Welcome at the FOSSASIA Summit 2019!

The Lifelong Learning institute and council promote lifelong learning mindset among Singaporeans under the SkillsFuture. 

10 years and back to the future! A lot has happened in 10 years and a new generation of technologists and developers is growing up and participating in the community. What are the challenges today and how do we connect them to the previous generations of FOSS developers?

10 years FOSSASIA

State of Open Tech

People often speak about THE open source community but there are actually many open source communities which differ in a number of ways, including aspects related to technology, processes, governance and philosophy. Each open source community has its own culture and norms. In this talk, we'll talk about open source culture and community norms and discuss how to get started contributing to open source. I'll use Debian as an example of one open source community but the lessons learned will be applicable to other projects.

2009 Obama promised a New Era of Openness. The idea was that openness prevails. Talking about the Freedom of Information Act at that time Obama said that openness "means more than simply informing the American people how decisions are made." It also means recognizing that the government doesn’t have all the answers. To that end, he directed members of his administration to "find new ways of tapping the knowledge of ordinary Americans" — scientists, educators, entrepreneurs — to find ways to solve the problems of our times. While his message as the US president was directed towards Americans, for the FOSS community, developers, designers, content creators, makers, entrepreneurs and of course companies active in our community “openness prevails” has always been true. Openness for us is not just an idea to access information, it is the basis for amazing collaboration models in the FOSS community.

At FOSSASIA developers work across time zones, countries, and continents and anyone can join development. Imagine how difficult it would be to develop our products if we had to get everyone to sign NDAs and Copyright agreements. This would cause a huge overhead, but there are different models and possibilities to how what extend openness can prevail and in this panel we would like to get insights into how open development, open communication, open tools and technologies, open knowledge and open collaboration has benefited organizations and work of our panelists.

In the second part of the panel we would like to talk about the future. What are plans of panelists for the future in their organization in regards to opening up and creating new opportunities? And in the bigger picture how will society change and open up and what opportunities and challenges lie in opening up areas of society? Panelists will answer these questions from their specific point of view as managers of a large tech corporation, successful Open Hardware makers, representatives of a community driven Open Tech company, or a manager in a computer processor company.

The Summit 2019

Microsoft’s commitment to openness and collaboration is ingrained in our day-to-day approach to doing business alongside open source industry partners as well as communities around the world. Microsoft not only releases key innovations as open source for others to use and build upon, it also contributes code and thought leadership to open source communities.

Surprised to hear that? Come learn more from Sindhu Chengad, OSS Lead at Microsoft

Quantum computers are not just science fiction anymore, with many companies building increasingly more powerful quantum computers. While, concepts in quantum computing have been around for over 30 years, but it hasn't been generally accessible until recently. Despite this quantum computing is still very much in its infancy and there are physical limitations preventing them from being generally usable. But the machines that are available today are useful for experimentation and showcasing certain applications where they will be useful.

Open source software for quantum computing has started being developed as these new machines are being built. Learning the lessons from the history of developing classical computers, there are already several open source SDKs, languages, and libraries being developed for quantum computers despite the current limitations of quantum computers. This means as the technology matures and becomes more practical there will already be an open source ecosystem for using quantum computing.

This talk will provide an introduction to the basics of quantum information theory, look at some of the quantum computers out there, explore the open source tooling available for quantum computing, and show how you can use that to write your own quantum programs and run them on simulators and actual quantum computers.

What does the UNESCO do with FOSS? What is the interest and goal of the UNESCO to support FOSS? 

The theme of the FOSSASIA Summit 2019 is "The Future is FOSS". FOSS - Free and Open Source Software stands more and more for Free and Open Source Solutions. At FOSSASIA we are not only developing software, but also hardware, content and complete solutions following a model of free and open development. But, is the Future indeed FOSS? Is FOSS mainstream already in many areas and does it mean it will be also mainstream in other areas? Is it possible that trends also go in another direction where developers follow a more closed source approach in some areas again? What opportunities do really exist in other areas like hardware? In this panel we hope to get ideas for answers from our panelists.

As scientific endeavours require an open mind, science is to be shared openly.  The mission of a science centre is about science communication with the purpose of opening the mind of people with evidence based information. Scientific information, discoveries, and inventions should be treated as an open source to benefit as many people and sectors as possible. In my sharing, I will give a general reflection on how SCS started supporting FOSSASIA and the event has grown over the years to not just open minds but also open eyes for people to see possibilities otherwise untapped if the initiative was only for a closed community. 

Enjoy your coffee and tea!

Join us for a community lunch and celebrate 10 years FOSSASIA at our summit opening 2019.

Enjoy your coffee and tea!

Security vulnerabilities are almost a fact of life. This is why system vendors are increasingly relying on physically separate chips to handle sensitive data. Unfortunately, private keys are not the same as your private matters. Exploits on your local device still have the potential to grant bad actors access to your screen and keyboard. This talk introduces the Betrusted device as a possible remedy. Betrusted is a physically separate, trustable display and keyboard directly connected to a secure enclave. This talk concludes with a brief exploration of some of Betrusted's goals and design features.Project page: https://betrusted.ioSocial media: https://twitter.com/bunniestudios

Open Source Hardware and Education

Blockchain can do for business what the internet did for communication. Powering that transformation is Hyperledger, hosted by The Linux Foundation. Innovators in finance, banking, healthcare, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology are creating open, standardized and enterprise-grade distributed ledger blockchain frameworks and code bases to produce tangible business results. In this session, we will discuss IBM's Blockchain strategy, from its ongoing contributions to the Linux Foundation Hyperledger project to how it is helping clients build, grow and accelerate Blockchain networks.

