FOSS United Blog

Thoughts and Stories about Free and Open-Source Software in India

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Journey with FOSS United - 2 years and counting

This blog shares the events done by FOSS United in the last 2 years and 9 months. It also talks about the future plans to organize events to promote and nurture FOSS in different parts of India.

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PeriFerry Candidate Management System

PeriFerry is an impact enterprise founded in 2017 facilitating sustainable livelihoods to transgender persons and fostering LGBTQIA+ equity at workplaces.

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Working with non-profit organizations

I have always been looking to work with non-profits organizations to help them in whatever way I can.

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FOSS United 2020-21 report

Report of FY 2020-21.

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Doing my Post Graduation at FOSS United

Working at FOSS United feels like I have joined for Post Graduate program after my Bachelor's degree.

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In conversation with Shivani Bhardwaj, Developer at Suricata IDS

Read our interview with Shivani Bhardwaj. She currently works at The Open Information Security Foundation and contributes to Suricata IDS.

FOSS events happening in Feb 2021
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FOSS events happening in Feb 2021

Here is the list of FOSS events happening in February 2021 in India.

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In conversation with Liyas Thomas, author of Hoppscotch

Read our interview with Liyas Thomas, author of Hoppscotch.

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FOSS events happening in Jan 2021

Looking for FOSS events happening in Jan 2021? Here is the list of events you can look at and participate in.

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In conversation with Abhas Abhinav, a Free Software activist

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In Conversation with Anand B Pillai, Founder of BangPypers, one of India’s earliest programming language communities - Cover Image
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In Conversation with Anand B Pillai, Founder of BangPypers, one of India’s earliest programming language communities

In this interview, Anand shared how he started one of India's earliest programming language communities

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In conversation with Pranav Raj S, Author of Chatwoot

Chatwoot, started as proprietary software, reborn after two years being in a private repository when Pranav and his teammates decided to choose an open-source license.

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What is the state of adoption of FOSS in India?

India now is becoming a hub of startups, around 700 million smartphone users - who are looking for innovative software and growing developer communities.

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What does empowering FOSS means from an Indian POV?

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has, always, been a matter of pride among various developer communities owing to the fact the free and collaborative contribution