# IndiaFOSS 2026 - Planning

**URL:** <https://forum.fossunited.org/t/indiafoss-2026-planning/7055>\
**Category:** IndiaFOSS 2026\
**Created:** [15 January 2026 13:44 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/indiafoss-2026-planning/7055 "2026-01-15T13:44:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ansh](https://forum.fossunited.org/user_avatar/forum.fossunited.org/ansh/32/1423_2.png) [@ansh](https://forum.fossunited.org/u/ansh)\
**Post date:** [19 January 2026 10:19 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/indiafoss-2026-planning/7055/3 "2026-01-19T10:19:29Z")

</div>

### Notes from the IndiaFOSS 2026 BoF at MangaloreFOSS

**Attendees** : @ashlesh @Jeswin @ansh @shadow @knadh @Vishnu_Sudhakaran @Vinay\_Kumar @rahulporuri @PrashanthUdupa @Corpo-Rate_Kumar Deepa, Preeti, Advay, Luffy

**Agenda** - Discussing feedback from IndiaFOSS 2025 and ideas for the next edition

- We should do a lot more workshops and pre-events. IndiaFOSS should be a lot more do-oriented
- We should create pathways for people to directly get involved in the FOSS ecosystem. The [curriculum project](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/making-college-curricula-accessible/6949), mapping parties etc. are good avenues.
- We also need to start participating and organising activities in cultural/city-wide events like BLR Hubba.
- We should put out a call for communities that want to get involved. We can provide them with venues and resources to conduct their own events around IndiaFOSS (as fiscal hosts, sponsors)
- The entire week of IndiaFOSS could have themes with certain events happening around then. (Design, Documentation, etc.)
- We want to make the best possible use of the venue. How can we add more booths, for example?
- We will use the space outside the venue by putting up a tent.
- We will likely have more sponsors this year, so the sponsor booth size needs to be adjusted accordingly.
- Prashanth suggested to organise a “Teens in IndiaFOSS” pre-event/track.

**Conversation on expanding IndiaFOSS** (future editions)

- What does it mean to “grow IndiaFOSS”?
  - Bringing in more people? (5k,10k,20k)
  - Or expanding the reach of the ~~conference~~ festival to more communities, and over a longer period of time?

- There was a discussion how bringing in more people to the conference might lead us to lose the “close knit” feeling that the event provides. Everyone agreed that it is better to
  - Instead expand the festival to more days - “India FOSS week”
  - Enable more (non technical) communities to organise FOSS/digital commons activities - FOSS in film, FOSS in design, FOSS in Science, etc.

- IndiaFOSS (or India FOSS week/month) should be tens of FOSS events that happen all over the country. The conference itself could just become BangaloreFOSS
- What parts of IndiaFOSS do we want to expand on?
  - More booths
  - More pre-events
  - More devrooms
  - Better workshops

- How do we engage avg citizens to care about this? _Tap into the cultures_ to propagate FOSS.
- There’s a lot other communities can borrow from our experience of running communities. We should explore creating a conf.conf like forum for India.
- A small discussion on Commons and FOSS
  - A point was raised as to how using a term which only technical people understand alienates a lot of others. We discussed if we could instead use terms like commons. Everyone agreed that for a lot of these activities it’s more about the messaging than the terminology. For eg. A screen writing workshop using Scrite is a FOSS activity.

**Sponsorships**

- We’ll work on the sponsorship deck next, and start reachouts by Feb end.
- FOSS pledge and other integrations for IndiaFOSS sponsors/partners.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/indiafoss-2026-planning/7055)._