Bouncer, as a service, for humans (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

ircb1 is a IRC Bouncer as a service, made for humans. It's currently functional as a basic IRC bouncer, however, unlike mainstream IRC bouncers, it supports multiple client connections for the same IRC network connection for a user. It aims to provide a scalable bouncer service along with easy setup, deployment and management. It also envisions to provide a low barrier entry point for users, where users can join and start using the service in an automated fashion, without going through manual processes. Although, ircb is a standalone product, it is also one of the core components of waartaa2. waartaa is our attempt to create an open source SAAS communication and collaboration tool, around IRC. We also participated in GSoC under the Fedora umbrella. However, we hit various roadblocks with the initial code base given to it's monolithic structure. So, we started breaking down the app into micro services. Thus, ircb, the scalable IRC bouncer to empower waartaa, was born. IRC networks limit the number of connections for an IP, and this limit has to be manually negotiated, and the process takes time. We came to know of this during maintaining a demo instance of waartaa on a single node, when Freenode will stop rejecting IRC connections from our IP. That's why we are looking forward to have a multi node model for ircb, where we can intelligently distribute the IRC network connections, as needed. We are also brainstorming to figure out an intelligent way to load balance connections from IRC clients to the bouncer service in a stateless fashion. You can find some insight about it in our initial design docs3. We are also trying to develop a reactive store layer to empower realtime applications, in our case, waartaa.

Speakers

Sayan Chowdhury

Fedora Project

I am Sayan Chowdhury. I work as a Fedora Infrastructure Engineer in the Fedora Engineering Team and also a Fedora Ambassador from India. I am an open source contributor. I have contributed to Fedora, Mozilla, VLC and various other Python open source projects.
       

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

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  • Python


Python 3 101
Python 3 101 (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

This is a workshop targeting existing Python developers, and any new programmer in Python world. We will go through the basics of Python 3 while keeping an eye for the changes from Python 2 in various parts of the language.

Speakers

Kushal Das

Fedora Project

Kushal Das is a core developer of CPython, and a fellow at Python Software Society. He is a long time Fedora contributor. He is currently working as Fedora Cloud Engineer in the Fedora Engineering team at Red Hat.
     

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

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  • Python


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Python


Demo Session
Demo Session (17:00 - 17:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:00 - 17:30

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  • Python


End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only)
End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only) (18:00 - 18:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Pauling Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • Python


Planck Lab
Orchestrating Cloud infrastructure using Terraform
Orchestrating Cloud infrastructure using Terraform (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Terraform is an open-source tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. We can use it to build the infrastructure in many cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, GoogleCloud, Docker, OpenStack etc. Moreover it has an provisioners like chef, which we can use to automate for configuration Management. It can be seen as similar to cloud-formation from AWS. Within this short workshop with this tool I am creating a basic two-tier infrastructure stack in a single command. What I will do it in one stroke of command is Create a complete infrastructure in AWS VPC running an app server, What are the things happening in this one command: - Creating a VPC. - Creating a subnets one public and private. - Creating respective security groups and rules. - Creating a load balancer. - Creating a app server running an web server called nginx. - Attaching a server to ELB and giving us a public DNS by which we can access the app. - And it gives a simple sketch diagram of our infrastructure as well. Thus we have full fledged app running on Cloud in single Command. Links : https://www.terraform.io | https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform

Speakers

Rahul Mahale

BigBinary

This small workshop is an introduction to a Orchestrating tool for cloud infrastructure called Terraform. It is a Golang based tool Open-Sourced by Hashicorp.
       

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • DevOps


7 Tips to design web-centric, high performance applications: A DB Architect’s Perspective
7 Tips to design web-centric, high performance applications: A DB Architect’s Perspective (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

Businesses demand fast paced development of highly scalable, web centric applications. This puts lot of pressure on developers and then scalability, higher throughput, UI etc becomes their focus points. At the same time DBA & Ops team too are accountable for robustness and performance. Both the teams approach same applications with different perspective and it creates some challenges. For example while DBA team is concerned about consistency of data, developers are more often concerned about ease of development. How do we address these challenges and work together. As a DB Architect for a solutions company I have been interacting with various customer’s development teams and getting to know their views on how they use databases. In the process, I have shared some inputs with them which they have found quite useful and in turn I have picked up a few tips from them. During my presentation I would like to share about 7 such important lessons that should be pinned to every developer’s and data architect’s desk while developing a web-scale app. These tips are about improvement in the application design and architecture but they come from a Database Architect’s perspective. To illustrate these tips I would be using popular features of an open source database – PostgreSQL.

Speakers

Sameer Kumar

Ashnik Pte Ltd

Sameer Kumar is the Database Solution Architect working with Ashnik. Sameer and his team works towards providing enterprise level solutions based on open source and cloud technologies. He has an experience in working on various roles ranging from development to performance tuning and from installation and migration to support and services roles. Sameer has acquired Professional Certification for his adept skills of PostgreSQL. He is also certified as the IBM DB2 Advanced DBA and was nominated as IBM Champion for his contributions in IBM data community. Besides, he is also experienced in MongoDB, Oracle and SQL Server. Prior to joining Ashnik he has worked as a development DBA at Misys. While working as DBA at Misys for Core Banking solution he handled roles ranging from Design and Architecting to Development and Deployment of physical and logical database on varied RDBMS implementations. He has also worked on noSQL technologies e.g. MongoDB and ORM technologies viz. Hibernate.
     

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • DevOps


coala - Code Analysis Made Simple
coala - Code Analysis Made Simple (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

coala provides an abstraction for static code analysis that is useful while still applicable to any text based language. It also provides a convenient user interface which takes away a lot of common tasks from the developer. In this process coala makes research available for production use. coala also facilitates people entering the world of open source by providing them valuable feedback on coding standards and formatting. This talk features a short introduction into the thoughts behind coala, its ability to speed up research as well as increase productivity and a demonstration of our command line and other interfaces.

Speakers

Udayan Tandon

coala-analyzer

I'm an undergraduate student pursuing my computer science degree at Indraprasatha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi. I started working on coala as my GSoC 2015 project. My primary objective was to develop a GUI for it. During my GSoC I got heavily involved in the project and have been contributing to it ever since. I have seen the project grow from a simple tool to a swiss knife. It also helped me select program analysis as a research area going further. I presented my GSoC project briefly at GUADEC 2015 (Gothenburg, Sweden).
     

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • DevOps


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • DevOps


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • DevOps


oVirt - Development of shared storage management system in the virualization world
oVirt - Development of shared storage management system in the virualization world (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

oVirt is management software for server and desktop virtualization, as such it to manage shared storage used by the system managed VMs which can run on different hypervisors. The challange to do so increases as the demand for high performance rises as well as the number of managed hypervisors/vms and the potential number point of failures. This session will focus in the different approaches taken in oVirt to manage shared storage in the virtualization world, the pros of each approach and its drawbacks

Speakers

Liron Aravot

Red Hat

Senior software engineer with over 9 years of experience working for Red Hat for the past 3.5, maintainer of oVirt open virtualization project (www.ovirt.org). Senior member of the oVirt storage team.
   

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • DevOps


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • DevOps


The oVirt Way - General Product Overview
The oVirt Way - General Product Overview (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

In the session Yaniv will present "The oVirt Way" - What hides behind virtualization management, how great community with strong developers can build an open source project which looks and feels awesome, comfortable, stable and full of great features. oVirt provides an alternative for other projects and products that aim to manage complex virtualized environments, and can help you empower your data-center. In the session Yaniv will show how various management flows can be done easily with oVirt such as network configurations, new servers deployment, enhanced storage manipulations, enhanced live flows, QoS and many more. Yaniv will discuss what currently possible to do with oVirt, and what the oVirt road-map for future versions... and in addition how you, audience, can contribute to oVirt!

Speakers

Yaniv Bronhaim

Red Hat

The audience require basic knowledge with virtualization and hardware provisioning - mostly aimed for users, ITs and product managers.
       

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • DevOps


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • DevOps


Let Builder write the Jenkins Jobs (JJB)
Let Builder write the Jenkins Jobs (JJB) (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Jenkins easily allows you to build and test your projects continuously. But creating similar Jenkins jobs could be mundane sometimes, how about automating that part with Jenkins Job Builder by writing JJB configuration files for creating a number of Jenkins Jobs at once. One can keep job descriptions in human readable text format in a version control system to make changes and auditing easier. Creating a bunch of similarly configured jobs is also easy with templating. In this workshop, I 'll start with a brief introduction to Jenkins (if required) and Jenkins Job Builder. We shall do a hands-on session with writing JJB configuration files and see how the jobs are created in jenkins, how can we create multiple jobs and manage them.

Speakers

Anisha Narang

Red Hat

I joined Red Hat as an intern and have been working with Red Hat for nearly three years now. I handle most of the QA responsibilities at work and enjoy doing test automation. I have worked with a couple of test automation tools like Selenium, Watir, etc. I also work with Jenkins to make sure tests are being executed timely. I enjoy traveling and meeting new people ;)
       

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

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  • DevOps


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • DevOps


End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only)
End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only) (18:00 - 18:30)

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Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

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  • DevOps


Tinkering Studio
Breakfast Snacks
Breakfast Snacks (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Science Hack Day


Welcome and Introduction from Science Centre
Welcome and Introduction from Science Centre (09:45 - 10:15)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Speakers

Eileen/Kiruthika

Science Centre

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 09:45 - 10:15

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  • Science Hack Day


Science Hack Day in Asia
Science Hack Day in Asia (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

From San Francisco to Dubai, Singapore and Beijing. Science Hack Days in Asia and around the world.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Science Hack Day


Lightning talks - Participants present their hacking ideas and call for co-workers
Lightning talks - Participants present their hacking ideas and call for co-workers (10:15 - 10:45)

About the session

What ideas would participants like to work on?

Speakers

Science Hacks and Science Hackers

Not available

Science Hackers from all over the world who enjoy open knowledge and sharing.

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:15 - 10:45

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  • Science Hack Day


Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA
Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA (10:15 - 10:45)

About the session

HELP US PRESERVE THE ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SYRIA BY CREATING A VIRTUAL #NEWPALMYRA DIGITAL TOOLS TO BUILD THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST #NEWPALMYRA is: * A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS. * A Cultural Development project, hosting live workshops and building a network of artists, technologists, archaeologists, architects, and others to research, construct models, and create artistic works. * A Curatorial project, creating exhibitions and experiences in museums and institutions globally, celebrating the cultural heritage of Syria and the world through the lens of architecture embodying culture and power. Together with our international affiliates, #NEWPALMYRA sources archaeological and historical data, shares it with the community, and outputs art exhibitions, salons, and creative works using this data to carry the rich history of Palmyra forward to new generations.

Speakers

Jon Phillips

#NEWPALMYRA

Jon Phillips.
     

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:15 - 10:45

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  • Science Hack Day


Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky
Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky (10:24 - 10:54)

About the session

Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky. Constellations and clothing patterns are mathematically difficult to construct. This talk begins with the origins of the project and explains the challenges posed by the data, the data structures, and the user workflow. The revolutionary nature of this open source fashion design tool is revealed in social, political, ecological and technical terms.

Speakers

Susan Spencer

Valentina

Susan Spencer has a background in network security and design. Co-Founder with Roman Telezhynski of Valentina open source pattern design software.
       

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:24 - 10:54

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  • Science Hack Day


DIY Circuit Board Workshop
DIY Circuit Board Workshop (10:33 - 11:03)

About the session

It is possible to create and make your own PCB without the use of dangerous chemicals. Simply by using Vineger, Hydrogen Peroxide and Salt you are able to make fairly complex PCB boards. The process is simple and fast and gives you the flexibility to make 1 single board or multiple different prototype boards for testing. This workshop will introduce participants to the process of making PCB boards using a laser printer, transfer media paper and a heat press machine. Participants will get to make and assemble a working PCB board.

Speakers

Leon Lim

Touch & Print

Leon describes himself as an engineer, maker and designer. The computer engineering graduate has been building electronics hardware, usually with the Arduino and is at ease with writing web apps using PHP and JQuery. He designs mostly with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and contribute actively to the maker movement. After experimenting with a range of household chemicals, such as vinegar, salt and disinfectants (hydrogen peroxide), he discovered that he could use some of them to produce high-quality printed circuit boards (PCBs), which he has been trying to help improve over time. He also help to run Creative Crew Singapore, an official Adobe user group that meets monthly in Singapore.
 

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:33 - 11:03

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  • Science Hack Day


ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab
ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab (10:42 - 11:12)

About the session

This presentation is about the Sensor Plug-ins developed for ExpEYES : Pocket Science Lab as a part of my GSoC-2015 project with FOSSASIA. We have added many new sensors plug-ins to measure a variety of parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, acceleration, tilt angle, magnetic field etc. With this development we at FOSSASIA are aiming to provide low-cost, effective and open source laboratory equipment to students all over the world. I will also be talking about the low-cost weather data-acquisition system developed and interfacing Gas sensors with ExpEYES. A Poster covering details of GSoC work will also be displayed at the venue. In the end I will add little about my experience of GSoC journey with my mentors Mario Behling, Hong Phuc Dang and Andre Rebentisch, with some critical piece of knowledge or a new lesson to learn everyday…..this may encourage and help future GsoC students.

