July 2025

FOSS United Monthly.

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Hello FOSS Enthusiast!

Welcome to our monthly newsletter from FOSS United! Your journey into the vibrant world of Free and Open Source Software begins here!
We're excited to bring you the freshest updates, news, exciting projects, policy tweaks, and the buzz around our ongoing initiatives.

Highlights from FOSS United:

Wondering what's happening in FOSS United? Here are a few updates from our side:

  • What’s up with IndiaFOSS 2025?

    • What’s up is you need to grab your tickets, like right now. It helps us not panic about headcounts, and you won’t be that person hunting for a pass the night before. No, really, go book your tickets while we wait here.
      Book Your Ticket
    • What else is up is that the CFPs for talks have closed. Thank you to all the cuties who sent one in time. Speaker hours begin this month. If your talk made it through, we’ll be talking soon (look out for the emails).
    • If you are one of those who missed the deadline and still wish to send something in, consider proposing a birds-of-a-feather(BoF) session, a good old panel, or showcase your project at a booth.
      Submit here
    • Thanks to generous contributions from community members and organisations, we’ve raised a meaningful amount towards this year’s Diversity Scholarship. With a target of 8Lakh, there’s still a long way to go. If you’re someone who cares about bringing new voices into the FOSS space, we need your help. We’d love it if you could also pass this along to someone who might want to contribute.
      → Read more about how the scholarship works and chip in if you can

  • A maintainers' monsoon at FOSS United
    Last month, we brought you forklore.in, a WIP archive of the coolest maintainers and their lives behind the forks. Check it out. Now we present to you the Maintainers Summit @IndiaFOSS 2025 :), a space for open source and open commons maintainers to gather, reflect, and exchange ideas before the main conference. Are you a maintainer? Are you cool? Do you have stories to tell and questions to ask fellow cool maintainers? If your answer is yes, we’d like to see you at the summit.

  • The rise of FOSS 🏎️
    While we wait for Apple TV to confirm Brad Pitt’s availability for Rise of FOSS: The Motion Picture (with Hans Zimmer attached also), we thought we’d drop a little something in the meantime, just a full-scale, evidence-backed report on how FOSS is quietly transforming sectors across India. NLS Bengaluru presents “ The Rise of FOSS in India: Empirical Evidence and Insights from Cross-Sectoral Case Studies”. Join us @IIIT Delhi on July 11 for the launch. We might not have the car chases, but we’ve got them case studies, alright.

  • FOSS Club Applications Are Open!
    Want to start a FOSS Club on your campus or revive an old one? Applications are now open: Apply here

Upcoming Events:


To view other upcoming and past FOSS events, please visit the FOSS Events Timeline.
Our community thrives on respect, inclusivity, and collaboration, and the Code of Conduct is here to guide us.

From the Community Corner:


Projects

  • Lemonade Stand: A handy guide to financial support for open source.

  • Puter: open-source internet operating system designed to be feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible.

  • Terrateam: Terrateam is open-source GitOps infrastructure orchestration.

  • XenevaOS: XenevaOS is an open-source operating system designed for both x86 and ARM architecture with plans for RISC-V implementation in near future.

  • MQL Ethical AI Memory: A proposed framework for ethical, auditable, and persistent AI memory.

News and more

Grants & opportunities

We hope you found this month's updates insightful and exciting. Your active participation and feedback are what make our community thrive.
If you have any questions, or suggestions, or need further information, feel free to reach out to us at foundation@fossunited.org

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Thank you for being an integral part of our journey. Let's keep fostering innovation and collaboration in the FOSS world.


"May the FOSS be with you"

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