IndiaFOSS 3.0
2023-10-28..2023-10-29
Bengaluru, India
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 Opening Note | Riya P Mathew, Harsh Tandiya, Mangesh Mane | 23m |
Announces a new Force United platform built on the Frappe framework with plain JavaScript/HTML/CSS/jQuery and Razorpay integration, published as fully open… | ||
| What I learnt by building Vyaakaran | Akash Hamirwasia | 20m |
A browser-based suite called Vyaakaran visualizes and tests formal grammars and automata, implemented in TypeScript with a Vue3 editor and a static site… | ||
| Bridging the gap: Teaching FOSS on YouTube | Hussain Nagaria | 16m |
Channel has 50+ videos, 33 live build‑in‑public streams and about 3 lakh watch minutes, and converts attention into income—a paid Frappe training batch sells… | ||
| Observability and Open Telemetry | Siddhartha Khare | 20m |
OpenTelemetry under CNCF provides APIs, SDKs and an OTLP protocol for exporting metrics traces and logs, with automatic and manual instrumentation, a collector… | ||
| What's new with Hoppscotch? | Andrew Bastin | 17m |
Hoppscotch reports concrete milestones: it crosses 55k GitHub stars, wins a testing open source award, and launches self-hosted with 150k+ Docker pulls. The… | ||
| Unveiling Kochi's Transport Landscape | Ark Arjun | 19m |
Kochi public transport gets a ground-truthed open dataset: a three‑month, community-driven mapping effort converts messy government records and field GPS… | ||
| Panel Discussion - Women In FOSS | 48m | |
Panel reports concrete tactics and failures: contributors use Apache Airflow and cite a five‑day refactor that a one‑line fix would have solved, engineers work… | ||
| OpenAssistant's Opensource LLMs Saga | Shahul E S | 15m |
Claims building top open source LLMs using a pipeline of synthetic dataset creation, fine-tuning and reward modeling then RLHF, producing chat-capable models… | ||
| Create Hardware with Open-Source ecosystem | Atharva Upadhye | 20m |
Company engineers adopt KiCad and FreeCAD to replace expensive proprietary chains and get a full PCB-to-mechanical flow at no license cost, cutting prototype… | ||
| Raven - Simple work messaging tool | Nikhil Kothari, Janhvi Patil | 13m |
Raven is an open-source Slack alternative built on Frappe with a React frontend and an Ionic PWA, supporting public/private/open channels, file previews and… | ||
| Case Study: FOSS (Apache Hbase) at Flipkart | Mallikarju | 21m |
Flipkart describes how HBase is customized to run 5 million QPS on Kubernetes by keeping core code untouched while adding multi-tenant features: per-tenant… | ||
| Plane: Project management tool from the future | Aaryan Khandelwal | 15m |
Open source project management product that claims to be a cleaner, faster alternative to Jira/Linear, built with Next.js front end, Django backend and PostGIS… | ||
| Remembering Abraham Raji | Abraham Raji | 11m |
The community lost a key contributor last month; concrete contributions include maintaining dozens of Debian packages in Ruby JavaScript and Go, designing and… | ||
| Panel Discussion Strategic Value of FOSS | 57m | |
Claims that 60–70% of the tech stack in Indian startups, enterprises and e‑government uses FOSS and that India is the third largest GitHub community set the… | ||
| Stories From TinkerSpace | Moosa Mehar | 13m |
A hacker space in Kochi, Kerala runs ~130 events with 41 organizations, about 1,300 unique members and several thousand check-ins, and hosts GPUs and 3D… | ||
| Open Data to plan Flood management in Assam | Sai Krishna Dammalapati | 16m |
Project uses qgis and open street maps plus web scraping with selenium and Python to merge two open datasets (FIMS losses & Assam tender data) with satellite… | ||
| C4GT | Karan Trehan, Shruti Agarwal | 16m |
C4GT runs an annual mentoring pipeline and a new continuous community program that connects contributors to population-scale DPGs and DPIs; 2023 yields 38… | ||
| Day 2 Opening Note | Rushabh Mehta, Sai Rahul Poruri | 07m |
Call to turn conference enthusiasm into a sustainable FOSS movement with concrete asks: recruiting code maintainers and community managers, seeking financial… | ||
| lllustrations for the Sub-continent | Sidika Sehgal | 10m |
An open‑source illustration library called Subcontinental provides plug-and-play Figma components: modular avatars (state‑specific looks, professions… | ||
| More ways to have fun with Libre Software on GNU/Linux! | Abhas Abhinav | 28m |
Argues that free software on GNU/Linux replaces pricey hardware and unlocks playful music making, citing specific tools: guitarix (Debian package, JACK plugins… | ||
