Bangalore (officially Bengaluru) is the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka, known as the “Silicon Valley of India” as the nation’s leading software exporter and a major semiconductor hub.

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Beijing is the capital of the People’s Republic of China, and one of the world’s leading centers for culture, diplomacy, business, education, and science and technology.

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Budapest, Hungary’s financial center, is an Alpha global city with strengths in commerce, finance, media, art, research, technology, and education.

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Florianópolis is the capital of the state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil, and a growing hub for the regional open source community.

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Hangzhou is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay between Shanghai and Ningbo.

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Indore is a city in west-central India, repeatedly ranked as India’s cleanest city in the Swachh Survekshan surveys.

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ALC Islamabad was approved in September 2026 and is getting started with organizing its first meetups in the Islamabad open source community.

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Lagos is a major African financial centre, the economic hub of Nigeria, and among the world’s ten fastest-growing cities and urban areas.

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Shanghai is one of the world’s major centers for finance, business, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, tourism, and culture.

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Shenzhen is a major sub-provincial city and one of China’s special economic zones — a global center for technology, research, manufacturing, finance, and transportation, home to the world’s fourth-busiest container port.

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Taipei is the capital of Taiwan and the home of a vibrant, active open source community.

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Warsaw is the capital of Poland, an alpha global city and a significant cultural, political, and economic hub; its historic old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Xi’an is the capital of Shaanxi Province, a subprovincial city on the Guanzhong Plain and the most populous city in Northwest China.

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ALC Ghana is a proposed chapter put forward in August 2026, with Rich Bowen mentoring. The proposal aims to bring open source mentorship, technical workshops, and collaboration with local universities and tech communities to the region. As of early October 2026 it was moving toward approval on the ComDev list but had not been formally finalized.

See the proposal thread on dev@community for details. To reach the organizers, email dev@community.apache.org with [ALC] in the subject line.