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FOSSASIA:(An Open Source Community):
FOSSASIA is a non-profit organization supporting developers and makers of Free and Open Source technologies. It was founded by Hong Phuc Dang and Mario Behling. The aim of FOSSASIA is to develop and adapt open technologies for social change with a focus on Asian users. The FOSSASIA Summit takes place annually one month after the Lunar New Year. It also participates in GOOGLE Code-in every year. Google Code-in is an annual programming competition hosted by Google Inc. that allows pre-university students to complete tasks specified by    various, partnering open source organizations. The contest was originally the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, but in 2010, the format was modified into its current state. Students that complete tasks win certificates and T-shirts. Each organization also selects two grand prize award winners who will earn a trip to Google's Headquarters located in Mountain View, California.

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Charles Colin
MariaDB - Malaysia, Colin Charles works at Monty Program Ab, on MariaDB, and Open Ocean INVESTMENTS on Web of Trust, and MoSync. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's spoken at many conferences - linux.conf.au, The MySQL Conference & Expo, foss.in, to name a few. MariaDB is a branch of the popular open-source database MySQL, created by the founders and early coders at MySQL. It was created to ensure that the database always remains available as open-source, and to be more inclusive to community members. Along the way it has grown to having more features, including being more robust, adding features like virtual columns, pluggable authentication and also provides an access to a varied amount of storage engines.

Talk: MariaDB MySQL Next Generation

Current:	MariaDB Corporation, Charles Ventures, Grok Content

Websites:	Personal Website,Blog,Company Website

Project:    https://mariadb.org

Website:  http://bytebot.net/blog/

Personal Website

Company Website

Cat Allmann
Google – USA, Cat Allman is the group program manager at Google, Inc. She manages outreach to the global FOSS community with her team. She runs student programs such as Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in, sponsor and host FOSS project events, and fund a wide variety of projects. Cat speaks at conferences, and in her spare time is a co-organizer and the logistics lead for Science Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only un-conference for scientists.

Talk: Keynote Google Summer of Code, Past, Present and Future

@catallmann

Kushal Das
Fedora – India, Kushal Das is a long-time Fedora developer & ambassador, maintaining the package collection, localization, bug fixing, interfacing with upstream developers and end-users. In his free time he loves to hack on Python and also a member of Python Software Foundation. He is also a developer of various upstream applications and tools.

Talk: Testing Fedora cloud images in Eucalyptus private cloud.

Current:	Red Hat, Python Software Foundation, Fedora Project

Previous:	Eucalyptus Systems Inc., Red Hat, Comat

Education:	B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering

Websites:	Blog,My photos

@kushaldas

kushaldas.in

My Photos

Michael Cannon
Wordpress – USA, Michael is the founder of Aihrus, the company provides TYPO3 and WordPress solutions, develops software-based products, and designs business, IT, and software development related mentoring around the world. Michael is an adventurous water-rat, chief people officer, cyclist, full stack developer, poet, WWOOF’er, and world traveler. At his core, he is happiest being productive, doing something different, living simply, and sharing with people.

Talk: WordPress plugin development for brand awareness and profit

Current:	Axelerant, Aihrus

Previous:	Axelerant, TYPO3 Vagabond, in2code

Education:	The Healing Hands Center

@comprock

aihr.us

Lyle Kozloff
Asian Hope – USA, Lyle Kozff was born in sunny southern California, USA and studied computer engineering at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. He's been living and working overseas since 2005 when he left home to volunteer with the US Peace Corps in Benin, West Africa to use his tech skills on a grassroots level. After a brief, two year, stopover in Japan he came to Cambodia and hasn't left since. In the past 5 years he's doggedly pushed for open source software as a means to freedom, cost-savings and ethics.

Talk: A Pragmatic Stack: K-12 education using FOSS

@lkozloff

Hong Phuc Dang
Fossasia Vietnam, Hong Phuc is an internationally educated business professional with focus on open technologies, business development, and marketing. She has extensive knowledge and technical expertise in information technologies and developer community engagement. Hong Phuc works as an external consultant for top International data corporations and post companies conducting research and interviews with executives and key influencers in the ICT industry as well as government actors in Asia. She also provides bottom up ICT trainings for teachers for development agencies and corporate organizations. Hong Phuc founded FOSSASIA 2009.