Flowchain aims to implement a blockchain that can provide a distributed ledger technology for the IoT and AI. And Flowchain already proposed the virtual blocks technology that can ensure chunked data (data streams) transactions in a near-instant manner. Furthermore, the virtual block technology can integrate with IPFS, an emerging distributed storage blockchain and can work as an off-chain mechanism to transfer your digital assets from one trusted party to another. In this presentation, Jollen will show the implementation of a distributed storage using Flowchain and IPFS open source technologies.

With the introduction of DevOps, organisations have become more agile. Given the scale and velocity imposed by processes and today’s threat landscape, this also means that organisations can no longer depend on the existing approaches – especially for cybersecurity.

Organisations need to look beyond the current practices and enable a ‘secure by default’ posture. This can be achieved in two ways: by distributing more responsibilities to development and operations teams, and by embracing continuous delivery of applications on newer platforms. Some security practices include:

• Permeate security across the organisation. A prudent security posture, including processes and tooling, will permeate the organisation. An adoption of company-wide initiatives, for instance, could be enabled by security teams, but may not be necessarily manned by them.
• Bring in the developers. The inclusion of security practices and guidance within the application development lifecycle is key. What this means for businesses is to make that inclusion without a significant cognitive overload to the developers themselves.
• Use automation to improve defense posture. To reduce cyber risks, organisations will need to repair vulnerable software through automation – this means that patches are applied as soon as they are released. Repaving servers and applications will also help organisations remove any malware that has already gained access to their systems and prevent them from penetrating the same systems in the future.

In today’s DevOps era, cybersecurity should no longer be at the back burner of any business. Relooking at cybersecurity approaches will enable organisations to reap positive outcomes such as faster responses to business needs and crises caused by incidents or disclosures, and prevention of cyberattacks. 

When you build a serverless app, you either tie yourself to a cloud provider, or you end up building your own serverless stack. Knative provides a better choice. Knative extends Kubernetes to provide a set of middleware components (build, serving, events) for modern, source-centric, and container-based apps that can run anywhere. In this talk, we’ll see how we can use Knative primitives to build a serverless app that utilizes the Machine Learning magic of the cloud.

Technological advances in the last decade have led to a resurgence of interest in AI for solving critical business problems and enabling new & transformative business models. Along have come common fallacies in the implementations of AI systems leading to mounting technical debt and infrequent, unsustainable deployments. IBM has brought together a set of industrial AI capabilities and tools that provide a robust open AI platform for the enterprise, built to consistently leverage a wide choice of open source libraries and data science runtime environments. Do not miss this session on the latest IBM announcements bringing AI capabilities to the data -- wherever it may exist in hybrid and multi-cloud data estates -- and infusing the trust and transparency needed from industrial AI into any business processes with confidence.

In this workshop participants will learn how they can understand the data they have, apply this information to build and run optimal machine learning models, and then operationalizing AI to continuously understand, improve, and explain outcomes. In the hands on lab we will be using data science workbench to explore, model and deploy a machine learning model and then monitor the model for performance, accuracy, and fairness.

* Audience: Data Scientists, Application Developers, Domain Experts

* Keywords: Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, Rest API, Machine Learning, Trust and Transparency, Object Storage, Watson, Studio, Watson Openscale, AI

Requirements

* Bring a laptop wit full access. The installation of software is required for this workshop.* Sign up for IBM Cloud before the workshop: http://ibm.biz/FOSSASIAIBM

Will AI Replace Developers?

When you have a data-centric problem to solve and you look for a technology to support you with this: The machine intelligence landscape can be overwhelming.

I analysed the landscape using a data-driven approach and condensed the outcome into a consumable form.

Additionally, I came to the conclusion that there is a set of questions you have to ask yourself to make the best possible choice for your situation.

This talk will cover these questions and present the analysis results on the basis of these.

TL;DR: With this simple talk you will know which framework / toolkit / library is best suited for your problem. Machine Learning Consultants hate him! 

The IO Foundation is working on a project intersecting a Digital Rights SDK (aimed at providing infrastructure for a Human Rights centered software design) and community-based, open source Personal Assistants, called Sidekick.

FOSSASIA’s Susi.ai has been identified as a potential element of Sidekick.

We wish to bring the attention to the audience upon:

- The importance of concentration of information;

- The importance of emotions and how user profiling is used to trigger reactions aligned with third-parties interests/agendas and not necessarily the user’s;

- How the right approach to Personal Assistants can help mitigating these issues;

- Launch the questions:

- Could this be the birth of a distributed knowledge paradigm?

- How could this approach shape stateless communities?

The session will follow a flow presenting a bit of history of information search interfaces, move into the relevance of emotions in our decisions, how information is used to profile users and how all those ingredients bring up a scenario where the line between an informed decision and an imposed decision is getting more blurry than ever.

Agenda:

- Searching for information

- Search engines

- Chatbots

- Personal Assistants

- Friends (that are not looking out for you)

- Data collection

- Linkability

- Profiling

- Choosing a Personal Assistant

- Enter Digital Rights

- Features

- DR SDK

- Case scenarios

- Access to information

- Refugees

- A peek on future systems of (e)Governance.

Expected outcomes:

- Raise awareness on the importance of Personal Assistants and their choice;

- Spark the conversation on this project;

- Identify stakeholders interested in implementing a PoC of Sidekick using Susi.ai.

- Create a PoC to be applied in the case scenarios described in the talk.

