# \[Draft\] FOSS United 2025 Strategy **URL:** \ **Category:** Organisation\ **Created:** [11 December 2024 15:07 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/draft-foss-united-2025-strategy/4725 "2024-12-11T15:07:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![ansh](https://forum.fossunited.org/user_avatar/forum.fossunited.org/ansh/32/1423_2.png) [@ansh](https://forum.fossunited.org/u/ansh)\ **Post date:** [13 December 2024 04:26 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/draft-foss-united-2025-strategy/4725/4 "2024-12-13T04:26:16Z")
This is my interpretation (and a summary of the document). P.S - I didn’t notice there was a TL,DR in the document already and ended up writing this - Explaining our work (and the basic philosophies of FOSS) to both technical and non-technical people has been a challenge so far, and there is more work to be done here. - Diversity continues to be a fundamental problem within the FOSS United Community. **Marketing** - The Foundation, with help from the Community, will **create content that improves basic FOSS Literacy** (text, videos etc.) - FOSS United will continue to devote (some) effort across a broad range of topics for “FOSS Literacy” and start **focusing more on promoting “FOSS from India” .** - The foundation plans to start campaigning for an increase in use and creation of FOSS, specifically within the Government, Industry, Academia **(FOSS advocacy)** - Long term vision - The foundation plans to create meaningful content and advocacy efforts that are hopefully taken over by the community in due course of time. - The Foundation will run such efforts on a barebones team of people who are able to work with Volunteers from the Community to get the work done.(Staffing) **Events** - IndiaFOSS is still not [financially sustainable](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/planning-indiafoss-2024/2977/36) - Diversity in terms of attendees,speakers and topics covered remains a challenge. - **Starting 2025, we are looking to promote and support active members of the Community to lead the events. Specifically, we will look for Co-leads(chairs) who are willing to take overall responsibility for the flagship events.** - The Foundation staff will still be involved with the events and will work with the Co-leads to make fundamental decisions. - We intend to support FOSS conferences from across the country address diversity issues by putting them in touch with members of underrepresented groups wherever possible. **[fossunited.org](http://fossunited.org) Platform** - Please see the complete section to understand WHY we need a platform. - There will be a focused effort to consolidate the design of the Platform into a cohesive whole and to improve performance. - There will be efforts to increase community contributions, this involves improving the documentation and promoting the project so barrier to contribution is reduced. - The platform hopes to serve as a way to showcase the work of volunteers/speakers etc. by displaying such information publicly on their user profile. **Financially supporting the Indian FOSS Community** - Making IndiaFOSS and FOSS Hack into financially sustainable events frees up some of the existing funding for FOSS United, which can be redirected towards the Grants program. - The foundation continues to look for more Industry Partners who wish to support the ecosystem. - Alternative means of raising or directing funds from the Community need to be considered. - The foundation will serve as a means to connect projects who need funding with people who wish to contribute. We do not need to be involved in the finances. **Beyond FOSS** - The foundation aims to work with other movements to promote the broader [knowledge commons movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_commons) **2026 and beyond - Governance** - **2025 will hopefully be the year when the FOSS United Community elects a Governing Board** - The Governing Board will ultimately be responsible for outlining the 2026 Strategy for FOSS United, among other things. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/draft-foss-united-2025-strategy/4725)._