September 2025

Hello FOSS Enthusiast!

A bit late this month, but welcome to the newsletter. With IndiaFOSS just a WEEK away, here’s some fresh, right-out-of-the-oven news and more. Follow along 👇

Highlights from FOSS United:

ONE WEEK to IndiaFOSS 2025! Let’s get you up to speed — here’s what’s cooking:

• Full schedule is out!
  We’ll keep it short. Here’s the schedule.
  We've got conversations covering the full spread: the make-or-break questions, the hype everyone’s chasing, the grunt work nobody celebrates, and the dull-but-vital bits that keep the lights on.
  Plan your conf days — there’s a lot going on, and we are not sorry.

• Pre-events and side-quests
  IndiaFOSS 2025 comes with an extra day?? Yes, you’ve heard it right. If 100+ sessions and 60+ booths weren’t enough, we’ve got a Day 0 and side-events. We want you to make the most of your time this FOSS weekend.

  • Curated, super-cool, get-your-hands-dirty workshops @Day 0. Check them out here.
  • A gathering of the finest maintainers at Maintainer Summit — come talk burnout, sustainability, funding, and more.
  • And we’ve got a potluck! While we cook more (a lot more) pre-events, stay tuned here.

• FOSS Clubs are back and how

  • With over 50 colleges participating in the FOSS Clubs program, we set out to form a FOSS Clubs Committee to make sure things run smoothly.Say hello to the FOSS Club Committee 2025–26.
  • All things in order, we also hosted the first “First Commit” session for this year, with Gagandeep Singh.

• CRI Guidelines and RTI shenanigans

  The new Guidelines for examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs) are out.

  • On 29 July, the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks (CGPDTM) released the updated Guidelines — check them out.
  • The CGPDTM also disposed of our RTI applications seeking all the public comments it received during consultation rounds, among other things. Read in full.

Upcoming Events

• FOSS Meetup Pune - 13 September 2025
• Maintainer Summit - 19 September 2025
• IndiaFOSS 2025 - 19–21 September 2025
• Understanding AI / Data & Society / Virtual

To view other upcoming and past FOSS events, visit the FOSS Events Timeline.
Our community thrives on respect, inclusivity, and collaboration — the Code of Conduct is here to guide us.

From the Community Corner

Projects

• Mint — Bank reconciliation made simple for ERPNext
• Events — Event Management App built on Frappe

News and more

• Building for Developers—Not Imitators
• Free code can build India’s AI fortune
• Securing the supply chain at scale: Starting with 71 important open source projects
• Contribute to OSL Summer of Code Fellowship

Grants & opportunities

• floss.fund: Dedicated to supporting critical, impactful, and valuable FLOSS projects globally.

• FOSS United grants

We hope you found this month's updates insightful and exciting. Your active participation and feedback are what make our community thrive.
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