FOSSMeet is the annual Free and Open source software meet at NIT Calicut. We are inviting proposals for talks and workshops at FOSSMeet 2016.
Through FOSSMeet, we intend to get the attendees, mostly students, get started with the development and usage of free software. You may propose to conduct a lecture, demo, tutorial, workshop, discussion or panel at FOSSMeet. If the contents of your session is the ‘I am feeling lucky’ result of some Google search, there is low probability that it’ll be accepted. Same applies to proposals titled ‘The absolute beginner introduction to X’ and others on a similar line. On the other hand, if your talk is on some obscure, albeit important, free software project that will go over most students head, this might not be the best platform to deliver that talk. There are always exceptions and we leave that to your judgement. If our audience wants it, we’ll try our best to accommodate it. Of course, if you find people interested in your proposal, you can always call a BoF. We are all for BoF’s! :)
Take the above with a pinch of salt. They are no s̶t̶r̶i̶c̶t̶ ̶r̶u̶l̶e̶s̶, only guidelines. All your proposals are welcome and we celebrate every single one that we receive! :D Looking forward to see you folks here.
Your audience (mostly) comprises of smart, above average, GNU/Linux aware students.
Call for proposals opens: Nov 19, 2015
Proposal submission deadline: D̶e̶c̶ ̶3̶0̶,̶ ̶2̶0̶1̶5̶ Jan 23, 2016
Proposal acceptance: J̶a̶n̶ ̶0̶7̶,̶ ̶2̶0̶1̶6̶ Jan 26, 2016
Presentation upload: J̶a̶n̶ ̶1̶4̶,̶ ̶2̶0̶1̶6̶ Feb 2, 2016
For more information about speaking and proposals, contact speakers@fossmeet.in.
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Baiju Muthukadan Golang WorkshopThis workshop intent to teach the fundamentals of Go programming language. The workshop will include setting up environment for Go development, basic syntax, concepts and solving few problems. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Balasankar C Intro to Debian PackagingA hands-on session to give audience the basic idea of packaging free software for Debian more
Technical level: Advanced
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Balasankar C Taking the world of Communication back to Free Software - XMPP, Kontalk, SignalIntro about how the open protocols XMPP can use used as an alternative to Whatsapp, Telegram etc and discussion about Kontalk and Signal more
Technical level: Beginner
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Akshay S Dinesh Introduction to Static Websites, Jekyll, and Github PagesLearn what static websites are and how they differ from dynamic websites more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Akshay S Dinesh Introduction to Firefox OS and Building Web Apps for Firefox OSGet introduced to the fundamentals of Firefox OS Gonk more
Technical level: Beginner
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brijrajsingh Deploying a CoreOS Cluster over CloudLearn very basics of CoreOS, and see how to create a cluster using Virtual Machines over Cloud. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Tummala Dhanvi Kick-start contributing to Mozilla (Firefox)#Getting started with Contributing to Mozilla Outline more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Tummala Dhanvi Git Workshop#Using Git - the stupid content tracker and Github - Where software is built more
Technical level: Beginner
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Tapasweni Pathak Getting Started with Contributing to Open SourcesThis talk focuses on helping students to get started with contributing to open sources. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Jackson Isaac Python Code Testing using profilersThis talk will cover about how we can profile python code using line_profiler and improve the code. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Akshai M MicroHOPE - Introduction to the world of Micro Controllers.To learn ways to perform DIY Electronic hacks using microcontrollers. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Abhai Sasidharan Drupal module development workshopThis workshop focuses mainly on how to set up a working Drupal environment locally and create a custom module from scratch using Drupal and deploying the same to a server. more
Technical level: Advanced
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Sasi Kumar Introduction to LaTeX and friendsLearn the basics of LaTeX - how to create a LaTeX document and compile it to get a well laid-out pdf; What are environments and how to handle them; How to do basic debugging of LaTeX documents; etc. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Tony Thomas Building and deploying your Python-Django applicationKnow about Model View Controller Frameworks Code and build your first Django application more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Mahesh M What next after Rails - an introduction to PhoenixHelp in understanding the trends in the web app development world, especially in the context of Elixir and Phoenix. A small introduction to the concepts of Phoenix and advantages that it has is going to be a major takeaway. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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pravi  Y U No fixing WhatsApp?Explain concepts of end to end encryption (omemo, gpg), decentralized messaging (email, xmpp, diaspora) and guide/mentor those interested to hack on this area. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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pravi Proposing Free Software community health checkAnalyze why we are not creating more passionate Free Software advocates and make plans to fix the situation more
Technical level: Intermediate
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pravi Run - like there is no other optionSetup and maintain more community run services to reclaim privacy and freedom more
Technical level: Advanced
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Vaishali Thakkar Contributing to Linux Kernel - WorkshopThe workshop focuses on helping students to get started with contributing to the Linux Kernel. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Amit Dev Big data and beyondOverview of big data processing using Apache Spark compute model and discuss about social side of big data. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Shahul Hameed ReST APIs 101 : IntroductionIntroduction to APIs in general - Why, What and How aspects. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Peter Lazar Frontend engineering with ReactJS - WorkshopThis workshop will focus on frontend engineering using ReactJS, the view library from Facebook. We will start of by discussing the key ideas behind React. Then we will move on to the basics of React, why we would want to use React, React API and then build a fun little webapp using react. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Anish Sheela Crowdfunding - Is this really the way to go?Learn about crowd funding When to use crowd funding more
