Schedule

Track: [Clear Filter]
Room: [Clear Filter]

Thursday, 22nd Mar

13:00 - 13:05

Welcome at the FOSSASIA Summit!

13:05 - 13:15

FOSSASIA summit had helped brought awareness of Open Source technologies to the general public and enabled collaboration between professionals in the area of ICT (Information & Communications Technology). Echoing the Singapore Government’s focus in the developing Singapore's E-commerce and digital economy, organisations such as FOSSASIA plays an important role as the melting pot for businesses, software developers and government agencies to innovate ICT solutions. Open Source technology can benefit local businesses and workforce. FOSSASIA summit 2018 will cover emerging technologies such as Natural Language Processing using Artificial Intelligence and Distributed technologies like Blockchain, thereby opening up new digital frontiers for Singapore SMEs (Small and Medium enterprise), workforce development, and Public services. Only because the code is open we are able to talk about it. Open code is a wonderful present to the community. 

13:30 - 13:50

Daimler uses Free and Open Source software within several of its products and thrives to support and collaborate with the Open Source community. Automakers are becoming software companies, and just like in the tech industry Open Source is the way forward. At the keynote Daimler will outline its engagement in the Open Source community and plans for the future. Daimler is the first German automaker that joined the development of Automotive Grade Linux to help build the next generation connected car platform. The company is also a member of the Linux Foundation and Hyperledger. 

15:05 - 15:20

The FOSSASIA developer network is one of the largest communities in the Open Source world today and we are proud to have a positive impact and improving people's lives with Open Technologies. It took us years to develop approaches and processes to scale projects and we are constantly reviewing and working hard on improving ourselves. So, what is next?

What do we want to do next, what do we want to do better and how do we want to help more people, train developers, create better software and hardware and do good?

We came up with three areas, that we want to focus on:

1. In 2018, it is our goal to improve the quality of work of the FOSSASIA organization and contributions in our projects. We believe that the way to move forward is to provide project owners with more responsibilities and ownership. We aim to develop more and more into an organization that provides a framework for projects. Therefore we will continue to develop programs like Codeheat, OpenTechNights, organize meetups, participate in GSoC and GCI. We also plan to cooperate more with other organizations. Why shouldn't we run the OpenTechNights at events around the world and help to bring people together? Why shouldn't we have more OpenTechSummits with partners in China, India and Vietnam?

2. We have made very good experience with our best practices. We have seen that newcomers can progress very fast if they feel welcome and receive help and guidance from others. After they become participants in our programs many contributors move on to support others as mentors. We also see that contributors have moved to large companies, but still continue to help others in the community. This is wonderful. We want to share our experience and inspire other projects. Therefore, we plan to participate in more events, we will set up a monthly live-cast and we will run a YouTube series on these topics. While a lot of traditional school education still encourages a top-down approach we will focus our attention even more on enabling the community to collaborate on an equal level and follow the idea of sharing ideas and code freely.

3. A question that any organization and project encounters over time is how to ensure the work and setup is sustainable? What settings do projects need to succeed? While there are many non-profit organizations out there developing Open Technologies and FOSS, we also see that many people are moving on to companies that often focus on proprietary solutions and prevent contributors from continuing their engagement in the Open Tech community due to financial reasons and to support their families. At the same time, we see many projects that would have a great potential to be Open Source and at the same time commercially successful. Therefore we are starting a new dedicated FOSSASIA Accelerator that is specifically for Open Source projects. We invite projects to apply for the accelerator and investors and companies to team up with us. And, think about it, while many startups these days start with an idea, Open Source startups already have a product before any investment has started. So, these are great opportunities!

The problems in this world are too big. There is a lot of injustice, we are destroying the environment and people are even fighting each others. At FOSSASIA we want to set an example of collaboration across borders and cultures. So, please join us and let's make this a success. I wish everyone a wonderful event full of sharing and new understandings. Let's get inspired to share and learn for each other to build a better world.

15:20 - 15:30

Codeheat (In the Heat of the Code) is an annual coding contest for FOSSASIA projects. The contest runs between September and January. Grand prize winners attend the FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit in Singapore and receive the award officially in an award ceremony.

15:30 - 15:40

Which tracks and sessions do we have at the FOSSASIA Summit from Thursday (March 22) till Sunday (March 25)? In 12 tracks attendees can learn about the latest Open Source technologies and discuss topics from development to deployment and DevOps. We are bringing together some of the core track organizers and MCs to give you a super quick wrap up of what will happen over the next few days in tracks under the following header:

  • Machine Learning and AI

  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging

  • Blockchain

  • Science, Tech and Education

  • Kernel and Platform

  • Database

  • Cloud, Container, DevOps

  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community

  • Open Event Solutions

  • Cybersecurity

  • Web and Mobile

  • Open Source in Business

15:40 - 16:00

Join us for an Open Tech get together with coffee and snacks, meet speakers and developers and dive into the exhibition to explore companies and projects with us. This gathering is hosted by the FOSSASIA core team and our friends from Open Tech.

16:00 - 17:55

The workshop will cover how to setup and create scientific experiments with the FOSSASIA PSLab or use it to measure electronic conditions in hardware prototypes. The Open Source Pocket Science Lab can be used through the desktop and phones. It combines different devices including an Oscilloscope, a voltmeter and several sensors. It is useful for startups, hobbyists and the educational sector. You can measure currents and all kinds of electronic devices and connections with the PSLab. Check your prototypes or do all kinds of electronic experiments.

Explore, tinker, play - learn how to create your very own retro pixelart games for the Arduboy, a tiny Arduino-based pocket-sized game console reminiscent of Gameboy's glory days. Best thing? Thanks to Clouduboy you can now do this entirely in your browser, all in JavaScript with the language and techniques you already know (and love)!

Requirements: The only thing needed is a PC/Mac with an up-to date browser and a USB-A port for flashing the microcontrollers. All software will be provided or will run in the browser. JavaScript-programming experience at this workshop is recommended, but Clouduboy's "Learn to Code!" tutorial itself is suitable for learners of any levels of programming experience (including people who never coded before).

Friday, 23rd Mar

09:31 - 10:26

A hands-on coding workshop with Google's interactive global scale data analysis tool BigQuery if you have never seen it before (but have a little experience with SQL ideally).

10:00 - 10:25

Nimbus is an exciting and experimental lightweight client for the Ethereum network that focuses on next-generation Ethereum technologies and running on resource-constrained devices, such as mobiles. During the talk, we’ll go over a number of topics:

  • Anatomy of an Ethereum client

  • Sharding, and what it means for the implementation

  • A little bit about Nim, the language it’s implemented in

  • Status Open bounty - get rewarded for your OSS contributions

The Open Source label was born in February 1998 as a new wayto popularise free software for business adoption. OSI will celebrateits 20th Anniversary on February 3, 2018, during the opening day ofFOSDEM 2018. The presentation will summarize the evolution of opensource licenses and the Open Source Definition (OSD) across two decades,explain why the concept of free open source software has grown in bothrelevance and popularity and explore trends for the third decade of opensource.

10:30 - 10:55

Cryptocurrencies have there own APIs expose for developers to access. RPC (Remote Procedure Call) is the easiest way among those APIs. It works as a Restful API for the blockchain network. Using those APIs you,

  • Check the wallet balance
  • Validate Transactions
  • Do Transactions
  • etc

You can do what ever the blockchain work you want with those APIs. So in my talk I will talk about how to use those APIs to connect to most famous Bitcoin & Ethereum networks. So you can programmatically do transactions & everything.

We will discuss the lessons we have learned with containers so far, including how Google (and other internet scale companies) have been developing and using containers to manage applications for over decade. His session will address the old world of node first development vs. the new world of cloud native computing; along with discussing properties of a cloud native computing architecture – container packaged, dynamically managed and micro-services oriented – and the benefits it can provide developers and end users.

Furthermore, we will cover the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) along with the contribution of its first hosted project: Kubernetes.

10:30 - 11:55

In this workshop we will explore how Cloud Dataprep can help you to make the most out of your data by automatically detecting schemas, datatypes, possible joins and anomalies such as missing values, outliers, and duplicates. Profiling your data can be time-consuming, Dataprep helps you to save that time and go right to the data analysis. You can plug your solution into Cloud Dataprep as it is serverless and works at any scale.

11:00 - 11:25

Among all animals, only humans show the curiosity for swapping and exchanging goods. This gave birth to the idea of trade which enabled large spread collaboration and pole vaulted us to spread innovation, goods and services globally. 

In this talk, let's explore how energy and commodity trading firms are viewing technologies such as blockchain, smart contracts, robotic process automation, cloud computing, open source & artificial intelligence to build the next generation of trading organizations. We'll look at the impact it would have on the skill sets required by future traders and how "brain-power" (intuition) and "computing-power" (mechanics) could work together in seamless harmony,  orchestrated together perfectly like Beethoven's 9th Symphony. 

11:00 - 11:30

Exhibition Stage

11:00 - 11:50

Are you worried about how you can pay bills if you spend your time developing free and open-source software (F/OSS)? Can it be done profitably?

Ways to make money from the creation of closed software are well understood and widespread, most notably through:

  • selling copyright licenses to end customers who will run the software on their own computers; and
  • running the software on the developer's own computers and then either charging users for access, or providing users with access for free and charging customers for users' attention.

For developers who would like to make money developing free and open-source software (F/OSS) - whether as employees or as entrepreneurs - it is tempting to try to start with one of these models and stretch it to fit, however neither of these models is even remotely suitable for F/OSS because both start by denying fundamental freedoms to share, modify, or even access the software's source code. It is easy to forget that neither of these models was obvious at the dawn of computing; they both had to be invented, and they're not the only ways to do it. The good news is that developing F/OSS is not intrinsically incompatible with making a living, people have been doing it for decades. The really great news is that dozens of ways of doing it have now been developed and widely used. This panel will explore several specific examples with panellists from quite different backgrounds.

11:30 - 11:55

In this talk, Gaurang Torvekar, the co-founder and CTO of Attores and Indorse will speak about his experience in the blockchain industry, especially Ethereum over the last two years. Attores has been working with Ngee Ann Polytechnic for issuing their diplomas on the blockchain, while Indorse is building a decentralized professional social network. Gaurang will speak about how Blockchain is revolutionizing the education industry and the trends in the space over the years

13:00 - 13:25

GNU/Linux has a handy lscpu command which can print CPU information of current system while BSDs lack, so I decide to develop one used in BSDs. The whole task takes about 2 weeks and is divided into following parts:

(1) Study BSD program structure and sysctl APIs;

(2) Refer Intel/AMD specs to implement function;

(3) Test the program: thanks to kind people who help test on AMD architecture, different BSD flavors, and create ports.

In this topic, I want to share the experience and lessons of developing first application for BSDs

13:00 - 13:55

Blockchain is a hyped technology. We want to know what are real use cases of Blockchain apart from the hype. The panelists will provide insights into their projects and plan for using blockchain. Most “blockchains” are using Free and Open Source (FOSS) infrastructure to mine and run their network. What is the role of Open Source in the projects and companies of panelists? How does the Open Source ecosystem benefit from the trend to blockchain technology? FOSSASIA’s goal is to improve people’s lives with Open Tech. Technologies like blockchain raise questions about the impact on people and the world. It takes a lot of energy to generate blockchains and there is no immediate benefit except of a coin itself. There is no immediate value, product or anything a human could use except for the transactional value. What should be the stake of a socially responsible organization in regards to these questions? And does the value of technology outweigh its cons? Can Blockchain solve world problems and which ones?

13:00 - 14:25

Extract, Analyze & translate Text from Images with Cloud ML APis. Topics of this session are: Vision + NLP + Translation APIs

13:30 - 13:55

While the Intel x86-64 architecture is undisputedly market leader in the server space, several vendors have started introducing ARM64 boards. This presentation examines the suitability of ARM64 server boards for network servers. In particular, we look at the workload of a moderate-size ccTLD DNS zone (.dk) and how it would perform on ARM64 running FreeBSD.

We consider the viability of the ARM64 platform from performance and performance/power perspectives. While ARM64 is definitely slower than Intel on many workloads, it performs at least as well or better than Intel on workloads that are interesting to the internet community. Notably DNS is a very appropriate workload for ARM64.

14:00 - 14:25

KVM, kernel based virtualization, turns the Linux kernel into an

hypervisor to provide full virtualization services. There is great deal

of work that happens in the background to create a guest environment

and provide various services securely.In this session we'll peek into the background to understand

how a KVM x86 guest environment comes to be, how/where do various

emulated peripherals fit in and how do they interacts with each-other,

the hypervisor and the hardware.

We'll also see examples of the the KVM Virtualization deployments

and the value it has brought to businesses.

14:00 - 14:40

Cryptocurrencies have captured the imagination of technologists, financiers, and economists. Perhaps even more intriguing are the long-term, diverse applications of the blockchain. By increasing transparency of cryptocurrency systems, the contained data becomes more accessible and useful.The Bitcoin blockchain data are now available for exploration with BigQuery. All historical data are in the big query-public-data:bitcoin_blockchain dataset, which updates every 10 minutes. We hope that by making the data more transparent, users of the data can gain a deeper understanding of how cryptocurrency systems function and how they might best be used for the benefit of society.

14:30 - 14:55

Tablet devices are too attractive mobile computer devices,they are inexpensive, lightweight, display, touchscreen, battery and more. They can buy only US$ 40~ now (only used Tablets). But they can use iOS, Android, Windows only.No Linux Distributions on Tablet. New generation peoples doesn't have to need and want to use traditional computer? Smartphones and tablets are necessary to use Linux Distributions for new generation peoples. I feel that it will become an era when it is difficult for new generation peoples to use desktop Linux.

In this session, I will talk about 「Install and use Intel ATOM Tablet,UMPC and install grub2 bootloader on Linux」.The Linux kernel evolved rapidly from Kernl 4.9LTS to 4.14LTS.Recently Linux Kernel has evolved rapidly on x86 ATOM devices, Tablet, Stick PC, Apollo-Lake devices, UMPC GPD-WIN and GPD-Pocket. A lot of mobile devices can use ubuntu, fedora,openSUSE, Arch Linux, and others now! Let's install Linux on Tablet and any mobile devices.

14:40 - 15:20

Anyone can easily analyze the more than five years of GitHub metadata and 42+ terabytes of open source code. We’ll leverage this data to understand the community and code related to any language or project. Relevant for open source creators, users, and choosers.

14:45 - 16:15

We will explore examples of business that have adopted TensorFlow and Cloud ML to solve their real-world problems: a cucumber farmer in Japan who was able to build a deep learning-based cucumber sorter by himself, a used car auction service using TF for classifying car models and parts, and a food manufacturer that has been able to increase productivity significantly in their baby food factory.

15:00 - 15:25

Developing massively parallel systems is restricted by the complex tasks which need to be managed by the programmer. GPU computing provides the opportunity to parallelize data parallel algorithms while CPU can run the sequential code. With increasing algorithmic development, some new algorithms require iterations of parallel computation on the GPUs (computation scale larger than GPU memory) while some require multiple different data parallel algorithms to run simultaneously, which are notorious to be managed by the programmer.

HPX is an open-source, general purpose C++ library for developing parallel and distributed applications with a broad community usage. This talk aims to discuss the development of HPX Compute language (HPXCL) API for the integration of GPU computation with asynchronous many task execution library HPX. Asynchronous functions are provided for kernel launch, kernel execution and data transfer with the capability to hide the communication latency through computation. To give an example, computation on multiple CPU nodes, GPU nodes can all occur in parallel and can be synchronized when the results are required by the user. This system unleashes the potential to take computation to the exa-scale level.

This development is currently spearheaded by the Stellar Group Community which is a consortium of global researchers. The presenter has been a contributor to this community since his Google Summer of Code participation in 2017.

Github Link: https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpxcl

15:20 - 16:00

Why should you use Kubernetes, an Istio Service Mesh or any choreographed Microservice architecture? There is the efficiency argument, scaling, time to market. There is the isolation argument, resilience. But in this talk, we share a different perspective: Our systems are becoming polyglot, intelligent, and rapidly moving towards an evolutionary mode where machine learning is a natural collaborator in the design thinking and coding process. Let’s play with that idea.

15:30 - 15:55

Meilix Generator is a new tool to build your own custom Internet kiosk for your business. For convenience the kiosk is based on linux and runs with the lightweight LXQT desktop environment.

16:00 - 16:25

An internet kiosk is a special use case. A single computer is shared by an indefinite number of users. Lots of security concerns arise. In Asia and elsewhere multiple non-latin languages have to be supported. We decided to create a custom lightweight distribution, Meilix and a generator web app that allows you to preconfigure an ISO with the wallpaper and desktop settings in place.

16:00 - 17:55

The workshop will cover how to setup and create scientific experiments with the FOSSASIA PSLab or use it to measure electronic conditions in hardware prototypes. The Open Source Pocket Science Lab can be used through the desktop and phones. It combines different devices including an Oscilloscope, a voltmeter and several sensors. It is useful for startups, hobbyists and the educational sector. You can measure currents and all kinds of electronic devices and connections with the PSLab. Check your prototypes or do all kinds of electronic experiments.

Explore, tinker, play - learn how to create your very own retro pixelart games for the Arduboy, a tiny Arduino-based pocket-sized game console reminiscent of Gameboy's glory days. Best thing? Thanks to Clouduboy you can now do this entirely in your browser, all in JavaScript with the language and techniques you already know (and love)!Requirements: The only thing needed is a PC/Mac with an up-to date browser and a USB-A port for flashing the microcontrollers. All software will be provided or will run in the browser. JavaScript-programming experience at this workshop is recommended, but Clouduboy's "Learn to Code!" tutorial itself is suitable for learners of any levels of programming experience (including people who never coded before).

16:30 - 16:55

Unikernel is a novel software technology that links an application with OS in the form of a library and packages them into a specialized image that facilitates direct deployment on a hypervisor. Comparing to the traditional VM or the recent containers, Unikernels are smaller, more secure and efficient, making them ideal for cloud environments. There are already lots of open source projects like OSv, Rumprun and so on. But why these existing unikernels have yet to gain large popularity broadly? We think Unikernels are facing three major challenges: 1. Compatibility with existing applications; 2. Lack of production support (e.g. monitoring, debugging, logging); 3. Lack of compelling use case; 4. Lack of standard to Unikernels. In my presentation, I will review our investigations and exploration of if-how we can convert Linux as Unikernel to eliminate these significant shortcomings, where I name this as UniLinux, and some potential but valuable use cases to Unikernels like IoT, Serverless and IO-intensive applications.

In this session, we will discuss the concept of serverless architecture, which is also called FAAS (Functions as a service). We will take a closer look at what this often confusing term means and how we can take advantage to create new generation solutions.

AWS Lambda being the most popular implementation (yet), we will look at a sample implementation, challenges and other concerns.

17:00 - 17:25

Abstract: Development Suite is a curated, integrated set of desktop tools. Desktop tools combine different components that are required by the developer to get an integrated development platform configured and running on your desktop. It is packaged in an easy-to-use installer and the components can be easily integrated and installed via the interactive web application that runs on MacOS and Windows.

Key points:

  1.  Developer Suite and its current features
  2.  Vision of the product and supported OS
  3.  Ease of installing components and its dependencies (Demo)
  4.  Add new components and Ease of integration (Demo)
17:00 - 17:50

Exhibition Stage

17:00 - 18:00

Kubernetes is taking a clear lead in container orchestration being adopted by all the major cloud/virtualization platforms (Google, Azure, probably AWS, VMWare).

This tutorial session will cover

  • kubernetes concepts and architecture
  • basic container orchestration using cli tools, apis (Python, Go)
  • Exposing services
  • scaling, rolling updates, rollbacks, healthchecks
  • Kubernetes tools
  •       cli such as kubectl, kubeadm, helper tools such as kubectx
  •       higher-level tools such as Helm, Brigade
  •       use of Traefik as an Ingress controller

 

Based on previous labs, all tutorial materials will be freely available during and after the session allowing students to just watch, or follow along on their own laptop or to run the tutorial themselves after the conference.

 

 

Students can just watch or follow along as they wish.

Online resources will be provided to run the labs either on the students own laptop or using their cloud account.

Saturday, 24th Mar

09:30 - 09:55
I am going to talk about why and how we moved from a single flask application to a decoupled application having separate API endpoints and frontend. I would also go through the entire server side codebase and explain how exactly to use the API endpoints.
10:00 - 10:25

Abstract

It is impressive how much time and resources a team can save by using the OBS to manages their packages creation and distribution. OBS is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. 

Andrew Lee will cover the benefits of using OBS, explain some of it features and workflow for all your packaging and releasing needs, like automatically build package from scratch on multiple target distros and architectures, easy access through QA to the developer's repo to generate new images with the changes for testing before integration into the production repo, vcs-like workflow as branch code, send merge requests and review submissions and flexible to connect additional resources to empower the backend worker(builders) even with different architectures. At the end tips on how to setup and optimize OBS will be provided.

Audience

The audience is anyone who interested in packaging and distribution development. Attendees can expect to learn how this tool can save your time and resources at a team work environment. And how to setup and optimize this tool as an infrastructure into your development framework and much more.

Benefits to the Ecosystem

This presentation will help existing and new software projects and independent software vendors better understand how to use morden infrastructure to maintain your packages and repositories for multiple distributions and architectures collaboratively. And will hopefully encourage more software projects and independent software vendors to use such infrastructure to provide repositories for user to keep track their updates easily, and for developers to collaboratively work and contribute easily to the packages and repositories.

This talk will talk about our experience with organizing Tech Jam for the last two years and using Tech Jam as an opportunity to get children as young as 10 in coding and hardware hacking. The programme is distingushed by two main features

1. Open ended creation using tech - Sessions are split between learning and hacking. With short bite sized learning, students are given more time and freedom to create projects

2. Mass learning: Each session caters to over 200 students. The large number of students creates an environment for busy and engaging work where students learn from each other and are motivated by example

We discuss the specific activities and also the methodology as well as tools that we are looking into for the future. 

Learn more about how the open event project uses JSON API, a specification for building APIs. JSON API follows the ‘Convention over Configuration’ philosophy. Aside from a brief introduction to the revamped architecture of the open event project, the talk will also discuss best practices followed for building APIs and URI conventions followed throughout the project. The talk will also shed some light on the challenges faced while implementing JSON API with Flask.

10:00 - 10:45

In this panel we will explore with industry experts how blockchain technologies, which aren't that new, but were made popular when Bitcoin suddenly hit the news, can be used to develop applications that, while leveraging the technology, go well beyond what people usually associate with blockchain, i.e. financial services. We'll look at notarization, voting, participative governments, community utilities, shared economies and services... We will discuss this with industry experts from the blockchain ecosystem, users and developers alike.

10:00 - 10:55

Hands-on workshop covering how to write SELinux policies for new applications as well as update existing policies. Will cover Reference Policy framework, more advanced policy analysis and tradeoffs with different ways to confine applications.

Apache Spark is one of the top big-data processing platforms and has driven the adoption of Scala in many industry and academic settings. As entire Apache Spark framework has been written in scala as a base, it’s real pleasure to understand beauty of functional Scala DSL with Spark.

This talk is intent to present :

  • Primary data structures (RDD, DataSet, Dataframe) usage in universal large scale data processing with Hbase (Data lake), Hive (Analytical Engine).

  • Case study: We will go through importance of physical data split up techniques such as coalesce, Partition, Repartition and other important spark internals in Scaling TB’s of data / ~17 billions records

  • Also, We will understand crucial part and very interesting way of understanding parallel & concurrent distributed data processing – tuning memory, cache, Disk I/O, Leaking memory, Internal shuffle, spark executor, spark driver etc.

10:00 - 11:00

Join the MySQL meetup and Community Gathering at the FOSSASIA Summit! We are meeting in the Lounge area in the exhibition.

10:00 - 11:55

Explore, tinker, play - learn how to create your very own retro pixelart games for the Arduboy, a tiny Arduino-based pocket-sized game console reminiscent of Gameboy's glory days. Best thing? Thanks to Clouduboy you can now do this entirely in your browser, all in JavaScript with the language and techniques you already know (and love)!Requirements: The only thing needed is a PC/Mac with an up-to date browser and a USB-A port for flashing the microcontrollers. All software will be provided or will run in the browser. JavaScript-programming experience at this workshop is recommended, but Clouduboy's "Learn to Code!" tutorial itself is suitable for learners of any levels of programming experience (including people who never coded before).

The workshop will cover how to setup and create scientific experiments with the FOSSASIA PSLab or use it to measure electronic conditions in hardware prototypes. The Open Source Pocket Science Lab can be used through the desktop and phones. It combines different devices including an Oscilloscope, a voltmeter and several sensors. It is useful for startups, hobbyists and the educational sector. You can measure currents and all kinds of electronic devices and connections with the PSLab. Check your prototypes or do all kinds of electronic experiments.

10:30 - 10:55

Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In 

Open Event Frontend is the new frontend project for eventyay. The talk will be focused on

  • Introduction to the new frontend
  • The best practices used in the project
  • Data handling in ember js
  • How we over came critical issues during the development
  • How to start contributing to project
10:30 - 11:10

TBA

10:30 - 11:25

Open Build Service (OBS) is packaged in Debian. In this workshop we intend to run over different configuration options and example cases to be able to manage several distributions with OBS. This is an extention (workshop) for the OBS in Debian presentation.

10:50 - 11:15

It has recently become possible to build an AI system with cryptographic security guarantees, private training data and decentralized training procedures. That makes it possible to train ML / AI systems on highly sensitive datasets (such as those containing personally identifying information or medical data) while mathematically guaranteeing the preservation of privacy and security of said data. 

To make this possible, one needs to leverage recent advances in blockchain technology, homomorphic encryption and secure multi-party computation. The talk will introduce essential ideas from these diverse fields and provide and guide the listener through what's necessary to create secure, private and decentralized AI systems. We will also introduce key components of OpenMined, the leading open source project in this space, enabling developers to build practical decentralized AI systems.  

 

10:55 - 11:05

We are students from UWCSEA and we are the leaders of a group called Ethical Hacking wherein we nurture the interest of students in cybersecurity issues as well as learn about the cyber world and issues related to security. We have so far done CTFs and built servers and visited SUTD to learn more about this field and engage our understanding on the cyber world. 

11:00 - 11:25

With the development of the API server for the Open Event project we needed to decide which framework to choose for the new Open Event front-end. With the plethora of javascript frameworks available, it got really difficult to decide, which one is actually the right choice. Every month a new framework arrives, and the existing ones keep actively updating themselves often. We decided to go with Ember.js. This talk will cover the emberJS framework and highlight its advantages over others and  demonstrate its usefulness with some code snippets and UI screenshots,  as well as  show the hands on advantage by comparing it with the way the previous frontend was structured and the extremely efficient usage of resources using json api. 

11:00 - 11:30

Exhibition Stage

11:00 - 11:45

How sustainable is it do build open tech communities through coding programs, contests and hackathons? What is the experience of Google Summer of Code, Codeheat, Google Code-in, UN Volunteers, Hacktoberfest, 24PRs? What goals do programs have? Are they achieving the goal of advancing Open Tech projects? Panel with Hong Phuc Dang, Misako, Stephanie Taylor, Gi Soong Chee.

11:05 - 11:55

As the security landscape changes, especially in a cloud-based world, the biggest security threats shift away from physical machine access or VPN compromise toward emerging threats like improper software practices, social engineering attacks, or vulnerabilities in underlying libraries. This emerging threat model forces us to re-think traditional security practices in more modern and innovative approaches to intrusion detection and response.

This talk discusses the principles of modern security and how a free and open source tool - HashiCorp Vault - embodies and enforces the principles of modern security.

11:10 - 11:35
You may think rsyslog is just a little program with ugly config file. You may say it's only routing your syslog messages from journald to plain files. But rsyslog is real swiss-army knife of logging. I'll show you how good is rsyslog in modern world of ELK, containers and JSON logs. And how bad it can be when you've missed something. It may help you to process over 100k msg/s. Or it may break your production. And it may do some neat tricks for you as well!
11:15 - 12:00

When you heard about the Blockchain for the first time, you might have had a lot of questions about the technology.

What does it look like? How does it work? Is it secure?

Today, I will give a talk about the Blockchain from the miner's side.

After the talk you will know:

What is the Blockchain?

Who keeps it growing?

How is it secured?

You will also get hands-on experience with BTC mining and can mine some BTC yourself.

11:30 - 11:55

Join us for the Database Lightning Talks!

In GSoC 2017, we in a team worked together and built the Open Event Frontend which is totally decoupled from the Open Event Server. Since Open Event is a vast ecosystem, we need to ensure that each and every contributor can set up the project locally for development and can proceed faster towards contribution. Thus, it sometimes gets difficult for beginners to set up the project. In this session, I will show how to set up Open Event Frontend and Open Event Server locally and make the frontend use the local server rather than online hosted version (heroku) so that new contributors can focus on contribution rather than spending their much time in setting up the project.

12:00 - 12:15

Group Photo

Please join us for the conference group photo opp and share your enthusiasm with the world!

13:00 - 13:25

Real-time ingestion and analysis of data streams is advantageous for organizations handling clickstreams, logs or IoT data sources. However, moving from batch to stream processing has historically been difficult. With Google cloud platform and BigQuery, any organization from a small start up to a big company with huge data could implement an analytics system without concern about running infrastructure, scaling at a reasonable price. 

firefly is an open source micro framework to deploy Python functions as web services. firefly was created with the aim of simplifying the deployment Machine Learning models as RESTful API. But as fate would have it, it became our favorite tool for building microservices. firefly takes care of processing the HTTP requests, forwarding the data to the python functions and encoding the result back to an HTTP request. It also has data validation, authentication support, transferring any type of file. You can also define a configuration file specifying the URL resource structure resulting in an elegant RESTful API.

It comes with a client library that makes calling remote functions calling as easy as calling functions present locally. It is a WSGI application and can be deployed and scaled through any WSGI server like gunicorn. There are many other features in the pipeline like multiple authentication modes through the plugin system.

This talk will focus on introducing firefly, it's notable features like plugin support, building microservices efficiently with various examples.

Finding the perfect job can be difficult. Figuring out how to stand out from the competition and then navigating human biases, archaic hiring processes and other challenges can make landing that dream job seem like a long shot. ​ ​

Join Doug Gray, SVP of Engineering at Indeed to learn how you can take control of your tech career path. Gain key insights from new research on what drives top tech talent’s career decisions​ while also learning how technology can help you overcome obstacles that may occur during the hiring process so that you can be in control of finding your dream job.

Ruqola is a Qt interface to Rocket Chat, with a library implementing DDP semantics, and a QML UI for both desktop and mobile phones. The application is a QML/C++/Qt app, thus providing multi-platform portability.

Meteor, or MeteorJS, is a Free and Open Source JavaScript web framework written using Node.js. Meteor produces cross-platform (Android, iOS, Web) code. Rocket Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor framework. In Ruqola application, DDPClient class implements Meteor's DDP and Rocketchat backend class uses this "library" to pull in rocket chat data.

Blockchain technology is more than just cryptocurrencies - startups, established companies, and governments around the world are harnessing this exciting new technology to transform their businesses. Come learn how some of these enterpreneurs, enterprises, and public servants are building on blockchain and smart contracts and learn how you too can get started building your own applications!

13:00 - 13:55
The Education system is about 200 years old and inspired by organizational thinking of the Industrial Revolution and is arguable a bit out of date. With what we've learned building Open Source software and communities, can we apply the lessons learned to creating an inclusive growing up experience for kids that is not school based?
13:00 - 14:55

Participants will learn basics of Python and how it can be used to simplify/automate common tasks.

C is still by far the most popular programming language deployed around the world. The Linux kernel and most of a modern day Linux platform are built on C. It is the lingua franca we have, and knowing how to use it is useful for getting into Kernel work, Embedded, middleware and much more.

This workshop will cover the groundwork for C in a practical way, so you can use it to do something useful. C is actually a rather simple language and the trick is simply to think like a machine does.

Learn from someone with over 20 years of experience, and get started on what is still, despite its faults, a long-standing tool for creating operating systems and devices. This will be intended for people who have some familiarity with a programming language, but would like to learn the lower levels for the speed and access that come with it.

Bring a laptop and your favorite Linux distribution if you want to participate.

13:30 - 13:55

Daimler and Open Source

When you need to scale an application with a lot of data, how do you decide on a storage solution? How can you both safely store and efficiently interact with large data sets? This usually boils down to a choice between SQL or NoSQL -- but what if there was a third option?

In this session, developer Alex Shinn will discuss Indeed’s MPH-Table: an open source storage solution that uses minimal perfect hash functions to generate a fast and compact key/value store. Alex will discuss how we use MPH-Table at Indeed, what situations are ideal for it, additional optimizations it allows, and how it compares to alternate solutions. Attendees should enter with a fundamental understanding of existing scalable storage solutions, and will leave with a basic understanding of MPH-Table, when they might want to use it, and how other solutions compare.

  • Kubernetes is a very powerful, flexible and production-grade container orchestration system. However, with flexibility comes complexity and thereby verbosity in constructs. It’s hard for a developer to define the Kubernetes configurations as there is a huge learning curve. Developers need something simple that can easily define their micro-services. Right now Docker Compose gets closest to solving this problem.

If your production runs Kubernetes, how do you remove the disparity between the development and production setups? How do we get developers using Docker Compose to use Kubernetes? How well does Docker Compose map to Kubernetes?

Enter Kompose to the rescue.  The Kompose tool generates Kubernetes native configs from their Docker Compose files.

My talk will explain how Kompose solves developer’s problems and demonstrate its different features during the live demo.

The Internet today is plagued by many problems. From viruses and spam, to identity theft and piracy.We can solve those problems.With a virtual operating system that runs the cloud, using blockchains to secure identities and data, a virtual network layer to protect against unauthorized network access, and a virtual machine to sandbox untrusted code.This talk will describe Elastos, an Operating System for the smart web.It will explore the approach that Elastos takes to achieve these goals, and gives a vision of a possible future internet.

Since the launch of the website, there has been an increased traction about the concept amongst the competitive programmers that StopStalk (https://www.stopstalk.com/) has provided to them. StopStalk not only helps in analysing your own competitive programming progress but also helps to code and learn collectively with your friends. Along with the features that are provided on StopStalk I want to discuss the implementation details that are going on in the background to serve the beautified data on the website. The code is completely open source on Github https://github.com/stopstalk/stopstalk-deployment. 

Also want to portray how the processing of data is done as the size of the dataset is tremendous and increasing day by day.

14:00 - 14:10

At the UNESCO Hackathon opening we are welcoming participants and introduce the goals and agenda of the hackathon.

The goal of the hackathon is to engage the community of developers to create open source apps and games that tackle climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges. We are specifically interested in applications and games that set an example for others who could replicate solutions in other countries, and in particular in the Mekong countries, to tackle the sustainable development challenges.

14:00 - 14:25

In this session, Keya looks at how animations can be applied to add style and substance to any webpage and how we can identify some common design patterns to add purposeful animations to our designs.

There are a  plethora of development tools available today, from declarative CSS Animations and Transitions to fully featured JavaScript animation libraries like GreenSock to develop slick animations, but there's an upcoming new option: the Web Animation API! 

Join in the fun as Keya demonstrates how simple animated micro interactions can be developed with ease using this new API combined with popular frameworks like React.

At Adjust, we produce near-real-time analytics on over 400TB of high velocity data.  This talk is a brief introduction to how we do it, and it serves as a showcase for what PostgreSQL is capable of doing in a big data environment.

This talk will be of interest to people looking for information about how open source databases can be used at massive scales, approaches to federated data, and general open source success case studies.

Permissive license for contents encourages creativity and knowledge distribution. However, it largely relies on the selflessness of the creators in doing so. LikeCoin is designed to address such issue. It traces derivative work with the content footprint on Ethereum blockchain, gives every content a LikeRank and rewards creators by proof of creativity.

 Tech for fun community and culture

Learn about how to serve your dish - the awesome application you created - to all the users who may be on different OSs. Don't worry about stuff breaking because of users having a different version of a library. They get everything they need to run your application - from needles to spaceships.    

14:10 - 14:20

For the expected outcome of the hack, the applications or games shall be open source and use open data to tackle the climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges.

They shall address one or several of the following requirements:

  1. Respond to pressing environmental challenges at local, national or regional levels in Asia
  2. Enable the visualization of data in an innovative and/or easy-to-understand way
  3. Mobilize and create engagement of variety of stakeholders and sectors in society on climate change, environment and sustainable development
  4. Gender-sensitive prototype, recognizing or encouraging women’s participation in sustainable development

Functioning App

An important point is, is the prototype or showcase functioning? We prefer real code and design implementations over mockups.

What to enter

Please submit a link to the app, a Github repo link and a short presentation as a download or on Google drive (ensure it is set to public sharing). You can also share anything else to demonstrate your work and let us test it.

  • Video: The platform accepts links to YouTube, Vimeo or Youku. If you like you can post a short video to demonstrate your work.
  • File Upload: There is also an option to upload a file. The platform allows submitters to upload one file, though they can combine files into a single ZIP file.
  • Other: The platform requires contestants to enter an entry name and description. Please also accept the the conditions of the contest including sharing your work under certified Open Source license.

Platform

Share information about what operating systems or devices can your hack run on.

Resources

Include information about API, SDK, or data set, that are required to run the app.

New vs. Existing

Any work done need to be new for the competition. Existing apps are not eligible. However the specific details what is acceptable and what is not will be determined by the jury. For example existing apps that have been modified substantially and include entirely new functionality would still be eligible.

Please find the complete rules here: https://fossasia-unesco.devpost.com/rules

14:20 - 15:00

 Presentation of Ideas, Teams and Team Building Activities

14:30 - 14:40
Biohacking is a new field of citizen science in which individuals experiment with biology . Though this talk we will be talking about democratizing biology through building low cost equipment and open source software. We will also be discussing how biological systems and systems in software and hardware intertwine and how people without experience in biology can get into biohacking. I will be bringing along some DIY lab equipment and projects(Polymerase chain reactor, incubator, prosthetics, etc ) to demo.
14:30 - 14:55

Following the first wave of cloud adoption, moving from private data centers and on-premises hosting to cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS and GCP, we're now seeing a second wave of adoption where self-managed and operated database and messaging services are being replaced by managed cloud database services like RDS.Many of the most popular and longstanding Open Source database systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL are available in these Database-as-a-Service platforms.  However, newer technologies used used for building scalable data pipelines are commonly proprietary, locking you into a single cloud provider and out of the vast Open Source innovation ecosystem.We'll look into into their Open Source alternatives, such as Apache Kafka and ScyllaDB and compare them with their proprietary cloud service counterparts.

Blockchain governance is perhaps the biggest factor that explains the current state of things and can be used to guide evolution of blockchain. Blockchain governance, like any similar governance of a complex system, consists of components, including incentives, communication, compliance and failure management. Optimizing each and every one of these factors will give the blockchain governance its best shot to become mainstream, revolutionary and disruptive to almost any industry in the world.

The growth in the development of applications using open source APIs and frameworks has created complexity with endless unmaintainable endpoints. This session will focus on my findings in building a NodeJS backend application which leverages on GraphQL and MongoDB as the database. GraphQL offers multiple functionalities in a single endpoint to communicate with front end services. In addition, I will share the advantages and disadvantages of GraphQL and how it is different from REST API. I hope this session will help you to get started in exploring this technology.

14:30 - 15:25

Terraform allows developers to manage infrastructure resources in a rather predictable way but it is not always that easy. Let’s walk through real-life challenges when building secure delivery pipeline using Terraform and open-source tools on AWS.

14:40 - 14:50

For many years humans have been sending probes out to space, but less than 5% of our planet’s defining trait, oceans, have been explored, and it’s not because nobody’s interested. Daniel and Michael talk about some of the problems that come about when trying to put electronics where it should not be, and how they got around them on a budget to build their own AUV, Magni. Through their talk, they hope to spark interest in a rather niche field of robotics.

14:50 - 15:00

Projectile launchers are cool and electromagnetic ones even more so. For decades many have been fascinated by them and with the US and Chinese Navy putting railguns on their ships, they have never been more exciting. Jing Xuan shares the charged and explosive experience of building a railgun and coilgun, blowing up Arduinos and shooting nails backwards.

