Meet the Scholars of 11th batch of GCPP Tech + Policy Scholarship. A new cohort has been announced. Applications are open. If you're a FOSS developer ready to find your voice in policy rooms, this seat could be yours. 🔗 Apply before the deadline closes: https://lnkd.in/gfPF2J3n
About us
FOSS United Foundation is a registered non-profit founded in 2020, dedicated to the cause of building Free and Open Source (FOSS) projects and communities in India and elsewhere. It originally started out as the ERP Next foundation in 2016 with the same broad goals. Its new avatar is a joint collaboration between the teams at Frappe, the publisher of ERPNext, one of the largest FOSS projects out of India, and Zerodha, India's largest stockbroker and a fintech company. The foundation, currently in its infancy, aims to provide grassroots support to FOSS projects and events and invite industry patronage to support FOSS, in India. India is now a hub of startups, innovative consumer software, developer communities, and largescale technological infrastructure. However, somewhere along the lines, the spirit of FOSS and hacking seems to have been overshadowed. This is illustrated by the disproportionately low number of quality FOSS projects coming out of India given a thriving industry compared to the explosion of projects that have happened globally over the last decade. In the Indian context, our goals are: To promote the spirit of hacking, tinkering, and writing code, not only for profit but for fun. To build quality FOSS for the public good. To build quality free software that specifically empowers people with tools to run their livelihoods and power the economy.
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https://fossunited.org/
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- 2020
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- FOSS, Open Source Software, Free Software, Developer Community, India, Hackathons, Free Software, Public good, Hacking, and Tinkering
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Libredesk v2 is out 😃 https://libredesk.io v2 makes Libredesk omni-channel. It adds a live chat widget (beta) as a new channel, which you can drop onto your website and handle alongside email in the same agent UI. Libredesk is a 100% free and open-source helpdesk, a Zendesk/Intercom alternative. Backend in Go, frontend in Vue + shadcn/ui. Ships as a single binary, self-hosted. Genuinely, if your team is paying per-agent SaaS pricing for a helpdesk today, I really think Libredesk can replace it. Agent dashboard demo: https://demo.libredesk.io/ Live chat widget demo: https://libredesk.io/ (bottom-right corner) GitHub: https://lnkd.in/g7fw2su5
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Host your very own Devroom at #IndiaFOSS 2026! Last week to put in your CfPs! See you on the other side? IndiaFOSS, annual homecoming of the country’s FOSS and digital commons ecosystem is back in September as usual. #UnitedByFOSS #DevroomsatIF
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This #ForkloreFriday meet Mohammed Zubair A. and Mattermost! Mattermost is an open-source collaboration platform for secure team communication, project coordination, and workflow integration. Think Slack, but without that nagging feeling that maybe Salesforce is reading your DMs to upsell the suite :') Head to Forklore, check out the profile in full! #Forklore #UnitedByFOSS
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You survived 3 weeks of bugs, blockers, and bad commit messages. Don't let week 4 be the one where you ghost us. https://lnkd.in/gw763sjf
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Once upon a time. This is a pic from 2 years ago. Back when Bruno was just a promising API client, and had only 4 people on the team. Today, we’re a team of 30, with over a million developers using Bruno and many Fortune 500 companies as our customers. Grateful to FOSS United, Samagata Foundation and Kailash Nadh for the support in the early days ♥️ 🙏
Have a FOSS Project to show ? Want to talk about your community ? Go and Apply for a booth at ChennaiFOSS happening on April 18th @ IITM https://lnkd.in/gzzpZ7Jt We had bruno the other time 💚 we want you this time 🫵 #moolakaaraconf #fossunited #chennaifoss26
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Next stop: Samastipur, Bihar 🚂 Running a Git & GitHub workshop tomorrow at GEC Samastipur — part of the FOSS Meetup organised with FOSS United Bihar. If you're a student in the area, register and join us. 📅 24th March | 11am – 3pm | GEC Samastipur 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g2embbnJ #FOSS #Bodhya #Bihar #OpenSource
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What if lawyers and coders spent 3 hours building the future of justice - together? India's justice system faces challenges that no single person, organisation, or discipline can solve alone. That's why we're bringing lawyers, technologists, designers, and policy thinkers into the same room - to build together. We are hosting a Hackathon for Justice on 20 March in Bangalore, a one-day collaborative sprint where legal practitioners, technologists, designers, and students will prototype real solutions for India's justice system. The best ideas from each track will be presented on stage at the UIA Conference on 21 March- before Hon'ble Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, BAI representatives, and Senior Advocates. Three tracks. Real problems. Three hours to solve them. ⚡ Access to Justice ⚡ Online Dispute Resolution ⚡ Legal Tech No team needed - teams form on the day. 🔗 Register as a Participant: https://lnkd.in/gM9X3wqN 🔗 Register your Organisation/Startup: https://lnkd.in/gCwEkngM 📅 20 March 2026 | 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM 📍 Aarna Law, Vyalikaval, Bengaluru #HackathonForJustice #LegalTech #AccessToJustice #ODR #JusticeTech #PUCAR Supriya Sankaran Sachin Malhan Rashika Narain Aayana Rai Bhojani Garvita Gupta Ayushi Singhal Atul Gupta Aditi Phadnis Aditi Kim Karolil Atreyo Banerjee Keerthana Medarametla Artika Raj Kritka Chopra Sai Chitnis Tanya Mayal Varun Hemachandran Smrithi (Simi) Sundararajan Rohini Kejriwal Mehul Sehgal Shailiza Mayal Abhinav Ayush Pradhan Harsh Garv Nagpal Code for Good Tech (C4GT) Lawctopus
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If you care about open source, digital commons, and telling good stories (in no particular order) come join the FOSS United team! #Hiring #UnitedByFOSS We are looking for a Campaigns and Advocacy Intern to help us build our strategic advocacy around free and open source software, and the digital commons. Deadline to apply is March 25, more details in the link below!
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Our #2 FOSS Hack builder profile call just wrapped! Missed it? No worries, you can still watch it here → https://lnkd.in/gQkBqvPf Also, MapLibre is on our partner project list, so if something from the call sparked your interest, go contribute! Happy weekend 😊
FOSSHack Builders Profiles #2 - Ramya Raghupathy (MapLibre, HOTOSM)
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