---------- Forwarded message --------- From: FOSSASIA <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 5:49 PM Subject: Call for Speakers & Projects: FOSSASIA Summit 2021, March 13-21 (Online) To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Dear Friend of FOSSASIA, We are excited to announce that the FOSSASIA Summit 2021 <https://freelayers.net/l/E5GsrvBkTisdjbJIEO5lOw/eaQKuhXv3GX45763X892gYEW4w/XsrBu763Hqjq1oO7TgD892pG7g> will take place ONLINE this year. The event will spread out over the week of March 13 - 21 and will run on our own open source virtual event platform ‘eventyay <https://freelayers.net/l/E5GsrvBkTisdjbJIEO5lOw/DHQuoxTjxuAuxVCrplG4YQ/XsrBu763Hqjq1oO7TgD892pG7g> ’. We would love to see you at the summit. Get your ticket here <https://freelayers.net/l/E5GsrvBkTisdjbJIEO5lOw/khQMn8tLyIb4uucXw9JfEA/XsrBu763Hqjq1oO7TgD892pG7g> ! 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All the best, stay safe and healthy, Your FOSSASIA Team ------------------------------ FOSSASIA Summit 2021 Call for Speakers The current situation around the world shows us that open global collaboration is the way to solve the problems of our time. Now we would like you to share your hands-on examples at the FOSSASIA Summit Online of topics such as how to: - Take on the fight against COVID-19 with open health technologies - Solve everyday problems with AI - Tackle climate change with an open source approach - Create open hardware solutions for science and biohacking - Run DevOps in a distributed team in home office - Implement continuous delivery and sovereign cloud stacks with diverse tools - Establish a friendly, welcoming and collaborative project culture - Ensure digital sovereignty and independent data governance - Get privacy and security right - Customize Linux for lightweight hardware and special use cases - And what are best practices for open access education .. and many more topics about Databases, Web and Mobile Technologies, Robotics, and Compliance. Please find the complete list of tracks on the event site and submit your proposal <https://freelayers.net/l/E5GsrvBkTisdjbJIEO5lOw/rBja2Bdsa6Ob763XH16E8929qA/XsrBu763Hqjq1oO7TgD892pG7g> . We are looking forward to inspiring sessions. *Important Dates* - CFS soft deadline: 4 February 2021 (submissions receive priority) - Late submission cut off date: 11 February 2021 - Event dates: 13 - 21 March 2021 Other Activities at FOSSASIA *Welcome the Visdom Data Visualisation Project at FOSSASIA Now under Apache 2.0 Open Source License* We are excited to welcome the Visdom project <https://freelayers.net/l/E5GsrvBkTisdjbJIEO5lOw/mh3QDnl2gbdZ52aYJLFLuw/XsrBu763Hqjq1oO7TgD892pG7g> at FOSSASIA. The project has been transitioned from Facebook AI Research to the FOSSASIA organization. As part of this transition it has been relicensed to the Apache 2.0 Open Source License. Visdom is a flexible tool for creating, organizing, and sharing visualizations of live, rich data. It aims to facilitate visualization of (remote) data with an emphasis on supporting scientific experimentation. It supports PyTorch and Numpy and is used by more than 3000 projects and organizations including Facebook, Google, iPERDance, Catalyst, Huawei, Neural Voice Puppetry, Lip2Wav, Ignite, QData TextAttack, Svip lab Impersonator, ML-tooling, Commaai OpenPilot, CorentinJ Real Time Voice Cloning, BicycleGAN, Deepspeech Pytorch and Pytorch Book. Read more on our blog <https://freelayers.net/l/E5GsrvBkTisdjbJIEO5lOw/j5uTKepECWFwyzPB763BkbiQ/XsrBu763Hqjq1oO7TgD892pG7g> . *Internships for Python / Javascript Developers* As a FOSSASIA intern working on eventyay <https://freelayers.net/l/E5GsrvBkTisdjbJIEO5lOw/cBnslrT1ublKtLMIKb7892Pg/XsrBu763Hqjq1oO7TgD892pG7g>, you’ll collaborate together with our team to develop the Open Event project that runs the eventyay website. We use Flask as a backend and Javascript as a frontend technology. 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