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amFOSS (also known as FOSS@Amrita) is a student community-based in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri focused on contributing to Free and Open Source Software and mentoring students to achieve excellence in various fields of Computer Science.
01/02/2026
Team H.A.S.H. from amFOSS secured 1st place at the Zenith Hackathon.
Huge congratulations to Hridesh MG, Abhinav M, Souri S and Harikrishna TP for their dedication and creativity. The team progressed from 1,000+ applications to the top 32 teams invited for onsite finals, and ultimately finished 1st overall.
Well earned recognition for an outstanding effort.
01/02/2026
Team H.A.S.H. from amFOSS secured 1st place at the Zenith Hackathon, Bangalore.
Huge congratulations to Hridesh MG, Abhinav M, Souri S and Harikrishna TP for their dedication and creativity. The team progressed from 1,000+ applications to the top 32 teams invited for onsite finals, and ultimately finished 1st overall.
Well earned recognition for an outstanding effort.
07/01/2026
Big congratulations to Khushal! 🎉
He got selected for the LFX Mentorship 2025 by the Linux Foundation! 🐧💻
He’ll be contributing to Linux Kernel bug fixing, improving the performance and stability of one of the world’s most widely used open-source projects.
We’re proud to see our community making an impact in the open-source world! 🌍
FOSS LinuxKernel Mentorship AchievementUnlocked
05/01/2026
🚀 Team LocalVariables secured 3rd place at ICSRF 2025! 🏅
Congrats to Rohith, Aadarsh, Malavika, Naveen, Chinmay, and Mukund for their effort and creativity. From long hours to thoughtful ex*****on, they turned ideas into real impact and showed what LocalVariables can achieve.
Respect to the squad for this achievement! 💪🔥
LocalVariables OpenSource
26/12/2025
We are proud to announce that amFOSS members Siddharth and Hridesh presented their work on the Linux Kernel at The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit India 2025 under the LFX Mentorship Showcase!
The summit brought together developers, contributors, and industry leaders to celebrate open source. We’re incredibly proud of Siddharth and Hridesh for earning the opportunity to present at a global event!
26/12/2025
Big news from amFOSS! 🚀✨
Congratulations to Gautham Mohanraj, Abhinav M, and Keerthan K K for being selected for the Wikimedia Developer Skill Development Program India 2025!
They’ll spend the next few months advancing their skills, tackling complex bugs, and developing impactful tools and pushing themselves and the FOSS community forward.
26/12/2025
Nishtha recently completed the Swift Mentorship Program under Jim Haungs, a veteran in Swift, iOS, and software architecture!
Through this mentorship, she honed her skills in app architecture design and efficient data handling, while exploring ways to build scalable and elegant app structures.
Sincere gratitude to the Swift.org Mentorship Program for such an amazing learning experience!
26/12/2025
We’re proud to share that Team Motorbrew , , , and has secured 2nd place at the NXP AIM Hackathon 2025 Grand Finale! 🏆
After winning the Bangalore regional round among 2500+ teams, the team represented amFOSS at the national finals in Noida, competing against the best innovators across the country.
Their project tackled the Warehouse Inventory Management challenge, where they engineered a robotics-based solution to optimize warehouse operations blending creativity, precision, and real-world impact. Appukuttan, the team’s robot, stood out for its ingenuity and application of cutting-edge technology in AI-driven mobility solutions.
We’re incredibly proud of their journey and achievement. Congratulations, Team Motorbrew!
26/12/2025
We’re proud to announce that Satvik has been selected for the European Summer of Code 2025 (ESoC), a global, open-source internship program hosted by European companies! 🥳
He’ll be working with ecoSPECS on an open-source AI-powered aptamer design—an exciting project that advances drug discovery and medical diagnostics.
Congratulations, Satvik 👏
26/12/2025
Wikimedia Hackathon Kochi 2025 was held on July 25–27 at Tinkerspace, Kochi, in collaboration with amFOSS and the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group.
This 3-day hackathon brought together developers, contributors, and enthusiasts from across kerala to work on Wikimedia’s technical projects.
Our club members actively participated, contributing to projects like Videocuttool, the Scribe Android app, and other MediaWiki tools.
