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FOSS United Chennai Meetup

#opensource #exploring #linux

FOSS(Free and open source system)

  • Yesterday i attended a my first public meeting,connecting with new likely minded people and networking with them. they talked about many thing but i understand few of the them because they are the pro coders, the meeting was held in "Thoughtworks,Taramani", its a 13 to 14 floor building the meeting held in the 9 floor.

What they talked about?

  • open source community
  • 4 speakers
  • quiz game about open source application

Open source community

  • wholesome community were many people share their thoughts and ideas and their project to build a secure environment, learning from their mistake, sharing the codes, contributing to open source community and raising issues if there was a bug or error.

SPEAKERS

1. First Speaker[Meerthika]

Title : ROOT-SPROUT: Building Systems by Reinventing the Wheel from Scratch

Description : Have you ever wondered how the systems we use every day are built from the ground up?
At Root-Sprout, Our philosophy is simple: to truly understand technology, you must explore the roots — the low-level details — before watching ideas sprout into production-level systems.we are a free, open-source GitHub community where coders learn by building systems from scratch.

The problem: Developers can use high-level systems, but don’t always understand why they work.
At Root-Sprout, we aim to close this gap by:
Rebuilding production-level systems from scratch.
Diving into low-level implementations to expose what’s usually abstracted away.
Making all knowledge and code free and open source — no paywalls, no locked content.
We built our own Kafka, Git and Compiler from Scratch and Made it Open source.[taken from foss united chennai]
GIT : (https://github.com/ROOT-SPROUT)

2. Second speaker[Shane]

Title : Flex Your ENV with {FLOX}

Description : The Problem : Are you stuck in the Dependency hell!!! , Tired!! of Using Docker To ship YOUR machine Environment.
Solution :
I know a tool called flox which will help you by introducing a TERM Called ENVIRONMENT AS CODE (EAC) -- it is a new term {let it be..... }
use this link to install flox in your system https://flox.dev/docs/install-flox/install/

Let's Dive deep
Flox is a package and environment manager that helps developers create and share reproducible development environments. It aims to solve the problem of "dependency hell" and inconsistent setups across different machines and teams.

In here i gonna demonstrate about how flox is effective and how it can enhance your development , in various prescriptive.(https://fossunited.org/c/chennai/2025/august/cfp/52848js83g)
GIT : (https://github.com/patrick1904-s/Foss_Flox)

3. Third Speaker[karthik]

Title : UiGenKit: From Palettes to Patterns css Generators - Faster, Beautiful UIs.

Description :Features:
Neumorphism / soft UI Generator:
Easily generate Soft UI designs, one of the latest trends in web design.
Quickly build trendy Soft UI styles with one-tap CSS copy.

Glassmorphism Generator: One-Tap CSS Copy: Copy the CSS code for any generated design with a single tap on the color.

Background Pattern Generator:Create beautiful, predefined patterns.
Copy CSS instantly or download as images.

Linear Gradient Generator: Craft eye-catching gradients.
One-tap CSS copy and image export.

Color Palette Generators:Custom Palette Creator for full control.
Random Palette Generator for quick inspiration.

Access popular social media color sets.
Features include liking, sorting, and exporting palettes.
GIT : (https://github.com/karthikraji2020/uigenkit)

4. Fourth Speaker[Giri]

Title : VoltQuest : Opensource Educational Game

Description : VoltQuest is FOSS Educational game to make learning of electronics and hardware easier. Its a level based game in which you build simple circuits in a virtual lab through level based game and each level will try to teach about a concept or a electronic component.

The project is in its Early stages and this talk is a dry run for indiafoss 2025. He is a student who created this game.(https://fossunited.org/c/chennai/2025/august/cfp/eb48jof1r7)
GIT : (https://github.com/voltquest/voltquest)

Quiz Answers (open source applications we can use)

  1. UV (https://github.com/sanand0/uv-mega)
  2. Sentry (https://docs.sentry.io/)
  3. Streambit (https://streambit.tv/)
  4. TQDM (https://tqdm.github.io/)
  5. Excalidraw (https://excalidraw.com/)
  6. Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/)
  7. ffmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org/)
  8. Clickhouse (https://clickhouse.com/clickhouse)
  9. curl (https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html)
  10. blender (https://www.blender.org/)

They said extra open source application too

open source application sharing time
Vitune (https://github.com/25huizengek1/ViTune) Spotify alternative
this app will not say you to login or sign in, ads free, its has a great story i will tell you later

If u have any suggestion use the comment section.
bye!!

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