FOSSMeet 2019

During 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.

Outline

The talk will consist of these sections

• How the idea for the map was conceived
• What technologies were used in building it
• How it became the official map of Kerala Rescue
• The technological challenges in building it
• How Open Sourcing it and external contributors made it from a barely functioning prototype to a full functioning App
• The role of transparent communication in Open Source

Requirements

• Interest in FOSS

Speaker bio

I’m a third year CSE student at College of Engineering Chengannur. I am also the maker of LessPhone Launcher(Previously NoPhone).

I really love the freedom that Open Source brings to our life (Not the freedom about privacy, but the freedom to modify and customise our software to our liking). I love giving back to the software that I use either in code contributions, testing out features and hanging around in the issue tracker.

Links

• https://aswinmohanme.github.io/
• Github: https://github.com/aswinmohanme
• Medium: https://medium.com/@aswinmohanme
• Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=9073130401640495870
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/aswinmohanme