After a long time and on request from various city volunteers, we are bringing back FOSS United Community calls. This thread contains information about the monthly calls conducted by the FOSS United volunteers.
The idea behind these calls is to sit together and share updates, discuss blockers and plan upcoming FOSS United 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. The community calls will be merged with the existing foundation office hours.
Please choose a slot for the community calls
Tuesday 12PM
Tuesday 3PM
Tuesday 9PM
Wednesday 12PM
Wednesday 3PM
Wednesday 9PM
Thursday 12PM
Thursday 3PM
Thursday 6PM
Thursday 9PM
Friday 12PM
Friday 3PM
Friday 6PM
Friday 9PM
Saturday 11AM
0voters
The poll will be closed on April 25th.
Please drop me an email at ansh@fossunited.org if you would like to be sent a calendar invite for these recurring calls
Excluding staff votes, Tuesday and Friday 9PM seem to be the popular choices. We can try both slots alternatively and settle on one depending on turnouts.
The first FOSS United Community Call of 2025 will happen on May 6th, Tuesday at 9 PM.
FOSS United Community Call - May 2025 May 6th, 2025 9-10PM Call link- Jitsi Meet
I’ve created a public google calendar for people to stay updated on all the open calls happening in the FOSS United Community. Please subscribe to this calendar if you’d like to get invites to community calls (and other events like governance discussions).
FOSS United Community Call - May 2025 May 6th, 2025
[sorry for the delay]
This was probably our most well attended community call ever!
Notes -
IndiaFOSS updates by Ansh (tickets, proposals, side events etc.)
Bangalore
Discussed the RSVP spam by students form a particular college at BLR meetups and how to deal with it.
Chennai chapter is facing similar problems (likely from the same institution)
Rahul suggested to deal with the problem at the root (talking to the college directly) instead of creating workarounds to prevent spam. Shree offered to visit the college and talk to them.
Chennai
Shared updates from previous events.
Planning a FSF 40th anniversary meetup.
It’s getting hot so the team is considering changing the meetup timings.
Team wants to set up a check in process at the meetup to ensure only accepted participants attend.
Too many technical events happening during the same weekends. It might be better to collaborate with existing communities to talk about FOSS, because the people are already there.
[request] if some incentives can be provided to people who are active - eg. FOSS product licences as a quiz prize.
** Mumbai**
Wrapped up MumbaiFOSS 2025 and taking a break now.
Can reach out to remiges tech for the meetup venue.
Hyderabad
Facing difficulty finding venues.
Meetup on may 10th.
Delhi
Last meetup was in April. The next one will be planned sometime in June.
Kanpur
Meetup on 17th may.
They are struggling to find speakers.
Ansh suggested to reach out to IIT-K
Rahul suggested to change format of meetups, it doesn’t need to be only talks. Can do devsprints.
FOSS United
Participating in endof10.org campaign. We can organise Linus Installation fests across city chapters.
