Foss Meet NIT Calicut

What is the meaning of Foss (Free Open Source Software) Meet conducted by NIT (National Institutes of Technology) Calicut? Is it conducted every year in NIT Calicut? When will it be conducted next? From where I can get the details of Foss (Free Open Source Software) Meet?

Can you tell me about speaking and proposals for FOSSMeet 2018 conducted by NIT (National Institute of Technology) Calicut?

[pawan]

FOSSMeet is the annual Free and Open source software meet at NIT (National Institute of Technology) Calicut. Meet proposals for talks and workshops at FOSSMeet. FOSSMeet 2018 had audience (mostly) comprises of smart, above average, GNU/Linux aware students.

Important Dates 2018

Call for proposals opens: Oct 23, 2017
Proposal submission deadline: Jan 2, 2018
Proposal acceptance: Jan 18, 2018
Presentation upload: Feb 5, 2018

Confirmed sessions
Speaker Section Submitted

Introduction to Debian packaging
Abhijith P.A (@bhe) Beginner Tue, 26 Dec

Let's do some Debian Packaging (Workshop)
Sruthi Chandran (@srud) Intermediate Mon, 25 Dec

Debian packaging hackathon
pravi (@pravi) Advanced Sun, 24 Dec

Debian - The project, process, and people
Balasankar C (@balasankarc) Beginner Sat, 23 Dec

Embedded Systems Programming using Rust (workshop)
Pramode C.E (@pramode75) Intermediate Sat, 16 Dec

Is FOSS a success story?
Abhijit A.M. (abhijit13) (@abhijitam1303) Beginner Sun, 10 Dec

RESTful API Development using Go
Baiju Muthukadan (@baijum) Advanced Sun, 12 Nov

Unconfirmed proposals

Speaker Section Submitted

Introduction to Platform Cooperativism: Where people own their platform
Joice Joseph (@joice) Beginner Tue, 2 Jan

Wikipedia - Join the fight for preserving Knowlegde Freedom
Ambady Anand S (@ambadyanands) Beginner Sat, 30 Dec

Defending Privacy and Digital Democracy; Political existance of Free and Open Software Software
Kannan V M (@kannanvm) Beginner Fri, 29 Dec

Tranforming the Academia with GCompris
Divyam Madaan (@dmadaan) Beginner Fri, 29 Dec

Big Data Analysis on OpenStreetMap
Ramya Ragupathy (@ramyaragupathy) Intermediate Fri, 29 Dec

Wikidata - The universe in a Database
Ranjith Siji (@ranjithsiji) Intermediate Tue, 26 Dec

Introduction to Google Cloud with Python
Jackson Isaac (@jacksonisaac) Intermediate Sun, 24 Dec

Graphic designing possibilities with Libre softwares
Mujeeb Rahman k (@mujeebcpy) Beginner Sat, 23 Dec

Inside the Elastic Stack : Testing and Releasing a Well Known Open Source Stack
Aravind Putrevu (@aravindputrevu) Intermediate Wed, 20 Dec

A bit of Functional Programming
Aniketh Gireesh (@aniketh01) Intermediate Mon, 4 Dec

Possibilities in the land of 1s and 0s
Shrayas Rajagopal (@shrayas) Beginner Sun, 3 Dec

The Definitive Guide to Webpack
Shreyansh Pandey (@weirdpanda) Beginner Tue, 28 Nov

Crystal - Fast as C, Slick as Ruby.
Harisankar P S (@devhs) Beginner Tue, 28 Nov

A Clojure Crash Course
Abhishek A Amralkar (@aamralkar) Beginner Sun, 19 Nov

Learn REST API with Flask Restful and MongoDB (Workshop)
Sreenadh T.C (@imsreenadh) Intermediate Sun, 19 Nov

Improving UX with Custom ROMs
Vibhoothi (@vibhoothiiaanand) Beginner Mon, 13 Nov

Kubernetes 101 ( Workshop )
Rahulkrishnan R A (@rahulkrishnanfs) Beginner Sat, 28 Oct