15:00 - 15:25

The FOSSASIA PSLab is the first Open Source Pocket Science Lab that can be used through the desktop and phones. The device is entirely Open Hardware, from the design itself, the firmware to the source code of the apps running on the phone. It combines different devices including an Oscilloscope, a voltmeter and several sensors. It is useful for startups, hobbyists and the educational sector. You can measure currents and all kinds of electronic devices and connections with the PSLab. Check your prototypes or do all kinds of electronic experiments. The talk will demonstrate the device and provide insights into the specifics of the device, the functioning and our future plans.

Progressive Web Application is an effective way to serve the content without Internet Connection.

In events, meetups, and conferences like the FOSSASIA Summit, we aim to provide the event application to the attendees in all circumstances irrespective of the Internet speed. In this session, you will learn how we have started migrating our first version from a simple version of Open Event Web app to a Progressive Web App. The session will help you with a tool lighthouse to measure the performance of your progressive web application.It will help you to migrate your web application to a progressive web application.

The session will also provide you the guidelines to start contributing to Open Event Webapp. 

PL/R is a PostgreSQL extension that allows the use of R from within PostgreSQL for advanced analytics in a simple, efficient, and controlled manner. It has been available and actively maintained since January 2003. PL/R works with all supported versions of PostgreSQL, and all recent versions of R. It is used by thousands of people worldwide.

Recent trends in big data favor bringing the analytics closer to the data – meanwhile PL/R has been quietly providing this service for over 15 years! This presentation will introduce the audience to PL/R, discuss the pros and cons of this approach to data analysis, take them through basic usage, and finally illustrate its power with a few advanced examples.

15:00 - 16:55

Participants will learn how to develop and deploy a CRUD web app using Python, Flask and web technologies.

Traditionally in classroom, math has been taught using chalk-blackboard fashion. With the advent of technology, some teachers started using multimedia, especially graphics/animation to explain students the different mathematical phenomena. But I strongly believe, if students could code themselves, it would be much more helpful for them to internalize mathematics - from very basic to advance stuffs. In this workshop, I am going to show some simple python programs that students (grade 6 to grade 10) can write which helps them to understand different mathematical concepts.

15:00 - 21:51

Create open source apps and games that tackle climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges, and win awesome prizes! We are specifically interested in applications and games that set an example for others who could replicate solutions in other countries, and in particular in the Mekong countries, to tackle the sustainable development challenges. It is our goal to engage the developer community to develop innovative applications as open source by leveraging the open data and knowledge available.

15:30 - 15:55

Developers are constantly searching for the best. They seek the best language to code in, the best tools to use, and they are always looking for what is at the forefront of development. Django as the web framework of your project is the best way to turn your idea into business reality. Perhaps you’ve heard of Instagram, Pinterest, Disqus, Rdio, OpenStack and BitBucket that use the Django framework. You could attend the talk to know more about Django and its applications.

PS - The talk could also be extended by hosting the Django app on the AWS (amazon web services)

Description

Django is a high-level Python framework which encourages rapid development, clean and pragmatic design focusing on automation which is widely supported by many deployment options. The talk would be all about a tale of building a budding crowdsourcing platform which was built using the Django framework.

Coders who are enthusiastic about web frameworks to build back-end servers.

Objective

The attendees would get close to the Django framework and know the use cases of the framework.

Along with this, they would know about a crowdsourcing platform which was built using Django.

Ethereum is one of the most popular and innovative Blockchain in the world. The demand on scaling the networks arise. Sharding is one of the way and we are working on it. This talk will introduce the recent updates of Ethereum and the basic knowledge about sharding in Ethereum.

In this talk, I will lay the landscape of current applications of intracortical brain-machine interface, including discussion on movement recovery in tetraplegics, sensory recovery in blind people, and attempts at integrating both. I will briefly sketch the animal and human research on this topic in Singapore. I will finish by taking a look at possible technologies to augment normal brain function in the future. 

15:30 - 16:25

Datakind Singapore has been using docker to help in reproducing environments that were used during DataDive events. A DataDive is a weekend long event where non-profit organizations work alongside data science volunteers, developers and designers to analyze data to gain insight into their programs, the communities they serve and more.     

Apart from versioning the files/scripts that we used for analysis, we also version the environments where we ran such scripts. In this session, I'll be sharing the Docker Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline/conventions we use in DataKind Singapore to promote reproducibility.     

If you have time, I encourage you to watch the talk I gave last year:   

https://engineers.sg/video/datalearn-docker-for-reproducible-research-datakind-sg--1468     

It focused on the basics of docker and how we're planning to leverage it in an upcoming DataKind event.   

         

In this FOSSAsia worskhop, I'll focus and share more on our Continuous Integration (CI) setup.   

i.e. how to setup the dockerfile and related environment files in github and how to leverage quay.io for continuous integration.   

       

If you want to follow along during the workshop,    

I recommend creating accounts in advance in the following platforms:   

https://github.com 

https://quay.io 

https://labs.play-with-docker.com/            

For the hands-on, I'll go through the following:     

1. Setting up dockerfile in github (for a sample jupyter notebook)     

2. How to setup quay.io for triggered docker builds     

3. How to consume docker images from quay.io   

     

Who is DataKind?   

DataKind is a non-profit organization which seeks to harness the power of data science in the service of humanity. Founded in New York in 2011, DataKind has since started chapters in UK, Singapore, Bangalore, San Francisco Bay Area, Washington DC and Dublin. Our DataKind Singapore chapter was founded in Aug 2014, and our goal is to connect data science volunteers with non-profit organizations to help them analyze their data for good.

16:00 - 16:25

Generation “Z” are digital natives who are versatile in using smartphones and the social media.  They love selfies, branded computer games and want to change the world.

Industry employment demand is usually far from this new generation’s expectations.  How to bridge this gap and get them to have skills that are future ready? How to make them purposeful Makers who is able to solve world's problems?  The Institute of Technical Education (ITE) Singapore has found a way to engage and prepare them through our new Makerspace initiative.

The Blockchain for the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a promising idea. Despite a myriad of projects on the blockchain IoT, few studies have investigated how an IoT blockchain system develops with open source technologies, open standards, and web technologies. In this presentation, Jollen will share the Flowchain case study, an open source hybrid blockchain project for the IoT. Furthermore, to provide a permissioned edge computing environment for current IoT requirements, he will adopt the Hyperledger Fabric open source, a community project under the Linux Foundation umbrella, to build a hybrid blockchain to facilitate such technical challenges.

Browsers are built on very simple principle - "one fit that suits all". Addons/Extnesions are the thing that help us to personalize the browser as per our need.We use number of addons/extensions to make most of our browser. How about being on other side of table; lets create one.Webextensions APIs are here to convert us(Javascript developers) to addon/extension developers. Javascript mixed with Webextensions APIs empower us to modify our browsers to suit as per our need. Adding to awesomeness, not only for one browser but same code that can be deployed on Firefox, Chrome, Opera with minimal or no changes. In this session,  we will be learning how to develop portable addons/extensions using javascript. One can learn how to use features of browser such as Notifications, Tab capture, HTTP request handling, Toolbar buttons via addon etc. Also I will be giving a hands-on demo of creating an addon right in the session and deploying it in the browser. By the end of session, audience will be empowered enough to command their browser to perform tasks as per their wish, may be throwing notification to drink water after every hour. By this session, I look forward to increase the circle of addons/extensions developers so as to make browsers great.

16:30 - 16:55
The work deals with learning of students on complex technical concepts in much more easier way using open source software. Mind mapping is one of the popular learning techniques employed by the academic fraternity all over the globe. This technique is utilized to improve the academic performance of the students for understanding subjects and laboratory too. This is because of the clear representation of the technical concepts in systematic way through mapping. This kind of learning helps students to correlate among the technical concepts without ambiguity. Though it seems to be simple it's impact is powerful as it works on cognition of Human beings. Instead of freehand drawing to create mind maps, open source software tools are employed. The merits of the usage of open source software are being able to create many such mind maps in short duration, edit them at any time, able to add attractive colors and patterns to create interest and gain attention of students, design in numerous ways to develop creativity and so on. Of the majority of the methods employed, this teaching - learning technique has gained prominent importance among students. The result of this work is found to be amazing among all the students for both theory subjects and practicals. There has been phenomenon change in understanding the technical concepts and analyzing them. After witnessing its strong impact at the academic results, my peer academic group started using the software. 

The workshop will proceed as follows:

  1. Introduction to Python
  2. Setting up Python environment
  3. Introduction to Google Cloud
  4. Setting up GCloud SDK
  5. Installing GCloud packages for python
  6. Writing a sample gcloud application
  7. How to run an instance (Debian VM) on gcloud
  8. Introduction to Image Processing and OCR
  9. Image Processing and OCR using Compute Engine

The current excitement around Bitcoin as "decentralised crypto money" has left us in a state where some of the fundamental ideas behind it -namely anonymous p2p economic exchange, technoactivism to re-enfranchise people from the centralised control of fiat currencies and other ideas loosely referred to as "crypto anarchism" are being fast forgotten.

Not only has bitcoin (and its contemporaries) become defacto stores of perceived economic value rather than a medium for its exchange, of recent times a large-scale shift is taking place in the (computational) power balance which determines control over its network. This shift is concurrent with efforts to de-anonymise pseudonymous identities transacting on the public ledger and legally regulate (AKA Tax) cryptocurrency transactions.

User context and their interactions with the nearby world play a vital role in creating a magnificent user experience. Instant awareness of the nearby surroundings can be an amazing way to understand the users and their behaviors. The emerging new technologies like Google's Awareness and Nearby APIs, Beacons, NFC cards and WiFi signals have opened up a sea of possibilities for developing magical user experiences.

This talk will encompass the importance of user context, Eddystone beacons, Google's Nearby and Awareness APIs; and examples of some of the experiences you can build with them. It will also cover ways to understand user behavior and customisation based on user actions eventually resulting in user retention. 

17:00 - 17:25

Today, various enterprises make sure we have no right to our own privacy through both direct and indirect means for profit.  What are the design challenges for a privacy preserving, user centric, community reputation system which enables global trade and finance?    

OAuth is a way of telling your Social Provider like Facebook. that they can share parts of your information (not everything) with other websites, without revealing your super duper secret password to these other websites. In other words, it's a way of providing permission which also includes authentication.

As Google Summer Of Project, I implemented OAuth2 Library "The League OAuth2" in modules of Drupal Social Initiative. We also released 2.x Version of these modules, which had streamlined authentication system, easily to implemented and were more secure. 

This talk will be based on why you should use protocol standards such as OAuth2 over traditional login based approach.

The first generation of microservices was primarily shaped by Netflix OSS and leveraged by numerous Spring Cloud annotations all throughout your business logic. The next generation of microservices will leverage sidecars and a service mesh. In this session, we will give you a taste of Envoy and Istio, two open source projects that will change the way you write distributed, cloud native, Java applications on Kubernetes. Traffic shaping, network fault-injection, A/B testing, dark launches and much more

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.

Each activity can be considered as a fun game which mainly focuses on enhancing the learning of children through visual and graphics.The project is supported by KDE and is mainly written in QML,JS,C++ and QT.

GCompris is a free software, that means that you can adapt it to your own needs, improve it and, most importantly, share it with children everywhere. 

GCompris contain a variety of activities belonging to different domains. It spans from mathematical to language, from science to geography, from mouse coordination to computer typing and many more. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.

The topics of discussion under the talk are as follows :-

1.) Structure, Architecture, and Codebase of GCompris.

2.) The techstack of the project. 

3.) What are open source projects ? 

4.) How to contribute to GCompris ?

5.) Tutorial on git and github.

6.) Will motivate new comers to explore & contribute to open source world. 

The session will be very useful for new contributors who wished to contribute to GCompris and dive into open source world.

It's that time again to push the boundaries of MySQL technology further. MySQL 8.0 is fully packed with tons of features with many of them are based on our community feedback & contributions.  Data dictionary, better security, better optimizer, better replication, and so on.  This session will talk about these exciting major improvements that promised to help you breaking through.  

17:00 - 17:40

As organizations adopt cloud technologies, the need for codification and automation quickly becomes apparent. No longer can engineers create individual servers by shell commands or click through a GUI to provision machines. To add more complexity to the equation, many cloud vendors offer proprietary services that need to be integrated into applications. This new cloud-based world demands automation across the entire stack.

This talk discusses some patterns and open source tools for codifying machines as code, infrastructure as code, and security as code using tools like Packer, Chef, and Terraform.

17:00 - 17:45

Exhibition Stage

17:30 - 17:55

MySQL is unique in many ways. It supports plugins. It supports storage engines. It is also owned by Oracle, thus birthing a branch (Percona Server) and a fork (MariaDB). You're a busy DBA having to maintain a mix of this. Or you're a CIO planning to choose one branch. How do you go about picking? Supporting multiple databases? Find out more in this talk with a special focus on MySQL 8.0 and MariaDB Server 10.3 (which comes with Oracle compatibility functions). Learn what others are doing (including popular projects like cPanel). See where people are migrating. And decide on what to use for the next 24 months!

We use radio communications systems everyday; technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3G, 4G and many more are an integral part of our society today. However, do we understand how they work? The Insta-QRP Radio Transceiver is a open-hardware radio transceiver kit that aims to demonstrate the concepts of radio transmission and reception.

A few years ago, a new type of currency emerged generalized as a “synthetic” currency. It is called synthetic because it is not operated by any state or even has any tangible value rather it seems to be a new asset that is trade-able resulting from an agreement between two individuals secretly and it is facilitated with the help of internet technology. Included in this synthetic currency is Bit coin (BTC) that has proved to be one of the most important one. BTC can be stated as “Digital money is simply the idea that, thanks to technology, money can now be a digital object, a unique serial number that can be directly exchanged anonymously and without accounting, just as one person would hand a dollar bill to another person, you had it, now they have it, Very simple”. There is already a lot of usage of digital money, for example when a person makes a transaction the system identifies the person and makes credit equivalent to the amount of deposit, which makes it digitally usable on ATM machines or in transfer from person to person or can be utilized to purchase goods or services. But this is not related to concept of digital currencies because a digital currency is more like a real form of currency with a characteristic of independence i.e. free from intermediaries such as central banks. Hence the whole system of digital currency is decentralized and there is no decision making involved by politicians or governments or banks. Such as Bit coins work through cryptographic algorithms to make the currency digitally usable. There are people who like the idea of currency which does not involve people in grey suits i.e. bankers and politicians who have had the system under control until now. In this talk, the focus is on the level of understanding or perception among the individuals regarding the bit coin currency in the domain of cryptocurrency.

17:45 - 18:10

Data breaches are on the rise and placing increased pressure on Enterprise IT to protect the business. With the rise of DevOps and as hackers takes advantage of known vulnerabilities on unpatched or misconfigured systems, Enterprise IT increasingly needs to automate container security management with DevSecOps.

In this talk, you’ll learn about:

  • Best practices for integrating Security into DevSecOps
  • The top security risks in a container environment including container images, builds, registry, CI/CD, and host. 
  • Integrating automated security scans into your CI/CD pipeline
  • Scanning online and offline containers for security compliance vulnerabilities and generating security audit reports with OpenScap
18:00 - 18:25

Blockchain technology gaining mainstream adoption and the emergence of the token economy.

Kamailio is an open source SIP (RFC3261) signalling server implementation developed since 2001. It targeted flexibility and scalability from the beginning, being currently used by large telecom and mobile operators world wide as well as global OTT services.

The talk is presenting the most common use cases of Kamailio, such as classic telephony platform, load balancer, least cost routing engine or SIP security firewall, aiming also to point to the relevant resources to help building the systems yourself.

18:30 - 18:55

Technology in recent years has allowed hobbyists to explore the radio spectrum around them for very low cost. This talk will be a discussion on how one can get started in SDR including what hardware to buy and an overview on what Open Source Software exists for use.

Some topics that will be talked about are antenna design, SDR cards, GNURadio, and how to improve signal reception.

Some of the radio spectrum applications that will be discussed are:

  • AIS - Automatic Identification System for marine traffic
  • ADS-B - Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast for air traffic
  • Weather and satellite telemetry signals
  • Improving security and preventing data leaks from RF signals

In this Session i would like to take about

1.  Evaluation of Blockchain technology.

2. Blockchain behaviour and its internal architecture. 

3. About Digital currencies like Bitcoin

4. Another face of development of Technology through Blockchain.

Sunday, 25th Mar

00:00 - 00:00

NOTE: Primarily a booth proposal.

VLC 3.0 is (should be by March) finally out. This summarizes the well overdue new features, and explores potential future directions for this well-known open-source project.

09:00 - 14:00

Creating open source apps and games that tackle climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges.

10:00 - 10:25

In Sept. 2017, the Red Hat Product Security Team was notified of a security flaw affecting bluetooth stacks of Linux, Android, IOS and Windows operating systems. This was probably the first cross-platform security flaw of its kind. The impact was evident by the fact that the attacker did not even need to be paired to the victims device in order to exploit it. This talk briefly discusses the security flaw, the exploit mechanism and how such flaws can actually cause much more damage than what is initially evident.

I've wanted to build a small cloud at home for some time, mostly to serve as a testbed for my development projects. But also as a platform to virtualize my growing home infrastructure. So I allocated a budget of ~$1500 USD (the price of my first desktop computer) and set out to build a cloud using OpenStack. OpenStack is an open source cloud ecosystem designed to provide users with programmable open infrastructure. It  is used to power some massive private cloud deployments. But, how does it work for an individual wanting to deploy a cloud with their own resources? This talk will provide an overview of my experience building a small compute cloud from scratch, on essentially a shoestring budget; from hardware acquisition, through installation and configuration of the cloud, to my use cases for the cloud. This will serve as an introduction to OpenStack and getting started with it and will also cover the potential benefits you can get by having your own cloud at home.

A  fundamental challenge in many societies is peer learning and information sharing. We tend to group ourselves into our interests and professions and often miss out the issues and fears of the broader community.  Is it possible to get people from diverse occupations and age ranges to come together and learn from each other? We believe that such a learning and informed community will undoubtedly prefer adoption of open technologies and solutions. We will show you examples, and share some insights from Vietnam, Cambodia and Singapore, where we have some success encouraging community learning via un-conferences and small meetups. We also invite you to share your experiences with your city, school or organisations where people come together to learn from each other.

I will be talking about how we moved our legacy codebase which was in Java to Kotlin which is a more modern programming language with built-in support for various higher order functions which Java lacks.

I will be highlighting the pros and cons of the language and the difficulties we faced while doing so.

The talk is aimed at everyone who is either an android developer or someone who plans on getting into Android Development.

I will also outline how you, as a developer can contribute to the project.

Open Source Design collective ( http://opensourcedesign.net/) works to raise the profile of good design in open source software, and connect developers & designers to make it happen.  We run an Open Source Design community forum, organize design tracks at well-known events like FOSDEM, FOSSASIA and OpenTechSummit, have a job board to get designers involved, provide open design resources to developers & designers, and more.

To start the track this year we want to discuss what happened in design for FLOSS since the last year design track at FOSSASIA. What is Open Source Design collective, what work has been done through out the year. What are other design projects in FLOSS you can be part of.

Target Audience:

anyone who wants to learn more about non-code contributions in open source  (particularly design and usability research) 

Desired Outcome:

For beginner designer to learn/share how to be involved in open source, for engineers to learn/share how to find designers for their projects. 

Up till MySQL 5.7 version, DDL statement execution is non-atomic which caused many issues with respect to DDL crash safeness and slave drift in replication setup. New transactional Data-dictionary implementation in the MySQL 8.0  helped in making the DDL statements atomic in MySQL 8.0.

"Now DDL is atomic  in MySQL 8.0"

An atomic DDL statement combines the data dictionary updates, storage engine operations, and binary log writes associated with a DDL operation into a single, atomic transaction. The transaction is either committed, with applicable changes persisted to the data dictionary, storage engine, and binary log, or is rolled back, even if the server halts during the operation.

With this new implementation in MySQL have eliminated possibilities for internal consistencies in the server and SE after crash. Also in a replicated environment this is especially important since the probability for slave drift caused by crashes during execution of DDL on master/slave is eliminated.

Key Take aways:

============== 

What is  atomic DDL ?

What improvement atomic DDL gets to the user ?

What helped in implementing atomic DDL ?

Supported DDL Statements.

Changes in DDL Statement Behavior.

Storage Engine Support.

Viewing DDL Logs.

10:00 - 16:00

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code. We’re also expanding the availability of CentOS images across a number of vendors, providing official images for Amazon, Google, and more. For self-hosted cloud, we also provide a generic cloud-init enabled image.

CoderDojo is a movement is a grassroots organisation with individual clubs (called "Dojos") acting independently. Supporters of CoderDojo believe it is part of the solution to addressing the global shortage of programmers by exposing young people to ICT at a young age.

10:30 - 10:55

Free and open source software have empowered people to have control over their lives, which are increasingly dominated by computer technology and notably, software. A weakness in this ecosystem is that tangible Internet services are dominated by companies that operate centralized, cloud-based services. These run counter to the tenets of free and open source software despite the fact these services often use this very software.

The proper use and application of such free and open source software for Internet services is important. This comes in the form of decentralized services, themselves powered by free and open source software.

Neeraj will discuss a very specific use case of decentralized Internet services -- the idea of a decentralized key-value pair database network powered by AGPL software. The network is enabled by a crypto-economy of producers and consumers that all use this AGPL software in the form of daemons, API’s, libraries, and tools. The talk will focus on the need for decentralized services and how they are the embodiment of the spirit of free and open source software, when it comes to the use and application of such software, with a brief discussion on the world decentralized database case study.

Kirigami UI is a set of extensions to the touch friendly Qt Quick Controls framework that defines precise UI/UX patterns to allow developers to quickly develop intuitive and consistent apps that provide a great user experience.

This allows application developers to write their UI without explicitly worrying about deployment results on various form factors, such as Desktop/Tablet/Mobiles. This is the idea behind convergent code and Kirigami UI framework is one such tool in this direction.

Join me in taking a look at a few applications that are written using the Kirigami UI and how they behave on different form factor devices.

For more :[1] https://dot.kde.org/2016/03/30/kde-proudly-presents-kirigami-ui[2] https://vizzzion.org/blog/2017/10/plasma-convergence-technically/

Every software professional knows the challenge of being asked to deliver in a shorter time frame, or to do more in the time available, or watched as timelines slip away through endless bugs or rework, yet there are development teams out there which eclipse their peers and somehow deliver more. What are the secrets of these “high-performing” development teams, what are the roadblocks to implementing them, and how can you take your development process from good to brilliant?

This session will provide some answers, drawn from the experiences of the Platform.sh team and our clients, including:

  • What is a high-performing development team?
  • What development practices do they use?
  • What should your deployment pattern look like?
  • What kinds of code management and branching patterns are most effective
  • What should you measure?

This is a non-technical session focusing on actionable best practice, which is suitable for everyone from software developers to CTOs.

Rancher is an open source project that provides a complete platform for running Docker in production. Using Rancher, organizations can run Rancher in a provider agnostic fashion, running workloads across different cloud providers and even bare metal setups. Glints, the platform for young people to discover their careers, has been running Rancher in production since 2015. In this talk, I'll be going through Rancher's primary use cases for Glints and how Rancher's flexibility has allowed us to iterate quickly.

This talk will go through two main features of MySQL with examples quite relevant to the distributed NoSQL & SQL era of applications. First part will go through the usage of MySQL JSON as both NoSQL and SQL data store at the same time with examples and use cases. The second part will concentrate on distributed transaction standard and how MySQL can be used as a resource manager in such a distributed transaction which can span across heterogeneous functional nodes and across geography.

Making WiFi Great analyses the performance limitations commonly found in WiFi networks, revealing secrets and best practise, and takes the participant through practical steps on how to optimise their network, complete with concrete examples and experience.

The Open Source and Standards team in Red Hat is using metrics more regularly to measure the health and activity levels of projects and their attendant communities. But the problem is not the data, it's figuring out what we need from the data.If you ask yourself "what makes my community healthy?" you may soon discover that the question is not so easily answered. Contribution levels, downloads, user interactions... these all sound good, but do they always answer the community health question? Depending on where a community is in its lifecycle, they may not. And, complicating the matter is that different projects have completely different end goals--more users vs. more contributors, for example. In this presentation, Brian Proffitt examines the questions that need to be asked in order to determine the answers for community health.

10:30 - 12:25

Kotlin is a new cross-platform language which supports jvm/js/llvm platforms.In this workshop, we'll implement a simple client-server app using Kotlin Native. Kotlin is a great showcase of technology that could empower back-end, front-end, mobile and desktop solutions for business.

11:00 - 11:25

We are heading into a world were the files of most users are hosted by 4 big companies. This is the case for most home users, companies but also education and research institutions. If we want to keep our sovereignty over our data, protect our privacy and prevent vendor lock-in then we need open source self hosted and federated alternatives. The internet and the web use a distributed and federated architecture. Now we have to make sure that cloud services follow the same model. 

A new challenge is the increasing blending of application hosting and storage as seen at Office 365 and Google Suite. This has the danger to lead to a very strong vendor lock-in. 

This talk will discuss the ongoing trends in this areas and possible solutions. It will also give an overview of newest Nextcloud features and the long term roadmap to provide an alternative to centralised services.

All you need to know about how and when to use Histograms in MySQL. This feature was introduced in MySQL 8.0 and is very helpful when indexes are not present in your database tables. 

Learn how a simple statistics of grouping the frequency of any values miraculously speeds up the execution of queries without indexes. 

Performing periodic backups in computer networks is indispensable. In times of Locky and other ransomware backups are often the only option left to regain access to your data. Nevertheless, for backups to be effective against these types of threats, a number of aspects have to be considered.

This presentation shows how to use the open source backup solution Bareos, to regularly create backups of your systems in a heterogeneous network.

Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a reliable network open source software to backup, archive and restore files from all major operating systems. The fork was founded 2010 out of the bacula.org project, in order to pursue development of new capabilities and sustainable ensure it’s open source character.Today Bareos comes with a new multi-lingual and multi-tenancy web ui including restore browser, LTO hardware encryption support, bandwidth limitation, cloud storage support, a redesigned plugin interface, among other new features.

The source code is available on Github and is licensed with AGPLv3. There are ready to installrepositories for all major Linux distributions, MacOS and Windows installer packages.

Today Bareos is the only 100% open source backup solution with professional subscription and support services.

Homepage of the Bareos project:  www.bareos.org

OpenStack is the most widely used open source cloud operating system these days. It provides Infrastructure as a Service for creating your own public and private cloud in house. It is easy to install and provide VMs for use cases. It contains many various services catering to different needs. These services used to run as systemctl processes. With the recent OpenStack Pike release, these services are run inside container. In this session, I will talk about one such OpenStack project called Kolla which plays an important role in this enablement. I will also talk about OpenStack installer called TripleO, How it deploys containerized overcloud, its interaction with Kolla, Puppet, and other OpenStack services and advantages of containerizing OpenStack.

This talk will take you through some tools and techniques I used to reverse engineer the keyboard controller in my Thinkpad x230 laptop.

I was driven to start this project when the laptops currently on sale just did not meet my requirements.  Even the durable Thinkpad laptops I preferred in the past are being dumbed down.  Eventually, I will need a new laptop - and with the available offerings, I just do not want anything that currently can be purchased off the shelf.

To keep the project achievable, I reduced my gripes to just the keyboard - asking the question: "Can I shoehorn an older keyboard in a modern laptop?"

Taking you through UEFI, ARCompact CPUs, Firmware Reversing, big structure dumping, SMM and custom virtual machines to answer that with "maybe."

I hope to inspire others to address their hardware gripes too - and offer some tools and confidence that they can.

The YouthMobile Initiative builds on the experience of many worldwide initiatives that introduce young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-learn). It also seeks to build on experiences targeting young women who are vastly underrepresented in this field. Finally it builds on the consideration that for millions of young people, the smartphone in their pocket is a very powerful computer, it will be their only computer, and they use it for nearly every aspect of their lives: communicating, learning, taking pictures, and playing games.

11:00 - 11:55
It's the wild wild west for cryptoledgers and their most known application, crypto currencies. Billions of dollars worth of value are literally being generated out of thin air. But the promise of smart contracts transcends the impact of the industrial revolution. What are the technologies behind this? Are they reliable? What are their capabilities and limitations? Can they realize the potential of smart contracts? How far can they take us in their current state? What does the future hold? What is Dijkstra's Revenge?
11:30 - 11:55

OpenStack is complex with lots of services and choices to deploy your own cloud in any fashion.

Deploying OpenStack from sources is hard. RDO is an OpenStack community distribution for RHEL/CentOS and friends.

RDO make it possible by delivering latest RPM packages with the help of different deployment tools by chasing trunk through different CI/CD with in days from upstream release.

In this talk, we will be talking about:

* A little history about RDO

* How we used to release vanilla OpenStack 2 years back.

* How we reached two days time frame on releasing RDO after upstream openstack releases through different CI/CD and proper testing.

* How Ansible and Upstream OpenStack tools (zuul, gerrit, nodepool, ARA, CentOS Infra, software factory) made it possible?

* Making OpenStack usable to work out of the box through Tripleo, Puppet, Kolla CI

* Making it easy for installers to test against latest upstream code so that they can

 Get released shortly after the services.

* How we are making OpenStack better through RDO?

* How you can also contribute in making it better?

Analyzing data to make crucial business decisions is vital for any company to survive in today's competitive market. Even more so when we consider the eCommerce industry. In every corner of the world, eCommerce companies are vying to capture the market share. As a result, companies are required to provide processes and infrastructure to allow data access to Business Intelligence and Development teams without compromising on regulatory requirements. To solve this problem, there is some commercially available software which encrypts data at rest by using key management within or outside the RDBMS. But we have been able to solve this problem innovatively by using triggers and a set of Python scripts which is free, masks data in real time, has simple to configure columns for masking and retains the usability of data after masking. We have developed a set of functions for each type of sensitive data that is used in various applications most commonly. We will also discuss pros and cons.

Presentation of VLC 3.0 and what is new in the VLC 3.0 release.

Free & Open Source Software Initiative (FOSSI) is declared since 2010 as part of eOman strategy, to support all applications and technologies that used to develop the IT Sector in Oman. The initiative focuses in below 5 pillars:

  1. Raise Awareness

  2. Capacity building

  3. Encourage FOSS solutions development

  4. Provide Support

  5. Encourage deployment

The prime activities carried out in the imitative were Workshops, seminars, symposiums, conferences, etc… about FOSS philosophy, applications, etc... Specialized workshops and training about certain programming languages or applications were executed on past 7 years and planned to continue for coming years. These activities are aligned with media awareness campaigns, contents and development competitions in FOSS solutions.

This session will share Oman FOSS Initiative achievements, challenges & future plan.

11:30 - 12:10

Introduction to IoT world with Google technologies

12:00 - 12:25

We will explore how to boost the usability of web and mobile-web apps by implementing offline-first functionalities, it's the only way to guarantee 100% always on user experience. Low signal or no connectivity should no longer be a blocker for the user, we will discuss the available solutions for caching, in-browser database, and data replication. We will also take a look at how WC help solving those issues out of the box.

12:25 - 12:35

Publicly funded software ought to be Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). While there are plenty of good reasons for this line, many decision makers in the public administration are still unaware.

Digital services offered and used by our public administrations are the critical infrastructure of the 21st century. In order to ensure our systems are trustworthy and reliable, governments and businesses must have full control over the software and the computer systems at the core of the state digital infrastructure. However, right now, this is rarely the case due to restrictive licensing models that:

  • Prevent sharing and exchanging publicly funded code. This prevents cooperation within the public administration and with businesses and hinders further development.
  • Result in formation of monopolies by hindering competition. Make administrations become dependent on a handful of companies.
  • Endanger the security of our digital infrastructure by denying access to the source code. Without code access fixing backdoors and security holes becomes extremely difficult, if not completely impossible.

We need software that fosters the sharing of best practices and solutions. We need software that guarantees transparency, government oversight and trust. We need software that helps public administrations and businesses regain full control of their critical digital infrastructure, allowing them to remain sovereign and provide their services to the citizens. We call for support of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in public administrations, because:

  • FOSS enables us to use, study, share and improve applications.
  • FOSS licenses provide safeguards against being locked in to services from providers that use restrictive licensees to hinder competition.
  • FOSS ensures that the source code is accessible so that security weaknesses and backdoors can be fixed.
  • Public bodies are financed through taxes. It is their mission to make sure they spend funds in the most efficient way possible. If it is public money, it should be public code as well!

In the publiccode.asia initiative we call on decision makers, businesses and representatives to:

“Take all necessary measures and work together to implement legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for public sector must be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software license.”

12:30 - 12:55

In overall success of localization timely translation and their packaging/shipping for targeted release matter the most. Plus packaged translations should be tested as well. In some cases upstream manages the workflow and in another may it be managed for downstream only. In total a sync between upstream, translation platform and build system seem missing. Which actually results in delay or poor localized interfaces. Transtats is an attempt to fill this gap. It answers some of the questions like (1) Translation status of packages at all three places (2) Translation workload estimation for coming release (3) Translation coverage of a list of packages in a set of languages for a given release. Along with this, it can automate a few steps of l10n workflow as well.Lets discuss Transtats in detail. This project is in early phase of development and any feedback would be of great help!

12:30 - 13:25

Microsoft released ASP.NET Core platform a while ago, and it is getting more and more popularity this year. New platform is no longer tightly coupled with Microsoft Windows and IIS anymore, developers can develop on Mac and deploy to Linux or via Docker containers. .NET Core and ASP.NET Core are free, open source and offer much better performance.The following session will address generic web-application performance-improvement techniques, such as I/O optimizations, caching, message queuing, and .NET Core and ASP.NET Core performance improvements. The audience will learn the details of the latest framework, real-life experience dealing with performance pitfalls and strategies of detecting and resolving issues earlier.

12:35 - 12:45
Cloud - OpenStack, Juju Charms and Desktop Own OS Customization and Differences
12:45 - 13:30

Lightning talk sessions are taking place on Saturday/Day 3 and Sunday/Day 4 of the event. Please have a look at the session schedule of the lightning talk slots. The lightning talks have a slot of either 5 or 10 minutes including setup.

Please see the wiki page for full information: https://github.com/fossasia/2018.fossasia.org/wiki/Lightning-Talks 

13:00 - 13:25

Rapid innovation, changing business landscapes, and new IT demands force businesses to make changes quickly.  In the eyes of many, containers are at the brink of becoming a pervasive technology in Enterprise IT to accelerate Microservices delivery.  In this presentation, you'll learn about the

           • The transformation of IT to a DevOps, Microservices, and Container based Architecture

           • What are containers and how DevOps practices can operate in a Microservices based environment

           • How Kubernetes can reduce software delivery cycle times, drive automation, and increase efficiency

           • How other organizations are using DevOps + Containers with Microservices and how to replicate their success 

Also, a demonstration of automated container based Microservices builds and pipelines, running Jenkins CI on Kubernetes, and continuous deployments of containerized Microservices with Kubernetes.

There are substantial improvements in the Optimizer in MySQL 8.0. Most noticeably, there’s added support for advanced SQL features such as common table expressions, windowing functions, and a grouping() function. DBAs will also appreciate the invisible indexes and additional hints that can be used with the query rewrite plugin. On the performance side, cost model changes will make a huge impact. JSON support is even more powerful, with the addition of adding functions requested by users.

Altruistic data scientists are always trying to make a positive impact society. Non-profits often lack the resources and know how to analyse and exploit their (or open) data. DataKind SG is non-profit organisation dedicated to bring data scientists and non-profits together to make good things happen. We are part of the global DataKind network headquartered in New York.

We will share our learning for our two DataDives and one DataCorps over the last year. The projects we did cover the gamut from healthcare to ecological conservation.

13:00 - 13:55

Bitcoin is a virtual currency that is taking the financial industry by storm.

At the heart of this currency is an open, distributed ledger for efficient transaction management, called Blockchain.Bitcoin startups are rapidly emerging in the financial industry, and some are going to hit the jackpot of success.Various Open-source technologies including NodeJS and REST-based API facilitate the operations and processes of Bitcoin startups. In this track, the solution architecture of a fictitious Bitcoin startup will be introduced using a presentation, in-depth application code walkthrough and a mobile app test-drive using a live audience. 

Hopefully, this track will yield ideas that will inspire the next big Bitcoin startup!

13:25 - 13:50

With the rise of DevOps, containers are at the brink of becoming a pervasive technology in Enterprise IT to accelerate application delivery for the business. When it comes to adopting containers in the enterprise, Security is the highest adoption barrier. Is your organization ready to address the security risks with containers for your DevOps environment? 

In this presentation, you'll learn about:

- The top security risks with containers and how to manage theses risks at scale including Images, Builds, Registry, Deployment, Hosts, Network, Storage, APIs, Monitoring/Logging, Federation.

- How to make your Container enabled DevOps workflow more secure without slowing down your CI/CD pipeline

- Automating security vulnerability management and compliance checking for container images

Also, a demo of Kubernetes managing the container image lifecycle, automating container security scans, and deployment strategies for security updates at scale including Canary, Blue/Green deployments and A/B testing.

13:29 - 13:54

Aravind will start by explaining about Application Performance Monitoring (APM). Why it is need of the hour?

Introduce Elastic's APM solution.

How the solution works and overall architecture.

Finally demo-ing the solution practically with a Python App.

1. https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

2. https://github.com/elastic/logstash

3. https://github.com/elastic/kibana

4. https://github.com/elastic/beats

5. https://github.com/elastic/apm-server

13:30 - 13:55

The project aims at proposing a solution to restore underwater images for Marine Archeological studies. This work was done during a research internship at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography. We worked with datasets provided by the field work and underwater explorations in the Arabian Sea along Western Coast of India. In this project, the traditional image restoration approach is extended by incorporating underwater optical properties into the system response function. Underwater turbidity causes loss of clarity transparency, visibility and the luminosity in underwater images to study a particular scene for Marine Archeologists. In this project, we have implemented and compared different methods of underwater image enhancement and restoration which are degraded by the turbidity in water. We implemented the various image processing algorithms considering an average quality camera (i.e., Logitech C920). The algorithms implemented in a step-wise manner are preprocessing, filtering, enhancement and denoising based on a model. Images tend to get degraded as the depth and turbidity increases, the amount of light on objects decreases and light distribution becomes nonuniform. To tackle this issue, the input images are converted to YCbCr color space and Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) is performed on the Luminescence(Y) channel of the image which improves the local contrast, at the same time limiting the amplification which can over-amplify the noise too. The filtering and enhancement were done using the Bilateral Filter and then finally the enhancement was carried out using the wavelet denoising method and de-blurring. Due to the intensity variations involved in underwater sensing, denoising is carefully carried out by wavelet decompositions. This is necessary to explore different effects of restoration constraints, and especially their response to an underwater environment where the effects of scattering can be easily treated as either signal or noise.

Since our solution aided the marine archeologists in their studies, we gave more emphasis to the information extraction and the visibility of features rather than the enhancing the physical features of the underwater images.

MySQL provides various options to enhance security of server-client connections. In this talk, we will go through various such features available in MySQL. Talk will cover features like TLS connections, use of ciphers, support for CRLs, configuring user accounts to achieve better security etc.

Database is the core of many systems. If you are building an e-commerce website, government portal, health management system or just a blog, you need a database.Usually, database security system usually the last security layer between your data and hackers. Suddenly, this is also mostly underused security functionality in modern applications. You may find many books and papers about network security, firewalls, cryptography and even application security, but not database security. In the following session, I am going to introduce the audience to PostgreSQL security system. The audience will learn about authentication, authorization, roles, permissions and data encryption. We will talk about database security best practices which can help you to protect data even when your application has been compromised. The ideas from the session might be applicable to other database management systems.

TagUI is an open-source tool for automating UI interactions. Use cases include process automation, data acquisition and testing of web apps. It was built with focus on web-apps, but the focus is now expanding to desktop apps as well, using visual automation. Eventually, people will probably know it as an open-source RPA (robotic process automation) tool. It basically takes in 21 different human languages describing UI interactions and translate them into working JavaScript code to drive automation of sequences of actions (personal or business process workflows). It does not have AI / machine learning capabilities yet. Part of my job scope at AI Singapore is to integrate AI capabilities into the tool and continue releasing it with an open-source license. TagUI Features * automate Chrome, Firefox, PhantomJS * visual automation of websites and desktop * write in 20+ human languages & JavaScript * Chrome extension for recording web actions * unzip and run on macOS, Linux, Windows * R & Python integration for big data / AI * run by schedule, command line, API URL * advanced API / command calls to services

This talk will look back at four years of development of a popular (in its niche :-) ) Jabber/XMPP client for Android and explain why we need open, standardized protocols for secure and private communication but also explain the challenges that go along with it. The talk will hit the following topics.

