This year, the conference is held in my home country, Singapore, at the Science Center. The Science Center is a place where people can see Science happen and learn how it works. It’s a pretty nice place to hold this conference and it is quite relevant as well, because technology is related to Computing Sciences and theories. <\/p>\n
My talk was approved and I was scheduled to talk on the Day 2 of the event. My talk is about Opening Up Yourself. Basically, it’s about Opensource VS Proprietary software and contributing to Opensource. I am also manning the Fedora booth for this year!<\/p>\n
Day 0<\/h2>\n
Day 0 of FOSSASIA was fantastic! I met up with some of the other speakers at the Red Hat office at 10 AM<\/a>. <\/p>\n There were lots of people from all over the world who came down for this event! I met with Red Hat Israel’s Yaniv Bronhaim<\/a> and Liron Aravot<\/a>; both of them were going to speak about Red Hat’s community virtualisation products – oVirt and Foreman. <\/p>\n I’ve also met with Daniel Pocock<\/a>, prominent Debian contributor, and Francois<\/a>, VLC Cone man. Both of them were quite friendly and shared a lot on HAM radios and plenty of other cool stuff too!<\/p>\n Parag<\/a>, Fedora engineer, was also there and he passed me the Fedora DVDs that I’ve requested for. <\/p>\n After the meetup, we formed a small group and had lunch together.<\/p>\n Thereafter, Daniel wanted to procure for some USB radio dongle that would be able to do Software Defined Radio stuff like transmitting and receiving radio signals. So we went down to Sim Lim Square and Sim Lim Tower and began our search there. Unfortunately, after several hours of search, we couldn’t find what we wanted. I was looking forward to getting one for myself to play with but there was zero luck. <\/p>\n We went down to meet with Alexandre Lision<\/a>, one of the contributors to The Ring project<\/a>, and went for the next FOSSASIA dinner meetup<\/a>. <\/p>\n The dinner with the other speakers was fantastic. But it was expensive – around $20~ per person. I’m not sponsored by Fedora or Red Hat for this event so there’s no way of claiming the cost. Nevertheless, I would say it was worth it because I got to interact with the other speakers. <\/p>\n In summary, for Day 0: <\/p>\n Day 1 was yet another exciting day at FOSSASIA! I was scheduled to help moderate the DevOps track for Day 1. <\/p>\n I met Phoon Woh Shon (just call him Shon), one of the Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat. Had a little conversation with him and apparently, he was an ex-Ngee Ann Lecturer. Very coincidental as I’m currently studying at Ngee Ann Polytechnic. The picture is a bit dark but he’s the guy in the sky blue shirt.<\/p>\n There were lots of talks by the Red Hatters in the DevOps track for Day 1. <\/p>\n Technologies Developed By Red Hat. Happening at Planck Lab. Speaker: @harishpillay<\/a> #FOSSASIA<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/doX8FSFE82<\/a><\/p>\n — Woo Huiren (@woohuiren) March 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Bringing your virtualized datacenter to the next level. Happening at Planck Lab. Speaker: @bronhaim<\/a> #FOSSASIA<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/QXBATJ4nDq<\/a><\/p>\n — Woo Huiren (@woohuiren) March 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Comparing virtualization and containers. Happening at Planck Lab. Speaker: Amit #FOSSASIA<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/y4Ol8pwtFH<\/a><\/p>\n — Woo Huiren (@woohuiren) March 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Globalizing your software. Happening at Planck Lab. Speaker: @paraagan<\/a> #FOSSASIA<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/CKo5KnwiLc<\/a><\/p>\n — Woo Huiren (@woohuiren) March 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Containers and systemd. Happening at Planck Labs. Speaker: Lennart Poettering #FOSSASIA<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/L6XEn3qIGr<\/a><\/p>\n — Woo Huiren (@woohuiren) March 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Julia Programming Language. Happening at Planck Lab. Speaker: @Viral_B_Shah<\/a> #FOSSASIA<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/d8S0JRQw24<\/a><\/p>\n — Woo Huiren (@woohuiren) March 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n These talks were all full house, so I, as a moderator, had to stand throughout the entire DevOps track, for 3 hours. Legs were in pain but not that bad and might have been worth it. Being a moderator is pretty fun as well because you’ve got more power over the prominent speakers. Hahaha, secretly empowers my ego momentarily. It was really great and I had a fun time moderating the talks. <\/p>\n Weird thing is that, some of the talks aren’t related to DevOps but they were still categorised as DevOps. Most of the talks in the DevOps track were quite technical, so I couldn’t understand much about what they are even saying. Well, I learnt that Systemd is not as simple as it seems and it appears to be more powerful than what I’ve known. Ovirt talk was also quite interesting. He mentioned about Foreman, a powerful Web GUI that can enable you to easily manage and deploy new host nodes and virtual machines easily. Ovirt is the upstream whilst Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation is the downstream. So yeah, pretty much about it. <\/p>\n I managed to spend some time at the booth after moderating the DevOps track. Daniel popped by and I learnt something very interesting from him. We were talking about proprietary software and I mentioned about burning down the Microsoft office. He told me that it’s not appropriate to say that as it was too direct so he told me that in future, use the following statement instead – “If you see a Microsoft Office burning, how fast would you walk to put out the fire?”