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FOSS United^[1][2] is an Indian not-for-profit organization that aims to promote & strengthen the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem in India.

FOSS United organizes the annual IndiaFOSS conference, FOSSHack hackathon and monthly meetups and conferences all over the country . The IndiaFOSS 2024 conference^[3] featured talks on Software, Hardware, Technology Policy^[4], and more and workshops on OpenRefine^[5], self-hosting, etc.

In January 2020, the IndiaOS conference^[6][7][8][9] was jointly organized by ERPNext and Zerodha. After the conference, the existing ERPNext Foundation^[10] was subsumed by the new FOSS United Foundation, as a collaboration between ERPNext and Zerodha^[11]. Anand Chitipothu joined the Foundation as its first employee. He contributed to the development of the mon.school learning platform before leaving the foundation on March 31, 2022.^[12]

FOSS United organizes the annual FOSS Hack hackathon. The hackathon is organized in a remote-friendly manner with a few physical locations where participants can hack in-person, e.g. at the SRM Institute of Technology, Chennai^[13]. The hackathon participants can create new FOSS projects or they could contribute to FOSS partner projects, like Hoppscotch^[14].

FOSS United is a founding member of the Open-source Alliance for Social Impact and Sustainability. OASIS is a network of organizations united by the vision that Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) can empower citizen sector organizations and communities to create positive impact at scale. Formed jointly by seven social and tech organizations – FOSS United, ASPIRe, Tech4Good Labs, Tech4Good Community, TinkerHub, and GitHub -- The OASIS alliance was launched last week in Bengaluru at a summit that saw 400 individuals, non-profit organizations, and technologists in attendance.^[15]

• FOSS.IN
• ERPNext
• Zerodha
• Free software in India
• List of free and open-source software organizations