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Notes on building developer communities, open-source maintenance, and DevOps. Community posts live on blogs.elixpo.com; deeper Pollinations engineering write-ups on Substack.
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2 Nov 2025
A Tricolor Across LixBlogs
Adapting the Indian Tricolor across a thematic representation on our blogging platform
2 Nov 2025
Running a 290-Person Hacktoberfest Meetup
The logistics, the sponsors, and the contributor-first format behind Kolkata's biggest Hacktoberfest - and what we'd do differently next time.
20 Jan 2026
A First-Timer's Guide to Landing Your First Open-Source Contribution
What we teach students at GDG on Campus before their first PR - finding good-first-issues, reading a codebase, and writing a contribution maintainers actually merge.
10 Mar 2026
Building a Campus Developer Community From Zero
Two years of running GDG on Campus at JIS University - how we went from empty rooms to a recurring contributor pipeline.