* Why is federated (provider independent) instant messaging important?

* Can Jabber/XMPP be a solution? Is fragmentation a problem and if so how can we solve it?

* What challenges did we have to overcome in the past (Push Notifications, Battery consumption, E2E encryption)

* What challenges are left?

13:30 - 14:20

The classic "Western" IP bargain -- socially-sanctioned, time-limited monopolies in exchange for taking creative and technological risks -- is an age-old concept dating from 15th century Venice. Since then, the Internet was invented, changing the metric for innovation from attribution to virality. The age-old IP bargain has struggled to keep up with this transformation. This talk examines Shenzhen as a culturally isolated petri dish for innovation that exploded symbiotically with the Internet. I will share my observations on the trends and practices that are evolving in an ecosystem that is unbiased by the Western IP bargain.

13:50 - 14:09

Most of the people really like GUI, WebUI, smartphone application such as Thunderbird, Gerrit, Slack, etc. I think they are really fancy and cool. However, it sometimes requires complicated operation with a mouse, swipe and taps. Moreover, it's a bit difficult to tell how to operate to the others. To do so, we need a lot of screenshots of that application. It makes our productivity low. So, instead of that, there are a lot of CUI/CLI tools as alternatives. They are really simple but powerful and fast. In this session, audience can see the benefit of CUI/CLI tools. And, as a developer, making a fancy GUI application is really hard. We actually have a lot of options not only using GUI applications but also CUI/CLI ones. I really love CUI/CLI applications recently. Because it's simple, fast, lightweight and can be operated with only a keyboard not mouse. In this talk, I'll give some example GUI and CUI/CLI apps and talk about its pros/cons.

14:00 - 14:25

戴騰瀠(Teng-Ying Tai)a、高盛龍(S.L Kao)b、黃文杰(Randson Huang)c、王銘傳(Alex Ming)a

a騰暉電信科技股份有限公司(MoGaMe Mobile Entertainment Co.,Ltd, Taiwan)

b基隆海洋大學(National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan)

c中華民國業餘無線電協會(Chinese Taipei Amateur Radio League, Taipei, Taiwan)

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a communication method based on Software Defined Radio and LTE, which includes Modulation / Demodulation, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), eSIM chip, and International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI). So that the communication mode will be able to multiplex the operation and serve multiple satellites, the construction of LTE satellite station and proprietary frequency to apply to the IoT cubic satellite group on the communication. The operation mode can be used on non/synchronous LTE satellite station, and satellite communication authentication with IMSI code for IoT cubic satellite. If the LTE signal is accessible, and authorized to talk, the data will be sent through. The LTE ground station will be the gateway, and downlink to the ground. This method proposed in this paper is applied to LTE ground station, and LTE satellite equipment (UE), with a view to construct IP network of satellite.

Keywords：SDR、LTE、eSIM、IMSI、IoT

Implementing a public, permissioned blockchain for online digital identities.

As a teaching assistant in college, we assign students to interview on people about how much do they know about free software.From the 1100 data, we receive some interesting response, where most of the interviewee agree on the spirit of free software，however，when it comes to "actual appliance on real lives", only few of them choose to stick to free software.What makes the distance between "agree to it" and "do it" ?

In recent years, the number of open-source components used by developers to build software has seen immense growth. Millions of open-source libraries are distributed through centralized systems like Maven Central (Java), NPM (JavaScript), and GitHub (Go), and their widespread use means that bugs and vulnerabilities impact large numbers of downstream applications. In this talk, I will introduce the common security problems facing enterprises using open source code. We will also talk about how to manage the open source software risks using people, process and tools.

The Common Voice project is Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.

Voice is natural, voice is human. That’s why we’re fascinated with creating usable voice technology for our machines. But to create voice systems, an extremely large amount of voice data is required.

Most of the data used by large companies isn’t available to the majority of people. We think that stifles innovation. So we’ve launched Project Common Voice, a project to help make voice recognition open to everyone.

The recent enhancements to MySQL replication make operations easier, further reduce the administrative overhead, provide a much improved user experience, and enable running MySQL smoothly both at scale and/or in very tightly coupled network infrastructures such as in a clustered environment. There are enhancements across the board, such as:

- Performance improvement in the applier, resulting in increased replica throughput.

- Enhanced instrumentation and monitoring, resulting in more reliable replication observability;

- More flexible multi-source replication and filters, making it easier to deploy complex topologies;

- Extended metadata into the binary log stream, greatly improving change capture workflows.

Take the opportunity to learn, directly form the engineers responsible for the product, how the latest developments in replication will continuously enable you to grow your business on top of MySQL.

14:10 - 14:30

Kubernetes(k8s) is the most popular and famous container orchestration software these days. And we can use it through Kubernetes as a Services such as GKE, EKS, etc on public clouds. However, I love FOSS! So, I'd like to use it on my machine (I call this my "private" cloud) as possible :) Fortunately, there are so many k8s FOSS cluster management/deployment tools recently such as OpenStack Magnum, Mesos DC/OS, Rancher, etc.. We can use them as alternatives.

In this talk, attendees will get to know "what is Kubernetes?", "how do we deploy it?", "What's the difference between the k8s FOSS management tools?" and their pros and cons.

14:30 - 14:55

Kubernetes has won the orchestration war but now how-to developers build production ready code with Kubernetes? Standalone Kubernetes still requires a layer of management and Kubernetes alone isn’t the answer developers are looking for. 

Times are changing - Virtual Machines are too slow, too heavy weight and frankly expensive for some customers workloads. This is where containers fill the gap for flexibility, scalability, light-weight infrastructure matched with a per-second billing model, customers get exactly what they pay for. You could run a container on a VM - but this is a huge waste of “space” when you think about how much compute you actually need versus the amount of time you are running the job for. Azure Container Instances and other pods as a service platforms like Hyper.sh or Fargate from Amazon, is the story for flexible billing, instant compute power and efficiency within the cloud. Now customers can provision as many light weight containers as they want and have fast start up times with one command. This changes the game for deploying infrastructure. Developers have an easier job of provisioning and deploying their infrastructure and only have to worry about their direct customer interactions and content, with their applications.

ABSTRACT:

The safety of miners is a major problem today.Due to several critical issues like working environment and also the after effect of it is making the  miner's health and life is vulnerable.Mining activities release harmful and toxic gases in turn exposing the associated workers into the danger of survival.Miner’s health is in jeopardy mainly due to the toxic gases which are very often released in underground mines.The human senses cannot sense these gases easily.

A real time monitoring system using wireless sensor network and multiple sensors would be developed to sense, monitor and give early warning to the miner's to avoid fatalities.

This Monitoring system:

  • keeps a track on surrounding environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity and multiple toxic gases and displays it.
  • Sends an early warning, which will be helpful to all miners present inside the mine to save their life before any casualty occurs.
  • Uses Zigbee technology to establish wireless sensor network.
  • Is wireless networking standard IEEE 802.15.4, is suitable for operation in harsh environment.
  • Will contain Arduino which is an open source hardware and software, based on micro controller and several components like boards (Xbee module and Zigbee USB interfacing board), LCD (Liquid crystal display), different sensors like MQ7, MQ4, DTH-11 Sensor and other small electronic components.

The talk focuses on discussing the benefits, architecture and implementation of a zero knowledge system. This kind of a system facilitates the user's privacy as they would want to rely on the system that their data is not being stolen and they are not being spied upon. Using client side encryption, sensitive data is already being encrypted before being stored on the server. 

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/projects/6262315720638464/

Open source benefits go way beyond just saving some money on license costs. Actually, if open source is selected purely on the basis of trying to save money, it often results in a failure. Let's explore how leveraging open source strategy elements across the corporate functions can result in significant business and operational benefits. We'll look at how exploring things like a mission and a vision statements can lead to imagining elements of an open source strategy to holistically support an enterprise strategy. We will touch on marketing, HR, business aspects, in particular driven by activities like community participation, open and inner source programs...

Susper is a decentralized search engine that uses the peer to peer system YaCy and Apache Solr to crawl and index search results. The front-end of Susper has been developed using Angular v4 framework. I will be talking about how we worked on Susper using Angular which is a more modern programming language with the wide number of useful libraries available.

I will also highlight the advantages and disadvantages of Angular framework.

The talk is aimed for everyone who is either a web developer or who is planning to get into the field of Web-Development. I will also discuss how you, as a web developer can contribute to the project.

MySQL error log contains diagnostics messages logged as ERROR, warning and note during server startup, shutdown and while the server is running. MySQL initially supported error logging to the file system. In MySQL-5.7 support for error logging to Windows eventlog and Unix system log are added. To support new log service, every time MySQL server code had to be changed.

For each error log event, severity (ERROR, warning or note) is assigned and submitted a error message. A line of error message text is helpful to humans but opaque to machines.

At present, errors can be suppressed based on the error severity (using --log-error-verbosity) but very few filtering options are available.

MySQL 8.0 has removed these limitations with the Improved Error Logging Mechanism.

This talk would cover following points:

---------------------------------------------------------------

* Introduction to error logging.

* New error logging framework in the MySQL 8.0.

       "Loadable/Pluggable error loggers"

* New API's to log error messages.

        In MySQL 8.0, error message events are more granular/richer.

        New API's are introduced to log error messages.

* Improvements to the traditional error log message line.* New Rule based error log filtering engine.  

A talk about my experience with managing an open data open source project. 

Healthcare ASEAN. https://github.com/DataKind-SG/healthcare_ASEAN

The pitfalls of managing such a project, the mistakes as well as tips and tricks I have learned from it. The various difficulties and how to overcome them.

15:00 - 15:25

Today’s global climate of international development funding cuts, along with growing challenges in sustainability of FOSS projects generally, means we need to focus on co-investment in shared resources for those projects -- the mission of the DIAL Open Source Center.

Duplication of effort, flawed funding models, and overall lack of project maturity has led to the failure of most free & open source software projects in the international development space. In this talk, we'll discuss the new Open Source Center at the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), an initiative of the United Nations Foundation. The Center's aim is to help increase those projects' maturity, quality, and reach -- with a goal of advancing an inclusive digital society using FOSS for the poorest places on the planet.

Serverless or FaaS (Functions as a Service) is the latest cloud technology to be rapidly gaining adoption, largely popularized by AWS Lambda, allowing even faster time to deployment with minimal investment.  The name Serverless refers to the fact that developers are not concerned with underlying infrastructure decisions required to deploy, maintain and scale their application - these functions are handled by the platform itself.  Developers only need to provide application code and application level configuration.

In this talk we’ll provide an overview of the various hosted Serverless platforms and how to use them to deploy applications directly or using 3rd-party tools.  We’ll also look at the choices of open source platforms providing more choice for on-premise or cloud hosted Serverless infrastructure with application examples.  The goal is to highlight the advantages/disadvantages of the various approaches .

With the advent of Internet of things, monitoring and controlling everything such as coffee maker, lights, TV, Fridge,etc. over the internet has become a child's play. But are we really making our lives simpler or diving ourselves in a vast ocean which is getting deeper and deeper? In today's world where the security of our data of a major concern, the number of websites are always tracking what we search for, what we watch, our location and now when things are limited to only data, adding another dimension i.e. physical entities is really a big question.

 

From this talk audience will take away an understanding of the privacy concerns related to IoT, and how they may be putting their personal information at risk by connecting my physical entities to the internet. Is it really safe to connect things to the internet?

The way we write APIs is changing. SPA frameworks like Angular are shifting the paradigm of API consumption and to be effective developers we have to keep up. We often dedicate a lot of time in crafting powerful APIs that interact with many different clients, but overlook proper security measures that can come back to haunt us.In this talk, we'll look at the proper way to secure our API's with JSON Web Tokens. We'll go from learning what JSON Web Tokens are, why they're the driving force in API security, and to put theory into practice actually build a real world implementation using Node.js and Angular where we'll show common best practices.

MySQL Group Replication is a highly-available, fault-tolerant system for MySQL with built-in conflict detection and resolution, automatic distributed recovery, and group membership, which operate in single and multi primary replication topologies. The MySQL Group Replication has gone through an amazing journey so far, and the current MySQL 8.0 has included a lot of customer requested features which has improved the Group Replication experience further. This talk will take the audience through the journey of MySQL Group Replication development from its first labs release to the recent MySQL 8.0 RC1 release, discussing important features like changes in the Group Replication architecture, different operating replication modes, parallel replication applier, and monitoring support though performance schema tables. The main focus of this talk would be on recent MySQL 8.0 features, especially new customer requested features.

15:00 - 15:50

Showcasing hackathon developed open source apps and games that tackle climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges.

15:30 - 15:55

Let's get together and sign our PGP/GPG keys.

Mozilla announced a new development program for Mixed Reality that will significantly expand its work in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) for the web. The initial focus will be on how to get devices, headsets, frameworks and toolsets to work together, so web developers can choose from a variety of tools and publishing methods to bring new immersive experiences online – and have them work together in a fully functional way.

Case study on continuous integration (CI) pipeline for managing software distributions to build real life products. In this study, it shall be discussed how containerized FOSS tools can help on the project life cycle to bring products into market.

Forking in the Open Source world means going with different goals and design directions. How do you pick a winner? How do you be a forking winner? Practical examples from the MariaDB world (MySQL fork), as well as lessons from other projects like LibreOffice, LibreSSL, SuiteCRM, and Jenkins. I will also focus on what it means to fork today in the cryptocurrency world, and how you might benefit from the open source knowledge of past, to bet on the right horse!

XA stands for “eXtended Architecture”, and is a standard created by The Open Group for distributed  transaction processing. XA addresses the problem of preserving ACID properties within a single transaction across a distributed set of resources. The resources themselves could be other MySQL servers, or even different database technologies. MySQL 5.0 introduced XA support, thus adding the ability to participate in global transactions. MySQL 5.7 has removed major limitations in the XA transaction recovery mechanism and binary logging mechanism. This talk would cover the following points: * What is XA? * How does MySQL support the XA standard? * How to perform XA transactions in MySQL. * Improvement made in 5.7 for XA transaction recovery. * Improvement made to use XA transaction safely with replication.

16:00 - 16:25

"It gets even more interesting when virtual and augmented reality meets the Internet of Things."  — Phil Repp

 

IoT is taking over the technology industry with a huge bang! Our focus is to make the IoT smarter and more suitable for human interaction. Virtual Reality is the next billion dollar industry and it is the future of the Entertainment, Gaming and Education Industry. Now, imagine the possibilities that can exist if we were to we combine the worlds of Virtual Reality and Internet of Things This session will enable people with minimal knowledge of VR and basic IoT boards(such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi) to experience the best of the IoT & VR worlds.

Furthermore, attendees will experience a remote tele-robotic presence as they transport and assume the identity of a web-connected robot, tasked with monitoring and maintaining atmospheric conditions.

Along with the view of the place, the robot will be monitoring the nearby surroundings such as temperature, humidity and light intensity which will be then displayed along with the scenario displayed by VR device. Thus by this audience will learn how to Combine IoT with VR and hence make their own smart telepresence system like Jarvis.

 

By the end of the session, the audience will gain an increased understanding of the VR and IoT landscape, as well as how these technologies can be combined to give them an experience in life that was previously never-before-possible. A short Q&A session will be held after the [talk/workshop].

In this presentation, we would like to show audiences some information related upgrade in microservices system like below:

  • What is microservices system?
  • Some related mechanisms to upgrade such as blue-green and canary. Advantages and disadvantages of the mechanisms.
  • What, Why, How rolling upgrade?
  • There are some sensitive points need to be implemented to get rolling upgrade. And we show a big example about OpenStack rolling upgrade as well.

The four classical temperaments are Melancholic, Phlegmatic, Sanguine and Choleric. Temperaments are more core to individuals than personality. Each temperament has unique qualities, strengths and weaknesses. In this short talk their correspondence to the modern psychological DISC personality types will be shown. It is interesting to discover that the human temperaments are not just psychological but can also express themselves physically. By the end of the session we will attempt to group the participants by their dominant temperament and see if there are any commonalities.

Understanding the four temperaments and how they relate, helps one to understand people in daily life and improve human interactions in the workplace, at home, and outside.

The MySQL Performance Schema is a feature for monitoring Oracle's MySQL Server execution at a low level. This versatile and tightly integrated component collects performance and session data from various subsystems within the server during runtime with minimal impact on overall server performance.With help of few real world use cases, this talk aims to explain how/what statistical information user is provided with using Performance Schema. With these use cases, it also explains how this information can be used for monitoring and trouble shooting to track an issue back to the relevant file and line of code in source file. Again, with some use cases, this talk also explains how Performance Schema gives consolidated view of different activities of MySQL server behind the scene with the multiple summary tables and how this can be tuned and used. This talk also covers the manual/automatic configuration of Performance Schema to suite to individual requirement in a specific scenario.This talk is targeted to many database users which includes DBA, Database Application developers, Database developers, Students. This talk is to give overview of MySQL Performance Schema and also how/what information can be collected using it and how this information could be used further for debugging/trouble shooting Database users' issue.Takeaways from the talk: - Overview of tuning and monitoring MySQL Server activities using Performance Schema. - Understanding of how to tailor the Performance Schema to track the data you want. - With few real world usecases, explain how to diagnosing problems with the Performance Schema.  - A glimpse of new features in Performance Schema in MySQL 5.7 GA.

16:30 - 16:55

With increasing use of golang as a systems programming language, at Go-Jek we used it to help us automate tasks in a scalable and extensible way. The project we built (Proctor) has 3 components in golang: a CLI tool (client), server and reservoir of automation scripts.

Prizes for the best open source apps and games that tackle climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges.

17:00 - 17:20

How was the FOSSASIA Summit 2018. What are your ideas? What are the impressions of the org team? Join us for a wrap up for the FOSSASIA Summit of this year.

Invalid date

Invalid date - Invalid date
Deep Learning - D.I.Y. workshop - Martin Andrews - FOSSASIA 2018
Machine Learning for Smart Cities - Truc Viet Le - FOSSASIA 2018
Deep Speech and it's application in developing nations - Yi Chiao (Yitch) Cheng -FOSSASIA 2018
Building AI Units in Rust - Vigneshwer Dhinakaran - FOSSASIA 2018
Exploring SUSI Web Chat App and Best Practices - Isuru Abeywardana & Saurabh Jain-FOSSASIA 2018

We’ve seen cognitive services being used in industries all around, like using Face API to verify a selfie for smart authentication, or video frames to pull out the perfect moment. In this session, we will showcase several demos with real use case scenarios that are using the cognitive services like vision and knowledge in Singapore and overseas too.

New web services, based on Artificial Intelligence technology approach quickly as intelligent digital personal assistants beyond the ability of simple chatbots.

Search engines will provide us with answers to all questions within the framework of conversational interfaces.

Free and open source implementations of digital assistants are challenged with the complexity of the conversational web ecosphere of smart devices and the ability to create intelligent skills out of cloud services.

The FOSSASIA community has worked hard to create such an ecosystem to establish a personal assistant framework for everyone based on the principle of privacy and collaboration.

Join this session to see how you can build IoT devices and solutions that engage their users in a natural manner, with Machine Learning. Learn from live demonstrations, real devices and code examples.

Ai and Machine Learning are hot topics right now. In this talk, I will go contrarian by talking about classical AI. I will show the code for a simple game - Connect 4 - and answer the question: What can be learnt from this classical example of AI?. The things we learn will continue to be useful even with modern techniques of big data and machine learning for a machine like AlphaGo.
The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) trains and evaluates deep learning models, scaling efficiently in a range of environments—from CPUs, to GPUs, to multiple machines—while maintaining accuracy. In this talk, we'll discuss the basics of the toolkit, common use-cases, and provide an update of the latest developments in the framework.

As deep learning becomes more and more popular, organizations are finding opportunities to scale to lager models and larger datasets. Cloud computing provides the potential of large scale computing resources including GPUs, but, taking advantage of these can be a challenge due to the need to either distribute graph computation or manage the distributed update of network weights. In this session we will cover practical approaches to the training of Deep Neural Networks at scale. We will look at the support provided by various frameworks for distributed training covering the following open source tools; TensorFlow with Horovod, ChainerMN and CNTK.

Learning Deep Learning can be confusing and often very frustrating. In this talk, Sam will set out a roadmap to go from knowing nothing to being fluent in Deep Learning in the fastest way possible. He will highlight courses, frameworks, math, methods, and strategies to get you started and set you on the path to being able to use Deep Learning for real worlds problems and apps.
The LearnBot robot is a do it yourself robot meant to learn robotics and help students around the world getting their first steps in the field. We will present the main updates we have done in the robot and its software and how you can build your own version of it.

ML-on-Code is an active research area at the intersection of Machine Learning, Programming Languages, Information Retrieval scientific communities and a lucrative new business opportunity. But it also poses a set of unique engineering challenges:

  •  Infrastructure: how to collect, store and distribute the processing of 10s of millions of source code repositories?
  •  Research: how to apply, scale and develop new NLP techniques using all public source code as a dataset?

In this talk we'll share a set of OSS tools that source{d} team has built for a large-scale software repository mining. We'll also cover latest results on using Neural Networks for building source code identifier embedding model.

In DataSpark, we have to experiment and work with large amounts of data on HDFS. The performances and the workflows of the data science tools that has became the de facto standards, such as jupyter and R, are not always enough. We have been using Apache Zeppelin notebooks to do data science at scale for a while. I will be talking about how we leveraged Zeppelin to integrate our JVM and Spark-based product with our exploratory processes.

At Episource, we work on building Deep Learning frameworks and architectures to help summarize a medical chart, extract medical coding opportunities and their dependencies to recommend best possible ICD10 codes. This not only required building a wide variety of deep learning algorithms to account for natural language variations but also fairly complex in-house training data creation exercises.

A big part of any deep learning based product is data. Algorithms v/s Data debate has transformed into a contentious one off late. But general consensus has been biased towards voluminous quality data over deep layered networks. Especially in NLP, people are ready to give an arm and leg to get their hands on quality data. That was a very early realization that our team had when we were starting off the planning phases for the NLP engine.

We have been working on creating a scalable NLP engine for scalable information extraction from medical discharge summaries. What makes the problem statement even more difficult is the lack of quality training data as well as the wide domain expertise needed to succeed in this use-case. So, we focused on building solid and scalable data collection pipelines before building algorithms. And so, we did. 

We have been generating in-house training Data in a peer-reviewed 3 level QA system. Our models have to ingest annotated data for better performance, so it was important to ensure quality. Now, the issue was, the training data itself being Patient Healthcare Information (PHI) which makes it trickier if we are to be HIPPA compliant. We also had to make sure that the data being annotated in encrypted and no patient information is accessible to external parties to ensure HIPPA compliance.

We architected and deployed a secure & scalable cloud platform for data collection plus annotation using Open Source tools like Brat and Docker. We deployed the solution on AWS using VPCs, load balancers, EFS and S3. Now, we have crossed 20K annotated training data samples, which is a treasure mine for our data-hungry algorithms.

The talk will focus on digging deeper into the problem statement above, as well as explaining some of the constraints that go into building a deep learning based clinical decision support system while remaining on the fair side of legal and business guidelines. We will majorly talk about our learnings in building annotation pipelines for training data creation and deep learning frameworks specifically from a point of view of Clinical Named Entity Recognition systems.

While I was working on Open Source Linguistic tools at ICFOSS under the mentorship of Dr Rajeev R.R, on multiple occasions I heard people saying "Hey Adarsh, wouldn't it be nice if something like <INSERT NLP TOOL HERE> was available for <INSERT NOT SO POPULAR LANGUAGE HERE>". So here, we'll explore how to potentially help a LOT of people (LOT is an understatement) by building simple NLP tools, without reinventing the wheel and also getting world class Machine Learning engineers as a by-product.

  • Looking at the top players and the underdogs in NLP and the discovery of a wide range of NLP applications for regional languages and how I made a distributable Silver Standard Corpus and a POSTagger. (What's a Corpus?)
  • Why we should be building such tools. What are "resource-rich" and "resource-poor" languages (and why you should care!), the six different levels of language and the lost prophecy of BLARK and the quest to uncover the hidden power behind BLARK.
  • How we can elevate the situation of these languages by using concepts from the BLARK prophecy and built applications like Entity Extractor, Genre classifier (And MORE!) and how to bring back commercial activities to these languages.
  • How these tools can be used to change the world and your career. The revolution we could be a part of, by having an organisation to make young contributors from all around the world, from all different languages come together to make a huge impact on a LOT (still an understatement) of people, potentially billions.
Ready for Future Mobility
With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, the proliferation of high-quality, complex open-source software and the availability of cheap IoT devices, building your own smart home is not just a dream, but can be a reality. In this talk, I would like to share with the audience the design of a smart home based entirely on open-source platforms. I will start with the hardware that I have designed to overcome some of the limitations of commercially available devices. Next, I will cover the integration of my hardware devices with the server system which is based on the open-source Home Assistant project. Lastly, I will talk about the configuration of a voice-based personal assistant based on the open-source Mycroft.AI software and the widely-known Raspberry Pi hardware kit. Through this talk, I want to share my knowledge and I hope to enable more people to start making great things in Singapore, and across the world.
MySQL Performance Schema - A great insight of running MySQL Server
OS AI/ML technologies and applications for product development
Thursday, 22nd Mar
 
13:00
13:15
13:30
13:45
14:00
14:15
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
15:30
15:45
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
17:00
17:15
17:30
17:45
Exhibition - Pocket Science Lab
Creating Science Experiments with the FOSSASIA Pocket Science Lab
Creating Science Experiments with the FOSSASIA Pocket Science Lab (16:00 - 17:55)

About the session

The workshop will cover how to setup and create scientific experiments with the FOSSASIA PSLab or use it to measure electronic conditions in hardware prototypes. The Open Source Pocket Science Lab can be used through the desktop and phones. It combines different devices including an Oscilloscope, a voltmeter and several sensors. It is useful for startups, hobbyists and the educational sector. You can measure currents and all kinds of electronic devices and connections with the PSLab. Check your prototypes or do all kinds of electronic experiments.

Speakers

M Padmal

Developer FOSSASIA PSLab

Electronic and Telecommunication Undergraduate student from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka who is passionate about hardware development

       

Exhibition - Pocket Science Lab

Thursday, 22nd Mar, 16:00 - 17:55

  •  
  • Science Tech


Exhibition - Tinker Table
Clouduboy - Create JS Games for Microcontrollers
Clouduboy - Create JS Games for Microcontrollers (16:00 - 17:55)

About the session

Explore, tinker, play - learn how to create your very own retro pixelart games for the Arduboy, a tiny Arduino-based pocket-sized game console reminiscent of Gameboy's glory days. Best thing? Thanks to Clouduboy you can now do this entirely in your browser, all in JavaScript with the language and techniques you already know (and love)!

Requirements: The only thing needed is a PC/Mac with an up-to date browser and a USB-A port for flashing the microcontrollers. All software will be provided or will run in the browser. JavaScript-programming experience at this workshop is recommended, but Clouduboy's "Learn to Code!" tutorial itself is suitable for learners of any levels of programming experience (including people who never coded before).

Speakers

Istvan Szmozsanszky

Tech Speaker Mozilla

István (or Flaki, for short) is a JavaScript world-domination prophet, engineer & trainer from Budapest. He runs his own consulting business Skylark, is a Frontend Trainer @ DPC Consulting and a longtime Mozilla-contributor. He contributes to various open source projects like Firefox, Firefox OS, Rust, Servo and the Tessel Project. His favorite topics include service workers, progressive webapps and JS on microcontrollers.

       

Exhibition - Tinker Table

Thursday, 22nd Mar, 16:00 - 17:55

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


Lecture Theatre
FOSSASIA Summit 2018
FOSSASIA Summit 2018 (13:00 - 13:05)

About the session

Welcome at the FOSSASIA Summit!

Speakers

Harish Pillay

Head, Community Architecture and Leadership Red Hat

Harish Pillay is is a member of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter Board of Trustees. He is a pioneer on the Internet having gotten on to the ARPAnet and UUCP networks in 1985. He is a ham and his callsign is 9V1HP.
     

Damini Satya

Software Engineer - Salesforce

Damini Satya has been an active open source contributor turning committer and mentor affiliated to the FOSSASIA project and leads a large chunk of development work happening on many of the critical projects. Damini's contribution to the open source community has been multifold ranging from engagement in development, community building and outreach, organizing and administration as well as mentorship. Currently, she works as a Software Engineer at Salesforce. 

       

Lecture Theatre

Thursday, 22nd Mar, 13:00 - 13:05

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Opentech in Singapore
Opentech in Singapore (13:05 - 13:15)

About the session

FOSSASIA summit had helped brought awareness of Open Source technologies to the general public and enabled collaboration between professionals in the area of ICT (Information & Communications Technology). Echoing the Singapore Government’s focus in the developing Singapore's E-commerce and digital economy, organisations such as FOSSASIA plays an important role as the melting pot for businesses, software developers and government agencies to innovate ICT solutions. Open Source technology can benefit local businesses and workforce. FOSSASIA summit 2018 will cover emerging technologies such as Natural Language Processing using Artificial Intelligence and Distributed technologies like Blockchain, thereby opening up new digital frontiers for Singapore SMEs (Small and Medium enterprise), workforce development, and Public services. Only because the code is open we are able to talk about it. Open code is a wonderful present to the community. 

Speakers

Teo Ser Luck

MP

 

Lecture Theatre

Thursday, 22nd Mar, 13:05 - 13:15

  •  
  • Open Source in Business


Daimler and Open Source
Daimler and Open Source (13:30 - 13:50)

About the session

Daimler uses Free and Open Source software within several of its products and thrives to support and collaborate with the Open Source community. Automakers are becoming software companies, and just like in the tech industry Open Source is the way forward. At the keynote Daimler will outline its engagement in the Open Source community and plans for the future. Daimler is the first German automaker that joined the development of Automotive Grade Linux to help build the next generation connected car platform. The company is also a member of the Linux Foundation and Hyperledger. 

Speakers

Jonas von Malottki

Senior Manager Daimler

Jonas holds a Diploma in Computer Science and Japanese Studies from University of Bonn. Main focus topics where Metadata and Data Quality as well as Neural Networks. Within Daimler he previously was in lead architecture roles for Finance Systems and various leadership positions. He has a keen interest in new technologies and the Open Source movement. In his current role he is shaping the Blockchain and DLT activities from the technology perspective within Daimler. As a Member of the Governing Board of Hyperledger he is also representing that role internationally.
   

Lecture Theatre

Thursday, 22nd Mar, 13:30 - 13:50

  •  
  • Open Source in Business


How FOSSASIA Scales Up and What Comes Next
How FOSSASIA Scales Up and What Comes Next (15:05 - 15:20)

About the session

The FOSSASIA developer network is one of the largest communities in the Open Source world today and we are proud to have a positive impact and improving people's lives with Open Technologies. It took us years to develop approaches and processes to scale projects and we are constantly reviewing and working hard on improving ourselves. So, what is next?

What do we want to do next, what do we want to do better and how do we want to help more people, train developers, create better software and hardware and do good?

We came up with three areas, that we want to focus on:

1. In 2018, it is our goal to improve the quality of work of the FOSSASIA organization and contributions in our projects. We believe that the way to move forward is to provide project owners with more responsibilities and ownership. We aim to develop more and more into an organization that provides a framework for projects. Therefore we will continue to develop programs like Codeheat, OpenTechNights, organize meetups, participate in GSoC and GCI. We also plan to cooperate more with other organizations. Why shouldn't we run the OpenTechNights at events around the world and help to bring people together? Why shouldn't we have more OpenTechSummits with partners in China, India and Vietnam?

2. We have made very good experience with our best practices. We have seen that newcomers can progress very fast if they feel welcome and receive help and guidance from others. After they become participants in our programs many contributors move on to support others as mentors. We also see that contributors have moved to large companies, but still continue to help others in the community. This is wonderful. We want to share our experience and inspire other projects. Therefore, we plan to participate in more events, we will set up a monthly live-cast and we will run a YouTube series on these topics. While a lot of traditional school education still encourages a top-down approach we will focus our attention even more on enabling the community to collaborate on an equal level and follow the idea of sharing ideas and code freely.

3. A question that any organization and project encounters over time is how to ensure the work and setup is sustainable? What settings do projects need to succeed? While there are many non-profit organizations out there developing Open Technologies and FOSS, we also see that many people are moving on to companies that often focus on proprietary solutions and prevent contributors from continuing their engagement in the Open Tech community due to financial reasons and to support their families. At the same time, we see many projects that would have a great potential to be Open Source and at the same time commercially successful. Therefore we are starting a new dedicated FOSSASIA Accelerator that is specifically for Open Source projects. We invite projects to apply for the accelerator and investors and companies to team up with us. And, think about it, while many startups these days start with an idea, Open Source startups already have a product before any investment has started. So, these are great opportunities!

The problems in this world are too big. There is a lot of injustice, we are destroying the environment and people are even fighting each others. At FOSSASIA we want to set an example of collaboration across borders and cultures. So, please join us and let's make this a success. I wish everyone a wonderful event full of sharing and new understandings. Let's get inspired to share and learn for each other to build a better world.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Lecture Theatre

Thursday, 22nd Mar, 15:05 - 15:20

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Codeheat Award
Codeheat Award (15:20 - 15:30)

About the session

Codeheat (In the Heat of the Code) is an annual coding contest for FOSSASIA projects. The contest runs between September and January. Grand prize winners attend the FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit in Singapore and receive the award officially in an award ceremony.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Michael Christen

Founder SUSI AI

Michael is the founder of SUSI AI, loklak and, the creator of the Peer-to-Peer Search engine YaCy. He is a Big Data Engineer consulting for some of the largest corporate players in Germany on search technology and digital transformation strategies. He is also architect of large search portals like the German Digital Library.

       

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Lecture Theatre

Thursday, 22nd Mar, 15:20 - 15:30

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


The Summit 2018 Overview
The Summit 2018 Overview (15:30 - 15:40)

About the session

Which tracks and sessions do we have at the FOSSASIA Summit from Thursday (March 22) till Sunday (March 25)? In 12 tracks attendees can learn about the latest Open Source technologies and discuss topics from development to deployment and DevOps. We are bringing together some of the core track organizers and MCs to give you a super quick wrap up of what will happen over the next few days in tracks under the following header:

  • Machine Learning and AI

  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging

  • Blockchain

  • Science, Tech and Education

  • Kernel and Platform

  • Database

  • Cloud, Container, DevOps

  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community

  • Open Event Solutions

  • Cybersecurity

  • Web and Mobile

  • Open Source in Business

Speakers

Colin Charles

Chief Evangelist Percona

Colin Charles is the Chief Evangelist at Percona. He was previously on the founding team of MariaDB Server in 2009, and had worked at MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within open source communities in APAC, and has spoken at many conferences.

     

Saptak Sengupta

Software Developer Zomato

Developer and enthusiast who weirdly loves frontend development as much as he loves backend development. Working mainly in python, javascript, and PHP. Have been contributing to various open source organizations like FOSSASIA, jQuery, etc. Loves fiddling around with devops and infrastructure stuff.
       

Carsten Haitzler

Master Engineer Samsung Electronics

Worked in the Linux and open source world industries for 20 years in several countries on all sides of the globe, has contributed to several open source projects and is best known for founding the Enlightenment window manager project and having written lots of graphics related code for X11. That's 20 years of programming mostly in C and assembly on top of Linux, shipping in 100+ million devices around the globe.

   

Philip Paeps

Director The FreeBSD Foundation

Philip Paeps (“Trouble”) is an independent consultant and contractor based in Belgium. He provides research and development on low-level software and operating systems, particularly in an embedded or real-time context. His main interests are bootloaders, device drivers and high-performance networking. He can also be convinced to teach courses and workshops on a variety of networking-related topics.

In his so-called free time, Philip is a FreeBSD committer contributing mainly to the kernel and a member of the FreeBSD security team. He was one of the main organisers of FOSDEM, the largest annual open source software conference in Europe, from the early 2000s until 2015. He denies having any involvement with amateur radio or tabletop role playing games.

 

Victoria Bondarchuk

UX Researcher Open Source Design

Victoria Bondarchuk is a UX researcher, interested in open source and open design. Member of opensourcedesign.net.

     

Justin Lee

Consultant FOSSASIA

Justin's professional experiences can be divided into 4 main areas:Community Engagement ExperienceOver 13 years of community engagement experience comprising of building user groups from ground up, mentoring students, judging competitions, organizing community events, enabling the hacker community and attending various developer community events. Software Development Consulting ExperienceMy role as a software development consultant for the past 10 years involves meeting with clients, gathering requirements, architecting and proposing solutions, managing projects and teams of developers, developing and testing software solutions, and delivering projects on time and on budget.Social / Digital Media ExperienceFor 5 years, I have been producing rich digital media content, appeared on various publications as a technical expert analyst, and I am a respected influencer and blogger within the technology social circles.Technical Speaking ExperienceI have given technical and community public speaking, conference presentations for the past 13 years to over 10,000 developers - speaking at user groups, code-camps, developer conferences, keynotes.My career objective is to become a Developer Evangelist/Advocate/Relationship Manager with an expanded role in Asia Pacific. I would like to focus on strategy, execution, and technical outreach, with cross functional roles in Technical Consulting, Business Development and Strategy, Developer Events and Community Outreach.
     

Harish Pillay

Head, Community Architecture and Leadership Red Hat

Harish Pillay is is a member of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter Board of Trustees. He is a pioneer on the Internet having gotten on to the ARPAnet and UUCP networks in 1985. He is a ham and his callsign is 9V1HP.
     

Christopher Adams

Blockchain Expert Fabricatorz

Specialties: Web design, software development & server administration; Editing, typesetting &publishing; Free culture, free software & copyleft hardware
       

Roland Turner

Organizer FOSSASIA

Roland is Chief Privacy Officer for TrustSphere where he is responsible for the company's information policy and practices. He is a HackerspaceSG founding member and FOSSASIA organiser, holds a Computer Science degree from UTS, and is an avid dancer, runner, and ham radio operator with a particular interest in space.
     

Lecture Theatre

Thursday, 22nd Mar, 15:30 - 15:40

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Open Tech Get Together with Coffee and Snacks and Exhibition Tour
Open Tech Get Together with Coffee and Snacks and Exhibition Tour (15:40 - 16:00)

About the session

Join us for an Open Tech get together with coffee and snacks, meet speakers and developers and dive into the exhibition to explore companies and projects with us. This gathering is hosted by the FOSSASIA core team and our friends from Open Tech.

Speakers

Harish Pillay

Head, Community Architecture and Leadership Red Hat

Harish Pillay is is a member of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter Board of Trustees. He is a pioneer on the Internet having gotten on to the ARPAnet and UUCP networks in 1985. He is a ham and his callsign is 9V1HP.
     

Roland Turner

Organizer FOSSASIA

Roland is Chief Privacy Officer for TrustSphere where he is responsible for the company's information policy and practices. He is a HackerspaceSG founding member and FOSSASIA organiser, holds a Computer Science degree from UTS, and is an avid dancer, runner, and ham radio operator with a particular interest in space.
     

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

André Rebentisch

Organizer Open Tech Summit Europe

Experienced Senior Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services sector. Skilled in Open Technologies, Interoperability and Agile Methodologies. Strong program and project management professional graduated from Universität Osnabrück.
       

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Lecture Theatre

Thursday, 22nd Mar, 15:40 - 16:00

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Friday, 23rd Mar
 
09:00
09:15
09:30
09:45
10:00
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
12:45
13:00
13:15
13:30
13:45
14:00
14:15
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
15:30
15:45
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
17:00
17:15
17:30
17:45
18:00
18:15
18:30
18:45
Event Hall 2-1
Nimbus - a sharding Ethereum client for mobile and IoT
Nimbus - a sharding Ethereum client for mobile and IoT (10:00 - 10:25)

About the session

Nimbus is an exciting and experimental lightweight client for the Ethereum network that focuses on next-generation Ethereum technologies and running on resource-constrained devices, such as mobiles. During the talk, we’ll go over a number of topics:

  • Anatomy of an Ethereum client

  • Sharding, and what it means for the implementation

  • A little bit about Nim, the language it’s implemented in

  • Status Open bounty - get rewarded for your OSS contributions

Speakers

Jacek Sieka

Head of Research Development Status.im

Focusing on compilers and peer-to-peer applications, Jacek has nurtured his curiosity for software and tinkering with various open source hobby projects for almost two decades. With a career background ranging from high-frequency trading and finance through web development and consulting to research and academic collaborations, he recently switched gears joining Status.im to make that a full time endeavor.

