Manoj Karingamadathil
Manoj is a free software evangelist who promotes tools to make efforts to help with causes such as humanitarian efforts and nature conservation. Manoj is a firm believer in research data being open access for greater transparency in the world of scientific research and software. In addition to his contributions to the FOSS world, he has hosted workshops within many colleges in Kerala in relation to conservation, and geographical mapping with open source tools OpenStreetMap with newly collected data. Furthermore, Manoj manages opendatakerala.org, which hosts a variety of datasets related to medical data such as diseases within the state of Kerala and digitised information about panchayats in Kerala. He is involved with organizations such as Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and the Sahya Digital Conservation Foundation.
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Making Contributions to FOSS Beyond Code
Harsh Tandiya
Harsh is a FOSS Enthusiast and Learner. He works as a software developer at FOSS United Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the cause of building Free and Open Source (FOSS) projects and communities in India. Within the foundation, he takes ownership of the new Platform project, which aims to be a new age FOSS social network. Previously, Harsh worked at Frappe Technologies, which served as his gateway to the world of open source. His primary motivation lies in building robust software. He finds joy in creating things, as it brings him happiness. Code is his craft.
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Building a FOSS Social Network
Mufeed V H
Mufeed is the founder of Lyminal, a company that specialises in cybersecurity, systems programming, among others, all while maintaining an open source outlook. Along with his entrepreneurial exploits, his achievements include representing India at the WorldSkills Olympiad for Cybersecurity in 2022 and winning FOSSHack’23. Mufeed’s commitment to open-source is unquestionable, having patched more than 300 CVEs in FOSS software and having quite a few open source projects under his belt.
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How a language-agnostic code indexing algorithm was born out of securing FOSS
Navendu Pottekkat
Navendu Pottekat works at API7.ai, focusing on cloud-native management and open-source projects. Navendu is a key maintainer of Apache APISIX under the Apache Software Foundation. He has also maintained projects like Meshery and Service Mesh Performance under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Navendu is also the creator and maintainer of NSFW Filter, a popular free and open-source browser extension. He holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
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How Standards Consolidate
Alen Paul Varghese
Alen Paul Varghese is an enthusiastic advocate for Free and Open-Source Software and is an active member in the Kerala Rustaceans community. He has contributed to various initiatives and enjoys discussing the latest developments in the FOSS world. Currently pursuing a career as a Product Engineer at Premagic, Alen is committed to honing his skills and contributing meaningfully to the industry. Alen will also be bringing his expertise for the Rust Workshop.
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Evolution of Memory Management: Bridging the Gap between Old and Modern Programming Languages
Mujeeb Rahman K
Co founder of Alphafork technologies, foss enthusiast and tech youtuber who makes videos on Linux and FOSS. He is a Member of smc.org.in, fsci.in, wikimedians of kerala, OSM Kerala and recently developed poorna.smc.org.in for SMC.
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Poorna : The complete Malayalam Unicode Character Set Keyboard
Het Joshi
Het is the founder of Mukti, a club with a vision of creating a vibrant community for students to explore their passion for open source, cybersecurity, and various tech domains. He’s transformed Mukti into a thriving hub for tech enthusiasts by organizing workshops, talks, and hackathons, and fostering collaborations with departments and organizations like FOSS United and FSMK. Currently a third year student, he’s pursuing a diploma in data science and programming from IIT Madras.
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Securing the Future
Nithin Sabu
Nithin S Sabu is a software engineer at OrthoFX, a clear aligner company based in the US. He focuses on employing various machine learning techniques at scale to address challenges in the unexplored field of Orthodontics. Apart from his work, Nithin is a GNU/Linux enthusiast, blogger, and an active member of various communities advocating for free software philosophy. Tech aside, he is a pianist and composer in his free time.
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LLM Workshop
Shobhankita Reddy
Shobhankita is a distinguished venture capitalist well-versed in the intricacies of the modern data ecosystem. She emphasizes the importance of "free as in freedom" in the FOSS community, offering valuable insights into the modern data landscape. Always an advocate for free software, she is focused on enterprise software investments, specifically in sectors such as data infrastructure, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and developer tools.
