# FOSS Club GEC Palakkad - Updates Thread

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**Created:** [11 November 2023 06:24 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/foss-club-gec-palakkad-updates-thread/2539 "2023-11-11T06:24:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [27 December 2023 10:16 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/foss-club-gec-palakkad-updates-thread/2539/3 "2023-12-27T10:16:28Z")

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Updates from Catchup Call #1

Attendees: [@Viswanatha_Kartha_V , @fossdot , Ansh]

**Updates from the club’s end**

- September - An introductory event was conducted and participants were to create their own portfolio projects.
- October -As mentioned in the roadmap above, an event was conducted in collaboration with [https://zendalona.com/](https://zendalona.com/). The speaker shared their open source journey, being blind since 4th grade and started making software and tools to help out his father. This eventually became their career.
- The company maintains [CoconutOS](https://zendalona.com/accessible-coconut/), an accessible OS built on top of ubuntu to provide accessibility to blind people.
- They also talked about how to get started with open source
- The event went great with a turnout of 60 people
- Later on, 5 teams of 3-4 people were formed to work on FOSS projects stressing on accessibility.
- A few ideas have come up, for example an OSM based map project for blind folks.
- These projects are now in research stage. The teams have been visiting blind schools to interact with people and learn about their requirements and problems.
- November was packed with exams and there was not much activity.

**Future Plans**

- Excited for the Intro to Open Source event]([FOSS Clubs - 2024 Roadmap - #16 by ansh](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/foss-clubs-2024-roadmap/2601/16)), was planning something similar himself.
- Restarting OpenHack - an initiative to help students to contribute to open source. ( @fossdot was also a participant in 2019)
- Will be happy to host a Local FOSS hack

**General Discussions**

- More activity on the forum will be helpful, documenting all major events and projects etc.
- Start looping in other members of the core team (second years) into major activities, so we have potential candidates to lead the club once the current leads’ tenure ends.

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