FOSS United

Our #2 FOSS Hack builder profile call just wrapped! Missed it? No worries, you can still watch it here → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cif_fyZMr9g

Also, MapLibre is on our partner project list, so if something from the call sparked your interest, go contribute! Happy weekend y'all 🙂

This week in Forklore, meet Sathiya Moorthi Periasamy Thuran and Webi!

Webi provides hassle-free, predictable installs for quick dev environment setups, practically a one-stop vending machine for all tools you'll need.

Head to Forklore, check out the project in full!

https://forklore.in/maintainers/detox-24

#UnitedByFOSS #ForkloreFridays

Builder Profiles #2 is here! 🛠️

Ramya Ragupathy joins our weekly builder call to talk about her journey, what she's built, and what keeps her going.

If you're building something (or thinking about it), you don't want to miss this.

🗓️ 14th March, 11:00 AM 🔗 katb.in/wipajadimom

For today's issue of #IndiaRunsonFOSS, meet KG Hospital

Established in 1974 in Coimbatore by the K. Govindaswamy Naidu Medical Trust, KG Hospital (KGH) is a self-financed super-speciality facility with a staff of roughly 2,500.

Here's their FOSS story (1/n)

Got an Arduino project? Want to bring Arduino into your classroom? Either way, FOSSEE Arduino Day 2026 has you covered, 23-25th March

🔗 arduinoday26.fossee.in

This #ForkloreFriday, meet Aravinda VK and, among other things, Chitra!
Chitra is a 2D graphics library that lets you write simple D code to generate 2D graphics!

With Forklore, we bring you confessions, quirks, and the occasional rant from India’s open source keepers. #UnitedByFOSS

Come check out the profile in full: https://forklore.in/maintainers/aravindavk

RE: @audiodevcon@mastodon.social

Not all devs write for screens. Some write for speakers 🔊

ADCX India 26 | 29 March 2026 | Bengaluru
in-person + livestreamed

Diversity grants available for those who need it!
🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2Nm-qqjiCizhF52a3wiGYfaL3uPTlKUOxE_OIqArnA_jn_w/viewform

#audio #developer #programmer #programming

Last 5 days to apply!

FOSS United is offering full scholarships for technologists who want to pursue the Policy in Action program offered by Young Leaders for Active Citizenship.

Read more here:

https://forum.fossunited.org/t/policy-in-action-program-pap-by-young-leaders-for-active-citizenship-ylac/7130

Okay fine. FINE.

March 8th is the new deadline for FOSSHack 2026 registrations. This is the last time we're being nice about it.

https://fossunited.org/fosshack/2026

#FOSSHack 2026 #unitedbyfoss #fossunited

We literally handed you the problem statements, and the partner projects, and a month to build.

What else do you want, a personal invitation?

(okay fine. consider this your personal invitation. livestream tomorrow 👀)

Join here: https://fossunited.org/c/fosshack/2026-kick-off

#FOSSHack 2026 #unitedbyfoss #fossunited

This week in Forklore, meet Nishant and 🍅 a solid, clean pomodoro app to keep you from turning into a squirrel.

Head to Forklore, check out the profile in full!
https://forklore.in/maintainers/nsh07

#UnitedByFOSS #ForkloreFridays

What if your March wasn't just another month?

FOSS Hack 2026's Partner Projects Programme puts you inside real FOSS projects, the kind that power tools people actually use every day. you're not building a demo. you're not shipping a prototype that dies after the hackathon.

You're making actual contributions to actual codebases with maintainers who care about what you build.

31 days. 12 projects. and a PR that lives way beyond March.

🔗 https://fossunited.org/fosshack/2026/partner-projects

These communities decided FOSS Hack 2026 was worth showing up for.
And we think that's pretty cool. 👀

https://fossunited.org/hack/fosshack26

#FOSSHack 2026 #unitedbyfoss #fossunited

FOSS Hack 2026 is going places. Literally. (Part 2/2)
And that's a wrap on our localhost announcements! Here are the final 3 venues joining the party.

8 campuses. 1 massive hackathon.
Find a localhost near you. Build something. Ship something. Win something (maybe).

