Software Freedom Day is scheduled to be held on September 21, 2024 as a one-day conference at the “Survey Sparrow” office, Chennai from 10AM - 5PM.
The main theme of the conference is OPEN SOURCE so we’ll be using Open Source software’s and following Open Source principles for hosting the conference.
The Tech Communities in and around Chennai that will participate in hosting this conference are:
- Kanchi Linux User Group (KLUG) - Kaniyam Foundation - FossUnited Chennai - Indian Linux User Group Chennai - JSLover Chennai (JavaScript Community) - Namma Flutter Chennai - Chennai ReactJS Meetup Group - Chennai Python (Chennai Py) - DevOps Chennai - Innovation AI Chennai
Below is the draft schedule for the #SFD2024 event:
Scheduled Talk/Demo Slots: 6 Talks/Demos, each lasting 30 minutes
Please review and let us know if any amendments or corrections are needed.
Note: This is the main post. It’ll be updated periodically as new decisions are made for the event planning. Please follow the discussions below as well.
We discussed and decided to keep the event attendees count between 130 to 150 (including volunteers).
Hari proposed to use the FOSS platform RSVP, CFP.
Justin will be designing the Posters for the SFD-2024 event.
Once the Poster, RSVP & CFP forms are ready, it is decided to promote the event in social media channels of all communities.
Vignesh will prepare the detail agenda for the conference and manage volunteers.
Rishi proposed to give a talk on Ansible and is interested in doing MC for the event.
Sakhil is in talks with the venue provider (Survey Sparrow) for arranging the food from their vendor if possible. Otherwise we need to look for a catering provider nearby.
We need at least one volunteer to take care of these aspect of the events - speaker management, registration desk, food management, finalizing speakers.
Navaneethan will be helping in onboarding the volunteers for social media posters creation and for other works.
Null and Chennai React - promoted the event in their recent meetup.
NammaFlutter - will do shoutout about the SDF2024 in all SM
Navaneeth & Vignesh - to ask their teammates to submit talks in CFP.
ChennAI - Vignesh will connect with ChennaiAI and ask them to join SFD as community partner and submit the talk.
Sakhil will follow-up with Shakthi on the food arrangments.
Rishi is to submit CFP on Ansible.
Arun, Vignesh and Justin to do the SM promotion.
It will take attendees for 9.30 - 10.00 am to settle. Sakhil will check with Shakthi if we can setup a stall at the event place. Zide can setup a stall.
Between 10 - 10.30 AM in the morning, we can ask in the group if we should allow all the community to give a intro.
CTF - Hari/Sakhil will talk to bitspace on arranging the CTF.
Video Recording and photos - Thanga Ayyanar will coordinate on RAW footage recording.
Sakhil to creat workgroup xls sheet and assign the task to the group.
Sakhil is in talks with Sakthi of Survey Sparrow, they are yet to confirm about the Food and its price.
Justin will work on the flyers for the conference.
Pradeep enquired about the parking (free/paid), will the IT park need the details of attendees like email/mobile. Some companies might need attendees list a few days before and will send OTP to attendees as well. All these details needs to be confirmed with Sakthi of Survey Sparrow.
So far we’ve received 5 CFP which needs to be reviewed and confirmed. We also need CFP from different domains so attendees of all domain will get beneficial from the conference.
We also need support for teaching beginners with Linux, Thanga ayyanar will take care of it and he’ll put stalls in the morning for which he need a few volunteers support as well.
Pradeep proposed a talk on Securing of CI/CD pipelines in DevSecOps and CFP for the same will be submitted from his end.
Kishore from Innovation AI joined and took responsibility to handle Video recording with Thanga Ayyanar.
Pranav from ChennAI community attended the meeting, and this is his first call with the organizing team. He’ll go through the previous threads and take a responsibility.
For RSVP, Pradeep will follow-up with 3 speakers and Vignesh will follow-up with remaining 3 speakers for getting the title confirmed, their photos for flyers and PPT for presentation.
It is decided to review the PPT’s earlier to avoid any unwanted promotion of Closed source technologies as our core theme is about OSS.
It is decided to keep future meetings on weekends so that everyone will be able to attend.
Below are the confirmed talk schedule for the SFD event happening on 21st September at SurveySparrow, Chennai One campus. Today will the last to book the tickets.
Vignesh to collect mobile number of speakers and confirm that they are having Linux laptop
Sakhil to inform SS to provide registration list tomorrow EOD. Keep the registration option till 19th Sep EOD. Check if from FU can we send an email to registrant to bring Gov. ID card for check-in
9.30 – 10.00 registration and check-in
10.00 – 10.30 am Talk1 Starting Steps: Linux, Ansible and OpenTofu – Rishi
35 – 11.10 am Talk 2 DevSecOps - Securing CI/CD pipeline – Pradeep P
11.15 11.30 am Tea Break
11.30 – 12.00 pm Talk 3 Future-Proof Your UI with Twigs: Advanced Styling with Radix and Stitches – Naveen RK
12.00 noon – 12.30pm Talk 4 Kafka with KRaft: A Beginners Journey to Simplifying Cluster Management – Nanthakumar
12.35 to 1pm – Talk 5 The Green Site Effect – Kevin Jacob
Lunch Break 1pm to 2pm
2.00pm – 2.35pm – Talk 6 AI for Everyone - Unleashing Open-Source Generative Power
2.40pm – 3.00pm – (lightning talk) Revisiting AI in Board Games: Lessons from Building Aadu-Puli-Aatam with MinMax Algorithm.
Tea Break 3.00pm to 3.15pm
3.20pm to 3.50pm -Talk 7 Take Control of Your Email Data: The Open Source Advantage of Postal Mail Server by Someshwaran Mohankumar
4pm to 4.35pm (lightning talk) Git along with DevOps simplified
this is what we have decided so far it may or may not change
