Wrap up FOSSASIA 2011
FOSSASIA 2011 was held at Van Lang University in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam from November 11 to 12, 2011. The event attracted 798 participants in 2 days including students, developers, business professionals and government officials. The majority of the attendees (2/3) were from universities, the remainder from companies. Ninety percent of the participants were local (from Vietnam) with the remainder from other countries. We had 36 volunteers from Ho Chi Minh University of Technology (BKK), University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam Lubuntu group and many individual contributors, who helped us in many ways including registration, guidance, emcees, photography and video.
There were a total of 24 speakers, 60% were local speakers and 40% of them were from other countries, including USA, France, Denmark, Cambodia, Germany, Singapore etc. There were 26 talks over the two days.
Highlights of the Event
The talks covered several topics categorized into four main tracks including: Mobile solutions, Web technologies, Operating Systems/applications and Women in IT. The first day started with a general session in the morning and was followed by 4 tracks in the afternoon. The second day had several tracks starting in the morning.
Talks, Keynotes and Projects
The first day of the event started with talks in the main hall. In his keynote Dung Nguyen, the president of Van Lang University, gave an introduction here to the current Open Source education across universities in Vietnam and expressed his great interest on promoting more Free and Open Source Software inside the University's technology department.
It was exciting to learn about UNESCO and the Free Software Community in the talk of Davide Storti - member UNESCO Open Suite Team. Our annual speaker Chantra Be from Cambodia again brought us a excellent insight to Open Technology in Cambodia.Creative Mobile Technologies from Vietnam were presented by Ian Morrison, the founder of GKIM Vietnam. Students had the chance to get a better understanding how open source is used in everyday businesses.
Focusing on education in schools Nancie Severs introduced her beautiful work with the One Laptop Per Child Project in north of Vietnam. Many Linux related talks dealt with questions about web installations and Content Management Systems like Drupal. Anh Tuan Truong (Vietnam) introduced new features in Fedora Linux after the release of version 15.
On the second day students had the chance to learn in depth about Open Source software projects in workshops and panels. One of the most exciting get together happened at "Women in IT". The meet up attracted around 50 young girls who showed great interest and passion about open education and the global contribution of girls in Asia to FOSS projects.
After the Event
A number of get together and hacker meetings took place after FOSSASIA.
Debian Hack during Mekong Tour
We had a wonderful weekend in the Mekong with Jonas Smedegaard, a Debian Developer from Denmark. Jonas got met with a few local developers and conducted a Debian session where he showed people how to set up debian server and to develop an automatic SMS service on a cheap mobile device.
Student Code Programs After FOSSASIA 2011
Another big goal of us after the event was to "ignite" student study groups to join existing open source projects or start coding on their own ideas.
Apart from programs and meet ups with university students in the region after FOSSASIA, the FOSSASIA team was hapy to support students and mentors through the Google Summer of Code program. Google Summer of Code offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. Since 2011 FOSSASIA is a mentor organization at Google Summer of Code. FOSSASIA functions as an umbrella organization for a number of projects in the region and supports new coding ideas of students independently from a big Open Source project.
Schedule
The main topics of FOSSASIA 2011 are all related to Free and Open Source Software with a track for Mobile Solutions, Web Technologies, Operating Systems and Applications, and Women in IT.
Day | Time | Event | Location |
Thursday, Nov. 10 | 20.00 | Pre-Meeting | The Spotted Cow Bar111 Bui Vien, dist 1. HCMC (opposite to Happy Inn, closed to Pham Ngu Lao & De Tham / Google Maps) |
Friday, Nov. 11 | 9.00-17.00 | Info Day (15-20 min presentations about projects and set up of info tables) | Van Lang University, Campus 2 (Theatre Hall) |
Evening | Hack Sessions | City Cafe to be decided | |
Saturday, Nov.12 | 9.00-17.30 | Community Day (keynotes, talks, workshops) | Van Lang University, Campus 2 (Theatre Hall and Seminar Rooms) |
Evening | Social Meet Up | Location in the city to be announced | |
Sunday, Nov. 13 | 9.00-15.30 | Mekong Excursion organized by tour company | Mekong Delta |
FOSSASIA 2011 Tracks
Four sessions in parallel for FOSSASIA 2011.
a) Mobile solutions
* Android, MeeGo, Chrome OS, Symbian, Bada, OpenWrt and embedded Debian
* Frameworks and SDK including Phonegap
* Lightning talks with app presentations
c) Web Technologies
* Frameworks
* CMS
* HTML5
* Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP
d) Operating Systems and Applications
* new interface design and lightweight trends with KDE, GNOME, LXDE and XFCE
* Package design and development
b) Women in IT
While most Open Source and Free Software projects are based in Western countries there is an increasing number of projects from Asia. Women are also becoming a stronger force in the IT community. The FOSSASIA team strongly encourages the participation of young women and achieved this goal with an astounding participation of women in 2009 and 2010 – more than half of all attendees were women. How can we make this trend sustainable and support the flow of women into the technology companies?