Technical level: Beginner
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Noufal Ibrahim  Introduction to non linear functions and fractalsThe audience will understand how non linear functions work while modelling natural phenomena. It will then introduce fractals, how they’re generated and what they’re used for. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Noufal Ibrahim The inform system for designing interactive fictionInform is a natural language based system to author works of interactive fiction. If you’re an author stuck inside a programmers body, this is the perfect tool to marry both these parts of you. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Pramode C.E FPGA Hacking with Free Software toolsDemonstrate how to use a 100% Free Software based toolchain to program Field-Programmable Gate Arrays(FPGA’s). We will have fun describing simple logic circuits in software and finally running them on the IceStick evaluation board - without using any proprietary software! more
Technical level: Beginner
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Manu Jose Proposing Private execution as operating system servicePrivate execution is similar to the private browsing mode in web browsers. Private execution will leave no trace of the informations we used during the private execution.It enhance the privacy of user. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Syam G Krishnan What is a Linux distribution?Understanding the need for Operating system distributions and package management tool. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Abhimanyu Evolution of FOSS (and some non-FOSS) stack at HackerRankThe objective is to give an intro into the various components that make up a web application, on how in most applications evolve from few pieces and to more and more pieces connected together. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Steven Deobald  Vipassana for HackersI will explain Vipassana meditation in the context of hacking with analogues of LISP (Clojure, in particular) and the hacker ethos. Attendees will come away with an understanding of the systematic methodology of Vipassana meditation, possibly/hopefully with their curiosity piqued. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Steven Deobald The Software Co-operative: Creating a Corporation in the CommonsMany of the attendees will be business owners or future business owners. The principles represented by worker and consumer co-operatives hold up well with the solid foundation of a truly co-operative business, much like a well-written software license. However, even if these principles are approached and applied piecemeal, they still retain much of their inherent value; and that value can ensure … more
Technical level: Beginner
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Steven Deobald The Worst Programmer I Ever MetRelationships are hard. Software is hard. FOSS communities often represent the most difficult intersection of these two axes. Attendees will come out with practical lessons and tools for working in teams, bettering themselves, and avoiding some of software’s most expensive mistakes. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Srihari Sriraman Kosha - building an open music database for indian classical musicLearn about a technically stimulating open source project in the music domain that allows you to contribute to the community directly, and immediately. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Sreelakshmi Sreekumar Workshop on Android Platform and Application DevelopmentA broad overview of the Android platform and developing environment more
Technical level: Beginner
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Abhas Abhinav Building your own hackable keyboardWe all use keyboards. And not all of us care enough about them to ensure that, like our operating systems, they are hackable too. What could be better than to build your own keyboard using open hardware designs and components and then program it using free / open source software? more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Krishnakant Mane RESTFul services using Cornice and Pyramid with frontendLearn to create REST based services with CRUD using Pyramid framework with a basic front end more
Technical level: Intermediate
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@yedhukrishnan Test Driven Development with RubyTo make students familiar with the basics of the Ruby language and how to write Ruby code through TDD (Test-Driven Development). more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Abhijith B Distributed Social NetworkingTo give an introduction to varous distributed social networking platforms. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Ishan Masdekar Consumer Rights and Digital FreedomPanel discussion on how to tackle Microsoft Tax... more
Technical level: Beginner
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Navin Karkera Virtualized Deployment of softwares with DockerCreating a run anywhere container for your software. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Krishnakant Mane GNUKhata, a Professional quality free accounting softwareLooking at GNUKhata from both ends Outline GNUKhata <gnukhata.in> is a free and open source accounting software with professional quality features. This presentation will look at the said software from 2 aspects. Firstly from the end-user’s point of view, we will see all the powerful and standards based feature set of the program and how organizations can gain by using it. The other half will be … more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Ramya Ragupathy Designing the next generation of maps using OpenStreetMap dataParticipants will be introduced to the basics of leveraging open source geospatial (GIS) data from the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project, design custom maps with this data, add interactivity and quickly publish it on the web with Mapbox Studio. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Shrayas Rajagopal How Microsoft is helping shape the future of web development. (Yes Microsoft!)To introduce Microsoft’s new web framework - ASP .NET Core 1.0 alongside their new framework - .NET core 1.0 while highlighting important parts of the ecosystem that makes it something worth trying out for your next project more
Technical level: Beginner
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Govind Krishna Joshi Functional Programming in the shellUnderstanding the concepts of functional programming using everyday shell commands more
Technical level: Beginner
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