FOSSASIA 2015 : Summary

FOSSASIA 2015

Recently I visited Singapore and attended FOSSASIA 2015 talks and workshops. It was a really nice experience and I learnt a lot !

What I did?

I was selected as a speaker and presented a talk on KDE regarding the open source contribution made by +The KDE Community with respect to my journey as a Season of KDE student to Google Code In co-administrator. 

I discussed about the recent trends in our community outreach program (SoK) as well as how vast KDE is. 

I also discussed about the plasma development in KDE and how I ported the plasmoids to plasma2. 

I also discussed about the tasks created by KDE in +Google Code-in , thanks to the admin team and constructive mentors. I also discussed a bit about +KDE-Edu game pairs.

I also organised a GSoC session ( thanks to +Mario Behling for suggesting the idea :) ) .

 It went a success as it was proceeded with how GSoC works, how KDE contributes to GSoC, the attendees presented their views as well and discussed about their open source contributions during the session. 

It was nice to see so many mentors, students and new contributors during the session.

How it helps KDE?

My talk helped to spread an information about the programs and projects KDE is involved with. New contributors were keen to get involved with KDE as well.

 I also discussed about Season of KDE to spread information about the same.

Some twitter follow ups:

Learning about the journey from KDE Summer of Code to #gsoc org admin from Heena Mahour! Impressive. #fossasia pic.twitter.com/tLkfqdMlUK

— Duke Leto (@dukeleto) March 15, 2015

Hey @comprock, It was really nice meeting you. See you soon again. #fossasia pic.twitter.com/2ZhuJG49Qh

— Nikunj Thakkar (@nikunjness) March 15, 2015

Nice as hoc Google Summer of Code Singapore meetup at #FOSSASIA #GSoC pic.twitter.com/vpZ3crifgC

— Michael Downey (@downey) March 14, 2015

Awesome #gsoc meetup at #fossasia with@beaglebord @OpenMRS @kde @libreoffice thanks! pic.twitter.com/A5VsNpfeaE

— Mario Behling (@mariobehling) March 14, 2015

@1011011011011 and @akshay_ratan at #gsoc meetup @fossasia #fossasia pic.twitter.com/vGV07CduGV

— Nikunj Thakkar (@nikunjness) March 14, 2015

What I learnt?

I realized a team work, that is, contribution in collaboration could provide magical outcomes. One has to be precise while presenting a talk as time is a constraint. 

Moreover, I also met some great contributors like +Handoko Suwono , +Dhruv Goel , +Nikunj Thakkar and many others across the globe and hopefully I will stay connected to them in the long run .I also got to learn about the vast projects developers are getting involved with in different organizations and it helps one to stay motivated to open source and KDE ofcourse ! :)