FOSSMeet is the annual Free and Open source software meet at NIT Calicut. We are inviting proposals for talks and workshops at FOSSMeet 2017.
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: Oct 27, 2016
Proposal submission deadline: Jan 15, 2017
Proposal acceptance: Jan 20, 2017
Presentation upload: Feb 15, 2017
For more information about speaking and proposals, contact speakers@fossmeet.in.
Rahul Krishnan
@rahullinux
Submitted Nov 29, 2016
The Linux kernel, every year has an enormously strong multitude of people contributing to it. The Linux community consists of newbie developers who work to improve their knowledge in kernel programming area and experienced developers willing to share their knowledge. The talk is primarily aimed at carrying the participants through the entire process of hacking the Linux kernel, right from setting up the environment to the patching process. It will consist of a very precise and brief workflow of sending in patches to the Linux Kernel and furthermore on how to get it accepted.
Being one of the largest open source project in the world, contributing to Linux kernel introduces us to an array of new opportunities and projects. The Linux community has grown at a rapid pace since it’s inception. The community is full of people ready to help, and is always buzzing with activity. So if you are a FOSS enthusiast, then you are at the right place.
This talk guides the participants through a proven step-by-step method to get patches accepted into the main kernel code and become a part of the largest open source project in the world.
Here, is a glimpse of the topics included in the workshop:
Note : This workshop requires some pre-requisites to be completed before onsite talk. (complete till 2.1 from https://rahulkrishnanlive.wordpress.com/2016/11/26/hacking-the-linux-kernel/)
Any Laptop with a Linux distro installed (preferably Ubuntu for easy identification of packages, as the live demo will be on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS version.
I am Rahul Krishnan, currently pursuing B.Tech in Computer science from Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri. I am an active contributor to the Linux Kernel. I am also a member of FOSS@amrita which is the youngest open source club with maximum number of GSoC students in India.
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