Opportunity Open Source is OpenPrinting's annual free and open source software (FOSS) conference in India.
It is held every year at a university or institute in India to showcase free and open source software and to motivate students, professors, and researchers to take part in its development — by contributing code, design, documentation, and more. Each edition features talks and hands-on workshops across a wide range of FOSS topics, and often a hackathon. To give people all over India the chance to take part, every edition is held at a different location.
It grew out of the wish of OpenPrinting's Till Kamppeter and Aveek Basu to meet their Google Summer of Code contributors in person and to motivate more people to join the free and open source software community. The conferences have since become a major source of new OpenPrinting and GSoC contributors.
Follow the conference on LinkedIn for announcements and calls for proposals.
Next edition
Opportunity Open Source 4.0 — IIIT Allahabad
- Location: IIIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Dates: August 28–30, 2026
The fourth edition, hosted together with the Google Developer Group (GDG) at IIIT Allahabad. Read the announcement.
Past editions
| Edition | Location | Dates | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | IIT Kanpur, India | September 5–7, 2025 | Recap · Schedule |
| 2.0 | IIT Kanpur, India | August 24–26, 2024 | Recap · Schedule |
| 1.0 | IIT Mandi, India | September 2023 | Recap · Schedule |
Get involved
Want to speak, host a future edition, sponsor the conference, or just attend? Follow the conference on LinkedIn, get in touch via the Contact Us page, or learn more about Sponsors & donations. Many of our Google Summer of Code contributors first joined us through this conference.