FOSSASIA is an organization that was established in 2009 by Hong Phuc Dang and Mario Behling. It is developing Open Source software applications and Open Hardware together with a global community. It is incorporated and run from its headquarters in Singapore. Their goal is to provide access to open technologies, science applications, and knowledge that improve people's lives. Projects developed by FOSSASIA include Open Event, SUSI.AI, Yaydoc and many others, which are all licensed as Free and Open Source Software. They organize and participate in conferences, meetups and code camps. The annual FOSSASIA Summit in Singapore is one of the top tech events in Asia. Other summits take place in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and India. FOSSASIA also runs a number of coding programs such as Codeheat. FOSSASIA is working as an organization in Google Code-in(GCI) & Google Summer of Code(GSoc).
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| Formation | July 8, 2009 |
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| Purpose | Open Technology and Education |
| Headquarters | Singapore |
Region | Worldwide |
| Leader | Hong Phuc Dang, Mario Behling |
| Website | www |
FOSS ASIA Projects
editThe FOSSASIA mission states that the aim of the organization is to “develop Open Technologies for social change” and “solutions that improve people’s lives”. The code of FOSSASIA applications as well schematics of Open Hardware projects are available as Open Source online. The main projects of FOSSASIA are:
- Eventyay, an event management systems with applications for different platforms
- SUSI.AI, an artificial intelligence personal assistant
- Meilix, a Linux distribution generator
- PSLab, pocket science laboratory hardware and applications for Android and desktop
- loklak, a social media message search engine and analytics tool
- Phimpme, image app for Android
- Susper, a search engine based on the Yacy peer to peer network
- Query Server, a tool to collect results of different search engines with one query and render them as RSS feeds
- Badge Magic, an app that let you create moving text and draw clip arts for to LED name badges
FOSSASIA Community and Developer Programs
editMore than 1400 developers are registered as FOSSASIA contributors on GitHub. Thousands of code commits are made every year. In order to attract more developers and educate students about technology development FOSSASIA organizes and participates in education and coding programs. Since 2016 it organizes the programming contest #CodeHeat, It has organized a training program with the UNESCO and GIZ and it is a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code since 2011 and in Google Code-In since 2014.
FOSSASIA Events
editFOSSASIA organizes meetups across Asia all year around. The most famous event is the annual FOSSASIA Summit. Others are Science Hack India [1] and together with the Science Centre Singapore, the Science Hack Day Singapore.
- The event of 2020 will take place in Singapore from Thursday March 19 - Saturday March 21, 20. After the event there will be a DevSprint on Sunday March 22, 2020.[2][3]
- There are many other OpenTechSummit events across the world (Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Sigapore, Japan, Myanmar, Europe, Germany, Austria, China, Indochina, etc.[4]
- Pycon also happening in many countries worldwide (China, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Singapore, Germany, Indochina)[5]
Since the first FOSSASIA meetup in 2009 in Ho Chi Minh City, FOSSASIA has taken the lead to organize Free and Open Source Software conferences in Asia. Past FOSSASIA events have attracted thousands of participants, speakers from 41 countries, and hundreds of volunteers. The FOSSASIA Summit has an over the average participation of female technologists
FOSSASIA Summit
editThe annual FOSSASIA Summit was established in 2009 to bring together Free and Open Source Software developers in Asia. Over the years the event expanded in size and thematically with dedicated tracks for Open Hardware, Open Science, and Open Source Design.
FOSSASIA Team
editFOSSASIA has team members worldwide who help nurture the community and improve Open Technology together. They organize events and lead projects such as SUSI.AI or PSLab. Some prominent members of the FOSSASIA Team include:
- Hong Phuc Dang
- Mario Behling
- Hong Phuc Dang
- Eden Dang
- Daniel Blueman
- Justin Lee
- Chung Wei Tat
- Harish Pillay
- Roland Turner
- Davide Storti
- Colin Charles
Code Heat Program
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In the Heat of the Code(Code Heat) is a coding contest for FOSSASIA projects on GitHub.
The contest runs until February 2, 2020. Grand prize winners will be invited to present their work at the FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit in Singapore from March 19-22, 2020 and will get up to 600 SGD in travel funding to attend, plus a free speaker ticket.
Our jury will choose three winners from the top 10 contributors according to code quality and relevance of commits for the project. The jury also takes other contributions like submitted scrum reports and technical blog posts into account, but of course awesome code is the most important item on the list.
Other participants will have the chance to win Tshirts, Swag and vouchers to attend Open Tech events in the region and will get certificates of participation.
Google Code-in
editFOSSASIA work as an organization in Google Code-in every year since 2010. Lot of students are working with that and contributing there
- ^ SGBIT team wins first prize at Science Hack Day
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