From March 18th ~ March 20th, I had the pleasure of attending the FOSSASIA 2016 event, which took place in Singapore, this is my first time speaking at FOSSASIA, also my first time visit Singapore, I like the beautiful city.
FOSSASIA is the premier Free and Open Source technology organization in Asia for developers, designers, start-ups, and contributors. Projects at FOSSASIA range from open hardware, to design, graphics and software. FOSSASIA was established in 2009. The annual FOSSASIA took place in Cambodia, Vietnam and Singapore. FOSSASIA 2016 took place in Science Center Singapore.
I arrived Singapore on March 17th midnight and my hotel located in the downtown of Singapore, the Science Center Singapore located at the West of Singapore, so i need take the train early in the morning to get to the conference venue. The conference began on March 18 morning, i spent the whole morning at the main conference opening and keynotes.
Conference opening by Hong Phuc Dang (Chairman of FOSSASIA)
Keynotes highlight on March 18 morning:
A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To The Science Centre Harish Pillay (RedHat)
UNESCO YouthMobile Davide Storti, ITO Misako (UNESCO)
Science and Open Source Program at Google Cat Allman (Google)
A lot of Sessions joined in day 1:
Managing A Healthy GitHub Community Mike McQuaid (GitHub/Homebrew)
What’s new in systemd in 2016? Lennart Poettering (Red Hat)
Going through era of IoT with MySQL 5.7 Ricky Setyawan (MySQL)
Also visit the exhibition booth from Debian, Redhat, MySQL and Deepin, talked with many people there.
On March 19, the conference continued with a lot of good sessions also my talk at today afternoon. In the morning, i joined two sessions: first one joined the python track of FOSSASIA,
Test driven development with pytest by Ivan Zimine (Python User Group Singapore)
Dive deep into Fedora Infra by Sayan Chowdhury (Fedora Project)
Also announced the PyCon Singapore 2016 https://pycon.sg/ June 23-25
Second session I joined is from my colleague Elizabeth Joseph talk about Code Review for DevOps
My session is talking about the Continuous Integration and Delivery for Open Source Development, is part of the lightning talk session. This is my first time try lightning talk, not finish all slides as run out of time,but good experience to try it.
Also today we took the group photo, this photo took on each year’s FOSSASIA summit, it bring all the attendees together.
We also have the Speaker BBQ dinner, this event brings together all the conference speakers to socialize and network over BBQ food and beer. It was held on Saturday March 19th night, at the rooftop of Science Center Singapore. Met and talked with many speakers.
March 20th is the final day of FOSSASIA 2016, I joined my another colleague Matthew Treinish’s talk about QA in the Open
With that, the conference came to a close with a closing session that included thanks to everyone.
I went to more talks than highlighted in this post, but with three days of conferencing it would have been a lot to cover. Huge thanks to all the organizers and everyone who made me feel so welcome this year. It was a wonderful presentation and conference experience and I hope to do it again next year!