We’re thrilled to announce that our team won 1st place at evoLUMIN 2024, a hackathon by ACM Club at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam! Urbanalyze, analyzes land suitability for habitation or development using factors like flood risk & air quality. 🏆 Prize: ₹1.5Lakh

We are excited to share that amFOSS members participated in the Indic Wikimedia Hackathon in Bhubaneswar! 🎉🎉 During the event, they made valuable contributions to Wikimedia projects, with a few members also playing a key role in organising the hackathon.

Two teams were finalists at the OLabs National-Level Hackathon! 🎉 Their projects 🏆 : Vidya – A virtual teacher with voice navigation & multilingual support. COlaba AI – AI-powered summaries, quizzes & accessibility. Both teams won a ₹10,000 consolation prize! 🚀

Gautham Moharaj is now an Outreachy mentor for Wikimedia Foundation through Scribe 🎉 From contributing to open source to now mentoring the next generation of Outreachy interns, this is a huge milestone in shaping the FOSS community. #Outreachy #Wikimedia #FOSS

🏆 Huge win for amFOSS! Hridesh MG won the Polyglot Protector award at the Globstar Open Source Hackathon! 🎉 🔥 Contributions: ➡️ 7 security checkers across 5 languages ➡️ Built a Go-based SQL Injection detector (OWASP Top 3 risk) #amFOSS #CyberSecurity #OpenSource #Hackathon

🚀 amFOSS clinched 1st place at Define 3.0 Hackathon (Mar Baselios)! ♻️ Eureka – Nishtha, Aadarsh, Rohit, Nandu won ₹25K for waste management! BinIt | Devfolio ⚡ BBC – Mukund, Chinmay, Navaneeth bagged ₹5K for Smart Elderly Care! Boing! | Devfolio #Define3 #KeralaTech

Exciting news from amFOSS! Rihaan and Harigovind have joined the Working Group of the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group! They’ll support Indic language communities by improving tools, streamlining editor workflows, and driving open-source innovation. 🚀🛠️ #Wikimedia #FOSS

🚀 Hack the Future at Vidyut Hackathon! 36 hours of building, coding & solving real-world challenges. Hosted by amFOSS & powered by CISAI. 🏆 ₹1 Lakh prize pool 📅 May 23–24 | 🌐 Open to developers across India Ready to make an impact? Register now! #VidyutHackathon #amFOSS

Cheers to Swayam for being selected for #Wikimania2025 – the global Wikimedia conference taking place in Nairobi, Kenya this August! Your journey in open source is an inspiration to us all. Congrats! #Wikimedia #OpenSource #amFOSS

Excited to share that Aniketh Vijesh and Shrisharanyan Vasu have been selected as Research Interns at UC Santa Cruz through the International Summer Research Program! 🌟 They'll work on Generative AI & Multiagent Systems under Prof. David Lee. Congrats! 🚀

Huge congrats to Gautham for being selected for the The Linux Foundation’s #LFXMentorship Program! He would be working on developing Kotlin smart contract wrappers for Web3j, making blockchain more accessible to Android devs! 🚀 #Blockchain #OpenSource #Web3 #android #TechInnovation

Want to build cool projects but don’t know where to start? The amFOSS Workshop is made just for you, a 14-day, beginner-friendly, offline journey into tech. No coding background needed. Just bring curiosity. We’ll guide the rest. Grab your spot at: events.amfoss.in #FOSS