📅 March 1-31 | 📍 Hybrid, across India

Register: https://fossunited.org/fosshack/2026

We extended registrations till 28th Feb because turns out, people need more time to decide if they want to spend March doing cool stuff 🤷‍♀️

You can hack in-person at 8 locations (we lost 2 hosts but gained more time for registrations, fair trade?) or join remotely.

register here: https://fossunited.org/fosshack

This Friday the 13th, we bring you three for one! | #ForkloreFridays

Meet Arya K. with Project Segfault, Mozhi and Internet Chowkidar!

https://forklore.in/maintainers/aryak

For today's issue of #IndiaRunsonFOSS, we meet Pocket ATM!

1/3

I love PDF? I love privacy too.
This #ForkloreFriday, meet BenToPDF and Alam!

BentoPDF is a privacy-first PDF toolkit that runs entirely in YOUR browser. It’s self hostable and allows you to manipulate, edit, merge, and process PDF files without any server-side processing.

Check out the profile in full!
https://forklore.in/maintainers/alam00000

It depends. Probably. Maybe?
This #ForkloreFriday meet Ankur Ankan with pgmpy.

Head to Forklore, check out the profile in full 🙂
https://forklore.in/maintainers/ankurankan

📣FOSS Hack 2026 is going places. Literally.
This year, you can now hack in-person at our localhost venues across the country! We're bringing the hackathon to your city (well, 10 cities actually).

Here are our first 5 Local Hosts!
Stay tuned for 5 more coming soon.
Check them out now!

#FOSSHack 2026 #unitedbyfoss #fossunited

FOSSHack 2026 is around the corner! (more like a month away really)
And we are looking for Community Partners!
This is an invite to bring your people along to participate in the largest FOSS Hackathon in India, and this time it comes with a twist.

#FOSSHack is back.
📅 A month long hackathon, starting March 01!
📍Hybird, across the country. Sign up now : https://fossunited.org/fosshack/community-partners

for those who missed the Inaugural #MangaloreFOSS 2026 last week, among other things (like 2 days of incredible talks, the beautiful sea breeze and the banger ghee roasts),

fyi :) #IndiaFOSS 2026

Every good project has that moment where it almost dies. Wrong approach, terrible bug, complete roadblock.

FOSShack 2026 needs mentors who can get people past that moment. Help people ship. Apply below.

https://fossunited.org/fosshack/2026/call-for-mentors/new

For the opening #ForkloreFriday of 2026, we have Shubham Kumar and Twig!

Twig is a terminal-based viewer for JSON and YAML that helps you navigate deeply nested data, almost like a magical magnifying glass for your files, intuitive and fast.

Head to Forklore now, check out the profile in full!

https://forklore.in/maintainers/workdone0

FOSSHack 2026 registrations are now open.

Join a month-long hackathon focused on real projects, real contributions, and learning by doing.

🔗 Register here: https://fossunited.org/fosshack/2026

#FOSSHack 2026 #fossunited #unitedbyfoss

This week in #ForkloreFriday meet Poorna and Mujeeb Rahman I K

Poorna is an open-source Malayalam keyboard layout that supports the full Unicode character set, making typing every Malayalam character easy across platforms.

Head to Forklore, check out the project in full :)

https://forklore.in/maintainers/mujeebcpy

March plans? Sorted.

FOSSHack 2026 is back and running all month.

Registrations soon.

#FOSSHack 2026 #FOSSUnited #UnitedbyFOSS

The DPDPA rules dropped last month, we all had a dozen questions and more.

Join us this Saturday for an unpacking session that breaks down the applicability, obligations, rights, ops, penalties, and all things in between.

RSVP here: https://fossunited.org/c/fossxpolicy/dpda-virtual-call

#UnitedByFOSS #DataProtection

Day 27 of #MeetTheMaintainers
Say hello to @pyodide@fosstodon.org and Agriya Khetarpal

(https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide)

Pyodide runs real Python, not watered down, not rewritten, in the browser, with support for scientific libraries and everything. Started at Mozilla, now community-led, Pyodide is what happens when Python goes serverless and still brings NumPy to the party.

Meet Agriya, one of the folks behind the madness that somehow… just works.🧵