TossConf25 - 🎤 Call for Speakers

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:microphone: Call for Speakers – TossConf25

Tamil Open Source Software Conference 2025

:date: Date: July 19, 2025
:round_pushpin: Venue: Location: Off, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Kamaraj Nagar, Semmancheri, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600119
:world_map: Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8b4cEB1uKFXeBGYF6
:globe_with_meridians: Theme: Celebrating and Spreading Awareness of Open Source Software in Tamil

We’re excited to announce TossConf25, Tamil Nadu’s dedicated Open Source Software Conference! This is a community driven event that celebrates open source projects, contributors, and the spirit of collaboration all with a regional flavor and native language inclusion :seedling:

We’re inviting passionate individuals from across the open source spectrum to submit talk proposals. Whether you’re a developer, sysadmin, contributor, educator, FOSS advocate, or student if you’ve got something interesting to share related to Open Source, we want to hear from you!

For queries please contact,

Syed Jafer - 9176409201
Thanga Ayyanar - 9597729724

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:clipboard: Speaker Proposal Template

Please fill out the following details

  1. Full Name:
  2. Email Address:
  3. Phone Number (Optional):
  4. Talk Title:
  5. Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines):
  6. Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced):
  7. Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins):
  8. Do you have a Linux machine? (Yes / No – If not, we can provide one)

For queries please contact,

Syed Jafer - 9176409201
Thanga Ayyanar - 9597729724

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  1. Full Name: Raju Kandaswamy

  2. Email Address: raju.kandasamy@gmail.com

  3. Phone Number (Optional):

  4. Talk Title: Building Tamil LLM/SLM the right way with right dataset

  5. Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines): Building an LLM for Tamil with the tools and methods invented for Western languages are not optimal. The basic building blocks for LLM/SLM training are the datasets and the tokenization. The Quality of these two determine the quality of ML training. In this session we discuss about the challenges in open Tamil dataset curation and tokenization. How to get to a state where the building blocks are driven by the fundamental grammatical constructs of Tamil language.

  6. Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced): All

  7. Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 45 mins

  8. Do you have a Linux machine? (Yes / No – If not, we can provide one): No

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Full Name: Naveen Kumar
Email Address: thilagar.naveen@gmail.com
Phone Number (Optional):
Talk Title: Speed It Up! Building Efficient Indexes in MongoDB
Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines): Indexes in MongoDB are your best friend when it comes to optimizing performance. They are often misunderstood or overlooked. In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into the world of MongoDB indexes. You’ll learn the fundamentals of indexing, including types of indexes, how they impact query execution, and best practices for designing indexes
Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced): All
Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 45 mins
Do you have a Linux machine? Yes

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  1. Full Name: Rengaraj
  2. Email Address: sakthirengaraj@gmail.com
  3. Phone Number (Optional):
  4. Talk Title: Dissect, Build Network packets
  5. Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines): We will walk through the network packet building, capturing the packets, analyzing the packets using python library scapy.
  6. Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced): Beginner
  7. Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 30
  8. Do you have a Linux machine? (Yes / No – If not, we can provide one) Yes
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Full Name: Yagapriyan.G.
Email Address: yagapriyan8@gmail.com.
Phone Number (Optional):
Talk Title: History of GNU/Linux in Brief.
Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines):
The birth of linux starting from GNU project to unix os by Mr.RMS to the birth of linux kernel by Mr.Linus torvalds and clubbing of both and launch of linux, Current trends, Open-source alternative to proprietary systems etc.
Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced): Common for all.
Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 15 min.
Do you have a Linux machine? (Yes / No – If not, we can provide one): Yes.

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Full Name: Dr. U. Sabura Banu
Email Address: saburasec@gmail.com
Phone Number (Optional): 8610425020
Talk Title: Demystifying Artificial Intelligence: A Beginner’s Guide to Smart Machines
Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines):
This session introduces Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a beginner-friendly way, emphasizing how open source tools and collaborative communities are shaping the future of smart technologies. Aligned with the spirit of TossConf25, the talk highlights opportunities for Tamil-speaking contributors to engage with AI projects, empowering regional innovation and native language inclusion.

Target Audience: Beginner
Preferred Talk Duration: 30 mins
Do you have a Linux machine? No

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:white_check_mark: Full Name:
Abinaya
:white_check_mark: Email Address:
abinayasv03072001@gmail.com
:white_check_mark: Talk Title:
What’s data engineering? – Your First Steps into Open Source Data Engineering and aws

:white_check_mark: Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines):
This session introduces beginners to the world of data engineering using open source tools like Apache Kafka and Airflow, alongside AWS services like S3 and Glue.

:white_check_mark: Target Audience:
Beginner

:white_check_mark: Preferred Talk Duration:
30 mins

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1) Full Name: Vivekanandan KS
2) Email Address: ksvdevksv@gmail.com
3) Phone Number (Optional): 9344883098

4) Talk Title:
Anything as Code (AaC) with Nix: The Revolutionary Declarative system for Determinism & Reliability

5) Short Description of the Talk:
Explore Nix, the revolutionary declarative system that ensures determinism, reliability and atomicity across your entire IT stack. This talk will demonstrate how Nix empowers you to precisely define and manage Anything as Code(AaC): including
Environments(EaC), Containers(CaC), entire System administration(SaC), Package Manager(PMaC), Custom OS Image (COIaC), VMs (VMaC) and more.
All driven by just one dependency.