Panel: Women in Technology

Current:	Hotel Xoai, HP Dang Consulting, FOSSASIA

Previous:	GIZ, Phuong Chau Hospital, GNOME.Asia

Education:	University of Wales, Singapore Campus

Websites:	Company Website,Blog,RSS feed

@hpdang

blog.fossasia.org

Company Website

RSS Feed

Mario Behling
FOSSASIA - Germany, Mario is a German born technologist and social entrepreneur mostly known as the founder of Lubuntu and FOSSASIA. Mario works with Open Technology communities around the world and started a number of businesses based on Free and Open Source Software. He currently lives between his hometown Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam. Life and Work: Mario is the blogger behind Freifunk since 2005. He organizes code programs for students and works closely with community networkers from Ninux.org in Italy and Guifi.net in Spain. In 2009 Mario helped to expand the LXDE community from Taiwan and founded the Linux distribution Lubuntu after a meeting with Mark Shuttleworth. After starting a software company in Vietnam he decided together with Hong Phuc Dang to start the Open Technology organization FOSSASIA. The first conference under the FOSSASIA label took place in 2010 in Vietnam. Following events were again in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Phnom Penh (2014) and Singapore (2015). Another project Mario has worked on with Mike Dawson in 2010 was 'One Laptop per Child' in Afghanistan, where he supported the deployment of 10,000 laptops and set up of local wireless mesh networks, that provide educational content to students and the local community. During a two week fashion and technology workshop with Susan Spencer in Madrid in 2014 Mario developed the draft of an Open Format for measurements and human data, the Human Definition Format. Returning to Berlin as his main place of activities in 2014, he recognized the need for the fashion and hardware community to meet and work on projects. Here he started the MeshCon FashionTec Week with Andre Rebentisch, that was held for the first time in October at the TU Berlin and the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Other Influences: Mario has been an active member and supporter of Open Knowledge projects and developed the idea of a wiki dictionary (wiktionary) website, that was based on the input of users at the beginning of the 2000s. It was later also developed by Larry Sanger under the same name. Mario was also present at the founding of the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. on June 13, 2004. As he lacked interest in administrative association work at this time he did not join the German Verein.

Talk: Network and Internet Development in Cambodia

Current:	MeshCon, FOSSASIA, MBM International

Previous:	GNOME.Asia, Paiwastoon Networking Services Ltd., FOSS Bridge

Education:	Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

@mariobehling

mariobehling.de

Harish Pillay
Current:	Red Hat, Maringo Tree Technologies Pte Ltd

Previous:	Singapore Civil Defence Force, Inquisitive Mind Pte Ltd, Brokat Asia

Education:	Oregon State University

Websites:	Blog

@harishpillay

harishpillay.wordpress.com

Justin Lee
Justin Lee is an application development consultant at BlackBerry. His role as a software development consultant for the past 8 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.

Talk: Open Source Apps on Blackberry devices

Current:	Freelance, hackerspace.sg, Tech65.org

Previous:	BlackBerry, Contentshare Pte Ltd, InCampus Pte Ltd

Education:	University of Waterloo

Websites:	JustinLee.sg, My MVP Profile, Company Website

@triplez82

justinlee.sg

My MPV Profile

Company Website

Preetam Rai
Little Lives – India, Preetam Rai is a teacher trainer with many years experience. He has designed and run professional development workshops for educators, edu-tech professionals, and education policymakers in South East Asia, China, Middle East, and South Pacific. He supports nonprofit organizations with skill building in community development and event management. He has also run workshops for large technology and media companies on trends in Asia and engagement techniques. Preetam Rai is currently the Director of Global Community at LittleLives.

Talk: Open Source in Education

Previous:	LittleLives, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Education:	University of Manitoba

Websites:	Blog

Blog

@preetamrai

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