About
IndiaFOSS is an annual Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) conference, organised with passion and commitment by the FOSS United community. It's not just a gathering; it's a celebration of software innovation and the people who make it happen. Whether you are a seasoned developer, an aspiring enthusiast, or someone with a passion for technology, IndiaFOSS invites you to be part of this vibrant community.
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Agenda
07/09/2024
Audi 1
09:30 AM
Opening Note
Opening Note
10:00 AM
Talk
Building a FOSS Consumer App
10:25 AM
Talk
Journey of Namma Yatri
Magizhan Selvan
10:50 AM
Talk
Impact of Open Source on my professional journey
Bowrna Prabhakaran
11:15 AM
Talk
Start Your Inclusion Journey: Embracing Digital Accessibility for All
Rakesh Paladugula
11:40 AM
Talk
Mecha - Build computing in the real world
Shoaib Merchant
12:05 PM
Talk
Product & Community Lessons from 8 years of Social Impact FOSS
Gurpreet Luthra
12:45 PM
Break
Lunch
02:00 PM
Panel Discussion
Open Source & AI: Understanding the Urgency of Data Activation
02:45 PM
Talk
Integrating Open-Source in Software Engineering Education
Pankaj Jalote
03:15 PM
Lightning Talk
Building an Open developer-friendly bug-reporting tool
Shrey Gupta
03:30 PM
Talk
Repurpose your old laptop as a homeserver
Kaustubh Maske Patil
03:55 PM
Break
Break
04:05 PM
Talk
Big Brother vs. Human Rights: Exploring Incompatibilities with Biometric Technology
Anwesha Sen
04:30 PM
Talk
Frappe Builder: Web Publishing Redefined
Suraj Shetty
04:50 PM
Talk
XZ Utils Backdoor: What it is and What it means for the FOSS Community?
Sachin Garg
05:15 PM
Talk
Measuring the value of FOSS for India
Venkatesh
05:45 PM
Other
Closing Note
Workshop Room 1
10:00 AM
Workshop
Elixir and Concurrency
Anuvrat Parashar
02:00 PM
Workshop
Getting started with Inkscape: FOSS Logo Designing
Ishaan Arora
Audi 2
10:10 AM
Talk
From Flipkart to the Community: Open-Sourcing Varadhi's Managed Restbus
Gaurav Ashok
10:35 AM
Talk
Making FOSS your full-time job
Sahil Gupta
11:00 AM
Talk
Adopting Compose and KMM: Our Journey to Multiplatform App Development.
Jackson E J And Joseph Rex
11:25 AM
Talk
Open tools and data to study air pollution
Dammalapati Sai Krishna
11:50 AM
Talk
Creative Collaboration: Merging Open Source with Design
Khushi Garg
12:15 PM
Talk
Optimizing NGO Data Pipeline: Insights into the Dalgo Platform
Siddhant Singh
12:40 PM
Talk
From Concept to Creation: The Journey of An Open-Source Watch
Kailash NR
01:05 PM
Talk
Beyond the Manual: Engaging Users with Clear and Compelling Open Source Documentation
Khushi Trivedi
01:30 PM
Break
Lunch
02:30 PM
Talk
Demystifying SBOMs: A Deep Dive into Software Bill of Materials for FOSS Management
lakshmi teja
02:55 PM
Talk
Superposition - a flexible, safe and powerful Open Source Configuration Management System
Natarajan Kannan
03:20 PM
Talk
Liberating Learning Spaces
Vysakh Premkumar
03:45 PM
Talk
Open Source Technology for Social Impact
Vidya Sridhar
04:10 PM
Break
Break
Workshop Room 2
11:00 AM
Workshop
Create Your First Game with Godot and FOSS Tools
Giri prashad
02:00 PM
Workshop
3D Printing Workshop for Children
Abhas Abhinav
Audi 3
12:00 PM
Other
FOSS and AI
02:00 PM
Other
Post-FOSS experiments like source available/fair source and their value to the FOSS community
03:00 PM
Other
Building for Production in Rust
04:00 PM
Other
Democracy and Open Source
08/09/2024
Audi 1
09:30 AM
Opening Note
Opening Note
10:00 AM
Talk
Bruno - API Client of the Future
Ansh Arora
10:25 AM
Talk
Passion, Python and Proprietary: Stories from Sarkar
harsh nisar
10:50 AM
Talk
Building your own VoIP System & Call Spoofing
Sumir Broota
11:15 AM
Talk
Making Justice Data Accessible
Nayanika Singhal
11:40 AM
Talk
Open Source in and for Indian Chips
Shree Kumar
12:05 PM
Talk
A practical, good-looking and easy-to-use recipe for home automation with free/libre software and DIY hardware
Abhas Abhinav
12:45 PM
Break
Lunch
02:00 PM
Panel Discussion
Understanding Commercial Open Source Software
02:45 PM
Talk
Building a new kind of tool for RFCs
Sreelakshmi
02:55 PM
Talk
Fighting authoritarianism with FOSS
Pratik Sinha
03:20 PM
Talk
Lessons from Mapping FOSS in India
Frederick Noronha
03:45 PM
Talk
7+ million Postgres tables
Kailash Nadh
04:05 PM
Break
Break
04:15 PM
Panel Discussion
Churning and Turning Away: Why Do Contributors Lose Steam?
05:00 PM
Other
Discussing Governance at FOSS United, Open Mic
Audi 2
10:10 AM
Talk
Introducing YDB, a Distributed SQL DBMS for mission-critical workloads
Ivan Blinkov
10:30 AM
Talk
Samaaja: FOSS for Activation of Youth Agency in Scale
Gauthamraj Elango
10:50 AM
Talk
The tensions between Standard Essential Patents and FOSS
Rohini Lakshané
11:15 AM
Talk
LLVM Bangalore @ IndiaFOSS: Scaling a niche community to 1900 and beyond!
Ashutosh Pandey
11:35 AM
Talk
How we host homogeneous scalable Kubernetes control planes across multiple cloud providers using Gardener
Shafeeque E S, Sonu Kumar Singh
12:00 PM
Talk
Beekeeping Linux: Evolution of Kernel Technologies For Instrumentation
Barun Acharya
12:25 PM
Talk
Safe and Secure Consumption of OSS Components
Abhisek Datta
12:50 PM
Talk
Digital Archaeology: How Hackers revive Classic Games
Harish Babu V
01:30 PM
Break
Lunch
Workshop Room 1
10:45 AM
Workshop
Nixing your system: A guide to fun and profit
Amogh Lele
Workshop Room 2
10:45 AM
Workshop
OpenRefine Workshop: Cleaning, Exploring, and Contributing to Open Knowledge
Ayushi Rai
Audi 3
12:00 PM
Other
Hardware Freedom
02:00 PM
Other
OSPOs and Organizations
03:00 PM
Other
FOSS and security
04:00 PM
Other
Students and the FOSS Community
Workshop Room 1 and 2
02:00 PM
Workshop
Building a Mars Rover with Mecha
Shoaib Merchant
Sponsors
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