FOSSASIA

Projects

The organization offer resources and funding for projects and organizes meetups and code camps. There are more than one thousand members of FOSSASIA working together on projects such as Open Event, Susi AI and Loklak on Github.

Open Event

The Open Event Project by FOSSASIA is designed to facilitate the organisation of an event by streamlining the processes of event-planning, marketing, publishing and ticket sales. There are four components to the entire project, namely, the Open Event Format Definition, the Open Event Orga Server, the Open Event Android App Generator as well as the Open Event Web App Generator. The Open Event Project was initially started to provide support for the organisation of the annual FOSSASIA Summit, and has been maintained by the FOSSASIA community ever since.

Susi AI

Susi is a personal assistant which utilises the concept of artificial intelligence to provide assistance to users. It is capable of plugging into social networks and messengers such as Twitter to obtain large amount of data. An Android app for Susi is currently under the early stages of development, and its aim is to provide a conversational interface with users by replying the user with intelligent answers. Susi AI is fully customizable and developed by a community of developers.

Loklak

Loklak is a distributed social media message search server, which is able to collect messages from various social media sources such as Twitter. Through Loklak, users can collect, search, download and visualise messages from a wide network of social media platforms. For instance, users can utilise Loklak to analyse large amounts of Tweets as a source of statistical data.

Pocket Science Lab

Pocket Science Lab is a project which enables open-source science experiments and data acquisition systems for education and research. It provides an array of essential equipment for performing scientific and engineering experiments. It can function as an oscilloscope, waveform generator, frequency counter, programmable voltage and current source and also as a data logger. The project is powered by Python and was originally inspired by ExpEYES.

Engelsystem Shift Management System

Engelsystem is a shift and volunteer management application for events written in PHP and originally deployed for CCC conferences in Germany. It was later adapted for use at FOSSASIA and is co-developed by the FOSSASIA community.

FashionTec & Machine Knitting

FOSSASIA's FashionTec projects seek to incorporate technology into garment and textile production and enable textile creators all over the world to share instructions, patterns, software and hardware layouts. The main focus of FOSSASIA's FashionTec project is knitting. The concept behind FashionTec is to create a knitting library for a format that allows conversion of knitting projects, patterns and tutorials. While existing communities tend to focus only on the knitting format for their own machines, FOSSASIA adopts a different approach and should be able to support the efforts of all knitting communities.

Susper Search Engine

Susper is a decentralised search engine implemented using the peer to peer search technology of YaCy and search engine applications such as Apache Solr to crawl and index search results. Technologies used in Susper include YaCy, Apache Solr, Backbone.js, Javascript, HTML, CSS and JSON.

WordPress Plugins

FOSSASIA also develops quite a number of social search plugins and widgets for WordPress.com/Wordpress, a popular blog hosting service.

Flappy SVG Game

Flappy SVG was modeled after the popular 2013 mobile application, Flappy Bird. It is an obstacle-based game where users can add their own characters, levels and various functionalities.

PhimpMe

The main aim of the PhimpMe Project is to enable users to easily enhance and upload their photos via the PhimpMe App to any social media platform or open-source service like Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla. FOSSASIA develops the Android app and plugins for content management systems.

Linux

Linux is the operating system and foundation for many of FOSSASIA's projects. Through Linux, the FOSSASIA community adapts existing solutions and build distributions for users all over the world.

FOSSASIA Summit

Since its implementation in 2009, the summit has attracted over 3000 developers, start-ups and IT professionals.

History

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.

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 on 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 from Freifunk.

2015

FOSSASIA 2015 took place at Biopolis Matrix and Launchpad Campus in Block 71 and 79, Singapore from March 13–15. Speakers included Lennart Poettering, main developer of Pulse Audio and systemd, Kushal Das, Director of the Python Software Foundation, André Rebentisch, board member of the FFII 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, RedHat, Treasure Data, Python, Uptime, Mozilla, MBM, Internet Society (Singapore Chapter) and Oracle.

2016

FOSSASIA 2016 took place in Science Centre Singapore from March 18 to 20. 37 nationalities participated this time. Speakers at the event included Cat Allman, Open Source Manager at Google, Davide Storti, FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, Mike McQuaid, software engineer at GitHub, Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist for MariaDB, Ricky Setyawan, MySQL Principal Sales Consultant for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Pakistan. FOSSASIA 2016 was sponsored by Red Hat, Google, GitHub, MySQL, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, gandi.net, General Assembly and Internet Society Singapore.

