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Growing India's FOSS Ecosystem

FOSS United is a non-profit foundation that aims at promoting & strengthening the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem in India.

India is now a hub of startups, innovative consumer software, developer communities, and large scale technological infrastructure. However, somewhere along the lines, the spirit of FOSS and hacking seems to have been overshadowed. This is illustrated by the disproportionately low number of quality FOSS projects coming out of India given a thriving industry compared to the explosion of projects that has happened globally over the last decade. The foundation aims to provide grassroots support to FOSS projects and events, and evolve into a community-industry collaboration with a diverse group of members and patrons.

GOALS

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To promote the spirit of hacking and tinkering.

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GOALS

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To build quality FOSS for public good.

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GOALS

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To evangelise the use of FOSS in different sectors.

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Upcoming Events
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IIIT Kalyani
05 Feb 2025
FOSS Foundation2.0
IIIT Kalyani (Webel IT )
PUNE
08 Feb 2025
Open Source Security Meetup
One2N office, Aundh, Pune
MUMBAI
08 Feb 2025
FOSS Meetup Mumbai
IDfy, Marol
HYDERABAD
08 Feb 2025
FOSS Meetup Hyderabad
St. Joseph's Extended Campu...
KOLKATA
08 Feb 2025
Kolkata FOSS x Django I...
Technicise Software & Techn...
NASHIK
09 Feb 2025
Foss Nashik Feb Meetup
To Be Announced
MYSORE
15 Feb 2025
FOSS Meetup And Linux I...
B C Lingaiah Hall, Vidyavar...
PONDICHERRY
15 Feb 2025
FOSS meetup Pondicherry
Zemuria Inc., 3rd Floor, Pu...
28 Feb 2025
Devconf.in 2025
MIT World Peace University...
08 Mar 2025
Must Attend
Barcamp Bangalore
Samagata Foundation
CHENNAI
22 Mar 2025
Must Attend
ChennaiFOSS 2025
To Be Announced
PUNE
05 Apr 2025
PuneFOSS 3.0
TBD
Team Member
Hari Prasanth S

Community Fellow

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Ansh Arora

Program and Partnerships Manager

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Harsh Tandiya

Software Developer

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Jeswin Jose

Graphic Designer

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Poruri Sai Rahul

CEO, Director

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Ruchika Bagde

Diversity and Operations Manager

Team Member
Vishal Arya

Program Director

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Industry Partnership

The foundation was started as a collaboration between the teams at Frappe, the publisher of ERPNext, one of the largest FOSS projects out of India, and Zerodha. Currently we have two more partners supporting us, and we invite more organisations to join the movement.

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Get in Touch

Write to us at foundation@fossunited.org or post a message on the forum.

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