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.
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Srijan Agarwal Bringing academia to the Internet era - a revolution in knowledge sharingThe KDE community has always strongly believed in openness, in free and open source software. Today, we’re taking this mission one step further, by bringing openness to the most important intellectual production of humanity: knowledge itself. And we’re not doing it alone, but with the help of institutions and professors all around the globe. more
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Rahulkrishnan RA A Hands-on Introduction to DockerProvide the concepts of container and an overview of Docker for a person planning to step up his knowledge in Containerization as a service more
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Joyce George Hacking and exploring through the Drupal CMSDrupal is one of the swiftly growing current trends in the world of web development. At present, over 1 millions members are registered with Drupal and there are thousands of active developers who take part in various core level contributions in the mission of making Drupal bug free, robust and bringing out more innovative features. Thus, the organisation has grown over the years that its members… more
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Sasi Kumar Introduction to LaTeXLaTeX is a document preparation system. It is widely used in preparing technical documents, though it is convenient and effective in typesetting any document, especially technical ones. It is widely used for preparing publications in science and technology, especially research publications, reports and journals. As LaTeX is similar to a programming language in many ways, this will be only an intr… more
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Santosh Viswanatham The Limitless web*An Introduction to the evolution of web and why many thought that web is dead. *An Intro to how things changed and what changed in the world of web. *Intro to Connected devices project and where have we come so far in Mozilla. *Debugging cross compatible web applications is way more easy now using debugger.html ! No need to learn using different debugging tools for different browsers ,now use th… more
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Sruthi Chandran What, how and why of Debian packagingThe session intends to give an outline on general packaging concepts in Debian. This will include introduction on Debian, its philosophy, what are the “packages”, how to do packaging and why packaging is necessary. This basic session will be an introduction to a hands-on session on Debian packaging. more
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Sruthi Chandran Workshop on Debian PackagingThis will be a hands-on session as a follow-up of “What, how and why of Debian packaging” session more
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Siddharth Kshetrapal How to get started in open sourceContributing to open source for the first time can be scary and a little overwhelming. This talk breaks it down and makes it easier. more
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pravi Decentralised, Community run communication/collaboration infrastructure - Why and How?We need to take control of our communication/collaboration infrastructure, be it email, discussion groups, git hosting, or instant messaging. more
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VISWAPRASATH KS Build a Web Extension That Works Cross-Browser (Worksop)Introduction about WebExtensions. Webextensions are Firefox add-ons which are compatible with the API supported by Chrome and opera. Once written, these extensions can be made to run on most browsers with small tweaks. Participants can learn how to customize their browsers, can learn the steps to submit to Firefox Add-ons website. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Haritha Harikumar Get started with your contributions to MediawikiFor millions of Students and people across the world, when it a project work our first choice would be Wikipedia. Wikipedia with millions of users across the world has been powered by a global open source organisation named Wikimedia Foundation. Wonder what powers these wiki pages? more
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Siddharth Muralee A Deep Dive into Code ( An Intro to Reverse Engineering)Reverse Engineering is the process of taking a program’s binary, analyzing its functions and information flow to figure out what the program is meant to do. The usual reasons to reverse engineer a piece of software are to recreate the program, to build something similar to it, to exploit its vulnerabilities and strengthen its defenses. Learning how to reverse engineer a software is a skill that w… more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Siddharth Muralee Your weaknesses are my strengths ( The Tale of a Hacker )Today, the necessity of strong cybersecurity measures is self evident. A proliferation of cyber attacks is causing increasing damage to companies, governments and individuals.. Organizations need to respond to this increased threat by adopting strict cybersecurity measures. And the awareness should begin with programmers. Learn how your mistakes get exploited by Hackers and how to take necessary … more
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Vachan Kudmule Get Started with the basics of eCommerceHow can one leavrage the eCommerce platform for starting their own or work as freelancers to build stuning eCom Stores/Portal with ease and simplylicity. WordPress & WooCommerce both are Open Sourse Projects more
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Rahul Krishnan Hacking the Linux Kernel (Contributing to the Linux kernel)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… more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Saifi Khan Go programming languageThe features, capabilities and gotchas of the Go programming language are highlighted through case studies. more
