User:Bluejuana/FOSSASIA

FOSSASIA develops open source software and open hardware together with a global developer community from its base in Asia and was founded by Hong Phuc Dang and Mario Behling in 2009. The goal of the organization is to improve people’s lives and create a sustainable future with open technologies, that can be used by anyone. . It is incorporated and run from its headquarters in Singapore. Projects developed by FOSSASIA include Open Event, SUSI.AI, Yaydoc and many others, which are all licensed as Free and Open Source Software. The FOSSASIA Summit is an Open Technology event in Asia which attracts thousands of developers taking place one month after Lunar New Year every year. Previous events were in Vietnam , Cambodia and Singapore. With partners such as the UNESCO and Google

FOSSASIA Projects
The FOSSASIA mission states that the aim of the organization is to “develop Open Technologies for social change” and “solutions that improve people’s lives”. The code of FOSSASIA applications as well schematics of Open Hardware projects are available as Open Source online. The main projects of FOSSASIA are:
 * Open Event, an event management systems with applications for different platforms
 * SUSI.AI, an artificial intelligence personal assistant
 * Meilix, a Linux distribution generator
 * PSLab, pocket science laboratory hardware and applications for Android and desktop
 * loklak, a social media message search engine and analytics tool
 * Phimpme, image app for Android
 * Susper, a search engine based on the Yacy peer to peer network
 * Query Server, a tool to collect results of different search engines with one query and render them as RSS feeds
 * Badge Magic, an app that let you create moving text and draw clip arts for to LED name badges
 * Neurolab, a neuro-device as a headband with integrated electronics.
 * Badgeyay, Badgeyay is a Badge generator with a simple web UI to add data and generate printable badges in a PDF.

FOSSASIA Community and Developer Programs
More than 4300 developers are registered as FOSSASIA contributors on GitHub. Thousands of code commits are made every year. In order to attract more developers and educate students about technology development FOSSASIA organizes and participates in education and coding programs. Since 2016 it organizes the programming contest #CodeHeat, It has organized a training program with the UNESCO and GIZ and it is a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code since 2011 and in Google Code-In since 2014 bringing young talents to field of opensource around the world.

FOSSASIA Events
FOSSASIA organizes meetups across Asia all year around. The most famous event is the annual FOSSASIA Summit. Others are Science Hack India and together with the Science Centre Singapore, the Science Hack Day Singapore.


 * The event of 2020 will take place in Singapore from Thursday March 19 - Saturday March 21, 20. After the event there will be a DevSprint on Sunday March 22, 2020.
 * There are many other OpenTechSummit events across the world (Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Sigapore, Japan, Myanmar, Europe, Germany, Austria, China, Indochina, etc.
 * Pycon also happening in many countries worldwide (China, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Singapore, Germany, Indochina)

Since the first FOSSASIA meetup in 2009 in Ho Chi Minh City, FOSSASIA has taken the lead to organize Free and Open Source Software conferences in Asia. Past FOSSASIA events have attracted thousands of participants, speakers from 41 countries, and hundreds of volunteers. The FOSSASIA Summit has an over the average participation of female technologists.

FOSSASIA Summit
The annual FOSSASIA Summit was established in 2009 to bring together Free and Open Source Software developers in Asia. Over the years the event expanded in size and thematically with dedicated tracks for Open Hardware, Open Science, and Open Source Design. Some speakers featured in FOSSASIA Summit in recent years are: • Bunnie Huang

• Mitch Altman

• Dr Koh tat Suan

• Vlado Koljibabic

• Kaz Soto

• Chris Aniszczyk

Code Heat Program
In the Heat of the Code(Code Heat) is a coding contest for FOSSASIA projects on GitHub.

The contest runs until February 2, 2020. Grand prize winners will be invited to present their work at the FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit in Singapore from March 19-22, 2020 and will get up to 600 SGD in travel funding to attend, plus a free speaker ticket.

Our jury will choose three winners from the top 10 contributors according to code quality and relevance of commits for the project. The jury also takes other contributions like submitted scrum reports and technical blog posts into account, but of course awesome code is the most important item on the list.

Other participants will have the chance to win Tshirts, Swag and vouchers to attend Open Tech events in the region and will get certificates of participation.