Speakers

Praveen Patil

ExpEYES

A Physics Teacher and a free software enthusiast. FOSSASIA GSoC student alumnus and GCI mentor. Working on ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab, Involved in FOSS training programs for science teachers and students. E-content developer for National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) for School Education and member of committee for “Development of ICT Refresher Course for students and teachers”by Central Institute of Education Technology (CIET), NCERT, New Delhi. Talks at International Events: FOSSASIA - 2014 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia RMLL-2014 at Montpellier, France FOSSASIA -2015 at NUS Singapore PyCon Sg at Singapore
     

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:42 - 11:12

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  • Science Hack Day


#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti" (10:51 - 11:21)

About the session

“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .

Speakers

Nora Al-Badri

Artist of "The Other Nefertiti"

Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary artist with a German-Iraqi background working in different mediums such as sculpture and installation, photography and film. Her pieces deal with issues arising through hegemonic and neocolonial power structures and representations between the so called global South and North as well as with the various faces of war. Al-Badri lives and works in Berlin. She studied political sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and visual communications at Offenbach University of Art and Design. Her works got granted by several institutions like Goethe-Institut, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IfA), German Federal Foreign Office and European Cultural Foundation (ECF). Since 2009 she also collaborates with Jan Nikolai Nelles as a collective.
   

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 10:51 - 11:21

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Groups - Participants form groups to work on hacking ideas
Groups - Participants form groups to work on hacking ideas (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Let's see what outcome we can get at the end of the Science Hack Day on Sunday evening. First step, we form groups to work on the hacking ideas.

Speakers

Science Hacks and Science Hackers

Not available

Science Hackers from all over the world who enjoy open knowledge and sharing.

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Science Hack Begins
Science Hack Begins (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Science Hack Begins with project groups working on * Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA * Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky * DIY Circuit Board Workshop * ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab - Developing Open Source Science Experiments with FOSSASIA * #NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"

Speakers

Science Hacks and Science Hackers

Not available

Science Hackers from all over the world who enjoy open knowledge and sharing.

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA
Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

HELP US PRESERVE THE ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SYRIA BY CREATING A VIRTUAL #NEWPALMYRA DIGITAL TOOLS TO BUILD THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST #NEWPALMYRA is: * A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS. * A Cultural Development project, hosting live workshops and building a network of artists, technologists, archaeologists, architects, and others to research, construct models, and create artistic works. * A Curatorial project, creating exhibitions and experiences in museums and institutions globally, celebrating the cultural heritage of Syria and the world through the lens of architecture embodying culture and power. Together with our international affiliates, #NEWPALMYRA sources archaeological and historical data, shares it with the community, and outputs art exhibitions, salons, and creative works using this data to carry the rich history of Palmyra forward to new generations.

Speakers

Jon Phillips

#NEWPALMYRA

Jon Phillips.
     

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky
Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky. Constellations and clothing patterns are mathematically difficult to construct. This talk begins with the origins of the project and explains the challenges posed by the data, the data structures, and the user workflow. The revolutionary nature of this open source fashion design tool is revealed in social, political, ecological and technical terms.

Speakers

Susan Spencer

Valentina

Susan Spencer has a background in network security and design. Co-Founder with Roman Telezhynski of Valentina open source pattern design software.
       

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


DIY Circuit Board Workshop
DIY Circuit Board Workshop (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

It is possible to create and make your own PCB without the use of dangerous chemicals. Simply by using Vineger, Hydrogen Peroxide and Salt you are able to make fairly complex PCB boards. The process is simple and fast and gives you the flexibility to make 1 single board or multiple different prototype boards for testing. This workshop will introduce participants to the process of making PCB boards using a laser printer, transfer media paper and a heat press machine. Participants will get to make and assemble a working PCB board.

Speakers

Leon Lim

Touch & Print

Leon describes himself as an engineer, maker and designer. The computer engineering graduate has been building electronics hardware, usually with the Arduino and is at ease with writing web apps using PHP and JQuery. He designs mostly with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and contribute actively to the maker movement. After experimenting with a range of household chemicals, such as vinegar, salt and disinfectants (hydrogen peroxide), he discovered that he could use some of them to produce high-quality printed circuit boards (PCBs), which he has been trying to help improve over time. He also help to run Creative Crew Singapore, an official Adobe user group that meets monthly in Singapore.
 

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab
ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

This presentation is about the Sensor Plug-ins developed for ExpEYES : Pocket Science Lab as a part of my GSoC-2015 project with FOSSASIA. We have added many new sensors plug-ins to measure a variety of parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, acceleration, tilt angle, magnetic field etc. With this development we at FOSSASIA are aiming to provide low-cost, effective and open source laboratory equipment to students all over the world. I will also be talking about the low-cost weather data-acquisition system developed and interfacing Gas sensors with ExpEYES. A Poster covering details of GSoC work will also be displayed at the venue. In the end I will add little about my experience of GSoC journey with my mentors Mario Behling, Hong Phuc Dang and Andre Rebentisch, with some critical piece of knowledge or a new lesson to learn everyday…..this may encourage and help future GsoC students.

Speakers

Praveen Patil

ExpEYES

A Physics Teacher and a free software enthusiast. FOSSASIA GSoC student alumnus and GCI mentor. Working on ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab, Involved in FOSS training programs for science teachers and students. E-content developer for National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) for School Education and member of committee for “Development of ICT Refresher Course for students and teachers”by Central Institute of Education Technology (CIET), NCERT, New Delhi. Talks at International Events: FOSSASIA - 2014 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia RMLL-2014 at Montpellier, France FOSSASIA -2015 at NUS Singapore PyCon Sg at Singapore
     

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti" (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .

Speakers

Nora Al-Badri

Artist of "The Other Nefertiti"

Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary artist with a German-Iraqi background working in different mediums such as sculpture and installation, photography and film. Her pieces deal with issues arising through hegemonic and neocolonial power structures and representations between the so called global South and North as well as with the various faces of war. Al-Badri lives and works in Berlin. She studied political sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and visual communications at Offenbach University of Art and Design. Her works got granted by several institutions like Goethe-Institut, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IfA), German Federal Foreign Office and European Cultural Foundation (ECF). Since 2009 she also collaborates with Jan Nikolai Nelles as a collective.
   

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti" (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .

Speakers

Jan Nikolai Nelles

Artist of "The Other Nefertiti"

Jan Nikolai Nelles is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin. He graduated from Offenbach University of Art and Design in 2011. His work oscillates between visual and media art. In the past he founded an independent art gallery in Offenbach, Germany, and co-founded a photography magazine. Since 2009, he also collaborates with Nora Al-Badri on several artistic interventions.
   

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Demo Session
Demo Session (17:00 - 17:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:00 - 17:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Demo Session
Demo Session (17:30 - 18:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 17:30 - 18:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only)
End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only) (18:00 - 18:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Tinkering Studio

Saturday, 19th Mar, 18:00 - 18:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


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Dalton Hall
Creative Confidence
Creative Confidence (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

This is a lead up talk for the Creative Confidence Innovation depends on developing creative solutions for the complicated challenges we will be facing, but what happens if we want to start innovating but we believe that we are not creative? During this talk I will share some of the lessons I've learned along the way and how Making helped me increase my creative confidence and how others could increase theirs. The talk will gravitate around 3 key points: Breaking free from the "I'm not creative mentality". What would happen if we all increase our creative confidence?

Speakers

Elda Webb

One Maker Group

I have a very curious mind and I strive to integrate design, technology and learning in all my endeavors. I’m currently the Lead Curriculum Developer for OneMaker Group and my main objective is to help makers of all ages build up their creative confidence by breaking the barriers of the mind, and show that everybody have the potential to be a maker and a designer. Before joining OMG, I worked at Autodesk for over 9 years in Singapore as a Learning Content Developer. I hold a B.A in Architecture from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and has worked as a 3D modeler and Graphic Designer in Mexico, USA and Canada. She is actively involved in the Singapore Maker community.
 

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


Yes we Cone
Yes we Cone (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

VLC "plays everything" ? Well, we're trying to. This talk will introduce the landscape and challenges of opensource multimedia for the most popular and versatile media player, and will highlight some of the upcoming VLC 3.0 features and new platforms.

Speakers

François Cartegnie

VideoLAN

VideoLAN member and one of the VLC main developers. Started as a contributor in 2009, he has mostly worked on its demultiplexers, aiming for full playback of various media formats and, more recently, on a new adaptive streaming stack.
       

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


QA in the Open
QA in the Open (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

One common misconception about a lot of Open Source projects is that the quality is variable and/or is of a secondary concern. This is supported to a certain degree by a lot of projects which do minimal testing upstream and rely on downstream consumers, vendors, or distros to do an additional set of testing after a release. But, there is no reason that an open project can not also do QA in the open as part of the community. While the term QA will likely evoke a combination of fear, disdain, or any of a plethora of negative emotions from anyone who has worked in a traditional enterprise development environment and probably scare them off. The top down approach, strict bureaucracy, and other issues which are often synonymous with QA teams doesn't have to be the case. There can be real benefits to having a dedicated QA effort on an open source project. It enables transparency in how testing is done, lets anyone contribute and collaborate, and can signal to consumers the stability of a project. Larger projects can especially reap a lot of benefit from having people working on the QA side of a project upstream. This talk will use OpenStack as an case study to explore how a large open source project can do QA in an open manner and the potential benefits it can provide. It'll cover how the OpenStack community does QA, how it's evolved over time, and share lessons of some best practices which have been learned over time.

Speakers

Matthew Treinish

HPE

Matthew is the current PTL (project technical lead) of the OpenStack community's QA program, a position he's held since the start of OpenStack's Juno development cycle in 2014. He is a core contributor on several Openstack projects including Tempest, elastic-recheck, and many smaller projects. He has been working on and contributing to Open Source software for most of his career and has been contributing to OpenStack since 2012. Matthew currently works for HPE's Upstream OpenStack team working to make OpenStack better for everyone. Matthew has previously been a speaker at OpenStack summits, LinuxCons Japan and North America, PyConAU's OpenStack miniconf, and linux.conf.au's Developer, Testing, Release and Continuous Integration Automation Miniconf.
     

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


#NEWPALMYRA, #FREEBASSEL, and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
#NEWPALMYRA, #FREEBASSEL, and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

HELP US PRESERVE THE ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SYRIA BY CREATING A VIRTUAL #NEWPALMYRA DIGITAL TOOLS TO BUILD THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST #NEWPALMYRA is: A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS. A Cultural Development project, hosting live workshops and building a network of artists, technologists, archaeologists, architects, and others to research, construct models, and create artistic works. A Curatorial project, creating exhibitions and experiences in museums and institutions globally, celebrating the cultural heritage of Syria and the world through the lens of architecture embodying culture and power. Together with our international affiliates, #NEWPALMYRA sources archaeological and historical data, shares it with the community, and outputs art exhibitions, salons, and creative works using this data to carry the rich history of Palmyra forward to new generations.

Speakers

Barry Threw

#NEWPALMYRA

(@barrythrew) is an designer and technologist focused on spatial media, mutible architectures, and cultural infrastructures. He works in collaboration with institutions, artists and organizations at the intersection of technology and culture. He is Director of Software at Obscura Digital, and is a curator with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. He works on open software and free knowledge projects with Fabricatorz. He is serving as Interim Director of #NEWPALMYRA until Bassel's release.
     

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Lunch
Lunch (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


LibreOffice 5 and beyond
LibreOffice 5 and beyond (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

LibreOffice 5 is the newest series of LibreOffice releases. It introduced the usual code cleanups, refactoring and new features as other releases however it also introduced some new directions - a more active UX team that resulted in many user experience improvements, development of LibreOffice for Android and a cloud office suite LibreOffice Online. In my talk I will highlight the changes done in the LibreOffice 5 series until now.

Speakers

Tomaž Vajngerl

Collabora Productivity

I'm a software engineer from Maribor, Slovenia. I started working on LibreOffice as volunteer in 2012 and later joined Collabora Productivity to hack on LibreOffice as my full-time job.
 

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


Open Source Imaging Mass Spectrometry Software
Open Source Imaging Mass Spectrometry Software (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Scientific Data is in general freely available. This applies also to experimental data in chemical / biological research. There is however often a barrier preventing the re-use and re-analysis of obtained raw data due to expensive proprietary instrument software. In the field of Imaging Mass Spectrometry, we started an open source project to solve this problem. The project is now hosted on https://www.bioconductor.org, a large repository for open source life science software in the programming language R.

