Maintainers May

Maintainers May Meetups

As part of #MaintainersMay, FOSS United is organising unconference-style meetups for digital commons maintainers all over India. More events will be added here soon!

FOSS United Organisation

Community Call - Maintainers Program

4 May 2026 | Virtual

Concluded
Maintainers

Maintainers Meetup Delhi!

9 May 2026 | The Policy Square, Lajpat Nagar

Concluded
Maintainers

Maintainers Meetup Pune!

16 May 2026 | Red Hat, Magarpatta

Concluded
Maintainers

Maintainers Meetup Bengaluru!

23 May 2026 | Samagata Foundation

Concluded
Maintainers

Maintainers Meetup Mumbai!

13 June 2026 | Frappe

Concluded
FOSS United Organisation

Open Community Call - Maintainers Program

3 August 2026 | Jitsi Meet

Concluded

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Maintainers Program

Maintainers Program is an initiative to support Indian FOSS project maintainers across the breadth of their entire journey, from getting discovered to becoming sustainable.

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Check out Forklore! Our WIP directory of people maintaining the commons in India. Through Forklore, we bring you confessions, quirks, and the occasional rants from maintainers across the country.

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Supporters

More supporters joining soon. Check out the deck if you'd like to partner with us.

FOSS United for Maintainers

Individual Grants & Fellowships

Project grants, fellowships, and financial support for Indian FOSS maintainers.

Infrastructure Support

Hosting and tooling costs covered for small FOSS teams who need the runway to keep shipping.

Other Grants

Fund readable documentation, design, and better onboarding flows. Travel grants available.

Maintainers Program

Notes from a Maintainer

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 a Maintainer - Murtaza Aliakbar, Rethink DNS + Firewall

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

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!

Notes from a Maintainer - Lakshmipathi Ganapathi, Webminal

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

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.

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