January 2025

Hello FOSS Enthusiast!
Welcome to our monthly newsletter from FOSS United! Your journey into the vibrant world of Free and Open Source Software begins here!
We're excited to bring you the freshest updates, news, exciting projects, policy tweaks, and the buzz around our ongoing initiatives.

Highlights from FOSS United:

Wondering what's happening in FOSS United? Here are a few updates from our side:

• Semester long Internship 2025
  Fossee, IIT Bombay, has announced Semester Long Internship for 2025. Details at: FOSS United Job Board

• FOSS United’s follow-on grant to Rethink DNS
  FOSS United is pleased to announce a follow-on grant of 7Lakhs to Rethink DNS, a FOSS DNS resolver. We are actively looking for co-sponsors for the project.

• [5 Years of FOSS United 🎉] On 18th January 2024, FOSS United marks five years of promoting FOSS. Join us in celebrating this milestone! RSVP here: 5 Year Anniversary. Note: After registering for the event, you will be added to the waitlist. Confirmation details will be shared with you soon.

Upcoming FOSS Events:

• FOSS Meetup Kanpur - 11 January 2025

• FOSS Meetup Hyderabad - 11 Januaray 2025

• 5 Years of FOSS United - 18 January 2025

• FOSS Meetup Lucknow - 25 January 2025

To view other upcoming and past FOSS events, visit the FOSS Events Timeline.

From the Telegram Corner:

Projects

• Wraft: Easy and fast document generation at scale.
• mirror.albony.in: A student run service that provides mirrors for various open source
  projects and Linux distributions.

• Hercules: The world's first open-source testing agent.

• IT-Tools: Handy tools for developers

• The Network Time Protocol (NTP) Project

News

• Ghostty: New open source terminal application
• Comet is out on kickstarter: Mecha's comet is now on Kickstarter, subscribe to get an early bird discount.

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, 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"