The RSVP and call for proposals for the December-2025 FOSS meetup is open: FOSS meetup December
Do submit your proposals and RSVP for the event.
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Apologies all, this meetup is postponed to Jan 2026. Date will be announced shortly.
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Hey all,
We would like to share about our first meetup of the year:
Date: Jan 24, 2026, Saturday, 11 am - 2pm
The call for proposals and RSVP’s are open: event page
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Sharing the speaker lineup for Jan 24, 2026 (Saturday, 11 am - 2 pm) FOSS Bangalore meetup:
- Introducing flowctl - An open-source self-service workflow execution platform by Hariharan
- From First PR to Production: Lessons from GSoC & LFX in Real Open Source by Chinmayi
- Form Builders Suck! Here’s Another One (github) by Harsh Tandiya
- Xonotic India: local Game Server and Community for (hopefully) still popular Open Source Shooter by Souhrud Reddy
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Hey all, we are back with out next meetup and CFP is open now. Meetup details:
- Date: 1-Mar-2026, Sunday
- Time: 11 am - 2 pm
- Venue: Samagata Foundation, Church Street, Bengaluru.
Submit your CFP’s here: FOSS United Dashboard
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Talks on March 1st meetup:
- MapToPoster - Creating Visually Stunning Map Posters using Openstreetmap by Ankur Gupta (talk proposal, project)
- How I use LLMs to make Indian literary works in the public domain readable by Bhuvan (talk proposal, project)
- From Meetup to Make‑over: Non‑Code Contributions that helped Scrite by Prashanth Udupa (talk proposal, project)
- Fedipact: a retrospective on its impact on the fediverse by [Object object] (talk proposal)
- From Lightning Talk to Grant: My Blender Journey with FOSSUnited by Advay Skanda Udupa (talk proposal)
In case you have not RSVP’ed for the meetup, you can do it here
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Retrospective on the March 1st meetup
Some stats:
- Number of RSVP’s: ~120. Attended: 30
- Number of talk proposals: ~10. Selected: 5
- Planned meetup time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, actual time: 11:30 am - 2:15 pm
The Good
- High quality talks by all the speakers present.
- Talks covered a range of spectrum: people’s personal journey, their projects, digital commons, decentralization.
The Bad
- Forgot about sending reminder emails for RSVP’ed audience - might be a cause of low turnout.
- Event could have been shared early in socials, especially announcement of call for proposals. This could have attracted more talk proposals.
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CFP for the March meetup of Bengaluru FOSS United chapter is open now. Meetup details:
- Date: 28-Mar-2026, Saturday
- Time: 2 pm - 5pm
- Venue: Samagata Foundation, Church Street, Bengaluru.
Submit your CFP’s here: FOSS United Dashboard
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The RSVP for the March 28th meetup is open now: RSVP Form Submission
Talks for March 26th meetup
Lightning Talks
- How we’re building a language archive using open source and open licensing - How we're building a language archive using open source and open licensing
- Build Don’t Borrow - Build, Don’t Borrow: Why You Should Stop Using Tools and Start Creating Them
Full Talks
- NATS in Production: One Messaging System, Many Patterns - NATS in Production: One Messaging System, Many Patterns
- Gryph - AI Coding Agent Observability: Gryph - AI Coding Agent Observability
- Event-Driven Systems, Without the Outbox: A Postgres-Native Approach - Event-Driven Systems, Without the Outbox: A Postgres-Native Approach
- How would you break it? ft. NCMC card - How would you break it? ft. NCMC cards
- Taksa Factory OS: Building an Open Source Operating System for Manufacturing - Taksa Factory OS: Building an Open Source Operating System for Manufacturing.
Retrospective on March 28th meetup
Some stats:
- Number of RSVP’s: ~80. Attended: ~35
- Number of talk proposals: 12, Approved: 7 (5 full talks, 2 lightning talks)
- Planned meetup time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Actual: 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- Expense: Rs. 1200 - tea + biscuits
The Good
- The unconference session - while proposing it, we were unsure how the session will go, but it turned out well. The mike was passed from one person to another person where each person shared where they need help and people came forward to help them.
- For example, there was a job seeker who mentioned he was looking for job on distributed computing and there was another person in the group who was hiring. Similarly, one person was looking to hire SDE-2 while there was a college grad looking for opening. It’s nice to see the meetup venues being a place for people to connect and help each other.
- There was also a discussion on how open-source as we know might be dead and that it’s time to start thinking about it.
- Awesome posters by @Ganeshaaa and @justsaumit who hosted the event. Timely posts on socials by @Yashi_srivastava and thanks to all other volunteers who helped organize the event.
- Needless to say, great talks by all speakers from AI observability to using open-source for language archiving.
The Bad
- Start of the event, there were ~35 people. After break ~30. Then, toward the end ~20. Many people missed the unconference session and later talks. We hope to make the meetup more valuable to the audience and the speakers for the time they give to the FOSSUnited community.
- Some talks went over the time and the meetup become too long - we hope to avoid this next time by having less talks (max 6).
Next meetup date: April 26th, 2pm - 5pm, Sunday. CFP is open for it now: April meetup CFP
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