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.
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.
Multiple people over the past few months have expressed interest in reviving the community calls, including from the members of the Governing Board.
We’ll wrap up the year with a community call on the 24th of December, from 7 PM to 8:30 PM. Please join us at Jitsi Meet if you’re available and interested in discussing anything and everything FOSS-related.
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Here’s an ICS file masquerading as a docx file because discourse - event.ics.docx (492 Bytes) if you’re not able to use the “Add to Calendar” hyperlink when you hover over the datetime link above.
6 folks showed up at the community call yesterday - apart from @ansh and I, @mrugesh , @Shree_Kumar , satyakam goswami, and moksh joined the call.
Apart from chitchat at the beginning of the call, we focused on the rupee fund. @mrugesh shared updates that a few volunteers, including @Shree_Kumar , are working on. From the Foundation, my responsibility before the next community call will be to talk to our accountants about the best way forward to receive donations
is it best to create a new bank account to accept the donations?
what will the compliance/reporting overhead be once we start accepting donations
After a conversion about the ten rupee fund, @mrugesh asked if foss united would like to look into the problem of spammy student contributions. He suggested potentially creating a text or video guide that could be popularised to guide indian students appropriately. @Shree_Kumar asked how big this problem was and we referred to the hundreds (thousands) of spammy PRs that the express js project receives regularly. @Shree_Kumar played devils advocate, noting that this is a systematic issue, with focus on checklists and metrics. I brought up an experiment that I’ve run a few times - digitising the college curriculum for the students. Student in kerala was going such work, which inspired me to run git/github workshops to students which centered around creating a digital curriculum. The project is a simple github static site rendered from markdown content. CI/CD is setup to build and deploy the static site for every PR push on GitHub. The students are taught to practice git and github by creating markdown files containing course/curriculum information. @mrugesh thought the idea was interesting. Follow up task for me is to write up this experiment + create the guide.
Towards the end of the call, moksh introduced himsef and asked satya his experience in the open source communities over the past two decades. He recommended the following resources for people interested
