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.