FOSSMeet is the annual Free and Open source software meet at NIT Calicut. We are inviting proposals for talks and workshops at FOSSMeet 2019.
At FOSSMeet, we allow the attendees(mostly students) to delve into the field of development and free software. We’re inviting proposals for lectures, demos, tutorials, workshops, discussions, and panels for FOSSMeet’19. Separate proposals will be taken for one-hour sessions by professionals and thirty-minute talks by students. This year, however, upvotes will not be considered in the selection procedure.
Fair warning - if the contents of your session is the ‘I am feeling lucky’ result of a Google search, there is little probability of it being accepted. Same applies to proposals titled ‘The absolute beginner introduction to X’ and others of the like. On the other hand, if your talk is on some obscure, albeit important, free software project that will go over the heads of most students, this might not be the best platform to deliver your talk. There are always exceptions and we leave that to your judgement.
However, we welcome and celebrate every single proposal we receive. Do treat the above as guidelines rather than rules. Looking forward to your suggestions and seeing you folks at FOSSMeet’19!
Your audience (mostly) comprises of smart, above average, GNU/Linux aware students.
Call for proposals opens: Dec 4, 2018
Proposal submission deadline: Jan 18, 2019
Proposal acceptance: Jan 24, 2019
Presentation upload: Feb 3, 2019
For more information about speaking and proposals, contact speakers@fossmeet.in.
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Shrimadhav U K WhatsApp > Telegram > MatrixA brief introduction on how to start using open solutions instead of being binded to closed proprietary applications. more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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Albin Kottaram Customizing UI And Improving Workflow on GNU/LinuxEach and every GNU/Linux distro can be customized and modded by its user in order to help him or her improve their workflow and enhance the overall productivity. more
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Technical level: Beginner
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Ranjith Siji Structured Data Modelling for AI using WikidataAdoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence is critical for success in the era of rapid digital transformation, it’s even more important how institutions make structure data for driving insights. Nowadays all kind of industry is driven by data. Some 80% of all digital data is unstructured, Kesher said during a keynote at the AI Summit in San Francisco. The vast majority of data repre… more
Section: Student
Technical level: Intermediate
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Saptak Sengupta Open Source and Sustainability in OSS via BlockchainOpen Source Software and Open Source contributors provide for a massive percentage of today’s softwares and web and other technical ecosystems. It provides a freedom and global way of contributing to make things better. However, Open Source contributions are mostly driven by intrinsic motivations. This often leads to burn out due to lack of sustainability. Gitcoin provides a solution to help all … more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Intermediate
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Subin Siby GNU/Linux Desktop Is Cool 😎A very beginner friendly introduction to GNU/Linux Desktop. Last year in FOSSMeet, I saw not everyone were using GNU/Linux OS and still sticking to proprietary OS. They just don’t know the awesomness of GNU/Linux. more
Section: Student
Technical level: Beginner
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Abhijit A.M. (abhijit13) Why is Free Software losing against Open Source?A critical review of the Free Software philosophy by someone who is an ardent supporter of Free Knowledge. The recent upsurge in the use of permissive licenses, adoption of Open Source model by most corporate world, dominance of corporates in FOSS world clearly indicates that the grassroot movement ideal of the Free Software movement has not progressed. The programmers might have got some freedom… more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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Abraham Raji How I stopped worrying and love the fork bomb.The ageless romantic-comedy of the inanimate text in specific order when transformed into electric signals help us recieve, store, interpret, process and create information, it’s creators, it’s users and their freedom. more
Section: Student
Technical level: Beginner
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Devdutt Shenoi Are Vi gonna code?(Neo)Vi(m) has to be the best text editor to have ever come in-built into any OS. But it’s not exactly loved, all because it’s different from others. What makes me love it then? more
Section: Student
Technical level: Beginner
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Jagannath Bhat What can the education system learn from FOSS?Open Education is a philosophy on how educational resources should be produced and shared. It derives from the need to make high-quality knowledge accessible to everyone. It shares a lot of resemblence with FOSS. more
Section: Student
Technical level: Beginner
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Aswin Mohan Making Your First Code Contribution To Open SourceWhen it comes to OSS there’s a saying that there are no users, but only contributors. Even though most of us would like to contribute back to our favorite open source packages, the process to contribute back fixes seems more complicated than it should. more
Section: Student
Technical level: Beginner
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Aravind Putrevu Open Source as a Business: Strategy, Struggle & SuccessHow do you build a lasting and successful company that also stays true to its open source roots? This talk takes a look at why open source is important to business and three essential elements of this path: more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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Aravind Putrevu  Advanced (elastic)search for your legacy applicationHow do you mix SQL and NoSQL worlds without starting a messy revolution? more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Intermediate