Speakers

Lorenz Gerber

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

tofsims - an opensource R package for processing and analysis of imaging mass spectrometry data.
     

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Hyperledger - The Open Source Blockchain
Hyperledger - The Open Source Blockchain (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

The Hyperledger Project is a collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features and currently missing requirements, for a cross-industry open standard for distributed ledgers that can transform the way business transactions are conducted globally. This session discusses the underpinning technology focuses, future possibilities, and a quick demo to show a use case of Hyperledger.

Speakers

Justin Lee

IBM

Justin Lee is the IBM Cloud Technical Evangelist and Developer Relations for the IBM Cloud Ecosystem Development team. In this role, he is responsible for all developer and academic outreach, community engagements, ecosystem partnerships and technical enablement for all developers from individuals, to "born on the cloud" to corporate. Justin Lee has been a developer since young, dabbling in everything from C++ to C#, from web development to mobile development. He graduated from University of Waterloo, Bachelor in Computer Science (BCS) with Honours. He’s also an active contributor to the technical community, organising community-led events like GeekcampSG and FOSSASIA.
       

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


Tips for successful app monetization for developers
Tips for successful app monetization for developers (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

According to a Forrester Research in 2014, smartphone penetration across the Asia Pacific region will reach 36 percent of the entire population in 2015. With higher smartphone penetration, the number of mobile apps , also increases at an alarming rate. This heats up the pressure on individual mobile developers to find ways to stand out from the crowd and generate revenues. While a great app is a good start, developers who wants to build a serious business also need a solid monetization strategy.

Speakers

Delynn Ho

Smaato

Delynn Smaato will share with you tips on how to: 1) Overcome integration challenges 2) Make money on inventory 3) Choose optimal ad format 4) Promote your app
   

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


How I left my word processor and embraced Asciidoc
How I left my word processor and embraced Asciidoc (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Word processors are good for basic documents, but are distracting when you're messing about with fonts, alignment issues, and other problems. I've been using Asciidoc for a few consulting projects and have found that its great for creating uniform documents that are free from common problems that come with a WYSIWG word processor. In this talk, I'll share my Asciidoc journey.

Speakers

George Goh

Red Hat

George Goh is a technical professional who has been programming for close to 15 years, spanning domains from embedded systems, to mobile, to the cloud. Currently a senior consultant for Red Hat's cloud business in ASEAN, he has a passion for solving problems the open source way.
       

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Successfully Managing Distributed Teams
Successfully Managing Distributed Teams (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

Distributed teams are a necessity in today's globally connected environment. No longer are our customers, people, and offices all locally located. In fact, they might not even be on the same continent much less the same side of the world. To promote a healthy environment and ensure clients and products are getting the results needed, sustainable management of distributed teams is a requirement. This presentation will cover the understanding for forming, storming, norming, and performing of remote teams.

Speakers

Michael Cannon

Axelerant

Michael considers Taiwan home, but can also be found on a farm in Italy or watching sunsets outside of Seattle with his family. He’s an avid cyclist, open source event photographer, serious world traveler, and voracious science fiction reader. A slow year to him is a few thousand kilometers ridden, 10 countries visited, and a 100 books read. Don’t ask about normal years.
       

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky
Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky. Constellations and clothing patterns are mathematically difficult to construct. This talk begins with the origins of the project and explains the challenges posed by the data, the data structures, and the user workflow. The revolutionary nature of this open source fashion design tool is revealed in social, political, ecological and technical terms.

Speakers

Susan Spencer

Valentina

Susan Spencer has a background in network security and design. Co-Founder with Roman Telezhynski of Valentina open source pattern design software.
       

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


DIY Circuit Board Workshop
DIY Circuit Board Workshop (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

It is possible to create and make your own PCB without the use of dangerous chemicals. Simply by using Vineger, Hydrogen Peroxide and Salt you are able to make fairly complex PCB boards. The process is simple and fast and gives you the flexibility to make 1 single board or multiple different prototype boards for testing. This workshop will introduce participants to the process of making PCB boards using a laser printer, transfer media paper and a heat press machine. Participants will get to make and assemble a working PCB board.

Speakers

Leon Lim

Touch & Print

Leon describes himself as an engineer, maker and designer. The computer engineering graduate has been building electronics hardware, usually with the Arduino and is at ease with writing web apps using PHP and JQuery. He designs mostly with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and contribute actively to the maker movement. After experimenting with a range of household chemicals, such as vinegar, salt and disinfectants (hydrogen peroxide), he discovered that he could use some of them to produce high-quality printed circuit boards (PCBs), which he has been trying to help improve over time. He also help to run Creative Crew Singapore, an official Adobe user group that meets monthly in Singapore.
 

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab
ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

This presentation is about the Sensor Plug-ins developed for ExpEYES : Pocket Science Lab as a part of my GSoC-2015 project with FOSSASIA. We have added many new sensors plug-ins to measure a variety of parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, acceleration, tilt angle, magnetic field etc. With this development we at FOSSASIA are aiming to provide low-cost, effective and open source laboratory equipment to students all over the world. I will also be talking about the low-cost weather data-acquisition system developed and interfacing Gas sensors with ExpEYES. A Poster covering details of GSoC work will also be displayed at the venue. In the end I will add little about my experience of GSoC journey with my mentors Mario Behling, Hong Phuc Dang and Andre Rebentisch, with some critical piece of knowledge or a new lesson to learn everyday…..this may encourage and help future GsoC students.

Speakers

Praveen Patil

ExpEYES

A Physics Teacher and a free software enthusiast. FOSSASIA GSoC student alumnus and GCI mentor. Working on ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab, Involved in FOSS training programs for science teachers and students. E-content developer for National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) for School Education and member of committee for “Development of ICT Refresher Course for students and teachers”by Central Institute of Education Technology (CIET), NCERT, New Delhi. Talks at International Events: FOSSASIA - 2014 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia RMLL-2014 at Montpellier, France FOSSASIA -2015 at NUS Singapore PyCon Sg at Singapore
     

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti" (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .

Speakers

Nora Al-Badri

Artist of "The Other Nefertiti"

Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary artist with a German-Iraqi background working in different mediums such as sculpture and installation, photography and film. Her pieces deal with issues arising through hegemonic and neocolonial power structures and representations between the so called global South and North as well as with the various faces of war. Al-Badri lives and works in Berlin. She studied political sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and visual communications at Offenbach University of Art and Design. Her works got granted by several institutions like Goethe-Institut, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IfA), German Federal Foreign Office and European Cultural Foundation (ECF). Since 2009 she also collaborates with Jan Nikolai Nelles as a collective.
   

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA
Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

HELP US PRESERVE THE ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SYRIA BY CREATING A VIRTUAL #NEWPALMYRA DIGITAL TOOLS TO BUILD THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST #NEWPALMYRA is: * A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS. * A Cultural Development project, hosting live workshops and building a network of artists, technologists, archaeologists, architects, and others to research, construct models, and create artistic works. * A Curatorial project, creating exhibitions and experiences in museums and institutions globally, celebrating the cultural heritage of Syria and the world through the lens of architecture embodying culture and power. Together with our international affiliates, #NEWPALMYRA sources archaeological and historical data, shares it with the community, and outputs art exhibitions, salons, and creative works using this data to carry the rich history of Palmyra forward to new generations.

Speakers

Barry Threw, Jon Phillips

#NEWPALMYRA

Barry Threw (@barrythrew) is an artist and technologist focused on spatial media, mutible architectures, and cultural infrastructures. He works in collaboration with institutions, artists and organizations at the intersection of technology and culture. He is Director of Software at Obscura Digital, and is a curator with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. He works on free software and open knowledge projects with Fabricatorz. He is serving as Interim Director of #NEWPALMYRA until Bassel Khartabil's release.
     

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Science Hack Day - Winning teams announced & given awards/medals in main hall
Science Hack Day - Winning teams announced & given awards/medals in main hall (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Speakers

Hack Day Scientists

Not available

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • OpenTech and IoT


#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti" (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .

Speakers

Jan Nikolai Nelles

Artist of "The Other Nefertiti"

Jan Nikolai Nelles is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin. He graduated from Offenbach University of Art and Design in 2011. His work oscillates between visual and media art. In the past he founded an independent art gallery in Offenbach, Germany, and co-founded a photography magazine. Since 2009, he also collaborates with Nora Al-Badri on several artistic interventions.
   

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Closing Notes of FOSSASIA 2016
Closing Notes of FOSSASIA 2016 (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Dalton Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • OpenTech and IoT


Digital Design Studio
Mobile development for students
Mobile development for students (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

This workshop will be for students from 12-17. We plan to teach them some basics of android by doing a sample android project.

Speakers

Manan Wason

IIIT Delhi

This will be a workshop in which we plan to teach students some basics of android by writing code for a sample project. We will be also covering some material design basics and basic android architecture.
       

Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Tech Kids I


Introduction to the Raspberry Pi for total Newbies
Introduction to the Raspberry Pi for total Newbies (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

This workshop serves to give a non intimidating introduction to the Raspberry Pi. Aimed at the total beginner, it serves to give a non intimidating introduction to Raspbian and the commandline, and allow workshop participants to gain confidence in playing with the Pi The hardware specs and capabilities of the Raspberry Pi — Installing the operating system - Basic understanding of Linux - First time Configuration - Networking setup - Remotely accessing the Pi - GPIO pins - A small preview of Python

Speakers

Luther Goh

12Geeks

Luther Goh is a founders of 12Geeks, a brand focus on providing quality electronic products on their ecommerce platform, and also quality training. He is also a web developer and member of Hackerspace Singapore. He has taught Arduino classes to students and the general public. Luther is also a python programmer.
     

Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:00 - 11:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:00 - 11:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids I


Lunch
Lunch (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Lunch
Lunch (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids I


Creative Confidence
Creative Confidence (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

Innovation depends on developing creative solutions for the complicated challenges we will be facing in the future, but what happens if we want to start innovating but we believe that we are not creative? During this workshop, participants will be exposed to tools and techniques that will help them understand that enhancing their creative confidence is like a muscle, you need to exercise it and practice daily. During the workshop the participants will be able to start their maker journey by personalizing a notebook/treasure box. Workshop is focus for following ages: 4- ­6 with parents, 7-13, 15 onwards

Speakers

Elda Webb

One Maker Group

I have a very curious mind and I strive to integrate design, technology and learning in all my endeavors. I’m currently the Lead Curriculum Developer for OneMaker Group and my main objective is to help makers of all ages build up their creative confidence by breaking the barriers of the mind, and show that everybody have the potential to be a maker and a designer. Before joining OMG, I worked at Autodesk for over 9 years in Singapore as a Learning Content Developer. I hold a B.A in Architecture from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and has worked as a 3D modeler and Graphic Designer in Mexico, USA and Canada. She is actively involved in the Singapore Maker community.
 

Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

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  • Tech Kids I


Physical Open Source Gaming - How to Build Your own Customized Game Controller for Multiplayer Fun
Physical Open Source Gaming - How to Build Your own Customized Game Controller for Multiplayer Fun (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

In this workshop, we will show you our own special twist on the Internet of Things. Using an Espresso Lite (that's no coffee - this is actually a little computer with wifi) we will turn some household goods and some wire into your own multiplayer game controller. You will learn a lot about electronics, networking, and how much fun it is to build an open source community when we explore some of the open source projects, who enabled me to build the software for these controllers. And of course, we will play at least one fun open source multiplayer game with our own controllers in the end of the class. I will also point you to many other open source game projects you can adapt to use your new customized game controller with the knowledge of this class. Bring some basic computer literacy (no programming required but it helps to dig deeper), some curiosity, a laptop, team spirit, and the willingness to do some crafting (yes there will be scissors and glue).

Speakers

Ulrich Norbisrath

ulno.net

Ulrich Norbisrath, PhD has more than 20 years of industrial and academic experience in Software Engineering and Systems Integration. He has supported the start-up of several software development companies as well as consulted tech companies in questions of Systems Integration, Mobile, and Cloud Computing. He provides a deep technical understanding of mobile technologies and their integration with cloud services -- both from an academic as well as an industrial perspective. He raised significant grants on Cloud, Mobile, and High Performance Computing at universities in Europe and Central Asia. He is a published book author in the area of Software and Requirements Engineering. Being connected through his immediate family to US Diplomatic services, he is very well traveled and can call on a worldwide network of international experts. He is currently employed as a professor at the University Applied Sciences Upper Austria in their Mobile Computing program.
 

Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

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  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (13:30 - 14:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (13:30 - 14:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Pocket Science Lab - Learn Science by Exploring and Experimenting
Pocket Science Lab - Learn Science by Exploring and Experimenting (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Pocket Science Lab is yet another ambitious project from FOSSASIA with the objective to develop open source hardware and software technology to improve science education by changing the way we teach and learn. PSL@FOSSASIA aims to deliver low-cost lab equipments to millions of students and young scientists and enable them to learn science by experimenting and exploring. The main components of PSL are ExpEYES: Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists [1] and MicroHope: Micro-controllers for Hobby Projects and Education [2] , projects by Dr. Ajith Kumar B P of IUAC, New Delhi [3]. ExpEYES is an Open Hardware and Free Software framework for developing science experiments, classroom demonstrations and projects without getting in to the details of electronics or computer programming. It converts your PC into a portable science laboratory. In this workshop participants will be able to do hands-on science experiments covering various concepts like electricity, electromagnetic induction, sound, interference, oscillations etc... This workshop is for kids of any age [10 to 100 years :) ] who are interested in science hacks :) [1] ExpEYES: http://www.expeyes.in [2] MicroHope: http://www.microhope.org [3] IUAC: http://iuac.res.in/ [4] PSL: http://fossasia.github.io/pslab.fossasia.org/

Speakers

Minal Patil

ExpEYES

A Physics Teacher and a free software enthusiast. FOSSASIA GSoC student alumnus and GCI mentor. Working on ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab, Involved in FOSS training programs for science teachers and students. E-content developer for National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) for School Education and member of committee for “Development of ICT Refresher Course for students and teachers”by Central Institute of Education Technology (CIET), NCERT, New Delhi. Talks at International Events: FOSSASIA - 2014 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia RMLL-2014 at Montpellier, France FOSSASIA -2015 at NUS Singapore PyCon Sg at Singapore
     

Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:30 - 16:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids I


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:30 - 16:00)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:00 - 16:30)

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Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Hong Phuc Dang
Hong Phuc Dang (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

  •  
  • Tech Kids II


Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall)
Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall) (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Digital Design Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Tech Kids I


Eco Garden Lab
Processing - Learn to code by art
Processing - Learn to code by art (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts.

Speakers

Umair Khan

The Processing Foundation

I'll be talking about how people can use Processing tools/language to learn to code. This will specifically be targeted to people who don't know how to code.
   

Eco Garden Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Design, VR, 3D


Aware User Interface
Aware User Interface (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

My interpretation of future of User Interface (UI). The user interface of the future will be better, more engaging but above all, it will be aware of your surrounding, usage habits and even your psychology. I will also share my open source project (AwareUI) and how it can be used to make your user interface more intelligent and awesome!

Speakers

Owais Zahid

Autodesk

Owais Zahid joined the Autodesk PLM 360 engineering team in 2014 as a Senior User Interface Developer. He is a certified Scrum Master. He divides his time between working as his team’s Scrum Master and developing the next generation user interface of PLM 360. Owais has over 10 years’ programming experience developing software in multiple programming languages. He holds a Master of Science degree from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences. When not creating the next PLM UI, Owais is a frequent contributor to the Autodesk Engineering blogs and spends his free time programming in the genre of 3D game programming and augmented reality.
       

Eco Garden Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • Design, VR, 3D


Open Source WebVR development
Open Source WebVR development (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

develop VR website with open source tools such as Aframe, WebVR boilerplate, Cannonjs, threejs and webvr markup

Speakers

Jia Hen Tee

VRcollab

Founder and CTO of VRcollab
       

Eco Garden Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Design, VR, 3D


Open Source Design – how we do it in ownCloud
Open Source Design – how we do it in ownCloud (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Traditionally open source projects are not very famous for their good design. But there’s a new generation of modern, well-designed and widely used open source apps. There’s also a few more designers working in open soure now and an upcoming Open Source Design movement. But we still need to improve, and we need to collaborate! I worked as designer with lots of open source software projects and will present the methods I use every day at ownCloud to drive forward open source design. Some topics I will cover: - how to establish a design culture in your project - how to work together with developers - making designers develop and developers design - getting university students involved - the importance of cross-project collaboration - the Open Source Design movement in general

Speakers

Jan-Christoph Borchardt

ownCloud, Open Source Design

Jan-Christoph Borchardt is an open source designer, currently focused on ownCloud and opensourcedesign.net He worked with several open source software projects including Unhosted, Terms of Service; Didn’t Read, Litewrite, Diaspora and more. Jan also regularly collaborates with design universities to get students involved in open source.
     

Eco Garden Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Design, VR, 3D


Lunch
Lunch (12:15 - 12:45)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Eco Garden Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:15 - 12:45

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  • Design, VR, 3D


Exploring the beauty of algorithms with generative art
Exploring the beauty of algorithms with generative art (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

You love code. You also love art. You want to merge the two wonderful worlds, but it can be hard. How can we create art with code and make writing code an art? In comes generative art! Generative art is art created by an independent, non-human system, for example, art generated by algorithms. Remember screensavers from the 90s? Yeah, something along those lines. You'll learn how to create art in the browser with Processing.js. I'll demo the basics of animation and we'll explore how algorithmic and mathematical concepts such as recursion, tiling, and geometry can result in unexpectedly beautiful visuals.

Speakers

Sher Minn Chong

Code Artist

Sher Minn Chong is a front-end web engineer. Equal parts programmer and visual artist, she is enjoys the combination of both worlds, especially for the web. Her background spans rapid development at startups, coding education, and never graduated from Recurse Center. She is currently excited about creative coding, JavaScript technologies, and computer vision.
     

Eco Garden Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

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  • Design, VR, 3D


Automating android games using image processing
Automating android games using image processing (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Game Automators is an effort that's made to automate android games using Matlab, OpenCV, PIL etc.., Using these we are automating the games with the adb tools. The talk will focus on what the project is all about, the community to automate mobile gaming using image processing, the possible academic research areas and the future of gaming with game automation. It's also an exciting effort to build algorithms to focus on solving larger and more dynamic mobile games. We are currently putting all the findings and the tutorials into a book and FOSSASIA would be a great platform to showcase and reach out to other researchers, students and enthusiasts about the ongoing work.

Speakers

Sudheesh Singanamalla

Loklak / National Institute of Technology Warangal

I am an open source enthusiast and contribute to FOSSASIA, Loklak, Yacy, PSF, Mozilla and Fedora actively. I've been an intern with Microsoft and Redhat in the past and was a GSoC 2015 Student with fossasia and a mentor in GCI 2015.
       

Eco Garden Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

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  • Design, VR, 3D


Exploring how designer can contribute to Open Source
Exploring how designer can contribute to Open Source (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

This talk consist of two parts: At first, we will give a review of existing academic research on usability and open source culture, as well as some beginning steps on how to make a start in contributing to OSS projects. Then an open discussion will follow: - How to choose what project you want to work on? - Where to find a project? - What you have to know to make your first contribution? This discussion is open for everyone: designers, researchers, developers.

Speakers

Victoria Bondarchuk

Seoul Tech Society, Dmajor

UX Researcher from Seoul. Interested in Open Source and Open Fashion.
       

Eco Garden Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • Design, VR, 3D


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Eco Garden Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • Design, VR, 3D


Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall)
Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall) (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Eco Garden Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Design, VR, 3D


Einstein Hall
Functionality, Security, Usability: Choose any two. Or GNOME.
Functionality, Security, Usability: Choose any two. Or GNOME. (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

The Web of Trust is the decentralised PKI in the OpenPGP world. It depends on people participating by signing other people's keys. However, when following best practises, the act of signing a key involves secure transfer of the OpenPGP key which contemporary casual key signing protocols for small groups address by exchanging the fingerprint of the key to be signed. The key will then be downloaded over an untrusted channel and the key obtained needs to be manually verified. This presentation shows a novel approach to signing keys which makes it easy to sign a person's key. It enables very small groups of people to casually hold very small key signing parties. The key idea is to automatically authenticate the key material before the transfer via a secure audible or visual channel. A Free Software implementation of the protocol will be shown and people are invited to sign their keys :-)

Speakers

Tobias Mueller

GNOME

Tobias Mueller served the GNOME Foundation to achieve their goals of creating and distributing great Free Software products as a Director of the GNOME Foundation for many year. Besides being a Free Software and GNOME lover, Tobias is involved in the German security research community around the Chaos Computer Club. Topics of interest include Platform- and System-Security, Cryptography and Security Protocols. And making all of those usable.
   

Einstein Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Privacy and Security


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Einstein Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

  •  
  • Privacy and Security


Not all security flaws are born equal
Not all security flaws are born equal (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

It’s been almost a year since the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability, a flaw which started a trend of the branded vulnerability, changing the way security vulnerabilities affecting open-source software are being reported and perceived. Vulnerabilities are found and fixed all the time, and just because a vulnerability gets a name and a fancy logo doesn’t mean it is of real risk to users. This talk is about these branded security flaws and talk about the ones which matter.

Speakers

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

Red Hat

Speaker is a Senior Security Engineer at Red Hat and a regular speaker at conferences.
       

Einstein Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • Privacy and Security


Privly - Share Privately
Privly - Share Privately (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Privly extensions help in viewing and posting encrypted information through social media and email.

Speakers

Sambuddha Basu

Privly

Privly now has a Safari extension which is an addition to its previous Chrome and Firefox extensions. This was built during the Google Summer of Code program. Privly also allows seamless posting of messages now. To support the open source community, Privly is also a part of the FOSSASIA organization for the Google CodeIn program.
       

Einstein Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Privacy and Security


Lunch
Lunch (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Einstein Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

  •  
  • Privacy and Security


Ring a decentralized and secure communication platform
Ring a decentralized and secure communication platform (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

Ring, a project from Savoir-faire Linux, creators of SFLphone, uses a distributed hash table instead of a central SIP server to find other users. This peer-to-peer network is also accessible from other applications using the project's OpenDHT library. Signaling protocols, like SIP, XMPP and IAX, typically rely on central servers to help users locate each other and initiate sessions. Ring is an evolved version of the SFLphone SIP client adding support for true peer-to-peer calling without any central server. The peer-to-peer network transport is implemented using the OpenDHT library, making it a universal solution that can be used for any arbitrary real-time signalling requirement from any application.

Speakers

Alexandre Lision

Ring developped by Savoir-faire Linux

Alexandre has been working as a free software consultant at Savoir-faire Linux in Montréal since 2013. He has developped a wide panel of mobile apps, from sport statistics collection, to industrial metal testing. End of 2014, he joined the Ring team to port Ring on Mac OSX, working on low level video development (libav/ffmpeg), packaging, and UI/UX.
 

Einstein Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

  •  
  • Privacy and Security


Demo Session
Demo Session (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Einstein Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • Privacy and Security


Intrusion Detection with AIDE
Intrusion Detection with AIDE (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

With the emerging security threats on this age, it is wiser to have an integrity checker on a daily basis to audit the system. And in my workshop, I will showcase the implementation and use of AIDE. AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Enviornment) is a tool to check the file integrity. It is an opensource substitute for commercial tool TRIPWIRE. It allows to take snapshots of all the major configuration files, binaries as well as libraries stats. And helps to find which binaries have been changed in case of compromisation of the system.

Speakers

Michael Rebultan

Equinix

More than 13 years in Linux systems administration and network hardening. An experienced security audit in PCI-DSS and SOX compliance. A Penetration Tester and Vulnerability Assessment practitioner. With background in Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering.
   

Einstein Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • Privacy and Security


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Einstein Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • Privacy and Security


Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall)
Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall) (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Einstein Hall

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Privacy and Security


Faraday Lab
NodeSchool
NodeSchool (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

If you want to increase your skills with either JavaScript or Node.js, NodeSchool is easily the best way to do it. We will be hosting hands-on workshops for both beginners and experienced node developers. This event is for both newcomers and prior attendees!

Speakers

Soares Chen

SingaporeJS

NodeSchool is an open source project run by volunteers with two goals: to create high quality programming curriculum and to host community learning events.
       

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • WebTech


Joerg Henning
Joerg Henning (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

  •  
  • WebTech


Sebastiaan Deckers
Sebastiaan Deckers (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • WebTech


Tim Oxley
Tim Oxley (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

  •  
  • WebTech


Demo Session
Demo Session (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

  •  
  • WebTech


Nodeschool
Nodeschool (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

Nodeschool

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

  •  
  • WebTech


Demo Session
Demo Session (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • WebTech


NodeSchool
NodeSchool (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Learning JavaScript from beginner to master level. Self-driven workshops with coaching by mentors.

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • WebTech


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • WebTech


WebAudio School
WebAudio School (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

An intro to the Web Audio API through a series of self-guided workshops. We'll be using WebAudio School, which is a NodeSchool style interactive workshop, led by a mentor. We will go through interactive lessons in a browser, and learn the WebAudio API (Javascript) which allows real-time synthesis and analysis of sound in a browser. We will primarily focus on using the Web Audio API for music, but the concepts here could be applied to game sound and other creative uses. Reminder to participants : Bring headphones.

Speakers

Chinmay Pendharkar

Web Audio

Chinmay is a geek who works with audio technologies. His background is in embedded systems and engineering acoustics, and currently works with underwater communication and networking. He is also the organiser of a couple of geek/developer/hacker meetups in Singapore. He has been involved with WebAudio since the early days and helps out in the W3C specification process for WebAudio.
   

