Asia Monthly Meetups

The monthly meetups are text-based gathering with featured guests that bring together folks from the Asia region to share, connect, seek help, and release stress by celebrating each other. In addition, it's a time for us to find ways to support each other, and help us understand what is happening in our part of the world. If you cannot attend the monthly meetups, we are taking notes of each gathering and linking to them below.

The Asian community is connected during the week in different ways. Either through various Asia-focused channels on the IFF Mattermost or via different events organized on various topics during the year.

Next Event

Date: Wednesday, June 28th

Time: 3:30pm IST/ 4:30pm MMT/ 6pm CST / 6am EDT / 10am UTC

Who: Facilitated by Astha

Where: Text-based format on the Asia Regional Channel, on the IFF Mattermost.

Don't have an account to the IFF Mattermost? you can request one following the directions here.

Agenda:

STF: Supporting Public FOSS Infrastructure. STF is a newly created public fund in Germany to support digital critical infrastructure. It supports Free and Open Source components that many people rely on, but are maintained by a few. Tara will present the story of how the STF came about, and its mission, and the opportunities it provides to people interested in maintaining critical public digital infrastructures. Tara is a technologist working on designing support models and mobilizing resources to encourage, sustain and maintain the FOSS ecosystem infrastructure with the Sovereign Tech Fund. They have helped manage and incubate core infrastructure FOSS projects providing access to and security on online, led advocacy campaigns against online censorship and spreading a culture of online safety, and worked on research mapping internet infrastructure, legislation, control and policy.