IndiaFOSS 2.0
2022-07-23..2022-07-24
Bengaluru, India
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching programming in rural areas using FOSS | Raimund Raittnauer | 08m |
A course teaches Java programming to rural Andhra students entirely on smartphones and shows it is viable despite tiny screens and power cuts. Teaching uses… | ||
| Using FOSS to help the Indian Laborline | Arunabha Bhattacharya | 06m |
Open source stack powers a rapid, low‑cost system that tracks migrant worker cases, connects eight-plus NGOs and runs a helpline; the front end uses ERPNext… | ||
| A 12 year old Linux developer's journey through FOSS into Forbes | Rudra Saraswat, Parul Bali | 10m |
A 12 year old builds and ships an Ubuntu Unity beta from a low‑spec laptop, solves compilation hangs with online troubleshooting, and sees the release featured… | ||
| A strong belief that 'The future is open' | Piyush Goel | 08m |
Company runs 1 billion+ loyalty accounts and sends 3 billion+ engagement messages globally for 250+ enterprise chains, and claims the tech stack has used… | ||
| Using FOSS to resolve Karnataka pothole issue | Tejas Mahajan, Mohd Shamoon | 08m |
Reapbenefit and Glific deploy a WhatsApp Glific chatbot to crowdsource photos, GPS locations and videos of road defects, map them to a public dashboard and… | ||
| FOSS as a lifestyle choice | Philosophical ideas | Abhas Abhinav | 22m |
Uses 24 years of personal experience to argue that free/libre software gives control back to users, citing GNU/FSF principles and the four freedoms (use… | ||
| In conversation with participants at IndiaFOSS 2.0 | Harsh Nisar, Pranav Raj, Apar Gupta, Mohd Shamoon, Karan Sharma, Rishabh Nambiar, Aditya Prasad, Tejas Mahajan | 15m |
Answers describe work on PMGSY data science and an open-source customer platform Chatwoot that supports 30+ languages contributed by 200+ people. Favored tools… | ||
| Bringing together IndiaFOSS 2.0 | Vishal Arya | 07m |
IndiaFOSS 2.0 is a volunteer-driven second edition that plans for quality contributors and networking and ends up with 700 registrations and about 500… | ||
| Use of GIS for Planning Rs 80,000 Cr of Rural Road Investments | Harsh Nisar | 31m |
PMGSY-III allocates about Rs 80,000 Cr to upgrade 125,000 km out of a 4.5 million km rural network, so a network planning algorithm called Trace Maps is built… | ||
| API and UI Test Automation with Karate | Peter Thomas | 16m |
Karate is an open source test framework that claims 6,100+ GitHub stars and adoption across large Global 2000 teams, combines API, UI and performance testing… | ||
| Scanning is the new spinning - Digitization & Open Knowledge initiatives around you | OmShivaprakash | 25m |
Collective digitizes public‑domain Indic books, claiming more than 20,000 books in 14 languages and an indexed corpus of ~25,000 titles, producing 2.5 million… | ||
| Introducing Galaxy: Open Spatial Data Outputs Platform | Ramya Raghupathy | 13m |
HOTOSM launches OSM Galaxy (April 2021) as a single site for OSM outputs and already runs a C++ pipeline called Underpass that ingests minutely OSM change… | ||
| My learnings from building Blaze as a FOSS project | Akash Hamirwasia | 28m |
Built a web peer-to-peer file sharing app called blaze that starts as a websocket prototype, moves to WebRTC for direct chunked transfers and later… | ||
| Democratising Open (Geo)Data for Open Innovation and Solutioning | Ark Arjun | 13m |
Defines geodata as any dataset with a location component and shows concrete outcomes: ESA/Copernicus supplies 16 terabytes per day of 10m-resolution imagery… | ||
| GitHub for India: Supporting the OSS ecosystem | Karan MV | 19m |
India accounts for 8 million developers on GitHub and adds 1.8 million new developers and 7.3 million repositories in a year, with about 200 million… | ||
| Building a GraphQL based open-source infrastructure project | Manas Agarwal | 11m |
Hasura is an open source, no-code realtime GraphQL engine extracted from a larger Haskell stack so teams can spin up a container with Docker and get instant… | ||
| Foundational building blocks for transactional applications | Manoj Radhakrishnan | 18m |
Presto is an open-source PureScript framework that turns transactional workflows into near-mathematical equations so product folks and freshers can read and… | ||
| Mechanics of releasing a large project: Leadership learnings from Kubernetes releases | Nabarun Pal | 27m |
Kubernetes runs ~4‑month release cycles with ~40 distributed contributors, handling ~1,000 issues per cycle from a repo with ~100k issues/PRs; builds and signs… | ||
| Glific - A open-source two-way communication platform | Pankaj Agarwal | 12m |