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Open Source Entrepreneurship - Balancing free software and business models
Priyanshu Mishra
Priyanshu is a passionate FOSS enthusiast igniting others' interest in the principles of openness, collaboration, and freedom in software development and beyond. His talk revolves around the meaning of democratizing AI, implications and practical challenges involved.
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Democratization of AI in its true essence
Roshan R Chandar
Roshan is an experienced Python developer and active community member of Trivandrum Python Community. He was a speaker at PyCon 2023 in Thailand. In addition to being a FOSS enthusiast, he is also a Product Engineer working at UST Global. He will be conducting an expert session on FastAPI using Python.
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FastAPI Workshop
Andrew Bastin
Andrew Bastin is the co-founder and CTO of Hoppscotch. As a web-based API development suite, Hoppscotch provides an easy and accessible platform to developers with a minimalist UI. Andrew is an active member of the Kerala Rustaceans group. In this edition of FOSSMeet, he will be sharing his extensive knowledge in the Rust Programming Language, highlighting key concepts and what makes it a standout choice for system-level programming.
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Rust Workshop
Pirate Praveen
Pirate Praveen is a Debian developer and an activist for free(libre) software and as a natural extension of that, social justice. Praveen is one of the co-founders of FOSSMeet and an alumnus of NIT Calicut. He is responsible for developing and maintaining different packages in the Debian repositories. One example is that of Gitlab, which Praveen made native Debian packages for. Furthermore, Praveen is a the developer of pravapp, an XMPP client and also maintains dependencies related to it. He also maintains poddery.com, a distributed community-driven social network which works with diaspora, which he also maintains.
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Keynote Speaker and Prav App
Aldrin Jenson
Aldrin Jenson is a versatile software engineer hailing from Kerala, currently working in Research and Development in Generative AI at Thoughtworks Technologies. With a proven track record of developing, deploying, and maintaining diverse applications across multiple industries, Aldrin's expertise transcends conventional boundaries. His passion for innovation is evident in his extensive portfolio of projects, which spans various domains and employs a wide array of tech stacks. Apart from his professional pursuits, Aldrin is an avid participant in hackathons and meetups, where he actively engages with fellow enthusiasts to explore cutting-edge technologies. In his free time, Aldrin enjoys playing the guitar and immersing himself in music. Committed to giving back to the community, he volunteers with various NGOs and tech communities, organizing events to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing. With a natural inclination towards connecting with others, Aldrin enjoys engaging in discussions and geeking out over all things tech.
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LLM Workshop
Subin Siby
Subin Siby is a FOSS hacker/maker. His foray into the world of programming started at age 11 of curiosity. The first project that he worked on, a social network called Open was also his first encounter with open source software. A curious learner by nature who is also very passionate about sharing the knowledge he's acquired, Subin runs a blog with over 300 tutorials that shed light on topics that aren't covered extensively on the internet. He also plays an instrumental role in the Varnam Project that deals with the transliteration of Indian languages. He is an active volunteer at Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, a free software collective engaged in the development, localization, standardization and popularization of various Free and Open Source Software in the Malayalam language.
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Making a semantic dictionary from 2001 Pagemaker files using FOSS tools
Manoj N Palat
Manoj N. Palat currently works as an engineer at IBM, where his main responsibility involves being a lead and committer at the Eclipse Java Compiler Group. He has been involved with the Eclipse Foundation as a representative in the Experts Group for Java Specification Requests for Java SE and the Eclipse IDE Working Group Steering Committee. In addition, Manoj has a wealth of experience in the development of compiler and program analysis tools during his time working for Infineon and HP. Being an alumnus of NIT Calicut, he is of great standing within the NITC community and has conducted many talks here on campus. Supplementing his experience in the industry, he is committed to FOSS evangelism through his numerous talks at events like Devoxx, the GIDS and Eclipse Summits, and workshops.
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Eclipse : An Open Source Odyssey!
Nadar Ponsudhan
Nadar is a hobbyist game developer and an enthusiastic learner. He loves the creative atmosphere found in game jams and brings unique perspectives about game development to the table. Join his workshop for kick starting your game development journey with a popular FOSS alternative, GODOT.
