Jan - March 2024 Plan for Vishal Arya & Ansh Arora

Organisation
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Updates - Feb 2024

FOSS Meetups & CityFOSS Conference:

  • City volunteers have signed up on the new platform and have created their FOSS profiles. The tech team will soon assign relevant roles and onboard them to respective city portals.
    Announcing FOSS United Platform

FOSS meetups:

  • Meetups organised in Shimoga, Nagpur, Dehradun and Mangalore over the previous and this month.
  • We are in discussions with folks at Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Bhopal for organising FOSS meetups.
  • We also kickstarted the Hyderabad community again, and have a couple of new faces volunteering at our meetups. We are considering exploring a similar model as Pune here, and will get on a call with the volunteers to plan upcoming events, and also discuss if there are plans for a cityFOSS conference.

CityFOSS conferences

  • PuneFOSS was conducted on 23rd of February. The team has decided to do regular conference style events instead of monthly meetups, since that seems to work better.
    PuneFOSS 2.1 Planning
  • DelhiFOSS, ChennaiFOSS and MumbaiFOSS scheduled for 9th March, 6th April and 27th April respectively.
  • DelhiFOSS - Schedule is final, we are almost sold out for the event.
  • ChennaiFOSS - Registrations and CFPs are now open.
  • MumbaiFOSS - The tech team decided to move the event to the new platform, we have taken down the old webpage and will now be running registrations for the conference on the new platform once it’s live.
  • KochiFOSS will be held after IndiaFOSS, towards late 2024.

FOSS Clubs:

  • Second episode of FOSS 101 is live.
  • Plannings for FOSS hack local editions are underway, we’ll discuss more on this in this month’s club community call.
  • STIST, one of our club campus’s has a techfest this month. @wisharya will also be giving a talk at the event.

FOSS Hack and IndiaFOSS

  • FOSS Hack planning will start this month. FOSShack is planned for July 27-28, 2024.
  • IndiaFOSS may be moved by a week to September 7-8, due to unavailability of NIMHANS convention center throughout September and October. More details to follow once we receive an official confirmation.
  • We’ve reached out to some of our active volunteers to start drafting a roadmap for both events. These volunteers will be leading certain workgroups later on.
  • IndiaFOSS 4.0 - Suggestions thread

Industry Partnerships

  • Partnership deck is live and applications are open. More details here
  • We have received interest regarding partnerships from Plane, SAP, Hasura.

Finance / Accounting:

  • Budget is under internal review.
  • @Alagammai is helping us with budget tracking and finances for our cityFOSS conferences.

Event Grants

  • No grants given since last update. We are however in talks with UbuCon asia regarding a sponsorship.

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