. It was a pretty good banter. <\/p>\n I caught up with Edwin<\/a> and Phil<\/a>, who came down to FOSSASIA to listen to the other speakers and support me at the Fedora booth. <\/p>\n We had our dinner at a vegetarian restaurant in China Town – Eight Treasures restaurant. I was the only vegetarian but both of them still ate vegetarian food with me. Only Edwin and Phil paid for the meal, so there was zero costs for me. After that, we got ourselves some Starbucks and hung out there. We had a little conversation about Git and how FOSSASIA went. It was a great time.<\/p>\n In summary, for Day 1: <\/p>\n Now it is the Day 2 of FOSSASIA! Day 2 is the day where I will be speaking about Opening Up Yourself! <\/p>\n Now enjoying Science Centre stories with Justin Woo on Opening up yourself and Understanding Opensource #fossasia<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/5jwzueNiMb<\/a><\/p>\n — Matthew A. Snell (@masnell) March 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n There wasn’t much of a crowd at my talk but it was pretty fun! Seems like Matthew made a mistake and thought that my name is Justin. The talk went pretty smoothly and I was convinced that I’ve delivered a very strong message to my listeners. I won’t be talking much about the details but if you would like, I’ve uploaded my slides here: FOSSASIA – opening up yourself<\/a>. The Engineers SG team<\/a> are still in the midst of sorting and uploading the talk videos, so once mine is up, I’ll embed it here. <\/p>\n After my talk, I went to the Fedora booth and man it. There were quite a number of people at lunch time and I did lots of talking with them. The “sales” of Fedora DVDs went pretty well. Red Hat stickers was pretty neat too. I really like how it says “Your mother was right”. Doesn’t make sense but it’s pretty banter. <\/p>\n Yaniv Bronhaim dropped by and introduced me the Linux Foundation’s platform. Apparently, the Linux Foundation has a platform that allows people to study Linux through the platform and get certified as well. Pretty cool. <\/p>\n My sister, Luna<\/a>, and my friend, Soon Keat<\/a>, also came down to support me at FOSSASIA. It was nice of them to do that and I felt supported. <\/p>\n Red Hat marketing team was impressed by my technical pitch to the people who dropped by our booth. They wanted me to work for them in the future and also work part time as their technical sales at similar events. Their compliments fed my ego a bit and I felt happy. They were also very nice and gave me their Raspberry Pi 2 B and Open Advice book, which made me feel even happier. <\/p>\n FOSSASIA had a social event but I was too tired; had a quick dinner with my sister and another Fedora Ambassador and went home to sleep. <\/p>\n In summary, for Day 2: <\/p>\n It was the last day of the event. Time past by in a flash of an eye. <\/p>\n On Day 3, Red Hat marketing team wasn’t here but Phil and my school’s senior, Han Yi<\/a>, came down to support me. Han Yi helped me man the booth and talked to the people who dropped by the booth. <\/p>\n Since it was the last day, I decided to do something a little bit crazy. With the help from Phil, I placed Fedora DVDs on to my shirt. Don’t worry, no DVDs were harmed in the process. I walked around the conference exhibition area with the Fedora DVDs on my shirt and soon after, people started calling me the “walking Fedora”, “Fedora man”, which I thought was pretty cool and funny. <\/p>\n Walking talking #fedora<\/a> #fossasia<\/a> @woohuiren<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/gTTlDxkhng<\/a><\/p>\n — Anisha Narang (@anisha_narang) March 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Fedora Ambassador hard at work! #FOSSASIA<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/nOiTKxdEvG<\/a><\/p>\n — harishpillay (@harishpillay) March 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The day went by really quickly and before I knew it, the event has ended. FOSSASIA held an after party at Hackerspace<\/a> and I went for it. Whilst I was still at the Singapore Science Center, I took a photo with Daniel and the Debian banner. I would like to call this marvelous photo as “Deb X Fed”.<\/p>\n Before going for the meetup at Hackerspace, Daniel, Alexandre, Alexander and I went for dinner at a local Indian restaurant. We had a great time and the food was pretty nice. When we finished, we coincidentally met Harish Pillay<\/a>, one of the prominent Red Hatters, at the same restaurant. He was having dinner with his family. We left and began our walking journey to the Hackerspace. Before we went to Hackerspace, we dropped by a nearby NTUC and bought some drinks. <\/p>\n We reached Hackerspace at around 9:30 PM but there was still quite a number of people there. <\/p>\n We had lots of fun at Hackerspace. <\/p>\n #FOSSASIA<\/a> quiz with @FollowPocock<\/a> and @hpdang<\/a>. She solved it within a few minutes! pic.twitter.com\/GImw71c392<\/a><\/p>\n — Woo Huiren (@woohuiren) March 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n There might be a #FOSSASIA<\/a> dancing team for FOSSASIA 2017! ;) pic.twitter.com\/kC6CYsdRD9<\/a><\/p>\n — Woo Huiren (@woohuiren) March 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n @JollFr<\/a> @fossasia<\/a> @JoinTheRing<\/a> @MIT<\/a> @FollowPocock<\/a> Watch Daniel sanitizing #FOSSASIA<\/a> post-party photos :) pic.twitter.com\/JCOWYFQzkB<\/a><\/p>\n — Alexandre Lision (@lisional) March 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n We even had a livestream to LibrePlanet conference, which is held at Boston. 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