     

Event Hall 2-1

Friday, 23rd Mar, 10:00 - 10:25

  •  
  • Blockchain


Connect to Bitcoin & Ethereum networks
Connect to Bitcoin & Ethereum networks (10:30 - 10:55)

About the session

Cryptocurrencies have there own APIs expose for developers to access. RPC (Remote Procedure Call) is the easiest way among those APIs. It works as a Restful API for the blockchain network. Using those APIs you,

  • Check the wallet balance
  • Validate Transactions
  • Do Transactions
  • etc

You can do what ever the blockchain work you want with those APIs. So in my talk I will talk about how to use those APIs to connect to most famous Bitcoin & Ethereum networks. So you can programmatically do transactions & everything.

Speakers

Dilum Navanjana

Software Developer ERC Institute

From my 3rd year in the University I was able to work as a Software Engineer. Then I wanted to learn new technologies & joined 99x Technologies. Currently I'm doing Ruby Application development & Single Page applications with Angular JS.
       

Event Hall 2-1

Friday, 23rd Mar, 10:30 - 10:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


Next Generation Trading Firms
Next Generation Trading Firms (11:00 - 11:25)

About the session

Among all animals, only humans show the curiosity for swapping and exchanging goods. This gave birth to the idea of trade which enabled large spread collaboration and pole vaulted us to spread innovation, goods and services globally. 

In this talk, let's explore how energy and commodity trading firms are viewing technologies such as blockchain, smart contracts, robotic process automation, cloud computing, open source & artificial intelligence to build the next generation of trading organizations. We'll look at the impact it would have on the skill sets required by future traders and how "brain-power" (intuition) and "computing-power" (mechanics) could work together in seamless harmony,  orchestrated together perfectly like Beethoven's 9th Symphony. 

Speakers

Chirag Ahuja

Consultant Wipro

Hi! I'm an ETRM Pre-Sales Consultant and support sales heads across the globe, gathering client requirements, preparing and presenting product demo's, designing marketing content, responding to RFP's and formulating best fit solutions for the client across the entire trade life cycle. Within a short span of 2 years, I have helped my sales team bring in over $2mn in revenues. I have trained and helped on-board 100+ resources across different ETRM projects.Designed, built and recorded an 8 hour online ETRM course accessible to our consultants across the globe. Skills & Competencies• Commodity Trading and Risk Management• Robotic Process Automation• Regulatory Compliance (EMIR/REMIT/Dodd-Frank) • Trade Surveillance and AnalyticsIT system experience:• Openlink – Endur (+AVS/JVS)• SAP – ACM• Triple Point - CXL• Hivedome ITASRelevant Credentials:• MBA - Energy Trading and Risk Management (Class Topper)• GARP - Energy Risk Professional• SAP - Commodity Risk Management Solution
     

Event Hall 2-1

Friday, 23rd Mar, 11:00 - 11:25

  •  
  • Blockchain


Blockchain in Education
Blockchain in Education (11:30 - 11:55)

About the session

In this talk, Gaurang Torvekar, the co-founder and CTO of Attores and Indorse will speak about his experience in the blockchain industry, especially Ethereum over the last two years. Attores has been working with Ngee Ann Polytechnic for issuing their diplomas on the blockchain, while Indorse is building a decentralized professional social network. Gaurang will speak about how Blockchain is revolutionizing the education industry and the trends in the space over the years

Speakers

Gaurang Torvekar

Co-founder/CTO Attores

Gaurang Torvekar CTO/Co-Founder Attores. Gaurang will be speaking about Attores' latest offering, Open Certificates.
     

Event Hall 2-1

Friday, 23rd Mar, 11:30 - 11:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


Event Hall 2-2
BigQuery Codelab
BigQuery Codelab (09:31 - 10:26)

About the session

A hands-on coding workshop with Google's interactive global scale data analysis tool BigQuery if you have never seen it before (but have a little experience with SQL ideally).

Speakers

Jan Peuker

Product Technology Manager Google

Jan Peuker is a Strategic Cloud Engineer at Google where he is working on large, distributed systems on the edge between front - and backend.

     

Event Hall 2-2

Friday, 23rd Mar, 09:31 - 10:26

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Working with Cloud Dataprep
Working with Cloud Dataprep (10:30 - 11:55)

About the session

In this workshop we will explore how Cloud Dataprep can help you to make the most out of your data by automatically detecting schemas, datatypes, possible joins and anomalies such as missing values, outliers, and duplicates. Profiling your data can be time-consuming, Dataprep helps you to save that time and go right to the data analysis. You can plug your solution into Cloud Dataprep as it is serverless and works at any scale.

Speakers

KC Ayyagari

Program Manager Google

 

Event Hall 2-2

Friday, 23rd Mar, 10:30 - 11:55

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Extract, Analyze & translate Text from Images with Cloud ML APis
Extract, Analyze & translate Text from Images with Cloud ML APis (13:00 - 14:25)

About the session

Extract, Analyze & translate Text from Images with Cloud ML APis. Topics of this session are: Vision + NLP + Translation APIs

Speakers

Sara Robinson

Developer Advocate Google

    

       

Event Hall 2-2

Friday, 23rd Mar, 13:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


CloudML Engine: Qwik Start
CloudML Engine: Qwik Start (14:45 - 16:15)

About the session

We will explore examples of business that have adopted TensorFlow and Cloud ML to solve their real-world problems: a cucumber farmer in Japan who was able to build a deep learning-based cucumber sorter by himself, a used car auction service using TF for classifying car models and parts, and a food manufacturer that has been able to increase productivity significantly in their baby food factory.

Speakers

Kaz Sato

Developer Advocate Google

Kaz Sato is Staff Developer Advocate at Google Cloud team, Google Inc. Focusing on Machine Learning and Data Analytics products, such as TensorFlow, Cloud ML and BigQuery. Kaz has been invited to major events including Google Cloud Next SF, Google I/O, Strata NYC etc., authoring many GCP blog posts, and supporting developer communities for Google Cloud for over 8 years. He is also interested in hardwares and IoT, and has been hosting FPGA meetups since 2013.

       

Event Hall 2-2

Friday, 23rd Mar, 14:45 - 16:15

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


The myths and realities of serverless architecture
The myths and realities of serverless architecture (16:30 - 16:55)

About the session

In this session, we will discuss the concept of serverless architecture, which is also called FAAS (Functions as a service). We will take a closer look at what this often confusing term means and how we can take advantage to create new generation solutions.

AWS Lambda being the most popular implementation (yet), we will look at a sample implementation, challenges and other concerns.

Speakers

Owais Zahid

Software Development Manager Autodesk

Owais Zahid works @ Autodesk as a Software Development Manager. He is a certified Scrum Professional and focuses on team’s technical direction and agile transformation.He has over 12 years of software development experience into the areas of web/mobile development, server-side programming, Agile/Scrum, and Project Management. He holds an MS in Computer Science with majors in Project Management from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences.Outside of his day job, Owais is a frequent contributor to various open source projects and engineering blogs. He spends his free time programming in the genre of 3D game programming and AR. He is also an active member of Singapore Tech community and has presented at various conferences on programming and agile topics.
       

Event Hall 2-2

Friday, 23rd Mar, 16:30 - 16:55

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Hands on with Kubernetes Tutorial
Hands on with Kubernetes Tutorial (17:00 - 18:00)

About the session

Kubernetes is taking a clear lead in container orchestration being adopted by all the major cloud/virtualization platforms (Google, Azure, probably AWS, VMWare).

This tutorial session will cover

  • kubernetes concepts and architecture
  • basic container orchestration using cli tools, apis (Python, Go)
  • Exposing services
  • scaling, rolling updates, rollbacks, healthchecks
  • Kubernetes tools
  •       cli such as kubectl, kubeadm, helper tools such as kubectx
  •       higher-level tools such as Helm, Brigade
  •       use of Traefik as an Ingress controller

 

Based on previous labs, all tutorial materials will be freely available during and after the session allowing students to just watch, or follow along on their own laptop or to run the tutorial themselves after the conference.

 

 

Students can just watch or follow along as they wish.

Online resources will be provided to run the labs either on the students own laptop or using their cloud account.

Speakers

Michael Bright

Developer Evangelist Containous

Michael Bright is Developer Evangelist for the Traefik reverse-proxy/load-balancer, working for Containous France.

Passionate about Serverless, Containers, Container Orchestration and Unikernels!

British, living in Grenoble, France for 25 years.

I run local Python and Docker User Groups, am passionate about Cloud technologies including Serverless, Docker/K8s, Unikernels and OpenStack.

Married to Paulina, my Chilean wife, I enjoy running, cycling, Salsa, Tango and holidaying in Chile !

       

Event Hall 2-2

Friday, 23rd Mar, 17:00 - 18:00

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Exhibition - Pocket Science Lab
Creating Science Experiments with the FOSSASIA Pocket Science Lab
Creating Science Experiments with the FOSSASIA Pocket Science Lab (16:00 - 17:55)

About the session

The workshop will cover how to setup and create scientific experiments with the FOSSASIA PSLab or use it to measure electronic conditions in hardware prototypes. The Open Source Pocket Science Lab can be used through the desktop and phones. It combines different devices including an Oscilloscope, a voltmeter and several sensors. It is useful for startups, hobbyists and the educational sector. You can measure currents and all kinds of electronic devices and connections with the PSLab. Check your prototypes or do all kinds of electronic experiments.

Speakers

M Padmal

Developer FOSSASIA PSLab

Electronic and Telecommunication Undergraduate student from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka who is passionate about hardware development

       

Exhibition - Pocket Science Lab

Friday, 23rd Mar, 16:00 - 17:55

  •  
  • Science Tech


Exhibition - Tinker Table
Clouduboy - Create JS Games for Microcontrollers
Clouduboy - Create JS Games for Microcontrollers (16:00 - 17:55)

About the session

Explore, tinker, play - learn how to create your very own retro pixelart games for the Arduboy, a tiny Arduino-based pocket-sized game console reminiscent of Gameboy's glory days. Best thing? Thanks to Clouduboy you can now do this entirely in your browser, all in JavaScript with the language and techniques you already know (and love)!Requirements: The only thing needed is a PC/Mac with an up-to date browser and a USB-A port for flashing the microcontrollers. All software will be provided or will run in the browser. JavaScript-programming experience at this workshop is recommended, but Clouduboy's "Learn to Code!" tutorial itself is suitable for learners of any levels of programming experience (including people who never coded before).

Speakers

Istvan Szmozsanszky

Tech Speaker Mozilla

István (or Flaki, for short) is a JavaScript world-domination prophet, engineer & trainer from Budapest. He runs his own consulting business Skylark, is a Frontend Trainer @ DPC Consulting and a longtime Mozilla-contributor. He contributes to various open source projects like Firefox, Firefox OS, Rust, Servo and the Tessel Project. His favorite topics include service workers, progressive webapps and JS on microcontrollers.

       

Exhibition - Tinker Table

Friday, 23rd Mar, 16:00 - 17:55

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


Exhibition Stage
Exhibitors Lightning Talk Introductions
Exhibitors Lightning Talk Introductions (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Exhibition Stage

Speakers

Meng Jiann Lee

FOSSASIA

 

Exhibition Stage

Friday, 23rd Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


AMA (Ask Me Anything) FOSSASIA Team
AMA (Ask Me Anything) FOSSASIA Team (17:00 - 17:50)

About the session

Exhibition Stage

Speakers

Meng Jiann Lee

FOSSASIA

 

Exhibition Stage

Friday, 23rd Mar, 17:00 - 17:50

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Lecture Theatre
Consensus as a Service: OSI 20th Anniversary
Consensus as a Service: OSI 20th Anniversary (10:00 - 10:25)

About the session

The Open Source label was born in February 1998 as a new wayto popularise free software for business adoption. OSI will celebrateits 20th Anniversary on February 3, 2018, during the opening day ofFOSDEM 2018. The presentation will summarize the evolution of opensource licenses and the Open Source Definition (OSD) across two decades,explain why the concept of free open source software has grown in bothrelevance and popularity and explore trends for the third decade of opensource.

Speakers

Italo Vignoli

Director Open Source Initiative (OSI)

Italo Vignoli is a director at Open Source Initiative since 2016, a founding member of The Document Foundation and Associazione LibreItalia, and the Chairman Emeritus of the latter. He leads LibreOffice marketing, PR and media relations, co-chairs the certification program, and is a spokesman for the project. Italo has contributed to several migration projects to LibreOffice in Italy, and is a LibreOffice certified migrator and trainer. He has been involved in open source projects since 2004. In his professional life, he is a marketing consultant with over 30 years of experience in hi-tech marketing and media relations. He has a Degree in Humanities at the University of Milan, and MBAs in Marketing, Public Relations and Journalism.

       

Lecture Theatre

Friday, 23rd Mar, 10:00 - 10:25

  •  
  • Open Source in Business


Rise of Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Rise of Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (10:30 - 10:55)

About the session

We will discuss the lessons we have learned with containers so far, including how Google (and other internet scale companies) have been developing and using containers to manage applications for over decade. His session will address the old world of node first development vs. the new world of cloud native computing; along with discussing properties of a cloud native computing architecture – container packaged, dynamically managed and micro-services oriented – and the benefits it can provide developers and end users.

Furthermore, we will cover the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) along with the contribution of its first hosted project: Kubernetes.

Speakers

Chris Aniszczyk

CTO Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer by trade with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a VP at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he's a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups.At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts. For many years he served on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors representing the committer community and the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. In a previous life, he bootstrapped a consulting company, made many mistakes, lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and Linux related projects.

     

Lecture Theatre

Friday, 23rd Mar, 10:30 - 10:55

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Making Money with FOSS
Making Money with FOSS (11:00 - 11:50)

About the session

Are you worried about how you can pay bills if you spend your time developing free and open-source software (F/OSS)? Can it be done profitably?

Ways to make money from the creation of closed software are well understood and widespread, most notably through:

  • selling copyright licenses to end customers who will run the software on their own computers; and
  • running the software on the developer's own computers and then either charging users for access, or providing users with access for free and charging customers for users' attention.

For developers who would like to make money developing free and open-source software (F/OSS) - whether as employees or as entrepreneurs - it is tempting to try to start with one of these models and stretch it to fit, however neither of these models is even remotely suitable for F/OSS because both start by denying fundamental freedoms to share, modify, or even access the software's source code. It is easy to forget that neither of these models was obvious at the dawn of computing; they both had to be invented, and they're not the only ways to do it. The good news is that developing F/OSS is not intrinsically incompatible with making a living, people have been doing it for decades. The really great news is that dozens of ways of doing it have now been developed and widely used. This panel will explore several specific examples with panellists from quite different backgrounds.

Speakers

Roland Turner

Organizer FOSSASIA

Roland is Chief Privacy Officer for TrustSphere where he is responsible for the company's information policy and practices. He is a HackerspaceSG founding member and FOSSASIA organiser, holds a Computer Science degree from UTS, and is an avid dancer, runner, and ham radio operator with a particular interest in space.
     

Chris Van Tuin

Chief Technologist Red Hat

Chris is the Chief Technologist at Red Hat. He has 20+ years of experience in Sales Engineering and Services at Red Hat, Intel, Loudcloud, and Linux startups.

     

Dušan Stojanović

Founder and Director True Global Ventures

A "citizen of the world" with a Swedish passport, Dušan was awarded the prize Business Angel of the Year in Europe in 2013 by EBAN (European Business Angel Network) after having three positive exits within a week, which was previously unheard of in the global angel history. Announced as among FINTECH ASIA 100 Leaders In Asian Fintech in 2016 after moving in 2014 to Asia. Solid track record with 9 out of 18 investments fully or partly exited. All exits related to payments & Fintech. All other investments have reached a first break even point and none has closed down. Dusan has also completed 3 Token Generating Events in 3 weeks 2017/2018. Bountysource powered by CanYa (12 MAUD on December 27th ) – Australia. Sharespost  (US 42 MUSD security token raise of Finom on December 31th) – US. Bluzelle (19.5 MUSD ICO on January 20th.) - Singapore

     

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Meng Weng Wong

Co-Founder Legalese.com

Meng started and exited two startups in the US. Returning to Singapore, he perpetuated the cycle of abuse as an angel investor and mentor at JFDI.Asia. At JFDI, in the course of developing a portfolio of 60+ startups, Meng had to help draft and execute dozens of legal agreements for each startup. To his horror he discovered startup financing is currently a manual process involving corporate secretaries and expensive lawyers, hence a ripe opportunity for software innovation and the basis for an opensource startup serving a global market. Meng programs in Perl and Javascript, and is now learning Prolog, Clojure, and Haskell.

       

Lecture Theatre

Friday, 23rd Mar, 11:00 - 11:50

  •  
  • Open Source in Business


Solving World Problems with Blockchain and Open Source
Solving World Problems with Blockchain and Open Source (13:00 - 13:55)

About the session

Blockchain is a hyped technology. We want to know what are real use cases of Blockchain apart from the hype. The panelists will provide insights into their projects and plan for using blockchain. Most “blockchains” are using Free and Open Source (FOSS) infrastructure to mine and run their network. What is the role of Open Source in the projects and companies of panelists? How does the Open Source ecosystem benefit from the trend to blockchain technology? FOSSASIA’s goal is to improve people’s lives with Open Tech. Technologies like blockchain raise questions about the impact on people and the world. It takes a lot of energy to generate blockchains and there is no immediate benefit except of a coin itself. There is no immediate value, product or anything a human could use except for the transactional value. What should be the stake of a socially responsible organization in regards to these questions? And does the value of technology outweigh its cons? Can Blockchain solve world problems and which ones?

Speakers

Jonas von Malottki

Senior Manager Daimler

Jonas holds a Diploma in Computer Science and Japanese Studies from University of Bonn. Main focus topics where Metadata and Data Quality as well as Neural Networks. Within Daimler he previously was in lead architecture roles for Finance Systems and various leadership positions. He has a keen interest in new technologies and the Open Source movement. In his current role he is shaping the Blockchain and DLT activities from the technology perspective within Daimler. As a Member of the Governing Board of Hyperledger he is also representing that role internationally.
   

Jollen Chen

Creator & Lead Architect Flowchain.io

Jollen Chen is the creator and lead developer of Flowchain.io, an open source based IoT blockchain solutions. Before Flowchain.io, he has been working on embedded software and full-stack web development for many years. His research interests are the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and IoT data security. Jollen holds a Master's degree in Manufacturing Information and Systems from the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. You can find him online at http://jollen.org.

       

Roland Turner

Organizer FOSSASIA

Roland is Chief Privacy Officer for TrustSphere where he is responsible for the company's information policy and practices. He is a HackerspaceSG founding member and FOSSASIA organiser, holds a Computer Science degree from UTS, and is an avid dancer, runner, and ham radio operator with a particular interest in space.
     

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Cherry G. Mathew

Founding Member Hackbeach and Hillhacks

Cherry G. Mathew is a C programmer with geo-libertarian political views, anarchist tendencies and some FOSS contributions - mostly to theBSD operating system ecosystem.As a Software Engineer, he has written programs which are mostly user invisible. As a Hardware Engineer, he has built an autonomous fruit picking robot which was very user visible. As an activist he has been a road warrior to campaign for grassroots access to FOSS. As an techno-anarchist and community organiser, he has been a founding member of two hacker conferences. 

 

Lecture Theatre

Friday, 23rd Mar, 13:00 - 13:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


Bitcoin in BigQuery: blockchain analytics on public data
Bitcoin in BigQuery: blockchain analytics on public data (14:00 - 14:40)

About the session

Cryptocurrencies have captured the imagination of technologists, financiers, and economists. Perhaps even more intriguing are the long-term, diverse applications of the blockchain. By increasing transparency of cryptocurrency systems, the contained data becomes more accessible and useful.The Bitcoin blockchain data are now available for exploration with BigQuery. All historical data are in the big query-public-data:bitcoin_blockchain dataset, which updates every 10 minutes. We hope that by making the data more transparent, users of the data can gain a deeper understanding of how cryptocurrency systems function and how they might best be used for the benefit of society.

Speakers

Allen Day

Science Advocate Google

   

Lecture Theatre

Friday, 23rd Mar, 14:00 - 14:40

  •  
  • Blockchain


What can we learn from 1.1 billion GitHub events and 42 TB of code?
What can we learn from 1.1 billion GitHub events and 42 TB of code? (14:40 - 15:20)

About the session

Anyone can easily analyze the more than five years of GitHub metadata and 42+ terabytes of open source code. We’ll leverage this data to understand the community and code related to any language or project. Relevant for open source creators, users, and choosers.

Speakers

Felipe Hoffa

Developer Advocate Google

In 2011 Felipe Hoffa moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he's been a Developer Advocate on big data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world.
     

Lecture Theatre

Friday, 23rd Mar, 14:40 - 15:20

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Systems as choreographed behavior with Kubernetes
Systems as choreographed behavior with Kubernetes (15:20 - 16:00)

About the session

Why should you use Kubernetes, an Istio Service Mesh or any choreographed Microservice architecture? There is the efficiency argument, scaling, time to market. There is the isolation argument, resilience. But in this talk, we share a different perspective: Our systems are becoming polyglot, intelligent, and rapidly moving towards an evolutionary mode where machine learning is a natural collaborator in the design thinking and coding process. Let’s play with that idea.

Speakers

Jan Peuker

Product Technology Manager Google

Jan Peuker is a Strategic Cloud Engineer at Google where he is working on large, distributed systems on the edge between front - and backend.

     

Lecture Theatre

Friday, 23rd Mar, 15:20 - 16:00

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Training room 4-3
lscpu for BSDs
lscpu for BSDs (13:00 - 13:25)

About the session

GNU/Linux has a handy lscpu command which can print CPU information of current system while BSDs lack, so I decide to develop one used in BSDs. The whole task takes about 2 weeks and is divided into following parts:

(1) Study BSD program structure and sysctl APIs;

(2) Refer Intel/AMD specs to implement function;

(3) Test the program: thanks to kind people who help test on AMD architecture, different BSD flavors, and create ports.

In this topic, I want to share the experience and lessons of developing first application for BSDs

Speakers

Nan Xiao

Research Engineer Data Storage Institute

My name is Nan Xiao, a system software / performance engineer, and have more than 10 years experience in software architecture & development: from embedded system to server box. I am especially enthusiastic in technologies related to computer infrastructure, such as Operating System kernel, concurrent programming, debugging, performance tuning, etc. On top of that, I also like to write technical blog posts in my spare time. 

     

Training room 4-3

Friday, 23rd Mar, 13:00 - 13:25

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


Modern network servers
Modern network servers (13:30 - 13:55)

About the session

While the Intel x86-64 architecture is undisputedly market leader in the server space, several vendors have started introducing ARM64 boards. This presentation examines the suitability of ARM64 server boards for network servers. In particular, we look at the workload of a moderate-size ccTLD DNS zone (.dk) and how it would perform on ARM64 running FreeBSD.

We consider the viability of the ARM64 platform from performance and performance/power perspectives. While ARM64 is definitely slower than Intel on many workloads, it performs at least as well or better than Intel on workloads that are interesting to the internet community. Notably DNS is a very appropriate workload for ARM64.

Speakers

Philip Paeps

Director The FreeBSD Foundation

Philip Paeps (“Trouble”) is an independent consultant and contractor based in Belgium. He provides research and development on low-level software and operating systems, particularly in an embedded or real-time context. His main interests are bootloaders, device drivers and high-performance networking. He can also be convinced to teach courses and workshops on a variety of networking-related topics.

In his so-called free time, Philip is a FreeBSD committer contributing mainly to the kernel and a member of the FreeBSD security team. He was one of the main organisers of FOSDEM, the largest annual open source software conference in Europe, from the early 2000s until 2015. He denies having any involvement with amateur radio or tabletop role playing games.

 

Training room 4-3

Friday, 23rd Mar, 13:30 - 13:55

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


Anatomy of a KVM Guest
Anatomy of a KVM Guest (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

KVM, kernel based virtualization, turns the Linux kernel into an

hypervisor to provide full virtualization services. There is great deal

of work that happens in the background to create a guest environment

and provide various services securely.In this session we'll peek into the background to understand

how a KVM x86 guest environment comes to be, how/where do various

emulated peripherals fit in and how do they interacts with each-other,

the hypervisor and the hardware.

We'll also see examples of the the KVM Virtualization deployments

and the value it has brought to businesses.

Speakers

Prasad Pandit

Developer Red Hat

     

Training room 4-3

Friday, 23rd Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


Hacking with x86 Windows Tablet and mobile devices on Linux
Hacking with x86 Windows Tablet and mobile devices on Linux (14:30 - 14:55)

About the session

Tablet devices are too attractive mobile computer devices,they are inexpensive, lightweight, display, touchscreen, battery and more. They can buy only US$ 40~ now (only used Tablets). But they can use iOS, Android, Windows only.No Linux Distributions on Tablet. New generation peoples doesn't have to need and want to use traditional computer? Smartphones and tablets are necessary to use Linux Distributions for new generation peoples. I feel that it will become an era when it is difficult for new generation peoples to use desktop Linux.

In this session, I will talk about 「Install and use Intel ATOM Tablet,UMPC and install grub2 bootloader on Linux」.The Linux kernel evolved rapidly from Kernl 4.9LTS to 4.14LTS.Recently Linux Kernel has evolved rapidly on x86 ATOM devices, Tablet, Stick PC, Apollo-Lake devices, UMPC GPD-WIN and GPD-Pocket. A lot of mobile devices can use ubuntu, fedora,openSUSE, Arch Linux, and others now! Let's install Linux on Tablet and any mobile devices.

Speakers

Kenji Shimono

Linux Hacker Mobile Netwalker Laboratory

 I'm mobile Linux Hacker.I'm playing with Linux on 「hacking of Windows Tablet and ARM devices」.My activity is Tokaido Linux Users Group and some conferences in Japan.

   

Training room 4-3

Friday, 23rd Mar, 14:30 - 14:55

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


HPXCL: Asynchronous integration of GPU computing with HPX many task processing
HPXCL: Asynchronous integration of GPU computing with HPX many task processing (15:00 - 15:25)

About the session

Developing massively parallel systems is restricted by the complex tasks which need to be managed by the programmer. GPU computing provides the opportunity to parallelize data parallel algorithms while CPU can run the sequential code. With increasing algorithmic development, some new algorithms require iterations of parallel computation on the GPUs (computation scale larger than GPU memory) while some require multiple different data parallel algorithms to run simultaneously, which are notorious to be managed by the programmer.

HPX is an open-source, general purpose C++ library for developing parallel and distributed applications with a broad community usage. This talk aims to discuss the development of HPX Compute language (HPXCL) API for the integration of GPU computation with asynchronous many task execution library HPX. Asynchronous functions are provided for kernel launch, kernel execution and data transfer with the capability to hide the communication latency through computation. To give an example, computation on multiple CPU nodes, GPU nodes can all occur in parallel and can be synchronized when the results are required by the user. This system unleashes the potential to take computation to the exa-scale level.

This development is currently spearheaded by the Stellar Group Community which is a consortium of global researchers. The presenter has been a contributor to this community since his Google Summer of Code participation in 2017.

Github Link: https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpxcl

Speakers

Madhavan Seshadri

Software Developer Ste||ar Group

Madhavan Seshadri obtained his Bachelor degree in the field of Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2017 and currently works as a Software Engineer. His Bachelor's thesis was associated with the Future Mobility Research Lab, Singapore on the topic of Cooperative vehicle routing. He has prior internship experiences at BMW Group, Germany (in 2016) and Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore (in 2015). His research interests include Distributed Systems, Vehicle Routing and Machine Learning.
       

Training room 4-3

Friday, 23rd Mar, 15:00 - 15:25

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


Meilix Generator - your own custom distribution for Internet Kiosks
Meilix Generator - your own custom distribution for Internet Kiosks (15:30 - 15:55)

About the session

Meilix Generator is a new tool to build your own custom Internet kiosk for your business. For convenience the kiosk is based on linux and runs with the lightweight LXQT desktop environment.

Speakers

André Rebentisch

Organizer Open Tech Summit Europe

Experienced Senior Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services sector. Skilled in Open Technologies, Interoperability and Agile Methodologies. Strong program and project management professional graduated from Universität Osnabrück.
       

Training room 4-3

Friday, 23rd Mar, 15:30 - 15:55

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


Inclusion and development - the Meilix Internet kiosk
Inclusion and development - the Meilix Internet kiosk (16:00 - 16:25)

About the session

An internet kiosk is a special use case. A single computer is shared by an indefinite number of users. Lots of security concerns arise. In Asia and elsewhere multiple non-latin languages have to be supported. We decided to create a custom lightweight distribution, Meilix and a generator web app that allows you to preconfigure an ISO with the wallpaper and desktop settings in place.

Speakers

Tarun Kumar

Developer FOSSASIA

I believe to work with the community and to share ideas. I believe one's idea can be better with sharing it with people. People should know to produce solution rather than finding the solution.I love free and open-source software community. Because it is such that you are going through something and found some things that are useful and others didn't notice that. I love to implement that and will a lot more happy that being a part of that change.

       

Training room 4-3

Friday, 23rd Mar, 16:00 - 16:25

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


UniLinux -- Unikernelized Linux
UniLinux -- Unikernelized Linux (16:30 - 16:55)

About the session

Unikernel is a novel software technology that links an application with OS in the form of a library and packages them into a specialized image that facilitates direct deployment on a hypervisor. Comparing to the traditional VM or the recent containers, Unikernels are smaller, more secure and efficient, making them ideal for cloud environments. There are already lots of open source projects like OSv, Rumprun and so on. But why these existing unikernels have yet to gain large popularity broadly? We think Unikernels are facing three major challenges: 1. Compatibility with existing applications; 2. Lack of production support (e.g. monitoring, debugging, logging); 3. Lack of compelling use case; 4. Lack of standard to Unikernels. In my presentation, I will review our investigations and exploration of if-how we can convert Linux as Unikernel to eliminate these significant shortcomings, where I name this as UniLinux, and some potential but valuable use cases to Unikernels like IoT, Serverless and IO-intensive applications.

Speakers

Tiejun Chen

Staff Engineer VMWare

Tiejun Chen is a staff engineer from ATC, Advanced Technology Center, VMware China. Currently we’re trying to work out our own Unikernel & IoT & Serverless project. Before join VMware, he worked at Wind River where he was responsible of developing Wind River Linux BSP, Kernel features and their own paraviratualized Guest OS, and submitted our fixes into mainstream like Linux/PowerPC/RT Linux. And then he joined OTC, Intel to enable new hardware features on open source community like KVM/XEN/Qemu.
 

Training room 4-3

Friday, 23rd Mar, 16:30 - 16:55

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


Made Easy - Desktop Application Installation
Made Easy - Desktop Application Installation (17:00 - 17:25)

About the session

Abstract: Development Suite is a curated, integrated set of desktop tools. Desktop tools combine different components that are required by the developer to get an integrated development platform configured and running on your desktop. It is packaged in an easy-to-use installer and the components can be easily integrated and installed via the interactive web application that runs on MacOS and Windows.

Key points:

  1.  Developer Suite and its current features
  2.  Vision of the product and supported OS
  3.  Ease of installing components and its dependencies (Demo)
  4.  Add new components and Ease of integration (Demo)

Speakers

Sudhir Verma

Associate Software Engineer Red Hat

Open Source contributor
   

Training room 4-3

Friday, 23rd Mar, 17:00 - 17:25

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


Saturday, 24th Mar
 
09:30
09:45
10:00
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
12:45
13:00
13:15
13:30
13:45
14:00
14:15
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
15:30
15:45
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
17:00
17:15
17:30
17:45
18:00
18:15
18:30
18:45
19:00
19:15
19:30
19:45
20:00
20:15
20:30
20:45
21:00
21:15
21:30
21:45
Event Hall 2-1
Blockchain beyond financial services - what we can do with blockchain that will change the world.
Blockchain beyond financial services - what we can do with blockchain that will change the world. (10:00 - 10:45)

About the session

In this panel we will explore with industry experts how blockchain technologies, which aren't that new, but were made popular when Bitcoin suddenly hit the news, can be used to develop applications that, while leveraging the technology, go well beyond what people usually associate with blockchain, i.e. financial services. We'll look at notarization, voting, participative governments, community utilities, shared economies and services... We will discuss this with industry experts from the blockchain ecosystem, users and developers alike.

Speakers

Gilles Gravier

Director, Senior Blockchain Strategy Advisor Wipro

Director in the Open Source Consulting Practice and a member of the internal blockchain council at Wipro, I provide global open source and blockchain strategy consulting and advisory services to Wipro's top customers.
     

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:00 - 10:45

  •  
  • Blockchain


Decentralized AI: how to build secure, private and decentralized AI systems with blockchain
Decentralized AI: how to build secure, private and decentralized AI systems with blockchain (10:50 - 11:15)

About the session

It has recently become possible to build an AI system with cryptographic security guarantees, private training data and decentralized training procedures. That makes it possible to train ML / AI systems on highly sensitive datasets (such as those containing personally identifying information or medical data) while mathematically guaranteeing the preservation of privacy and security of said data. 

To make this possible, one needs to leverage recent advances in blockchain technology, homomorphic encryption and secure multi-party computation. The talk will introduce essential ideas from these diverse fields and provide and guide the listener through what's necessary to create secure, private and decentralized AI systems. We will also introduce key components of OpenMined, the leading open source project in this space, enabling developers to build practical decentralized AI systems.  

 

Speakers

Shankar Satish

Data & AI Scientist Manulife

Shankar is a data scientist at Manulife. He works on quantitative investment management tools and insurance, drawing on a wide range of fields from machine learning, natural language processing, search & relevance, differential privacy, encryption, and more.  

Before this he worked in academia and with startups in e-commerce, cloud systems for deep learning and AI systems for autonomous vehicles. 

He is particularly interested in privacy, fairness and safe usage of modern AI systems, and interpretability, statistical efficiency and tooling for machine learning.   

   

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:50 - 11:15

  •  
  • Blockchain


Hello Blockchain: Evolution of Cryptocurrency Mining
Hello Blockchain: Evolution of Cryptocurrency Mining (11:15 - 12:00)

About the session

When you heard about the Blockchain for the first time, you might have had a lot of questions about the technology.

What does it look like? How does it work? Is it secure?

Today, I will give a talk about the Blockchain from the miner's side.

After the talk you will know:

What is the Blockchain?

Who keeps it growing?

How is it secured?

You will also get hands-on experience with BTC mining and can mine some BTC yourself.

Speakers

Qin Fengling

Software Development Manager Canaan

       

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 11:15 - 12:00

  •  
  • Blockchain


Blockchain - A Platform for Enterprise Collaboration
Blockchain - A Platform for Enterprise Collaboration (13:00 - 13:25)

About the session

Blockchain technology is more than just cryptocurrencies - startups, established companies, and governments around the world are harnessing this exciting new technology to transform their businesses. Come learn how some of these enterpreneurs, enterprises, and public servants are building on blockchain and smart contracts and learn how you too can get started building your own applications!

Speakers

Daren Frankel

Blockchain Consultant ConsenSys

In February 2017 Daren joined ConsenSys, one of the largest independent blockchain technology firms globally. As part of the ConsenSys team, Daren specializes in delivering enterprise advisory and technology services for clients in government, financial services, and other sectors. Since joining ConsenSys, Daren has served clients in both Dubai and Singapore. In Dubai, Daren played a key role in supporting the Dubai government with their mandate to implement the city-wide blockchain strategy 2020 announced in October 2016 by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai.

Prior to joining ConsenSys, Daren spent 3 years with Deloitte in the United States as a business technology analyst and consultant. Daren started his career at Deloitte working closely with Fortune 500 clients to implement Enterprise Resource Planning systems. Later, as part of Deloitte’s Global Blockchain team, he served as a technology advisor to leading U.S. companies in the financial services, retail & distribution, and government sectors while concurrently helping to build the U.S. blockchain team.

Daren graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an undergraduate degree in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.

     

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:00 - 13:25

  •  
  • Blockchain


Let's Fix The Internet
Let's Fix The Internet (13:30 - 13:55)

About the session

The Internet today is plagued by many problems. From viruses and spam, to identity theft and piracy.We can solve those problems.With a virtual operating system that runs the cloud, using blockchains to secure identities and data, a virtual network layer to protect against unauthorized network access, and a virtual machine to sandbox untrusted code.This talk will describe Elastos, an Operating System for the smart web.It will explore the approach that Elastos takes to achieve these goals, and gives a vision of a possible future internet.

Speakers

Martin Bähr

Community Manager Elastos

Martin has been using Free Software for more than 20 years. He has lived and was active in the local Free Software community on four continents.

He eventually settled in China where he now lives with his family, running a small Web Development Shop. He continues to be active in the Free Software community. He was running the Beijing GNU/Linux User Group for four years and now mentors his successors and other groups. He founded the Free Software Community Leadership Roundtable, a forum where community leaders can share and support each other.In october 2017 he joined the Elastos development team as a Community Manager.Through his career, his interest has always been Free Software that facilitates communication and collaboration and brings the world closer together. With Elastos he is continuing on his mission to create a better future for our global society.

   

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:30 - 13:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


Reinventing the "Like" - Rewarding contents with Proof of Creativity
Reinventing the "Like" - Rewarding contents with Proof of Creativity (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

Permissive license for contents encourages creativity and knowledge distribution. However, it largely relies on the selflessness of the creators in doing so. LikeCoin is designed to address such issue. It traces derivative work with the content footprint on Ethereum blockchain, gives every content a LikeRank and rewards creators by proof of creativity.

Speakers

Kin Ko

Co-Founder LikeCoin Foundation

Kin Ko is the Founder and Product Designer of LikeCoin Foundation. After 18 years in Lakoo, a mobile game developer founded by himself in 1999 and backed by Tencent and Sequoia Capital, He created an oice visual novel which later on became LikeCoin.  Graduated in CUHK in 1997, He holds a degree in Computer Engineering and minor in Sociology and Government and Public Administration. He shares his views on cryptocurrency, Internet, and society through writings on Mingpao, The Standnews, CitizenNews, Medium and his own blog ckxpress.com  

       

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Blockchain


Blockchain future and governance 2.0
Blockchain future and governance 2.0 (14:30 - 14:55)

About the session

Blockchain governance is perhaps the biggest factor that explains the current state of things and can be used to guide evolution of blockchain. Blockchain governance, like any similar governance of a complex system, consists of components, including incentives, communication, compliance and failure management. Optimizing each and every one of these factors will give the blockchain governance its best shot to become mainstream, revolutionary and disruptive to almost any industry in the world.

Speakers

Hayk Hakobyan

APAC Developer Engagement Manager Nexmo, the Vonage API Platform

Hayk is a business expert, advisor and speaker, He also advises in AI and blockchain to MNCs and startups globally. He worked with and consulted SMEs and MNCs across Europe, Africa, and Asia. Currently, Hayk is in charge of Business Development in APAC at Nexmo, Expert-in-Residence at SOSV, the biggest VC accelerator in the world. He is also APAC partner at Prysm Group, one of the top blockchain governance and marketing agencies in North America.
   

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:30 - 14:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


Ethereum and Sharding
Ethereum and Sharding (15:30 - 15:55)

About the session

Ethereum is one of the most popular and innovative Blockchain in the world. The demand on scaling the networks arise. Sharding is one of the way and we are working on it. This talk will introduce the recent updates of Ethereum and the basic knowledge about sharding in Ethereum.

Speakers

Mai-Hsuan Chia

Developer Ethereum Research

I'm Mai-Hsuan(Kevin) Chia from Taiwan. Currently I'm working as a developer in the research team under Ethereum Foundation, mainly helping with Sharding implementation. I'm interested in Blockchain, Computer Security, and System programming.

     

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 15:30 - 15:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


Building an open source hybrid blockchain for the IoT
Building an open source hybrid blockchain for the IoT (16:00 - 16:25)

About the session

The Blockchain for the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a promising idea. Despite a myriad of projects on the blockchain IoT, few studies have investigated how an IoT blockchain system develops with open source technologies, open standards, and web technologies. In this presentation, Jollen will share the Flowchain case study, an open source hybrid blockchain project for the IoT. Furthermore, to provide a permissioned edge computing environment for current IoT requirements, he will adopt the Hyperledger Fabric open source, a community project under the Linux Foundation umbrella, to build a hybrid blockchain to facilitate such technical challenges.