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • WebTech


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

  •  
  • WebTech


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • WebTech


Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall)
Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall) (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Faraday Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • WebTech


Fermi Lab
Content Translation on Wikipedia
Content Translation on Wikipedia (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Content Translation is a tool that has used to translate more than 50,000 Wikipedia articles worldwide till date. It makes it easy to create new articles on Wikipedia that already exist on other language Wikipedia. With this tool categories, references and interwiki links are added by themselves and all you need to do is to translate the text.

Speakers

Satdeep Gill

Punjabi Wikimedians

Wikimedian since 2009, I realized that there is no single project which focus on folklore. This will help to translate folklores as well. I am student of Punjabi Language and Literature and I have studied Culture and Folklore as a part of my academic curriculum.
     

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

  •  
  • Big Data/Open Data


Developing for Open Event
Developing for Open Event (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

The FOSSASIA Open Event Project aims to make it easier for events, conferences, tech summits (maybe more types in future) to easily create Web and Mobile (only Android right now) micro Apps. The project comprises of a data schema for easily storing event details, a server and web frontend that are used to view, modify, update this data easily by the event organisers, a mobile-friendly webapp client to show the event data to attendees, an Android app template which will be used to generate specific apps for each event. I made this with arnav, rafal, mohit, mario and duke as part of my GSoC project

Speakers

Rafal Kowalski

Rafal

This workshops introduces the ideas and implementation of Open Event, the data format exchange and how we build Android and Web Apps based on the Open Event JSON. We will give you an overview of the app and quickly move on to show you how to generate apps from the Open Event JSON.
   

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Manan Wason
Manan Wason (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

The FOSSASIA Open Event Project aims to make it easier for events, conferences, tech summits (maybe more types in future) to easily create Web and Mobile (only Android right now) micro Apps. The project comprises of a data schema for easily storing event details, a server and web frontend that are used to view, modify, update this data easily by the event organisers, a mobile-friendly webapp client to show the event data to attendees, an Android app template which will be used to generate specific apps for each event. I made this with arnav, rafal, mohit, mario and duke as part of my GSoC project

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Lunch
Lunch (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


How to develop app based using the loklak API
How to develop app based using the loklak API (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

This workshop will enable participants to build client apps by consuming an open source Twitter API from the Loklak server. The workshop will help participants install and setup the Loklak server on their systems. Once setup is complete, there will be a hands-on tutorial on how to consume the Loklak API to build client apps on various devices and languages. This will cover an overview and short tutorial of using the API wrappers and a thorough walk-through of the API methods. There will be demos of apps made for web, mobile and IOT. By the end of the workshop, participants will be ready with their own app consuming the Loklak API on a device and language of their choice. We can then have a short presentation session by the participants showcasing the apps they built during the workshop.

Speakers

Aneesh Devasthale

Loklak

Aneesh Devasthale is a software developer and entrepreneur from New Delhi. He loves experimenting and combining different technologies. He is on a mission to make software that can solve the world's problems.
       

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Demo Session
Demo Session (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • Big Data/Open Data


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • Big Data/Open Data


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • Big Data/Open Data


Voice Programming in Java
Voice Programming in Java (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Although high quality, general-purpose dictation is just barely outside our reach, modern speech recognition is well adapted to small-vocabulary, structured grammars like programming languages and voice user interfaces (VUIs). By providing alternative input mechanisms to traditional IDEs, we can improve accessibility for visually impaired programmers, and free developers from the paradigm of menu- and button- based navigation. In this presentation, we will demonstrate an open source tool that can navigate code, recognize simple commands, and help you write Java, just by listening to your voice. Written in Java and built on open source libraries, you too can integrate speech recognition in an IDE or desktop application of your choice, by using a few simple recipes.

Speakers

Breandan Considine

JetBrains

Breandan is a developer advocate at JetBrains, where he enjoys building software, writing technical content, speaking at conferences, and learning from some of the world's best software developers.
       

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

  •  
  • Big Data/Open Data


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • Big Data/Open Data


Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall)
Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall) (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Fermi Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Big Data/Open Data


Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A
Developers looking for designers? Show off your project!
Developers looking for designers? Show off your project! (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

If you work on an open source project and need design help with User Experience, Branding or Visual User Interface , come and present your project. Hopefully we can get http://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/ on board and post jobs on the website.

Speakers

Victoria Bondarchuk

Seoul Tech Society, Dmajor

UX Researcher from Seoul. Interested in Open Source and Open Fashion.
       

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Master of Science Technopreneurship & Innovation Programme (MSc TIP)
Master of Science Technopreneurship & Innovation Programme (MSc TIP) (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation (MSc TIP) programme is a 1-year full-time programme or 2-year part-time programme. It is also offered in Chinese language as a 1-year full-time programme.

Speakers

Claire Tan

NTU Nanyang Technopreneruship Center

The Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation (MSc TIP) programme aims to develop and equip global entrepreneurs with the skills and stamina to turn novel ideas into successful ventures in the fast-paced economy today. Modelled after the venture creation cycle, this programme enables candidates to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and the essential business knowledge. Participants learn effective entrepreneurship problem-solving techniques and business decision making approaches through the unique TIP pedagogy: Experiential Learning, Global Immersion and Transformational Experience. Imparting managerial theories and technical skills, the distinguished faculty members and business mentors inspire the participants with their strong domain expertise and hands-on approaches. Further to that, the programme fosters a global entrepreneurship learning ecosystem which includes visit to leading technology hotbeds such as Silicon Valley, Boston, New York City, Beijing Zhongguanzun Science Park and Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), and learning exchange at world-class universities such as Stanford, Berkley, Tsinghua, and Peking University.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

  •  
  • Exhibition


coala
coala (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

coala [1] provides an abstraction for static code analysis that is useful while still applicable to any text based language. coala provides convenient user interfaces for multiple usecases which takes away a lot of common tasks from the developer. In this process coala makes research available for production immediately and combines rapid prototyping with instant usability. coala also facilitates people entering the world of open source by providing them valuable feedback on coding standards and formatting in one consistent way for all languages. [1] http://coala-analyzer.org/

Speakers

Ankit Verma

coala

Ankit has contributed mainly in coala-artwork and helped out in website design for coala. He also did the gitmate.io website. He is also a GNOME foundation member. Udayan who will also be helping with the stall has been involved with coala since February 2015. He may also be giving a talk at FOSSASIA if selected. coala was his GSoC project where he worked on core coala features and developing a GUI for it. Since then he has been involved with coala in some capacity.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

  •  
  • Exhibition


FOSSASIA
FOSSASIA (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

FOSSASIA Exhibition

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


RedHat
RedHat (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

RedHat Community - Helping our open source projects and standards be wildly successful

Speakers

Harish Pillay

RedHat

Harish Pillay is the president of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter. He is a pioneer on the Internet having gotten on to the ARPAnet and UUCP networks in 1985. He is a ham and his callsign is 9V1HP.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


MySQL
MySQL (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The World's Most Popular Open Source Database

Speakers

Ricky Setyawan

MySQL

Ricky Setyawan has been in the IT industry for 17 years with the good last 15 years working as RDBMS specialist. He is currently MySQL Principal Sales Consultant for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Pakistan. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a Principal DBA doing database design and management on Oracle and DB2 on RedHat Linux on continuous availability server. He has been working on a number of RDBMS throughout his career such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


UNESCO YouthMobile
UNESCO YouthMobile (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The YouthMobile Initiative builds on the experience of many worldwide initiatives that introduce young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-learn). It also seeks to build on experiences targeting young women who are vastly underrepresented in this field. Finally it builds on the consideration that for millions of young people, the smartphone in their pocket is a very powerful computer, it will be their only computer, and they use it for nearly every aspect of their lives: communicating, learning, taking pictures, and playing games.

Speakers

Misako Ito

UNESCO

WHO BENEFITS FROM YOUTHMOBILE? »Youth and Youth organizations Informal learning opportunities for youth to engage in society and earn livelihoods as mobile app entrepreneurs. ICT-enabled youth organizations creating a sustainable pool of trainers, support staff, and mentors. »Secondary School Students Acquiring high-level 21st century skills and confidence to develop/promote mobile apps to resolve local issues of sustainable development. »Teachers and Principals Teaching a new, innovative course in mobile apps development, acquiring ICT-pedagogy skills, connecting the school to other schools nationally and globally. » By gathering training materials to teach young people to develop mobile apps. The materials will be high-level and open-licensed for translation, localization, and innovations. Training materials will be pedagogically accurate for accreditation and employer recognition. » By training teachers to teach the students. UNESCO will be identifying all schools worldwide with existing programs for advanced computer studies. » By linking the learners to mobile app competitions, through the creation of the first global list of app competitors: encouraging trained students to submit apps for prizes, recognition, and employment opportunities; and let them meet and learn from those who made it.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

  •  
  • Exhibition


Ring a decentralized and secure communication platform
Ring a decentralized and secure communication platform (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Ring, a project from Savoir-faire Linux, creators of SFLphone, uses a distributed hash table instead of a central SIP server to find other users. This peer-to-peer network is also accessible from other applications using the project's OpenDHT library. Signaling protocols, like SIP, XMPP and IAX, typically rely on central servers to help users locate each other and initiate sessions. Ring is an evolved version of the SFLphone SIP client adding support for true peer-to-peer calling without any central server. The peer-to-peer network transport is implemented using the OpenDHT library, making it a universal solution that can be used for any arbitrary real-time signalling requirement from any application.

Speakers

Alexandre Lision

Ring developped by Savoir-faire Linux

Alexandre has been working as a free software consultant at Savoir-faire Linux in Montréal since 2013. He has developped a wide panel of mobile apps, from sport statistics collection, to industrial metal testing. End of 2014, he joined the Ring team to port Ring on Mac OSX, working on low level video development (libav/ffmpeg), packaging, and UI/UX.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

  •  
  • Exhibition


Enriching Student Experience
Enriching Student Experience (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

The exhibition showcases the use of open source hardware and software e.g. Intel Galileo, Arduino etc to support student learning needs, for student exposure to open source tools and as outreach to potential students

Speakers

Peter LIM

Nanyang Polytechnic

Open source software and hardware kit has enabled solutions to be developed rapidly. To enhance student learning experience, students having been taught on fundamental concepts and knowledge, use open source hardware and software to reinforce the understanding through the application development. Students have benefited from the methods greatly.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Free Real-time communications lounge
Free Real-time communications lounge (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Free Real-time communications lounge

Speakers

Daniel Pocock

Debian

Professional software engineer and consultant. Daniel Pocock has developed enterprise grade solutions for some of the giants of the financial services industry, including secure connectivity for UBS (using Apache Camel), the first customer-facing WebRTC contact solution on Wall Street at Interactive Brokers, enterprise-wide real-time monitoring for Barclays Capital (based on Ganglia) and a wide range of real-time financial trade capture and risk management solutions for Thomson Reuters. Despite the highly proprietary nature of these enterprises, Pocock has remained a champion of efficient, cost effective open source solutions to meet demanding business requirements. Pocock actively contributes to a range of free software projects with a focus on real-time communications (RTC) and VoIP, in particular, Lumicall, JSCommunicator, DruCall, reSIProcate, Ganglia and flactag. Pocock is the author of the RTC Quick Start Guide and is part of the team behind the O'Reilly book Monitoring with Ganglia Pocock is a Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora Developer and an OpenCSW package maintainer. He is a licensed radio amateur with the callsigns VK3TQR and M0GLR.
   

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Science Hacks with PSL@Fossasia
Science Hacks with PSL@Fossasia (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

PSL@FOSSASIA aims to deliver low-cost lab equipments to millions of students and young scientists and enable them to learn science by experimenting and exploring. The main components of PSL are ExpEYES: Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists and MicroHope: Micro-controllers for Hobby Projects and Education (www.expeyes.in) In this space open science experiments developed during GSoC-15 project will be exhibited. The demonstrations include Coupled oscillations, Electromagnetic Induction, PSL-Laser Show, Weather station using ExpEYES and Raspberry-Pi and various other science hacks. At this space we will also be presenting and inviting ideas for Science Hack Day India.

