Speakers

Open Source:
Successes and Challenges

In the 21st Century, the use of free and open source software has become mainstream, outgrowing its origins as the specialized interest of a small tech community. Companies, governments, and other organizations have similarly adopted FOSS and have established policies and procedures for its use and distribution. This talk addresses the reasons that have driven the rapid growth of FOSS and the challenges yet to be addressed if FOSS is to continue its recent successes.

Tony Wasserman

Professor of the Practice,
Software Management,
Carnegie Mellon University

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)

The objective of this talk is to make the participants acquainted with how to investigate a subject on the internet with the information available in the public domain.Put your investigative skills to work and find whatever you can on just about any subject with available information in public domain and darknet. The Open-Soure INTelligence (OSINT) plays a vital role in the ethical hacking process. Open source intelligence is all about using public sources to gather, analyze and report actionable information. We will talk about the darkweb research, engines and directories to find the relevant information from the darkweb, especially the TOR network.

Aditya Shankar

Security Researcher at MNC
5+ years of experience in Cybersecurity domain

Ajinkya Sonar

Experienced Network security professional
Certified CEHv10 holder with proven experience in VAPT

Exploring Rust


Why Rust?

  • Introduction and History
  • Basic Programs in Rust
  • Cargo Package Manager
  • Ownership Model and Borrow Checker

Vaibhav Kurhe

Pursuing M.Tech. (CSE) from IIT Delhi
COEP Alumini

Debian 101

New to Debian? Come to learn all about Debian. What is Debian? Who are the people behind it? What are its philosophies? What makes it different from other distros? Why you should use it and contribute to it? How to start contributing?

Sruthi Chandran

Librarian turned Free Software Advocate
Debian Developer
Feminist

Fasten Development using OpenAPI Specification

The OpenAPI Specification is a specification for machine-readable interface files for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. In this talk, we can learn how to write Open API specs, which can act as the medium of API communication between developers in the team. We will also learn how we can generate a basic client library and server API using the Swagger CodeGen. This session is mainly for API Engineers and writers who love to learn about API.

Viswaprasath KS

Product Engineer at Zoho
Mozilla Reps from India

Understanding a Heap Memory Segment with the help of pwndbg

pwndbg is a Python module which is loaded directly into GDB (GNU Debugger), and provides a suite of utilities and crutches to hack around all of the cruft that is GDB and smooth out the rough edges. Join to understand dynamic memory mapping and it’s layout, Heap Internal and troubleshooting with the help of pwndbg.

Rohit Keshri

Product Security Engineer at Red Hat

Open Source Machine Learning Libraries in Python

The talk contain the detailed introduction and overview of various Open Source Machine Learning Libraries in Python. The practical demonstration of some of ML algorithms will also be shown.

Tushar B Kute

Researcher and Developer at MITU Skillologies, Pune | Writer

Freedom in the Cloud

Stop Depending on People who want to Collect your Personal Data

Many of you have heard the term Free and Open Source Software, you might be thinking about software that runs on your computer. How many of you think about all the software that you use every day on your phone? Do you try using only Free Software on your phone? Now how about the services many of these software – like your instant messenger, email software, your photo sharing apps, depend on? Did you think about the companies that offer these services free of cost? Are they charities creating a better world? Or are they getting some other value from us when we use these services? We will discuss some of these topics and see if we can have these services with different set of values and costs.
Pirate_Praveen

Pirate Praveen

Debian Developer

Introduction to Kubernetes

Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. It is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. This talk will give an overview of kubernetes architecture and how to deploy the containerized application in the kubernetes cluster.

Some Key Points

  1. Why to use Kubernetes cluster to manage the docker?
  2. Discussion about various services available in the Kubernetes nodes to activate the cluster
  3. Kubernetes Cluster Creation using Kubeadm
  4. Live Demo of deploying the real world application into the Kubernetes cluster

Rahul Krishnan R A

Consultant at Capgemini
Debian Contributor

Why should you
(as a student) care about Self-Hosting?

What is it that you can self-host and where? The opportunity and ability learn about free software, appreciate the availability of source code and become better at doing things yourself starts with a desire and initiative to self-host software and tools that you use every day. This talk will provide an introduction to self-hosting for students along with a roadmap for what, how and where to self-host — with some practical examples of the same.

Abhas Abhinav

Hacker, Entrepreneur
Free Software Activist

Introduction to Storage Data Center to Cloud

The objective of this talk is to introduce the audience to storage and file system concepts from Operating System perspective moving on to understand how your data is stored in a hybrid cloud environment using Software Defined Storage technologies like Ceph.

Some Key Points

  • Different type of storage or we can say evolution of storage from single disk to NAS
  • Zoning Lun Masking, Disk scanning
  • Checking the disk at OS level
  • Creating PV, VG, LV
  • Formatting file system
  • How basic file system structure looks like and what is the use of filesystem
  • Introduction to Cloud Storage in Hybrid cloud
  • Conceptual overview of Ceph Storage – A Unified Storage platform

Satvrat Singh

Senior Technical Engineer At Red Hat

Gaurav Sitlani

Ceph Storage Engineer At Red Hat

Using Open Source to land your Dream Job!

This talk is about why having an open source CV has become important, and how recruiters are looking at it. Get to know the tricks of the Open Source trade that help you build the right Open Source profile, help you apply for the right job that you enjoy and also about how to impress the interviewers.

Gautam Rege

Co-Founder & Director, Josh Software