Speakers

Jollen Chen

Creator & Lead Architect Flowchain.io

Jollen Chen is the creator and lead developer of Flowchain.io, an open source based IoT blockchain solutions. Before Flowchain.io, he has been working on embedded software and full-stack web development for many years. His research interests are the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and IoT data security. Jollen holds a Master's degree in Manufacturing Information and Systems from the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. You can find him online at http://jollen.org.

       

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 16:00 - 16:25

  •  
  • Blockchain


Decentralised Cryptocurrency - The Trojan Horse of Economic Anarchism
Decentralised Cryptocurrency - The Trojan Horse of Economic Anarchism (16:30 - 16:55)

About the session

The current excitement around Bitcoin as "decentralised crypto money" has left us in a state where some of the fundamental ideas behind it -namely anonymous p2p economic exchange, technoactivism to re-enfranchise people from the centralised control of fiat currencies and other ideas loosely referred to as "crypto anarchism" are being fast forgotten.

Not only has bitcoin (and its contemporaries) become defacto stores of perceived economic value rather than a medium for its exchange, of recent times a large-scale shift is taking place in the (computational) power balance which determines control over its network. This shift is concurrent with efforts to de-anonymise pseudonymous identities transacting on the public ledger and legally regulate (AKA Tax) cryptocurrency transactions.

Speakers

Cherry G. Mathew

Founding Member Hackbeach and Hillhacks

Cherry G. Mathew is a C programmer with geo-libertarian political views, anarchist tendencies and some FOSS contributions - mostly to theBSD operating system ecosystem.As a Software Engineer, he has written programs which are mostly user invisible. As a Hardware Engineer, he has built an autonomous fruit picking robot which was very user visible. As an activist he has been a road warrior to campaign for grassroots access to FOSS. As an techno-anarchist and community organiser, he has been a founding member of two hacker conferences. 

 

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 16:30 - 16:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


Privacy Loss Due to Micro violations and Solutions
Privacy Loss Due to Micro violations and Solutions (17:00 - 17:25)

About the session

Today, various enterprises make sure we have no right to our own privacy through both direct and indirect means for profit.  What are the design challenges for a privacy preserving, user centric, community reputation system which enables global trade and finance?    

Speakers

Dias Lonappan

Head of Engineering Serv Group Pte Ltd

Dias is a long term privacy advocate and crypto evangelist. He currently heads the engineering team at consumer app startup. He was previously the CTO of Quantified Assets, a crypto management firm and is an open source contributor. He is trying to solve the challenge of reputation and safety in an anonymous decentralized world.

   

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 17:00 - 17:25

  •  
  • Blockchain


Understanding Bitcoins: Perceptions and Islamic Perspective
Understanding Bitcoins: Perceptions and Islamic Perspective (17:30 - 17:55)

About the session

A few years ago, a new type of currency emerged generalized as a “synthetic” currency. It is called synthetic because it is not operated by any state or even has any tangible value rather it seems to be a new asset that is trade-able resulting from an agreement between two individuals secretly and it is facilitated with the help of internet technology. Included in this synthetic currency is Bit coin (BTC) that has proved to be one of the most important one. BTC can be stated as “Digital money is simply the idea that, thanks to technology, money can now be a digital object, a unique serial number that can be directly exchanged anonymously and without accounting, just as one person would hand a dollar bill to another person, you had it, now they have it, Very simple”. There is already a lot of usage of digital money, for example when a person makes a transaction the system identifies the person and makes credit equivalent to the amount of deposit, which makes it digitally usable on ATM machines or in transfer from person to person or can be utilized to purchase goods or services. But this is not related to concept of digital currencies because a digital currency is more like a real form of currency with a characteristic of independence i.e. free from intermediaries such as central banks. Hence the whole system of digital currency is decentralized and there is no decision making involved by politicians or governments or banks. Such as Bit coins work through cryptographic algorithms to make the currency digitally usable. There are people who like the idea of currency which does not involve people in grey suits i.e. bankers and politicians who have had the system under control until now. In this talk, the focus is on the level of understanding or perception among the individuals regarding the bit coin currency in the domain of cryptocurrency.

Speakers

Dr. Tahir Mumtaz Awan

Director HATF Consultants & Advisors

Dr. Awan is a highly motivated individual, a PhD holder of Corporate Management (specialization in Marketing) from Sun Yat-sen Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China. The topic of his PhD research was “Impact of Brand Experience on Intention of Word-of-Mouth in Branded Services of China: A Survey of Top-Tier Cities of China”. Dr. Awan recently completed his PhD and rejoined as Assistant Professor of Marketing, (Department of Management Sciences) under Faculty of Business Administration at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan in COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad Campus. Before his PhD degree he was serving the department as Lecturer in Marketing since 2007.

His academic profile includes Masters in Management from University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan, Masters of Science (Mass Communication) from Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Master of Business Administration (Marketing) from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan and Bachelor of Science (Computer Sciences) from Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He also has various certificates including Management, Teaching and Training, Computer Software, Hardware Assembling, & Troubleshooting.

He is a diligent professional, with excellent communication skills applied in a broad range of contexts including administrative expertise, leadership qualities, teaching and training, conferences and workshops presentations, and international level events’ management. During his stay in China he managed to work as visiting faculty with three top universities of South China (South China University of Technology, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University and Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University) for a period of about 4 years. He was also invited at various conferences and workshops for invited talks and training sessions. He also managed to give short-term trainings about soft skills to various organizations in both Chinese and English languages. Few successful events he managed include the Pakistan-China Business Forum (held annually in Pakistan), International Forum of Vice Chancellors’ of Islamic Universities and academic conferences of international level (in China and Pakistan). He was also part of the preparatory meetings for Pakistan-China Business Forum (held every year) at China during his PhD tenure. He helped the organizing team of the forum by ensuring the participation of business community from his residential province in China. He also coordinated meetings with business community and various chambers and regulatory bodies for participation in the forum.

   

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 17:30 - 17:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


Blockchain and the emerging token economy
Blockchain and the emerging token economy (18:00 - 18:25)

About the session

Blockchain technology gaining mainstream adoption and the emergence of the token economy.

Speakers

Floyd DCosta

CoFounder Block Armour

Floyd DCosta is the co-founder of Block Armour and Blockchain Worx. With a background in Management Consulting, Floyd has over 16 years of international professional experience in setting up and growing international business practices as well as advising senior clients executives on decisive topics. His experience includes eleven years at Capgemini and spans a variety of industry sectors and technology platforms. Based out of Singapore, Floyd helps institutions harness the potential of Blockchain technology for competitive advantage.

     

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 18:00 - 18:25

  •  
  • Blockchain


Blockchain -- Moving technology forward
Blockchain -- Moving technology forward (18:30 - 18:55)

About the session

In this Session i would like to take about

1.  Evaluation of Blockchain technology.

2. Blockchain behaviour and its internal architecture. 

3. About Digital currencies like Bitcoin

4. Another face of development of Technology through Blockchain.

Speakers

Rakesh Tadishetty

Developer Ingenious Solutions Software

Tech Evangelist. Tech speaker in various events and conference conducted by Microsoft. Speaker in many open source hackathons conducted by Mozilla and worked on IOT, Hadoop big data and machine learning technologies. 

 

Event Hall 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 18:30 - 18:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


Event Hall 2-2
Tech Jam Tools to engage young children in technology
Tech Jam Tools to engage young children in technology (10:00 - 10:25)

About the session

This talk will talk about our experience with organizing Tech Jam for the last two years and using Tech Jam as an opportunity to get children as young as 10 in coding and hardware hacking. The programme is distingushed by two main features

1. Open ended creation using tech - Sessions are split between learning and hacking. With short bite sized learning, students are given more time and freedom to create projects

2. Mass learning: Each session caters to over 200 students. The large number of students creates an environment for busy and engaging work where students learn from each other and are motivated by example

We discuss the specific activities and also the methodology as well as tools that we are looking into for the future. 

Speakers

Kiruthika Ramanathan

Senior Manager Science Centre Singapore

   

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:00 - 10:25

  •  
  • Science Tech


Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In
Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In (10:30 - 10:55)

About the session

Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In 

Speakers

Stephanie Taylor

Program Manager Google

Stephanie Taylor is a program manager at Google working in the Open Source Programs Office. She works on the outreach team managing the Google Code-in program for pre-university students and helping the team with the Google Summer of Code program.
   

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:30 - 10:55

  •  
  • Science Tech


Building a Sustainable Open Tech Community through Coding Programs, Contests and Hackathons
Building a Sustainable Open Tech Community through Coding Programs, Contests and Hackathons (11:00 - 11:45)

About the session

How sustainable is it do build open tech communities through coding programs, contests and hackathons? What is the experience of Google Summer of Code, Codeheat, Google Code-in, UN Volunteers, Hacktoberfest, 24PRs? What goals do programs have? Are they achieving the goal of advancing Open Tech projects? Panel with Hong Phuc Dang, Misako, Stephanie Taylor, Gi Soong Chee.

Speakers

Stephanie Taylor

Program Manager Google

Stephanie Taylor is a program manager at Google working in the Open Source Programs Office. She works on the outreach team managing the Google Code-in program for pre-university students and helping the team with the Google Summer of Code program.
   

Victoria Bondarchuk

UX Researcher Open Source Design

Victoria Bondarchuk is a UX researcher, interested in open source and open design. Member of opensourcedesign.net.

     

Damini Satya

Software Engineer - Salesforce

Damini Satya has been an active open source contributor turning committer and mentor affiliated to the FOSSASIA project and leads a large chunk of development work happening on many of the critical projects. Damini's contribution to the open source community has been multifold ranging from engagement in development, community building and outreach, organizing and administration as well as mentorship. Currently, she works as a Software Engineer at Salesforce. 

       

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Yue Lin Choong

Director Women Who Code

Coding for 20 years, and still loving it.
     

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 11:00 - 11:45

  •  
  • Science Tech


Open Source Education
Open Source Education (13:00 - 13:55)

About the session

The Education system is about 200 years old and inspired by organizational thinking of the Industrial Revolution and is arguable a bit out of date. With what we've learned building Open Source software and communities, can we apply the lessons learned to creating an inclusive growing up experience for kids that is not school based?

Speakers

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

William Tan

Head of Technology Projects ITE College West

William is an active promoter of Maker and STEM education for our next generation of technical students.  He is head the ITE's 1st Makerspace, Espace-Make2Learn.  He has been actively involved in the Maker movement since 2016.  Prior to that, he spearhead rapid prototype lab in ITE College West.  He has a few applied research with SingHealth, St Luke's Hospital.  Graduated from Nanyang Technological University Singapore with Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic Engineering).

   

Davide Storti

FOSS Programme Manager UNESCO

Davide is working as a FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He co-leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

   

Lim Tit Meng

CEO Science Centre Singapore

CEO

   

Cat Allman

Google

     

Mishari Muqbil

Founder CoderDojo Thailand

Participating in the Open Source community since 1990s

Homeschool Dad

     

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:00 - 13:55

  •  
  • Science Tech


Tech for fun community and culture
Tech for fun community and culture (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

 Tech for fun community and culture

Speakers

Takasu Masakazu

Global Biz Development SwitchScience

TAKASU Masakazu, Maker Faire Shenzhen and Singapore, takes us on a journey to his homeland of Japan and their exciting ways of using technology, design and science. He is the most experienced person of Maker Faire in Asia.He is also connected all around Makers, even in Asia and Japan. His book ECOSYSTEM BY MAKERS is well known in Japan.

       

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Science Tech


Biohacking democratizing biology through tech.
Biohacking democratizing biology through tech. (14:30 - 14:40)

About the session

Biohacking is a new field of citizen science in which individuals experiment with biology . Though this talk we will be talking about democratizing biology through building low cost equipment and open source software. We will also be discussing how biological systems and systems in software and hardware intertwine and how people without experience in biology can get into biohacking. I will be bringing along some DIY lab equipment and projects(Polymerase chain reactor, incubator, prosthetics, etc ) to demo.

Speakers

Darin Lobo

Founder BiospaceSG

I am interested in neuroscience, synthetic biology, electrical engineering, quantum mechanics and science in general. I am a maker and biohacker. I am mostly experienced in hardware hacking and I am currently learning software specifically in neural networks. I run a biohacking and hardware hacking meetup in Singapore called Biospacesg. 

   

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:30 - 14:40

  •  
  • Science Tech


Two students out of their depths - Adventures in designing an AUV
Two students out of their depths - Adventures in designing an AUV (14:40 - 14:50)

About the session

For many years humans have been sending probes out to space, but less than 5% of our planet’s defining trait, oceans, have been explored, and it’s not because nobody’s interested. Daniel and Michael talk about some of the problems that come about when trying to put electronics where it should not be, and how they got around them on a budget to build their own AUV, Magni. Through their talk, they hope to spark interest in a rather niche field of robotics.

Speakers

Daniel Lim Hai

Student NUS High School of Mathematics and Science

 

Michael Jervoso

Student NUS High School of Mathematics and Science

 

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:40 - 14:50

  •  
  • Science Tech


Do you want to build a railgun?
Do you want to build a railgun? (14:50 - 15:00)

About the session

Projectile launchers are cool and electromagnetic ones even more so. For decades many have been fascinated by them and with the US and Chinese Navy putting railguns on their ships, they have never been more exciting. Jing Xuan shares the charged and explosive experience of building a railgun and coilgun, blowing up Arduinos and shooting nails backwards.

Speakers

Tay Jing Xuan

NUS High School of Mathematics and Science

 

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:50 - 15:00

  •  
  • Science Tech


Electronics Measurements in One Device: The Open Source Pocket Science Lab for Desktops and Smartphones
Electronics Measurements in One Device: The Open Source Pocket Science Lab for Desktops and Smartphones (15:00 - 15:25)

About the session

The FOSSASIA PSLab is the first Open Source Pocket Science Lab that can be used through the desktop and phones. The device is entirely Open Hardware, from the design itself, the firmware to the source code of the apps running on the phone. It combines different devices including an Oscilloscope, a voltmeter and several sensors. It is useful for startups, hobbyists and the educational sector. You can measure currents and all kinds of electronic devices and connections with the PSLab. Check your prototypes or do all kinds of electronic experiments. The talk will demonstrate the device and provide insights into the specifics of the device, the functioning and our future plans.

Speakers

M Padmal

Developer FOSSASIA PSLab

Electronic and Telecommunication Undergraduate student from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka who is passionate about hardware development

       

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 15:00 - 15:25

  •  
  • Science Tech


Intracortical Brain-Machine Interface - Current Progress and Speculation about the Future
Intracortical Brain-Machine Interface - Current Progress and Speculation about the Future (15:30 - 15:55)

About the session

In this talk, I will lay the landscape of current applications of intracortical brain-machine interface, including discussion on movement recovery in tetraplegics, sensory recovery in blind people, and attempts at integrating both. I will briefly sketch the animal and human research on this topic in Singapore. I will finish by taking a look at possible technologies to augment normal brain function in the future. 

Speakers

Camilo Libedinsky

Assistant Professor National University of Singapore

Camilo Libedinsky is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology of NUS, a principal investigator at the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE), and a joint Principal Investigator at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR. He received his B.Sc. from Universidad de Chile and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

His lab aims to understand the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive function at the level of populations of individual neurons (or circuits), and to apply this knowledge to develop novel neurotechnologies.

   

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 15:30 - 15:55

  •  
  • Science Tech


Purposeful Makers: Dream Makers of Tomorrow
Purposeful Makers: Dream Makers of Tomorrow (16:00 - 16:25)

About the session

Generation “Z” are digital natives who are versatile in using smartphones and the social media.  They love selfies, branded computer games and want to change the world.

Industry employment demand is usually far from this new generation’s expectations.  How to bridge this gap and get them to have skills that are future ready? How to make them purposeful Makers who is able to solve world's problems?  The Institute of Technical Education (ITE) Singapore has found a way to engage and prepare them through our new Makerspace initiative.

Speakers

William Tan

Head of Technology Projects ITE College West

William is an active promoter of Maker and STEM education for our next generation of technical students.  He is head the ITE's 1st Makerspace, Espace-Make2Learn.  He has been actively involved in the Maker movement since 2016.  Prior to that, he spearhead rapid prototype lab in ITE College West.  He has a few applied research with SingHealth, St Luke's Hospital.  Graduated from Nanyang Technological University Singapore with Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic Engineering).

   

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 16:00 - 16:25

  •  
  • Science Tech


Effective Teaching - Learning methods in Engineering Education using open source software
Effective Teaching - Learning methods in Engineering Education using open source software (16:30 - 16:55)

About the session

The work deals with learning of students on complex technical concepts in much more easier way using open source software. Mind mapping is one of the popular learning techniques employed by the academic fraternity all over the globe. This technique is utilized to improve the academic performance of the students for understanding subjects and laboratory too. This is because of the clear representation of the technical concepts in systematic way through mapping. This kind of learning helps students to correlate among the technical concepts without ambiguity. Though it seems to be simple it's impact is powerful as it works on cognition of Human beings. Instead of freehand drawing to create mind maps, open source software tools are employed. The merits of the usage of open source software are being able to create many such mind maps in short duration, edit them at any time, able to add attractive colors and patterns to create interest and gain attention of students, design in numerous ways to develop creativity and so on. Of the majority of the methods employed, this teaching - learning technique has gained prominent importance among students. The result of this work is found to be amazing among all the students for both theory subjects and practicals. There has been phenomenon change in understanding the technical concepts and analyzing them. After witnessing its strong impact at the academic results, my peer academic group started using the software. 

Speakers

Guruswamy Revana

Associate Professor BVRITH

I, Guruswamy Revana, an academician with around 15 years of experience.  I had been into this journey with Teaching, Research and Development, Mentoring, Counselling, Administration etc. Basically I am Electrical and Electronics Engineer, my areas of expertise includes Renewable Energy Sources, Power Electronics, Electric drives. I am also interested in Assistive Technologies wherein Open source technologies are used to aid differently-abled. I am also keen about making learning much easier. I use different methodologies to make Teaching - Learning process more effective.

       

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 16:30 - 16:55

  •  
  • Science Tech


How GCompris is impacting school Education
How GCompris is impacting school Education (17:00 - 17:25)

About the session

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.

Each activity can be considered as a fun game which mainly focuses on enhancing the learning of children through visual and graphics.The project is supported by KDE and is mainly written in QML,JS,C++ and QT.

GCompris is a free software, that means that you can adapt it to your own needs, improve it and, most importantly, share it with children everywhere. 

GCompris contain a variety of activities belonging to different domains. It spans from mathematical to language, from science to geography, from mouse coordination to computer typing and many more. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.

The topics of discussion under the talk are as follows :-

1.) Structure, Architecture, and Codebase of GCompris.

2.) The techstack of the project. 

3.) What are open source projects ? 

4.) How to contribute to GCompris ?

5.) Tutorial on git and github.

6.) Will motivate new comers to explore & contribute to open source world. 

The session will be very useful for new contributors who wished to contribute to GCompris and dive into open source world.

Speakers

Nitish Chauhan

Software Developer KDE

a Coder || Traveller || Chai lover, who loves programming and exploring open source projects,a simple person who plays chess and badminton in his free time. Currently this guy is working as a software developer at INNOVACCER, mainly deals with mongo, python & elastic search.
       

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 17:00 - 17:25

  •  
  • Science Tech


Insta-QRP Open Hardware Transceiver Kit for the Amateur Band
Insta-QRP Open Hardware Transceiver Kit for the Amateur Band (17:30 - 17:55)

About the session

We use radio communications systems everyday; technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3G, 4G and many more are an integral part of our society today. However, do we understand how they work? The Insta-QRP Radio Transceiver is a open-hardware radio transceiver kit that aims to demonstrate the concepts of radio transmission and reception.

Speakers

Joyce Ng

Founder Hyan Technologies

Joyce 9V1AN is working on an open-hardware transceiver kit for amateur band use in Singapore. She is a Electronics Engineering student at Singapore Polytechnic who is also an amateur radio licensee. She likes to experiment and tinker with electronics, and at times, repairs radio transceivers and other equipment. She believes that communication is important in the modern society we live in and that the knowledge of radio and other communications principles is the key to bridging people and communities, beyond borders and boundaries.

   

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 17:30 - 17:55

  •  
  • Science Tech


Kamailio - The open source framework to build your own VoIP service
Kamailio - The open source framework to build your own VoIP service (18:00 - 18:25)

About the session

Kamailio is an open source SIP (RFC3261) signalling server implementation developed since 2001. It targeted flexibility and scalability from the beginning, being currently used by large telecom and mobile operators world wide as well as global OTT services.

The talk is presenting the most common use cases of Kamailio, such as classic telephony platform, load balancer, least cost routing engine or SIP security firewall, aiming also to point to the relevant resources to help building the systems yourself.

Speakers

Daniel-Constantin Mierla

Cofounder Kamailio

He co-founded Kamailio in June 2005, aiming to build a solid SIP server project where openness to community and contributions has an important role, previously being core developer of SIP Express Router (SER) from its early beginning in 2002. He has a Master degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Polytechnics University of Bucharest. His experience was accumulated working as consultant for Orange Romania, branch of French Orange mobile operator, and researcher in network communications at Fraunhofer Fokus Institute, Berlin, Germany.

His activity is done at Asipto, a company targeting to offer and build reliable services and solutions that benefit at maximum from Kamailio’s flexibility and features, sharing knowledge and expertise via professional trainings and consultancy. Daniel is leading the development of the Kamailio project and he is member of its management board.

       

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 18:00 - 18:25

  •  
  • Science Tech


Software Defined Radio: Exploring the Spectrum
Software Defined Radio: Exploring the Spectrum (18:30 - 18:55)

About the session

Technology in recent years has allowed hobbyists to explore the radio spectrum around them for very low cost. This talk will be a discussion on how one can get started in SDR including what hardware to buy and an overview on what Open Source Software exists for use.

Some topics that will be talked about are antenna design, SDR cards, GNURadio, and how to improve signal reception.

Some of the radio spectrum applications that will be discussed are:

  • AIS - Automatic Identification System for marine traffic
  • ADS-B - Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast for air traffic
  • Weather and satellite telemetry signals
  • Improving security and preventing data leaks from RF signals

Speakers

Matt Ranostay

Senior Software Engineer Konsulko Group

Matt has worked in the Embedded Linux field in various roles for 10+ years at various companies including Embedded Alley, Mentor Graphics, Intel's Open Source Technology Center, and currently at Konsulko Group

     

Event Hall 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 18:30 - 18:55

  •  
  • Science Tech


Exhibition - Hardware Corner
Helping students to learn Math better with Python
Helping students to learn Math better with Python (15:00 - 16:55)

About the session

Traditionally in classroom, math has been taught using chalk-blackboard fashion. With the advent of technology, some teachers started using multimedia, especially graphics/animation to explain students the different mathematical phenomena. But I strongly believe, if students could code themselves, it would be much more helpful for them to internalize mathematics - from very basic to advance stuffs. In this workshop, I am going to show some simple python programs that students (grade 6 to grade 10) can write which helps them to understand different mathematical concepts.

Speakers

Tamim Shahriar

Engineering Manager Grab

Tamim is a hands-on engineering manager at Grab Singapore office. He loves to work with people to build things that matter. He is an entrepreneur (co-founded Mukto Software Ltd. in 2009 and Dimik Computing School in 2013) as well as an author of the bestseller programming book in Bangla and has been actively involved as a volunteer to popularize mathematics and programming education among school students in Bangladesh.

   

Exhibition - Hardware Corner

Saturday, 24th Mar, 15:00 - 16:55

  •  
  • Science Tech


Exhibition - Pocket Science Lab
Creating Science Experiments with the FOSSASIA Pocket Science Lab
Creating Science Experiments with the FOSSASIA Pocket Science Lab (10:00 - 11:55)

About the session

The workshop will cover how to setup and create scientific experiments with the FOSSASIA PSLab or use it to measure electronic conditions in hardware prototypes. The Open Source Pocket Science Lab can be used through the desktop and phones. It combines different devices including an Oscilloscope, a voltmeter and several sensors. It is useful for startups, hobbyists and the educational sector. You can measure currents and all kinds of electronic devices and connections with the PSLab. Check your prototypes or do all kinds of electronic experiments.

Speakers

M Padmal

Developer FOSSASIA PSLab

Electronic and Telecommunication Undergraduate student from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka who is passionate about hardware development

       

Exhibition - Pocket Science Lab

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:00 - 11:55

  •  
  • Science Tech


Exhibition - Tinker Table
Clouduboy - Create JS Games for Microcontrollers
Clouduboy - Create JS Games for Microcontrollers (10:00 - 11:55)

About the session

Explore, tinker, play - learn how to create your very own retro pixelart games for the Arduboy, a tiny Arduino-based pocket-sized game console reminiscent of Gameboy's glory days. Best thing? Thanks to Clouduboy you can now do this entirely in your browser, all in JavaScript with the language and techniques you already know (and love)!Requirements: The only thing needed is a PC/Mac with an up-to date browser and a USB-A port for flashing the microcontrollers. All software will be provided or will run in the browser. JavaScript-programming experience at this workshop is recommended, but Clouduboy's "Learn to Code!" tutorial itself is suitable for learners of any levels of programming experience (including people who never coded before).

Speakers

Istvan Szmozsanszky

Tech Speaker Mozilla

István (or Flaki, for short) is a JavaScript world-domination prophet, engineer & trainer from Budapest. He runs his own consulting business Skylark, is a Frontend Trainer @ DPC Consulting and a longtime Mozilla-contributor. He contributes to various open source projects like Firefox, Firefox OS, Rust, Servo and the Tessel Project. His favorite topics include service workers, progressive webapps and JS on microcontrollers.

       

Exhibition - Tinker Table

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:00 - 11:55

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


Python Basics Workshop
Python Basics Workshop (13:00 - 14:55)

About the session

Participants will learn basics of Python and how it can be used to simplify/automate common tasks.

Speakers

PyLadiesSG

PyLadiesSG

PyLadiesSG is the Singapore chapter of PyLadies, an international group focused on getting more women into the Python community and programming in general

 

Exhibition - Tinker Table

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:00 - 14:55

  •  
  • Science Tech


Web development with Flask
Web development with Flask (15:00 - 16:55)

About the session

Participants will learn how to develop and deploy a CRUD web app using Python, Flask and web technologies.

Speakers

BuildingBloCS students from various schools

BuildingBloCS

We are a group of high school Computing students and we love to do cool stuff in Python, and would like to share our love. 

 

Exhibition - Tinker Table

Saturday, 24th Mar, 15:00 - 16:55

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Exhibition Stage
Exhibitors Lightning Talk Introductions
Exhibitors Lightning Talk Introductions (11:00 - 11:30)

About the session

Exhibition Stage

Speakers

Meng Jiann Lee

FOSSASIA

 

Exhibition Stage

Saturday, 24th Mar, 11:00 - 11:30

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Group Photo
Group Photo (12:00 - 12:15)

About the session

Group Photo

Speakers

Eden Dang

FOSSASIA

 

Exhibition Stage

Saturday, 24th Mar, 12:00 - 12:15

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


AMA (Ask Me Anything) FOSSASIA Team
AMA (Ask Me Anything) FOSSASIA Team (17:00 - 17:45)

About the session

Exhibition Stage

Speakers

Meng Jiann Lee

FOSSASIA

 

Exhibition Stage

Saturday, 24th Mar, 17:00 - 17:45

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Lecture Theatre
Zero to ML on Google Cloud Platform
Zero to ML on Google Cloud Platform (10:30 - 11:10)

About the session

TBA

Speakers

Sara Robinson

Developer Advocate Google

    

       

Lecture Theatre

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:30 - 11:10

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


rsyslog v8: more than just syslog
rsyslog v8: more than just syslog (11:10 - 11:35)

About the session

You may think rsyslog is just a little program with ugly config file. You may say it's only routing your syslog messages from journald to plain files. But rsyslog is real swiss-army knife of logging. I'll show you how good is rsyslog in modern world of ELK, containers and JSON logs. And how bad it can be when you've missed something. It may help you to process over 100k msg/s. Or it may break your production. And it may do some neat tricks for you as well!

Speakers

Yury Bushmelev

Senior System Engineer Lazada

       

Lecture Theatre

Saturday, 24th Mar, 11:10 - 11:35

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Conference Group Photo
Conference Group Photo (12:00 - 12:15)

About the session

Please join us for the conference group photo opp and share your enthusiasm with the world!

Speakers

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Lecture Theatre

Saturday, 24th Mar, 12:00 - 12:15

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


How to Overcome Obstacles and Take Control of Your Career in Tech
How to Overcome Obstacles and Take Control of Your Career in Tech (13:00 - 13:25)

About the session

Finding the perfect job can be difficult. Figuring out how to stand out from the competition and then navigating human biases, archaic hiring processes and other challenges can make landing that dream job seem like a long shot. ​ ​

Join Doug Gray, SVP of Engineering at Indeed to learn how you can take control of your tech career path. Gain key insights from new research on what drives top tech talent’s career decisions​ while also learning how technology can help you overcome obstacles that may occur during the hiring process so that you can be in control of finding your dream job.

Speakers

Douglas Gray

Senior Vice President, Engineering Indeed

Doug Gray is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Indeed. As a member of Indeed’s senior leadership team, Doug defines the organizational and development processes for the engineering team. His areas of expertise include product revitalization, process change and team development. Previously, Doug was a senior leader at Versata Software. Prior to that, he held a number of senior positions at Trilogy, where he worked for over 12 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

   

Lecture Theatre

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:00 - 13:25

  •  
  • Open Source in Business


Daimler and Open Source
Daimler and Open Source (13:30 - 13:55)

About the session

Daimler and Open Source

Speakers

Vlado Koljibabic

Daimler AG Head of CASE IT

Vlado leads IT for the new CASE business unit. He delivers digital channels for CASE and runs major projects in the manner of services for e-mobility and customer centricity. CASE stands for Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric.

   

Lecture Theatre

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:30 - 13:55

  •  
  • Open Source in Business


Everything as Code
Everything as Code (17:00 - 17:40)

About the session

As organizations adopt cloud technologies, the need for codification and automation quickly becomes apparent. No longer can engineers create individual servers by shell commands or click through a GUI to provision machines. To add more complexity to the equation, many cloud vendors offer proprietary services that need to be integrated into applications. This new cloud-based world demands automation across the entire stack.

This talk discusses some patterns and open source tools for codifying machines as code, infrastructure as code, and security as code using tools like Packer, Chef, and Terraform.

Speakers

Seth Vargo

Developer Advocate Google

Seth is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform primarily focusing on automation, devops, security, and startups. Previously Seth worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, and a few other startups. He is an O'Reilly author and advises non-profits in his spare time.

       

Lecture Theatre

Saturday, 24th Mar, 17:00 - 17:40

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


A Security State of Mind: Compliance and Vulnerability Audits for Containers
A Security State of Mind: Compliance and Vulnerability Audits for Containers (17:45 - 18:10)

About the session

Data breaches are on the rise and placing increased pressure on Enterprise IT to protect the business. With the rise of DevOps and as hackers takes advantage of known vulnerabilities on unpatched or misconfigured systems, Enterprise IT increasingly needs to automate container security management with DevSecOps.

In this talk, you’ll learn about:

  • Best practices for integrating Security into DevSecOps
  • The top security risks in a container environment including container images, builds, registry, CI/CD, and host. 
  • Integrating automated security scans into your CI/CD pipeline
  • Scanning online and offline containers for security compliance vulnerabilities and generating security audit reports with OpenScap

Speakers

Chris Van Tuin

Chief Technologist Red Hat

Chris is the Chief Technologist at Red Hat. He has 20+ years of experience in Sales Engineering and Services at Red Hat, Intel, Loudcloud, and Linux startups.

     

Lecture Theatre

Saturday, 24th Mar, 17:45 - 18:10

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


Lounge @Exhibition
MySQL Community Gathering
MySQL Community Gathering (10:00 - 11:00)

About the session

Join the MySQL meetup and Community Gathering at the FOSSASIA Summit! We are meeting in the Lounge area in the exhibition.

Speakers

Ricky Setyawan

Principal Sales Consultant Oracle

Ricky Setyawan has been in the IT industry for 18 years with the good last 16 years working as RDBMS specialist. He is currently MySQL Principal Sales Consultant for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Pakistan. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a Principal DBA doing database design and management on Oracle and DB2 on RedHat Linux on continuous availability server. He has been working on a number of  RDBMS throughout his career such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL.

   

Lounge @Exhibition

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:00 - 11:00

  •  
  • Database


Theatre Lounge
UNESCO Hackathon Opening
UNESCO Hackathon Opening (14:00 - 14:10)

About the session

At the UNESCO Hackathon opening we are welcoming participants and introduce the goals and agenda of the hackathon.

The goal of the hackathon is to engage the community of developers to create open source apps and games that tackle climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges. We are specifically interested in applications and games that set an example for others who could replicate solutions in other countries, and in particular in the Mekong countries, to tackle the sustainable development challenges.

Speakers

Davide Storti

FOSS Programme Manager UNESCO

Davide is working as a FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He co-leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

   

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Misako Ito

UNESCO

 

William Tan

Head of Technology Projects ITE College West

William is an active promoter of Maker and STEM education for our next generation of technical students.  He is head the ITE's 1st Makerspace, Espace-Make2Learn.  He has been actively involved in the Maker movement since 2016.  Prior to that, he spearhead rapid prototype lab in ITE College West.  He has a few applied research with SingHealth, St Luke's Hospital.  Graduated from Nanyang Technological University Singapore with Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic Engineering).

   

Theatre Lounge

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:00 - 14:10

  •  
  • UNESCO Hackathon


UNESCO Hackathon Rules and Prizes
UNESCO Hackathon Rules and Prizes (14:10 - 14:20)

About the session

For the expected outcome of the hack, the applications or games shall be open source and use open data to tackle the climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges.

They shall address one or several of the following requirements:

  1. Respond to pressing environmental challenges at local, national or regional levels in Asia
  2. Enable the visualization of data in an innovative and/or easy-to-understand way
  3. Mobilize and create engagement of variety of stakeholders and sectors in society on climate change, environment and sustainable development
  4. Gender-sensitive prototype, recognizing or encouraging women’s participation in sustainable development

Functioning App

An important point is, is the prototype or showcase functioning? We prefer real code and design implementations over mockups.

What to enter

Please submit a link to the app, a Github repo link and a short presentation as a download or on Google drive (ensure it is set to public sharing). You can also share anything else to demonstrate your work and let us test it.

  • Video: The platform accepts links to YouTube, Vimeo or Youku. If you like you can post a short video to demonstrate your work.
  • File Upload: There is also an option to upload a file. The platform allows submitters to upload one file, though they can combine files into a single ZIP file.
  • Other: The platform requires contestants to enter an entry name and description. Please also accept the the conditions of the contest including sharing your work under certified Open Source license.

Platform

Share information about what operating systems or devices can your hack run on.

Resources

Include information about API, SDK, or data set, that are required to run the app.

New vs. Existing

Any work done need to be new for the competition. Existing apps are not eligible. However the specific details what is acceptable and what is not will be determined by the jury. For example existing apps that have been modified substantially and include entirely new functionality would still be eligible.

Please find the complete rules here: https://fossasia-unesco.devpost.com/rules

Speakers

Davide Storti

FOSS Programme Manager UNESCO

Davide is working as a FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He co-leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

   

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Misako Ito

UNESCO

 

William Tan

Head of Technology Projects ITE College West

William is an active promoter of Maker and STEM education for our next generation of technical students.  He is head the ITE's 1st Makerspace, Espace-Make2Learn.  He has been actively involved in the Maker movement since 2016.  Prior to that, he spearhead rapid prototype lab in ITE College West.  He has a few applied research with SingHealth, St Luke's Hospital.  Graduated from Nanyang Technological University Singapore with Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic Engineering).

   

Theatre Lounge

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:10 - 14:20

  •  
  • UNESCO Hackathon


Hackathon: Presentation of Ideas, Teams and Team Building Activities
Hackathon: Presentation of Ideas, Teams and Team Building Activities (14:20 - 15:00)

About the session

 Presentation of Ideas, Teams and Team Building Activities

Speakers

Davide Storti

FOSS Programme Manager UNESCO

Davide is working as a FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He co-leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

   

Vlado Koljibabic

Daimler AG Head of CASE IT

Vlado leads IT for the new CASE business unit. He delivers digital channels for CASE and runs major projects in the manner of services for e-mobility and customer centricity. CASE stands for Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric.

   

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Misako Ito

UNESCO

 

William Tan

Head of Technology Projects ITE College West

William is an active promoter of Maker and STEM education for our next generation of technical students.  He is head the ITE's 1st Makerspace, Espace-Make2Learn.  He has been actively involved in the Maker movement since 2016.  Prior to that, he spearhead rapid prototype lab in ITE College West.  He has a few applied research with SingHealth, St Luke's Hospital.  Graduated from Nanyang Technological University Singapore with Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic Engineering).

   

Theatre Lounge

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:20 - 15:00

  •  
  • UNESCO Hackathon


Begin of Hacking Activities
Begin of Hacking Activities (15:00 - 21:51)

About the session

Create open source apps and games that tackle climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges, and win awesome prizes! We are specifically interested in applications and games that set an example for others who could replicate solutions in other countries, and in particular in the Mekong countries, to tackle the sustainable development challenges. It is our goal to engage the developer community to develop innovative applications as open source by leveraging the open data and knowledge available.

Speakers

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Davide Storti

FOSS Programme Manager UNESCO

Davide is working as a FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He co-leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

   

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Misako Ito

UNESCO

 

William Tan

Head of Technology Projects ITE College West

William is an active promoter of Maker and STEM education for our next generation of technical students.  He is head the ITE's 1st Makerspace, Espace-Make2Learn.  He has been actively involved in the Maker movement since 2016.  Prior to that, he spearhead rapid prototype lab in ITE College West.  He has a few applied research with SingHealth, St Luke's Hospital.  Graduated from Nanyang Technological University Singapore with Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic Engineering).

   

Theatre Lounge

Saturday, 24th Mar, 15:00 - 21:51

  •  
  • UNESCO Hackathon


Training room 2-1
Scaling TB's of data with Apache Spark and Scala DSL at Production
Scaling TB's of data with Apache Spark and Scala DSL at Production (10:00 - 10:55)

About the session

Apache Spark is one of the top big-data processing platforms and has driven the adoption of Scala in many industry and academic settings. As entire Apache Spark framework has been written in scala as a base, it’s real pleasure to understand beauty of functional Scala DSL with Spark.

This talk is intent to present :

  • Primary data structures (RDD, DataSet, Dataframe) usage in universal large scale data processing with Hbase (Data lake), Hive (Analytical Engine).

  • Case study: We will go through importance of physical data split up techniques such as coalesce, Partition, Repartition and other important spark internals in Scaling TB’s of data / ~17 billions records

  • Also, We will understand crucial part and very interesting way of understanding parallel & concurrent distributed data processing – tuning memory, cache, Disk I/O, Leaking memory, Internal shuffle, spark executor, spark driver etc.

Speakers

Chetankumar Khatri

Data Science Lead Accion labs Inc.

Chetan Khatri is working as a Technical Lead at Accionlabs, he has diverse experience in field of Data Science and Machine learning. He is upstream committer at Apache Spark, Apache HBase, Apache Spark - HBase Connector, Elixir Lang. He has been authored curriculum of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Distributed computing at KSKV Kachchh University, Government of Gujarat - INDIA. He has also reviewed couple of Books with Scala Machine learning, Tensorflow Deep learning, Machine learning for Web with Packt Publication. He has delivered many talks at Pycon India 2016, PyKutch 2016.

       

Training room 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:00 - 10:55

  •  
  • Database


Database Lightning Talk
Database Lightning Talk (11:30 - 11:55)

About the session

Join us for the Database Lightning Talks!

Speakers

Ricky Setyawan

Principal Sales Consultant Oracle

Ricky Setyawan has been in the IT industry for 18 years with the good last 16 years working as RDBMS specialist. He is currently MySQL Principal Sales Consultant for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Pakistan. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a Principal DBA doing database design and management on Oracle and DB2 on RedHat Linux on continuous availability server. He has been working on a number of  RDBMS throughout his career such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL.