Two-year open source platform Glific runs an Elixir backend with a React frontend to manage WhatsApp Business API conversations, a visual chatbot flow builder… | ||
| Building dictionaries: Open data, Open source | Kailash Nadh | 38m |
Built two open-data dictionaries: Olam (seeded 2010, now ~60,000 English headwords and 125,000 Malayalam definitions, ~2M monthly users) and Alar… | ||
| Introducing Mon School | Jannat Patel | 11m |
Mon School launches July 2021 as a minimalist open LMS with 4 published courses, a five‑week cohort model, and more than 10,000 users; a festival contest drew… | ||
| Opening Note IndiaFOSS 2.0 | Rushabh Mehta, Krutika Thakkannavar, Vrinda Menon | 14m |
Organizers describe building FOSS United as a tiny volunteer startup that runs two remote hackathons, monthly meetups in Bangalore, and issues grants to… | ||
| Building end-to-end encryption @excalidraw | Aakansha Doshi | 25m |
Excalidraw adds end-to-end encryption by encrypting JSON drawing blobs in the browser with AES-GCM and random 12‑byte IVs, exporting the key as a JWK string… | ||
| How do we get a FOSS UPI mobile app | Nemo | 31m |
Argues that a usable FOSS UPI app is practical by building a clean‑room common library specification that reproduces NPCI device registration and PIN flows… | ||
| Challenges and opportunities with FOSS in Government | Abhishek Singh | 32m |
Government already runs major FOSS systems — Aadhaar (billion+ people, millions of auths daily), UPI, CoWIN (about 2 billion doses issued, 25 million peak… | ||
| Fireside chat with Rudra Saraswat: 12 year old Linux dev | Kailash Nadh | 31m |
Starts programming at five or six and publishes first Android app at age six; switches to Linux because Android builds drop from ten minutes on 4GB Windows to… | ||
| How we built an open-source hardware product from India | Prasad Khake | 19m |
An open-source e-paper development board built around an ESP32 microcontroller and off-the-shelf e-paper modules becomes a shippable product after prototype… | ||
| Community Contributed Open Data in India | Thejesh GN | 14m |
DataMeet runs since 2011 as a volunteer open-data community with an email list of ~2,450 people, archives datasets on GitHub and archive.org, and publishes… | ||
| An Invitation to OCaml | Sudha Parimala | 26m |
Industrial-strength functional language with imperative and OO features, OCaml claims Hindley-Milner type inference, algebraic data types, pattern matching and… | ||
| Gap between the FOSS approach, infosec research, & how the Indian Govt functions | Raman Jit Singh | 26m |
Government drafts a controversial draft encryption policy withdrawn in 2015–16 and later issues CERT‑In directions (VPN/log‑retention) under the IT Act that… | ||
| India's Soft Corner for Software Patents: an empirical study | Raghav Ahooja | 29m |
Empirical data shows software patent grants rise from ~200 to 1,000 annually between FY2014–15 and FY2021–22, with a spike tied to the CRI guidelines and case… | ||
| Building Business Around Open Source Projects | Panel Discussion | Abhishek Nayak, Pranav Raj | 55m |
Three early-stage companies turn open source code into paying businesses by launching on Hacker News, courting developers, and offering hosted or enterprise… | ||
| Experiences in FOSS | Kovid Goyal | 24m |
Starts by reverse‑engineered PRS‑500 USB protocol and Sony LRF format to make an ebook workflow on Linux, grew that tool into Calibre and released… | ||
| #IndiaFOSS 2.0 Day 1 Closing note | Kailash Nadh | 03m |
Event recounts growth from a tiny 2020 experiment to an unexpected 150 people in 2020 and an even bigger response in 2022, with a surprising lineup that… | ||
| Policy not person: Exploring Limits and frontiers of FOSS Policy Making | Apar Gupta | 14m |
India’s FOSS policies date back to Kerala in 2001 but implementation gaps persist: ICFOSS is spending less than half its allocated budget, central procurement… | ||
| Beckn- the language for an open world | Ravi Prakash | 24m |
An open specification that turns independent apps and back‑ends into interoperable marketplaces, Beckn defines four actors: BAP BPP gateway registry, a schema… | ||
| Building a network security practice in your organization | Pannel Discussion | 43m | |
Panel claims everyday enterprise networks still emit commodity malware (WannaCry traces persist), public assets and databases are routinely exposed, and small… | ||
| Tinkerhub Movement | Kerala Moosa Mehar | 21m |
Started from a 2014 Mozilla Maker Party Kochi that taught 4,000 people, the collective turns ad hoc college meetups into sustained peer-learning hubs that run… | ||
| The ToolJet way | Teja Kummarikuntla | 14m |