Track | Topics |
Track 1: Mobile Solutions |
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Track 2: Web Technologies |
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Track 3: Operating Systems and Applications |
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Track 4: Fostering the Asian community and Women in IT |
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Schedule Friday 11. November 2011 | ||||
Time | Topic and Project | Speaker | Title/Organization | |
08:30 | Welcome – Hong Phuc Dang & Lilly Nguyen | |||
8:35 – 8:45 | IT in University Education | Dung | Nguyen | Van Lang University, President |
8:45 – 8:55 | New Open Technologies and Opportunities for Developers | Mario | Behling | MBM, Managing Director, Germany |
8:55 – 9:10 | Open Source in Vietnam | Phuc | V. Nguyen | Asia Institute of Management and Technology |
9:10 – 9:30 | Open Cambodia | Chantra | Be | Social Software Specialist, Cambodia |
9:30 – 9.50 | Undercover UXO, a Land Mine Risk Education Game for Children | Nancie | Severs | One Laptop per Child, USA |
9:50 – 10:10 | Lubuntu – Faster computing with less powerful hardware | Julien | Lavergne | Head Developer lubuntu, France |
10:10 – 10:30 | Debian Blends: Make your own 'blended' Linux distribution | Jonas | Smedegaard | Debian Developer, Denmark |
10:30 – 10:50 | Linux as a Real-Time Operating System | Hong | Tran Duc | Linux Developer, Vietnam |
10:50 – 11:10 | Achievements of applying the open source software at Van Lang Uni | Vinh | Nguyen | Van Lang University, IT Department |
11:10 – 11:30 | Open Source and Microsoft | Justin | Lee | Software Development Consultant (freelance) |
11:30 – 11:50 | UNESCO and the Free Software Community | Davide | Storti | UNESCO, Open Suite Team France |
12.00-13.30 | Lunch Break | |||
13:30 – 14:00 | LibreOffice on Smartphones | Hưng | Nguyễn Vũ | Libre Office Project, Vietnam |
14:00 – 14:20 | Strategy to make money on free mobile apps | Binh | Tran | App developer, Vietnam |
14:20 – 14:40 | Phonegap, App development with web technologies | Liem | Vo | App developer, Tech Propulsion Lab, Vietnam |
14:40 – 15:00 | Creative Mobile Technologies from Vietnam | Ian | Morrison | GKIM Vietnam, Founder |
15:00 – 15:20 | Android Development for postal companies | Thong | Tran | App developer, MBM, Vietnam |
15:20 – 15:30 | Using Mobile Technologies in DHIS Project | Long | Ngo Thanh | App developer, Vietnam |
15:30 – 15:40 | Mozilla Mobile Technologies | Hung | Nguyen | Mozilla Contributor, Vietnam |
15:40 – 16:00 | Giới thiệu ngắn về TeX | Anh | Huynh | Developer, Saigonlug member |
16:00 – 16:20 | LaTeX và Đại số máy tính (LaTeX and Computer Algebra System) | Son | Nguyen | Professor and Book Publisher, Vietnam |
16:20 – 16:40 | Hong Phuc Dang & Lilly Nguyen, End Notes and Outlook for Workshops on Saturday |
Schedule, Saturday Nov. 12 | |||||
Time | Main hall | Room C408 | Room C409 | Room C508 | Room C509 |
8:30 – 9:00 | Hong Phuc Dang & Lilly Nguyen, Saturday Workshops Overview | ||||
9:00 – 12:00 | Women in IT Meet up | Drupal – Web Development | Lubuntu for Development | Agile Software Development with TestLink and Redmine | |
Hong Phuc Dang | Sven Berg Ryen | Julien Lavergne | Nguyen Vu Hung | ||
Open Source Enthusiast, Vietnam | Drupal Developer, Norway | Lubuntu Developer, France | Libre Office Project Vietnam | ||
12.00 – 13:00 | Lunch Break | ||||
13:00 – 16:00 | Yii – Web Development | Shape Debian for your custom needs | Android Development with Phonegap | ||
Le Kien Truc | Jonas Smedegaard | Tran Quang Thong | |||
Ubuntu Vietnam | Debian Developer, Denmark | MBM Mobile Developer | |||
16:00 – 16:15 | Hong Phuc Dang & Lilly Nguyen, Closing Notes |
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