6th International Conference and Business Meet on Free Software & Free Knowledge
20-21 December 2017 at Trivandrum
20-21 December 2017 at Trivandrum
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Ground-breaking talks and workshops for OpenTech enthusiasts. International dignitaries participating at the Conference. Several luminaries from the FOSS world within the country are also expected to take part.
Karen Sandler
Director Software Freedom Conservancy. Ex- Director GNOME Foundation
Davide Storti
Programme Specialist, Communication & Information Sector (CI), UNESCO
David Revoy
French digital artist, illustrator and founder of ‘Pepper & Carrot
Todd Weaver
Founder & CEO, Purism
Karen Sandler
Director Software Freedom Conservancy. Ex- Director GNOME Foundation
Davide Storti
Programme Specialist, Communication & Information Sector (CI), UNESCO
David Revoy
French digital artist, illustrator and founder of ‘Pepper & Carrot
Todd Weaver
Founder & CEO, Purism
Benjamin Aigner
Lecturer,UAS Technikum Wien
Abhas Abhinav
Founder DeepRoot Linux , Mostly Harmless
Francesco Siddi
Pipeline Technical Director & Multimedia Producer, Blender Institute
Juan Carlos Gentile
Founder & President, Hipatia
Benjamin Aigner
Lecturer,UAS Technikum Wien
Abhas Abhinav
Founder DeepRoot Linux , Mostly Harmless
Francesco Siddi
Pipeline Technical Director & Multimedia Producer, Blender Institute
Juan Carlos Gentile
Founder & President, Hipatia
Mallory Knodel
Sr. Technical Coordinator, APC
Raghavendra Kamath
Graphic Art Illustrator & Designer
Luis Falcon M D
Founder, GNU Health
Christoph Veigl
Computer Scientist & Cocktail Robot Designer
Mallory Knodel
Sr. Technical Coordinator, APC
Raghavendra Kamath
Graphic Art Illustrator & Designer
Luis Falcon M D
Founder, GNU Health
Christoph Veigl
Computer Scientist & Cocktail Robot Designer
Mushtaq Ahmed
Scala programing specialist.Thoughtworks
Marco Fioretti
Board Member, Free Knowledge Institute
Ramon Roca
Board & Co-founder at guifi.net
Tapasweni Pathak
Engineering @ Mapbox Involved with free and open source projects & communities.
Mushtaq Ahmed
Scala programing specialist.Thoughtworks
Marco Fioretti
Board Member, Free Knowledge Institute
Ramon Roca
Board & Co-founder at guifi.net
Tapasweni Pathak
Engineering @ Mapbox Involved with free and open source projects & communities.
Milan Vathooppan
Staff Researcher, Industrial Automation, Fortiss
Nathan Betzen
Community & Project Manager, KODI
Nishant Sharma
Founder & Director, Unmukti Technology Pvt Ltd.
Unmesh Joshi
Head of Technology & Principal Consultant, Thoughtworks
Milan Vathooppan
Staff Researcher, Industrial Automation, Fortiss
Nathan Betzen
Community & Project Manager, KODI
Nishant Sharma
Founder & Director, Unmukti Technology Pvt Ltd.
Unmesh Joshi
Head of Technology & Principal Consultant, Thoughtworks
Kannan Moudgalya
Professor Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT BOMBAY
Nikhil Sontakke
PostgreSQL Consultant at 2ndQuadrant
Vishal Goyal
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala
Angshuman Sarkar
Bahmini Open EMR & hospital system
Kannan Moudgalya
Professor Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT BOMBAY
Nikhil Sontakke
PostgreSQL Consultant at 2ndQuadrant
Vishal Goyal
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala
Angshuman Sarkar
Bahmini Open EMR & hospital system
Aruna Sankaranarayanan
Engineer at Mapbox
Jithin Thankachan
Free software developer and contributorSPACE Kerala
Ashwin Whitchurch
CEO at Circuitects Electronic Solutions (P) Ltd.
Santhosh Thottingal
Senior Software Engineer at Language Engineering team, Wikimedia Foundation
Aruna Sankaranarayanan
Engineer at Mapbox
Jithin Thankachan
Free software developer and contributorSPACE Kerala
Ashwin Whitchurch
CEO at Circuitects Electronic Solutions (P) Ltd.
Santhosh Thottingal
Senior Software Engineer at Language Engineering team, Wikimedia Foundation
Benjamin Maco Hill
Assistant Professor in Communication, University of Washington
Timothee Giet
French computer artist, Illustrator, Trainer
Sumantro Mukherjee
Fedora QA Team, RedHat
Sreejith Anujan
Solution Architect, Red Hat
Benjamin Maco Hill
Assistant Professor in Communication, University of Washington
Timothee Giet
French computer artist, Illustrator, Trainer
Sumantro Mukherjee
Fedora QA Team, RedHat
Sreejith Anujan
Solution Architect, Red Hat
Asish Abraham Joseph
Yogesh K S
Technical Associate IT for Change ,Bengaluru
Harry Halpin
NEXTLEAP project and Research Scientist at the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at MIT
N Manikantan
Founder and Programme Manager, Rhithu.
Asish Abraham Joseph
Yogesh K S
Technical Associate IT for Change ,Bengaluru
Harry Halpin
NEXTLEAP project and Research Scientist at the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at MIT
N Manikantan
Founder and Programme Manager, Rhithu.
