IndiaFOSS 2026
A side quest layer for the FOSS weekend
Thousands of FOSS folks land in Bengaluru for two days at NIMHANS. Parallel is everything else that week — workshops, screenings, mapping parties, hacks, open houses — hosted by communities in their own spaces, all over the city.
Events List
Community Connect-2: Bangalore Edition
A morning of conversations on justice, open knowledge, accessibility, and public digital goods, open to anyone from law, tech, art, policy, or science, with games, an open floor, and food included. 60 seats, first come first served.
Scheduling Justice: An Open Source Hackathon
An open source hackathon by PUCAR focused on justice-related scheduling tools.
Bring Your Books to Life: Live Digitisation Days at ServantsOfKnowledge
Have rare, old, out-of-copyright books sitting on your shelves? Bring up to five off your shelf and watch them get digitised live by the ServantsOfKnowledge team. Slots limited each day.
GlificConnect
NGOs, practitioners, funders, and technology partners on last-mile community communication: panels, field stories, and hands-on workshops. Lunch included, seats limited.
Agents in Open Source: Bengaluru's Agentic AI Community
First-ever community meetup to discuss open source in AI in Bengaluru, hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation (a Linux Foundation project).
August FOSS Activity: Inside CCC, NITK Surathkal
How open source software powers the network infrastructure connecting more than 40,000 devices on campus.
WikiConference India 2026
Fourth edition of the national conference for Wikimedians working on Indic-language projects, focused on community leadership, regional languages, and new models of participation.
import_ bengaluru
A one-day gathering of Bengaluru's Python and open-source communities, organised by BangPypers.
Neurons that fire together - by Kailash Nadh
Early efforts to model memory using Hebbian cell assemblies rather than gradient descent, and where those models broke down against deep learning at scale.
Blender 101: Learn 3D Design
Discover how fun and approachable 3D modeling can be! Use Blender to turn simple ideas into playful, three-dimensional worlds — like transforming basic blocks into a sleek, 'Most-wanted' scene.
Host your own parallel Event
If you are a local community, collective, or space in Bengaluru, host a workshop, a meetup, a hack evening, or something entirely experimental. Think mapping parties, maintainer meetups, movie screenings, networking dinners, potlucks at Cubbon Park, karaoke evenings, and whatever else your community can cook up.
A good parallel event complements the main conference — it gives our visiting pilgrims a reason to step outside the venue and discover a corner of the city they'd otherwise have missed, and puts your community on the IndiaFOSS map for next year and beyond.