Houston Open Source Society
Building a vibrant open source community in Houston, Texas through collaboration, education, and civic engagement.
Welcome to HOSS
The Houston Open Source Society (HOSS) is a society dedicated to promoting open source software education, development, and support. We profess collaborative coding practices, user-ownership of data and software, and digital civic engagement in the Houston metropolitan area.
Our society is always flat, and free. We're a voluntary community organization that functions as a democratic egalitarian collective. Money never exchanges hands. We're not a profit-corporaiton nor a 501(c)(3) non-profit, we're just a bunch of Houstonians from all walks of life.
We meet every Wednesday of the month at different locations around Houston. Each meeting features talks and discussions about open source projects, and technologies. We also host collaborative coding sessions, and classes, and opportunities to contribute to important civic technology initiatives.
Hacker, programmer, student or tech enthusiast? Check us out!
What We Do
Join us every Wednesday for classes, talks, discussions, coding sessions, and community building
- Talks
- Share knowledge, come give a lighning talk about technology you're interested in.
- Classes
- Want to learn about software, or how to make it? We have classes at all levels from how to write simple scripts that manipulate spreadsheets, to software development and detailed forays into kernel design.
- Open Source Development
- Collaborate on projects and learn best practices for open source contribution. We teach you how to exist with software you own and how to retain ownership of your data.
- Civic Technology
- Learn and assist in local efforts to contribute to OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia Commons. Our organization plays a major role in digitizing Houston for all.
- Community Building
- Foster connections between developers, designers, and technology enthusiasts
Join Our Community
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Next Meeting
Our meetings rotate to different locations each week of the month. Check our Meetings by Week section to find details about the current week's meeting location and agenda.