FOSS United Community Calls - 2025

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Minutes of the meeting

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.

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