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Tummala Dhanvi Git - the stupid content tracker (Workshop)This workshop will introduce people to version control system and git more
Technical level: Beginner
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Pramode C.E An introduction to the Rust Programming Language (Workshop)Low-level systems programming is dominated by two languages, C and C++. Even though there are dozens of programming languages out there, if you wish to write some embedded systems code or design an operating system kernel, you really have no choice beyond C/C++. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Anagha R Getting started with Ruby on RailsRuby on Rails is not a coding language. It is a web development framework built on the Ruby programming language. Nearly every line of Rails source code is written in Ruby. When you are developing an application in Rails, you are writing Ruby. more
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Devi Krishnan Learn To Sail With DockerIn simple words, Docker is a tool that allows developers to easily deploy their applications in containers to run on the host operating system. The key benefit of Docker is that it allows users to package an application with all of its dependencies into a standardized unit for software development. Unlike virtual machines, containers do not have the high overhead and hence enable more efficient u… more
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Jishnu Contrbuting to Indic Keyboard (workshop)Indic Keyboard is one of the most popular Indian language input method for android. This workshop will help beginners start contributing new layouts to the project. more
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Sachin S. Kamath OpenSource101 - I can code, but what now?Open source is an exciting world but at the same time, is vast and often confusing. This talk will try to cover the 101’s or the very fundamentals of Open Source Contributions, the do’s and do-not’s and will also cover case-studies to understand the current scenario, using the publicly available user-data of The Fedora Project. more
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Gayathri Menakath Store, Analyze and Search with ElasticSearchElasticsearch is an open source real-time search and analytic engine developed in Java. The elastic searching technique adopted by Elasticsearch engine is highly scalable and helps to search through different kinds of documents. The engine provides REST APIs which helps to interact with it using the programming language of our choice. This talk will highlight the basics of Elasticsearch, how to i… more
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Aniketh Gireesh Eyes on every move (Tracking system using OpenCV and Qt).The future is awaiting with new threats. Terrorist attacks are increasing day by day. Tracking each and everything around us has come to a necessity. We cannot continue with the old usage of a person sitting in front of a huge number of monitors to track motions. So, we implement a change for the betterment of the world. We bring the automation with powerful OpenCV module and the innovation with … more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Sarah Masud The Alice and Bob Problem of Open Source LicensesWhen a developer(Alice) releases her code, she is automatically granted copyright over it(even if not mentioned explicitly). But simply releasing the code on the internet or Github DOES NOT guarantee that other developers(like Bob) have a right to modify or redistribute it. In the absence of any accompanying license, copyright alone can be messy. It throttles collaboration, and enhancement. Both … more
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Haris Ibrahim K. V. Demystifying the Django REST FrameworkThe tutorial covers the basics of Django REST Framework, building of RESTful apis from DRF’s perspective and a hands on approach all along while we learn together. more
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vigneshwer dhinakaran DeepRust - DeepLearning using RustDeepRust DeepRust is an Open Project with an vision of creating a deeplearning crate in rust to provide great experience to researchers & developers to develop learning algorithms and architecture in rust-lang. more
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vigneshwer dhinakaran Building Simple Command Line Interfaces in PythonCLI is a great way to mange an application, chaining together a series of CLI tasks can be a great way to solve complex customization and problem quickly in real time. more
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vigneshwer dhinakaran OpenIOT - IOT for the futureThere’s a great problem with privacy in IoT. This talk will be an interactive session to discuss about the various challenges and potential solutions for data standardization, policies and practices. more
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Karthickeyan Narasimhan Bringing Virtual Reality to the WebWebVR is an experimental JavaScript API that provides access to Virtual Reality devices, such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard, in your browser.Through this session, the participant will gain knowledge about the WebVR & be able to create atleast 1 3D scene using Aframe framework. more
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Deepu Benson Open Source Tools for C DevelopersEven after four decades of industrial application C is still one of the leading programming languages in the world with a TIOBE Index ranking of 2 in 2016. But are we using C in the proper way? The fate of C and Linux are intertwined right from the begining and C is most powerful when used with Linux. In this talk I will be introducing some powerful Linux tools to boost the power of C. With these… more
