10 Year FOSSASIA - OSCON2019
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Hong Phuc DANG co-founded FOSSASIA in 2009 to connect the open source community in Asia. Over the past 10 years, FOSSASIA has grown to include thousands of developers through coding programs, hackathons, and events. They have also developed open source apps and hardware like Pocket Science Lab. FOSSASIA sustains itself through diverse income streams and a global community that contributes to projects and each other.
10 Year FOSSASIA - OSCON2019
- 1. The 10 Year Journey Free and Open Source Community in Asia Hong Phuc DANG
- 2. Co-Founded FOSSASIA (Asia) Board Director at Open Source Initiative (America) InnerSource @Zalando (Europe) 2 Hong Phuc DANG @hpdang
- 3. What + Why FOSSASIA 3 Cool Apps and Open Source Hardware How to Build a Sustainable Community in Asia and Scale it Up - Our Story since 2009 Cooperate with Us and Hire us
- 4. Build a Better World with Open Technologies
- 5. labs.fossasia.org Open Source Software & Hardware Product Development codeheat.org Open Education, Academies and Coding Programs events.fossasia.org Open Source Events
- 6. labs.fossasia.org Open Source Software & Hardware Product Development codeheat.org Open Education, Academies and Coding Programs events.fossasia.org Open Source Events Income through SaaS + Hardware Sales + Events + Consulting
- 8. Merged Pull Request on average every 15 minutes 35,000+ developers on mailing lists + social media 4000 developers registered on our GitHub orgs Training 2000+ developers through coding programs annually Dozens of face to face meetings at developer events, hackathons and workshops throughout Asia 100+ authors of tech blog articles
- 10. Pocket Science Lab Device for Open Science Experiments A USB Powered Smartphone Extension Open Hardware
- 15. Producing Batches in Shenzhen and Berlin
- 17. Maker workshops with Pocket Science Lab in Singapore 17
- 18. Open Source Event Management System
- 19. Developed Since February 2015 Why? No good system for ticketing + speaker handling Unhappy with proprietary systems Largest event today 3500 pax
- 20. Ticketing: similar to Eventbrite CfS: Easy process to register speakers Scheduling: Drag and Drop Exporting: Ability to move events Website: Automatic site generator Android: Automatic Android generator Additional options: Free event licenses, CoC Open Event System: Goals
- 27. 27VOICE: Star Trek IV 1986 - talk to a computer, it will solve your problem Open Source Smart Speaker
- 29. SUSI.AI Android and iOS SUSI.AI is capable of chat and voice interaction and by using APIs to perform actions such as music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic, and other real time information.
- 34. SUSI.AI CMS
- 35. https://susi.ai Wiki-like Content Management System Create skills and private bots! Simple and Easy to Learn Skill Markup Language - Language of Thought (LoT)
- 36. How did we become a sustainable organization able to scale up? 10 Years FOSSASIA Journey How did we get here?
- 37. 2009 Hong Phuc and Mario Behling found FOSSASIA with the Goal to Connect Progressive Community in Asia with Global FOSS Developers
- 38. Hosting GNOME.Asia in Vietnam Starting development of Linux and web tools 2009
- 39. 2010 Kickstarting Projects, Mini DebConf and The FOSSASIA Summit
- 40. 2010
- 41. Understand your community landscape Promote contributions apart from code Open source beyond software: designers, writers, promoters, organizers, fundraisers, mentors etc. Low entry barrier, friendly environment People like to travel and meet face to face Lessons: How to Grow Your Community 2010
- 42. 2011 Open Design Weeks Asia, More Events, Attracting More Developers
- 43. From developers to designers - Connecting with the Libre Graphics community through Open Design Weeks Introducing FOSS tools at designer & art schools Events are always fun 2011
- 45. Lessons: What is Important to Attract Developers Devs Want to: Be part of a community Do exciting projects Work with a positive brand/org (do cool things, do good) Get opportunities (recognition, money, travel, jobs) Work with processes that they like and are accustomed to (The FOSS/Open Source Way/Git/Issue Trackers) 2011
- 46. 2012 More Apps and Our Second Year in GSoC
- 47. Photos, Images, Pictures - Phimp.me 2012
