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FOSS United Grants - 2025

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

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.

Notes from a Maintainer - Lakshmipathi Ganapathi, Webminal

From burning Fedora CDs in a college hostel to keeping one server alive for 15 years.

Tech report - June 2026

Hello people,
We have hackathon badges for profile + project pages, CFP reviewer assignment workflow and local development setup got a real onboarding story with seed data and a one-command demo.

Learning to Manage - Building a shared foundation

A group of people needs a shared foundation to become a team, and in this post, I highlight aspects of the team's shared foundation.

Tech report - May 2026

Hello everyone,
Maintainers May and IndiaFOSS 2026 kicked off May - feedback emails are now automated, jobs board has search and filters, and the community map puts all chapters on India's map.

Notes from a Maintainer - Subhashish Panigrahi, OpenSpeaks

I document and archive languages spoken by South Asian communities.

Notes from a Maintainer - Ramya Ragupathy, HOTOSM and MapLibre

My Journey from Proprietary Tech to Global FOSS Leadership

Notes from a Maintainer - Prashanth Udupa, Scrite

Six years of building Scrite taught me one thing I hadn't expected: the right community multiplies what you can do alone. Here is what FOSS United specifically unlocked for me.

Notes from the April 2026 Governing Board meeting

The April 2026 Governing Board (GB) call took place on Thursday, 30 April 2026. These are the meeting notes and summary. The call primarily focused on the CEO’s tenure.

Tech report - April 2026

Hello Everyone, April had me no fooling around, Notable additions, schedule page rebuilt (JIT for ChennaiFOSS 2026), CFP reviewer dashboard workflow improved, holistic & detailed clubs documentation.

Notes from the March 2026 Governing Board meeting

The March 2026 Governing Board (GB) call took place on Tuesday, 24 March 2026. These are the meeting notes and summary. The call primarily focused on Budgeting.

Tech report - Mar 2026

Hello everyone, March was engulfed in FOSS Hack 2026, the results page for previous year winners went live, contributors from the hackathon shipped improvements.

Tech report - Feb 2026

Hello everyone, February was complete FOSS Hack preparation month! We've redesigned the hackathon page, added dark mode to the dashboard, implemented important security fixes, and added RSVP feedback