Sep'19-Sep'20

Software Freedom Day!

Software Freedom Day is an event held all across the world to celebrate the usage of Free and Open Source Software. The event aims to sensitize students about the virtues of Open Source Software. Each year the event has seen growing number of participants and our past speakers have come from prestigious software companies like Facebook, Microsoft and Google . The aim of SFD is to bring together developers and students of all levels on a single platform to share their thoughts, ideas and inspirations. This year, Programming Club of UIET brings to you the 11th Edition of Software Freedom Day on September 19,2020 & September 20,2020.

Programming Club

Software Freedom Day is organized by Programming Club UIET or PCIub for short - is a student-driven society that aims at educating students and to spread selfless knowledge of various domains of Computer Science, organizes hackathons, and celebrate Open-Source. It's more of a community. We teach, we learn and we grow, together. To know more follow us on:     Twitter     Facebook     Instagram

Pannel

Vaishali Thakkar and Khushbu Parakh will be joining us in the Pannel Discussion.

Socializing

Our Speakers

Joe Davison

Joe Davison

Joe Davison is currently a Research Engineer at Hugging Face. He is Edwin S. Hinckley Scholar and a Crocker Innovation Fellow. A graduate from Harvard University , he helps computers understand natural language by advanced research in ML and NLP and by deploying powerful open source tools.

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Michael Grey

Dr Michael Grey

Dr. Michael Grey is an Open Source Software Developer and a Robotics Researcher. He currently works as a Senior Software Engineer at Open Robotics, Singapore. He has contributed to the field of Robotics through his research publications. He is a proud volunteer of the 'Code in the Community program' in Singapore.

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Khushbu Parakh

Saloni Garg

Saloni is currently working in the Linux Foundation and she is actively involved in open source community . she is a Mozilla open leader , Google Venkat Scholar and International Women in the Open Source.

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Jivitesh Dhaliwal

Jivitesh Dhaliwal

Jivitesh is currently a game developer at Tender Claws. He is a IGDA Scholar '20 and Eric Dybsand Memorial AI scholar.He has been a part of award winning games and interactive media experiences including 'The Under Presents' , 'Phenomenology' and 'Walden, a game' to name a few.

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Mihaels Ghidersa

Mihaela Ghidersa

Mihaela - Roxana is a software developer at Centric IT Solutions, Romania. Passionate for technology , she is an innovative individual and can go extra mile to build and deliver amazing softwares. She is an IT Manager for Girls Who Code- Iasi and a powerful orator.

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Dhairya Gandhi

Dhairya Gandhi

Dhairya is currently a Data Scientist at Julia Computing Inc. and maintains and develops Julia's Machine Learning stack with Flux and Zygote.


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Aravind

Aravind Putrevu

Aravind is currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Elastic. A FOSS Enthusiast, he is passionate about evangelizing tech, meeting developers and helping in solving their problems. He also runs a youtube channel 'Code-Build-Hack'.

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Vaibhav Gupta

Vaibhav Gupta is passionate about Kernel, Bootloader, Firmware, and hardware. He recently completed his Linux Kernel mentorship project with The Linux Foundation. He completed his GSOC project with RTEMS in 2019 and also mentored the project in 2020.

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Sonia singla

Sonia was a Community Bridge Mentee at Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2020 and Outreachy 2019 intern at Mozilla. Currently pursuing her B.E in Information Technology, she is a Mozilla represetative and an avid Open- Source Contributor.

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Gallery

Our Partners

JetBrains
Balsamiq
GitHub

Code Of Conduct

Software Freedom Day is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We invite attendees to come to SFD in a spirit of curiosity, friendliness, open-mindedness, and respect. Any kind of harassment will not be tolerated.

At the conference venue, you agree to:

  • Be kind and sensitive to the people around you and respect the boundaries of other attendees.
  • Attempt to resolve differences of opinions peacefully and appropriately for a professional environment.
  • Listen with empathy when someone has a different perspective and give suggestions for improvement.

This Code of Conduct applies to the venue of SFD 2020 Conference, pre-event and post-event informal gathering, and all events organized by the organizing committee of Software Freedom Day.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact someone from the organizing committee. The organizing team will be wearing “Organizing Team” I-D cards and you can approach them for any kind of queries. Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly event for all.

Contact

PL Aanand Auditorium
Panjab University Chandigarh
Not Decided Yet
releasing soon