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:

• Introducing the New FOSS United Governing Board

  We’re excited to unveil the new FOSS United Governing Board, a refreshed team of passionate open source leaders ready to drive our community forward.

  ➡️ Share your feedback on the election process, web platform, voting process,etc: Visit our forum and leave your comments here.

  ➡️ While you are at it, do check out the video by Meta Monkeys with Ram Iyengar on Governance in FOSS?

• Scholarship for GCPP Technology and Policy Course by Takhshahila is open! Deadline 20th April!

  There’s a whole lot that goes behind building and regulating technology. Here’s your chance to broaden your understanding of the public policy that shapes our digital lives, and be better informed citizens, building capacity to engage with policymakers. The GCPP Technology+Policy Course Scholarship is open for applications until April 20th.

• 'Tis the season of CityFOSS

  After a brilliant day at PuneFOSS last week, we are now on track for LucknowFOSS/April 12 and MumbaiFOSS/April 19 Two incredible city communities, an excellent lineup of speakers, the beach and/or the kebabs. Have you gotten your tickets yet?

• IndiaFOSS 2025 | CfPs open!?

  Can’t believe it is April already. Stepping into Q2 right, with Call for Proposals open for IndiaFOSS 2025, the fifth edition of the country’s largest FOSS event, bigger and better. Hot and straight from the oven – link to CfP's. As they say, the 5th time is the charm.

From the Community Corner:

Projects

    
• Drove: Container orchestrator
 
• Fixable: Repair map for your city.
 
• YuE: Open Full-song Music Generation Foundation Model, something similar to Suno.ai but open.
 
• Cloudlens: k9s like CLI for AWS and GCP
    
• Docs: A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales.


• Fixable Products for India: Crowdsourced wiki of repair-friendly consumer hardware products for India

News and more

• Blender-Made Movie Flow Wins an Oscar

• Whitepaper: Digital Governance and Rights in South Asia, and the Path Forward
• Introducing GNOME 48, “Bengaluru”
• Open Technology Fund Files Lawsuit
• Podcast: Rudy Fraser on Building Blacksky and the Future of Middleware
• The Landscape of Facial Recognition Technologies in India | Amber Sinha
• Stack is the New Black?: Evolution and Outcomes of the ‘India-Stackification’ Process | Smriti Parsheera
• What Would it Take for Digital Public Infrastructures to Actually Serve the Public? | Mila T. Samdub
• Provocations on AI Sovereignty : Confronting Complexities & Shaping Future Strategies | Digital Futures Lab
• Juspay Open Sources Payments Orchestration in India
• As India is Set to Implement its Data Protection Law. What to Make of It?| Amber Sinha
• How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

Grants and Opportunities

• FOSS United Grants
• FLOSS/fund
• Internet Society 2025 Mid Career Fellowship Application
• Call for Contributions : Navigating Digital Power in Asia

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

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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"