[ranjithrajv]

Please confirm this pull request meets the following requirements:

• I followed the contributing guidelines: https://github.com/github/explore/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md.
• This change is not self-promotion.

Which change are you proposing?

• Suggesting edits to an existing topic or collection
• Curating a new topic or collection
• Something that does not neatly fit into the binary options above

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Curating a new topic or collection

• I've formatted my changes as a new folder directory, named for the topic or collection as it appears in the URL on GitHub (e.g. https://github.com/topics/[NAME] or https://github.com/collections/[NAME])
• My folder contains a *.png image (if applicable) and index.md
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Why this collection should be curated

Hyderabad is one of India's largest software hubs and home to IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Hyderabad, and the Swecha free software movement, but its open source work has no collection. The 15 items were created in the city or are materially maintained by developers based there: gitolite, Wav2Lip, rooks, mobx.dart, SARAL, DIGIPIN, ComicGen, Questgen, Telugu language tooling, and Swecha's community platforms. Each entry has a verifiable Hyderabad origin or maintainer link. I left out global companies' local offices and proprietary Hyderabad-born products, so the collection reflects work actually built here rather than a city directory.

The image is a 300x300 PNG (8.7 kB) using a pearl motif, a reference to Hyderabad's nickname, the City of Pearls.

[github-actions]

Maintainer triage

Collection made-in-hyderabad

Item	Stars	Last push	Owner type	Notes
sitaramc/gitolite	8,598	2026-09-29	User	–
Rudrabha/Wav2Lip	13,264	2025-06-22	User	–
imbhargav5/rooks	3,452	2026-10-04	User	–
mobxjs/mobx.dart	2,464	2026-10-23	Organization	–
hindupuravinash/the-gan-zoo	14,698	2023-10-06	User	–
DemocratiseResearch/SARAL	193	2026-09-30	Organization	–
INDIAPOST-gov/digipin	107	2026-05-29	User	–
gramener/comicgen	617	2024-04-07	Organization	–
ramsrigouthamg/Questgen.ai	952	2023-12-08	User	–
Rudrabha/Lip2Wav	716	2023-07-06	User	–
sivaprasadreddy/tomato-architecture	810	2025-10-05	User	–
katha-ai/EmoTx-CVPR2023	58	2024-10-15	Organization	–
BodduSriPavan-111/chandassu	16	2026-10-10	User	–
https://code.swecha.org	–	–	–	invalid format
https://huggingface.co/swechatelangana	–	–	–	invalid format

[ranjithrajv]

The lint and collections jobs are failing in ruby/setup-ruby before any tests run: Error: Unavailable version 3.4.1 for ruby on ubuntu-26.04. The test (all) job, which does run, passes. I validated locally that the collection has 15 existing items, a 460-character body, 300x300 PNG (8.7 kB), and valid front matter. Happy to rebase or adjust once the runner image issue is resolved.