FOSS United Chennai - May 2025 FSF 40 Meetup

This thread covers information regarding the upcoming May 2025 meetup of FOSS United Chennai as a part of FSF 40th year anniversary.

Event details

Date - 24 May, 2025
Venue - TBD
Timings - 10 AM - 5 PM

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We are planning to collaborate with Free Software Foundation for this event.

Event Agenda

  1. Opening keynote address - a virtual addressal by a Free Software Foundation staff - 20 minutes
  2. Talk on history and adoption of free software in India - 25 minutes
  3. Panel Discussion - challenges in growth of FOSS ecosystem in India - 45 minutes
  4. 2 x Workshop - each 50 minutes, happening in a suitable venue spot apart from the talks.
  5. 2 x Talk - 25 minutes
  6. 2 x Lightning Talk - each 15 minutes
  7. Networking and Project exhibition - upto 5 stalls for community or individual projects - in parallel to ending address
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The event aims to commemorate FSF’s 40th year anniversary by focusing on meta discussions related to FOSS, especially in India while also providing an interactive, hands-on engagement to the participants regarding free software usage and supporting community driven projects by exhibits.

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Due to the constraints of conducting an event in May, we are planning on conducting a 4 hour long workshop by having a “Call for Workshops” that would allow FOSS enthusiasts to conduct workshop related to FOSS.

Please check this thread for more information.

Event agenda

  • 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM: - Keynote address by FSF staff regarding FOSS
  • 2:20 PM - 6:00 PM: - Workshop with networking break for 45 minutes

I am interested to deliver a workshop on “tcpdump”. Help incase - the tool helps for the event.
I wanted to know the location of the event - to plan accordingly and get enrolled.
tcpdump-data-documentation-1.pdf (2.0 MB)

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Hey Guhan, It would be good to have the proposal aligned with the structure that is mentioned below. Thanks

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Hi, actually i want to attend this event as an visitor so i can gain some insights regarding foss, fsf am not conducting any workshop.

Whats the procedure to attend this event, where to register for this event as a visitor, please share any link for visitor registration if any.

Thank you

you can register here : FSF 40 Event

Thank you, am in waiting list, lets catch up there if am accepted.