Hi Everyone, This is a post event update for Open Source India 2022[1] that was held on 29-30 September 2022 at NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
First of all, my sincere apologies that this update is late as other commitments, some personal and some official, caused the delay. Priya and I flew all the way from Indore[2], India to Bangalore[3], India with all the material we needed for the booth. We had a collection of ASF swag, a large ASF banner with logos from our projects, and of course - lots of stickers. Swapnil had planned to join us, but unfortunately couldn't make it due to other urgent commitments. It was our first time so we arrived a day before the event. First Day Excitement! We didn’t know what to expect so on the first day as we reached the booth a crowd was already eagerly waiting for us at the booth (maybe it was ASF's debut presence or the chance of some nice swag that caught their attention :) ). There were some great exhibitors located near us like Soda foundation[4], Microsoft open source[5], Mosip[6], and many more. And we were very glad to see some of the Apache peers among the speakers of the event[7]: Data Management in Container and Multicloud Era(Talk: Data Management in Container and Multicloud Era), Navendu Pottekkat (Talk: Lessons Learned from Three Years of Open Source Contributions) Joshua Poddoku (Panel discussion: OSS is not just code, it’s a Community) Talking About Community We got to meet many of our peers from the Apache ecosystem. It was quite surprising for everyone to know that ASF has a presence in Tier 2 cities like Indore too. We had a great time talking with people about their projects and community experiences. We also discussed with them about the Apache Local community (ALC) initiative. Many of them showed interest in joining such initiatives, engaging with peers, and spreading awareness. We also discussed collaborating with us (ALC Indore) for spreading awareness about their individual projects. We had a banner with lots of project logos and they had a fun time finding their project logo on the banner of full logos. We met many developers, who discussed with us on how they could get started with open source/ Apache contributions. We told people about projects.apache.org, individual project ecosystems (source code repo, issue tracker, mailing list, etc), and how to contact community development for further help. Connecting with Students We were really glad to see lots of students being part of the event, we had some good discussions with them about open source, the Apache Way, and various open source internships. What surprised us most was that many of them were already aware of lots of things. What made them super happy was getting some of the cool Apache swag :) Incubation Confusion We got some queries related to the incubation process as well, we got to meet some of the maintainers who discussed the process with us. We noticed some confusion, some of them thought that incubation was some form of startup[8] program. License There were some queries related to the Apache license 2.0 too. We met some representatives (as far as I remember they were from some startup) who wanted to know the legal aspect of using Apache projects for commercial use. We tried to answer their queries as best we could and guided them on reaching out to the legal discuss mailing list for further queries. There were some representatives from the medical field as well (some startups), we shared with them about Apache cTAKES, and guided them on how they can know more about it. Kudos! We would like to extend gratitude to Brahma Reddy Battula (Apache Hadoop & Ambari), Navendu Pottekkat (Apache APISIX), and Joshua Poddoku (Apache DevLake) for helping us staffing the booth. We would also like to thank Sharan for helping us get the things we needed to prepare for the booth and also to Gavin and the Travel and Assistance team for taking care of all the travel arrangements. We had a great time and hope that we get the chance to participate again in the future. 1. https://www.opensourceindia.in/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indore 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore 4. https://www.sodafoundation.io/ 5. https://opensource.microsoft.com/ 6. https://mosip.io/ 7. https://www.opensourceindia.in/agenda-2022/ 8. https://www.quora.com/What-does-incubation-mean-in-a-startup Thanks and Regards, Aditya Sharma
