Vishal Arya

Program Director, FOSS United

📍 Bangalore http://wisharya.com

4 years at FOSS United

Today marks my four-year anniversary since joining the FOSS United Foundation. Looking back, when I first got involved in community building during my sophomore year in college in 2017, I had no idea I’d end up being part of something as impactful as FOSS United. This organization is playing

Can We Eradicate Poverty Through FOSS?

Let me try to explain poverty, FOSS and its current state in India before I share my thoughts on the original question. Poverty Hunger, malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion, and a lack of participation in decision-making are symptoms of poverty. According to

Introducing FOSS for भारत

FOSS for भारत will focus on exploring Free and Open Source Software from an economic perspective, reflecting my growing knowledge in this area.

My experiment with an online hackathon

I discovered the idea of organizing an online hackathon. So what was the problem with the physical/offline hackathon? In a physical hackathon, we have a limited number of seats, talking about a hackathon in Kerala, generally, the attendance used to be nearby 120 plus-minus 20. So the problem is

How I attended the first hackathon of my life?

April 2017 I was scrolling the long list messages of Innovaden whatsapp group, then suddenly I saw a message it was like “100% discount coupon for Angelhack Kochi”, I copy that code and directly enter to the ticket link and brought 5 tickets without making any team because the last

What stops me ?

I was volunteering Facebook build day on last saturday which was organised by facebook developers circles: kochi and around 25 hackers reached there at the venue at Baker academy for science and engineering. I metYadev Jayachandran there, he designs logos and posters So I asked him about some helpful tools

Women's Day 2018

Better later than never, here is a report of the first Women Development meet-up at CUSAT, that took place on 6 March 2018 The meetup venue was splendid, in the Seminar Hall of the School of Engineering, CUSAT. The meet-up was hosted by Pehia and IT association of CUSAT. The