Welcome to FOSS United’s June newsletter. We’ve officially hit the halfway mark of 2026, keeping you company through the historic heatwaves. Last month, three students forced CBSE to admit serious vulnerabilities in its systems, a fresh reminder that essential public infrastructure cannot stay behind proprietary walls.

June ahead: A lot more of IndiaFOSS, a few exciting campaigns and more of nurturing and supporting this itch to pry things open for public good.

Highlights

Brewing IndiaFOSS | CFPs close in 10 days!

Marinating? Simmering? (and other food-based metaphors.) You get the gist. IndiaFOSS action is in full swing.

First things first, CFPs close in 10 days! If you have been procrastinating on your application, now is about the right time to get chopping. Propose a talk in the main track. OR check out the Devroom agendas!

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Tickets are LIVE! Enthusiast, Regular and Contributor tickets are live! Get yours before the shop sells out. If you can and wish to help make IndiaFOSS accessible, get a contributor ticket, please :’)

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Maintainer May Rewind

Every week through May, we asked maintainers from across the country to pen down what it takes to keep the lights on in Indian open source. We hear them vent about the good, the bad, and prop ideas and resources as keepers of the digital commons.

Prashanth Udupa, Scrite

For our first feature, we have Prashanth Udupa, Creator and Maintainer of Scrite, an open-source screenwriting application that houses scripts that have made it to film festivals.
Ramya Ragupathy, HOTOSM & OpenLibre

Meet Ramya, Product Manager at HOTOSM and Ops & Product Lead at MapLibre. Traversing from building proprietary closed-source systems to fulfilling her lifelong passion for civic duty, Ramya has shaped global product strategy for civic tech.
Subhashish Panigrahi, OpenSpeaks

Subhashish has spent years documenting and archiving endangered languages across South Asia, while simultaneously building the tools that make it possible.

May is the new June? Because we aren’t done yet with the May Maintainer meetups! See you on 13th, Mumbai?

Results for FOSSHack are out!

Yes yes, they are finally out! After an entire month of building, debugging and lamenting, FOSSHack 2026 has its winners.

Hugs to all the participants. Building something real and fun in a month is no small thing. Thank you to all the community partner projects, mentors and judges for helping us see this through. We will meet again!