The event was a valuable opportunity to gain hands-on experience in open-source development, collaborate with experienced developers, and make meaningful contributions that support global knowledge-sharing.
26/12/2025
🚀 Hack the Future: Vidyut Hackathon 2025
A 36-hour national tech marathon organized by amFOSS and sponsored by CISAI in
collaboration with ISEA Phase III and MeitY, where students tackled real-world cybersecurity challenges with bold ideas and innovative solutions.
The event was held from May 23-25, 2025.
Winners:
🥇 CodeFlux – AntiPhish
AI browser extension that detects phishing links & spoofed domains across Gmail, WhatsApp & more.
🥈 CodeCrafters – PhisherMan
ML-powered tool that flags malicious URLs in real-time.
🥉 NullWeb – Null Scan
Automated vulnerability tester for web, APKs & blockchain with fix suggestions.
👏 Shoutout to all participants for building impactful, real-world solutions through innovation and
collaboration!
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FOSS@Amrita (also known as amFOSS) is a student community-based in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri focused on contributing to Free and Open Source Software and mentoring students to achieve excellence in various fields of Computer Science.
We envision students to excel and become the leaders of tomorrow by imbibing valuable skills relevant in the 21st century which include technical but also creative and intrapersonal skills enabling students to collaborate, exchange ideas, work together and solve real-life problems.
Founded in 2006 by Vipin Pavithran, the mentor, the club over the years, has been one of the leading student clubs in India, with over 70 active members. Students from amFOSS participate in many international student open-source programs like the Google Summer of Code, Outreachy, Season of KDE, Rails Girls Summer of Code and so on, each year. The club is run by the students themselves, under the guidance of Vipin Pavithran with the help of the club alumni and supporting faculty.
The club’s story starts when its founder, Mr. Vipin Pavithran, joined Amrita University in 2006 after ten years of experience with the software industry in the US. The readiness to guide and mentor was the spark. His willingness to help and bring out the best in each student who he mentored, provided the fundamentals of what the club is established on.
He believes that each student has great potential which is to be brought out, which is now delivered through the club activities.
A Humble Beginning
In the summer of 2006, he was approached by Abhilash T G, seeking a mentor to participate in the IBM Great Mind Challenge 2006. Soon a team of enthusiasts was formed and rigorous preparation had been initiated. Initially the students were not confident of getting selected, let alone winning; however they were highly motivated and enthusiastic about it. At the same time, Vipin sir was confident in his students as he was certain that his students would come on top.
Months passed, with the team working day and night under intense preparation focusing only on their goal. They missed out on their usual college life, and were often mocked by their classmates. Infact, there were instances when nothing went their way and they thought of giving up, but they were motivated and pushed forward by Vipin sir.
In the end, they ended up among the Top 5 teams from India, and were invited to Mumbai for the prize distribution ceremony. This was the first national level prize to be won by Amritapuri students.
Motivated by the success, Vipin sir started searching for more contests at the national and international level. He then came across the Sun Code For Freedom 2008, conducted by Sun Microsystems, which was about contributing to their open source projects. It had already been 2 months since the contest started and Avinash Joshi, a third-year student was put on to work on contributing to Open Solaris, the open sourced version of Solaris operating system from Sun Microsystems. Avinash who had just completed his course on Operating System was now expected to contribute to one with over 9 million lines of code. After two months of intense effort Avinash finally figured out how to contribute and started contributing to it. He documented the entire process so that his peers could also get started with it and soon enough many students started contributing to it.
Every day, students would stayback in the lab till late and work on contributing to various open source software from Sun Microsystems.
When the contest was judged, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham emerged as the champion university, with a total of 105 contributions. The team that came second had only 10 contributions in total. Our students were invited to Hyderabad for the Sun Tech Days 2008 where the prizes were awarded.
After this students started regularly contributing to Sun Open Source products with the active support of Sun Microsystems.
In 2010, Vipin sir chanced upon Google Summer of Code (GSoC), and 3 members of the club got selected for the first time. Over the years, through the experiences shared by the seniors, more and more students started participating in GSoC. Having started with a strength of 10 members, the club now has about 50 active members, and several alumni actively mentoring the club.
