FOSSMeet at NITC (10-12 April)
Attendees from the foundation - @Jeswin @ansh and I
We supported ~10 students from College of Engineering Vadakara, Christ College of Engineering, Irinjalakuda and St. Thomas Institute for Science & Technology, Trivadrum.
- Students specifically had challenges finding speakers for their events, communicating with the foundation members, and lacked mentorship. We’ve setup a follow up call with our friends from College of Engineering, Vadakara, to help them plan out events for the next quarter.
- We sat down to chat with the student leads of FOSS Cell at NITC and their faculty coordinator to discuss a year-long collaboration instead of a one-time monetary support. Two specific things they were looking for were a platform to showcase the projects they build and someone to guide them with design. We also invited them to join us for IndiaFOSS’26. The next batch of student leads will take over the next month, which is also around exam season, so we’ve decided to set up a follow up call by the end of the second quarter.
- We happened to bump into a speaker from NPCI who was interested in collaborating with us on initiatives similar to India Runs on FOSS. He was also interested in being a speaker at student events or mentoring student groups in the future.