Continue outreach towards organisations that work with people from underrepresented communities.
Open applications will also have the option to recommmend organisations/individuals who should be part of the program.
Do not restrict the scholarship amount to a certain number (1500rs last year), it restricts people who are far away from Bangalore to be able to attend.
We can have a field for them to mention the amount they may require to be able to comfortably attend the confernece, and the approvals can be done depending on amount raised.
Efforts that go into accommodating diversity scholars should be considered under the costs for diversity scholarships. ( for example @rahulporuri suggested if we can have people from institutions for people with hearing problems at the conference, that may require hiring an interpreter)
Volunteers can catch up with the scholars a day before, and walk them through the various activities happening at IndiaFOSS. (we should however be vary of not invading their personal space - Consent could be taken as part of the application, if they would like to be part of this âexperienceâ we create for them)
Focus on reaching out to people from northern and eastern parts of India, since we have less participants from those regions at the conference.
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Vishal to open the donation page for Diversity Scholarships.
Volunteers will start looking for and reaching out to potential organisations/individuals that can be part of the program.
We are now 5 weeks away from IndiaFOSS. This year, we are expecting 1500+ participants at the conference. You can check for more live stats of the conference here - IndiaFOSS 2024 Live Stats
The talk proposal reviews are currently ongoing and we expect the schedule to be live in 1-2 weeks. If you have submitted a talk/workshop proposal, please expect to hear back soon.
This year, we have onboarded 5 sponsors (with 2 sponsorships yet to close) in addition to the Industry Partners who support us year round.
Here are a few activities that you can still participate in -
You can currently propose Panel Discussions, Birds of a Feather sessions, Workshops at the event. These sessions run parallely at the conference with the talks happening on day 1, and as part of an un-conference on day 2.
If you are a FOSS organisation, or maintain an OSS project that you would like to showcase to the community, please also consider applying for a project showcase/community table. This is a good way to get a lot of eyeballs at the event!
Please feel free to reach out to us at indiafoss@fossunited.org for any questions.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the conference.
⢠Community outreach: In conversations with community partners, updates and rejections to be sent out: 13 accepted, 19 maybe, 10 rejected
⢠Design + Livestream: Streaming resolution and specific discussions underway
⢠Speaker designs, livestream transitions, and nitty gritties underway, coordination between design team and livestream team is smooth.
⢠CFP reviews underway, Round 1 rejections complete, round 2 underway for the next week
⢠FAQs underway:@KaranGandhi will complete before the next sync.
⢠Speaker management: Volunteers will should email the speakers, get contact details and be able to directly connect to speakers on the day of conference to ensure smooth communication.
@wisharya that is quite informative. Request you to edit the budget stuff if possible and use commas so that itâs easier to read lakhs. Monospace would help too
Also quick suggestion for IndiaFOSS 2025 - you could consider introducing the Contributor Ticket at the same time as early bird - or maybe even earlier.
