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# Developers present at the meeting

- @vik
- @libregeekingkid
- @isaagar
- @anant
- @amardeep
- @dhanesh95
- @unixia


# Introductions

**Vik**

Founder, involved since 2014

*Wishes to*

- Conduct learning from involving and contributing
- have commercial bussiness with FOSS

*Vision*

- Make hardware more accessible and open
- Leverage existing hardware with FOSS
- Fill in the gaps in Indian services
- Redirect Indian powerhouse to build something meaningful with FOSS

*Improvements*

- Outreach in community building
- Leader to fasten up the release cycle
- Dedicated development time from contributors

*Future*

- Stone box to indulge different parts of the country
- Make an Open Source village
- FOSSible will be the parent of Hamara

*TODO*

- Make bold moves, ask people to join Hamara

**Raju**

Major contributor, involved since 2015

*Focussed on*
- Hamara has been quite active in community space
- Hamara has sponsored events
- Developers from Hamara have given talks at various events

**Sagar**

Major contributor, involved since 2016

*Facts*
- One release of Hamara was based on Ubuntu, second on Debian
- Above was the reason it look long for the release

**Anant**

Cool guy, involved since 2014

*Has*
- Managed the entire infrastructure so far!

**Amar**

Yet Another Cool guy, involved since 2014

*Responsible for*
- Setting up things
- Design the initial architecture
- Setup mirrors, repos, etc

**Dhanesh**

DevOps guy, involved since 2 months

*Concerned about*
- Privacy
- Operations


Question: Why did Hamara move from Ubuntu to Debian?
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*Vik*
- Ubuntu's feedback is not ver positive.
- Debian is more community oriented.
- Upstreaming to Debian made more sense.
- Glossing, polishing of Debian is still required.

*Raju*
- Ubuntu won't accept our contributions so easily.

Comments:
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*Shivani*
- Write blogs related to developer activity/project status etc. regularly.
- Guidelines for code commits/merge requests.
- Increase community interaction.