Browse all FOSS United grantees disbursed for Projects, Events, and Fellowships.
BarCamp Bangalore is an open, volunteer-led, participant-driven unconference where attendees propose and run sessions themselves. It celebrates peer-to-peer learning, spontaneous discussions, and community-led knowledge sharing across a wide range of topics rather than a fixed agenda. We are planning a full-day unconference that brings together a diverse and engaged audience including software professionals, entrepreneurs, students, professors, venture capitalists and angel investors, photographers, social-change activists, NGO policy makers, bloggers, consultants, reporters, and more. Over the years BarCamp Bangalore has attracted thousands of participants, hundreds of session proposals, and extensive community engagement both in person and online. The event will offer multiple parallel session tracks where participants can share ideas, discuss real-world challenges, showcase projects, lead workshops, and network with other passionate individuals. It is a unique opportunity for people to connect, learn, collaborate and co-create in an inclusive environment that encourages experimentation, creativity, and community building.
The Audio Developer Conference (ADC) is a not-for-profit event and is dedicated to providing education and essential resources to audio developers around the world. The mission is to bring the audio developer community together, and promote diversity and accessibility. ADCx India 26 is a one-day version of ADC scheduled for 29th March 2026 at the Bangalore International Centre (BIC) and includes talks, networking sessions & keynotes that cover topics including audio development technologies, music applications, game audio, audio processing, embedded systems. 3D and VR/AR audio, DSP, machine learning and more. The talks of the event are live-streamed to YouTube and are made available to everyone for free in line with the vision to improve accessibility to information. To build an inclusive ecosystem, the event also provides Diversity Grants and stays focussed on making it a welcoming place.
FOSS event grant
CircuitVerse is a free, open-source platform which allows users to construct digital logic circuits online.
mirror.albony.in is a student run service which provides mirrors for various opensource projects and linux distributions.
FOSS event grant
Blender Kannada Tutorials Series
Policy in Action Program by Young Leaders in Active Citizenship (YLAC). Ansh was provided a grant to cover for partial travel expenses and course fees.
As part of the NAST Fellowship conducted by The Takshashila Institution, Arpit worked on the project "Balancing Innovation and Risk Management in Open-Source Adoption for Critical Sectors"
For the inaugural Season of Commits (2025), Prerak Singh will be working on PyDataStructs.
Supporting the OpenStreetMap(OSM) community mapping parties across the country.
This is an extension to the previous grants to Rethink DNS which building a WireGuard client, an OpenSnitch-inspired firewall and network monitor + a pi-hole-inspired DNS over HTTPS client with blocklists.
FSCI hosts free software powered and privacy respecting services for general public. These services are run by volunteers in their free time.
Firefiles, is an attempt to build open‑source alternative to Dropbox which lets us setup a cloud drive with the backend of your choice and lets you seamlessly manage your files across multiple providers.
Rethink DNS + Firewall for Android is DNS over HTTPS / DNS over Tor / DNSCrypt client, firewall, and connection tracker for Android built by Murtaza Aliakbar and Mohammed Hussain.
This is an extension to the previous grants to the TinkerHub foundation to fund its Tinkerspace project, the physical hacker/tinkerer/community space located in Kochi, Kerala.
Parseable is an efficient and scalable log storage and management platform. Cloud native by design, Parseable ensures ease of deployment and use. It is compatible with standard logging agents like FluentBit, LogStash etc
SMC is a free software collective engaged in development, localization, standardization of Indic language computing resources.
A non-profit foundation that organizes large scale workshops, programs, and community events to give hands-on hacking / dev and FOSS experience to budding hackers and students.
paperd.ink is a FOSS 4.2" e-paper development board to show calendar, weather, to-do lists, notifications, images and much more.
IFF is a non-profit organisation that defends online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India.
An open source, two-way communication platform for NGOs to chat and communicate with beneficiaries.
IFF is a non-profit organisation that defends online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India.
Principal developer of the Rebuild Earth / Kerala Rescue project that was instrumental to the rescue efforts during the Kerala floods.
A statically typed functional programming language geared towards building web applications built on top of BEAM, the Erlang VM. Created by its lead developer, Emil Soman, the project's first prototype was presented at FOSS Hack 2020-08-01.
A non-profit foundation that organizes large scale workshops, programs, and community events to give hands-on hacking / dev and FOSS experience to budding hackers and students. 21L of the grant was co-sponsored by Zerodha.