2017

FOSSASIA 2017 will take place once again at the Science Centre Singapore from 17 March to 19 March 2017. Topics range from open hardware, design to graphics and software. Over 15 tracks will be implemented at the summit, which include Open Source Software,Policies,Design Hacking,Virtual Reality,Hardware, Internet & Society, Health and Citizen Science. In addition, a dedicated kids tech track will also be held for younger attendees during the FOSSASIA 2017 weekend. Currently, sponsors for FOSSASIA 2017 include MBM International and the FFII. FOSSASIA is set over three days of talks and workshops for OpenTech enthusiasts.First day will be Business Day, Second day will be on Full Monty Open Tech in 15 tracks with Talks and Workshops which will be continued till the third day

Codeheat

Codeheat is a coding contest organised by FOSSASIA from 25 September 2016 to 3 February 2017. Participants are encouraged to contribute to three of FOSSASIA's projects, namely 'the Open Event Orga Server', 'Susi App and Susi Messenger Bots', and 'Loklak search'. Three winners will be selected out of the top ten contributors to present their work at the FOSSASIA Summit 2017 at the Science Centre Singapore from 17 March to 19 March 2017 and will get up to 450 USD in travel funding to attend, plus a free speaker ticket. The three winners will be chosen based on their code quality and relevance of commits for the project. Other top ten finalists will receive a 100USD travel voucher for a conference of their choice, as well as a free ticket to the FOSSASIA summit. Certificates of participation will also be awarded to participants who manage to get at least five pull requests merged during the contest period.

Codeheat is organised in collaboration with UNESCO and OpenTech.

Science Hack Day

FOSSASIA also organizes various Science Hack Day events across Asia. The aim of Science Hack Day is to bring together innovators, developers, hackers and science enthusiasts to create a science hack at the end of the 2 days. Hacks created during Science Hack Day can include innovative software, hardware, APIs, or anything related to science and/or technology. Previous Science Hack Day events organised by FOSSASIA were held in India (Belgaum) and Singapore.

Science Hack Day India

Science Hack Day India took place in Belgaum, India from 22 to 23 October 2016. The event was the first Science Hack Day event to be held in India, and was jointly organised by FOSSASIA, Mhadei Research Centre and Sankalp Bhumi Farm Resort. There were a total of 10 sponsors supporting the efforts of Science Hack Day India, including C-Spark Research, Deepak Constructions and Rachana Infotech. The team from S.G. Balekundri Institute of Technology eventually won first place out of the 11 participating teams. Their winning entry was a "Sun Tracking Solar Cells" model, which aimed to increase the efficiency of a solar cell by up to 30 percent.

Science Hack Day Singapore

Science Hack Day Singapore took place at Suntec City Convention Hall from 11 to 12 November 2016. The event also marked the first time Science Hack Day was held in Singapore. It was organised by FOSSASIA in collaboration with Science Centre Singapore. The venue was sponsored by IDA Singapore in conjunction with the ICM Youth Festival held over the two days. The 'Best Science Hack Award' was presented to a team from Singapore at the end of the two days, which had designed an EMG controlled prosthetic arm.

Contributions

FOSSASIA has participated in open-source programs such as Google Summer of Code since 2011 and in Google Code-In since 2014.

Google Summer of Code

FOSSASIA has been participating in Google Summer of Code since 2011, an open-source program by Google which offers stipends to students to write code for open-source projects. Some of FOSSASIA's Google Summer of Code's projects in 2016 include enhancing the FOSSASIA Open Event Android App and improving tooling for sTeam collaboration platform. Other projects relating to Open Event Loklak, and Pocket Science Lab were also completed.

Google Code-in

For the third year running, FOSSASIA has been participating as a mentoring organisation in Google Code-in, another open-source competition by Google aimed at introducing pre-university students to open-source. In 2014, FOSSASIA was the organisation with the most number of tasks completed by students, at 587 tasks. In 2016, students participating in the contest with FOSSASIA also worked on a website together to share about their experiences with the FOSSASIA community and Google Code-in. Past websites for GCI 2014 and GCI 2015 were also completed.