Thank you, Aditya and Priya, for spreading Apache and Open Source awareness. Happy to see the engagements we had at Open Source India event. Agree; huge thanks to Sharan and Gavin for their assistance.
Best Regards, Swapnil M Mane On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 10:37 AM Aditya Sharma <adityasha...@apache.org> wrote: > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
