FOSS United Blog

Thoughts and Stories about Free and Open-Source Software in India

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Meet the CEO of FOSS United Foundation

FOSS United's growth, CEO announcement, and future plans.

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Leading an Experiment by FOSS United - SolapurFOSS

The Story Behind How and Why I Led an Experiment by FOSS United - SolapuFOSS

Edition 5 | September 2023
Newsletter
Edition 5 | September 2023

[TLDR] Updates on IndiaFOSS 3.0, the launch of OASIS Network, meetups and events of the month and hot picks from telegram corner.

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Edition 4 | June - July 2023

[TLDR] Upcoming launch of FOSS clubs, and the preps for the much-awaited IndiaFOSS 3.0.

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Edition 3 | April 2023

[TLDR] Foundation projects over the past four months, new initiatives, industry partnerships, upcoming events and hot picks from the telegram corner.

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Annual Report 2022-2023

Discover the journey of FOSS United in fostering the Free and Open Source Software ecosystem in India with our 2022-23 Annual Report.

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Robin Hood Army CheckIn Project

This is a one-stop platform for thousands of Robins to "checkin" to food drives, get ranks and certificates, and see who the most active Robins and cities are globally.

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Newsletter
Edition 2 | November 2022

The second edition of the FOSS United Monthly Newsletter.

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Journey with FOSS United - 2 years and counting

This blog shares the events done by FOSS United in the last 2 years and 9 months. It also talks about the future plans to organize events to promote and nurture FOSS in different parts of India.

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Newsletter
Edition 1 | October 2022

FOSS United Newsletter - First Edition

Reflections from IndiaFOSS 2.0 - Cover Image
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Reflections from IndiaFOSS 2.0

Some of my personal recollections from IndiaFOSS 2.0 at Bangalore

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PeriFerry Candidate Management System

PeriFerry is an impact enterprise founded in 2017 facilitating sustainable livelihoods to transgender persons and fostering LGBTQIA+ equity at workplaces.

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FOSS Hack 2021 Sponsor
Celebrating a month of Open Source love: DigitalOcean Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest encourages participation in the open source community, which grows bigger every year.

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FOSS Hack 2021 Sponsor
FOSS - The foundation of Capillary Tech

Why is FOSS so important to the community ?

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Working with non-profit organizations

I have always been looking to work with non-profits organizations to help them in whatever way I can.

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FOSS United 2020-21 report

Report of FY 2020-21.

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Personal
Doing my Post Graduation at FOSS United

Working at FOSS United feels like I have joined for Post Graduate program after my Bachelor's degree.

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Technology
A Note on Blockchain

In recent times, blockchain as a technology have been proposed as silver bullet solutions to a wide range of problems. We think this claim is exaggerated.

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Interview
In conversation with Shivani Bhardwaj, Developer at Suricata IDS

Read our interview with Shivani Bhardwaj. She currently works at The Open Information Security Foundation and contributes to Suricata IDS.

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Interview
FOSS inside India's tech unicorns

India's tech unicorns may not be publicly acknowledging the role of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in their success, but there is a lot of action under the hood.