Updates - Jan 2024
FOSS Meetups & CityFOSS Conference:
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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.
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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.
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Industry Partnerships
- Updates with respect to Industry Partnerships are listed here
- I am in conversation with 1mg for a potential partnership.
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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.
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Event Grants:
- Event grants were provided to Techacks 4.0 and FOSSMeet’24
- The hackathon grants page is updated.
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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.
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Mon School
- Course Kickstart session was conducted by Hamdaan
- 3 courses currently are currently being reviewed.
- Python Intermediate - @ansh
- Linux Command Line Basics - @Arya_Kiran
- Introduction To Relational Databases Using Postgres - @Arya_Kiran
- Further updates were shared on FOSSUnited - Internal Meet Summary - #3 by wisharya