A talk through the walkthrough of the importance of design in open source and broader inclusivity. We will start off with a basic introduction to the problem, which is the unawareness surrounding open source and how any and everything has a place in the community. Then we move on to the more commonly faced problem, about making place for the folks who are on either outlying side of the normal distribution in a community.

To give a call to action to this, Muneer will talk about how design in placed/needed in these communities, his personal experience and an overall view of how things were for him and what better does he expect us to do for the people coming after us.

The primary target is our University’s Design department folks, from whom we want some or even many to understand that their skills are much needed and there are multiple career pathways ahead if they decide to step into the world of open source. (We’re also hoping to get some to join our team, yes we are, like many other communities, much in need of designers)

Hacktoberfest comes to IIT Bhilai.

One day. Open-source AI. You arrive with a laptop and leave with a working project in a public repository.

This is an official Hacktoberfest 2026 Hack Day — the in-person edition of the global open-source celebration run by Major League Hacking and DEV with DigitalOcean. A few hundred exist worldwide. This is the first at IIT Bhilai, and it is open to students across Chhattisgarh.

The day: a morning workshop that takes you from nothing to a running agent, then a full afternoon of building with mentors on the floor, then demos and judging.

What you build with: open-weight models and open-source harnesses. MLH has assigned this event the Google Gemma challenge, alongside categories for agent skills, model harnesses and open-weight LLMs.

No experience required. The workshop starts from zero. If you have never built with AI, this is the easiest door you will find.

Every project is built on the day, published under an open-source licence, and judged in the open. Winning teams receive DEV Badges. Free to attend.

📅 Saturday 10 October · 🕒 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM · 📍 L101, IIT Bhilai

🎫 Register: https://events.mlh.com/events/14954-hacktoberfest-hack-day-durg-x-openlake

This meeting will be to take a look at the forum where project ideas were put, decide upon the best ideas to build, form teams/assign projects individually, set milestones and targets and get started with the second project bootcamp, we want to structure this in a more sane way instead of everyone going haywire, the aim is to make some projects that stand in either the SOTA zone or the community usable project zones instead of project for the sake of the bootcamp.

HACK24 is a 24 hour hackathon hosted at Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth. There would be a total of 10 teams each team dealing with a problem statement and each team can have members from 2 - 4. The problem statements will be based around campus difficulties and coming up with solutions for them. A presentation is not expected, but a product is expected. Use of AI is acceptable but excercise caution with design. Only one solution design team will be accepted for each problem statement.

Annual flagship event by USAR FOSS CLUB hosted under the tech fest by GGSIPU EDC.

Date: 24 Oct, 2026, Saturday

Time: 2pm - 5pm

Venue: Samagata Foundation, Church Street, Bengaluru

This will be the 14th FOSS Meetup of FOSS United Mangalore!

Location: TBA

MumbaiFOSS is an annual Free and Open Source Software Conference
(FOSS), with the aim of uniting the FOSS community of Mumbai, fostering
collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Get Your Git Together

Heard of Git, GitHub, or Open Source but never knew where to start? Still naming your folders “project_final_v2_FINAL.zip “?

Join this beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop and go from your first Git command to publishing a project on GitHub and making your first Open Source contribution.

Learn Git basics, GitHub, branches, forks, and Pull Requests through live demos, challenges, and hands-on activities.

No boring lectures. Just code, collaboration, and your first Pull Request.

What you need:Just bring a laptop with Git installed (or show up a few minutes early if you need help installing it). No prior Git/GitHub experience required.

Ready to get your Git together? Register now!

NOTE: This is an external paid event. Our registrations/tickets and our CFP are not handled through the FOSS United platform. Please carefully read below for details.

Submit to the CFP: https://cfp.scipy.in/scipy-india-2026

Registrations/ticket sales: opening soon!

Welcome to the SciPy India 2026 Conference, the fourteenth edition of the convening of scientific computing and research software enthusiasts in India. It brings together researchers, scientists, engineers, data scientists, students, educators, faculty and open source contributors from academia and industry, focusing on computational and data-driven work.

Programme

• Workshops: Saturday, 19 December 2026

• Conference: Sunday, 20 December 2026

Venue

• Workshops: HSB 209 and HSB 210 (Physics Department Seminar Rooms), Department of Physics, IIT Madras

• Conference: T.T. Jagannathan and A.M.M Arunachalam auditoriums, IC&SR Building, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India

Call for proposals

We are inviting talks, workshops, and posters from across the scientific computing ecosystem. Please view details, submission information, and instructions here: https://cfp.scipy.in/scipy-india-2026/

Registrations and ticket sales

Opening soon! Stay tuned for updates via our website.

Important links

• Conference website: https://scipy.in/2026

• The SciPy India Code of Conduct: https://scipy.in/2026/coc

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): https://scipy.in/2026/faq

• About the SciPy India community: https://scipy.in and https://scipy.in/about

• Previous SciPy India conferences: https://scipy.in/past-editions

MangaloreFOSS is FOSS United Mangalore Chapter's Flagship event.