Stories from the Indian FOSS community
119 posts
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Pinned GrantsFOSS United Grants - 2025
A recap of the FOSS United grants we gave out in 2025 and our future plans
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GrantsSupporting VGLUG Foundation
FOSS United's grant to VGLUG Foundation, the Villupuram GNU/Linux Users Group, a volunteer-driven non-profit community dedicated to educating students and rural youth in Tamil Nadu.
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tech-reportTech report - Oct 2026
Hello everyone, After a month as loud as IndiaFOSS, October was meant to be quiet. On the codebase, it mostly was. This was an upgrade month.
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MaintainersNotes from the Maintainers Summit
We hosted the second edition of Maintainers Summit on 25th September, ahead of IndiaFOSS 2026. Almost hundred maintainers attended the event at the Samagata Foundation in Bengaluru.
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OrganizationNotes from the June 2026 Governing Board meeting
The June 2026 Governing Board (GB) call took place on Thursday, 30 June 2026. These are the meeting notes and summary.
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OrganizationMeet the 2026 FOSS United Governing Board
The 2026 Governing Board elections took place alongside IndiaFOSS 2026. Meet the new members.
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DesignDesigning for IndiaFOSS 2026
Collection of experiences, observations, and learnings from managing and contributing to the design of IndiaFOSS 2026.
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tech-reportTech report - Sept 2026
Hello everyone, September had one task: IndiaFOSS 2026. Everything else on the platform happened around the edges of it.
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tech-reportTech report - August 2026
Hello everyone, Most month's report leads with a feature. This month it leads with an email that never arrived.
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MaintainersNotes from a Maintainer - Murtaza Aliakbar, Rethink DNS + Firewall
From zero to building the most popular India-based project on F-Droid.
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GrantsSupporting Subtitle Studio
FOSS United's grant to support Subtitle Studio, a modern, cross-platform subtitle editing application.
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tech-reportTech report - July 2026
Hello everyone, This one is a little special. These tech reports turn one year old this month. The first one went out in August 2025, and also quietly marks one year of me working at FOSS United.
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GrantsSupporting Aravinda V K
FOSS United's grant to Aravinda VK, maintainer of Sanka, Chitra, Binnacle, and Dataframes (D) - a set of tools spanning Kannada language computing, 2D graphics, testing infrastructure, and data analys
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MaintainersNotes from Maintainers May
We dedicated May to the maintainers who have been quietly, thanklessly holding the digital world together. Here's everything that happened!
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GrantsSupporting Webminal
FOSS United's grant to Webminal, a free, browser-based Linux terminal and learning platform that has been running since 2011 developed by Lakshmipathi G.
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GrantsSupporting Scrite
FOSS United's grant to Scrite, an open source, cross-platform screenwriting app.
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tech-reportTech report - June 2026
Hello people, We have hackathon badges for profile + project pages, CFP reviewer assignment workflow and local development setup got a real onboarding story with seed data and a one-command demo.
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MaintainersNotes from a Maintainer - Lakshmipathi Ganapathi, Webminal
From burning Fedora CDs in a college hostel to keeping one server alive for 15 years.
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learning-to-manage
Learning to Manage - Building a shared foundation
A group of people needs a shared foundation to become a team, and in this post, I highlight aspects of the team's shared foundation.