At I/O 2018, Google released the Firebase ML Kit which creates various exciting opportunities for Android Developers aiming to build smart apps without having to worry about the nitty-gritties of Machine Learning.

The Firebase ML Kit APIs offer features like face detection, text recognition, object detection, etc. Your apps can also label a provided image for special characteristics and identify popular landmarks in a picture.

In this talk, I will outline the usage of all the 5 APIs available in Firebase ML Kit and I’ll be doing so by using a sample app that utilizes these APIs.

I will be walking you through the working of each api and you will leave the talk having sufficient knowledge of the APIs to go ahead and implement them in your own apps.

The workshop will mainly be focused on getting involved with SUSI.AI and how to start contributing. It will be based on the following points - 

• Setting up SUSI.AI repositories locally.
• Making a SUSI.AI skill.
• Integrating SUSI.AI bots to own websites.
• Showcase and Setup of SUSI Smart Speaker.
• Find and solve a bug.

As more applications move to a DevOps model with CI/CD pipelines, the testing required for this development model to work inevitably generates lots of data. There are valuable insights hidden in this data that ML can help extract with minimal human intervention. Using open source tools like TensorFlow and Pandas we trained ML algorithms with real-life data from the OpenStack community's CI system. We built a Kubernetes application that sets up a prediction pipeline to automate the analysis of CI jobs in near real time. It uses the trained model to classify new inputs and predict insights like test results or hosting cloud provider. In this talk, we present our experience training different ML models with the large dataset from OpenStack's CI and how this can be leveraged for automated failure identification and analysis. We also discuss how these techniques can be used with any CI system.

Machine learning algorithms are increasingly black-box models. However, their outputs are business data that humans need to understand and act upon.

For example, if a clustering model suggests 4 customer clusters, how do we identify and characterize these? If a random forest model suggests a pattern of classification, how do we understand the dominant factors and the irrelevant ones?

These topics fall under the umbrella of model visualization -- where the inputs, process, and output of machine learning models are the topics of understanding.

This talk explores some of the prevalent ways of visualizing machine learning models.

Disruptive technologies are game changers especially in medical emergencies, where a few minutes can be the difference between life and death. With blockchain technology democratizing information distribution, Edge AI bringing intelligence to the end device, chatbots powered by enormous amounts of trained data mimicking human beings and machine learning and deep learning making accurate predictions, it has become possible to ensure the best medical care is provided to every individual irrespective of their place of residence. With all these technologies being open sourced, it is easy to focus on how to improve the efficiency, enhance the security and refine the accuracy while reducing the cost.

Automated Emergency Paramedical Response System leverages various open source technologies to provide medical supplies using aerial distribution by drones. It is a multifunctional end to end semi-autonomous system which operates differently in urban and rural areas based on their individual requirements. In semi-urban and rural areas, there is a need to provide access to specialised doctors and medical supplies as these are unavailable in their community hospitals. AERPS  leverages medical image processing and deep learning using OpenCV and TensorFlow to accurately predict the presence of disease like ischemic strokes and based on the diagnosis, allows the community hospital to order for medical supplies. The medical supplies are delivered using a drone enhanced with edge AI to run intelligent algorithms enabling it to ensure that the medicines are only delivered to authorised people and providing accurate obstacle avoidance thus making delivery in hard to reach places easier. In congested urban areas, an interactive chatbot with the ability to predict ailments based on patient symptoms informs the medical personnel who approves the delivery of medicines thus providing quick delivery of medical supplies where traffic is a major roadblock in providing medical assistance. Confidentiality of patient records has been achieved by using decentralised blockchain-based distributed computing to ensure security for the users without involving third-party institutions.

The talk would focus on the basics of Augmented Reality and the various aspects which make it possible, in the mobile context. An exploration of some current problems being faced would be done, and links to Machine Learning (or AI in general) shall be drawn to potentially eliminate these issues.

We'll also be seeing how various libraries (ARCore/ARKit) are handling the key features of AR.

Outline of the talk:

• Vision
• Augmented Reality (AR)
• Vision in AR
• Current AR libraries and some problems
• Combine with Artificial Intelligence
• Conclusion

The talk will focus on mobile (Android and iOS) clients of SUI.AI. I will start with the Goals of SUSI AI. During this session, I will discuss the various features of SUSI AI mobile apps, how they can be customized and can be used for personal purpose. I will also talk about the SUSI Smart Speaker connection with mobile clients.

The session will also be focused on the important features added to SUSI AI in recent. I will talk about the server side features as well as the UI perspectives.

Participants will learn about VueJS, a progressive JavaScript framework for creating user interfaces. They will build a simpe SPA (Single Page Application) by applying VueJS's core concepts.

Participants will learn how Python can be used to automate common tasks and program a simple text-based game. We will cover data types, conditionals, loops, data structures and functions.

Participants will learn about MongoDB, a cross platform document-oriented NoSQL database system. They will connect to MongoDB using the PyMongo API to perform common operations.

Create Skills for SUSI.Ai

Participants will learn about relational databases through SQLite, a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine which is the most widely deployed database in the world. Both single and multi-table (with normalization) scenarios will be covered. Participants will connect to SQLite using the Python sqlite3 standard library module to perform common operations.

Participants will learn about basic machine learning algorithms such as linear regression and build a single layer perceptron to improve the performance of the linear regression model.

This panel discussion is convened by UNESCO under the umbrella of the United Nations 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages. It will bring together indigenous young activists, specialists of languages and FOSS to raise awareness on the challenges affecting indigenous people in the region, in particular their languages, and to discuss the importance of technology and FOSS for preserving and developing indigenous languages.

