Shining a light on Pune’s FOSS communities

As WordCamp Pune is only 2 weeks away, we wanted to shine some light on the open-source friendly places and communities around Pune.

First we want to do a shoutout to Pune WordPress Knowledge Exchange. 

The meetup group behind this WordCamp, we love spreading the word about WordPress as a publishing platform.

Here are some other open source friendly communities around the city of Pune.

• Mozilla Pune – While mozilla is more famously known for its browser, these group of individuals looks into various aspects such as privacy, security, javascript, scalable apps. , front-end and back-end development using foss tools.

• Pune Developer’s Community – Pune Developer’s Society shares technical knowledge about various FOSS tools .

• PythonPune – While there are more than a few groups on and about Python, this is one of the larger communities.

• Reserved-bit hackerspace – It’s a hackerspace so deals in both free software, especially linux kernel meetups, sometimes meetups on gcc or ulibc and has a place where people could hack on electronics using Arduino or Raspberry Pi, beagleboard etc.

• ReactJS and Friends – While there are at the very least 3-4 groups or more about Javascript Technologies on meetup.com.

• Pune Debian Users Group – The group is aimed at people who want to contribute to the Debian Operating System.

• Technowise – The meetup topics are varied and interesting and touches on many interesting and varied foss technologies

• Pune Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning Online – They usually do webinars which means remote streaming so people can learn about H2o.ai an open-source platform about AI and Deep learning to develop products on.

• Agile Testing Alliance – Pune Chapter – While strictly not a foss platform, Agile testing is a methodology increasingly used by many FOSS developers and FOSS teams to give more value to businesses and business solutions. Most of the workshops are around FOSS products .

I am sure there are more and drop them in your comments.