FOSS United Community Calls - 2025

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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

I added Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

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