This thread contains information about the monthly community calls conducted by the FOSS United volunteers.
The idea behind these calls is to sit together and get updates from city chapters with regards to monthly meetups, give updates on various FOSS United events ( CityFOSS conferences, FOSS Hack, IndiaFOSS), and open discussion with respect to various FOSS United initiatives.
While we expect at least one volunteer from each of our city Chapters to be present, the calls are open to everyone in the community.
Please drop me an email at ansh@fossunited.org if you would like to be sent a calendar invite for these recurring calls
The first community call of the year will be held on the 6th of January 2024, from 11AM - 12PM.
The agenda is for the city chapter volunteers to give updates from their end on December and the upcoming January meetups, CityFOSS 2.0 Plannings.
Date - Saturday, 10 Feb, 2024
Time- 11 AM -12 PM
Link - Jitsi Meet
Agenda: Updates on City meetups and cityFOSS conferences, Plans for FOSS Hack and IndiaFOSS 4.0, New platform release related and onboarding related announcements.
The tech team will schedule onboarding calls for city volunteers to onboard them to platform.
FOSS United will be present at FOSSASIA '24 at Vietnam. Vishal will be giving a talk on “Strengthening India’s FOSS Community” and we’ll have a community booth at the event.
We are getting equipment and looking for volunteers for our media initiatives. Editing out short clips, interviews etc.
The Commit Company will be sponsoring PuneFOSS, MumbaiFOSS and ChennaiFOSS.
Because of falling attendance in the community calls (and major events like FOSSHack and IndiaFOSS close by), we had stopped hosting community calls.
After follow-ups from various city volunteers we are happy to announce that we will be restarting FOSS United Community calls for city chapters starting November.
The agenda of these calls is for community members, volunteers and the foundation team to sit together and share updates from meetups, any potential blockers you are facing/help you need (finding venues,speakers etc.) and feedback/suggestions for community events.
While we expect at least one volunteer from each of our city Chapters to be present, the calls are open to everyone in the community.
Please choose a convenient time slot for the community calls. If none of the mentioned slots work for you, please reply to this thread with one.
Since there are city meetups happpening on 9th,23rd (and most likely 30th as well), the November community call will be held on 16th November, Saturday from 11AM-12PM
Meeting link - Jitsi Meet
Please ensure at least one person from each city community is present in the call.
Please email me at ansh@fossunited.org if you’d like to get a calendar invite for the call.
we got lucky with the venue. The venue was spacious, was happy to sponsor snacks and hot beverages. And a few people from the venue joined and made for lively sessions
one of the speakers dropped out so we ended up with 4 sessions instead of 5 - which made for a very comfortable meetup overall instead of feeling rushed
at the last minute, we decided to attempt live streaming. The process is as follows
We created a jitsi meet
asked all of the speakers to join the meet
Asked all speakers to mute their computers
Only the current speaker enables their microphone. Everyone else keeps their microphone off
Only the current speaker shares their screen
We created a youtube live video - there will be a unique key for the stream
We gave jitsi permission to access the fossunited youtube account (this seems to need someone from the foundation setting up the stream) and entered the RTSP key
all done*
Big caveat is that the live stream had a low bitrate because we’re using meet.jit.si which seems to have bandwidth constraints. The livestream was still pretty good though. The bigger issue was that the stream just stopped from time to time so someone needed to constantly keep an eye on the stream and ensure that they re-start the jitsi livestream if necessary. This happened atleast 3-4 times if i remember correctly.
One of the problems at the venue this time was that their guest wifi was undergoing maintenance so the speakers had to use their own hotspots. Not great but not bad either because the hotspot can only used to display slides and audio. Having access to a guest wifi will make life easier next time.
Waiting for the city chapters to finalise dates for December meetups, so we can settle on a date for the community call when most people are available.