It is our goal to engage the developer community to develop innovative applications as open source by leveraging open data and knowledge-sharing. With the hackathon we support the dissemination of good practices with regard to indigenous languages and increase access to multilingual information and knowledge.

"Languages play a crucial role in the daily lives of people, not only as a tool for communication, education, social integration and development, but also as a repository for each person's unique identity, cultural history, traditions and memory. But despite their immense value, languages around the world continue to disappear at an alarming rate. With this in mind, the United Nations declared 2019 The Year of Indigenous Languages (IY2019) in order to raise awareness of them, not only to benefit the people who speak these languages, but also for others to appreciate the important contribution they make to our world's rich cultural diversity." (en.iyil2019.org)

Join the FOSSASIA Hackathon at the FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit with UNESCO, build awesome apps, games and personal assistants improving people's lives and tackling sustainable development challenges for indigenous people, and win awesome prizes! As part of the celebrations of the International Year of Indigenous Languages the hackathon takes place from Friday 15 March to Sunday 17 March 2019 at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Singapore.

We are specifically interested in applications and games, that tackle questions of indigenous people and their languages and solutions which could be replicated in other countries solving challenges for indigenous populations such as:

• Localization, geolocation, Internationalization and multi-language search features of existing software, e.g. Open Event, Badgeyay, Badge Magic or any other FOSSASIA app
• Implementation of new skills in different languages in voice applications and smart speakers
• Solutions, apps or skills to increase cooperation around indigenous languages, e.g. implementing a website bot
• Apps for learning or reading in indigenous languages using chat interfaces
• Implementing translation tools, glossaries, e-dictionaries in a personal assistant
• Solutions for providing greater access to scientific apps in indigenous languages, e.g. for Open Science apps like PSLab.io
• Apps and experiments for promoting scientific knowledge in indigenous languages using different media, images, voice, audio, videos etc., e.g. using PSLab.io
• Games solving questions and challenges related languages, indigenous topics, cultures and science

It is our goal to engage the developer community to develop innovative applications as open source by leveraging open data and knowledge-sharing. With the hackathon we support the dissemination of good practices with regard to indigenous languages and increase access to multilingual information and knowledge.

    "Languages play a crucial role in the daily lives of people, not only as a tool for communication, education, social integration and development, but also as a repository for each person's unique identity, cultural history, traditions and memory. But despite their immense value, languages around the world continue to disappear at an alarming rate. With this in mind, the United Nations declared 2019 The Year of Indigenous Languages (IY2019) in order to raise awareness of them, not only to benefit the people who speak these languages, but also for others to appreciate the important contribution they make to our world's rich cultural diversity." (en.iyil2019.org)

We are inviting developers, designers, open source contributors, bloggers, journalists and all FOSSASIAcommunity members to be part of the Hackathon. The hackathon is open for all and awesome prizes are waiting for you!

REQUIREMENTS

For the expected outcome of the hack, the applications or games shall help to provide greater access to multilingual information and knowledge and enable knowledge-sharing and dissemination of good practices, specifically with regard to indigenous languages. All work shall be FOSS/Open Source and use or connect to FOSSASIA projects (APIs) and technologies to improve people's lives and tackle sustainable development challenges.

FUNCTIONING APP

An important point is, is the prototype or showcase functioning? We prefer real code and design implementations over mockups.

WHAT TO ENTER

Please submit a link to the app, a Github repo link and a short presentation as a download or on Google drive (ensure it is set to public sharing). You can also share anything else to demonstrate your work and let us test it.

• Video: The platform accepts links to YouTube, Vimeo or Youku. If you like you can post a short video to demonstrate your work.
• File Upload: There is also an option to upload a file. The platform allows submitters to upload one file, though they can combine files into a single ZIP file.
• Other: The platform requires contestants to enter an entry name and description. Please also accept the the conditions of the contest including sharing your work under certified Open Source license.

PLATFORM

Share information about what operating systems or devices can your hack run on.

Resources

Include information about API, SDK, or data set, that are required to run the app.

NEW VS. EXISTING

Any work done need to be new for the competition. Existing apps are not eligible. However the specific details what is acceptable and what is not will be determined by the jury. For example existing apps that have been modified substantially and include entirely new functionality would still be eligible.

JUDGING CRITERIA

Technical ImplementationThe solution implements and uses technologies in an innovative way. Code is made available as FOSS/Open Source during the hackathon.

• Relevance and ContributionThe solution is using technologies developed at FOSSASIA and improves a project. Parts of the code are submitted to a FOSSASIA repository or project website/service.
• Open Data and Open KnowledgeThe solution is using open and accessible data and open knowledge in an innovative way to improve FOSSASIA projects and benefit the society.
• Usability and UXThe hack is an easy-to-use prototype and an intuitive application with a clear and easy to use UI.
• Benefit to Society and Market OpportunityThe solution has the potential to engage with a wide range of actors in the society for sustainable development.
• Scalability and ReplicabilityIt is possible to scale the solution and replicate it in different contexts in Asia and elsewhere.
• Indigenous Topics/LanguagesThe solution is related to languages, culture, science and issues advancing society and has relations to indigenous topics and languages.

100,000 developers from 156 nations accepted the challenge and built over 2,500 applications in 2018. Over 60 organizations amplified the Call as supporters last year. Will you answer the call in 2019? https://callforcode.org

Commit to the Cause. Push for Change. Answer the Call.

