Growing India's FOSS Community

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A volunteer-run foundation called First United organizes meetups in five cities and city-level FOSS conferences in 14 locations, runs 55+ events with 7500+ members and 100+ volunteers, and has issued 13 grants to sustain projects. It launches MonSchool courses with up to ₹1 lakh creator grants, runs a 12-week public policy scholarship, operates a FOSS job portal, and stages an annual hackathon (first offline edition in Bangalore) offering up to 10 lakh rupees prize to help winners continue maintenance.

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1. 0:00Introduction and energy check
2. 1:56What is FOSS beyond software
3. 3:00FOSS United’s three goals
4. 4:25Promoting hacking and tinkering
5. 6:30City FOSS conferences
6. 7:12FOSS Hackathon initiative
7. 7:52Supporting quality FOSS projects
8. 8:57Expanding FOSS beyond tech
9. 10:01FOSS United community stats
10. 12:33FOSS for students
11. 13:16How to get involved

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