Project Grants
We fund FOSS projects by raising funds from the tech industry, either through our Industry Partnership Program or by reaching out to them upon receiving requests from FOSS projects/organizations.
The grant contributes to FOSS training program for underprivileged communities.
Webminal is a free, browser-based Linux terminal and learning platform. The grant supports infrastructure and maintainer stipends.
Surge is an, open-source download manager. The grant covers infrastructure, and milestone-based stipends for two maintainers over three months.
Scrite is a screenwriting software designed for Indian languages.This grant will sustain Scrite’s infrastructure for the next year.
A cross-platform subtitle editing application built with Flutter. It provides tools for editing, synchronizing, and managing subtitle files. The grant supports continued development of the project.
IFID maps India’s varied food ingredient names into shared categories while preserving regional identity. This project was supported through the Nagarathna Memorial Grant (NMG) 2026, a micro-grant run by Thejesh GN.
Constitutional Observer is a searchable public archive of legislative debates, government orders, and gazettes that traces how India’s Constitution is applied in everyday governance. This project was supported through the Nagarathna Memorial Grant (NMG) 2026, a micro-grant run by Thejesh GN.
Harp is a private health records app that lets you keep your health events, measurements, and reports on your own device as plain text files, with no accounts, servers, or tracking. This project was supported through the Nagarathna Memorial Grant (NMG) 2026, a micro-grant run by Thejesh GN.
Data For India uses public data from the Indian government and agencies like the World Bank to produce research-backed, data-driven insights and charts on socio-economic issues. The grant supports infrastructure for the project.
Privacy respecting, free software, collaboration and communication services - https://git.fosscommunity.in/community
Zasper is an IDE. The grant amount will be used to financially support the creator for developing and improving the project full-time over the next 6 months, towards tasks like improving UX, platform support, documentation, performance, and creating advanced features and extensions.
CircuitVerse is a free, open-source platform which allows users to construct digital logic circuits online.
Albony mirror is a student run service which provides mirrors for various opensource projects and linux distributions. The grant will be utilized for procuring storage drives for these mirror nodes and setting up new nodes in other parts of the country.
Open-source development and hosted services. This grant addresses the team’s funding needs for development and hardware, enabling them to sustain operations for a year.
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. The grant supports infrastructure expenses of the project.
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 grant aimed to support the integration of WireGuard and related features into the Rethink DNS + Firewall app.
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.