Speakers

Minal Patil

ExpEYES

A Physics Teacher and a free software enthusiast. FOSSASIA GSoC student alumnus and GCI mentor. Working on ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab, Involved in FOSS training programs for science teachers and students. E-content developer for National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) for School Education and member of committee for “Development of ICT Refresher Course for students and teachers”by Central Institute of Education Technology (CIET), NCERT, New Delhi. Talks at International Events: FOSSASIA - 2014 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia RMLL-2014 at Montpellier, France FOSSASIA -2015 at NUS Singapore PyCon Sg at Singapore
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


ESPresso Lite
ESPresso Lite (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Implementing democratised Internet-of-Things services/solutions

Speakers

Ulrich Norbisrath

ulno.net

Ulrich Norbisrath, PhD has more than 20 years of industrial and academic experience in Software Engineering and Systems Integration. He has supported the start-up of several software development companies as well as consulted tech companies in questions of Systems Integration, Mobile, and Cloud Computing. He provides a deep technical understanding of mobile technologies and their integration with cloud services -- both from an academic as well as an industrial perspective. He raised significant grants on Cloud, Mobile, and High Performance Computing at universities in Europe and Central Asia. He is a published book author in the area of Software and Requirements Engineering. Being connected through his immediate family to US Diplomatic services, he is very well traveled and can call on a worldwide network of international experts. He is currently employed as a professor at the University Applied Sciences Upper Austria in their Mobile Computing program.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Introduction to ESPresso Lite
Introduction to ESPresso Lite (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Implementing democratised Internet-of-Things services/solutions

Speakers

William Hooi

ESPert

William Hooi is currently the CEO of Espert Pte Ltd, a new start-up venture that develop Wi-Fi-enabled (ESP8266-based) development and production hardware as well as cloud and mobile SDK to help makers to build their own IoT product, solutions and services. Previously, he was involved in organising the annual Singapore Mini Maker Faire while he was with the Science Centre Singapore. Having served in the public school system in various capacities for the past 15 years, he started his own private practice 2 years ago to create platforms for citizen innovation for the Maker Movement. He is also concurrently the Executive Director of the SG Makers Association and a director of the OneMaker Group, a maker ecosystem developer in Singapore.
   

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


ChorusText open assistive device
ChorusText open assistive device (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

ChorusText is an open assistive device built with Arduino, Linux SBC and a few sliders and buttons. It is a text-editing device that lets the user do text editing by means of touch and hearing, without eyesight. It is an ongoing project and the goal of the project is to come up with an assistive device that enables the visually challenged to edit text effectively, and with open-source code + design files such that anyone interested can build one themselves.

Speakers

David Effendi

ChorusText

ChorusText is an open assistive device built with Arduino, Linux SBC and a few sliders and buttons. It is a text-editing device that lets the user do text editing by means of touch and hearing, without eyesight. It is an ongoing project and the goal of the project is to come up with an assistive device that enables the visually challenged to edit text effectively, and with open-source code + design files such that anyone interested can build one themselves.
     

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Deepin Desktop System Demo
Deepin Desktop System Demo (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Deepin Desktop System showcase.

Speakers

Derek Dai

Deepin

Derek is a Linux user and developer. Interesting in how to measure and improve system performance recently.
   

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

  •  
  • Exhibition


CryptoParty and/or key signing event
CryptoParty and/or key signing event (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

To the people who already know what a CryptoParty is: We are doing it, come! To everyone else: Online communication is an important part of our lives. Unlike physical communication, we cannot control who can reach our data when we send it through the "inter-tubes." Fortunately, there are techniques to prevent people from eavesdropping your online conversations. In this workshop, I will talk about easy-to-use security tools that you can use to keep your conversations private: how to encrypt emails and instant messaging. It will be a not-so-technical workshop aimed to include anybody who knows how to use email.

Speakers

Emin Aksehirli

Singtel

Dr. Emin Aksehirli is a computer engineer and he is currently working as a data scientist. He is a free software and free culture enthusiast.
       

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


Creative Confidence
Creative Confidence (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Innovation depends on developing creative solutions for the complicated challenges we will be facing in the future, but what happens if we want to start innovating but we believe that we are not creative? The experiential booth will have tools and materials for participants to stop by and create a personalized coaster or greeting. Each participant can stay up to 20 min, as to let other people have a chance at making.

Speakers

Elda Webb

One Maker Group

I have a very curious mind and I strive to integrate design, technology and learning in all my endeavors. I’m currently the Lead Curriculum Developer for OneMaker Group and my main objective is to help makers of all ages build up their creative confidence by breaking the barriers of the mind, and show that everybody have the potential to be a maker and a designer. Before joining OMG, I worked at Autodesk for over 9 years in Singapore as a Learning Content Developer. I hold a B.A in Architecture from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and has worked as a 3D modeler and Graphic Designer in Mexico, USA and Canada. She is actively involved in the Singapore Maker community.
 

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

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  • Exhibition


End of Exhibition
End of Exhibition (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • Exhibition


FOSSASIA 2016 Closes
FOSSASIA 2016 Closes (17:00 - 17:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A

Sunday, 20th Mar, 17:00 - 17:30

  •  
  • Exhibition


Herschel Lab
MySQL Performance Schema - A great insight of MySQL server execution
MySQL Performance Schema - A great insight of MySQL server execution (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

The MySQL Performance Schema is a feature for monitoring Oracle's MySQL Server execution at a low level. This versatile and tightly integrated component collects performance and session data from various subsystems within the server during runtime with minimal impact on overall server performance. This feature was introduced in MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.7 GA has been released with great enhancements in it for performance monitoring and tuning.This talk aims to give an overview of Performance Schema and how/what statistical information user is provided with using Performance Schema. With the help pf few use cases, it also explains how that information can be used for monitoring and trouble shooting to track an issue back to the relevant file and line of code in source file. This talk also aims to give a glimpse of new interesting features/monitoring information added in MySQL 5.7 GA. This talk is targeted to many database users which includes DBA, Database Application developers, Database developers, Students etc.

Speakers

Mayank Prasad

MySQL, Oracle India Private Limited

I am working in Oracle as Principal Member Technical Staff and work in MySQL–Performance Schema development. I have been working in database development since 2006. Prior to Oracle, I was working in IBM software Labs in DB2 development for around four and half years. I have two patents and one published disclosure on my name and two of them are in database technology. I also have an ieee research paper in ICIP (International conference of Image Processing), in field of Image processing. I have presented MySQL Performance Schema on different conferences and platforms. To name few : 1. FOSSASIA, 2015, Singapore. 2. Oracle Open World - Oct 2015. San Franscisco. 3. Oracle Open World - Oct 2014. San Franscisco. 4. "Open Source India Conference", 2015, Bangalore. 5. "Open Source India Conference", 2013, Bangalore. 6. "Open Source India Conference", 2012, Bangalore. 7. MySQL User Camp, 2012, Bangalore.
     

Herschel Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Databases


Unlocking New Big Data Insights with Hadoop & MySQL
Unlocking New Big Data Insights with Hadoop & MySQL (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

As Big Data and the Internet of Things generate significant transformations in the way organizations capture and analyze new and diverse data streams, find out how using MySQL solutions with Hadoop can enable you to yield more insight than was ever previously imaginable. MySQL is the leading open source database for Web-based and Cloud-based applications; and is integrated within numerous Big Data platforms.

Speakers

Ricky Setyawan

MySQL

Ricky Setyawan has been in the IT industry for 17 years with the good last 15 years working as RDBMS specialist. He is currently MySQL Principal Sales Consultant for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Pakistan. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a Principal DBA doing database design and management on Oracle and DB2 on RedHat Linux on continuous availability server. He has been working on a number of RDBMS throughout his career such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL.
 

Herschel Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

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  • Databases


Enhanced High Availability using MySQL Group Replication
Enhanced High Availability using MySQL Group Replication (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

MySQL Replication provides a solution for High Availability and Read Scale-Out. Replication ensures that data written on one MySQL server is made available on other MySQL servers at run time in a fast, consistent and fault tolerant manner with minimal impact to the overall performance of the server. Traditionally, MySQL Replication supports a single master and many slaves, and it is either asynchronous or semi-synchronous. A new replication plugin for MySQL has been around for some time and this is named MySQL Group Replication. This plugin provides multi-master update everywhere capabilities, making it possible to update data, concurrently, on any server in a group. It provides additional synchronization between servers that makes them coordinate regarding transactions that are committed in the group. This talk explains how MySQL Group Replication facilitates and improves High Availability and simplifies replication and application management - it will also include a demo. Takeaways: - What's MySQL Group Replication and its evolution. - Understanding the architecture of MySQL Group Replication. - Demo on how to use MySQL Group replication for improved High Availability.

Speakers

Manish Kumar

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.

Its about MySQL Group Replication and its evolution
 

Herschel Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Databases


Metadata Storage for Transactional Databases
Metadata Storage for Transactional Databases (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Storage of database metadata has always been a very interesting problem involving database design. For a long time MySQL was using file based system for metadata storage. MySQL is designing and implementing a new and improved data dictionary for MySQL. Main goals of Data dictionary is : - Store dictionary information in transactional storage. - Consolidate distributed dictionary information for the server into a unified dictionary - Store all dictionary information in a uniform way, with uniform APIs for all dictionary objects - Get rid of filesystem-property induced problems

Speakers

Abhishek Ranjan

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.

Abhishek Ranjan obtained his Engineering degree in Computer Science in 2012 from BIT Mesra. Mr Ranjan has been working as Software Developer in MySQL Runtime team since 2012. He is currently employed by Oracle, based in India.
   

Herschel Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

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  • Databases


Lunch
Lunch (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Herschel Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • Databases


Crash course in Graph Databases
Crash course in Graph Databases (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

Graph databases are the future. Many organizations adopted graph databases - IoT, health care, financial services, telecommunications and governments. What are the reason for this trend? What are the use cases and what are the Open Source databases you should look into for your scenario? We'll dive into a few of them and equip the attendees with everything they need to start using a graph database. This workshop is based on our research and implementation of a graph database at Sanguine, a medical startup from LA.

Speakers

Oren Golan

Sanguine

When not collecting Hello Kitty accessories, Oren likes to create things and break them apart. His recent experiments involve Node.js, Docker, Elm and Graph databases.
       

Herschel Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

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  • Databases


Demo Session
Demo Session (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Herschel Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • Databases


Powering IoT with MySQL & JSON
Powering IoT with MySQL & JSON (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

JSON is deemed to be the most widely used format for the Internet of Things. MySQL 5.7, launched October last year, has incorporated a native JSON support into its very popular RDBMS. With the advancement of JSON in MySQL 5.7, and the growth of Big Data, we are sure to witness many new breathtaking innovations in this area.

Speakers

Ricky Setyawan

MySQL

Ricky Setyawan has been in the IT industry for 17 years with the good last 15 years working as RDBMS specialist. He is currently MySQL Principal Sales Consultant for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Pakistan. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a Principal DBA doing database design and management on Oracle and DB2 on RedHat Linux on continuous availability server. He has been working on a number of RDBMS throughout his career such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL.
 

Herschel Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • Databases


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Herschel Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • Databases


End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only)
End of Sessions and Social Event (Invitation Only) (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Herschel Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • Databases


Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall)
Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall) (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Herschel Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

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  • Databases


Lewis Lab
GitHub Workshop
GitHub Workshop (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

A GitHub Workshop: This is a self-directed and hands-on workshop for people who want to learn Git, GitHub, or GitHub Pages. You’ll leave with a merged Pull Request, a square on your contributions graph, and confidence to get more involved in the open source community. If you’re an experienced GitHub user, we’d love for you to join the session as a mentor.

Speakers

Sahil Bajaj

GitHub/Homebrew/Grumpy Gits

Sahil is a developer based in Singapore.
   

Lewis Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Lewis Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

  •  
  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Lewis Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Lewis Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

  •  
  • OpenTech Workshops


Lunch
Lunch (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Lewis Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Building Truly Native Apps with NativeScript
Building Truly Native Apps with NativeScript (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

We are going to explore the vast galaxy of native app development, but not on iOS, Android or Windows. But on the very familiar JavaScript framework. NativeScript is fully open sourced, so developers now have an option to build truly native mobile applications without the need to code in many different languages. We will get some hands on during this workshop to play with NativeScript and explore some of its amazing capabilities.

Speakers

Sherman Chen

Progress

I am a full stack developer with 10 years of experience across multiple levels and fields of work. I have done Windows, Web & Mobile app developments for start-ups, SMEs and Enterprises.
       

Lewis Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Lewis Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Lewis Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • OpenTech Workshops


Practical Computerized Home Automation
Practical Computerized Home Automation (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

You can control devices in your home from your computer with no new wiring. This session covers controlling lights, bells, and motors using open source software. Wireless remotes can also control devices. Sensors can provide information about motion, sunset, temperature. Capturing caller id and auto-dialing is also covered. X10 is an ideal system for home automation, and there are methods to improve reliability. Computers can easily send X10 signals across your electrical network. The session concludes with a live demo showing a home with 38 computer-controlled devices and sensors. URLs of slides: http://momjian.us/main/writings/home_automation.pdf http://momjian.us/main/writings/home_automation_software.pdf

Speakers

Bruce Momjian

EnterpriseDB

Bruce Momjian is co-founder and core team member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He has been employed by EnterpriseDB since 2006. He has spoken at many international open-source conferences and is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley. Prior to his involvement with PostgreSQL, Bruce worked as a consultant, developing custom database applications for some of the world's largest law firms. As an academic, Bruce holds a Masters in Education, was a high school computer science teacher, and is currently an adjunct professor at Drexel University.
 