| WinkNLP – a journey to open source | Sanjay Kumar Saxena | 20m |
An open‑source JavaScript NLP library built since 2017 that uses a tree of fast state machines plus hand‑labeled data to avoid costly corpora, compressing… | ||
| Building an open source payments switch | Nishant Joshi | 14m |
An open source payments switch that unifies multiple processors into one API and acts as an orchestrator rather than a processor, implemented in Rust backend… | ||
| Using WebTorrent trackers for purposes other than torrents | Subin Siby | 20m |
Library P2PD uses WebTorrent trackers as a signaling channel to create browser-to-browser WebRTC apps, demonstrated by a multiplayer drawing game and a local… | ||
| Transforming Ideas into Circuits with CircuitVerse | Pavan Sanjay Joshi | 16m |
An open-source, web-based simulator for designing and visualizing digital circuits in the browser, with reusable subcircuits, timing diagrams and a test bench… | ||
| Panel Discussion - Fostering FOSS culture in tier II/III cities | Hussain Nagaria, Subin Siby, Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran, Viji sulochana | 56m |
Grassroots groups report concrete wins: an IT park government order clears land, trainings select ~100 students from 1,000+ applicants and funnel successful… | ||
| Toying with DNS | Kailash Nadh | 20m |
Builds a DNS server called dns.toys that answers arbitrary queries over UDP on Port 53 using standard DNS libraries and responds via TXT records for unit… | ||
| FOSS in undergraduate education | Anil Gulecha | 15m |
An undergraduate CS program called Calum replaces first-year theory and unrelated courses with project work on GitHub, continuous assessments every 3–4 weeks… | ||
| B(I)LUG: A 25-year Retrospective | Dr Sachin Garg | 23m |
Timeline of practical milestones: India’s research network runs on 64 kbps links and 128 kbps VSAT in the 1990s, VSNL opens public internet on 15 Aug 1995… | ||
| Co(de)mmunity! | Karkee | 27m |
Community group runs weekly meetups and weekend village sessions since 2013, trains participants selected from 1,000+ applicants → 100 selected using separate… | ||
| Closing Note | Kailash Nadh | 04m |
A nonprofit called FOSS United is born from frustration about a cultural gap: India is the biggest consumer on GitHub yet produces few recognizable Indian FOSS… | ||
| Panel - FOSS for social good | Shemeer Babu, Ramya Sundararajan, Akhila Somanath, Vinay Venu, Akhilesh Negi | 49m |
Panel lists concrete wins and limits: worked with 1,000+ NGOs and finds 90% have no tech budget and 70% keep data in silos; rescued a 10,000‑member paper… | ||
| Immutable Linux systems and how they work | Rudra Saraswat | 11m |
Compares three concrete approaches: A/B root partitions (two 20 GB roots, updates applied to B then merged), OSTree commits and refs as filesystem snapshots… | ||
| Open Mic | 41m | |
Community-run conference reports operational plans: a new open-source platform launches January 2024 with code on GitHub (repo slforceUnited), IndiaFOSS 3.0… | ||
| Developing a Custom Load Balancer to serve traffic at scale | Sandeep Bhat | 18m |
Design and build a custom load balancer using ono as the dataplane and a Go control plane talking over gRPC, running as two Linux services on a single VM with… | ||
| Automated vulnerability patching at scale in Debian | T K Sourab | 22m |
Automated patching uses unattended-upgrades scheduled by a systemd timer (or cron) to run apt update/upgrade daily, with repo-based blacklist/whitelist… | ||
| ToolJet Database | Teja Kummarikuntla | 20m |
ToolJet Database launches as an in‑built Postgres layer in ToolJet 2.0 (Jan 2023) and advertises zero‑code table creation, ToolJet Database on Postgres, CSV… | ||
| AI Model Inference on K8s | Vaibhav Jain | 15m |
Explains how Kubernetes plus KServe/model mesh runs real inference: single-model KNative serverless pods and multi-model deployment that packs thousands of… | ||
| Private 5G Deployments using Open Source 5G Core Network | Arpit Tripathi | 15m |
Private 5G is deployed using open source cores like OAI 5G and free5GC with USRP radios (USRP B210), cutting operator core costs versus Ericsson/Nokia. The… | ||
| FOSS Communities: What’s new in Discourse? | Rishabh Nambiar | 16m |
Discourse moves to a six month release cadence and ships 3.0 and 3.1 with 3.2 planned for Jan 2024, integrates a native chat so communities stop juggling… | ||
| What's up with Chatwoot? | Shivam Mishra | 19m |
Chatwoot is an open source Intercom/Zendesk alternative with a one-command CLI install, dashboard, widget-embedded help center, automations and macros, and a… | ||