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GODOT Workshop
Palak Chopra
Palak Chopra is an aspiring digital security engineer with experience in digital forensics and the cybersecurity domain. She is currently working in developing a FOSS based security operations center at IITB Trust Lab. Join her talk where she’ll be covering the application of FOSS in developing a SOC and the journey of FOSSx at Trust Lab.
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Introduction to Trust Lab and the Journey of FOSSx Challenge
Kurian Benoy
Kurian Benoy works as an AI Engineer and Team Lead at Sentient.io. His contributions to the open source community are numerous and span projects such as Keras and CloudCV. He has given a plethora of talks at various events, including at Pycon India and FOSSASIA on topics such as NLP with a focus on Malayalam, data science, and his work related to his personal projects. In addition to this, he has hosted various engaging workshops at different colleges around Kerala. Kurian also has a blog at kurianbenoy.com, where you can read more about him.
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LLM Workshop
Advaith Narayanan
Advaith Narayanan is an enthusiast from MITS Varikoli, where he is currently a lead at FOSSClub. As part of his activities, he conducts various workshops on topics he is passionate about, such as networking, and programming in general. Furthermore, Advaith will take part at a community session as a representative of his FOSSClub here at FOSSMeet. He will also help conduct a workshop on the Rust programming language, going in detail about the intricacies of the same. Apart from his formal experience, he is an audiophile and photography lover.
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Rust Workshop and FOSSClubs Meet
Dr. Sunil Thomas T
As the Director of ICFOSS, Dr. Sunil plays an important role in coordinating FOSS initiatives within Kerala. Implemented in 2009, ICFOSS is the outcome of a decade of work by Free Software enthusiasts, developers and advocates from all over India with a vision of becoming a leading research organization contributing towards sustainable economic development in the region.
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Generative AI
Sudev Suresh Sreedevi
Sudev is a passionate UI/UX Designer and web developer. He is a co-founder of TinkerHub CET. Apart from being a Product Manager at inflection.io, Sudev has valuable experience in community management. He is also a Chai enthusiast and loves to engage in deep conversations about a broad spectrum of topics.
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FastAPI Workshop
Akshay S Dinesh
Known for his passion for free software, Dr. Akshay S Dinesh challenges the principle of personifying people based on their educational or professional backgrounds. Interestingly, he is an MBBS graduate and has done his postgraduate coursework in Medical Law and Ethics, a subject that deals with medico-legal issues. His accomplishments as a programmer include working in a non-profit organization and contributing to many open-source projects, such as Debian and Mozilla. Besides these, he is also a blogger and writes in three different domains: medicine, technology, and social commentary.
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Why I can't say "I will only use libre/free CT scanner" and other issues bigger than software
Jaisen Nedumpala
Jaisen is a part-time research scholar at the School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University of Kerala. Passionate about RS & GIS, he actively engages with the OpenStreetMap community, contributing his mapping skills to chart previously unmapped areas and improve the accuracy of existing maps. One of his successful projects is a mapping experiment on an unsurveyed land, an #OpenGeoData initiative with the involvement of the free software community.
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Poorna : The complete Malayalam Unicode Character Set Keyboard
Nemo
Abhay "Nemo" Rana is a FOSS enthusiast who specialises in information security and DevOps. Being a former employee at Razorpay, he has been involved with Fintech as well, with him writing a few articles related to the Indian banking sector. He has given a plethora of talks regarding his interests, with notable ones being his talk on “Security Horror Stories in Payments” and his talk on running his own homeserver at RootConf ’19. Nemo also currently works on a variety of projects related to topics like E-books and RSS (Rich Site Summary) as well as a wide variety of tools for a selection of applications.
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Ideas are useless, so here's hundred of them.
Dr. Virendra Singh
Dr. Virendra Singh is one of the most experienced professors at IIT Bombay, given his expertise in the field of computer science and electrical engineering, with a focus on cyber security and computer architecture. His research interests span a wide array of topics including cyber security, cyber physical systems, computer architecture, formal methods, VLSI testing and verification, and blockchain technology.
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Open Source Operating Systems in Embedded Systems