FOSS Wave - Bangalore, India: Standing in front of University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering

Standing in front of University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering preparing for the FOSS Wave event

It was another lazy Saturday with a rare sight of empty Bangalore roads. This FOSS Wave event in Bangalore had been in planning for almost a month. Finally, here we were on September 10th, 2016 in front of the almost a century old structure of University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering.

Five speakers reached the venue by 9:30am. We were to talk in two different sessions starting from 10:30am until 4:00pm on the following topics.

  • FOSS, its philosophy, ethics and importance
  • Fedora and contributing to the Fedora Project
  • Eminent women in the history of tech and FOSS
  • Basics of git and GitHub

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