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Published on March 9, 2026 by Grace

🟣 From OSC

Berlin: FOSS Backstage Discount, OSC Pizza Party and Team Offsite (Mar 16–21)

OSC will be at FOSS Backstage, in Berlin Mar 16th and 17th. We have a limited number of discount codes available for projects hosted by OSC. If you’re interested in attending, please email us and we’ll share a code with you while they last.

We’re also going to be having a Friends of OSC Pizza Party on Tuesday the 17th and would love to invite OSC admins, maintainers, and anyone else in our community! If you’re in or around Berlin, please let us know here so we can invite you: https://oscollective.fillout.com/t/tRVBmxhqLous

The OSC team will also be using this opportunity for an OSC team offsite for the rest of that week, which is always a joy since we’re spread across the world. We’ll still process expenses and respond to tickets, but responses and processing times may be slightly slower.

Meshtastic 101
Last month, part of the Meshtastic crew joined our Spotlight call to chat about the mesh networking ecosystem built on LoRa, enabling long-distance, low-bandwidth communication for things like messaging, location tracking, and sensor data.

Additionally, they talked about some very interesting real-world use cases from their community, how they handle community development, and how they manage AI-generated pull requests.

If you missed it, you can watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/piFssDbffMQ

🌍 Community Highlights, Updates, and Announcements

In February, we accepted 19 new Collectives to OSC! Welcome to Antdv Next, ApeWorX, Booming Music, CompNeuroSociety, Devi & Muna, Django bolt, getbindu, invokevirtual, LLM4S, Margin, ngx-lottie, nutriverse, Papra, PlainHub Open Source, PurrNet, Telegem, Vuepont, WlxTeam, and Xcode Releases.

✨ Opportunities, Funding, and Resources

These opportunities are not managed by OSC. Some may involve us in some way or come from organizations we work with, while others are resources shared with us and we cannot vouch for. Please review the details and do your own due diligence before applying or participating.

Applications are open for Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, which supports projects working to improve the security of the open source ecosystem. Projects and maintainers working on open source security are invited to apply. Session 4 begins April 2026. Learn more and apply here: https://github.com/open-source/github-secure-open-source-fund

Claude is offering 6 months of free Claude Max access for eligible open source projects. If your project is looking for AI tooling, you can learn more and apply here: https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss

Open Source Endowment has launched to support funding for open source projects through an endowment model. Projects can be nominated for funding through this program. Learn more here: https://endowment.dev/

Applications are open for the Sovereign Tech Fellowship, which supports maintainers and contributors working on critical open source infrastructure. This year, community managers and technical writers are also eligible. Learn more here: https://www.sovereign.tech/news/2026-fellowship-applications-open

That’s all for this month! As always, if you’d like to get in touch about any of the above or anything else, feel free to email us at [email protected].

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