RFC: The Ten Rupee FOSS fund

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We had a fun(d) volunteer meeting :grinning: at 9 PM over Jitsi. Attended by @khitab and @mrugesh . We’ll be meeting every week for regular chit chat.

Overall discussion:

  1. We will take up things like administrative aspects (e.g. account setup) in the next FOSS united community meeting with the staff. Shree will own this.
  2. Between @mrugesh and @khitab we have the web and the payments covered. Plan is to build a mockup and get feedback from people.
  3. We are not setting a timeline right now to launch the fund. Instead, we check weekly progress
  4. The objective of the fund is to “involve” more people. Hope is that over time, a larger number of people involved can yield better outcomes
  5. Should the minimum be 1 or 10 was discussed. Sticking with 1 right now. Idea is that every project dev/student/pro can afford this. It’s a binary thing. We are trying to see how many people resonate this idea - rather than collecting a lot of money.
  6. There are various technical TODOs - e.g. razorpay payments, support for recurrent payments, using the API to get stats etc. These will get resolved.
  7. Planning to have a separate domain for rupee fund. Simple page with clear messaging.

Minutes doesn’t cover everything we discussed in 50 minutes we spent together. Among the most fun parts was @mrugesh saying we’ll give a talk at IndiaFOSS 2026. I was joking that If we don’t get enough people by then then slide 2 will be UPI barcode of fund :rofl:

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I would also like to participate in this, @Shree_Kumar. Could you add me as a volunteer, too? Even if I couldn’t join all calls, I will see if I can do my part here.

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We’re planning to hop onto the next community call (tentatively 22nd dec). See if you can join that ? Others are joining… I’ll remember to rope you into the next meet too.

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@Bowrna_Prabhakaran the community call has been setup for tomorrow. I’m hoping you’d be around. FOSS United Community Calls - 2025 - #6 by rahulporuri

I will just be almost at the end of one leg of my travel and hopefully will join! After this call, we will have clarity on what are the actionable steps and then we’ll probably make progress after the vacations :slight_smile:

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Update after community call on 24th Dec, 2025:

  • I and Shree were able to meet Rahul and Ansh from the foundation along with other community members for a productive discussion.
  • Current Action Item: Rahul has agreed to get back to us with the information on the dedicated account after he gets a chance to speak to the team. We will have the details latest by next community call.
  • Meanwhile we (rest of the TRF volunteers) could meet, hopefully once Shree is more available to go over the excellent designs that Khitab has already has.
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