Hong Phuc Dang

Over the last two years our team has been working on the Pocket Science Lab. While we were connecting with each other online for years the Corona crisis posed a new challenge to us: Chip and component shortages. In this panel we will share our story of how we are tackling this problem and our ideas on how to move forward with local production to solve global delivery issues and reduce the carbon footprint of shipping.

Over the last two years our team has been working on the Pocket Science Lab. While we were connecting with each other online for years the Corona crisis posed a new challenge to us: Chip and component shortages. Even getting prototypes for testing became difficult. In this panel we will share our story of how we are tackling this problem and how the dedication of our community members in Sri Lanka, Sweden, China, India and Germany are essential to overcome difficulties. This session is conceived as a panel where we will also share our ideas about how to move forward with local production to solve global delivery issues and reduce the carbon footprint of shipping. **Panelists**:

• Mario Behling (Facilitator)
• Padmal Madhushanka
• Hong Phuc Dang
• Kee Wee Tang
• Daniel Wessolek
• Daniel Maslowski
• Alessandro Volpato

Other people: Daniel Maslowski Mario Behling Madhushanka Padmal Alexander Bessmann Kee Wee Tang Daniel Wessolek Alessandro Volpato

Free and open source software is made up of a truly global community of tinkerers, collaborators and innovators. In this conversation, Deb Nicholson and Hong Phuc Dang will look at the global state of open source policy and talk about why no particular country -- especially the US -- should be centered. So, let's make sure the conversation about the future of open source is a truly global one!

Sure, lots of tech came from the US; Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon but a large proportion of the story of free and open source software didn't happen in the US. In fact, most of the exciting parts of the work to encourage people to adopt, build and adapt open source are happening in other places. In this conversation, Deb Nicholson and Hong Phuc Dang will look at the global state of open source policy and talk about why no particular country -- especially the US -- should be centered. They'll cover:

* Public code strategies and adoption of open source tools in different jurisdictions
* Policy initiatives that foster free and open source software production
* Local FOSS adoption blueprints that could be replicated around the world

Open source is a global community of tinkerers, collaborators and innovators. It's time to share the spotlight more equitably. Solutions for small cities, or minority language groups or vulnerable populations could come from anywhere and be applied around the world. The discussions around public code and adoption aren't even happening in the US yet, and code without hearty adoption isn't enough. So, let's make sure the conversation about the future of open source is a truly global one!

Other people: Deb Nicholson

In this session, we will first focus **Equality** in Free Software communities, I am inviting community members from Debian and other projects to join me discussing 1) What do organizations do to ensure equal opportunity for members 2) How decision process is made in the Free Software world. 3) Can lessons learned from Free Software help to improve social equality? **Audience** Anyone who cares about equal opportunity in society **What will we get out of it** Transparent ideas and actions will be documented and shared in a blog article. Potentially formation of working group to work on this topic moving forward.

This talk is about SUSI.AI - an open source conversational framework developed by FOSSASIA developer community. We will talk about current development of the project including the overview of SUSI’s technology stack and the recent released hardware prototype.

The motivation behind the project was to create an ecosystem made up of conversational web services, AI technologies, search engines, smart devices and open source communities - together develop a framework as an alternative to dominant players like Alexa, Siri or Google Home. The project is based on the principle of privacy and collaboration. It provides user freedom and enables user to have the complete control over his/her own data.

SUSI 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. Additional functionalities can be added as console services using external APIs. It is able to answer questions and depending on the context will ask for additional information in order to perform the desired outcome. The core of the assistant is the SUSI.AI server that holds the "intelligence" and "personality" of SUSI.

The application already comes with clients for all major platforms and services including mobile phones (iOS, Android), web clients and plugins for chat services like Slack, Gitter, Skype and many more.

The hardware comes with a firmware, desktop app, android app - all open source. This tiny pocket lab provides an array of sensors for doing science and engineering experiments. It comes with functions of numerous measurement devices including an oscilloscope, a waveform generator, a frequency counter, a programmable voltage, current source and as a data logger.

During this session, PSLab team will speak about the current development of the project, new features, usage, communities and a story of production in China and lesson learned.

I grew up in the Mekong Delta, South of Vietnam. I first learned about free software at a FOSS event in Hanoi in 2007. I started to engage with the local Linux User Group in Singapore during my study time. Later on, I co-founded FOSSASIA - a community devoted to improving people’s lives through sharing Open Technologies and knowledge. I especially wanted to connect people together and to encourage developers from the region to participate in the Free and Open Source Software movement. Since then, FOSSASIA has become one of the largest open source communities in Asia.

During this session, I will speak about challenges and lessons learned in the last 10 years of building FOSS community in Asia.

A variety of initiatives aims at encouraging female engagement in the hacker and maker scene. We present there some promising approaches and key learnings in a joint panel discussion.

Hong Phuc grew up in a small town in the Mekong Delta, south of Vietnam, She could never imagine how her life went a completely different path than what she was told as a young girl. Le RESET is a French feminist hackerspace created in 2016 by a small group of queer & feminist hackers and hacktivists. The goal was to create a space at the intersection of communities that often remain apart. Em O'Sullivan is a former hackerspace and Maker Faire organiser. Currently, they are a PhD student researching ways to improve women and non-binary people's engagement with technology via makerspaces. Ready to Code is a young project from Stuttgart that teaches girls and women how to code and stand up for themselves.

Other people: Geraldine de Bastion Em O'Sullivan Lena Mohr Le RESET, feminist hackerspace

This Panel Discussion features Debian contributors from around the world, including: * Bdale Garbee (USA) * David Prévot (Tahiti) * Jonathan Carter (South Africa) * Josué Ortega (Guatemala) * Hideki Yamane (Japan) * Nicolas Dandrimont (France) Moderated by: Hong Phuc Dang (Vietnam)

Other people: Nicolas Dandrimont Josué Ortega Bdale Garbee David Prévot Jonathan Carter Hideki Yamane

The talk is about our project to develop software and hardware tools for a fair and environment friendly garment and textile production and how we break down the locks that exists on every level in the industry from design, to software, machines and distribution.

The talk is about our project to develop software and hardware tools for a fair and environment friendly garment and textile production and how we break down the locks that exists on every level in the industry from design, to software, machines and distribution. We want to set up our own personalized open textile production line and offer an alternative to the unethical ways most of our clothes are produced today. At the talk we will present the first successes of this endeavor in our community - Open Source pattern making software, sewing robots, next generation knitting machine upgrades - and challenges that are ahead. Democratizing digital textile production and offers the chance for a fair and environment friendly production of garments and textiles at home and in the industry. Just as 3D printers enable more and more people to become makers we want to enable digital garment makers to create their own clothes, share them online and produce it where-ever they are. Members of our projects include software developers, fashion designers, pattern creators, knitters, textile manipulators, hardware hackers, and even industry experts. We started a FashionTec Working Group about two years ago after the annual Libre Graphics meeting in Madrid. The traditional industry is in a state of complete lock on all levels: * digital fashion design locked to competing proprietary formats and software * production locked to machines of producers accepting formats * distribution lock - locked to existing large distribution channels in order to be a viable business The Free and Open Source community has taught us that it is possible to overcome a complete proprietary lock down. Let’s repeat this success in the textile and garment industry. We need Free and Open Source software, Open Formats and Open machines. With todays development tools successes are just a short step away. Our talk will give you insights and hopes to inspire more people.