IndiaFOSS 2026 - Planning

Weekly Call
March 25th, 2026

Attendees - @Shree_Kumar @James_Reilly @rahulporuri @ansh @Siddharth_Shivkumar

Sponsorship

  1. The sponsorship brochure needs to have details about Devrooms and Maintainer Summit
  2. Plan to include custom sponsorship tiers (coffee, meals, etc.)
  3. Ansh and Rahul are in Bengaluru this week and are already pitching IndiaFOSS to companies/folks they meet

A/V and Photography

  1. A/V vendors in the past editions of IndiaFOSS have been a pain to work with and have not fulfilled all their obligations. Looking for a different vendor this time and even looking for community member for videography, photography and social media management for the event

Proposals

  1. Team is aiming to make call for proposals and booths live this week
  2. Call for Devrooms for IndiaFOSS 2026 is out

Budget Changes

  1. A/V - Looking for better vendors
  2. Food - Spending more on it to make it a better spread this time
  3. Day 0 (details below)

Day 0

  1. Similar to last year, we are planning to run a Day 0 of events.
  2. We are going to book NIMHANS completely for Day 0 to host events and also have that space for conference setup to avoid last minute rush.
  3. Wifi will be needed for Day 0
  4. Day 0 will have workshops, talks and summits like the last time. More details later.
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