Dear Friend of FOSSASIA,

We are excited to announce that the FOSSASIA Summit 2021 will take place ONLINE this year. The event will spread out over the week of March 13 - 21 and will run on our own open source virtual event platform ‘eventyay’.

We would love to see you at the summit. Get your ticket here!

Speakers interested to submit an online live talk, panel or workshop please propose your session before 4th February (soft deadline).

At the event we are connecting local hubs, makerspaces, clubs and university IT groups across Asia. Please fill in this form to become a community hub partner.

We would like to thank our contributors and sponsors including Oracle, MySQL, Keysight, Linux Professional Institute, Elasticsearch, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Lifelong Learning Institute Singapore for their support. If you would like to become a virtual exhibitor or sponsor please contact us through the event site.

All the best, stay safe and healthy,

Your FOSSASIA Team

FOSSASIA Summit 2021 Call for Speakers

The current situation around the world shows us that open global collaboration is the way to solve the problems of our time. Now we would like you to share your hands-on examples at the FOSSASIA Summit Online of topics such as how to:

Take on the fight against COVID-19 with open health technologies
Solve everyday problems with AI
Tackle climate change with an open source approach
Create open hardware solutions for science and biohacking
Run DevOps in a distributed team in home office
Implement continuous delivery and sovereign cloud stacks with diverse tools
Establish a friendly, welcoming and collaborative project culture
Ensure digital sovereignty and independent data governance
Get privacy and security right
Customize Linux for lightweight hardware and special use cases
And what are best practices for open access education

.. and many more topics about Databases, Web and Mobile Technologies, Robotics, and Compliance. Please find the complete list of tracks on the event site and submit your proposal.

We are looking forward to inspiring sessions.

Important Dates

CFS soft deadline: 4 February 2021 (submissions receive priority)
Late submission cut off date: 11 February 2021
Event dates: 13 - 21 March 2021

Other Activities at FOSSASIA

Welcome the Visdom Data Visualisation Project at FOSSASIA Now under Apache 2.0 Open Source License

We are excited to welcome the Visdom project at FOSSASIA. The project has been transitioned from Facebook AI Research to the FOSSASIA organization. As part of this transition it has been relicensed to the Apache 2.0 Open Source License.

Visdom is a flexible tool for creating, organizing, and sharing visualizations of live, rich data. It aims to facilitate visualization of (remote) data with an emphasis on supporting scientific experimentation.

It supports PyTorch and Numpy and is used by more than 3000 projects and organizations including Facebook, Google, iPERDance, Catalyst, Huawei, Neural Voice Puppetry, Lip2Wav, Ignite, QData TextAttack, Svip lab Impersonator, ML-tooling, Commaai OpenPilot, CorentinJ Real Time Voice Cloning, BicycleGAN, Deepspeech Pytorch and Pytorch Book. Read more on our blog.

Internships for Python / Javascript Developers

As a FOSSASIA intern working on eventyay, you’ll collaborate together with our team to develop the Open Event project that runs the eventyay website. We use Flask as a backend and Javascript as a frontend technology. The team follows our best practices and uses scrum emails for the daily standup and Gitter for chat communication. Please find more information here.

Codeheat Coding Contests Continues to the Next Period after First Winners Were Announced

The Codeheat coding contest continues until June 2021. After each period of two months, the winners are announced. Find our first grand prize winners and finalists listed on the website. We support participants onboarding through Q&A online sessions. Please join us now at codeheat.org.

OpenTechSummit

March 2021

Online from

Singapore

* The FOSSASIA Summit 2021 will take place from March 13 - 21 as a virtual event.

Upcoming Events

Codeheat "Ask Me Anything", (Virtual Event) February 11, 2021

Codeheat "Ask Me Anything", (Virtual Event) March 4, 2021

FOSSASIA Summit, Online from Singapore, March 13-21, 2021

Codeheat "Ask Me Anything", (Virtual Event) April 8, 2021

Codeheat "Ask Me Anything", (Virtual Event) May 6, 2021

OpenTechSummit Europe, Online from Berlin, May 17-21, 2021

More info on FOSSASIA at the Website

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