# Call for Communities | Maintainer May meetups

**URL:** <https://forum.fossunited.org/t/call-for-communities-maintainer-may-meetups/7708>\
**Category:** Meetup\
**Created:** [7 April 2026 08:48 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/call-for-communities-maintainer-may-meetups/7708 "2026-04-07T08:48:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![ashlesh](https://forum.fossunited.org/user_avatar/forum.fossunited.org/ashlesh/32/2201_2.png) [@ashlesh](https://forum.fossunited.org/u/ashlesh)\
**Post date:** [7 April 2026 08:48 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/call-for-communities-maintainer-may-meetups/7708/1 "2026-04-07T08:48:18Z")

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tldr: _ **Call for communities to organise Maintainer May meetups, in your city. Respond to this thread by April 19 to show your interest.** _

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Last year, FOSS United participated in Maintainer May [activities](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/meet-the-maintainers-31-days-31-foss-maintainers-from-india/5651). Led by Github, organisations around the world observe May as a Maintainer Month. This was also followed by an excellent IndiaFOSS pre-event, [Maintainer Summit](https://fossunited.org/c/indiafoss/maintainer-summit-2025) (cc: @Nemo)

The conversations from the Maintainer Summit (and some more) informed us better on how to shape FOSS United’s [Maintainer Programs](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/updates-to-the-grants-program-maintainer-programs/6743).

Building up on this context, we are hoping to put together and participate in a series of Maintainer May activities this year too.

**Maintainer May Meetups 2026** | **Call for communities**

This Maintainer May, we hope to organise city-level meetups for maintainers (and friends) of India’s digital commons. The idea is to come together, as keepers of Indian open-source, discuss what it takes to keep the lights on, vent about the good, the bad, rally ideas and resources, and also look at what a Maintainer Summit 2026 could look like. This is an open invitation for FOSS and commons communities to come join us in putting together these meetups.

If you are a FOSS or commons community, interested in organising a Maintainer May meetup in your city, please reply to this thread before **April 19th EOD,** with the following details:

1. Community name
2. Your name and role
3. A short brief about the community
4. City you are active in.

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**Author:** ![Arun](https://forum.fossunited.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Arun](https://forum.fossunited.org/u/Arun)\
**Post date:** [9 April 2026 16:02 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/call-for-communities-maintainer-may-meetups/7708/2 "2026-04-09T16:02:30Z")

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I am a volunteer at the Bengaluru FOSSUnited City chapter. We would like to organize the maintainers meet.

Date: 23rd May, 2026 - Saturday  
Time: 2pm - 6pm  
City: Bangalore.