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FOSSASIA is an organization developing and promoting Open Source technologies founded by Hong Phuc Dang and Mario Behling in 2009. . 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

FOSSASIA Community and Developer Programs
More than 1400 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.

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.

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.

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
The event took place in the Science Centre Singapore.

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

2018
The event took place in March 2018 in Singapore.