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Hello FOSS Enthusiast!
Welcome to our monthly newsletter from FOSS United!
Before we take you through the updates for this month. Taking a moment to address the times. Check on your friends and loved ones. Verify news before amplifying it. Not 100% sure? Don’t forward it. A reminder to also regularly check for updates from local authorities, and stay safe.
Highlights from FOSS United:
Wondering what's happening in FOSS United? Here are a few updates from our side:
Be Part of IndiaFOSS 2025 — Your Way!
Tickets are now live for IndiaFOSS 2025, happening from 19 to 21 September in Bengaluru. A limited number are available, so grab yours while they last.
Want to do more than just attend? The Call for Proposal is open. Talks, workshops, demos — if it sparks curiosity, we want to hear about it.
Revamping the FOSS Pledge
In 2025, we want to bring back the FOSS Pledge, clearer, better and bigger. The new draft encourages public acknowledgements of FOSS usage, annual contribution reports, and discussions around financial support models. Have thoughts? Lucky you: RFC: Revamping the FOSS Pledge
Meet the Maintainers: 31 Days, 31 Stories
This #MaintainerMay, we’ve got lots of plans, and one of them is bringing you one FOSS Maintainer story from India, every day. From lesser-known gems to community favourites, this is our way of celebrating the people behind the code. Follow along on the forum and get to know some fun behindthescenes of a Maintainer's life. And if you don’t already, check us out on Mastadon, LinkedIn, Instagram.
Updates on FOSS United Grants
We are supporting Malhar, a fast fuzzy text search engine developed by Anubhav Nain. Read in full about the INR 3 lakh grant to Malhar and what next
There’s more, We are supporting OSM India to help them do more of what they do best: map the world, one chai stop at a time. Check out the details of our grant to user/contrapunctus.
FOSSHack 2025: First Set of Results Are Out
From a crowd of brilliant projects, a few stood out for their impact, clarity, and effort.
Take a look at the winning entries and what they built: read the results. More projects are expected to be announced soon, so keep an eye out.
Upcoming Events:
To view other upcoming and past FOSS events, please visit the FOSS Events Timeline. Our community thrives on respect, inclusivity, and collaboration, and the
Code of Conduct is here to guide us.
From the Community Corner:
Projects
- Sugar: A tool to simplify working with containers across multiple projects.
- Nixopus: a powerful platform designed to simplify VPS management.
- Logchef: Lightweight, single-binary log analytics interface for ClickHouse, focused on high-performance querying and visualization.
- inltk: Natural Language Toolkit for Indic Languages aims to provide out of the box support for various NLP tasks that an application developer might need
- Curvit: Create light curves from UVIT data.
News and more
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
We invite you to join our Telegram group. It's a fantastic
way to stay connected with the FOSS United community and be the first to know about our latest initiatives.
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"
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