FOSS United Blog

FOSS United Grants - 2025

A recap of the FOSS United grants we gave out in 2025 and our future plans

Tech report - Oct 2026

Hello everyone,
After a month as loud as IndiaFOSS, October was meant to be quiet. On the codebase, it mostly was. This was an upgrade month.

Notes from the Maintainers Summit

We hosted the second edition of Maintainers Summit on 25th September, ahead of IndiaFOSS 2026. Almost hundred maintainers attended the event at the Samagata Foundation in Bengaluru.

Notes from the June 2026 Governing Board meeting

The June 2026 Governing Board (GB) call took place on Thursday, 30 June 2026. These are the meeting notes and summary.

Diversity Scholarship 2026 Report

Meet the 2026 FOSS United Governing Board

The 2026 Governing Board elections took place alongside IndiaFOSS 2026. Meet the new members.

Designing for IndiaFOSS 2026

Collection of experiences, observations, and learnings from managing and contributing to the design of IndiaFOSS 2026.

Tech report - Sept 2026

Hello everyone,
September had one task: IndiaFOSS 2026. Everything else on the platform happened around the edges of it.

Notes from a Maintainer - Murtaza Aliakbar, Rethink DNS + Firewall

From zero to building the most popular India-based project on F-Droid.

Tech report - August 2026

Hello everyone,
Most month's report leads with a feature. This month it leads with an email that never arrived.

My experience at COSCUP x Ubucon Asia 2026 in Taipei

My experience at YLAC High School Achievers Program @ DEL - 2026

Supporting Subtitle Studio

FOSS United's grant to support Subtitle Studio, a modern, cross-platform subtitle editing application.

From “Hello Blender” to Grant

Tech report - July 2026

Hello everyone,
This one is a little special. These tech reports turn one year old this month. The first one went out in August 2025, and also quietly marks one year of me working at FOSS United.

Supporting Aravinda V K

FOSS United's grant to Aravinda VK, maintainer of Sanka, Chitra, Binnacle, and Dataframes (D) - a set of tools spanning Kannada language computing, 2D graphics, testing infrastructure, and data analys

Notes from Maintainers May

We dedicated May to the maintainers who have been quietly, thanklessly holding the digital world together. Here's everything that happened!

Supporting Webminal

FOSS United's grant to Webminal, a free, browser-based Linux terminal and learning platform that has been running since 2011 developed by Lakshmipathi G.

Notes from the Open Source Summit India 2026

Sharing my experience from the OSS Summit 2026

Supporting Scrite

FOSS United's grant to Scrite, an open source, cross-platform screenwriting app.