November 2024

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:

• FOSS United Coimbatore and Mysore will be active soon Our FOSS United chapter will be up and running soon! Stay tuned to be part of the community.

• FOSS United Vadodara is Back! We're relaunching FOSS United Vadodara. Interested in joining? Reach out to us at vadodara@fossunited.org and get involved!

• HydFOSS 2.0 Arriving in Early 2025 Exciting times ahead in Hyderabad! HydFOSS 2.0 is scheduled for early 2025, and we’re looking for sponsors. Interested? Write to us at hyderabad@fossunited.org.

• Co-Sponsorship Opportunities for Rethink DNS Support the Rethink DNS project! We’re looking for individual and institutional co-sponsors. Email us at grants@fossunited.org if you are interested.

• Cal.com Joins FOSS United as Our Scheduling Partner! We’re thrilled to welcome Cal.com as our scheduling partner, making it easier than ever to manage meetings and connect with the FOSS United Foundation team.

• Share Your FOSS Projects on Our Forum! We have a dedicated Project Showcase section on the FOSS United Discourse forum. We’d love to hear about the exciting FOSS projects from India—join us and share your work!

Upcoming FOSS Events:

• FOSSDay'24 - 9 November 2024
• FOSS Meetup Hyderabad - 9 November 2024
• FOSS Meetup Coimbatore - 22 November 2024
• FOSS Meetup Bangalore - 23 November 2024

To view other upcoming and past FOSS events, please visit the FOSS Events Timeline.

From the Telegram Corner:

Projects

• signaturepdf: Free web software for signing PDFs and also organize pages, edit medata and compress pdf See existing hosted versions at https://github.com/24eme/signaturepdf?tab=readme-ov-file#instances, which includes https://pdf.deblan.org/

• Stirling-PDF: #1 Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, which includes many more PDF-related features/tools than signaturepdf does. See hosted version at https://stirlingpdf.io/

• Lichess: The free and open source chess server

• html5-parser: Fast C based HTML 5 parsing for python
• Lutris: Play all your games on Linux
• Scribbler: JavaScript Notebook, Online Compiler & Editor

News

• FLOSS/fund: $1M per year for free and open source projects FLOSS/fund is a $1 million fund dedicated to supporting FOSS projects worldwide. With grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000, the fund aims to address sustainability issues in the FOSS ecosystem and enhance project visibility. All FOSS projects are encouraged to apply, especially those seeking structured, long-term financial support.

• Zerodha gets the GitHub Awards 2024 OSPO Leadership Award Recently, Zerodha introduced a $1 million per year, no-strings-attached funding program to further support open source development.

• Rethink DNS Hits 3,000 Stars on GitHub Rethink DNS, the open source DNS and privacy app, has reached a milestone of 3,000 stars on GitHub.Rethink DNS is serverless, global, fast, configurable DNS over HTTPS resolver.

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, suggestions, or need further information, feel free to reach out to us at foundation@fossunited.org.

We invite you to join our Telegram group. It's a fantastic way to stay connected with the FOSS United community and be the first to know about our latest initiatives.

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"