   

Training room 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 11:30 - 11:55

  •  
  • Database


Using BigQuery for near real-time analytics
Using BigQuery for near real-time analytics (13:00 - 13:25)

About the session

Real-time ingestion and analysis of data streams is advantageous for organizations handling clickstreams, logs or IoT data sources. However, moving from batch to stream processing has historically been difficult. With Google cloud platform and BigQuery, any organization from a small start up to a big company with huge data could implement an analytics system without concern about running infrastructure, scaling at a reasonable price. 

Speakers

Le Kien Truc

Senior Backend Engineer nclouds

- Willing contribute in open-source community, leader of ubuntu-vn.

- Interested in big data analytics. 

- Working with people all over the world.

     

Training room 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:00 - 13:25

  •  
  • Database


Indeed MPH: Fast and Compact Immutable Key-Value Stores
Indeed MPH: Fast and Compact Immutable Key-Value Stores (13:30 - 13:55)

About the session

When you need to scale an application with a lot of data, how do you decide on a storage solution? How can you both safely store and efficiently interact with large data sets? This usually boils down to a choice between SQL or NoSQL -- but what if there was a third option?

In this session, developer Alex Shinn will discuss Indeed’s MPH-Table: an open source storage solution that uses minimal perfect hash functions to generate a fast and compact key/value store. Alex will discuss how we use MPH-Table at Indeed, what situations are ideal for it, additional optimizations it allows, and how it compares to alternate solutions. Attendees should enter with a fundamental understanding of existing scalable storage solutions, and will leave with a basic understanding of MPH-Table, when they might want to use it, and how other solutions compare.

Speakers

Alex Shinn

Software Engineer Indeed

Alex Shinn is an engineer working on Indeed's job recommendation system. A former Google search engineer, he is a generalist with experience in natural language processing, building scalable architectures, and various AI technologies from expert systems to modern machine learning. In his free time he writes Sheme compilers and libraries and contributes to the Scheme standardization process.

 

Training room 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:30 - 13:55

  •  
  • Database


PostgreSQL at 20TB and Beyond: Analytics at a Massive Scale
PostgreSQL at 20TB and Beyond: Analytics at a Massive Scale (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

At Adjust, we produce near-real-time analytics on over 400TB of high velocity data.  This talk is a brief introduction to how we do it, and it serves as a showcase for what PostgreSQL is capable of doing in a big data environment.

This talk will be of interest to people looking for information about how open source databases can be used at massive scales, approaches to federated data, and general open source success case studies.

Speakers

Christopher Travers

Database Administrator Adjust, GmbH

Chris Travers has been working with PostgreSQL since 1999 in various forms, is the author of multiple pieces of software using or extending that database system in areas from financial accounting programs to bridges that allow one to query MaxMind MMDB files from PostgreSQL.

Today he works as a database administrator at Adjust GmbH where he administers a data environment of over 400TB in size.

     

Training room 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Database


Open Source database services in the cloud
Open Source database services in the cloud (14:30 - 14:55)

About the session

Following the first wave of cloud adoption, moving from private data centers and on-premises hosting to cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS and GCP, we're now seeing a second wave of adoption where self-managed and operated database and messaging services are being replaced by managed cloud database services like RDS.Many of the most popular and longstanding Open Source database systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL are available in these Database-as-a-Service platforms.  However, newer technologies used used for building scalable data pipelines are commonly proprietary, locking you into a single cloud provider and out of the vast Open Source innovation ecosystem.We'll look into into their Open Source alternatives, such as Apache Kafka and ScyllaDB and compare them with their proprietary cloud service counterparts.

Speakers

Oskari Saarenmaa

CEO Aiven

I'm the CEO and one of the founders of Aiven, a next-generation managed cloud services company offering the best Open Source database and messaging products as fully-managed services to businesses around the world.I've previously founded and managed a couple of software development agencies and worked as a software architect designing secure, large-scale database systems.

       

Training room 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:30 - 14:55

  •  
  • Database


Statistical Analysis in PostgreSQL with PL/R
Statistical Analysis in PostgreSQL with PL/R (15:00 - 15:25)

About the session

PL/R is a PostgreSQL extension that allows the use of R from within PostgreSQL for advanced analytics in a simple, efficient, and controlled manner. It has been available and actively maintained since January 2003. PL/R works with all supported versions of PostgreSQL, and all recent versions of R. It is used by thousands of people worldwide.

Recent trends in big data favor bringing the analytics closer to the data – meanwhile PL/R has been quietly providing this service for over 15 years! This presentation will introduce the audience to PL/R, discuss the pros and cons of this approach to data analysis, take them through basic usage, and finally illustrate its power with a few advanced examples.

Speakers

Joe Conway

VP PostgreSQL Engineering Crunchy Data Solutions

Joe Conway is an innovative leader with broad experience in a wide array of disciplines and extensive international business exposure. He has been involved with the PostgreSQL community since 1998, presently as a PostgreSQL Committer, Major Contributor, and Infrastructure Team member. He is also the author and maintainer of a PostgreSQL procedural language handler for the R language, PL/R. Joe is currently VP PostgreSQL Engineering at Crunchy Data Solutions and a Board Member at the United States PostgreSQL Association (PgUS).

     

Training room 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 15:00 - 15:25

  •  
  • Database


Breaking through with MySQL 8.0
Breaking through with MySQL 8.0 (17:00 - 17:25)

About the session

It's that time again to push the boundaries of MySQL technology further. MySQL 8.0 is fully packed with tons of features with many of them are based on our community feedback & contributions.  Data dictionary, better security, better optimizer, better replication, and so on.  This session will talk about these exciting major improvements that promised to help you breaking through.  

Speakers

Ricky Setyawan

Principal Sales Consultant Oracle

Ricky Setyawan has been in the IT industry for 18 years with the good last 16 years working as RDBMS specialist. He is currently MySQL Principal Sales Consultant for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Pakistan. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a Principal DBA doing database design and management on Oracle and DB2 on RedHat Linux on continuous availability server. He has been working on a number of  RDBMS throughout his career such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL.

   

Training room 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 17:00 - 17:25

  •  
  • Database


The MySQL universe in 2018
The MySQL universe in 2018 (17:30 - 17:55)

About the session

MySQL is unique in many ways. It supports plugins. It supports storage engines. It is also owned by Oracle, thus birthing a branch (Percona Server) and a fork (MariaDB). You're a busy DBA having to maintain a mix of this. Or you're a CIO planning to choose one branch. How do you go about picking? Supporting multiple databases? Find out more in this talk with a special focus on MySQL 8.0 and MariaDB Server 10.3 (which comes with Oracle compatibility functions). Learn what others are doing (including popular projects like cPanel). See where people are migrating. And decide on what to use for the next 24 months!

Speakers

Colin Charles

Chief Evangelist Percona

Colin Charles is the Chief Evangelist at Percona. He was previously on the founding team of MariaDB Server in 2009, and had worked at MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within open source communities in APAC, and has spoken at many conferences.

     

Training room 2-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 17:30 - 17:55

  •  
  • Database


Training room 2-2
Open Event Server: Decoupling and Demystifying
Open Event Server: Decoupling and Demystifying (09:30 - 09:55)

About the session

I am going to talk about why and how we moved from a single flask application to a decoupled application having separate API endpoints and frontend. I would also go through the entire server side codebase and explain how exactly to use the API endpoints.

Speakers

Saptak Sengupta

Software Developer Zomato

Developer and enthusiast who weirdly loves frontend development as much as he loves backend development. Working mainly in python, javascript, and PHP. Have been contributing to various open source organizations like FOSSASIA, jQuery, etc. Loves fiddling around with devops and infrastructure stuff.
       

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 09:30 - 09:55

  •  
  • Open Event Solutions


Convention over Configuration: Open Event and JSON API
Convention over Configuration: Open Event and JSON API (10:00 - 10:25)

About the session

Learn more about how the open event project uses JSON API, a specification for building APIs. JSON API follows the ‘Convention over Configuration’ philosophy. Aside from a brief introduction to the revamped architecture of the open event project, the talk will also discuss best practices followed for building APIs and URI conventions followed throughout the project. The talk will also shed some light on the challenges faced while implementing JSON API with Flask.

Speakers

Shubham Padia

Developer FOSSASIA

Full-stack developer with experience in Python and JS. Open source enthusiast and a core contributor to the Open Event project. Google Summer of Code ‘17 under FOSSASIA. Areas of interest include Deep learning and NLP with a special interest in Word Vectors.

       

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:00 - 10:25

  •  
  • Open Event Solutions


Data Handling in Open Event Frontend with EmberJS
Data Handling in Open Event Frontend with EmberJS (10:30 - 10:55)

About the session

Open Event Frontend is the new frontend project for eventyay. The talk will be focused on

  • Introduction to the new frontend
  • The best practices used in the project
  • Data handling in ember js
  • How we over came critical issues during the development
  • How to start contributing to project

Speakers

Dilpreet Singh

Web developer FOSSASIA

Dilpreet is a developer & an entrepreneur. He is an active open source contributors. He has worked with FOSSASIA as a student developer for GSoC 2017 & GCI mentor for open event project. He loves solving problems using technology. 
       

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:30 - 10:55

  •  
  • Open Event Solutions


How Ember JS empowers open event frontend
How Ember JS empowers open event frontend (11:00 - 11:25)

About the session

With the development of the API server for the Open Event project we needed to decide which framework to choose for the new Open Event front-end. With the plethora of javascript frameworks available, it got really difficult to decide, which one is actually the right choice. Every month a new framework arrives, and the existing ones keep actively updating themselves often. We decided to go with Ember.js. This talk will cover the emberJS framework and highlight its advantages over others and  demonstrate its usefulness with some code snippets and UI screenshots,  as well as  show the hands on advantage by comparing it with the way the previous frontend was structured and the extremely efficient usage of resources using json api. 

Speakers

Abhinav Khare

Developer FOSSASIA

I am an undergraduate pursuing CS major at Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad. I have been active in the open source community since I began college. I have been contributing to FOSSASIA since 2016, and worked on Open Event Frontend as my Google Summer Of Code 2017 Project.  I am mentoring students for Google Code In in FOSSASIA, and contribute as an advanced developer !    

   

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 11:00 - 11:25

  •  
  • Open Event Solutions


Setting up Open Event Frontend and Open Event Server locally
Setting up Open Event Frontend and Open Event Server locally (11:30 - 11:55)

About the session

In GSoC 2017, we in a team worked together and built the Open Event Frontend which is totally decoupled from the Open Event Server. Since Open Event is a vast ecosystem, we need to ensure that each and every contributor can set up the project locally for development and can proceed faster towards contribution. Thus, it sometimes gets difficult for beginners to set up the project. In this session, I will show how to set up Open Event Frontend and Open Event Server locally and make the frontend use the local server rather than online hosted version (heroku) so that new contributors can focus on contribution rather than spending their much time in setting up the project.

Speakers

Sumedh Nimkarde

Developer FOSSASIA

I am a third-year Computer Engineering undergrad student at National Institute of Technology, Surat, India. I love to build things which make people's lives easier and find technology solutions to real life problems. I work on full-stack and I was Google Summer of Code 2017 student with FOSSASIA. Currently I am mentoring Google Code-in and Codeheat students under FOSSASIA.

       

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 11:30 - 11:55

  •  
  • Open Event Solutions


Ruqola, a Qt/QML interface to rocket.chat
Ruqola, a Qt/QML interface to rocket.chat (13:00 - 13:25)

About the session

Ruqola is a Qt interface to Rocket Chat, with a library implementing DDP semantics, and a QML UI for both desktop and mobile phones. The application is a QML/C++/Qt app, thus providing multi-platform portability.

Meteor, or MeteorJS, is a Free and Open Source JavaScript web framework written using Node.js. Meteor produces cross-platform (Android, iOS, Web) code. Rocket Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor framework. In Ruqola application, DDPClient class implements Meteor's DDP and Rocketchat backend class uses this "library" to pull in rocket chat data.

Speakers

Vasudha

Contributor KDE

I'm a final year student at Delhi Technological University. An open source enthusiast and always eager to learn new things. I participated as a Google Summer Of Code 2017 student with KDE organization. I also received Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In Tech India Scholarship this year. Currently I'm contributing to open-source projects and mentoring juniors to get started with open-source.

       

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:00 - 13:25

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


StopStalk: Tool to analyse and improve your Competitive Programming progress
StopStalk: Tool to analyse and improve your Competitive Programming progress (13:30 - 13:55)

About the session

Since the launch of the website, there has been an increased traction about the concept amongst the competitive programmers that StopStalk (https://www.stopstalk.com/) has provided to them. StopStalk not only helps in analysing your own competitive programming progress but also helps to code and learn collectively with your friends. Along with the features that are provided on StopStalk I want to discuss the implementation details that are going on in the background to serve the beautified data on the website. The code is completely open source on Github https://github.com/stopstalk/stopstalk-deployment. 

Also want to portray how the processing of data is done as the size of the dataset is tremendous and increasing day by day.

Speakers

Raj Patel

Founder StopStalk

I am a Software Engineer at present employed at BrowserStack. I created an Open Source Project and is live for about 2 years now and I would like to talk about it. The website's name is StopStalk (https://www.stopstalk.com) which is basically a utility product for Competitive programmers to help them analyse their progress along with do a healthy competitive learning by getting inspired from other fellow programmers.

   

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:30 - 13:55

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Animation in DOM
Animation in DOM (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

In this session, Keya looks at how animations can be applied to add style and substance to any webpage and how we can identify some common design patterns to add purposeful animations to our designs.

There are a  plethora of development tools available today, from declarative CSS Animations and Transitions to fully featured JavaScript animation libraries like GreenSock to develop slick animations, but there's an upcoming new option: the Web Animation API! 

Join in the fun as Keya demonstrates how simple animated micro interactions can be developed with ease using this new API combined with popular frameworks like React.

Speakers

Keya Desai

Senior Software Consultant Thoughtworks

   

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Getting started with nodeJS + graphQL
Getting started with nodeJS + graphQL (14:30 - 14:55)

About the session

The growth in the development of applications using open source APIs and frameworks has created complexity with endless unmaintainable endpoints. This session will focus on my findings in building a NodeJS backend application which leverages on GraphQL and MongoDB as the database. GraphQL offers multiple functionalities in a single endpoint to communicate with front end services. In addition, I will share the advantages and disadvantages of GraphQL and how it is different from REST API. I hope this session will help you to get started in exploring this technology.

Speakers

Stella Widyasari

Consultant ThoughtWorks

 

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:30 - 14:55

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Journey towards Progressive Open Event Webapp
Journey towards Progressive Open Event Webapp (15:00 - 15:25)

About the session

Progressive Web Application is an effective way to serve the content without Internet Connection.

In events, meetups, and conferences like the FOSSASIA Summit, we aim to provide the event application to the attendees in all circumstances irrespective of the Internet speed. In this session, you will learn how we have started migrating our first version from a simple version of Open Event Web app to a Progressive Web App. The session will help you with a tool lighthouse to measure the performance of your progressive web application.It will help you to migrate your web application to a progressive web application.

The session will also provide you the guidelines to start contributing to Open Event Webapp. 

Speakers

Aayush Arora

Web Developer FOSSASIA

Aayush is a certified Frontend Developer and an advocate open source developer. He has worked with FOSSASIA on the project Open Event Web app as a GSOC student in 2016 and as a mentor in 2017. He is a founder of `Small-Start`, which is an initiative to promote open-source work. 

His major interest areas include Human Computer Interaction, Data Visualizations, and Data analytics.

       

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 15:00 - 15:25

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


The Django Tale
The Django Tale (15:30 - 15:55)

About the session

Developers are constantly searching for the best. They seek the best language to code in, the best tools to use, and they are always looking for what is at the forefront of development. Django as the web framework of your project is the best way to turn your idea into business reality. Perhaps you’ve heard of Instagram, Pinterest, Disqus, Rdio, OpenStack and BitBucket that use the Django framework. You could attend the talk to know more about Django and its applications.

PS - The talk could also be extended by hosting the Django app on the AWS (amazon web services)

Description

Django is a high-level Python framework which encourages rapid development, clean and pragmatic design focusing on automation which is widely supported by many deployment options. The talk would be all about a tale of building a budding crowdsourcing platform which was built using the Django framework.

Coders who are enthusiastic about web frameworks to build back-end servers.

Objective

The attendees would get close to the Django framework and know the use cases of the framework.

Along with this, they would know about a crowdsourcing platform which was built using Django.

Speakers

Raju Koushik Gorantla

Contributor nexB Inc. California

Raju Koushik is an undergraduate from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara, India pursuing Information Technology. Google Summer of Code Developer 2017. Google CodeIn Mentor 2017. A hacker, coding enthusiast and a writer. A software developer building servers on Django and Flask and an entrepreneur working on his own startup Travel Diaries. An avid open source contributor lately working on Machine Learning and Information Retrieval. Former Software Engineer Intern at Invoxel Technologies Lmt and Curo Health Care Lmt. You can find him writing, reading or playing table tennis during his leisure time.

       

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 15:30 - 15:55

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Browser extensions - lets make one
Browser extensions - lets make one (16:00 - 16:25)

About the session

Browsers are built on very simple principle - "one fit that suits all". Addons/Extnesions are the thing that help us to personalize the browser as per our need.We use number of addons/extensions to make most of our browser. How about being on other side of table; lets create one.Webextensions APIs are here to convert us(Javascript developers) to addon/extension developers. Javascript mixed with Webextensions APIs empower us to modify our browsers to suit as per our need. Adding to awesomeness, not only for one browser but same code that can be deployed on Firefox, Chrome, Opera with minimal or no changes. In this session,  we will be learning how to develop portable addons/extensions using javascript. One can learn how to use features of browser such as Notifications, Tab capture, HTTP request handling, Toolbar buttons via addon etc. Also I will be giving a hands-on demo of creating an addon right in the session and deploying it in the browser. By the end of session, audience will be empowered enough to command their browser to perform tasks as per their wish, may be throwing notification to drink water after every hour. By this session, I look forward to increase the circle of addons/extensions developers so as to make browsers great.

Speakers

Trishul Goel

Frontend Developer Iomedia

Trishul is a professional frontend developer; writes React code for living and volunteers for Mozilla to justify his existence. He is an expert in developing browser extensions.You may know him for his Measure-it extension with 10K+ users. He also creates Youtube tutorial videos, to help developers to understand various Webextension APIs.
     

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 16:00 - 16:25

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Creating Contextual App Experiences
Creating Contextual App Experiences (16:30 - 16:55)

About the session

User context and their interactions with the nearby world play a vital role in creating a magnificent user experience. Instant awareness of the nearby surroundings can be an amazing way to understand the users and their behaviors. The emerging new technologies like Google's Awareness and Nearby APIs, Beacons, NFC cards and WiFi signals have opened up a sea of possibilities for developing magical user experiences.

This talk will encompass the importance of user context, Eddystone beacons, Google's Nearby and Awareness APIs; and examples of some of the experiences you can build with them. It will also cover ways to understand user behavior and customisation based on user actions eventually resulting in user retention. 

Speakers

Prabhanshu Attri

Founder Bytewalkers

Prabhanshu Attri is an open source enthusiast, a product developer, and a growth hacker. Until recently, he was working at Zomato as Software Development Engineer. He is also an RGSoC Mentor, IEEE CS Richard E Merwin Scholar and Former Summer Research Intern at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

       

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 16:30 - 16:55

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Importance Of OAuth2 and Implemeting OAuth2 Standards In Drupal
Importance Of OAuth2 and Implemeting OAuth2 Standards In Drupal (17:00 - 17:25)

About the session

OAuth is a way of telling your Social Provider like Facebook. that they can share parts of your information (not everything) with other websites, without revealing your super duper secret password to these other websites. In other words, it's a way of providing permission which also includes authentication.

As Google Summer Of Project, I implemented OAuth2 Library "The League OAuth2" in modules of Drupal Social Initiative. We also released 2.x Version of these modules, which had streamlined authentication system, easily to implemented and were more secure. 

This talk will be based on why you should use protocol standards such as OAuth2 over traditional login based approach.

Speakers

Himanshu Dixit

Developer Drupal

I'm a Information Technology Engineering student. Currently Project Leader At Oppia, and Core Developer at Drupal. Open Source Enthusiast. Google Summer of Code'17 Student, Google Code-in Mentor 2017. Currently junior student from India with major in Information Technology. I lover to code and talk about the fascinating ideas.
       

Training room 2-2

Saturday, 24th Mar, 17:00 - 17:25

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Training room 4-1
SELinux Policy Development
SELinux Policy Development (10:00 - 10:55)

About the session

Hands-on workshop covering how to write SELinux policies for new applications as well as update existing policies. Will cover Reference Policy framework, more advanced policy analysis and tradeoffs with different ways to confine applications.

Speakers

Jason Zaman

Software Engineer Gentoo Linux

I'm a Gentoo Linux developer in the Hardened and SELinux projects. I maintain the SELinux policies and userland integration on gentoo.

       

Training room 4-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:00 - 10:55

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


Ethical Hacking
Ethical Hacking (10:55 - 11:05)

About the session

We are students from UWCSEA and we are the leaders of a group called Ethical Hacking wherein we nurture the interest of students in cybersecurity issues as well as learn about the cyber world and issues related to security. We have so far done CTFs and built servers and visited SUTD to learn more about this field and engage our understanding on the cyber world. 

Speakers

Team Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking Club - United World College Southeast Asia

 

Training room 4-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:55 - 11:05

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


Codifying Security and Modern Secrets Management
Codifying Security and Modern Secrets Management (11:05 - 11:55)

About the session

As the security landscape changes, especially in a cloud-based world, the biggest security threats shift away from physical machine access or VPN compromise toward emerging threats like improper software practices, social engineering attacks, or vulnerabilities in underlying libraries. This emerging threat model forces us to re-think traditional security practices in more modern and innovative approaches to intrusion detection and response.

This talk discusses the principles of modern security and how a free and open source tool - HashiCorp Vault - embodies and enforces the principles of modern security.

Speakers

Seth Vargo

Developer Advocate Google

Seth is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform primarily focusing on automation, devops, security, and startups. Previously Seth worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, and a few other startups. He is an O'Reilly author and advises non-profits in his spare time.

       

Training room 4-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 11:05 - 11:55

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


Building microservices with firefly!
Building microservices with firefly! (13:00 - 13:25)

About the session

firefly is an open source micro framework to deploy Python functions as web services. firefly was created with the aim of simplifying the deployment Machine Learning models as RESTful API. But as fate would have it, it became our favorite tool for building microservices. firefly takes care of processing the HTTP requests, forwarding the data to the python functions and encoding the result back to an HTTP request. It also has data validation, authentication support, transferring any type of file. You can also define a configuration file specifying the URL resource structure resulting in an elegant RESTful API.

It comes with a client library that makes calling remote functions calling as easy as calling functions present locally. It is a WSGI application and can be deployed and scaled through any WSGI server like gunicorn. There are many other features in the pipeline like multiple authentication modes through the plugin system.

This talk will focus on introducing firefly, it's notable features like plugin support, building microservices efficiently with various examples.

Speakers

Nabarun Pal

Platform Engineer rorodata

The speaker is Nabarun Pal, a final year undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Currently, he is working for rorodata which aims at providing data scientists a platform to build and deploy their models without the need of worrying about infrastructure, scalability, and performance. He is working on an Open Source Functions as a Service framework called firefly. He is passionate about software development. He can also talk about Internet of Things, Electronics, Robotics with equal spirit. His journey with the field of software and robotics started in his schooling days. He represents the college in various Robotics competitions and was involved in projects related to the above domains. He actively participates in conducting open lectures for students in the domains of Introductory Robotics, Control, AI and ML through a curated community of around 2000 members.

       

Training room 4-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:00 - 13:25

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Kompose - Moving from Docker Compose to Kubernetes
Kompose - Moving from Docker Compose to Kubernetes (13:30 - 13:55)

About the session

  • Kubernetes is a very powerful, flexible and production-grade container orchestration system. However, with flexibility comes complexity and thereby verbosity in constructs. It’s hard for a developer to define the Kubernetes configurations as there is a huge learning curve. Developers need something simple that can easily define their micro-services. Right now Docker Compose gets closest to solving this problem.

If your production runs Kubernetes, how do you remove the disparity between the development and production setups? How do we get developers using Docker Compose to use Kubernetes? How well does Docker Compose map to Kubernetes?

Enter Kompose to the rescue.  The Kompose tool generates Kubernetes native configs from their Docker Compose files.

My talk will explain how Kompose solves developer’s problems and demonstrate its different features during the live demo.

Speakers

Suraj Narwade

Associate Software Engineer Red Hat

Suraj Narwade is an open source enthusiast who contributes to the Kompose and the Kedge projects. He occasionally contributes to Kubernetes and Libcompose too. He is an active member of the local container-centric meetups in Bangalore and Pune, India.

As a software engineer at Red Hat, he works on tools that help developers build and deploy containerized applications. He recently presented his work at the DevOps Day 2017.

When not hacking containers, he can be seen hacking Alexa.

       

Training room 4-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:30 - 13:55

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Omnibus: Serve your dish on all the tables
Omnibus: Serve your dish on all the tables (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

Learn about how to serve your dish - the awesome application you created - to all the users who may be on different OSs. Don't worry about stuff breaking because of users having a different version of a library. They get everything they need to run your application - from needles to spaceships.    

Speakers

Balasankar C

Build Engineer GitLab

  • Debian Developer
  • Junior Build Engineer at GitLab
  • GNOME Foundation Member
  • Mozillian
  • Administrator, Malayalam Wikisource
  • Administrator, Free Software Community of India
       

Training room 4-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Gotchas using Terraform in a secure delivery pipeline
Gotchas using Terraform in a secure delivery pipeline (14:30 - 15:25)

About the session

Terraform allows developers to manage infrastructure resources in a rather predictable way but it is not always that easy. Let’s walk through real-life challenges when building secure delivery pipeline using Terraform and open-source tools on AWS.

Speakers

Anton Babenko

CEO Betajob

Anton is a fully certified in all 5 AWS professional certifications and has been working as web-developer, team lead, and CTO during his career. He has strong interests in automation, infrastructure management and exploring ways to do it properly and as risk-free as possible. Anton is an active member of open-source communities and a maintainer of verified Terraform AWS modules (850K downloads a month!). He also leads AWS and HashiCorp User Groups meetups in Norway, organizes DevOpsDays Oslo, and speaks often at various technical meetups and conferences. Last year he was a technical reviewer of the first ever printed book about Terraform.
       

Training room 4-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 14:30 - 15:25

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Docker Pipeline for Reproducible Research
Docker Pipeline for Reproducible Research (15:30 - 16:25)

About the session

Datakind Singapore has been using docker to help in reproducing environments that were used during DataDive events. A DataDive is a weekend long event where non-profit organizations work alongside data science volunteers, developers and designers to analyze data to gain insight into their programs, the communities they serve and more.     

Apart from versioning the files/scripts that we used for analysis, we also version the environments where we ran such scripts. In this session, I'll be sharing the Docker Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline/conventions we use in DataKind Singapore to promote reproducibility.     

If you have time, I encourage you to watch the talk I gave last year:   

https://engineers.sg/video/datalearn-docker-for-reproducible-research-datakind-sg--1468     

It focused on the basics of docker and how we're planning to leverage it in an upcoming DataKind event.   

         

In this FOSSAsia worskhop, I'll focus and share more on our Continuous Integration (CI) setup.   

i.e. how to setup the dockerfile and related environment files in github and how to leverage quay.io for continuous integration.   

       

If you want to follow along during the workshop,    

I recommend creating accounts in advance in the following platforms:   

https://github.com 

https://quay.io 

https://labs.play-with-docker.com/            

For the hands-on, I'll go through the following:     

1. Setting up dockerfile in github (for a sample jupyter notebook)     

2. How to setup quay.io for triggered docker builds     

3. How to consume docker images from quay.io   

     

Who is DataKind?   

DataKind is a non-profit organization which seeks to harness the power of data science in the service of humanity. Founded in New York in 2011, DataKind has since started chapters in UK, Singapore, Bangalore, San Francisco Bay Area, Washington DC and Dublin. Our DataKind Singapore chapter was founded in Aug 2014, and our goal is to connect data science volunteers with non-profit organizations to help them analyze their data for good.

Speakers

Paul Amazona

Core Volunteer Developer DataKind

Paul is a C#.NET developer working in an investment bank.     

Outside work, he's a core volunteer with DataKind Singapore helping to organize events and engage volunteers in using data science with non-profit organizations.

He also speaks/shares in .NET/Azure and Python user groups.

       

Training room 4-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 15:30 - 16:25

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Introduction to Google Cloud with Python
Introduction to Google Cloud with Python (16:30 - 16:55)

About the session

The workshop will proceed as follows:

  1. Introduction to Python
  2. Setting up Python environment
  3. Introduction to Google Cloud
  4. Setting up GCloud SDK
  5. Installing GCloud packages for python
  6. Writing a sample gcloud application
  7. How to run an instance (Debian VM) on gcloud
  8. Introduction to Image Processing and OCR
  9. Image Processing and OCR using Compute Engine

Speakers

Jackson Isaac

Developer and Org Admin for GSoC The MacPorts Project

Big Data Developer Tata Consultancy Services

Alumnus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India and TU München, Germany.

Google Summer of Code 2017 Organization Admin and 2015 Student Developer with The MacPorts Project.

Developer by profession and student by heart.

Data Science and AI enthusiast.

He is currently working on Big Data, Machine Learning, Image Processing and Cloud based projects.

       

Training room 4-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 16:30 - 16:55

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Sail smoothly in the Cloud - An introduction to Istio
Sail smoothly in the Cloud - An introduction to Istio (17:00 - 17:25)

About the session

The first generation of microservices was primarily shaped by Netflix OSS and leveraged by numerous Spring Cloud annotations all throughout your business logic. The next generation of microservices will leverage sidecars and a service mesh. In this session, we will give you a taste of Envoy and Istio, two open source projects that will change the way you write distributed, cloud native, Java applications on Kubernetes. Traffic shaping, network fault-injection, A/B testing, dark launches and much more

Speakers

Kamesh Sampath

Director of Developer Experience Red Hat India

Kamesh is currently Red Hat’s Director of Developer Experience, most part of Kamesh’s career was with services industry helping various customers build Java based solutions. Kamesh is the creator of vertx-maven-plugin(https://vmp.fabric8.io) and he has been an active contributor to fabric8 project. Being a OpenSource developer and contributor Kamesh's loves sharing his experience on building and deploying Java Applications on Kubernetes/OpenShift. He still loves to learn new technologies and strongly believe in “ITS BETTER TO SHARE”.

       

Training room 4-1

Saturday, 24th Mar, 17:00 - 17:25

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Training room 4-3
Open Build Service in Debian
Open Build Service in Debian (10:00 - 10:25)

About the session

Abstract

It is impressive how much time and resources a team can save by using the OBS to manages their packages creation and distribution. OBS is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. 

Andrew Lee will cover the benefits of using OBS, explain some of it features and workflow for all your packaging and releasing needs, like automatically build package from scratch on multiple target distros and architectures, easy access through QA to the developer's repo to generate new images with the changes for testing before integration into the production repo, vcs-like workflow as branch code, send merge requests and review submissions and flexible to connect additional resources to empower the backend worker(builders) even with different architectures. At the end tips on how to setup and optimize OBS will be provided.

Audience

The audience is anyone who interested in packaging and distribution development. Attendees can expect to learn how this tool can save your time and resources at a team work environment. And how to setup and optimize this tool as an infrastructure into your development framework and much more.

Benefits to the Ecosystem

This presentation will help existing and new software projects and independent software vendors better understand how to use morden infrastructure to maintain your packages and repositories for multiple distributions and architectures collaboratively. And will hopefully encourage more software projects and independent software vendors to use such infrastructure to provide repositories for user to keep track their updates easily, and for developers to collaboratively work and contribute easily to the packages and repositories.

Speakers

李健秋 Andrew Lee

Software Engineer Collabora

  • Andrew Lee (Hualian, Taiwan) – an active Open Source Liaison focusing on the Debian and LXDE Projects. He worked on localization efforts of various kinds of local dialects and aborigines languages in Taiwan.
  • He created various localization related packages in Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian distros, and also creates and maintains packages in Debian for LXDE project.
  • Andrew Lee works as a software developer in the Build and Infrastructure team at Collabora and has more than 5 years of experience working with the Open Build Service(OBS) building both rpm and deb format packages and distribution creations for many different projects and clients. He is now making an efforts on packaging OBS in Debian distro.
 

Training room 4-3

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:00 - 10:25

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


Open Build Service in Debian (workshop)
Open Build Service in Debian (workshop) (10:30 - 11:25)

About the session

Open Build Service (OBS) is packaged in Debian. In this workshop we intend to run over different configuration options and example cases to be able to manage several distributions with OBS. This is an extention (workshop) for the OBS in Debian presentation.

Speakers

Héctor Orón Martínez

Senior Engineer Collabora

Role in FOSS (hats):

  • Software build and integration senior engineer at Collabora Ltd.

Debian Developer:

  • Debian ARM build daemon maintainer
  • Debian ARM porter and package maintainer
  • Debian System Administrator
  • Embedded Debian Developer
 

Training room 4-3

Saturday, 24th Mar, 10:30 - 11:25

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


Learn C from the trenches
Learn C from the trenches (13:00 - 14:55)

About the session

C is still by far the most popular programming language deployed around the world. The Linux kernel and most of a modern day Linux platform are built on C. It is the lingua franca we have, and knowing how to use it is useful for getting into Kernel work, Embedded, middleware and much more.

This workshop will cover the groundwork for C in a practical way, so you can use it to do something useful. C is actually a rather simple language and the trick is simply to think like a machine does.

Learn from someone with over 20 years of experience, and get started on what is still, despite its faults, a long-standing tool for creating operating systems and devices. This will be intended for people who have some familiarity with a programming language, but would like to learn the lower levels for the speed and access that come with it.

Bring a laptop and your favorite Linux distribution if you want to participate.

Speakers

Carsten Haitzler

Master Engineer Samsung Electronics

Worked in the Linux and open source world industries for 20 years in several countries on all sides of the globe, has contributed to several open source projects and is best known for founding the Enlightenment window manager project and having written lots of graphics related code for X11. That's 20 years of programming mostly in C and assembly on top of Linux, shipping in 100+ million devices around the globe.

   

Training room 4-3

Saturday, 24th Mar, 13:00 - 14:55

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


Sunday, 25th Mar
 
00:00
00:15
00:30
00:45
01:00
01:15
01:30
01:45
02:00
02:15
02:30
02:45
03:00
03:15
03:30
03:45
04:00
04:15
04:30
04:45
05:00
05:15
05:30
05:45
06:00
06:15
06:30
06:45
07:00
07:15
07:30
07:45
08:00
08:15
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
09:30
09:45
10:00
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
12:45
13:00
13:15
13:30
13:45
14:00
14:15
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
15:30
15:45
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
17:00
17:15
17:30
17:45
Event Hall 1-1
VideoLAN booth
VideoLAN booth (00:00 - 00:00)

About the session

NOTE: Primarily a booth proposal.

VLC 3.0 is (should be by March) finally out. This summarizes the well overdue new features, and explores potential future directions for this well-known open-source project.

Speakers

Remi Denis-Courmont

Senior Software Engineer - VideoLAN

Long-time VLC developer and open-source contributor

   

Sunday, 25th Mar, 00:00 - 00:00

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Dirty Clouds Done Dirt Cheap
Dirty Clouds Done Dirt Cheap (10:00 - 10:25)

About the session

I've wanted to build a small cloud at home for some time, mostly to serve as a testbed for my development projects. But also as a platform to virtualize my growing home infrastructure. So I allocated a budget of ~$1500 USD (the price of my first desktop computer) and set out to build a cloud using OpenStack. OpenStack is an open source cloud ecosystem designed to provide users with programmable open infrastructure. It  is used to power some massive private cloud deployments. But, how does it work for an individual wanting to deploy a cloud with their own resources? This talk will provide an overview of my experience building a small compute cloud from scratch, on essentially a shoestring budget; from hardware acquisition, through installation and configuration of the cloud, to my use cases for the cloud. This will serve as an introduction to OpenStack and getting started with it and will also cover the potential benefits you can get by having your own cloud at home.

Speakers

Matthew Treinish

Open Source Developer Advocate IBM

Matthew has been working on and contributing to Open Source software for most of his career. He has been primarily contributing to OpenStack since 2012 and is a former member of the OpenStack TC (Technical Committee) and was previously the PTL (project technical lead) of the OpenStack community's QA program from OpenStack's Juno development cycle in 2014 through the Mitaka development cycle in 2016. He is a core contributor for several OpenStack projects and a member of the OpenStack Stable Maintenance Team. Matthew currently works for IBM's Developer Advocacy team working to make Open Source software better for everyone. He has previously been a speaker at OpenStack summits, linux.conf.au, LinuxCons Japan, China, and North America, Open Source Summit EU, OpenWest, FOSSASIA, PyConAU's OpenStack miniconf.

     

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:00 - 10:25

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


How Glints Built a Review Apps System with Rancher
How Glints Built a Review Apps System with Rancher (10:30 - 10:55)

About the session

Rancher is an open source project that provides a complete platform for running Docker in production. Using Rancher, organizations can run Rancher in a provider agnostic fashion, running workloads across different cloud providers and even bare metal setups. Glints, the platform for young people to discover their careers, has been running Rancher in production since 2015. In this talk, I'll be going through Rancher's primary use cases for Glints and how Rancher's flexibility has allowed us to iterate quickly.

Speakers

Wong Yong Jie

Technical Lead Glints

       

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:30 - 10:55

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Running OpenStack in Containers
Running OpenStack in Containers (11:00 - 11:25)

About the session

OpenStack is the most widely used open source cloud operating system these days. It provides Infrastructure as a Service for creating your own public and private cloud in house. It is easy to install and provide VMs for use cases. It contains many various services catering to different needs. These services used to run as systemctl processes. With the recent OpenStack Pike release, these services are run inside container. In this session, I will talk about one such OpenStack project called Kolla which plays an important role in this enablement. I will also talk about OpenStack installer called TripleO, How it deploys containerized overcloud, its interaction with Kolla, Puppet, and other OpenStack services and advantages of containerizing OpenStack.

Speakers

Janki Chhatbar

Software Engineer Red Hat

Janki is an open source enthusiast working as software engineer in Red Hat in OpenStack and OpenDaylight. In her spare time, she writes about recent technologies on simplyexplainedblog.wordpress.com. She is also the founder of Women Who Code Pune chapter and serves as its director.
       

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:00 - 11:25

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Delivering a bleeding edge community-led openstack distribution: RDO
Delivering a bleeding edge community-led openstack distribution: RDO (11:30 - 11:55)

About the session

OpenStack is complex with lots of services and choices to deploy your own cloud in any fashion.

Deploying OpenStack from sources is hard. RDO is an OpenStack community distribution for RHEL/CentOS and friends.

RDO make it possible by delivering latest RPM packages with the help of different deployment tools by chasing trunk through different CI/CD with in days from upstream release.

In this talk, we will be talking about:

* A little history about RDO

* How we used to release vanilla OpenStack 2 years back.

* How we reached two days time frame on releasing RDO after upstream openstack releases through different CI/CD and proper testing.

* How Ansible and Upstream OpenStack tools (zuul, gerrit, nodepool, ARA, CentOS Infra, software factory) made it possible?

* Making OpenStack usable to work out of the box through Tripleo, Puppet, Kolla CI

* Making it easy for installers to test against latest upstream code so that they can

 Get released shortly after the services.

* How we are making OpenStack better through RDO?

* How you can also contribute in making it better?

Speakers

Chandan Kumar

Software Engineer Red Hat

I am currently working as a Software Engineer in Red Hat (India) on RDO and OpenStack project.

I am one of the Organizer of Python Pune meetup as well as coordinator of dgplug.

 

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:30 - 11:55

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


A DevOps State of Mind with Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes
A DevOps State of Mind with Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes (13:00 - 13:25)

About the session

Rapid innovation, changing business landscapes, and new IT demands force businesses to make changes quickly.  In the eyes of many, containers are at the brink of becoming a pervasive technology in Enterprise IT to accelerate Microservices delivery.  In this presentation, you'll learn about the

           • The transformation of IT to a DevOps, Microservices, and Container based Architecture

           • What are containers and how DevOps practices can operate in a Microservices based environment

           • How Kubernetes can reduce software delivery cycle times, drive automation, and increase efficiency

           • How other organizations are using DevOps + Containers with Microservices and how to replicate their success 

Also, a demonstration of automated container based Microservices builds and pipelines, running Jenkins CI on Kubernetes, and continuous deployments of containerized Microservices with Kubernetes.