Lewis Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

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  • OpenTech Workshops


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Lewis Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • OpenTech Workshops


Closing Notes
Closing Notes (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Lewis Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

  •  
  • OpenTech Workshops


Observatory Room
Let's talk systemd!
Let's talk systemd! (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Let's talk systemd in this BoF-like workshop. If you have any question regarding systemd, about using it, about hacking on it, about its future and our plans, then come this session. If you'd like to know more about the any facet of systemd, and never dared to ask, this is the place to come! The idea of this session is that we discuss whatever interests you, the audience! Hence, please come up with good topics!

Speakers

Lennart Poettering

Red Hat

Lennart works in the Server Experience Group at Red Hat, and lives in Berlin.
   

Observatory Room

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

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  • Linux and MiniDebConf


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Observatory Room

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

  •  
  • Linux and MiniDebConf


Using the systemd Journal for Your Daily Work
Using the systemd Journal for Your Daily Work (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

At this workshop we want to dive into the systemd journal, and how to use it for your daily devops or administrator work. The systemd journal is systemd's logging infrastructure and hence a core component of pretty much all modern Linux systems. Specifically, we'll play around with "journalctl" and related tools and what they can do for you. We'll particularly focus in filtering log output and structured logging, and everything else that makes the journal more powerful than "cat /var/log/syslog". Please bring your own laptop to this workshop. Please install a major distribution (Fedora, Ubuntu, …), that has adopted systemd (which is pretty much any, as long as it is somewhat recent). Some of the features we'll show rely on very new features of the systemd journal, hence the newer version you pick the better. But even if you don't want to bring your own laptop, it should still be useful to follow this workshop without any.

Speakers

Lennart Poettering

Red Hat

Lennart works in the Server Experience Group at Red Hat, and lives in Berlin.
   

Observatory Room

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

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  • Linux and MiniDebConf


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Observatory Room

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

  •  
  • Linux and MiniDebConf


GNOME 3.20 - Get it while it's fresh!
GNOME 3.20 - Get it while it's fresh! (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

GNOME 3.20 is just around the corner! It's due on 21st of March. With that release, many visible improvements will be delivered to users around the world. While many people already excitedly use GNOME 3 with the new user experience, some features of the new and elegant desktop like LibreOffice integration or editing photos with non-destructive GEGL operations are not yet wildly known. We also did many things on the plumbing layer such as allowing GNOME to run Wayland. The talk will introduce to some of the design philosophies inherent in GNOME 3 as well as the main changes brought to users and developers. Also, since GNOME 3.20 is another step of a long lasting incrementally improved user experience, the future of GNOME's development will be speculated on.

Speakers

Tobias Mueller

GNOME

Tobias Mueller served the GNOME Foundation to achieve their goals of creating and distributing great Free Software products as a Director of the GNOME Foundation for many year. Besides being a Free Software and GNOME lover, Tobias is involved in the German security research community around the Chaos Computer Club. Topics of interest include Platform- and System-Security, Cryptography and Security Protocols. And making all of those usable.
   

Observatory Room

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

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  • Linux and MiniDebConf


Lunch
Lunch (12:30 - 13:00)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Observatory Room

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:30 - 13:00

  •  
  • Linux and MiniDebConf


Linux Btrfs
Linux Btrfs (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

An overview of Linux Btrfs and its recent development.

Speakers

Anand Jain

Oracle Corporation Singapore Pte Ltd

Anand Jain is a Linux kernel developer at Oracle corporation Singapore. Currently he is contributing to the development of Btrfs File System.
 

Observatory Room

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • Linux and MiniDebConf


Reproducible Builds - fulfilling the original promise of free software
Reproducible Builds - fulfilling the original promise of free software (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Whilst anyone can inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, most Linux distributions provide binary (or "compiled") packages to end users. The motivation behind "reproducible" builds is to allow verification that no flaws have been introduced during this compilation process by promising identical binary packages are always generated from a given source. This prevents against the installation of backdoor-introducing malware on developers' machines - an attacker would need to simultaneously infect all developers attempting to reproduce the build. Furthermore, a reproducible build has a wide variety technical advantages, including implicitly removing non-deterministic or unsafe behaviour (such as downloading third-party code from the internet), detecting corrupted build environments, reducing time-to-detection of a build host compromise, as well as numerous other debugging and testing advantages. In this sense, reproducible builds are finally fulfilling the original promise of free software - that you have actual control over what is being run on your computers.

Speakers

Chris Lamb

Debian

I have been a prolific Debian Developer since 2008, not only maintaining popular software packages such as Redis, but I have been an "archive assistant", committer in the Live CD, Installer and X.Org maintainer teams, and an active participant in archive-wide quality-assurance efforts.
     

Observatory Room

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • Linux and MiniDebConf


Tracing With ftrace
Tracing With ftrace (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

With ftrace - a mature tracing mechanism in Linux kernel, you can really see what system is going on, in order to learn and to solve the problems you are facing.

Speakers

Derek Dai

Deepin

Derek is a Linux user and developer. Interesting in how to measure and improve system performance recently.
   

Observatory Room

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • Linux and MiniDebConf


Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall)
Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall) (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Observatory Room

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

  •  
  • Linux and MiniDebConf


Pauling Lab
Demo Session
Demo Session (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

  •  
  • Python


Leveraging Telegram API and nltk to implement interactive user interfaces for businesses
Leveraging Telegram API and nltk to implement interactive user interfaces for businesses (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Micro Social networks and messaging platforms are playing a huge role in shaping up the major internet usage in the world. There is a tremendous potential of using these platforms, these platforms already provide high security levels ensuring that the over head of security can be safely taken a step later and the developers can lay their core focus only on the main prototype. In this workshop we can explore the possibilities of using these message platforms in various ways, to control IOT at home and business as well as to create artificial intelligence to build better and more engaging customer experiences

Speakers

Kranthi Kiran Guduru

Thinkbroad

Open source enthusiast with interests in fields of Business intelligence, data science, ML and IoT
       

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

  •  
  • Python


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

  •  
  • Python


Building user centric applications using the Loklak and Twitter API - An example of Complaint registrations
Building user centric applications using the Loklak and Twitter API - An example of Complaint registrations (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Loklak's APIs are very powerful, To make the utilization of these APIs much more, i had created the python-loklak-api which works as the main bridge to build the telegram bots in python as well as the main backbone behind the software solution called GEAR (Govt. Enhanced Administrative Resource) which is a dedicated open source software for tracking complaints registered with the government's. Started in 2014 December, this software is now being pilot tested in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the loklak API serves as the main tool for the governments to interact with citizens, A rant on twitter can now be taken seriously by the governments to improve the way they function.

Speakers

Sudheesh Singanamalla

Loklak / National Institute of Technology Warangal

I am an open source enthusiast and contribute to FOSSASIA, Loklak, Yacy, PSF, Mozilla and Fedora actively. I've been an intern with Microsoft and Redhat in the past and was a GSoC 2015 Student with fossasia and a mentor in GCI 2015.
       

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • Python


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

  •  
  • Python


Lunch
Lunch (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

  •  
  • Python


Openess in Quality: Migrating testing framework from bash to pytest
Openess in Quality: Migrating testing framework from bash to pytest (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

This talk will be focused on process of migration from Bash testing framework to Python using Red hat Directory Server(RHDS) as an example. RHDS is the enterprise-class LDAP server for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its IPA. RHDS is already being used by many well known names in professional industry and it handles many of the largest LDAP deployments in the world.

Speakers

Amita Sharma

Red Hat

Amita Sharma - I am a Senior Quality Engineer at Red Hat, working for 5 years now. I am responsible for Quality Assurance and testing of Red Hat Directory Server (389). I am a Fedora and Open Source Software enthusiast and contribute to various projects in different ways. I spoke about Fedora QA process at Flock, 2014 in Prague. I regularly write for the Fedora Magazine and blog at http://whatamithinks.wordpress.com/."
 

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

  •  
  • Python


Multibody Dynamics and Control with Python
Multibody Dynamics and Control with Python (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

In this workshop, attendees will learn how to derive, simulate, control, and visualize the motion of a multibody dynamic system with Python tools. These methods and techniques play an important role in the design and understanding of robots, vehicles, spacecraft, manufacturing machines, human motion, etc. In particular, the attendees will develop code to simulate the motion of a human balancing while standing using specific Joints. We have found that a broad audience enjoys the topic. Attendees should be familiar with the basics of the SciPy stack, in particular NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, and IPython and have some familiarity with classical mechanics specially common joints like pin joint and sliding joints.

Speakers

Sahil Shekhawat

SymPy / PyDy

PyDy, short for Python Dynamics, is both a workflow that utlizes an array of scientific tools written in the Python programming language to study multibody dynamics and a set of software packages that help automate and enhance the workflow. The core of this toolset is the SymPy mechanics package which generates symbolic equations of motion for complex multibody systems and PyDy which extends the SymPy output to the numerical domain for simulation, analyses, and visualization. PyDy builds on the popular scientific Python stack such as NumPy, SciPy, IPython, matplotlib, Cython, and Theano.
       

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • Python


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • Python


Symbolic Computation with Python using SymPy
Symbolic Computation with Python using SymPy (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

In this tutorial I will introduce attendees to SymPy, a computer aided algebra system (CAS) written in Python. I will show the basics of constructing and manipulating mathematical expressions in SymPy, the most common issues and differences from other computer algebra systems, and how to deal with them. In the last part of this tutorial, I will show how to solve practical problems with SymPy. This will include showing how to interface SymPy with popular numeric libraries like NumPy.

Speakers

Amit Kumar JHA

SymPy

I am a Final year Student at Delhi Technological University, India and a core developer at the SymPy Project. I spend most of my time committing for Open Source. I am also an active member of Python Delhi User group.
       

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • Python


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:00 - 15:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:00 - 15:30

  •  
  • Python


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

  •  
  • Python


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • Python


Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall)
Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall) (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Pauling Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

  •  
  • Python


Planck Lab
Ansible 101
Ansible 101 (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

A hands-on workshop on using Ansible to manage configurations/software on remote appliances/boxes

Speakers

Swapneel Patnekar

Shreshta IT Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

At my company (Shreshta IT Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) we use Ansible to manage configurations/application deployments in appliances(Firewall/Data backup/VPN) installed at customer locations. As majority of our customers have a simple broadband connection, pushing the updates/configuration changes through Ansible is extremely easy and reliable over various other alternatives of IT automation. Note: While, this workshop isn't about our company or what we do, I'd like to share experiences with how we've been able to use Ansible effectively for our workflow. There will be no mention of our company or our products in the entire workshop.
     

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

  •  
  • DevOps


Demo Session
Demo Session (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

  •  
  • DevOps


Scalable Datastores for a Containerized World: Crate
Scalable Datastores for a Containerized World: Crate (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Web services were divided in three parts: Scalable frontends, application servers, and infrastructure. No, four parts, for one indomitable component still held out against the recent trend of containerization: Datastores. While setting up stateless web- and application servers is considered best practise today, creating ethemeral datastores is still tricky. The talk will show that ethemeral datastores aren't implicit contradictions and discuss how to implement this idea. The main problem is to deal with scale-out and scale-back situations. There are several ways to tackle that challenge, including, but not limited to to active-passive-clusters, read slaves, active-active-solutions ora couple of NoSQL solutions. Most of them are pretty complex to set up and operate, though. Crate is an open source database that speaks SQL to the frontend, but scales horizontally by just adding more nodes. A demo shows how to set up a distributed application with a database cluster using Docker in less than 15 lines of orchestration code and compares it to other database clusters. Software architects, web developers, and system engineers who have experienced the pains of scaling a database up to a big data level will learn in this session how to resolve the bottleneck of poorly performing data backends. It includes a working demo participants may download and extend.

Speakers

Nils Magnus

LinuxTag Association

Nils Magnus is a system architect and journalist. He has a 15+ year track record in system and database engineering, cloud infrastructure design based on Open Source, and security managment. He believes in sustainable data center solutions and cooperative, agile development methods. In his role as an organizer at LinuxTag Association and the German Unix Users Group, he organizes for more than 15 years conferences and workshops on these topics. Nils Magnus lives in Munich and Berlin, both Germany.
 

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • DevOps


Demo Session
Demo Session (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

  •  
  • DevOps


Lunch
Lunch (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

  •  
  • DevOps


Introduction to Modern DevOps with Docker
Introduction to Modern DevOps with Docker (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

The talk is based upon the quick introduction to Docker. This talk covers what Docker is, why you might want to use it, how it works, as well as explaining some key terminology. The key idea is to show how Docker helps for the DevOps and how one can use it for the deployment & productions. The talk finishes up with a few demos demonstrating the functionality of Docker. This talk is also useful to quick start with Docker system.

