FOSSMeet is the annual Free and Open source software meet at NIT Calicut. We are inviting proposals for talks and workshops at FOSSMeet 2018.
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 23, 2017
Proposal submission deadline: Jan 2, 2018
Proposal acceptance: Jan 18, 2018
Presentation upload: Feb 5, 2018
For more information about speaking and proposals, contact speakers@fossmeet.in.
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Rahulkrishnan R A Kubernetes 101 ( Workshop )Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.This workshop gives you Hands on to understand, how to start setting up and use Kubernetes cluster and how to deploy the containerized application. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Baiju Muthukadan RESTful API Development using GoThis talk will give an overview of RESTful API development in Go (Golang). The talk will conver securing API end points, persistent storage using PostgreSQL, and writing unit tests for HTTP handlers. This talk also go through some best practices for API development in Go. Few suggestions for deployment. more
Technical level: Advanced
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Vibhoothi Improving UX with Custom ROMsThis talk will provide an introduction to custom Android ROMs, and help developers recognise the elements of custom ROMs that enable users to enjoy their phones more and provide convenience without being too intrusive and gimmicky. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Sreenadh T.C Learn REST API with Flask Restful and MongoDB (Workshop)What the workshop is about: We all know about IMDb. So think of a situation where the Film Club in the college or university happens to host monthly Film contests. Now, what if we could provide the audience a chance to actually express their views and opinion on the films that are being screened. With this in mind, the workshop is going to build an application, Short Film Database with a solid ba… more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Abhishek A Amralkar A Clojure Crash CourseClojure is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Harisankar P S Crystal - Fast as C, Slick as Ruby.Crystal is a new kid in the block. The language was developed in admiration for Ruby (known for being the most friendlies programming language) and respect for the performance provided by the static compiled languages. The final output of this fun project became something that the world was missing. A language as slick as Ruby, but as fast as C. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Shreyansh Pandey The Definitive Guide to WebpackWe all know how the JavaScript has changed over these couple of years; with new standards and developments coming out every day. Throughout this, rather volatile journey, we have seen some technologies which were ephemeral but there were (are) some which never changed or became the industry standard. Webpack, a module loader, is one of them. It has become the defacto standard for any frontend dev… more
Technical level: Beginner
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Shrayas Rajagopal Possibilities in the land of 1s and 0sThe field of Computer Science is challenging and vast. It is easy to get caught up in thinking if we took the right decision and if CS is a good place to be. As I was graduating, I found myself asking many questions about the career path I’d be able to take and the problems that I’d be working on through this path. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Aniketh Gireesh A bit of Functional ProgrammingThis talk will cover a selection of topics related to functional programming, and how it can improve our day-to-day work, make our code safer, cleaner and more correct. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Abhijit A.M. (abhijit13) Is FOSS a success story?Success can be defined in various ways: Money, Fame, Satisfaction, Acceptance, Defeating rivals, Rivals accepting your victory, etc. This talk will present an analysis of the FOSS movement from all these perspectives with philosophical insights. Drawing on surveys, and statistical data available the talk will talk on motivations of FOSS developers, their view of success vis-a-vis the popular ways… more
Technical level: Beginner
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Pramode C.E Embedded Systems Programming using Rust (workshop)This hands-on workshop will provide a quick introduction to the Rust programming language and how it can be used to do “bare metal” programming of small ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers. Participants will get an opportunity to play with Rust on TI Launchpads (http://www.ti.com/tool/EK-TM4C123GXL)! more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Aravind Putrevu Inside the Elastic Stack : Testing and Releasing a Well Known Open Source StackMaintaining a well known open source stack is no easy task. Despite fixing bugs and adding features, releases need to be aligned among products and each product needs to be tested on its own. This talk starts at the lowest level of Elasticsearch, explaining how we run unit tests, moves up to integration tests, packaging tests, backwards compatibility tests, performance tests, including commercial… more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Mujeeb Rahman k Graphic designing possibilities with Libre softwaresgraphic design is a large commercial area which proprietary softwares are dominating. lack of Adobe and such designing products is the main issue when a windows/mac user come to Gnulinux. but it is possible to do professional works using gnulinux and libre softwares. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Balasankar C Debian - The project, process, and peopleA 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. more
Technical level: Beginner
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pravi Debian packaging hackathonSit together in a room hacking on debian, packaging software not yet available in debian repositories. more
Technical level: Advanced
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Jackson Isaac Introduction to Google Cloud with PythonThis workshop will focus on students and participants interested in cloud computing and python. The workshop will cover everything from basics like setting up python environment and google cloud account to some advanced topics like Image processing and OCR using Compute Engine. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Sruthi Chandran Let's do some Debian Packaging (Workshop)This will be a hands-on session on Debian Packaging. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Abhijith P.A Introduction to Debian packagingCreating packages for GNU/Linux Debian is the most powerful and convenient way to distribute your software. This is also one of the contribution area where you can make Debian better. This talk is to make attendees familiar with Debian packaging before going to Hands on training. It will be a follow up to https://fossmeet-nitc.talkfunnel.com/2018/14-debian-the-project-process-and-people talk. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Ranjith Siji Wikidata - The universe in a DatabaseWikidata is a project started by Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind wikipedia. The aim of wikidata is to create a database of all the elements in the universe. It also working as a link database of various databases. This talk is an introduction to wikidata and how we can run various queries and analyze data like “List of Countries ordered by the number of cities with female mayor”, “P… more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Ramya Ragupathy Big Data Analysis on OpenStreetMapDigital maps have brought in a massive change in our real world interaction. How about making the digital maps work for us to understand what’s beyond our eyes? From assessing infrastructure problems in your locality to computing forest cover worldwide, map data hold the key to all our pressing questions. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Divyam Madaan Tranforming the Academia with GComprisGCompris can be seen as a success in the Free Software community in reaching a large audience by leveraging the multi-platform nature of Qt. This for sure is something we can share a help other applications that want to target mobile users and also involving new contributors to the world of Qt, through development. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Kannan V M Defending Privacy and Digital Democracy; Political existance of Free and Open Software SoftwareIndia is a country that considers privacy as a fundamental right, but is it protected in the digital world? While it being a close to impossible task to make a policy on Privacy on digital world, how can we make sure our rights are not being tampered? Why a software should be free (as in freedom) should be the minimum condition for being a secure choice? This talk will briefly go through the thre… more
Technical level: Beginner
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Ambady Anand S Wikipedia - Join the fight for preserving Knowlegde FreedomWikipedia, as you already know, is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit and it’s available in 299 languages. Wikimedia Foundation is running Wikipedia and other sister projects which provide essentials tools like encyclopedia, dictionary, etc. for knowledge as well as languages to grow. Here I’ll try to explain how you can contribute to Wikipedia and other sister projects and eventually becom… more
Technical level: Beginner
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Joice Joseph Introduction to Platform Cooperativism: Where people own their platformWikipedia says, “A platform cooperative, or platform co-op, is a cooperatively-owned, democratically-governed business that uses a protocol, website or mobile app to facilitate the sale of goods and services. Platform cooperatives are an alternative to venture capital funded platforms insofar as they are owned and governed by those who depend on them most—workers, users, and other relevant stakeh… more
Technical level: Beginner
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