Developers have revolutionized the way people live and interact with virtually everyone and everything. Where most people see challenges, developers see possibilities. That’s why David Clark Cause launched Call for Code in 2018 alongside Founding Partner IBM. This multi-year global initiative is a rallying cry to developers to use their skills and mastery of the latest technologies, and to create new ones, to drive positive and long-lasting change across the world with their code. The second annual Call for Code Challenge theme is natural disaster preparedness and relief in the context of community health and well-being.

Who are the mentors of the hackathon supporting participants?

Presentation of Ideas, Teams and Team Building Activities at FOSSASIA Hackathon.

This talk is about how the analytical features of the CMS are implemented and thus talks about the different metrics provided by the CMS Webapp. This also explains how the entire UI of the Webapp was revamped for the powerful use of various filters that were implemented and the search functionality to easily search for the required skills.

This also gives an insight about the enhanced power to the skill creators about the rating their skill is receiving so they can improve it and correspondingly act according to the user feedback.

Coding a WCAG-compliant website is achievable with minimal expense & minimal impact on usability with some basic guidelines and strategies. In this talk, Aayush will highlight the entry barriers to accessibility, helping you with the tools required to analyze your website to make it WCAG compliant.

The talk will focus on SUSI.AI Web Clients and the migration to Redux from conventional Flux architecture based stores, alongside ReactJs. I am hoping to cover the following points -

• Introduce the SUSI.AI architecture in brief and begin by introducing the SUSI.AI Web Clients and the purpose of each of them.
• The current stack and implementation of the web clients.
• State the reason and advantages for the migration, and how would it be the best-fit.
• The directory structure and coding pattern that we use for this implementation and how it is scalable.
• Discussion about the middle-wares used while setting up the Redux store and the helpers used for making API calls.
• How Redux solves the problem of carrying out actions asynchronously and update the UI state of the application.
• Briefly mention about the slight differences in the  implementation in the chat application and CMS would then be followed.
• Will conclude the talk about the future plans that we are trying to implement for the SUSI.AI Web clients, that would include setting up a common repository for making the UI components for SUSI.AI to be built using styled-components.
• Also mention the channels through which the developers can reach out and start contributing.

SUSI AI Web bot builder is a service I created as a part of my GSoC 2018 project. This allows the users to create SUSI.AI chatbots very easily. Basic theme settings and custom replies to specific user texts are currently allowed in this chatbot. Many other features like preview of the chatbot, saving its draft, allowing bot only on specific sites etc are in initial stage and many more features are yet to build. This bot builder is built using ReactJS.

GraphQL is an open source query language for APIs that solves some of the problems REST runs into when using it for complex web applications. While it was only published in 2015, there is now a large number of libraries available for it, including Java Script and Django.

This talk will present an introduction to GraphQL and my own experience of building a mid-sized web application using Django as backend and Vue.js as frontend with GraphQL. Sections:

1. Intro to GraphQL - Schemas, queries and mutations
2. Implementations server-side (Django)
3. Implementations client-side (Apollo, graphql.js)
4. Patterns for common web application tasks compared: REST vs. GraphQL
5.   a, user registration
6.   b, account details
7.   c, insert new item
8.   d, ...
9. Resources to get started
10. Q&A

The talk will focus on the newly implemented user-role permission model of SUSI.AI which we have recently switched to from the former Wikipedia user-role permission model. I will discuss why we felt the necessity to switch to our own permission model, and what are the newly implemented user-roles and their specific features implemented on the Server side.

During my session, I'm hoping to clarify the different user-roles which we have implemented on SUSI.AI Server to facilitate various APIs to support the different SUSI.AI Clients. I will discuss about how these have been implemented on SUSI Server, and would also like to emphasise on the logic behind the decision to switch to our own permission model, and how it allows us to have a better administrative model.

SUSI.AI has various user-roles implemented on SUSI Server. The different user-roles of users of SUSI.AI affects their abilities to perform certain actions on various SUSI.AI Clients. I would like to go over each user-role and the various permissions associated with that particular user-role. I will also discuss several features which are available only for specific user-roles for demonstration purposes.

At the end, I'd also demonstrate how anyone can try out the different user-roles on their locally setup SUSI Server. I'd also motivate people to contribute to the SUSI.AI project.

Wiki Education Dashboard connects higher education with Wikipedia. I spent my summer working on this project in Outreachy Round 16 and continue to mentor in Outreachy Round 17 and Google Code-in 2018.This session will involve how to get started with React, how Wiki Education makes it possible for students and scholars to successfully contribute to open knowledge that reaches to millions of people. Lastly, my goal would be to inspire women and trans people to participate in Outreachy -  3 months internship opportunity for underrepresented people in tech to work in FOSS.

This talk is about writing codemod’s using babel. Often we want to mass-refactor our codebases, for example, switching from one library to another like from glamorous to styled-components but it’s not as easy as doing a find/replace and requires a lot of manual work. A babel codemod will help you automate the tasks by running the transform for each file passed to it. In this talk, I’ll introduce you to babel-codemod, babel and AST’s and how I refactored our huge codebase from glamorous to styled-components in less than 1 hour. You can apply the same concepts to build a babel plugin or an eslint plugin. 

Outline:

• Intro to AST’s and other compilers concepts like parsing.

• Intro to Babel.

• Writing a babel plugin.

• Case study/Demo: how I converted our large codebase from glamorous to styled components using babel-codemod. (https://github.com/Rohanhacker/glamorous-to-styled-components-codemod)

WebVR is an open specification that makes it possible to experience VR in your browser. Working with WebVR directly requires knowledge of JavaScript and WebGL. A-Frame is an open community project that uses the WebVR API along with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Three.js. 

