FOSSMeet 2018

FOSSMeet 2018

FOSSMeet is an annual event at NIT Calicut that brings together the Free and Open Source Community from around the country.

FOSSMeet is the annual Free and Open source software meet at NIT Calicut. We are inviting proposals for talks and workshops at FOSSMeet 2018.

What we are looking for

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.

Audience

Your audience (mostly) comprises of smart, above average, GNU/Linux aware students.

Important dates

Call for proposals opens: Oct 23, 2017
Proposal submission deadline: Jan 2, 2018
Proposal acceptance: Jan 18, 2018
Presentation upload: Feb 5, 2018

Contact Us:

For more information about speaking and proposals, contact speakers@fossmeet.in.

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Balasankar C

@balasankarc

Debian - The project, process, and people

Submitted Dec 23, 2017

A brief introduction to the Debian community. Will be talking on the architecture of the project, the workflow of development of the OS, how the community works and how decision making happens in the project. Also will be talking about possible contribution opportunities for newcomers and how it will help them prosper in the FOSS world based on my personal experience.

Outline

  • Debian project architecture, workings and process.
  • Communities and how they work/interact collaboratively
  • Governance - Resolution of disputes and decision making in the project
  • Contribution - Where to start, what all are the possibilities - technical and non-technical
  • Advantages - How it can help a newcomer in FOSS world - Personal experience

Requirements

Passion to FOSS

Speaker bio

  • Debian Developer
  • Have been speaking about Debian and related topics for last few years
  • Somone who got a job because of their Debian contributions. :D

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FOSSMeet is an annual event on Free and Open Source Software, conducted at National Institute of Technology, Calicut. The funnel is a space for proposals and voting on events. more