The open source crowd in Pondicherry is small but recent. FOSS United started a Pondicherry city chapter in early 2025, and its meetups have been held at a coworking space in town, with talks and casual project sharing. For someone taking live online classes from Puducherry, a group like this fills a real gap.
You can bring a script or a small tool you built during the course, show it to people who write code for a living, and get blunt comments on it. Volunteering to help run a meetup is another easy way in, since small chapters always need hands and the organisers tend to know who is hiring locally. If you want bigger events, Chennai is close enough for a day trip when a conference comes up.
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