The talk is about building a game using the components and capabilities of A-Frame, with relatively easy and compact HTML, JS. The complete ecosystem of the game, along with the physics and particle component system, the surroundings, the objects, will be shown on demo in a multiplayer environment where multiple people (here sessions) can enter and play in with their Oculus Go. 

Join us for the Codeheat Awards

Within a given company, there are typically only a few people involved in deciding which FOSS projects and initiatives to support financially. This year we decided to change all that and democratize the decision making process. We set up an internal FOSS Sustainability Fund, and invited everyone to participate in the process. This talk will examine how we got executive buy in for the fund, how the fund was set up, how we encouraged participation, and what the impact has been so far.

One of the issues that plague most meetups and is especially hurtful to OSS meetups are no-shows; more so when a meetup has got registrations in multiples of the capacity. 

Since we are an OSS community : all are meetups are free and we don't do sponsorship. The venues are given free, speakers and organizers volunteer their time and resources. And our tickets are free; unfortunately this is treated with disdain and a cavalier attitude by quite a few registrants. 

In the first year we had an abysmally low RSVP percentage ....for some meetups it even plunged to single digit. Now its above 90% on an average.  This talk is all about showing how we turned this around.....and how you can too. And yes it includes Open Event :-)

Get hands-on with Kubernetes and learn to effectively manage networking, security, user access, maintenance, performance and scale. This workshop is perfect for developers who are already using Kubernetes and those that want to learn from the pros. Join this workshop led by Kubernetes experts to create and deploy your own cloud-native microservices application to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.In addition, we will discuss how Knative provides developers with the building blocks for serverless platforms to run on Kubernetes.

* Audience: Developers

* Keywords: Knative, Kubernetes, Open Source, Containers, Serverless

* Prep Videos:

   * Kubernetes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vMEQ5zs1ko

  * Knative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69OfdJ5BIzs

Requirements

* Bring a laptop wit full access. The installation of software is required for this workshop.* Sign up for IBM Cloud before the workshop: http://ibm.biz/FOSSASIAIBM

As PayPal has transitioned  to a cloud-native environment, Web Engineering team has led the Node.js Docker effort in revamping the deployment architecture for all applications built on Node.js.

Using Docker allows for immutable, composable Node.js deployments in a nice declarative fashion. In this session, we'll cover Docker image best practices, container startup and process management, signal handling, and mounting files .

The presentation will focus on how the Docker can help soften some of the rugged parts, while maintaining great Developer Experiences.

Do you use kubectl ? How efficiently you use kubernetes? In this talk, I will give you the tour of some of the most powerful, interesting and less-known features of kubernetes command line i.e kubectl. While preparing for CKA(Certified Kubernetes Administrator), I found some of the commands very interesting and worth to share with wider audience. This will not just unleash the power but, these tricks will help audience to learn new things about kubectl which will improve there productivity with kubectl. Talk will involve things like how you can set editor of your choice for kubectl, how to learn about kubernetes resources using kubectl only and lot more cool stuff. This will also useful for the people who deal with OpenShift CLI (oc).

No doubt Open Sources technologies are leading the IT business. Every day we hear about Open Source implementations successes but also fails. For what reasons? Mostly because companies were unable to build a sustainable Operation Model including 24/7 support, upgrading strategy and so on. The reality is: not everyone can be an Open Source Technical Leader and Operation Manager have to deal with people with different skillset from different places and cultures. In this topic, I will share my experience building Operation Support teams in large international companies. How we filled the gap between high-level expertise needs, real-life people and a... tight budget of course! We will see why OS Model is so valuable by leveraging partners and communities inside and outside the company.

Containers are everywhere, but do you know how to create the rootfilesystems that they use?  There are simple tools available to createyour own custom Ubuntu or Debian root filesystem.  By using these tools to build environments matching your needs, you will end up with a better understanding of how containers are built - and how to debugthem - as well as gain access to more options that can speed up your own builds and testing.

In this presentation, I will show the debootstrap and multistrap tools and provide worked examples on how to avoid their gotchas and end up with a bootable root filesystem.

This will be a demostration of Openshift v4.x on the RED HAT COREOS & latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux flavor the RHEL 8.

This demo will include the improvements of the latest openshift version over the previous iterations and how the latest OCP takes advantage of the RHEL 8 which is optimised for containerization.

This will be an interactive session with live demonstration of the product which includes the improvement over the previous version.

Organizations move to open cloud solutions based on certain advantages of combining multiple services of different cloud providers. NodeCloud is an open source project which unifies the API layer to simply application layer API contracts and provisioning. The talk will deliver the design and development methodology of NodeCloud library.

With the advent of multiple cloud providers with similar services, many projects tend to use different services from many providers due to certain advantages. API contracts of cloud providers tend to differ in major ways and this leads to slower development and bad developer experience. NodeCloud is an open source solution which unifies the API layer in Node.js runtime. API contracts in NodeCloud make it easier to consume same types of services in different providers with common API semantics.

Serverless and micro-services now being evolving and many providers have been introduced services and frameworks to creating Serverless applications. I will talk about how the industry evolved to Serverless and when It’s useful. WebTask.io is a new Serverless provider who supports Node version 8 out of the box. WebTask can use as code sandbox for Node.js applications. WebTask also can be used to create scheduled tasks and Webhooks with Node.js. I had a chance to work with WebTask on beta phase so I would like to share my knowledge and some demos I have created to the Audience.