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Shreyansh Pandey Simplifying your DevOps LifeIn this talk, students will learn about OSS which will help them create better software. We’ll start with the very basics such as provisioning a system image in Docker and Vagrant, and then go all the way up to creating and deploying a custom Jenkins CI with automatics deployment. more
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Divyam Madaan Magic with Qt QuickIn this world of applications and web, everyone wants to have one on their name be it for android, ios, Windows and Linux. But we are switching to Cross-platform frameworks for the same. Qt is one such cross-platform framework that provides assistance to developers to make their applications running on all platforms. The talk is aimed on the magic that Qt Quick can create with its animations and … more
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Saksham Agarwal Data Analysis with RData is everywhere and data-scientists jobs are the hottest in the tech industry. In the current world data analysis is not a privilige but a necessity for organisations to take correct decisions, develop better strategies and produce hot products. Netflix, Google, Amazon, Youtube, Facebook and every other company is constantly hiring data analysts to make sense of their data. Data is ubiquitous … more
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Shrimadhav U K Generating a static web app with GitLab Pages and securing it using OWASPThe talk will consist mainly on how to deploy a static website properly (both, in terms of usability and security) with a version control system. The audience might learn which files should be version controlled and which type of files should not be placed in the version control repository. Experience with a version control system is recommended but not mandatory. more
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Divyam Madaan Delving into Open SourceThe main focus of this talk would be to help getting started with open source, covering various aspects and technologies required. more
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Abhinand MediaWiki Extensions Made EasyWhat are extensions ? Why is it exciting to work with it ? Extensions enables developers to not only customize the look of MediaWiki but also to provide new features or reports. Some of the examples of extensions are Echo, Newsletter, Thanks etc. One can develop new extensions or contribute to existing extensions. The extension mostly provide new features for the MediaWiki software. more
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Abhijit A.M. (abhijit13) LDAP based disroot.org like setup for your collegedisroot.org has caught attention of the free software world with it’s simple but innovative setup offering a variety of services using LDAP - one account for all services and has emerged as a replacement for the the monopolistic google services. College of Engineering Pune (COEP, www.coep.org.in) has been using a setup similar to the disroot for it’s Wiki, Moodle, Proxy, Desktops, Nextcloud, FOSS… more
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Krishnakant Mane REST API basics and beyondREST API is the de-facto standard for today’s integrated web In this workshop we will learn how CRUD systems are developed using SQLAlchemy and Pyramid web framework. more
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Sachin A Working with Mozilla on SecurityAn overview of Blake Blake and Blake2 are cryptographic hash functions designed by a team of experts in cryptanalysis, implementation, and cryptographic engineering; namely Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn and Christian Winnerlein. more
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Tummala Dhanvi Kick-start contributing to Mozilla (Firefox) - Workshop#Getting started with Contributing to Mozilla Outline more
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Tummala Dhanvi How to contribute to Fedora (Talk)This talk will introduce beginners various ways in which one can contribute to fedora more
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Abhijith B GNUKhata - An Enterprise Quality Accounting SoftwareGNUKhata is a free and open source accounting software. GNUKhata has changed a lot since last FOSSMeet. This session will walk you through its new features and new look and feel. You will also get to know how to get involved in its development. more
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Balram Pariyarath Building your Linux from Scratch (Workshop)This session will help people to get started and build a linux distro from scratch (Inspired from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/) more
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azharullah shariff Cross-platform app development with Ionic frameworkIonic is a complete open-source SDK that helps you build native-feeling mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Ionic is focused mainly on the look and feel, and UI interaction of your app. Built on top of AngularJS and Apache Cordova, Ionic provides tools and services for developing hybrid mobile apps. Apps can be built with these web technologies and then distributed … more
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Abhishek A Amralkar Provisioning Infrastructure(Automation) in AWS, GCE Cloud with Hashicorp Terraform!The session intends to give an idea about bringing up immutable infrastructure in Cloud. This will include introduction on Terraform and Packer. How to write Packer Scripts. How to write Terraform code to bringup infrastrucutre. more
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