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Ashish Kurian Thomas Its a Unix System, I know this! - Building Unix compliant CLI apps in JavaScriptThere are a lot of Javascript packages finding their way into GNU/Linux distribution repos. If we want to write a simple script in JavaScript that plays well with the $SHELL, there are a few nitpick areas that need to be dealt with. In a nutshell, we’ll learn how to build a CLI app in JS, that will work as smooth and integrated as a system script, built with ruby or python. This will be a live-co… more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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Aravind Putrevu Playing with Data using Open source Search Engine for Fun and ProfitData explosion is not new. Be it Manufacturing, Telecom OR Mobile, Web. Data driven decision making is the usual norm. more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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Kannan V M Digital Activism; the need and you.This talk is mostly about, History and evolution of technology more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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Gopa Vasanth Dive deep into WikimediaMost of us must might have used Wikipedia at any one point in our lives. But have you ever wondered who is behind the wiki pages and who manages the backend code of the webpages? This talk will introduce you to the world of Open Source through the Wikimedia Foundation. Get exposed to the workflow of the Wikimedia Foundation, the developer community, and MediaWiki that power projects like the Wiki… more
Section: Student
Technical level: Beginner
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Bhanu Prakash Understanding CMS through DrupalAre you the one who dreams of having your own website online with unlimited features free of cost? Then this talk would be the perfect one for you to get introduced into such technology with which you can develop websites in a faster and easier way. Drupal is a Content Management System written in PHP with a sharp focus on user-friendliness, content presentation, new ways to create data structure… more
Section: Student
Technical level: Beginner
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Amol Kahat Understanding SSL Certificates generation and it's ProcessEveryone prefer to use https connection over http connection, most of them only know that site URL begins with https is the secure site and connection is encrypted by SSL certificates. Implementing SSL certificates in the website is quite easy but few knows about certificate generation and it’s request format, certificate type and it’s public, private key types. This process of certificate is als… more
Section: Student
Technical level: Beginner
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Amol Kahat Introduction to TLSv3 ProtocolTLSv3 protocol is recently released. It have major differences between 1.2 and 1.3. This protocol is released in Aug 18. This protocol stoped supporting to different hash algorithms, elliptic curves and 3 way hadshake. As those will be get break easily in coming years. To make it more secure new algorithms are added, changed way of handshake. etc. more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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Aswin Mohan Building the Map front-end for Kerala RescueDuring the Flood of 2018, I created and maintained the Map frontend of KeralaRescue with a lot of help from contributors and volunteers. In this talk I will outline my journey with the map from it’s inception to it’s discontinuation. more
Section: Student
Technical level: Beginner
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Bhuvana Meenakshi  WebXR- reality mixed experiencesWebXR is a latest technology which combiines WebVR/AR and it is not boring like lines and lines of code to get a small VR experience. Just a few steps to do the magic. If one is interested to learn the tricks of the magician and get the secrets behing the screen revealed then there you are, must attend my talk to get the cats off the bag. Also, having been contributed for Mozilla since 5 years I … more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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Ashish Kurian Thomas Unix shell tips and tricksThis talk will cover a few tips and tricks that one can use to get more productive at the unix command line. Most of these tips are targeted to web developers. more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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sarath shaji Connecting minds, Connecting future.Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development has happened because a large number of people accepted each others ideas and worked in the same direction. It allows better collaboration among different parties and individuals with the goal of developing the most efficient software for its users or use-cases. more
Section: Student
Technical level: Beginner
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Devdutt Shenoi 🙋🏻♂️Hail Hydra, the future of web APIs is hereThe future is automated, and automation means more robots will qualify Captcha tests 😬, anyways they might not get as intelligent as us to read context from the APIs of now. While facebook might use their data crunchers to understand the varied data passed via APIs, most of our innocent bots will need to be given dictionaries to interpret the data they recieve, this vocabulary is exactly what the… more
Section: Student
Technical level: Intermediate
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Karthickeyan Narasimhan Building Cross Browser Extension with JSWebExtensions API are the future of browser extension. With this API, Developers can write extensions that can work in almost all browsers. Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS is enough to write an extension of your own. In this session, I will walk-through the anatomy of WebExtensions, how to create your first web extension, introducing various API’s like Context Menu, tabs, Alarm & notification API. … more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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Amarjit Singh FOSSMeet: Past, Present and FutureFOSSMeet at NITC initiated in year 2005 by Praveen and Dilip Vaman and IEEE Student Branch, NITC. We had 3 talks and 4 speaker in 1st edition of FOSS Meet 2005. Then year 2006 and 2007 seen major expansion and became 2nd largest FOSSMeet in India. In addition to depth, breadth and reach, number of talks/workshops/BoF sessions scaled to 100 and speakers 60+ just in 3 years. Diversity and Openness … more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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Amarjit Singh Programming with SwiftSwift is youngest and fastest growing language in world in terms of developer adoption and activity. Already reached top 20 chart in less than 4 years. Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns. more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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Amarjit Singh Programming with KotlinKotlin designed by JetBrains adopted by Google as first citizen for Android Development. more
Section: Professional
Technical level: Beginner
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