What do product and project managers do when waterfall goes away? How did our customers/users react to this transition? What changes did we bring about?  and How long did it take us to get here? This talks presents our journey with our customers/users in Red Hat Developers Group.

Our approach to bridge the gap between Dev & Ops was to  give the teams not only the ability to build, deploy the code to production but also manage the service delivery aspects. We even managed to incorporate end-user feedback into our continuous delivery model.

This talk will review how we crossed the following hurdles.

1. ‘Culture follows structure’ hence org change from two different Dev & Ops departments to just one

2. Transition from just building products to running and managing services in production.

3. Release schedules didn’t disappear, they simply served as a marker on our continuous delivery path.

4. Continue to focus on reducing dependency on Service Delivery teams - balancing access & security.

5. Invested in building toolchains that minimized and automated efforts to build, deploy &  maintain code.

6. Continuous feedback channels such as user behaviour via telemetry, stability via monitoring tools etc.

7. Redefined business value by focusing on flexible architecture that allows for easy extensibility via plugins.

8. Engagement with community & customers via several touch points and direct access to developers.

Dunner is a task runner tool like Grunt but uses Docker images like CircleCI do. You can define tasks and steps of the tasks in your .dunner.yaml file and then run these steps with Dunner do taskname.

GitHub: https://github.com/leopardslab/Dunner

We love to share about the project with the world, for both to let the world know about the use of Dunner and to get contributors to the project.

An internet kiosk is a special use case. A single computer is shared by an indefinite number of users. Lots of security concerns arise. In Asia and elsewhere multiple non-latin languages have to be supported. We decided to create a custom lightweight distribution, Meilix and a generator web app that allows you to preconfigure an ISO with the wallpaper and desktop settings in place.

It is impressive how much time and resources a team can save by using the OBS infrastructure to manages their packages creation and distribution. OBS is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way.

Andrew Lee will cover the benefits of using OBS, explain some of it features and workflow for all your packaging and releasing needs, like automatically build package from scratch on multiple target distros and architectures, and show you how to setup OBS infrastructure to build your own Debian based distro easily.

Guide on customising Debian image to use in your project with Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone.

This talk will begin with a brief introduction to the problems which revolve around the software build space from the perspective of the developer and the perspective of the system integrator. Then we will present the solutions we've come up with in the BuildStream project; which is now used to build the base Flatpak runtimes and GNOME releases. As this will be a brief session, we will try to discuss the build space in the abstract and hope to raise awareness through the Q&A session.

After 3.0 release, an overview of current achievements and ongoing work at VideoLAN on the most popular multimedia player.

The FreeBSD Project is an old and well-established open source community. With volunteer developers around the world, handling security advisories in a timely manner while respecting third-party embargoes poses unique challenges. This presentation introduces the FreeBSD security officer team and the processes in place for handling security advisories affecting the FreeBSD open source operating system itself and the third-party components the project distributes.

The TeX environment has grown slowly but steadily to a huge collection of programs, fonts, macro packages, support packages. Current TeX Live ships about 4Gb in more than 3500 different "TeX Live packages". As teTeX stopped to be developed and supported several years ago, TeX Live has taken over as the main TeX distribution in practical all areas, not only on Unix, but also Mac (MacTeX is based on TeX Live) and is also gaining on Windows (where MikTeX is still strong).

In this talk we recall shortly the history of TeX Live, its transition from CD/DVD based distribution to net based distribution, and the difficulties one faces when distributing a considerable piece of software to a variety of operating systems and hardware combinations. Topics touched are cross-platform distribution, security, release management etc.

Furthermore, we shortly will touch the topic of re-distributing TeX Live into Linux distributions like Debian, Red Hat, SuSE. Integrating TeX Live into any distribution is a non-trivial task due to big amount of post installation tasks that have to be performed. Although over the last years the quality of packages has improved, we (TeX Live development list) still get often bug reports that stem from incorrect packaging.

The upcoming VLC 4.0 will finally have support for the next-generation open-source Wayland display protocol. We will discuss the key points to consider when porting a native application to Wayland through the example of VLC.

Bare-metal provisioning in data center normally covers the server, computing, and storage nodes. Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) is an open source initiative that defines an open “install environment” for bare metal network switches [1]. ONIE allows users to have a choice among different network operating systems, and also to keep the network configurations. In this talk we introduce the way to use Clonezilla [2] to deploy the systems for the whole cabinet, including the ONIE network switches. This presentation will give you a picture about how to fast deploy the system environment you need.

[1] http://onie.org/

[2] http://clonezilla.org

"Kubernetes" is one of the most popular and famous container orchestration open source software. And now, there are so many Kubernetes environments and deployment tools such as SUSE CaaS Platform, minikube, kubeadm, Rancher, GKE/AKS/EKS, etc. So, we can use or build a Kubernetes cluster with them very easily. However, it also prevents opportunities to understand Kubernetes technologies themselves from users. Therefore, if a Kubernetes cluster gets something wrong, it would be tough challenge to resolve it without such knowledge. With the situation, here is a very good exercise document - "Kubernetes The Hard Way[0]" which is a tutorial for setting up Kubernetes the hard way on Google Cloud Platform(GCP). People can learn internal architecture of Kubernetes from that.

In this session, attendees will get an opportunity to know how to set up a Kubernetes cluster on not only GCP but also an OpenStack cloud or something based on the tutorial, and, will get to know its technology deeply."Kubernetes The Hard Way"[0] has 14 chapters right now. And it's written for the GCP basically. However, it works on the other clouds  with some modifications.

[0] https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

It is a common sight to see teams struggling to collaborate because of varying preference of programming languages. GraalVM is a universal virtual machine created to address this issue. 

