Official Announcements

We will publish a new version of website within the next 48 hours which will list

• The last 100 messages in <#497217746195578892>
• The last 100 messages in <#575155179846893568>
• The Discord name of all the people tagged with <@&1207078846508310558> or <@&1207079243062710343>
• Your roles on your profile page, if you have one (with the exclusion of vice-alcohol, and vice-hookah.)

All this information comes from the public Discord REST API. So we would hope no one would care. This is only precautionary. The idea here is to

1. Show more content on the website.
2. To reward active users.
3. To provide more insight into the Discord activity which I hope gets more people to actually join us here too. 😉

I would like to soon feature the last 10 people that messaged, the 10 most active people, the 10 newest people with each new publication of the website. I do not intend to "annouce" every iteration of the website. If you have privacy concerns about the publicly available data in the Discord REST API (which is only what other people on the server already have access to) then please express that concern in <#497217746195578892> so we can evaluate it.

And if you want a job or you're looking to establish a more public presence come out twice to HOSS and get a free profile showing off that you're an active member of the community.

Tomorrow is the last HOSS meet in November! The 26th is cancelled for Thanksgiving (Bayland Community Center is closed). If you're interested in doing a lightning talk, post it up in <#1412833719579971665> if you want me to advertise it. Tomorrow,

• <@337903108753457152> will presenting "AI CAD Automation Using MCP"
• I'll be doing a talk tomorrow on the Discord API, and interfacing with Discord, and new website functionality!
• I may also do subsequent talk on scraping websites with Rust!

RSVP here https://discord.com/events/497217746195578890/1417550229569540177/1440854153625600000

If you're looking for something to do, Houston Arcade Expo is this weekend. https://houstonarcadeexpo.ticketspice.com/houston-arcade-expo-2025

@everyone Tonight is HOSS! Hope to see everyone out at the Bayland Community Center. https://discord.com/events/497217746195578890/1417583181946683532 And this weekend is the Houston Arcade Expo. Let's keep both HOSS and the Houston Arcade Expo growing, and hopefully next year, we'll be big enough to give away free tix. And the'll be big enough to send us them. 🙂 Thanks to <@265218103896440832> for reminding us to give them a shoutout. We encourage that.

Did you miss HOSS's AI Day last Wednesday? If so, that sucks and you should seriously reconsider your life choices. But here are some pictures to rub it in. https://houstonopensourcesociety.com/events/ai-day/2025-11-05/ It was glorious. Awesome. Henceforth, we'll be doing it once every quarter.

Got a talk idea for Wednesday? Drop the mention of it in <#497217746195578892> and let me advertise it! Also, if you haven't liked our Facebook Page, LinkedIn, and adopted the HOSS tag get with it! You can find the social links at the top of our AWESOME website. Help us grow, it's much appreciated. We are all HOSS.

@everyone HOSS Meeting in the Heights?!?! A top priority for the group is serving other communities. We're currently only in two. <@271137716056358912> will be spearheading up the initiative to land us a meetup in the Heights. This is a a team effort! I invite everyone from the Heights to join us in this process, and to give a <@271137716056358912> a round of applause for standing up to the plate. HATS OFF. Find more information in <#1436384650925969519>

@everyone We now have a community page on LinkedIn! If you have a LinkedIn, follow the page with haste as if God himself was watching! https://www.linkedin.com/company/houston-open-source-society All future announcements on LinkedIn will come from that and be shared by me. Thanks ya'll.

@everyone Today is AI Day. RSVP here: https://discord.com/events/497217746195578890/1402556557526568990/1435780723507200000

Find more information about today's event on our website, https://houstonopensourcesociety.com/events/ai-day/

Got some amazing news.

1. This Wedenesday we're hosting AI Day at Improving where we'll be talking about the intersection of AI and Open Source technology. You can find our event page at https://houstonopensourcesociety.com/events/ai-day/
2. The website is now at version v1.0.0. I encourage everyone to check it out. https://houstonopensourcesociety.com/ Really interested in suggestions, or any spelling/grammar mistakes. Feel free to open a pull request.

• If you've been out two meetings of HOSS you're eligable to open a pull request to add yourself as a member! This is a great way to show your presence in the community. For more information, see this document https://codeberg.org/houston-open-source-society/website/src/branch/main/docs/MEMBERSHIP.md
• We invite everyone that's doing a talk to announce it on the website. Again, another really good way to market yourself.