- 48. Lessons: Coding Programs Visibility attracts new developers and code contributions Opportunity to connect with projects from around the world Need clear guidelines to bring in Asian contributors into the FOSS ecosystem (culture barrier) Students are less committed than mentors Program ends, contribution ends 2012
- 49. 2013 Fostering Open Source in Education and Moving to Hosted Infrastructure
- 50. Lessons: Infrastructure Setting up infrastructure is not as hard and resource intensive as maintaining it We want to focus on development, events and sharing not on running infrastructure It is a compromise as not everything is Open Tech/FOSS (e.g. GitHub) 2013
- 51. Open Tech Workshops in Schools across Vietnam 2013
- 52. Cooperating with development organizations and companies on educational programs Discovering a new pool of young talents - future contributors Computer literacy among young students English ability 2013
- 53. 2014 FOSSASIA Summit in Cambodia and Start of First Open Hardware Project
- 54. FOSSASIA Summit Phnom Penh 2014
- 55. 2014 FOSSASIA Summit Phnom Penh
- 57. Lessons: Hardware Production Longer development cycles compared to software High investment, high risk Self-funded model Bill of materials Chinese speaking staff Remanufactured offer Faulty parts Manufacturers availability schedule 2014
- 58. 2015 FOSSASIA Summit in Singapore and Starting Development of Event Management Tools
- 59. FOSSASIA Summit in Singapore 2015
- 60. OpenTechSummit Europe - Berlin 2015
- 61. 2016 Launching CodeHeat Online Coding Contest and Science Hack Days in Asia
- 62. 2016
- 63. India: Codeheat Coding Contest Outreach Events 2016
- 64. Lessons: Developer Retention & Scale Be part of a developer community Clear expectations FOSSASIA contribution guidelines Minimum 2 maintainers, peer reviewers Delegate tasks, assign project leads Promote mentor roles and support long-term devs 2016
- 65. Science Hack Workshop, Belgaum India 2016
- 66. Science Hack Day Singapore: Do-It-Yourself Workshops with Open Hardware Laser Cutters 2016
- 67. 2017 Development of FOSSASIA Best Practices
- 68. Scaling up with Best Practices https://blog.fossasia.org/open-source-developer-guide-and-best-practices-at-fossasia/ Match one issue with one pull request (PR) Break a big issue into multiple small issues Provide test systems and screenshots Only change what you state in the PR Help each other, review each others PRs Test 鍖rst before making a PR Document while coding Earn Write Access Avoid private chat and collaborate with community
- 69. 2018 Connecting more Closely with Our Community in India, China and Around the World
- 70. Sep 30 - Oct 3, 2018 Jugaad Fest Hyderabad, India
- 72. FOSSASIA Hackathons with UNESCO in Vietnam and Singapore 2018
- 73. Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2018 Open Tech Summit Shenzhen
- 74. Dec 27 - 30, 2018 Chaos Computer Congress, Leipzig, Germany
- 75. 2019 10th Anniversary and a New Beginning
- 76. 2019
- 77. VoiceRepublic.com Releasing Voice Republic as Open Source after acquiring it together with OpnTec Germany. Co-developing it under FOSSASIA umbrella. 2019
- 78. FOSSASIA Academy Providing Singapore Government Certi鍖ed Courses 2019
- 79. FOSSASIA Academy: Self-guided Learning of Open Technologies and Code in Asia 2019
- 80. Summary: How did FOSSASIA become a sustainable organization able to scale up? Developing best practices and a friendly and open multilingual, multi-ethnic community culture Constantly attracting new talents through coding programs and events Promoting mentor roles, providing resources + supporting established developers (swag, travel, conferences, hiring) Growing different income streams to pay for all that Running a lean organization and infrastructure with a small awesome team Partnering with enterprises and projects
- 81. Call for Action Lets team up!
- 82. Eventyay.com Eventbrite Distribution Partner for Pocket Science Lab Co-organize and sponsor coding programs, contests, hackathons, events Hire us and invite us to collaborate on a project Partner with FOSSASIA Academy Join our upcoming events: events.fossasia.org
- 83. Personal Attitude in Open Collaboration Humble Flexible Passionate
- 85. India: Jugaad Fest Series (Delhi, Hyderabad), Oct. Bangkok: OpenTechSummit Thailand, Oct. 1-2 Ho Chi Minh: OpenTechSummit Vietnam. Oct, 11-12 Shenzhen: OpenTechSummit China, Nov, 21-23 Singapore: FOSSASIA Summit, March 19-22, 2020 Berlin: OpenTechSummit Europe, May 31, 2020 Twitter, Github, FB, Linkedin: @fossasia @hpdang