In this session, we will look at how you can use GraalVM to create polyglot applications with ease. It is a hands-on live coding session where we will look at Ruby, NodeJS & Java interoperability.

Concepts in quantum computing have been around for over 30 years but only recently have practical quantum computers started to become available. While today's quantum computers are still very limited it's enough to start putting some of these concepts into practice. With the development of these machines there has been open source tooling developed to use them. One such example is QISKit, which is an Apache Licensed SDK for developing quantum applications. It lets you mix classical programming and quantum computing together to build applications that leverage the advantages of both. This workshop will explain the basics of quantum information theory and how you build quantum circuits. It will then provide a hands on introduction into using qiskit and how you can use it to implement quantum programs, how that can be integrated together within a larger application, and will also demonstrate how you can run your quantum program on real quantum computers.

From project development to translation and then packaging for distros like fedora seems tedious at times. Project development has its own release schedule which may or may not always fit availability of translators, timely execution of localization steps like push or pull strings, packaging and building, etc. As a result improper localized interfaces, delay, last moment breakage, poor user experience, etc. can be seen.

One solution to this is complete translation tracking at all there places: source repository, translation platform and release build system. Transtats does this, for every package! Plus, there are a few tools to track string loss during the process. Let's have a closer look on Transtats and discuss it's use cases.

Flatpaks is a new world for application developers. It is a way to publish applications on different Linux distributions. This is useful to third parties to distribute their application on multiple distributions. This will be an introductory presentation where following topics will be covered1) Introduction to Flatpaks2) Flatpak concept (underlying technology)3) Features of Flatpaks4) Using Flatpak commands5) Build application using Flatpak6) FlathubWe will see what Flatpak is, how to use its commands on Fedora Linux, then build the simple application as a Flatpak. We then look at how to use Flathub on Fedora. Flathub is a central repository where flatpaks are stored.

AI, IoT and Industry 4.0 has sped up tremendously.  Industry expects our students to  be Worker 4.0 when they graduate. Is our Education system 4.0?  Is the next generation AI Ready?  How could we get our education system in the same speed as technology?  This talk hopes to share our experience and engage meaningfully with FOSSASIA participants on this subject.

Sciencer is an AI powered application that can automatically mark Science open-ended questions. It is built on IBM watson using Python as well as Flask. It is hosted on pythonanywhere.

We built Sciencer because when I was in Primary 4, I did horribly in Science. As a result, I used an app, geniebook, an online tuition service to help me improve. Geniebook was awsome except for one problem; teachers who marked the science questions took a long time too mark them. Therefore, I improved slowly. We wanted to create an app like geniebook, but one that could mark questions faster and more efficiently.

Sciencer consists of an interface for sudents to take tests and an interface for teachers to add questions, tests as well as mark answers disputed by the students. Sciencer learns from these disputed answers. It allows students to practice for Science exams multiple times and recieve marks immediately.

Sciencer has been designed so even non-technical teachers can add in questions and tests easily. We are looking for teachers/parents/students/tuition centers to help us add questions and test out our platform. Come to our talk to learn more about Sciencer and Artificial Intelligence. You can also access the beta version at:

http://sciencer.pythonanywhere.com/

The STEAM education in Asia originates from the Maker Movement in the USA 10 years ago. Now, DIY Biology is another up and coming movement and evaluate to popularize biotech education in schools.

Data talks about the importance of the Biotech Education to teenagers and its impact and challenges to STEAM education in Asia. Data will also highlight how to transfer a classroom to a laboratory and the reasons for learning biotechnology in Schools. In the end, Data will reveal how biotech integrates with existing STEAM education in Hong Kong.

People in remote areas of India are facing severe problem for visiting hospitals at city centers. Digital solution need to be provided for assisted living in rural areas to make “No Doctor to E-Doctors”.

The main objectives of this project are :

Integrated System Design: To design and develop integrated health monitoring system in rural areas.

Health Monitoring: Monitoring vital parameters (Body Temperature, Pulse rate, Respiratory systems and Blood pressure)

Continuous Monitoring: Based on the obtained Health data, Primary health care centre can maintain data logger for the betterment of assisted living in rural areas.

With the rapid development of wireless sensor network technologies has in several ways revolutionized healthcare and different forms of ambient assisted living environments .The project contributes to the advancement of knowledge on Internet of Things (IoT), micro controller, sensors and inter-connectivity. Most of the assisted population in India has very poor access to healthcare. Most of medical facilities are concentrated in urban areas, and there is an overall shortage of medical personnel. Thus rural patients are left to semi- and unqualified practitioners, creating a huge disease burden. Assisted living people shows more diversity in their health conditions than younger people. Thus, due to the lack of the system which provides a data log for the patient health record, it is not possible to regularly monitor the important parameters such as temperature, pressure, pulse etc, from a distant place. The patients manually have to visit hospital for their health check, which may not be feasible all the time.

GCompris is a high-quality educational software suite, including a large number of activities for children aged 2 to 10.

Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.

Currently, GCompris offers more than 100 activities, and more are being developed. GCompris is free software, it means that you can adapt it to your own needs, improve it, and most importantly share it with children everywhere. The topics of discussion under talks and main points with descriptions are - Architecture of GCompris (https://github.com/gcompris/GCompris-qt.git). How to contribute GCompris and how is it made of? Documentation Localization The session will be mainly for new contributors who wished to contribute to GCompris under Core and Activity Development. With the help of FOSSASIA, I wish to encourage the ideas and outreach of learning and encourage developers to take part in the development.