The idea of the Codeheat contest is to introduce developers to the FOSSASIA projects and to provide an opportunity to build up their development profile, learn how to work according to Best Development Practices and ultimately become part of the development team. The contest also provides an entry point and preparation for future coding programs like the FOSSASIA Google Summer of Code(GSoc).

Many young developers are not yet deeply familiar with Open Source and the contest is an easy way to get involved in this international community of developers, who want to help you learn and succeed. The contest is a gateway to learning new skills as well as learning to work in a collaborative software development team. At the end of the contest, developers can show their friends, teachers, co-developers and family members the work they did on public repositories and the project applications itself - used by people around the world.

Since its inculcation the FOSSASIA Code heat program has received an immense response from developers around the world with over 700 participants registering for the program in 2018-19. The participants not only learnt and developed their skills among others in the FOSSASIA Developer community but also helped make major developments in the organization's various ventures including SUSI.AI Web Client, PSLab(Pocket Science Lab) etc. to name a few. More than 2000 pull requests were merged during last year's contest. Participants also submitted scrum reports, wrote blog posts and created entirely new projects in the FOSSASIA community.

FOSSASIA Team
FOSSASIA has team members worldwide who help nurture the community and improve Open Technology together. They organize events and lead projects such as SUSI.AI or PSLab. Some prominent members of the FOSSASIA Team include :


 * Hong Phuc Dang
 * Mario Behling
 * Eden Dang
 * Daniel Blueman
 * Justin Lee
 * Chung Wei Tat
 * Harish Pillay
 * Roland Turner
 * Davide Storti
 * Colin Charles

2009
The first event organized by the FOSSASIA team was GNOME.Asia in Vietnam in 2009 with 1400 participants and 138 volunteers over three days. 60% of participants were women. The idea of the FOSSASIA Summit is based on the 2009 success.

2010
FOSSASIA 2010 was held at Raffles College in Ho Chi Minh City from November 12–14, 2010. The focus of 2010 was "Lightweight Computing and Women in IT". Important Speakers at the event were Jon Phillips, from the Open Clip Art Library and co-founder of Inkscape, Jan Suhr from Crypto-Stick, Pierros Papadeas, developer at Fedora (operating system), Dietrich Ayala, Mozilla developer and Michael Howden from Sahana Eden.

2011
FOSSASIA 2011 was held at Van Lang University in Ho Chi Minh City on November 11–12, 2011. Davide Storti from the UNESCO Open Source Department, Jonas Smedegaard, Developer at Debian, Sven Berg Ryen, from Drupal and Justin Lee, mobile developer and Geekcamp Singapore organizer. More than 60% of participants were female.

2012
The FOSSASIA Open Design Weeks were held at different locations and times in Vietnam in 2012. The goal of the events was to foster sharing of graphic designs, Libre Graphics, Free and Open Source software, Open Content, FashionTec projects and to feature the maker community. Speakers included Pierre Marchand, Scribus developer and artist, Alexandre Leray, graphic designer, Stephanie Villayphou, media designer and Pierre Huyghebaert, designer of typography and animations and co-founder of Hammerfonts.

2014
FOSSASIA 2014 was held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from February 28 to March 2, 2014. The event had over 800 attendees, 71 International Speakers, 121 Talks, Workshops and Panels in eight tracks. Speakers at the event included Colin Charles, Community Manager of MariaDB, Cat Allman, Open Source Manager at Google, Dominik Stankowski, board member of the TYPO3 Foundation, Chia-Liang Kao from the Open Data community, and Bastian Bittorf.

2015
FOSSASIA 2015 took place in Singapore from March 13–15. Speakers included Lennart Poettering, main developer of Pulse Audio and systemd, Kushal Das, Director of the Python Software Foundation, and Julien Lavergne from the Lubuntu project. The topics covered were smart city and design, big data, and open source software and hardware. FOSSASIA 2015 was sponsored by Google, mySQL and Oracle.

2016
FOSSASIA 2016 event took place in the Science Centre Singapore.

2017
FOSSASIA 2017 took place in the Science Centre Singapore. Keynote speakers were Singapore government CTO ... RailsGirls

2018
FOSSASIA 2018 took place in March 2018 in Singapore.

2019
FOSSASIA 2019 took place in March 14 - 17, 2019 Event Speakers