Speakers

Chris Van Tuin

Chief Technologist Red Hat

Chris is the Chief Technologist at Red Hat. He has 20+ years of experience in Sales Engineering and Services at Red Hat, Intel, Loudcloud, and Linux startups.

     

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:00 - 13:25

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


A DevOps State of Mind: Continuous Security with Kubernetes
A DevOps State of Mind: Continuous Security with Kubernetes (13:25 - 13:50)

About the session

With the rise of DevOps, containers are at the brink of becoming a pervasive technology in Enterprise IT to accelerate application delivery for the business. When it comes to adopting containers in the enterprise, Security is the highest adoption barrier. Is your organization ready to address the security risks with containers for your DevOps environment? 

In this presentation, you'll learn about:

- The top security risks with containers and how to manage theses risks at scale including Images, Builds, Registry, Deployment, Hosts, Network, Storage, APIs, Monitoring/Logging, Federation.

- How to make your Container enabled DevOps workflow more secure without slowing down your CI/CD pipeline

- Automating security vulnerability management and compliance checking for container images

Also, a demo of Kubernetes managing the container image lifecycle, automating container security scans, and deployment strategies for security updates at scale including Canary, Blue/Green deployments and A/B testing.

Speakers

Chris Van Tuin

Chief Technologist Red Hat

Chris is the Chief Technologist at Red Hat. He has 20+ years of experience in Sales Engineering and Services at Red Hat, Intel, Loudcloud, and Linux startups.

     

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:25 - 13:50

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Terminal CUI/CLI software again
Terminal CUI/CLI software again (13:50 - 14:09)

About the session

Most of the people really like GUI, WebUI, smartphone application such as Thunderbird, Gerrit, Slack, etc. I think they are really fancy and cool. However, it sometimes requires complicated operation with a mouse, swipe and taps. Moreover, it's a bit difficult to tell how to operate to the others. To do so, we need a lot of screenshots of that application. It makes our productivity low. So, instead of that, there are a lot of CUI/CLI tools as alternatives. They are really simple but powerful and fast. In this session, audience can see the benefit of CUI/CLI tools. And, as a developer, making a fancy GUI application is really hard. We actually have a lot of options not only using GUI applications but also CUI/CLI ones. I really love CUI/CLI applications recently. Because it's simple, fast, lightweight and can be operated with only a keyboard not mouse. In this talk, I'll give some example GUI and CUI/CLI apps and talk about its pros/cons.

Speakers

Masayuki Igawa

Senior Software Engineer SUSE

Masayuki Igawa is a software engineer for over 20 years on a wide range of software projects, and developing open source software related to Linux kernel and virtualization. He's been an active technical contributor to OpenStack since the Grizzly release. He is a core member of some OpenStack QA projects such as Tempest, subunit2sql, openstack-health and stackviz. He currently works for HPE to make Upstream OpenStack better for everyone. He has previously been a speaker at OpenStack Summits, LinuxCons Japan and the other open source related conference events.

       

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:50 - 14:09

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Comparison of FOSS Kubernetes clusters management/deployment tools
Comparison of FOSS Kubernetes clusters management/deployment tools (14:10 - 14:30)

About the session

Kubernetes(k8s) is the most popular and famous container orchestration software these days. And we can use it through Kubernetes as a Services such as GKE, EKS, etc on public clouds. However, I love FOSS! So, I'd like to use it on my machine (I call this my "private" cloud) as possible :) Fortunately, there are so many k8s FOSS cluster management/deployment tools recently such as OpenStack Magnum, Mesos DC/OS, Rancher, etc.. We can use them as alternatives.

In this talk, attendees will get to know "what is Kubernetes?", "how do we deploy it?", "What's the difference between the k8s FOSS management tools?" and their pros and cons.

Speakers

Masayuki Igawa

Senior Software Engineer SUSE

Masayuki Igawa is a software engineer for over 20 years on a wide range of software projects, and developing open source software related to Linux kernel and virtualization. He's been an active technical contributor to OpenStack since the Grizzly release. He is a core member of some OpenStack QA projects such as Tempest, subunit2sql, openstack-health and stackviz. He currently works for HPE to make Upstream OpenStack better for everyone. He has previously been a speaker at OpenStack Summits, LinuxCons Japan and the other open source related conference events.

       

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:10 - 14:30

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Introduction to Virtual Kubelet
Introduction to Virtual Kubelet (14:30 - 14:55)

About the session

Kubernetes has won the orchestration war but now how-to developers build production ready code with Kubernetes? Standalone Kubernetes still requires a layer of management and Kubernetes alone isn’t the answer developers are looking for. 

Times are changing - Virtual Machines are too slow, too heavy weight and frankly expensive for some customers workloads. This is where containers fill the gap for flexibility, scalability, light-weight infrastructure matched with a per-second billing model, customers get exactly what they pay for. You could run a container on a VM - but this is a huge waste of “space” when you think about how much compute you actually need versus the amount of time you are running the job for. Azure Container Instances and other pods as a service platforms like Hyper.sh or Fargate from Amazon, is the story for flexible billing, instant compute power and efficiency within the cloud. Now customers can provision as many light weight containers as they want and have fast start up times with one command. This changes the game for deploying infrastructure. Developers have an easier job of provisioning and deploying their infrastructure and only have to worry about their direct customer interactions and content, with their applications.

Speakers

Ria Bhatia

Program Manager Microsoft

Ria Bhatia is a Program Manager within Microsoft Azure. She is a maintainer of the new open source project Virtual Kubelet. In tandem with the community of Kubernetes she is creating and designing a world where developers don't have to think about the underlying infrastructure to their applications. Instead they can focus on building containerized apps and deploy them directly to the cloud. Along with driving progress of Virtual Kubelet in the community, she’s also driving first class "nodeless" experience for customers using AKS, our managed Kubernetes offering. Ria has spoken at Kubernetes, and Docker meet-ups in San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver. She has a youtube channel for developers in the Kubernetes space. The channel is called "devops & socks." Before working full-time at Microsoft, she was completing a B.S. in Computer Science at Penn State.

       

James Kulina

Chief Operating Officer Hyper.sh

James Kulina is currently Chief Operating Officer at Hyper.sh, a pioneering startup developing open serverless container technology to enable an easy to use multi-cloud Container-as-a-Service platform. Prior to Hyper.sh, James worked at Red Hat in the OpenStack product group focusing on devops solutions. Prior to Red Hat, James worked at Paris based Openstack professional services startup eNovance, which was acquired by Red Hat in 2014. Prior to eNovance, James worked at AT&T in variety of managerial and technical roles within cloud and network services business units.

     

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:30 - 14:55

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Serverless Computing
Serverless Computing (15:00 - 15:25)

About the session

Serverless or FaaS (Functions as a Service) is the latest cloud technology to be rapidly gaining adoption, largely popularized by AWS Lambda, allowing even faster time to deployment with minimal investment.  The name Serverless refers to the fact that developers are not concerned with underlying infrastructure decisions required to deploy, maintain and scale their application - these functions are handled by the platform itself.  Developers only need to provide application code and application level configuration.

In this talk we’ll provide an overview of the various hosted Serverless platforms and how to use them to deploy applications directly or using 3rd-party tools.  We’ll also look at the choices of open source platforms providing more choice for on-premise or cloud hosted Serverless infrastructure with application examples.  The goal is to highlight the advantages/disadvantages of the various approaches .

Speakers

Michael Bright

Developer Evangelist Containous

Michael Bright is Developer Evangelist for the Traefik reverse-proxy/load-balancer, working for Containous France.

Passionate about Serverless, Containers, Container Orchestration and Unikernels!

British, living in Grenoble, France for 25 years.

I run local Python and Docker User Groups, am passionate about Cloud technologies including Serverless, Docker/K8s, Unikernels and OpenStack.

Married to Paulina, my Chilean wife, I enjoy running, cycling, Salsa, Tango and holidaying in Chile !

       

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 15:00 - 15:25

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Orchestrating Continuous Integration through Containers
Orchestrating Continuous Integration through Containers (15:30 - 15:55)

About the session

Case study on continuous integration (CI) pipeline for managing software distributions to build real life products. In this study, it shall be discussed how containerized FOSS tools can help on the project life cycle to bring products into market.

Speakers

Héctor Orón Martínez

Senior Engineer Collabora

Role in FOSS (hats):

  • Software build and integration senior engineer at Collabora Ltd.

Debian Developer:

  • Debian ARM build daemon maintainer
  • Debian ARM porter and package maintainer
  • Debian System Administrator
  • Embedded Debian Developer
 

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 15:30 - 15:55

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Rolling upgrade in microservices system
Rolling upgrade in microservices system (16:00 - 16:25)

About the session

In this presentation, we would like to show audiences some information related upgrade in microservices system like below:

  • What is microservices system?
  • Some related mechanisms to upgrade such as blue-green and canary. Advantages and disadvantages of the mechanisms.
  • What, Why, How rolling upgrade?
  • There are some sensitive points need to be implemented to get rolling upgrade. And we show a big example about OpenStack rolling upgrade as well.

Speakers

Nam Nguyen Hoai

Software Engineer Fujitsu

     

Dai Dang Van

Software Engineer Fujitsu

Dai was very passionate about chemistry when he was a high school student. But one day, he fell in love with lines of code when trying to program chemical formulas, and then he graduated in Information Technology at Hanoi University of Science and Technology with one semester early in 2016.

Now, he's mainly working on OpenStack which he researched in a high performance computing center when he was student. He also like motorbike trips and environment protection.

       

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 16:00 - 16:25

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Proctor: An Automation Orchestrator
Proctor: An Automation Orchestrator (16:30 - 16:55)

About the session

With increasing use of golang as a systems programming language, at Go-Jek we used it to help us automate tasks in a scalable and extensible way. The project we built (Proctor) has 3 components in golang: a CLI tool (client), server and reservoir of automation scripts.

Speakers

Roy Peter

Systems Engineer Go-Jek

Roy is currently working as a Systems Engineer at GO-JEK. He enjoys working on Linux and infrastructure automation. He's also an electronics enthusiast and likes tinkering around with robotics and IOT related projects.

   

Akshat Shah

Product Engineer Go-Jek

   

Event Hall 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 16:30 - 16:55

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Event Hall 2-2
State of Open Source Design in 2018
State of Open Source Design in 2018 (10:00 - 10:25)

About the session

Open Source Design collective ( http://opensourcedesign.net/) works to raise the profile of good design in open source software, and connect developers & designers to make it happen.  We run an Open Source Design community forum, organize design tracks at well-known events like FOSDEM, FOSSASIA and OpenTechSummit, have a job board to get designers involved, provide open design resources to developers & designers, and more.

To start the track this year we want to discuss what happened in design for FLOSS since the last year design track at FOSSASIA. What is Open Source Design collective, what work has been done through out the year. What are other design projects in FLOSS you can be part of.

Target Audience:

anyone who wants to learn more about non-code contributions in open source  (particularly design and usability research) 

Desired Outcome:

For beginner designer to learn/share how to be involved in open source, for engineers to learn/share how to find designers for their projects. 

Speakers

Victoria Bondarchuk

UX Researcher Open Source Design

Victoria Bondarchuk is a UX researcher, interested in open source and open design. Member of opensourcedesign.net.

     

Event Hall 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:00 - 10:25

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


Convergent applications using Kirigami UI
Convergent applications using Kirigami UI (10:30 - 10:55)

About the session

Kirigami UI is a set of extensions to the touch friendly Qt Quick Controls framework that defines precise UI/UX patterns to allow developers to quickly develop intuitive and consistent apps that provide a great user experience.

This allows application developers to write their UI without explicitly worrying about deployment results on various form factors, such as Desktop/Tablet/Mobiles. This is the idea behind convergent code and Kirigami UI framework is one such tool in this direction.

Join me in taking a look at a few applications that are written using the Kirigami UI and how they behave on different form factor devices.

For more :[1] https://dot.kde.org/2016/03/30/kde-proudly-presents-kirigami-ui[2] https://vizzzion.org/blog/2017/10/plasma-convergence-technically/

Speakers

Harish Navnit

Software Developer KDE

Free software enthusiast and software developer specializing in designing and maintaining cross platform desktop applications, written primarily using the Qt framework. Loves porting applications to newer frameworks and introduce advanced build tool features to make them scale better and be easier to maintain.

Member of the KDE community, involved in both technical and non-technical/promo activities.

     

Event Hall 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:30 - 10:55

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


My personal fight against the modern laptop
My personal fight against the modern laptop (11:00 - 11:25)

About the session

This talk will take you through some tools and techniques I used to reverse engineer the keyboard controller in my Thinkpad x230 laptop.

I was driven to start this project when the laptops currently on sale just did not meet my requirements.  Even the durable Thinkpad laptops I preferred in the past are being dumbed down.  Eventually, I will need a new laptop - and with the available offerings, I just do not want anything that currently can be purchased off the shelf.

To keep the project achievable, I reduced my gripes to just the keyboard - asking the question: "Can I shoehorn an older keyboard in a modern laptop?"

Taking you through UEFI, ARCompact CPUs, Firmware Reversing, big structure dumping, SMM and custom virtual machines to answer that with "maybe."

I hope to inspire others to address their hardware gripes too - and offer some tools and confidence that they can.

Speakers

Hamish Coleman

Sys Admin/Hacker Hardware Tinkering

Hamish has always liked to bend hardware to his will, which led to a career as a Sys Admin and means that he is always trying to understand what he can see inside the case.His quest to make computers do his bidding (and not theirs) has continued to drive his tinkering with software and hardware at home and at work. He believes in empowering others to also bend technology along with him! Hamish currently lives in Hong Kong - tiny living with his many tiny computers.

   

Event Hall 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:00 - 11:25

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


What is Android Things
What is Android Things (11:30 - 12:10)

About the session

Introduction to IoT world with Google technologies

Speakers

Denis Neklyudov

Developer Expert Android & IoT Google

Passionate about Android and IoT technologies

       

Event Hall 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:30 - 12:10

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


Reducing the effect of turbidity in underwater images
Reducing the effect of turbidity in underwater images (13:30 - 13:55)

About the session

The project aims at proposing a solution to restore underwater images for Marine Archeological studies. This work was done during a research internship at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography. We worked with datasets provided by the field work and underwater explorations in the Arabian Sea along Western Coast of India. In this project, the traditional image restoration approach is extended by incorporating underwater optical properties into the system response function. Underwater turbidity causes loss of clarity transparency, visibility and the luminosity in underwater images to study a particular scene for Marine Archeologists. In this project, we have implemented and compared different methods of underwater image enhancement and restoration which are degraded by the turbidity in water. We implemented the various image processing algorithms considering an average quality camera (i.e., Logitech C920). The algorithms implemented in a step-wise manner are preprocessing, filtering, enhancement and denoising based on a model. Images tend to get degraded as the depth and turbidity increases, the amount of light on objects decreases and light distribution becomes nonuniform. To tackle this issue, the input images are converted to YCbCr color space and Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) is performed on the Luminescence(Y) channel of the image which improves the local contrast, at the same time limiting the amplification which can over-amplify the noise too. The filtering and enhancement were done using the Bilateral Filter and then finally the enhancement was carried out using the wavelet denoising method and de-blurring. Due to the intensity variations involved in underwater sensing, denoising is carefully carried out by wavelet decompositions. This is necessary to explore different effects of restoration constraints, and especially their response to an underwater environment where the effects of scattering can be easily treated as either signal or noise.

Since our solution aided the marine archeologists in their studies, we gave more emphasis to the information extraction and the visibility of features rather than the enhancing the physical features of the underwater images.

Speakers

Pronnoy Goswami

Software Development Engineer McKinsey & Company

Pronnoy Goswami is currently working with McKinsey and Company as a Software Development Engineer. He builds web-applications and products for various clients. He mostly works on back-end using NodeJS with HapiJS as the framework & is also interested in DevOps and Application Infrastructure.Pronnoy is passionate about the new innovations in the field of technologies related to Human Computer Interaction and Machine Learning. Computer science as a field of work and research has always intrigued him, hence this choice. For the past two and a half years , he's been working on Image Processing and Machine Vision. His work on image processing has been a perfect amalgamation of research and practical application."
       

Himanshu Singh

Developer Qlum

       

Event Hall 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:30 - 13:55

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


SDR LTE As IoT Cubic Satellites Communication
SDR LTE As IoT Cubic Satellites Communication (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

戴騰瀠(Teng-Ying Tai)a、高盛龍(S.L Kao)b、黃文杰(Randson Huang)c、王銘傳(Alex Ming)a

a騰暉電信科技股份有限公司(MoGaMe Mobile Entertainment Co.,Ltd, Taiwan)

b基隆海洋大學(National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan)

c中華民國業餘無線電協會(Chinese Taipei Amateur Radio League, Taipei, Taiwan)

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a communication method based on Software Defined Radio and LTE, which includes Modulation / Demodulation, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), eSIM chip, and International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI). So that the communication mode will be able to multiplex the operation and serve multiple satellites, the construction of LTE satellite station and proprietary frequency to apply to the IoT cubic satellite group on the communication. The operation mode can be used on non/synchronous LTE satellite station, and satellite communication authentication with IMSI code for IoT cubic satellite. If the LTE signal is accessible, and authorized to talk, the data will be sent through. The LTE ground station will be the gateway, and downlink to the ground. This method proposed in this paper is applied to LTE ground station, and LTE satellite equipment (UE), with a view to construct IP network of satellite.

Keywords：SDR、LTE、eSIM、IMSI、IoT

Speakers

Teng-Ying Tai

CEO MoGaMe Mobile Entertainment

Teng-Ying Tai obtained his B.S. degree in Information Management from DYU University, Taiwan, in 2001, and EMBA course from ASIA University, Taiwan, in 2016. The founder of the MoGaMe Mobile(MGM), he has done several space related projects with National Space Organization, Taiwan and Principal Investigator in 1.5U Cubesat Project(YuSat-1 ,2017~2019). Also he dedicated in NBIoT/Cat-4 cubesat communication research, which will be used in the future.

 

Event Hall 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


Real Time Monitoring System using Wireless Sensor Network for Mine Safety.
Real Time Monitoring System using Wireless Sensor Network for Mine Safety. (14:30 - 14:55)

About the session

ABSTRACT:

The safety of miners is a major problem today.Due to several critical issues like working environment and also the after effect of it is making the  miner's health and life is vulnerable.Mining activities release harmful and toxic gases in turn exposing the associated workers into the danger of survival.Miner’s health is in jeopardy mainly due to the toxic gases which are very often released in underground mines.The human senses cannot sense these gases easily.

A real time monitoring system using wireless sensor network and multiple sensors would be developed to sense, monitor and give early warning to the miner's to avoid fatalities.

This Monitoring system:

  • keeps a track on surrounding environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity and multiple toxic gases and displays it.
  • Sends an early warning, which will be helpful to all miners present inside the mine to save their life before any casualty occurs.
  • Uses Zigbee technology to establish wireless sensor network.
  • Is wireless networking standard IEEE 802.15.4, is suitable for operation in harsh environment.
  • Will contain Arduino which is an open source hardware and software, based on micro controller and several components like boards (Xbee module and Zigbee USB interfacing board), LCD (Liquid crystal display), different sensors like MQ7, MQ4, DTH-11 Sensor and other small electronic components.

Speakers

Divya Tadi

Electrical and Electronics Engineer BVRIT Hyderabad College

I am an undergraduate student pursuing my B.tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BVRIT Hyderabad college of Engineering for women, JNTU Hyderabad.I have zeal to learn and work on new things, especially on innovative ideas. I have worked on several projects including ‘Dry Eye Syndrome Quantifier’ at the LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad in collaboration with MIT Media Lab.I have participated in several workshops and hackathons including ‘STARTUP WEEKEND HYDERABAD’, a 54 hour Hackathon conducted at Indian School of Business. I gave several presentations and I underwent one month Industrial training on LARGE TURBO GENERATORS at BHEL, Ramchandrapuram.

 

Event Hall 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:30 - 14:55

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


The dark Side of Internet of things
The dark Side of Internet of things (15:00 - 15:25)

About the session

With the advent of Internet of things, monitoring and controlling everything such as coffee maker, lights, TV, Fridge,etc. over the internet has become a child's play. But are we really making our lives simpler or diving ourselves in a vast ocean which is getting deeper and deeper? In today's world where the security of our data of a major concern, the number of websites are always tracking what we search for, what we watch, our location and now when things are limited to only data, adding another dimension i.e. physical entities is really a big question.

 

From this talk audience will take away an understanding of the privacy concerns related to IoT, and how they may be putting their personal information at risk by connecting my physical entities to the internet. Is it really safe to connect things to the internet?

Speakers

Dipesh Chander Monga

Tech Speaker Mozilla

Dipesh Monga is a techspeaker at Mozilla and working at Indian Institute of Technology Indore,India as a Research Associate where he works on development of Internet of things based system on chips (SoCs). He loves to tinkle with emerging technologies with his main focus of his research on system on chip based platforms for IoT and technologies of the future.He has published research papers on technologies like Li-Fi, SoCs for IoT application, mobile technologies and automation. He loves to speak about open source hardware, web literacy and the future of upcoming technologies.

       

Event Hall 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 15:00 - 15:25

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


Mixed Reality for the Web
Mixed Reality for the Web (15:30 - 15:55)

About the session

Mozilla announced a new development program for Mixed Reality that will significantly expand its work in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) for the web. The initial focus will be on how to get devices, headsets, frameworks and toolsets to work together, so web developers can choose from a variety of tools and publishing methods to bring new immersive experiences online – and have them work together in a fully functional way.

Speakers

Robert Reyes

Tech Speaker Mozilla

Robert 'Bob' Reyes is a Mozilla Rep, Reps Mentor, and Tech Speaker based in Makati City, Philippines. He has been an active contributor to the Mozilla project in the area of localization since 2003. He has been representing the organization in the country since 2011 and has been twice elected to be part of the global organization's leadership as a council member. Bob is now part of Mozilla's Tech Speakers group, which aims to Increase developer awareness and adoption of the Web, Firefox, and Mozilla through a strong community-driven technical speaker development program. Bob is also a Technology Columnist for the Manila Bulletin and Team Manager for the grassroots football team SIPFC. He is a dad to Xeon and Haswell.

     

Event Hall 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 15:30 - 15:55

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


When VR meets Internet of things: Life beyond second life
When VR meets Internet of things: Life beyond second life (16:00 - 16:25)

About the session

"It gets even more interesting when virtual and augmented reality meets the Internet of Things."  — Phil Repp

 

IoT is taking over the technology industry with a huge bang! Our focus is to make the IoT smarter and more suitable for human interaction. Virtual Reality is the next billion dollar industry and it is the future of the Entertainment, Gaming and Education Industry. Now, imagine the possibilities that can exist if we were to we combine the worlds of Virtual Reality and Internet of Things This session will enable people with minimal knowledge of VR and basic IoT boards(such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi) to experience the best of the IoT & VR worlds.

Furthermore, attendees will experience a remote tele-robotic presence as they transport and assume the identity of a web-connected robot, tasked with monitoring and maintaining atmospheric conditions.

Along with the view of the place, the robot will be monitoring the nearby surroundings such as temperature, humidity and light intensity which will be then displayed along with the scenario displayed by VR device. Thus by this audience will learn how to Combine IoT with VR and hence make their own smart telepresence system like Jarvis.

 

By the end of the session, the audience will gain an increased understanding of the VR and IoT landscape, as well as how these technologies can be combined to give them an experience in life that was previously never-before-possible. A short Q&A session will be held after the [talk/workshop].

Speakers

Pooja Purswani

Tech Speaker Mozilla

Being an Electronics Engineer and a Tech Speaker at Mozilla, Pooja loves tinkering with various emerging technologies mainly VR, IoT-based platforms, with a motto of making the web a better and connected place for everyone, and spreading the love of web literacy. She has been conducting workshops at across India spreading the love of tech.

       

Event Hall 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 16:00 - 16:25

  •  
  • Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging


Lecture Theatre
The secrets of high-performance software teams
The secrets of high-performance software teams (10:30 - 10:55)

About the session

Every software professional knows the challenge of being asked to deliver in a shorter time frame, or to do more in the time available, or watched as timelines slip away through endless bugs or rework, yet there are development teams out there which eclipse their peers and somehow deliver more. What are the secrets of these “high-performing” development teams, what are the roadblocks to implementing them, and how can you take your development process from good to brilliant?

This session will provide some answers, drawn from the experiences of the Platform.sh team and our clients, including:

  • What is a high-performing development team?
  • What development practices do they use?
  • What should your deployment pattern look like?
  • What kinds of code management and branching patterns are most effective
  • What should you measure?

This is a non-technical session focusing on actionable best practice, which is suitable for everyone from software developers to CTOs.

Speakers

Christopher Skene

APAC Developer Engagement Manager Platform.sh

Chris is digital services consultant, specialising in solution design, technical architecture, UX, and strategic consulting for enterprise and government-grade CMS, web application and digital publishing projects.

He currently represent Platform.sh, the world's best Continuous Deployment web hosting PaaS, across the Asia-Pacific region.

 

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:30 - 10:55

  •  
  • Open Source in Business


The future of our data
The future of our data (11:00 - 11:25)

About the session

We are heading into a world were the files of most users are hosted by 4 big companies. This is the case for most home users, companies but also education and research institutions. If we want to keep our sovereignty over our data, protect our privacy and prevent vendor lock-in then we need open source self hosted and federated alternatives. The internet and the web use a distributed and federated architecture. Now we have to make sure that cloud services follow the same model. 

A new challenge is the increasing blending of application hosting and storage as seen at Office 365 and Google Suite. This has the danger to lead to a very strong vendor lock-in. 

This talk will discuss the ongoing trends in this areas and possible solutions. It will also give an overview of newest Nextcloud features and the long term roadmap to provide an alternative to centralised services.

Speakers

Frank Karlitschek

Founder Nextcloud

Frank Karlitschek started the ownCloud project in 2010 to return control over the storing and sharing of information to consumers. In 2016 he initiated the Nextcloud project to bring this idea to the next level. He has been involved with a variety of Free Software projects including having been a board member for the KDE community. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN and ETH and keynoted LinuxCon, Latinoware, Akademy, FOSSASIA, openSUSE Con and many other conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud Gmbh. Frank is a fellow of Open Forum Europe. 

       

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:00 - 11:25

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


VLC 3.0
VLC 3.0 (11:30 - 11:55)

About the session

Presentation of VLC 3.0 and what is new in the VLC 3.0 release.

Speakers

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

President VLC/VideoLAN

Jean-Baptiste is the President of VideoLAN and VLC Lead Developer. Since 2005, he has worked on or lead most VideoLAN related projects, including VLC for desktop, the relicensing of libVLC, the ports to mobile operating systems, and various multimedia libraries like libdvdcss or libbluray. Since a few years, he has been mostly working with and founding start-ups, and consulting for bigger firms.

       

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:30 - 11:55

  •  
  • Kernel & Platform


Offline-first apps with WebComponents
Offline-first apps with WebComponents (12:00 - 12:25)

About the session

We will explore how to boost the usability of web and mobile-web apps by implementing offline-first functionalities, it's the only way to guarantee 100% always on user experience. Low signal or no connectivity should no longer be a blocker for the user, we will discuss the available solutions for caching, in-browser database, and data replication. We will also take a look at how WC help solving those issues out of the box.

Speakers

AMahdy Abdelaziz

Code Artist Vaadin

International technical speaker, Google developer expert (GDE), and full time developer advocate. Current interests are Android and Mobile development, including PWA, offline-first design, in-browser database, and cross platform tools. Also interested in Android internals such as building custom ROMs and customize AOSP for embedded devices.
       

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 12:00 - 12:25

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Publiccode.Asia - Publicly funded software ought to be Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
Publiccode.Asia - Publicly funded software ought to be Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) (12:25 - 12:35)

About the session

Publicly funded software ought to be Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). While there are plenty of good reasons for this line, many decision makers in the public administration are still unaware.

Digital services offered and used by our public administrations are the critical infrastructure of the 21st century. In order to ensure our systems are trustworthy and reliable, governments and businesses must have full control over the software and the computer systems at the core of the state digital infrastructure. However, right now, this is rarely the case due to restrictive licensing models that:

  • Prevent sharing and exchanging publicly funded code. This prevents cooperation within the public administration and with businesses and hinders further development.
  • Result in formation of monopolies by hindering competition. Make administrations become dependent on a handful of companies.
  • Endanger the security of our digital infrastructure by denying access to the source code. Without code access fixing backdoors and security holes becomes extremely difficult, if not completely impossible.

We need software that fosters the sharing of best practices and solutions. We need software that guarantees transparency, government oversight and trust. We need software that helps public administrations and businesses regain full control of their critical digital infrastructure, allowing them to remain sovereign and provide their services to the citizens. We call for support of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in public administrations, because:

  • FOSS enables us to use, study, share and improve applications.
  • FOSS licenses provide safeguards against being locked in to services from providers that use restrictive licensees to hinder competition.
  • FOSS ensures that the source code is accessible so that security weaknesses and backdoors can be fixed.
  • Public bodies are financed through taxes. It is their mission to make sure they spend funds in the most efficient way possible. If it is public money, it should be public code as well!

In the publiccode.asia initiative we call on decision makers, businesses and representatives to:

“Take all necessary measures and work together to implement legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for public sector must be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software license.”

Speakers

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 12:25 - 12:35

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Cloud and Your FOSS Customize Own Distro
Cloud and Your FOSS Customize Own Distro (12:35 - 12:45)

About the session

Cloud - OpenStack, Juju Charms and Desktop Own OS Customization and Differences

Speakers

Ko Ko Ye

Founder Ubuntu Myanmar LoCo Team

   

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 12:35 - 12:45

  •  
  • Cloud, Container, DevOps


Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks (12:45 - 13:30)

About the session

Lightning talk sessions are taking place on Saturday/Day 3 and Sunday/Day 4 of the event. Please have a look at the session schedule of the lightning talk slots. The lightning talks have a slot of either 5 or 10 minutes including setup.

Please see the wiki page for full information: https://github.com/fossasia/2018.fossasia.org/wiki/Lightning-Talks 

Speakers

Roland Turner

Organizer FOSSASIA

Roland is Chief Privacy Officer for TrustSphere where he is responsible for the company's information policy and practices. He is a HackerspaceSG founding member and FOSSASIA organiser, holds a Computer Science degree from UTS, and is an avid dancer, runner, and ham radio operator with a particular interest in space.
     

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 12:45 - 13:30

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Shenzhen: A Case Study Alternative to Western-style Innovation
Shenzhen: A Case Study Alternative to Western-style Innovation (13:30 - 14:20)

About the session

The classic "Western" IP bargain -- socially-sanctioned, time-limited monopolies in exchange for taking creative and technological risks -- is an age-old concept dating from 15th century Venice. Since then, the Internet was invented, changing the metric for innovation from attribution to virality. The age-old IP bargain has struggled to keep up with this transformation. This talk examines Shenzhen as a culturally isolated petri dish for innovation that exploded symbiotically with the Internet. I will share my observations on the trends and practices that are evolving in an ecosystem that is unbiased by the Western IP bargain.

Speakers

Bunnie Huang

Freelancer Chibitronics PTE LTD

bunnie is best known for his work hacking the Microsoft Xbox, as well as for his efforts in designing and manufacturing open source hardware, including the chumby (app-playing alarm clock), chibitronics (teaching electronics through arts and crafts), and Novena (DIY laptop). He received his PhD in EE from MIT in 2002. He currently lives in Singapore where he runs a private product design studio, Kosagi, and he actively mentors several startups and students of the MIT Media Lab.

     

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:30 - 14:20

  •  
  • Open Source in Business


Integrating Open Source in your Corporate Strategy
Integrating Open Source in your Corporate Strategy (14:30 - 14:55)

About the session

Open source benefits go way beyond just saving some money on license costs. Actually, if open source is selected purely on the basis of trying to save money, it often results in a failure. Let's explore how leveraging open source strategy elements across the corporate functions can result in significant business and operational benefits. We'll look at how exploring things like a mission and a vision statements can lead to imagining elements of an open source strategy to holistically support an enterprise strategy. We will touch on marketing, HR, business aspects, in particular driven by activities like community participation, open and inner source programs...

Speakers

Gilles Gravier

Director, Senior Blockchain Strategy Advisor Wipro

Director in the Open Source Consulting Practice and a member of the internal blockchain council at Wipro, I provide global open source and blockchain strategy consulting and advisory services to Wipro's top customers.
     

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:30 - 14:55

  •  
  • Open Source in Business


Hackathon Pitch Presentation of Outcome
Hackathon Pitch Presentation of Outcome (15:00 - 15:50)

About the session

Showcasing hackathon developed open source apps and games that tackle climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges.

Speakers

Vlado Koljibabic

Daimler AG Head of CASE IT

Vlado leads IT for the new CASE business unit. He delivers digital channels for CASE and runs major projects in the manner of services for e-mobility and customer centricity. CASE stands for Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric.

   

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Davide Storti

FOSS Programme Manager UNESCO

Davide is working as a FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He co-leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

   

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Misako Ito

UNESCO

 

Cat Allman

Google

     

Dr. Koh Tat Suan

Director Lifelong Learning Institute

   

Michael Christen

Founder SUSI AI

Michael is the founder of SUSI AI, loklak and, the creator of the Peer-to-Peer Search engine YaCy. He is a Big Data Engineer consulting for some of the largest corporate players in Germany on search technology and digital transformation strategies. He is also architect of large search portals like the German Digital Library.

       

Dr Ben Leong

Director Technology Laboratory Ministry of Education

Dr. Ben Leong is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his S.B. (1997), M.Eng. (1997) and Ph.D. (2006) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Dr. Leong’s research interests are broadly in the areas of computer networking and distributed systems. He has worked on a number of problems in the areas of sensor networks, network coding and peer-to-peer file transfers in the past. More recently, he has been working on improving communications for mobile cellular networks, TCP and software defined networks. Dr. Leong's teaching has been focused on teaching programming methodology and advanced software engineering to undergraduates. He was a recipient of many teaching awards at both the Faculty and University level. In 2015, he was awarded the NUS Outstanding Educator Award. He currently serves as a the Chair of the CS Department Standing Teaching Committee, where he coordinates the Department's efforts to improve the quality of teaching. Since July 2014, Dr. Leong holds the joint appointment of Director, Experimental Systems & Technology Lab. In this role, Dr. Leong helped to set up the in-house software development capabilities for the Ministry of Education. He currently leads a team of 20 full stack software engineers in the development of modern software systems for MOE using modern technologies like Ruby on Rails, Golang, React, Docker and Kubernetes.
     

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 15:00 - 15:50

  •  
  • UNESCO Hackathon


Hackathon Award Announcement and Ceremony
Hackathon Award Announcement and Ceremony (16:30 - 16:55)

About the session

Prizes for the best open source apps and games that tackle climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges.

Speakers

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Davide Storti

FOSS Programme Manager UNESCO

Davide is working as a FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He co-leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

   

Vlado Koljibabic

Daimler AG Head of CASE IT

Vlado leads IT for the new CASE business unit. He delivers digital channels for CASE and runs major projects in the manner of services for e-mobility and customer centricity. CASE stands for Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric.

   

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Misako Ito

UNESCO

 

Michael Christen

Founder SUSI AI

Michael is the founder of SUSI AI, loklak and, the creator of the Peer-to-Peer Search engine YaCy. He is a Big Data Engineer consulting for some of the largest corporate players in Germany on search technology and digital transformation strategies. He is also architect of large search portals like the German Digital Library.

       

Dr Ben Leong

Director Technology Laboratory Ministry of Education

Dr. Ben Leong is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his S.B. (1997), M.Eng. (1997) and Ph.D. (2006) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Dr. Leong’s research interests are broadly in the areas of computer networking and distributed systems. He has worked on a number of problems in the areas of sensor networks, network coding and peer-to-peer file transfers in the past. More recently, he has been working on improving communications for mobile cellular networks, TCP and software defined networks. Dr. Leong's teaching has been focused on teaching programming methodology and advanced software engineering to undergraduates. He was a recipient of many teaching awards at both the Faculty and University level. In 2015, he was awarded the NUS Outstanding Educator Award. He currently serves as a the Chair of the CS Department Standing Teaching Committee, where he coordinates the Department's efforts to improve the quality of teaching. Since July 2014, Dr. Leong holds the joint appointment of Director, Experimental Systems & Technology Lab. In this role, Dr. Leong helped to set up the in-house software development capabilities for the Ministry of Education. He currently leads a team of 20 full stack software engineers in the development of modern software systems for MOE using modern technologies like Ruby on Rails, Golang, React, Docker and Kubernetes.
     

Dr. Koh Tat Suan

Director Lifelong Learning Institute

   

Cat Allman

Google

     

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 16:30 - 16:55

  •  
  • UNESCO Hackathon


Summit Closing Session
Summit Closing Session (17:00 - 17:20)

About the session

How was the FOSSASIA Summit 2018. What are your ideas? What are the impressions of the org team? Join us for a wrap up for the FOSSASIA Summit of this year.

Speakers

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Daniel J Blueman

Principal Software Engineer Numascale

Daniel has been working at the platform level since 2000, interfacing and developing custom FPGA and silicon designs, developing drivers, Linux kernel customisations and their ecosystems.
   

Roland Turner

Organizer FOSSASIA

Roland is Chief Privacy Officer for TrustSphere where he is responsible for the company's information policy and practices. He is a HackerspaceSG founding member and FOSSASIA organiser, holds a Computer Science degree from UTS, and is an avid dancer, runner, and ham radio operator with a particular interest in space.
     

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Lecture Theatre

Sunday, 25th Mar, 17:00 - 17:20

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Theatre Lounge
Hacking Continues on Day 2
Hacking Continues on Day 2 (09:00 - 14:00)

About the session

Creating open source apps and games that tackle climate change, environment and sustainable development challenges.

Speakers

Davide Storti

FOSS Programme Manager UNESCO

Davide is working as a FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He co-leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

   

Mario Behling

Co-Founder FOSSASIA

Mario Behling is the co-founder of SUSI AI, the Open Source Personal Assistant. Mario is a German born technologist with 15 years of experience in software development and startups. He co-started FOSSASIA which develops solutions like Open Event, the Open Source event management system, Pocket Science Lab and the Meilix Linux generator. He also helped to get the lubuntu community started, ran IT development companies, designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and, setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.
       

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in  between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009. 

With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant. 

Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.

       

Misako Ito

UNESCO

 

Theatre Lounge

Sunday, 25th Mar, 09:00 - 14:00

  •  
  • UNESCO Hackathon


Training Room 1-1
A Decentralized World Database
A Decentralized World Database (10:30 - 10:55)

About the session

Free and open source software have empowered people to have control over their lives, which are increasingly dominated by computer technology and notably, software. A weakness in this ecosystem is that tangible Internet services are dominated by companies that operate centralized, cloud-based services. These run counter to the tenets of free and open source software despite the fact these services often use this very software.

The proper use and application of such free and open source software for Internet services is important. This comes in the form of decentralized services, themselves powered by free and open source software.

Neeraj will discuss a very specific use case of decentralized Internet services -- the idea of a decentralized key-value pair database network powered by AGPL software. The network is enabled by a crypto-economy of producers and consumers that all use this AGPL software in the form of daemons, API’s, libraries, and tools. The talk will focus on the need for decentralized services and how they are the embodiment of the spirit of free and open source software, when it comes to the use and application of such software, with a brief discussion on the world decentralized database case study.

Speakers

Neeraj Murarka

CTO Bluzelle

Neeraj is a software engineer and computer systems architect with over 20 years expertise in cutting edge technology. He has worked on projects for Google, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Lufthansa, Thales Avionics, and Zynga. Some of Neeraj's largest projects include: locking down of modi ed Android OS for retail markets; multicast UDP satellite-based music streaming systems, mobile app for blockchain startup "Zeroblock"; design and development of secure and FFA-approved systems for Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft.