Previous Year Speakers
Dr. Rahul De
Hewlett-Packard Chair Professor in ICT for Sustainable Economic Development.IIM Bangalore
Dr. Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Ms. Nina Paley
Film-maker and Free Culture Advocate
Dr. Rahul De
Hewlett-Packard Chair Professor in ICT for Sustainable Economic Development.IIM Bangalore
Dr. Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Ms. Nina Paley
Film-maker and Free Culture Advocate
Schedule (Tentative; subject to change)
| Date | Time | Session | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 2017 | 9.00 am- 9.45 am | Registration | ||||
| 9.45 am- 10.00 am | Settling Down/Swatantra 2014 report/Overview | |||||
| 10:00 am-11.00 am | Key Note - Ms. Karen Sandler (software freedom conservancy) | |||||
| 11.00 am-11:30 am | Tea Break | |||||
| 11.30 am-12.30 pm | Inauguration | |||||
| Welcome Speech | Sri.M.Sivasankar I.A.S Secretary to the Government | |||||
| Inauguration & Inaugural Address | Sri. Pinarayi Vijayan Hon'ble Cheif Minister Of kerala | |||||
| Chief Guest Address | Ms.Karen Sandler (Software Freedom Conservancy) | |||||
| Vote of Thanks | Dr.Jayasankar Prasad C Director,ICFOSS | |||||
| VENUE 1 | VENUE 2 | VENUE 3 | ||||
| 12:30 pm-1:15 pm | How can FOSS empower me? - Aruna Sankaranarayanan | GNU Health in the context of Integrative and Precision Medicine - Luis Falcon MD | "Affordable and Open Source Assistive Technology Solutions for People with Physical Disabilities: AsTeRICS, FABI and the FlipMouse" - Benjamin Aigner & Chris Veigl | |||
| 1:15 pm-2:00 pm | Lunch break | |||||
| 2:00 pm-2:45 pm | Making of the webcomic Pepper&Carrot - David Revoy (‘Pepper & Carrot’) | OpenSource in Government and Public Sector -Sreejith Anujan | "Being human in an open source driven 4th Industrial revolution" -Milan Vathooppan (Fortiss) | |||
| 2:45 pm-3:30 pm | Fedora Community & Contribution -Sumantro Mukherjee | Eliminating "Black Boxes"from your life:Using Free Software,Free Hardware and self hosting - Abhas Abhinav | Manually Building your Own Tile Server With OSM – Yogesh K S / Open Data Kit & Open Street Map - Asish Abraham Joseph | |||
| 3:30 pm-3:45 pm | Tea Break | |||||
| 3.45 pm-4.30 pm | H5P Tool for Open Education Resource - Jithin Thankachan | "Building a COLLABORATIVE ECONOMY over Networks held in COMMONS" - Ramon Roca (Gufi.net) | Introduction to Microservices - Unmesh Joshi | |||
| 4:30 pm-5:15 pm | Commercial Art With Libre Software - Raghavendra Kamath, Krita | KSEB Experience -Sathyaraj / Bharat Electricals Ltd | "The role of open source hardware in healthcare" - Ashwin K Whitchurch | |||
| 5:15 pm-6:00 pm | Vector and Cut-out Animation for Everyone with Synfig - Timothee Giet, Gcompris | Software culture: education, innovation and preservation -Davide Stroti,UNESCO | Building Your Own Blockchain with Free Software - Harry Halpin | |||
| 6:00 pm-7.30 pm | Cultural Programs | |||||
| 7.30 pm-8:30 pm | Dinner | |||||
| Dec 21, 2017 | 09:30 am-10:30 am | Plenary Talk -Todd Alan Weaver (The Future of Computing and Why You Should Care.) | ||||
| 10:30 am-10:45 am | Tea Break | |||||
| 10:45 am -11:30 am | Free as in Freedom products and communities: the role of Open Digital DIY manufacturing across countries and cultures -Marco Fioretti | "EHR/HMIS in low resource settings" - Case studies on Open source, Open Systems in Digital interventions in Health Services Delivery in Indian Subcontinent. - Angshuman Sarkar | Algebraic Data Types and Pattern Matching in Scala - Mushtaq Ahmed | |||
| 11:30 am -12:15 pm | Building firewalls,routers,access points and other network equipment's using Free Software and Open Hardware -Nishant Sharma | Managing development and testing environments in Python Softwares. - Tapasweni Pathak | --do-- | |||
| 12:15 pm-1.00 pm | The Journey Of GCompriss -Thimothee Giet, GCompriss | Internet infrastructure, values and politics - Mallory Knodel, Association for Progressive Communications | --do-- | |||
| 1:00 pm-1:45 pm | Lunch | |||||
| 1:45 pm-2:30 pm | The Blender Open Movie Production Pipeline - Francesco Siddi (Blender Foundation) | ICT integration in Primary Education- Challenges and Experience - N Manikantan / Women Hackathon | PostgreSQL in the Database Landscape -Nikhil Sontakke | |||
| 2:30 pm-3:15 pm | Juan Carlos Gentile (Hipatia) | Spoken Tutorials -Kannan Moudgalya | Malayalam Computing -Santhosh Thottingal | |||
| 3:15 pm-3:30 pm | Tea break | |||||
| 3:30 pm-4:15 pm | How FOSS is democratizing the spread of content, from production to consumption - Nate Betzen | Benjamin Maco Hill (FSF) | " Survey of various Open Tools for the development of NLP Applications" - Vishal Goyal | |||
| 4:15 pm-5:15 pm | Panel Discussion - Software Freedom Challenges Ahead – Panel Discussion by FSF India & SPACE | |||||
| 5:15 pm-6:00 pm | Valedictory Function | |||||
Find us
Venue: Mascot Hotel,
Mascot Square,
Cantonment House Rd, PMG, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695033
Time: 9.00 AM
Date: 20,21 December 2017
ICFOSS
7th Floor, Thejaswini,
Technopark, Trivandrum – 695 581
[email protected] | http://icfoss.in | +91 471 2700013 /14