| Empowering Innovation with the Julia Language | Anant Thazhemadam, Sharan Yalburgi | 16m |
Julia claims production-grade performance and energy efficiency while staying dynamic: 1.54 petaflops on 9,300 KNL nodes produced 188 million objects in 14.6… | ||
| What Do We Mean When We say Open Source AI? | Tarunima Prabhakar | 05m |
Civic tech org Tattle builds datasets and ML tools for Indian misinformation and hate speech, including the Fuda analysis engine that layers a ResNet backbone… | ||
| A vulnerability database should not be about vulnerabilities! | Hrithik Vijay | 15m |
Argues that vulnerability databases must be package-first not CVE-first, and demonstrates a concrete implementation: use PackageURL identifiers and a universal… | ||
| Fostering Diversity in Open Source Communities | Sudha Parimala | 17m |
A well established ML‑family programming language community adopts a code of conduct after two attempts (initial 2017 effort, relaunch in 2022), formed… | ||
| Can FOSS and Software Patents coexist? | Venkatesh Hariharan | 19m |
Argument: software patents function as exclusionary monopolies that clash with FOSS sharing and make lawful development risky. Evidence: 38% of US patent… | ||
| Defending Your Network with Infection Monkey | Shreya Malviya | 20m |
An open source adversary-emulation platform that runs a Monkey Island control server and a propagating agent worm to simulate real attacker behavior without… | ||
| Exploring Free Software Entrepreneurship | Shiva Edrami | 16m |
Company builds and deploys free‑software stacks for defense, education and enterprise for 23 years, charging for planning, customization, integration, support… | ||
| Poorna - The complete Malayalam Unicode character set keyboard | Mujeeb Rahman K | 15m |
A keyboard that types every Malayalam Unicode codepoint including 118 basic Malayalam Unicode characters plus archaic fractions and numerals, implemented in… | ||
| Revitalizing Student Projects by using FOSS: Case Studies | Mohit P. Tahiliani | 17m |
Course projects become production contributions: students implement 18 new protocols and ~200,000 lines in ns3, publish 12 ACM papers, and host the 10th WNS3… | ||
| OpenRefine - a open source tool for working with data | Jinoy Tom Jacob | 16m |
OpenRefine is an open‑source, browser‑based data cleaning tool (born from Freebase in 2006, with Wikidata launched 2012) that runs offline or connected… | ||
| The Political Roots of AI Policy | Anupam Guha | 29m |
Machine learning is as much a social system as a technical one and governing it with AI safety as instrumentation — debiasing, explainability, benchmarks —… | ||
| Bruno - A Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs | Anoop M D | 21m |
Bruno is an open‑source API IDE that stores collections as files (creates .brew files), uses git for collaboration, and runs fully offline, no cloud sync. It’s… | ||
| FOSS in building Telecom Networks | Abhijit Gadgil | 14m |
Built a set of Rust tools for telecom infrastructure: humpy ASN.1 compiler that emits Rust structs and codecs and measures 15–20% faster than C and about an… | ||
| Open Biology: Revolutionizing biological research | Dr. Preeti | 21m |
Claims specific tools and numbers: analysis relies on R and ImageJ rather than SPSS or Photoshop, with SPSS costing ~₹79,000/year and sequence editor Genius… | ||
| Logs Parsing Using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz | Nityananda Gohain | 15m |
Shows a concrete system that turns messy log lines into structured fields using OpenTelemetry receivers/processors and SigNoz as the backend, exporting parsed… | ||
| Auto-Generating E2E Test-Cases and Mocks w/ Keploy | Neha Gupta, Shubham Jain | 16m |
Auto-generates realistic end-to-end tests and mocks by capturing network calls from production or local runs, converting interactions into YAML test+mock… | ||
| Role of FOSS in bringing equity and quality learning to education | Nidhi Anarkat | 22m |
NavGurukul runs a 15-month job-focused program that trains students from underserved backgrounds (eligibility: 10th pass, basic English/algebra), places 650+… | ||
| Open Source Consumption/ Adoption Manifesto | Biju K Nair | 16m |
Recommends concrete steps: adopt an OpenChain 2.1 ISO self‑certification, publish a software bill of materials (SBOM) in CycloneDX/ISO format, run automated… | ||
| Announcing IndiaFOSS'24! | 02m | |
Announcing the fourth edition of IndiaFOSS: IndiaFOSS 2024 runs September 7–8 at NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru. The event positions itself as the… | ||
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