Open Source in Asia
Ho Chi Minh City
11-13 Nov. 2011

Wrap up FOSSASIA 2011

Mario Behling — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:23:41 +0000

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

Mario Behling — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:42:27 +0000

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	Mobile Devices , platform for Mobile devices (Android, Chrome OS, Maemo, Symbian, Moblin, Bada) and software solution for Tablets / Smartbook s HTML5 and the Web Technologies for mobile phones Frameworks and Phonegap
Track 2: Web Technologies	Frameworks CMS HTML5 Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP
Track 3: Operating Systems and Applications	new interface design and lightweight trends with KDE, GNOME, LXDE and XFCE Package design and development
Track 4: Fostering the Asian community and Women in IT	including international Womens Panel

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

Open Source in AsiaHo Chi Minh City11-13 Nov. 2011