Speakers

Rishi Shah

appbase.io

Content and Timings: What is Docker? (3:00) How Docker differs from VM? (2:00) Basic Terms (3:00) Why Use Docker? (4:45) How Does Docker Work? (6:08) Docker Artifact Server (7:01) Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps (3:00) Docker Demos (14:45)
       

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

  •  
  • DevOps


Introduction to Kubernetes
Introduction to Kubernetes (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

In this workshop we will take a look at how Kubernetes (k8s) simplifies application deployment and management in distributed environments. We will introduce the basic concepts of Pods, Replication Controllers and Services and show how these concepts decouple the applications from the distribution.

Speakers

Vincent De Smet

Docker Saigon

During the demo we will show how to - deploy applications on k8s, - scale applications on k8s - expose applications on k8s - apply the canary deployment pattern with k8s, - do a full rolling update with k8s and take failing application instances out of the production workload for instant debuging
       

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • DevOps


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • DevOps


Agile Application delivery with Containers & Cloud-Native tools
Agile Application delivery with Containers & Cloud-Native tools (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Docker and other container technologies have exploded recently as a way to improve Application delivery and DevOps processes. This talk will introduce the open-source technologies and tools available now and where they are heading in the near future.

Speakers

Hunter Nield

Acaleph

Hunter is an technologist, developer, designer, data geek and entrepreneur. For over 15 years, he has been working with IT infrastructure and open-source technologies.
       

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • DevOps


Concurrency & Parallelism in Ruby
Concurrency & Parallelism in Ruby (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

Concurrency & Parallelism became a popular topic in Computer Science because of Multi Core Processors. My talk is about, how we can create great Applications with full power of Concurrency & Parallelism by the help of Ruby

Speakers

Dilum Navanjana Welgamage

99x Technology

GSoC 2015 participator with contribution to Celluloid. Currently Working, Studying & contributing to the F/OSS community. Planning to make everything in the world better with Concurrent programming.
       

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

  •  
  • DevOps


Demo Session
Demo Session (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • DevOps


Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall)
Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall) (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Planck Lab

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

  •  
  • DevOps


Tinkering Studio
Breakfast
Breakfast (09:00 - 09:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:00 - 09:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Science Hack Day continues
Science Hack Day continues (09:30 - 10:00)

About the session

Science Hack Day continues with project groups working on * Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA * Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky * DIY Circuit Board Workshop * ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab - Developing Open Source Science Experiments with FOSSASIA * #NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"

Speakers

Science Hacks and Science Hackers

Not available

Science Hackers from all over the world who enjoy open knowledge and sharing.

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 09:30 - 10:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA
Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

HELP US PRESERVE THE ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SYRIA BY CREATING A VIRTUAL #NEWPALMYRA DIGITAL TOOLS TO BUILD THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST #NEWPALMYRA is: * A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS. * A Cultural Development project, hosting live workshops and building a network of artists, technologists, archaeologists, architects, and others to research, construct models, and create artistic works. * A Curatorial project, creating exhibitions and experiences in museums and institutions globally, celebrating the cultural heritage of Syria and the world through the lens of architecture embodying culture and power. Together with our international affiliates, #NEWPALMYRA sources archaeological and historical data, shares it with the community, and outputs art exhibitions, salons, and creative works using this data to carry the rich history of Palmyra forward to new generations.

Speakers

Jon Phillips

#NEWPALMYRA

Jon Phillips.
     

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky
Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky (10:00 - 10:30)

About the session

Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky. Constellations and clothing patterns are mathematically difficult to construct. This talk begins with the origins of the project and explains the challenges posed by the data, the data structures, and the user workflow. The revolutionary nature of this open source fashion design tool is revealed in social, political, ecological and technical terms.

Speakers

Susan Spencer

Valentina

Susan Spencer has a background in network security and design. Co-Founder with Roman Telezhynski of Valentina open source pattern design software.
       

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:00 - 10:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


DIY Circuit Board Workshop
DIY Circuit Board Workshop (10:30 - 11:00)

About the session

It is possible to create and make your own PCB without the use of dangerous chemicals. Simply by using Vineger, Hydrogen Peroxide and Salt you are able to make fairly complex PCB boards. The process is simple and fast and gives you the flexibility to make 1 single board or multiple different prototype boards for testing. This workshop will introduce participants to the process of making PCB boards using a laser printer, transfer media paper and a heat press machine. Participants will get to make and assemble a working PCB board.

Speakers

Leon Lim

Touch & Print

Leon describes himself as an engineer, maker and designer. The computer engineering graduate has been building electronics hardware, usually with the Arduino and is at ease with writing web apps using PHP and JQuery. He designs mostly with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and contribute actively to the maker movement. After experimenting with a range of household chemicals, such as vinegar, salt and disinfectants (hydrogen peroxide), he discovered that he could use some of them to produce high-quality printed circuit boards (PCBs), which he has been trying to help improve over time. He also help to run Creative Crew Singapore, an official Adobe user group that meets monthly in Singapore.
 

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 10:30 - 11:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab
ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

This presentation is about the Sensor Plug-ins developed for ExpEYES : Pocket Science Lab as a part of my GSoC-2015 project with FOSSASIA. We have added many new sensors plug-ins to measure a variety of parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, acceleration, tilt angle, magnetic field etc. With this development we at FOSSASIA are aiming to provide low-cost, effective and open source laboratory equipment to students all over the world. I will also be talking about the low-cost weather data-acquisition system developed and interfacing Gas sensors with ExpEYES. A Poster covering details of GSoC work will also be displayed at the venue. In the end I will add little about my experience of GSoC journey with my mentors Mario Behling, Hong Phuc Dang and Andre Rebentisch, with some critical piece of knowledge or a new lesson to learn everyday…..this may encourage and help future GsoC students.

Speakers

Praveen Patil

ExpEYES

A Physics Teacher and a free software enthusiast. FOSSASIA GSoC student alumnus and GCI mentor. Working on ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab, Involved in FOSS training programs for science teachers and students. E-content developer for National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) for School Education and member of committee for “Development of ICT Refresher Course for students and teachers”by Central Institute of Education Technology (CIET), NCERT, New Delhi. Talks at International Events: FOSSASIA - 2014 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia RMLL-2014 at Montpellier, France FOSSASIA -2015 at NUS Singapore PyCon Sg at Singapore
     

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti" (11:30 - 12:00)

About the session

“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .

Speakers

Nora Al-Badri

Artist of "The Other Nefertiti"

Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary artist with a German-Iraqi background working in different mediums such as sculpture and installation, photography and film. Her pieces deal with issues arising through hegemonic and neocolonial power structures and representations between the so called global South and North as well as with the various faces of war. Al-Badri lives and works in Berlin. She studied political sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and visual communications at Offenbach University of Art and Design. Her works got granted by several institutions like Goethe-Institut, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IfA), German Federal Foreign Office and European Cultural Foundation (ECF). Since 2009 she also collaborates with Jan Nikolai Nelles as a collective.
   

Jan Nikolai Nelles

Artist of "The Other Nefertiti"

Jan Nikolai Nelles is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin. He graduated from Offenbach University of Art and Design in 2011. His work oscillates between visual and media art. In the past he founded an independent art gallery in Offenbach, Germany, and co-founded a photography magazine. Since 2009, he also collaborates with Nora Al-Badri on several artistic interventions.
   

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 11:30 - 12:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Lunch
Lunch (12:00 - 12:30)

About the session

Lunch boxes are provided at the exhibition hall A (Scientiest for a Day area) and at a number of tracks. Please use your voucher, that you got at the registration in the morning to get your box.

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 12:00 - 12:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Science Hack continues
Science Hack continues (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

Science Hack continues with project groups working on * Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA * Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky * DIY Circuit Board Workshop * ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab - Developing Open Source Science Experiments with FOSSASIA * #NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"

Speakers

Science Hacks and Science Hackers

Not available

Science Hackers from all over the world who enjoy open knowledge and sharing.

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:00 - 13:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Demo Session
Demo Session (13:30 - 14:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 13:30 - 14:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Demo Session
Demo Session (14:00 - 14:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:00 - 14:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Hack stops
Hack stops (14:30 - 15:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Speakers

Science Hacks and Science Hackers

Not available

Science Hackers from all over the world who enjoy open knowledge and sharing.

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:30 - 15:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Hack demos begin
Hack demos begin (14:45 - 15:15)

About the session

Hack demos of project groups being with * Rebuildling Cultural Heritage with #NEWPALMYRA * Creating patterns is like mapping the night sky * DIY Circuit Board Workshop * ExpEYES: Pocket Science Lab - Developing Open Source Science Experiments with FOSSASIA * #NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"

Speakers

Science Hacks and Science Hackers

Not available

Science Hackers from all over the world who enjoy open knowledge and sharing.

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 14:45 - 15:15

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Demo Session
Demo Session (15:30 - 16:00)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:30 - 16:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Science Hackers move to Main Hall
Science Hackers move to Main Hall (15:55 - 16:25)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Speakers

Science Hacks and Science Hackers

Not available

Science Hackers from all over the world who enjoy open knowledge and sharing.

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 15:55 - 16:25

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti"
#NefertitiHack and Cultural Commons "The Other Nefertiti" (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al- Badri which went viral. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative within our investigative practice we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany's museums”. With regard to the notion of belonging and possession of material objects of other cultures, the artists intention is to make cultural objects publicly accessible and to promote a contemporary and critical approach on how the “Global North“ deals with heritage and the representation of “the Other”. “We should tell stories of entanglement and Nefertiti is a great case to start with to tell stories from very different angles and to see how they intertwine.“ At this link you will find a torrent to access the dataset under a public domain: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Here is the video showing the scanning process: https://vimeo.com/148156899 “The Other Nefertiti” is a conceptual art piece questioning singularity and originality as well as ownership of material objects of other cultures. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles went to the Neues Museum and scanned the iconic bust, but of course nobody knows if even this is the original bust. Through time and restoration there might not much genuine be left of the artifact itself. We give meaning to objects as well as we give meaning to data. Why worshipping the original, while we have all that beautiful remixes as of today? Maybe it was a server hack, a copy scan, an inside job, the cleaner, a hoax, but who cares, first of all it is an art piece. Of course a scan of the same thing looks the same, doesn't it? And tomorrow everybody with cameras or smartphones or Xbox will have the means and technique, where one can reclaim the interpretational sovereignty through scanning and sharing. What the artists strived to achieve is a vivid discussion about the notion of possession and belonging of history in our museums and our minds. A discussion on the originality and truth of data as well as material objects is necessary, because in the end one concludes, that the institutional practice of todays museums and collections all around the Western world are corrupted. Museums are telling fictional stories, their stories, just because they control the artifacts and the way of representation. The fetishization of sacred staged artifacts and the Disneyfication is producing capital value for illicit trading and looting artifacts. One can't find a reflection about violent entanglement of the museums and their inherent colonial patina themselves. But isn't representing “The Other” always violent? Art is about building new narratives, deconstructing power relations, not scanning techniques... .

Speakers

Jan Nikolai Nelles

Artist of "The Other Nefertiti"

Jan Nikolai Nelles is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin. He graduated from Offenbach University of Art and Design in 2011. His work oscillates between visual and media art. In the past he founded an independent art gallery in Offenbach, Germany, and co-founded a photography magazine. Since 2009, he also collaborates with Nora Al-Badri on several artistic interventions.
   

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Winning teams announced & given awards/medals in Main Hall
Winning teams announced & given awards/medals in Main Hall (16:00 - 16:30)

About the session

Short Abstract for the event

Speakers

Science Hacks and Science Hackers

Not available

Science Hackers from all over the world who enjoy open knowledge and sharing.

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:00 - 16:30

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall)
Closing Notes in Main Hall ( Dalton Hall) (16:30 - 17:00)

About the session

With so many people helping, it was clear from the beginning, that FOSSASIA 2016 must become a great success.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, has lived in the US, Singapore and Berlin. She was a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress presenting the latest advances in Open Fashion and Technology. She is also the founder of FOSSASIA, the Asia organization bringing together an inspiring community across borders and ages to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT. Hong Phuc organizes events like the annual FOSSASIA summit since 2009 and puts together Science Hackdays across the region in Vietnam, Dubai and China.
       

Tinkering Studio

Sunday, 20th Mar, 16:30 - 17:00

  •  
  • Science Hack Day


Rooms List

Dalton Hall
Digital Design Studio
Eco Garden Lab
Einstein Hall
Einstein Room
Faraday Lab
Fermi Lab
Ground Floor, Scientist For a day, Hall A
Herschel Lab
Lewis Lab
Observatory Room
Pauling Lab
Planck Lab
Tinkering Studio

Tracks List

Big Data/Open Data
Databases
Design, VR, 3D
DevOps
Exhibition
Hardware and IoT
Internet, Society, Community
Linux and MiniDebConf
OpenTech Workshops
OpenTech and IoT
Privacy and Security
Python
Science Hack Day
Tech Kids I
Tech Kids II
Tech Kids III
WebTech