     

Training Room 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:30 - 10:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


State of the Cryptoledger & Smart Contracts for Developers. Tl;Dr "It ain't pretty!"
State of the Cryptoledger & Smart Contracts for Developers. Tl;Dr "It ain't pretty!" (11:00 - 11:55)

About the session

It's the wild wild west for cryptoledgers and their most known application, crypto currencies. Billions of dollars worth of value are literally being generated out of thin air. But the promise of smart contracts transcends the impact of the industrial revolution. What are the technologies behind this? Are they reliable? What are their capabilities and limitations? Can they realize the potential of smart contracts? How far can they take us in their current state? What does the future hold? What is Dijkstra's Revenge?

Speakers

Benjamin Scherrey

Chief Systems Architect Proteus Ops

Benjamin Scherrey. He has 30+ years of development experience, has been involved with cryptoledgers since 2013, recently completed a successful ICO for a client, and has been working extensively on contracts intended to execute on these cryptoledgers. He will share his experiences, insights, and more than a few strongly opinionated rants about the ecosystem and the forces behind the current state of affairs.

       

Training Room 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:00 - 11:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


Build your own Bitcoin Startup using Open-source Technology
Build your own Bitcoin Startup using Open-source Technology (13:00 - 13:55)

About the session

Bitcoin is a virtual currency that is taking the financial industry by storm.

At the heart of this currency is an open, distributed ledger for efficient transaction management, called Blockchain.Bitcoin startups are rapidly emerging in the financial industry, and some are going to hit the jackpot of success.Various Open-source technologies including NodeJS and REST-based API facilitate the operations and processes of Bitcoin startups. In this track, the solution architecture of a fictitious Bitcoin startup will be introduced using a presentation, in-depth application code walkthrough and a mobile app test-drive using a live audience. 

Hopefully, this track will yield ideas that will inspire the next big Bitcoin startup!

Speakers

Chin Hong Hua

Open source Technology Evangelist Red Hat

Hong Hua is a Principal Solution Architect for Red Hat. He has 17 years of technical sales and support experience, predominantly in middleware software like IBM WebSphere, Oracle Fusion Middleware and SAP NetWeaver. His current work involves partner enablement and providing technical expertise in JBoss middleware. Hong Hua has written, presented and taught extensively on enterprise architecture, application integration and open source technologies. He holds a degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the School of Computing, National University of Singapore and has been a Committee Member in the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation - Cloud Computing Chapter for several years.
   

Training Room 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:00 - 13:55

  •  
  • Blockchain


Self-Sovereign Identity with Hyperledger Indy (Sovrin)
Self-Sovereign Identity with Hyperledger Indy (Sovrin) (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

Implementing a public, permissioned blockchain for online digital identities.

Speakers

Calvin Cheng

Learn Blockchain and DLTs Cara

I design and code

   

Training Room 1-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Blockchain


Training room 2-1
Atomic DDL in MySQL 8.0
Atomic DDL in MySQL 8.0 (10:00 - 10:25)

About the session

Up till MySQL 5.7 version, DDL statement execution is non-atomic which caused many issues with respect to DDL crash safeness and slave drift in replication setup. New transactional Data-dictionary implementation in the MySQL 8.0  helped in making the DDL statements atomic in MySQL 8.0.

"Now DDL is atomic  in MySQL 8.0"

An atomic DDL statement combines the data dictionary updates, storage engine operations, and binary log writes associated with a DDL operation into a single, atomic transaction. The transaction is either committed, with applicable changes persisted to the data dictionary, storage engine, and binary log, or is rolled back, even if the server halts during the operation.

With this new implementation in MySQL have eliminated possibilities for internal consistencies in the server and SE after crash. Also in a replicated environment this is especially important since the probability for slave drift caused by crashes during execution of DDL on master/slave is eliminated.

Key Take aways:

============== 

What is  atomic DDL ?

What improvement atomic DDL gets to the user ?

What helped in implementing atomic DDL ?

Supported DDL Statements.

Changes in DDL Statement Behavior.

Storage Engine Support.

Viewing DDL Logs.

Speakers

Shipra Jain

Principal Software Engineer Oracle

Shipra Jain has been working with MySQL Database team since 2012. She is currently employed by Oracle, based in India. She is  a Staff Principal software engineer for the server QA team of the MySQL Database. She has a background in the database industry, by working previously for Sybase IQ and IBM DB2  UDB. She has masters degree in Computer Application.   

 

Training room 2-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:00 - 10:25

  •  
  • Database


MySQL for Distributed transaction and Usage of JSON as a fusion between SQL & NOSQL
MySQL for Distributed transaction and Usage of JSON as a fusion between SQL & NOSQL (10:30 - 10:55)

About the session

This talk will go through two main features of MySQL with examples quite relevant to the distributed NoSQL & SQL era of applications. First part will go through the usage of MySQL JSON as both NoSQL and SQL data store at the same time with examples and use cases. The second part will concentrate on distributed transaction standard and how MySQL can be used as a resource manager in such a distributed transaction which can span across heterogeneous functional nodes and across geography.

Speakers

Ajo Robert

Principal Member Technical Staff Oracle India

Have 10+ years of industry experience which span across network protocols and core database server development for both in-memory and disk-based systems. My current role in Oracle involves working on different MySQL modules including RUNTIME (which comprises of DDL execution, Distributed transaction management, meta-data locking, etc) and OPTIMIZER (consists of MDL execution, SELECT query planning, execution, data type management, etc) is the perfect combination of exposure to core database principles and its implementation.
   

Training room 2-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:30 - 10:55

  •  
  • Database


Histograms and the way we use it in MySQL 8.0
Histograms and the way we use it in MySQL 8.0 (11:00 - 11:25)

About the session

All you need to know about how and when to use Histograms in MySQL. This feature was introduced in MySQL 8.0 and is very helpful when indexes are not present in your database tables. 

Learn how a simple statistics of grouping the frequency of any values miraculously speeds up the execution of queries without indexes. 

Speakers

Amit Bhattacharya

Senior Software Development Manager MySQL/Oracle

I am working with the MySQL RDBMS Product Team in Oracle Bangalore. My main responsibilities are* Technically lead a team of test engineers to verify and validate the new features and performance of MySQL Optimizer.* Developing and maintaining the test suites.* Development of automation frameworks and enhancing existing frameworks as and when required.* Benchmarking the optimizer performance.* Developing new tools for testing the database as and when required.Our test tools and frameworks are developed using PERL and Java.My previous experience includes working on RDBMS like DB2-UDB for LUW, Sybase-IQ and Microsoft SQL Server. Before joining Oracle I have worked with IBM India Software Labs, Microsoft and Sybase Inc.
   

Training room 2-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:00 - 11:25

  •  
  • Database


Real-Time Data Masking on MariaDB
Real-Time Data Masking on MariaDB (11:30 - 11:55)

About the session

Analyzing data to make crucial business decisions is vital for any company to survive in today's competitive market. Even more so when we consider the eCommerce industry. In every corner of the world, eCommerce companies are vying to capture the market share. As a result, companies are required to provide processes and infrastructure to allow data access to Business Intelligence and Development teams without compromising on regulatory requirements. To solve this problem, there is some commercially available software which encrypts data at rest by using key management within or outside the RDBMS. But we have been able to solve this problem innovatively by using triggers and a set of Python scripts which is free, masks data in real time, has simple to configure columns for masking and retains the usability of data after masking. We have developed a set of functions for each type of sensitive data that is used in various applications most commonly. We will also discuss pros and cons.

Speakers

Pandikrishnan Gurusamy

Senior Database Admin Lazada Group

    

 

Training room 2-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:30 - 11:55

  •  
  • Database


What's new in MySQL Optimizer 8.0
What's new in MySQL Optimizer 8.0 (13:00 - 13:25)

About the session

There are substantial improvements in the Optimizer in MySQL 8.0. Most noticeably, there’s added support for advanced SQL features such as common table expressions, windowing functions, and a grouping() function. DBAs will also appreciate the invisible indexes and additional hints that can be used with the query rewrite plugin. On the performance side, cost model changes will make a huge impact. JSON support is even more powerful, with the addition of adding functions requested by users.

Speakers

Chaithra M G

Principal MySQL Software Developer Oracle

Chaithra Gopalaredy has been working with MySQL database team since 2011. She is currently employed by Oracle, based in India, Bangalore. She is Principal Software Developer for the Optimizer Team of the MySQL database. She has a background in the database industry, working for Alcatel Lucent's DataBlitz main memory database in past.
 

Training room 2-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:00 - 13:25

  •  
  • Database


MySQL : Improving Connection Security
MySQL : Improving Connection Security (13:30 - 13:55)

About the session

MySQL provides various options to enhance security of server-client connections. In this talk, we will go through various such features available in MySQL. Talk will cover features like TLS connections, use of ciphers, support for CRLs, configuring user accounts to achieve better security etc.

Speakers

Harin Nalin Vadodaria

Principal MTS Oracle

I have been associated with MySQL since May 2012. I am working on security features of MySQL server.
   

Training room 2-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:30 - 13:55

  •  
  • Database


New Replication Features in MySQL 8
New Replication Features in MySQL 8 (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

The recent enhancements to MySQL replication make operations easier, further reduce the administrative overhead, provide a much improved user experience, and enable running MySQL smoothly both at scale and/or in very tightly coupled network infrastructures such as in a clustered environment. There are enhancements across the board, such as:

- Performance improvement in the applier, resulting in increased replica throughput.

- Enhanced instrumentation and monitoring, resulting in more reliable replication observability;

- More flexible multi-source replication and filters, making it easier to deploy complex topologies;

- Extended metadata into the binary log stream, greatly improving change capture workflows.

Take the opportunity to learn, directly form the engineers responsible for the product, how the latest developments in replication will continuously enable you to grow your business on top of MySQL.

Speakers

Venkatesh Duggirala

Senior Principal Member of Technical Staff Oracle

I am working with MySQL Database team since 2012 (Replication Module). I am currently working as Senior Principle Member Technical Staff, employed by Oracle, based in Bangalore, India. I have background in the database industry around 12+ years, worked on various database products like Datablitz(Lucent), ANTs, ACS, Sybase, IBM DB2. I have a Master degree in Information Technology from Indian Institute of technology,Bombay.

 

Training room 2-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Database


Improved Error Logging in MySQL 8.0
Improved Error Logging in MySQL 8.0 (14:30 - 14:55)

About the session

MySQL error log contains diagnostics messages logged as ERROR, warning and note during server startup, shutdown and while the server is running. MySQL initially supported error logging to the file system. In MySQL-5.7 support for error logging to Windows eventlog and Unix system log are added. To support new log service, every time MySQL server code had to be changed.

For each error log event, severity (ERROR, warning or note) is assigned and submitted a error message. A line of error message text is helpful to humans but opaque to machines.

At present, errors can be suppressed based on the error severity (using --log-error-verbosity) but very few filtering options are available.

MySQL 8.0 has removed these limitations with the Improved Error Logging Mechanism.

This talk would cover following points:

---------------------------------------------------------------

* Introduction to error logging.

* New error logging framework in the MySQL 8.0.

       "Loadable/Pluggable error loggers"

* New API's to log error messages.

        In MySQL 8.0, error message events are more granular/richer.

        New API's are introduced to log error messages.

* Improvements to the traditional error log message line.* New Rule based error log filtering engine.  

Speakers

Praveenkumar Hulakund

Software Developer Oracle

My name is Praveenkumar.Hulakund. I am working as a Software Developer in MySQL from 2011. I have around 13 years of Experience in the DBMS internals development.  

   

Training room 2-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:30 - 14:55

  •  
  • Database


The State of the Art on MySQL Group Replication
The State of the Art on MySQL Group Replication (15:00 - 15:25)

About the session

MySQL Group Replication is a highly-available, fault-tolerant system for MySQL with built-in conflict detection and resolution, automatic distributed recovery, and group membership, which operate in single and multi primary replication topologies. The MySQL Group Replication has gone through an amazing journey so far, and the current MySQL 8.0 has included a lot of customer requested features which has improved the Group Replication experience further. This talk will take the audience through the journey of MySQL Group Replication development from its first labs release to the recent MySQL 8.0 RC1 release, discussing important features like changes in the Group Replication architecture, different operating replication modes, parallel replication applier, and monitoring support though performance schema tables. The main focus of this talk would be on recent MySQL 8.0 features, especially new customer requested features.

Speakers

Hemant Dangi

Senior Technical Staff Oracle/MySQL

I am working for Oracle as Senior Member Technical Staff for Group Replication development team.
   

Training room 2-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 15:00 - 15:25

  •  
  • Database


Enhanced XA Support for Replication in MySQL-5.7
Enhanced XA Support for Replication in MySQL-5.7 (15:30 - 15:55)

About the session

XA stands for “eXtended Architecture”, and is a standard created by The Open Group for distributed  transaction processing. XA addresses the problem of preserving ACID properties within a single transaction across a distributed set of resources. The resources themselves could be other MySQL servers, or even different database technologies. MySQL 5.0 introduced XA support, thus adding the ability to participate in global transactions. MySQL 5.7 has removed major limitations in the XA transaction recovery mechanism and binary logging mechanism. This talk would cover the following points: * What is XA? * How does MySQL support the XA standard? * How to perform XA transactions in MySQL. * Improvement made in 5.7 for XA transaction recovery. * Improvement made to use XA transaction safely with replication.

Speakers

Nisha Gopalakrishnan

Principal Member of Technical Staff Oracle

I have been working as a system software developer for over 9 years and of which 6 years has been with MySQL, Oracle based out of Bangalore, India. I have been involved in sustaining efforts of the MySQL server for the last six years. Prior to Oracle, I was working with Cisco for their network suite of products and with Wipro on platform security.

   

Training room 2-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 15:30 - 15:55

  •  
  • Database


MySQL Performance Schema - A great insight of running MySQL Server
MySQL Performance Schema - A great insight of running MySQL Server (16:00 - 16:25)

About the session

The MySQL Performance Schema is a feature for monitoring Oracle's MySQL Server execution at a low level. This versatile and tightly integrated component collects performance and session data from various subsystems within the server during runtime with minimal impact on overall server performance.With help of few real world use cases, this talk aims to explain how/what statistical information user is provided with using Performance Schema. With these use cases, it also explains how this information can be used for monitoring and trouble shooting to track an issue back to the relevant file and line of code in source file. Again, with some use cases, this talk also explains how Performance Schema gives consolidated view of different activities of MySQL server behind the scene with the multiple summary tables and how this can be tuned and used. This talk also covers the manual/automatic configuration of Performance Schema to suite to individual requirement in a specific scenario.This talk is targeted to many database users which includes DBA, Database Application developers, Database developers, Students. This talk is to give overview of MySQL Performance Schema and also how/what information can be collected using it and how this information could be used further for debugging/trouble shooting Database users' issue.Takeaways from the talk: - Overview of tuning and monitoring MySQL Server activities using Performance Schema. - Understanding of how to tailor the Performance Schema to track the data you want. - With few real world usecases, explain how to diagnosing problems with the Performance Schema.  - A glimpse of new features in Performance Schema in MySQL 5.7 GA.

Speakers

Mayank Prasad

Principal Member Technical Staff Oracle

     

Training room 2-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 16:00 - 16:25

  •  
  • Database


Training room 2-2
BlueBorne: Beware of Bluetooth!
BlueBorne: Beware of Bluetooth! (10:00 - 10:25)

About the session

In Sept. 2017, the Red Hat Product Security Team was notified of a security flaw affecting bluetooth stacks of Linux, Android, IOS and Windows operating systems. This was probably the first cross-platform security flaw of its kind. The impact was evident by the fact that the attacker did not even need to be paired to the victims device in order to exploit it. This talk briefly discusses the security flaw, the exploit mechanism and how such flaws can actually cause much more damage than what is initially evident.

Speakers

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

Engineer Red Hat

I am a Principal Product Security Engineer working with Red Hat. Part of several Open Source Project Security Teams including Mozilla, WebKit, PHP, Python, Samba etc. Free time security researcher and fedora contributor.     

   

Training room 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:00 - 10:25

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


Making WiFi Great
Making WiFi Great (10:30 - 10:55)

About the session

Making WiFi Great analyses the performance limitations commonly found in WiFi networks, revealing secrets and best practise, and takes the participant through practical steps on how to optimise their network, complete with concrete examples and experience.

Speakers

Daniel J Blueman

Principal Software Engineer Numascale

Daniel has been working at the platform level since 2000, interfacing and developing custom FPGA and silicon designs, developing drivers, Linux kernel customisations and their ecosystems.
   

Training room 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:30 - 10:55

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


Don't let them take you hostage - be prepared by open source backups
Don't let them take you hostage - be prepared by open source backups (11:00 - 11:25)

About the session

Performing periodic backups in computer networks is indispensable. In times of Locky and other ransomware backups are often the only option left to regain access to your data. Nevertheless, for backups to be effective against these types of threats, a number of aspects have to be considered.

This presentation shows how to use the open source backup solution Bareos, to regularly create backups of your systems in a heterogeneous network.

Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a reliable network open source software to backup, archive and restore files from all major operating systems. The fork was founded 2010 out of the bacula.org project, in order to pursue development of new capabilities and sustainable ensure it’s open source character.Today Bareos comes with a new multi-lingual and multi-tenancy web ui including restore browser, LTO hardware encryption support, bandwidth limitation, cloud storage support, a redesigned plugin interface, among other new features.

The source code is available on Github and is licensed with AGPLv3. There are ready to installrepositories for all major Linux distributions, MacOS and Windows installer packages.

Today Bareos is the only 100% open source backup solution with professional subscription and support services.

Homepage of the Bareos project:  www.bareos.org

Speakers

Maik Außendorf

Co-founder & Manager Bareos GmbH & Co. KG

Maik Außendorf is a graduated mathematician and studied mathematics and informatics at the University of Münster. In his diploma thesis he focused on the implementation of an artificial neural network in C+ under Solaris and Linux. After his studies he worked as a SAP Consultant at Siemens AG in Colombia. Between 1999 and 2003 he was Linux System Consultant and branch manager at Suse Linux AG in St. Augustin. During this period he carried out Linux- based customer projects, starting from conception and implementation to project management. In addition, he is co-author of the Susepress Linux Manager Guide. He was co-founder of the open source services company dass IT in 2004, today he is one of Bareos' managing directors.

       

Training room 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:00 - 11:25

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


Database Security for Developers
Database Security for Developers (13:30 - 13:55)

About the session

Database is the core of many systems. If you are building an e-commerce website, government portal, health management system or just a blog, you need a database.Usually, database security system usually the last security layer between your data and hackers. Suddenly, this is also mostly underused security functionality in modern applications. You may find many books and papers about network security, firewalls, cryptography and even application security, but not database security. In the following session, I am going to introduce the audience to PostgreSQL security system. The audience will learn about authentication, authorization, roles, permissions and data encryption. We will talk about database security best practices which can help you to protect data even when your application has been compromised. The ideas from the session might be applicable to other database management systems.

Speakers

Ilya Verbitskiy

Founder WebStoating

As a software engineer and software development manager in banking, finance and e-commerce sectors, I gained more than 10 years of experience in leading the development of complex software in teams, large and small. Before starting my own business, I worked in Europe and North America for several multinational companies.

I am the founder of WebStoating s.r.o., an agency helping companies to create a successful online business. I use the Agile approach and Lean Startup methodology to minimize time to market, while paying special attention to the security and quality of the final product. Cloud computing and e-commerce are my fields of special interests.

       

Training room 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:30 - 13:55

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


Securing Open Source Code in Enterprise
Securing Open Source Code in Enterprise (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

In recent years, the number of open-source components used by developers to build software has seen immense growth. Millions of open-source libraries are distributed through centralized systems like Maven Central (Java), NPM (JavaScript), and GitHub (Go), and their widespread use means that bugs and vulnerabilities impact large numbers of downstream applications. In this talk, I will introduce the common security problems facing enterprises using open source code. We will also talk about how to manage the open source software risks using people, process and tools.

Speakers

Asankhaya Sharma

Head of R&D SourceClear

Dr. Asankhaya Sharma is a cyber security expert and technology leader with over a decade of experience in creating security products for industry, academia and open-source community. He is passionate about building high performing teams and taking innovative products to market. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology.
       

Training room 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


Client-Side encryption and zero-knowledge cryptosystem in JavaScript
Client-Side encryption and zero-knowledge cryptosystem in JavaScript (14:30 - 14:55)

About the session

The talk focuses on discussing the benefits, architecture and implementation of a zero knowledge system. This kind of a system facilitates the user's privacy as they would want to rely on the system that their data is not being stolen and they are not being spied upon. Using client side encryption, sensitive data is already being encrypted before being stored on the server. 

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/projects/6262315720638464/

Speakers

Tameesh Biswas

Developer Drupal

I'm Tameesh, a developer, open source enthusiast and a code fanatic.My life revolves around writing code to solve problems that I'm passionate about.

I'm presently a sophomore at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna majoring in Computer Science and Engineering.

       

Training room 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:30 - 14:55

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


Properly Securing NodeJS APIs
Properly Securing NodeJS APIs (15:00 - 15:25)

About the session

The way we write APIs is changing. SPA frameworks like Angular are shifting the paradigm of API consumption and to be effective developers we have to keep up. We often dedicate a lot of time in crafting powerful APIs that interact with many different clients, but overlook proper security measures that can come back to haunt us.In this talk, we'll look at the proper way to secure our API's with JSON Web Tokens. We'll go from learning what JSON Web Tokens are, why they're the driving force in API security, and to put theory into practice actually build a real world implementation using Node.js and Angular where we'll show common best practices.

Speakers

Chathu Vishwajith

Organizer Sri Lanka Unity Developers User Group

​​I'm a Co-Founder of a Startup where few of its products are powered by Full-stack JS. I'm an Auth0 Ambassador, Co-Organizer of Colombo JS Meetup and Organizer of Sri Lanka Unity Developers User Group. I have started working with NodeJS since 2012 and I love it. I Co-founded Colombo JS Meetup in 2013 and keep educating and having discussions about JS for almost four years now. Currently working on Full-stack sales app which has NodeJS backend to serve API and Angular 4 Dashboard with Ionic 3 Mobile app. 

     

Training room 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 15:00 - 15:25

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


PGP/GPG Key creation and signing event
PGP/GPG Key creation and signing event (15:30 - 15:55)

About the session

Let's get together and sign our PGP/GPG keys.

Speakers

Emin Aksehirli

Full Stack Developer DataSpark Pte. Ltd.

Dr. Emin Akşehirli is working as a full stack data wrangler at DataSpark. He is preparing data, developing algorithms, productionize them using DevOps techniques, and support them. He is a data scientist, an experienced Java developer, a former Java trainer, and most importantly an open/free culture advocate.

       

Training room 2-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 15:30 - 15:55

  •  
  • Cybersecurity


Training room 4-1
Introduction to Application Performance Monitoring
Introduction to Application Performance Monitoring (13:29 - 13:54)

About the session

Aravind will start by explaining about Application Performance Monitoring (APM). Why it is need of the hour?

Introduce Elastic's APM solution.

How the solution works and overall architecture.

Finally demo-ing the solution practically with a Python App.

1. https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

2. https://github.com/elastic/logstash

3. https://github.com/elastic/kibana

4. https://github.com/elastic/beats

5. https://github.com/elastic/apm-server

Speakers

Aravind Putrevu

Developer Advocate Elastic

Aravind currently he works at Elastic as Developer Advocate. He has deep interest in Machine Learning, Security Incident Analysis and IoT tech. In his free time, he plays around Raspi or a Arduino.

     

Training room 4-1

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:29 - 13:54

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Training room 4-2
Kotlin in Open Event Android
Kotlin in Open Event Android (10:00 - 10:25)

About the session

I will be talking about how we moved our legacy codebase which was in Java to Kotlin which is a more modern programming language with built-in support for various higher order functions which Java lacks.

I will be highlighting the pros and cons of the language and the difficulties we faced while doing so.

The talk is aimed at everyone who is either an android developer or someone who plans on getting into Android Development.

I will also outline how you, as a developer can contribute to the project.

Speakers

Harshit Dwivedi

Android Dev Lead FOSSASIA

       

Training room 4-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:00 - 10:25

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Kotlin Native workshop
Kotlin Native workshop (10:30 - 12:25)

About the session

Kotlin is a new cross-platform language which supports jvm/js/llvm platforms.In this workshop, we'll implement a simple client-server app using Kotlin Native. Kotlin is a great showcase of technology that could empower back-end, front-end, mobile and desktop solutions for business.

Speakers

Stepan Goncharov

Engineering Manager Grab

Stepan is an Android Developer Expert. He is leading Driver Android App development team at Grab. He is also one of the organizers of Kotlin user group in Singapore. 
       

Training room 4-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:30 - 12:25

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


High Performance ASP.NET Core
High Performance ASP.NET Core (12:30 - 13:25)

About the session

Microsoft released ASP.NET Core platform a while ago, and it is getting more and more popularity this year. New platform is no longer tightly coupled with Microsoft Windows and IIS anymore, developers can develop on Mac and deploy to Linux or via Docker containers. .NET Core and ASP.NET Core are free, open source and offer much better performance.The following session will address generic web-application performance-improvement techniques, such as I/O optimizations, caching, message queuing, and .NET Core and ASP.NET Core performance improvements. The audience will learn the details of the latest framework, real-life experience dealing with performance pitfalls and strategies of detecting and resolving issues earlier.

Speakers

Ilya Verbitskiy

Founder WebStoating

As a software engineer and software development manager in banking, finance and e-commerce sectors, I gained more than 10 years of experience in leading the development of complex software in teams, large and small. Before starting my own business, I worked in Europe and North America for several multinational companies.

I am the founder of WebStoating s.r.o., an agency helping companies to create a successful online business. I use the Agile approach and Lean Startup methodology to minimize time to market, while paying special attention to the security and quality of the final product. Cloud computing and e-commerce are my fields of special interests.

       

Training room 4-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 12:30 - 13:25

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Automating Processes ​Using TagUI Tool​
Automating Processes ​Using TagUI Tool​ (13:30 - 13:55)

About the session

TagUI is an open-source tool for automating UI interactions. Use cases include process automation, data acquisition and testing of web apps. It was built with focus on web-apps, but the focus is now expanding to desktop apps as well, using visual automation. Eventually, people will probably know it as an open-source RPA (robotic process automation) tool. It basically takes in 21 different human languages describing UI interactions and translate them into working JavaScript code to drive automation of sequences of actions (personal or business process workflows). It does not have AI / machine learning capabilities yet. Part of my job scope at AI Singapore is to integrate AI capabilities into the tool and continue releasing it with an open-source license. TagUI Features * automate Chrome, Firefox, PhantomJS * visual automation of websites and desktop * write in 20+ human languages & JavaScript * Chrome extension for recording web actions * unzip and run on macOS, Linux, Windows * R & Python integration for big data / AI * run by schedule, command line, API URL * advanced API / command calls to services

Speakers

Ken Soh

Open-source RPA Evangelist AI Singapore

Ken works on AI applications at AI Singapore, with a specific focus on using process automation to accelerate & scale digital processes. Prior to joining AI Singapore, Ken founded an open-source company, researching & developing TagUI automation software out of his Eastern Europe base in Budapest, Belgrade and Novi Sad. He previously held technical and leadership positions in DBS Technology and Operations, HP Enterprise Services, ADP Dealer Services and A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research. Ken is an e-Resident of Estonia, a participant of UN Global Compact and a patron of Mastodon - the world's largest open-source and decentralized social network.

   

Training room 4-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:30 - 13:55

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Mozilla's Common Voice
Mozilla's Common Voice (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

The Common Voice project is Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.

Voice is natural, voice is human. That’s why we’re fascinated with creating usable voice technology for our machines. But to create voice systems, an extremely large amount of voice data is required.

Most of the data used by large companies isn’t available to the majority of people. We think that stifles innovation. So we’ve launched Project Common Voice, a project to help make voice recognition open to everyone.

Speakers

Sandeep Kapalawai

Mozilla Rep Mozilla

     

Training room 4-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Angular Framework in Susper
Angular Framework in Susper (14:30 - 14:55)

About the session

Susper is a decentralized search engine that uses the peer to peer system YaCy and Apache Solr to crawl and index search results. The front-end of Susper has been developed using Angular v4 framework. I will be talking about how we worked on Susper using Angular which is a more modern programming language with the wide number of useful libraries available.

I will also highlight the advantages and disadvantages of Angular framework.

The talk is aimed for everyone who is either a web developer or who is planning to get into the field of Web-Development. I will also discuss how you, as a web developer can contribute to the project.

Speakers

Harshit Prasad

Developer FOSSASIA

An Open Source Enthusiast and Full Stack Developer. Learning Artificial Intelligence. Helping developers to build awesome stuff. I'm also a GSoC'17 participant, CodeHeat 2017 Mentor and GCI Mentor 2017 in FOSSASIA.

       

Training room 4-2

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:30 - 14:55

  •  
  • Web and Mobile


Training room 4-3
Building an open and a learning community
Building an open and a learning community (10:00 - 10:25)

About the session

A  fundamental challenge in many societies is peer learning and information sharing. We tend to group ourselves into our interests and professions and often miss out the issues and fears of the broader community.  Is it possible to get people from diverse occupations and age ranges to come together and learn from each other? We believe that such a learning and informed community will undoubtedly prefer adoption of open technologies and solutions. We will show you examples, and share some insights from Vietnam, Cambodia and Singapore, where we have some success encouraging community learning via un-conferences and small meetups. We also invite you to share your experiences with your city, school or organisations where people come together to learn from each other.

Speakers

Preetam Rai

Founder & Educator The Open School

Always somewhere.
     

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:00 - 10:25

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


How to Measure a Community's Health
How to Measure a Community's Health (10:30 - 10:55)

About the session

The Open Source and Standards team in Red Hat is using metrics more regularly to measure the health and activity levels of projects and their attendant communities. But the problem is not the data, it's figuring out what we need from the data.If you ask yourself "what makes my community healthy?" you may soon discover that the question is not so easily answered. Contribution levels, downloads, user interactions... these all sound good, but do they always answer the community health question? Depending on where a community is in its lifecycle, they may not. And, complicating the matter is that different projects have completely different end goals--more users vs. more contributors, for example. In this presentation, Brian Proffitt examines the questions that need to be asked in order to determine the answers for community health.

Speakers

Brian Proffitt

Principal Program Manager ‎Red Hat

Brian Proffitt is the Principal Community Analyst for Open Source and Standards team at Red Hat, responsible for community metrics, onboarding, and support. A former technology journalist, Brian is also a graduate lecturer at the University of Notre Dam
   

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:30 - 10:55

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


YouthMobile Initiative Updates & Software Preservation and Sharing
YouthMobile Initiative Updates & Software Preservation and Sharing (11:00 - 11:25)

About the session

The YouthMobile Initiative builds on the experience of many worldwide initiatives that introduce young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-learn). It also seeks to build on experiences targeting young women who are vastly underrepresented in this field. Finally it builds on the consideration that for millions of young people, the smartphone in their pocket is a very powerful computer, it will be their only computer, and they use it for nearly every aspect of their lives: communicating, learning, taking pictures, and playing games.

Speakers

Davide Storti

FOSS Programme Manager UNESCO

Davide is working as a FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He co-leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

   

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:00 - 11:25

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Oman FOSS Initiative
Oman FOSS Initiative (11:30 - 11:55)

About the session

Free & Open Source Software Initiative (FOSSI) is declared since 2010 as part of eOman strategy, to support all applications and technologies that used to develop the IT Sector in Oman. The initiative focuses in below 5 pillars:

  1. Raise Awareness

  2. Capacity building

  3. Encourage FOSS solutions development

  4. Provide Support

  5. Encourage deployment

The prime activities carried out in the imitative were Workshops, seminars, symposiums, conferences, etc… about FOSS philosophy, applications, etc... Specialized workshops and training about certain programming languages or applications were executed on past 7 years and planned to continue for coming years. These activities are aligned with media awareness campaigns, contents and development competitions in FOSS solutions.

This session will share Oman FOSS Initiative achievements, challenges & future plan.

Speakers

Khalil AlMaawali

Project Executive Oman FOSS Initiative

 

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 11:30 - 11:55

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Introduction to Transtats
Introduction to Transtats (12:30 - 12:55)

About the session

In overall success of localization timely translation and their packaging/shipping for targeted release matter the most. Plus packaged translations should be tested as well. In some cases upstream manages the workflow and in another may it be managed for downstream only. In total a sync between upstream, translation platform and build system seem missing. Which actually results in delay or poor localized interfaces. Transtats is an attempt to fill this gap. It answers some of the questions like (1) Translation status of packages at all three places (2) Translation workload estimation for coming release (3) Translation coverage of a list of packages in a set of languages for a given release. Along with this, it can automate a few steps of l10n workflow as well.Lets discuss Transtats in detail. This project is in early phase of development and any feedback would be of great help!

Speakers

Sundeep Anand

Software Engineer Red Hat

   

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 12:30 - 12:55

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Using pro-bono data science to make the world a little better
Using pro-bono data science to make the world a little better (13:00 - 13:25)

About the session

Altruistic data scientists are always trying to make a positive impact society. Non-profits often lack the resources and know how to analyse and exploit their (or open) data. DataKind SG is non-profit organisation dedicated to bring data scientists and non-profits together to make good things happen. We are part of the global DataKind network headquartered in New York.

We will share our learning for our two DataDives and one DataCorps over the last year. The projects we did cover the gamut from healthcare to ecological conservation.

Speakers

Raymond Chan

Chapter Lead DataKind Singapore

Raymond Chan has been a Chapter Lead with DataKind Singapore since 2016. His primary role is data science advocacy and liaison with the non-profit sector. In practice, he tries his best to drag non-profits kicking and screaming into the age of data by demonstrating the value data in creating social impact with DataKind volunteer base.

When not doing pro bono data science or working in his day job at Lazada, he enjoys travelling and eating insects.

     

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:00 - 13:25

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Federated Instant Messaging with Jabber/XMPP
Federated Instant Messaging with Jabber/XMPP (13:30 - 13:55)

About the session

This talk will look back at four years of development of a popular (in its niche :-) ) Jabber/XMPP client for Android and explain why we need open, standardized protocols for secure and private communication but also explain the challenges that go along with it. The talk will hit the following topics.

* Why is federated (provider independent) instant messaging important?

* Can Jabber/XMPP be a solution? Is fragmentation a problem and if so how can we solve it?

* What challenges did we have to overcome in the past (Push Notifications, Battery consumption, E2E encryption)

* What challenges are left?

Speakers

Daniel Gultsch

Head of Development Conversations

I'm a software developer and consultant. I'm mostly known for my involvement in the Jabber/XMPP community and for being the lead developer of the Conversations project - a popular Jabber/XMPP client for Android.

     

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 13:30 - 13:55

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Only Empty Lip Service ? Free Software Development in Taiwan
Only Empty Lip Service ? Free Software Development in Taiwan (14:00 - 14:25)

About the session

As a teaching assistant in college, we assign students to interview on people about how much do they know about free software.From the 1100 data, we receive some interesting response, where most of the interviewee agree on the spirit of free software，however，when it comes to "actual appliance on real lives", only few of them choose to stick to free software.What makes the distance between "agree to it" and "do it" ?

Speakers

Chen, Yi - Xi

Electrical Engineer Student NCKU

Third grade college student who major in electrical engineering.

2016 information volunteer in Mongolia, teaching Maker skill and opensource software.

Teaching assistant in college, promoting the value of free software .

     

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:00 - 14:25

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Wrangling Healthcare Open Data Project
Wrangling Healthcare Open Data Project (14:30 - 14:55)

About the session

A talk about my experience with managing an open data open source project. 

Healthcare ASEAN. https://github.com/DataKind-SG/healthcare_ASEAN

The pitfalls of managing such a project, the mistakes as well as tips and tricks I have learned from it. The various difficulties and how to overcome them.

Speakers

Yue Lin Choong

Director Women Who Code

Coding for 20 years, and still loving it.
     

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 14:30 - 14:55

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Sustainability of Open Source in International Development: A new approach from the United Nations Foundation
Sustainability of Open Source in International Development: A new approach from the United Nations Foundation (15:00 - 15:25)

About the session

Today’s global climate of international development funding cuts, along with growing challenges in sustainability of FOSS projects generally, means we need to focus on co-investment in shared resources for those projects -- the mission of the DIAL Open Source Center.

Duplication of effort, flawed funding models, and overall lack of project maturity has led to the failure of most free & open source software projects in the international development space. In this talk, we'll discuss the new Open Source Center at the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), an initiative of the United Nations Foundation. The Center's aim is to help increase those projects' maturity, quality, and reach -- with a goal of advancing an inclusive digital society using FOSS for the poorest places on the planet.

Speakers

Michael Downey

Director of Community, Digital Impact Alliance United Nations Foundation

Michael Downey is the Director of Community for the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) Open Source Center, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation. The Center is a collaborative community promoting knowledge sharing, collaboration, and co-investment in technology and human capacity to support positive social change in FOSS communities around the world.

     

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 15:00 - 15:25

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Forking in today’s world
Forking in today’s world (15:30 - 15:55)

About the session

Forking in the Open Source world means going with different goals and design directions. How do you pick a winner? How do you be a forking winner? Practical examples from the MariaDB world (MySQL fork), as well as lessons from other projects like LibreOffice, LibreSSL, SuiteCRM, and Jenkins. I will also focus on what it means to fork today in the cryptocurrency world, and how you might benefit from the open source knowledge of past, to bet on the right horse!

Speakers

Colin Charles

Chief Evangelist Percona

Colin Charles is the Chief Evangelist at Percona. He was previously on the founding team of MariaDB Server in 2009, and had worked at MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within open source communities in APAC, and has spoken at many conferences.

     

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 15:30 - 15:55

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


The Four Temperaments of human beings
The Four Temperaments of human beings (16:00 - 16:25)

About the session

The four classical temperaments are Melancholic, Phlegmatic, Sanguine and Choleric. Temperaments are more core to individuals than personality. Each temperament has unique qualities, strengths and weaknesses. In this short talk their correspondence to the modern psychological DISC personality types will be shown. It is interesting to discover that the human temperaments are not just psychological but can also express themselves physically. By the end of the session we will attempt to group the participants by their dominant temperament and see if there are any commonalities.

Understanding the four temperaments and how they relate, helps one to understand people in daily life and improve human interactions in the workplace, at home, and outside.

Speakers

Jens Petersen

Engineering Manager Red Hat

Jens Petersen is a FOSS professional, who works in Software Engineering at Red Hat. He has been involved in the Linux OS, Haskell and FOSS communities for many years and is a strong advocate of typed functional programming and Haskell in particular.

       

Training room 4-3

Sunday, 25th Mar, 16:00 - 16:25

  •  
  • Open Data, Internet Society, Community


Training room 4-4
CentOS Coderdojo
CentOS Coderdojo (10:00 - 16:00)

About the session

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code. We’re also expanding the availability of CentOS images across a number of vendors, providing official images for Amazon, Google, and more. For self-hosted cloud, we also provide a generic cloud-init enabled image.

CoderDojo is a movement is a grassroots organisation with individual clubs (called "Dojos") acting independently. Supporters of CoderDojo believe it is part of the solution to addressing the global shortage of programmers by exposing young people to ICT at a young age.

Speakers

Rich Bowen

OpenStack Community Liaison, Red Hat CentOS

Documentation specialist: I have written a dozen books about the Apache HTTP Server, and have participated in the writing of the official online documentation for the server.Programmer: I've worked as a programmer for 15 years, mostly in Perl and PHP, in Web Application Development.Communication: I've spent many years teaching technology classes, both in small group settings, and in auditorium settings, both at conferences and as a corporate trainer.Specialties: * Perl* PHP* Documentation* Communication* Training

     

Training room 4-4

Sunday, 25th Mar, 10:00 - 16:00

  •  
  • CentOS Coderdojo


Rooms List

Event Hall 1-1
Event Hall 2-1
Event Hall 2-2
Exhibition - Hardware Corner
Exhibition - Pocket Science Lab
Exhibition - Tinker Table
Exhibition Stage
Lecture Theatre
Lounge @Exhibition
Theatre Lounge
Training Room 1-1
Training room 2-1
Training room 2-2
Training room 4-1
Training room 4-2
Training room 4-3
Training room 4-4

Tracks List

Blockchain
CentOS Coderdojo
Cloud, Container, DevOps
Cybersecurity
Database
Kernel & Platform
Open Data, Internet Society, Community
Open Design, IoT, Hardware, Imaging
Open Event Solutions
Open Source in Business
Science Tech
UNESCO Hackathon
Web and Mobile