Funding and Grants

Webminal is a free, browser-based Linux terminal and learning platform running since 2011 on a single server with 8GB RAM. It provides real shell access (not a simulation) for students to learn Linux commands, system administration, and programming.

Surge is a high-performance, open-source download manager built for power users, combining multi-connection and multi-mirror acceleration, smart chunking, failover handling, resumable downloads, and live progress tracking for much faster and more reliable file transfers. It also offers a polished terminal UI, headless server mode, CLI automation, and browser extension support, making it easy to manage downloads interactively or integrate them into automated workflows.

Scrite is a screenwriting software designed for Indian languages, enabling writers to create professionally formatted scripts, visually structure stories, refine narratives with ease, and generate detailed pre-production reports.

OSDHack’26 is a 5 day nationwide annual hackathon hosted by the Open Source Developers Community (OSDC). Previous iterations of OSDHack have seen around 500+ participants yearly. Theme: On Device AI This year’s theme invites participants to rethink how AI is built and used. The challenge is to create open-source projects where the core AI runs on-device, making applications faster, more private, offline-friendly, and less dependent on remote AI APIs.

HillHacks.in 2026 will take place from 3 to 7 June in The Bagicha, Bir area. You and friends are cordially invited. In this event, people from different places, walks of life and lines of thought come together to share, collaborate and learn. Hackers talk code. Artists share their creativity. Students join in from schools and colleges to learn new skills. Locals and globals mix and mingle. Among all the software and hardware, we also build things like tables, hula hoops, interactive art installations, and solar lanterns. We connect. We dance and sing. Ideas emerge. Collaborations form. Lives change. In the hacking, we get hacked ourselves. Philosophy HillHacks is passionate about making, sharing, learning, and the broad concepts of open source. Freedom, security, and environmentalism are also key to hillhackers. All of our ideas have conjoined into something exceptionally creative. The event starts with a core team and then takes shape organically based on the competence and skills of the attendees. This is similar to an unconference which is a participant-driven event. The agenda isn’t fixed in advance—the people who show up decide what gets discussed, when, and how.

This special edition is being organized alongside ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2026, and aims to bring together database practitioners, systems engineers, and researchers to discuss how modern data systems are designed, scaled, and operated in production. The programme includes talks on: distributed databases and storage systems database internals and performance engineering AI and agentic workloads on databases production failures, bottlenecks, and operational learnings research ideas meeting real-world systems More about the conference: https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/special-edition-on-databases/

Fellowship to support Pratham's work on SunPy, RADIS, NumPy, and a plethora of other projects across the open-source ecosystem

Follow-on fellowship grant of INR 6L to support contrapunctus’ work in the OSM ecosystem. Last year, contrapunctus travelled to events all over the country to host workshops, events and give talks.

Fellowship to support Aravinda’s work on Sanka and a plethora of other projects, mostly around FOSS Kannada tooling!