FOSSMeet is the annual Free and Open source software meet at NIT Calicut. We are inviting proposals for talks and workshops at FOSSMeet 2020.
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‘20. Separate proposals will be taken for one-hour sessions by professionals and thirty-minute talks by students. 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. 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‘20!
Note : Along with your proposal, you must send a 7-10 minute demo video (or a link to video) on any topic of your choice to us at speakers@fossmeet.in. Visit speakers.fossmeet.in for more details.
Your audience (mostly) comprises of smart GNU/Linux aware individuals.
Call for proposals opens: February 19, 2020
Proposal and video submission deadline: March 6, 2020
Proposal acceptance: March 10, 2020
Presentation upload and dry run: March 20, 2020
For more information about proposals, contact speakers@fossmeet.in.
Accepting submissions till 06 Mar 2020, 11:59 PM
Not accepting submissions
All proposals
Accepting submissions till 06 Mar 2020, 11:59 PM
Tracking Protection Using FirefoxWe often gloss over exactly why personal data is worth protecting. If you are not paying for the product, you are the product. As a solution are you using private browsing or incognito mode? I am afraid it’s not enough to stop the data leaks. more
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 A very basic introduction to Wikidata - A free linked databaseWikidata is a project started by Wikimedia Foundation in 2012, the organization behind Wikipedia. Wikidata is a collaboratively edited knowledge base hosted by the Wikimedi a Foundation. It is a common source of open data under a public domain license. Wikidata is the ultimate data modelling platform to make structured data for any kind of data. Wikidata is a document-oriented database, focused o… more
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Indic Keyboard: A Free and Open Source Keyboard Project for Android.In this talk, I would like to introduce Indic Keyboard and how one can contribute to the project. more
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UEBA for InfoSecAn overview of an intelligence platform we have built to address threat hunting and incident investigation use-cases in the cyber security domain. Specifically, we focus on User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) modules that track and monitor behaviors of users, IP addresses and devices in an enterprise. The security platform performs UEBA to detect the security related anomalies and threats, … more
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The Debian ProjectThis talk details and introduces the intricasies of the Debian Project from the perspective of a millenial who contributes to this project that is older than him. The talk will detail the inception, philosophy, working, contributing and more. The talk will also discuss DebConf 2022 which is comming to India and specificlly Kochi and ways in which the FOSS community in Kerala can contribute toward… more
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നിങ്ങള് എന്നെ ഹാക്കര് ആക്കി (You Made Me A Hacker) - The story of why a doctor codes free software in between consultationsIn this talk I speak about why I am a “doctor-programmer”, and why we have to look at programming as a tool (like reading and writing) that people from very diverse backgrounds should be using to solve the challenges they face in their field of work. I talk about “appropriate technology” for our country’s healthcare needs. more
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Getting started with i3i3 is lightweight window manager which can help you to imporove your productivity. Like Gnome, xfce will provides window environment. On the top of that how you can use it and how to configure it. more
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 The KDE CommunityThe session will be about the KDE community. I will speak about its history and inception, its evolution over the years and how you can get started with using KDE products. Different aspects of KDE, such as the desktop environment the different apps, and the programs they have for beginners wanting to get started in open source. more
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The curious case of Manglish ButtonHow & Why I made the Manglish app, a free software app to convert Malayalam text to Manglish. It’s the story of this app, how it’s helping 2000+ users and the benefits obtained by making it free software and publishing on F-Droid. more
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 Media Self-reliance and FOSSThe story of how newspaper organisation in Kerala( Janayugom) completely switched their work flow to FOSS including pre press works and accountings. Building a Kubuntu based custom distro Janayugom GNU/ Linux as their main OS and Scribus for layouting purpose. more
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Understanding #Openwashing : The emerging threat to Software Freedom“Openwashing” is a term derived from “greenwashing” to refer to dubious claims about openness. One of the best things about the free and open-source software community is that it that it’s quite resistant to deception. But what happens while the definition abuse target is not the developer and FOSS communities, but the public policy space. more
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Rust: "Fast, Reliable, Productive - Pick Three"Rust is a new language in the market. According to the latest Stack Overflow survey, Rust is the most loved programming language. Its type system guarantees no memory leaks and race conditions during runtime, that too without a garbage collecter! more
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 Ethical AIAI has been at its peak for the past few years, making things which were thought never to be possible at reality. Let us take a peek into a few of these applications with a pinch of morality. As we envision a future with Artificial General Intelligence, let’s try questioning ourselves if an algorithm trained by humans can be considered intelligent in the first place? How rational and ethical are … more
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Safe systems programming with Rust (Workshop)Rust is a safe systems programming language, empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. The Ownership system allows Rust to be memory safe, while avoiding garbage collection. more
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Why Clojure? - Modern LISP on JVMClojure is a pragmatic language choice for programmers. It is a Functional Programming language with immutable data and first class functions.The dynamic type system of clojure makes it really flexible, productive unlike many purely functional programming languages. It leverages the stability, security and portability of the JVM. Which makes it a popular choice amongst startups, as it allows you … more
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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. Starring: more
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