Jan - March 2024 Plan for Vishal Arya & Ansh Arora

Organisation
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Updates - Jan 2024

FOSS Meetups & CityFOSS Conference:

  1. The city chapters will be onboarded to the new platform post the release planned in February.

    FOSS meetups :

    • We are in conversation with folks at IIT Guwahati, [Pondicherry] (Starting a FOSS United chapter in Pondicherry) and Belgaum to organise FOSS meetups.
    • A FOSS meetup in Shimoga is planned for this week.
    • If we get a positive response and feedback here, we’ll try to kickstart a FOSS United chapter in the city and host regular events.
    • We are in touch with folks at Chitkara University, Chandigarh to conduct a FOSS meetup in their campus. This was one of the points that came up in our discussions with them regarding sponsoring Techacks 4.0 Hackathon in Punjab

    CityFOSS conferences

    • Planning for MumbaiFOSS 2.0, ChennaiFOSS 2.0 is underway.
    • @wisharya is in touch with his HOD at CUSAT for KochiFOSS 2.0. With some changes in the FOSSmeet schedule that led to a clash with our planned dates for KochiFOSS, we’ve decided to conduct the event after summer break.
    • PuneFOSS 2.0 and DelhiFOSS 2.0 have opened registrations and will be held on on Feb 24 and March 9 respectively.

  2. FOSS Clubs:

    • FOSS 101 was succesfully kickstarted.
    • The next episode is planned for second/third weekend of Feb.
    • All the clubs are enthusiastic about hosting local FOSS Hack editions
    • Activities are being actively documented on respective forum threads.

  3. Industry Partnerships

    • Updates with respect to Industry Partnerships are listed here
    • I am in conversation with 1mg for a potential partnership.

  4. Finance / Accounting:

    • Budget for FY 24-25 will be proposed in Feb first week.
    • @Alagammai has joined us as a shadow for Financing/Accounting at FOSS United. She will be helping with finances for the CityFOSS conferences. We have onboarded her to relevant group chats.

  5. Event Grants:

  6. FOSS Awards:

    • We are updating the nominations page as suggested by the jury members.
    • The timeline and further procedures are to be discussed with the jury. I and @KaranGandhi will get on a call this week to run through the draft plan so far.

  7. Mon School

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