6) Target Audience: Everyone (from absolute beginner to even veterans)
7) Preferred Talk Duration: 45 mins
8) Do you have a Linux machine?: Yes

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  1. Full Name: Dhanush Kandhan
  2. Email Address: akadhanu@proton.me
  3. Phone Number (Optional): N/A
  4. Talk Title: Make Your Idea from 0 to 1 with Open Source – With a Kutti Story
  5. Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines):
    This talk walks you through how to turn your idea into reality using the power of open source. Along the way, you’ll hear a “kutti” (short) story rooted with my real-life experiences to inspire and guide devs and newbies on their journey from ideation to execution.
  6. Target Audience: Intermediate
  7. Preferred Talk Duration: 30 mins
  8. Do you have a Linux machine? No
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  1. Full Name: Keerthana Rajesh Kumar
  2. Email Address: grittypuffy@riseup.net
  3. Phone Number (Optional): N/A
  4. Talk Title: Dissecting Ente: A Deep Dive Into Architecture
  5. Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines): The talk covers Ente’s zero-knowledge architecture and working of end-to-end encryption, client-side AI search, indexing and facial recognition, replication strategy for redundancy and disaster recovery with live demonstration of the above for increased understanding, along with architectural challenges. The session being delivered in Tamil provides opportunity for regional people to understand the depth of research and advancements in development of zero-knowledge platforms.
  6. Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced): Intermediate/Advanced
  7. Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 45 mins
  8. Do you have a Linux machine? Yes
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Full Name: Palaniappan Nallalagappan
Email Address: n.palam@gmail.com
Phone Number (Optional):

Talk Title: “Get Parallel’ized, Not Paralyzed: A High-Speed Intro to HPC”

Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines):
* High-Performance Computing (HPC) speeds up tasks using parallel programming, where many cores or machines work together.
* OpenMP is used for shared-memory systems, and MPI connects multiple machines for distributed computing.
* PyOMP brings parallel computing to Python, combining speed with simplicity.

Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced): Intermediate

Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 30 mins

Do you have a Linux machine? (Yes / No – If not, we can provide one) - Yes

@syedjafer

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  1. Full Name: Bowrna Prabhakaran
  2. Email Address: mailbowrna@gmail.com
  3. Talk Title: A day in the open source world
  4. Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines): This talk is about my search for finding a fuzzy search JS library to implement drop-down in an open source project. This ended up with me checking a dictionary-building app “dictpress” and exploring it to see how fuzzy search works there and found out phonetic search algorithm supported in indic languages like Kannada and Malayalam. That led me to try adding support for phonetic search algorithm for Tamil language.
  5. Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced): Intermediate
  6. Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 30 mins
  7. Do you have a Linux machine? (Yes / No – If not, we can provide one) No
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  • Full Name: Tamizhvendan Sembiyan
  • Email Address: tamizh88@gmail.com
  • Phone Number (Optional):
  • Talk Title: How to solve it with Clojure
  • Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines): In this live coding session, we take a problem statement, build a close-to-real-world application from scratch using Clojure, and experience a novel way of building things. The way you look at programming will never be the same after this session
  • Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced): All
  • Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Do you have a Linux machine? (Yes / No – If not, we can provide one) Yes
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Full Name: Praveen Pandiyan
Email Address: pravinand.io@gmail.com
Talk Title: Cross-Platform App Building with Flutter

Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines): In this session, we’ll explore the power of Flutter for building beautiful, high-performance apps for both Android and iOS from a single codebase. Starting from the basics of Flutter programming, we’ll walk through core concepts like widgets, layouts, and state management. By the end of the talk, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge to create your own cross-platform app using Flutter.Target Audience : Beginner

Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 45 mins
Do you have a Linux machine? : No

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Proposal 01

Full Name: Hari
Email Address: hari@fossunited.org
Talk Title: Understanding Open-washing and its Impact on the FOSS Ecosystem

Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines): ⁠Why Open-washing happens ( with the context of the EU Act’s reduced restrictions on open-source models ) / ⁠How to evaluate the open-source project differ from the Open-washing project. How Open-washing Affects Open Source Ecosystem & what wrong may happen if this happens in DPI/DGP ( Vendor Lock in & Privacy violation ).Considering the Chennai Chapter crowd has good amount of new foss folks from diverse departments.Extending the above point - Open-washing is not only a concern for the FOSS Community/ Developer it also affects civil society and everyone should care about this.Stating that we need developers and civil society to work together to call out and stop open-washing.

Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 15 mins
Do you have a Linux machine? : Yes

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Proposal 02

Full Name: Hari
Email Address: hari@fossunited.org
Talk Title: Talking About FOSS In Tamil

Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines): ⁠The talk covers how speaking about FOSS in regional language can make great impacts also how FOSS will play a vital role in Improving Education in Tamil Nadu

For Ref : We Started Talking About FOSS in Tamil and Things Got Interesting

Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 15 mins
Do you have a Linux machine? : Yes