ToolJet is an open‑source low‑code platform that claims teams can build internal tools in minutes by wiring UI, optional JS transformations, and data sources… | ||
| Low-Code + Open Source = Appsmith | Pranav Kanade | 08m |
Appsmith is an open source low‑code platform (~19K stars) that generates a full CRUD application from a table in four clicks, with drag‑and‑drop widgets, a… | ||
| No Cost Test Environment for Open-Source Projects | Prashanth Shahi | 11m |
Sets up per-PR test environments at zero cost using GitHub Actions for public repos, builds Docker images, deploys to Docker Compose or a k3s/k3d cluster via… | ||
| FOSS @ ElasticRun | Shreem Bansal, Karthikeyan | 11m |
ElasticRun runs a B2B platform for rural India serving 100,000 villages and over 400,000 stores with more than a million shipments per day, built on GitHub… | ||
| Building an OSS Postgres GUI with Typescript | Sooraj Sanker | 13m |
An open‑source Postgres GUI called DBLens (https://github.com/dblens/app and dblens.app) is a cross‑platform Electron client written in TypeScript/JavaScript… | ||
| Build your own cloud with Frappe Cloud | Aditya Hase | 22m |
Frappe Cloud is a Frappe app plus a tiny Flask agent that becomes a managed hosting stack by compiling app repos into Docker images, pushing to a registry and… | ||
| Hacking Hardware using Free Software & GNU/Linux | Abhas Abhinav | 43m |
Argues that reclaiming devices means running free software on them, shows concrete paths: liberatedhardware.org (planned catalog to pick liberatable devices)… | ||
| The designer-contributor dilemma with FOSS | Krutika Thakkannanavar | 16m |
A designer finds a huge discovery gap: Google and GitHub searches return almost nothing usable, only a Mozilla open design repo last active in 2019 and a vague… | ||
| Future of FOSS United | Discussion | 01h 18m | |
A community roadmap: a public FOSS pledge asks organizations to openly acknowledge Foss use, encourage developer participation and publish commitments (no… | ||
| The Hoppscotch Manifesto | Andrew Bastin | 15m |
hoppscotch presents itself as an open source API testing ecosystem and reports concrete traction: 45,000 stars on GitHub, 5000 teams using hoppscotch for… | ||
| Avni - A homegrown low code MIS platform for non profits | Arjun Khandelwal | 11m |
Started as a malaria dosing app and now used by about 35 projects, Avni is an open-source MIS that claims 1 million beneficiaries and 3,000 users across… | ||
| Protecting Modern Workloads with eBPF superpowers | Barun Acharya | 25m |
Uses eBPF probes for kernel‑level observability and correlates events with Docker/containerd and Kubernetes APIs to add image, pod and process context; pairs… | ||
| What's wrong with the way we teach FOSS to students | Deepika k | 27m |
Teaches only FOSS for seven years and runs courses in Linux shell scripting, Raspberry Pi IoT, Grafana + InfluxDB, MQTT, Git, Debian and uses Back for app… | ||
| ReactPlay | Tapas Adhikary | 13m |
ReactPlay is an open source, two‑month‑old platform that scaffolds real React projects via an npm starter (npx create-react-play), links each play to a GitHub… | ||
| Building Community Owned Decentralized Networks in rural India | Sanketh Kumar | 26m |
Claims that community-owned, offline-first networks can close rural gaps by putting infrastructure in locals' hands. The deployment uses Libre Routers (open… | ||
| Record-Replay API Test Cases with Data Mocks using Keploy | Neha, Shubham | 14m |
Keploy captures live API requests and responses and auto-generates executable test cases plus data mocks by recording DB queries and packaging only the needed… | ||
| Chaos Genius: Open Sourcing Outlier Detection and Root Cause Analysis | Harshit Surana | 14m |
An open source analytics engine that runs hundreds of ML models across thousands of dimensions, connects to Redshift Snowflake BigQuery plus Shopify Facebook… | ||
| NeST: A Python based Network Emulator for Education and Research | Narayan G | 16m |
NeST claims it turns Linux network namespaces into a reproducible emulator via a Python wrapper around Linux network namespaces, building virtual topologies… | ||
| How advancements in storage are triggering innovations in open-source and vice-versa | Nitesh Shetty | 17m |
Survey of concrete changes in storage and system software: PCIe NVMe SSDs drive kernel rewrites (block-mq, polled queues) and user-space stacks (SPDK) that hit… | ||
| Connecting, Securing and Optimising Enterprise Networks with Free Software | Nishant Sharma | 20m |
Builds enterprise gateways on OpenWrt and liberated off‑the‑shelf hardware and deploys concrete solutions: mwan3 with dual watermark packet‑loss/latency… | ||
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