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.
FOSS training program for underprivileged communities
Webminal is a free, browser-based Linux terminal and learning platform with 8GB RAM. 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 help Prashanth 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.
Data For India is a public platform to expand the understanding of India through data for everyone. It uses public data from the Indian government and multilateral agencies like the World Bank to produce research-backed, data-driven insights and charts on socio-economic issues - covering health, demographics, the economy, living conditions, and more. Its content is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0).
Privacy respecting, free software, collaboration and communication services - https://git.fosscommunity.in/community
NMG has supported FOSS/digital commons work across Design, Geospatial technology, FOSS mirrors and infra, and more. NMG was started as a yearly ₹1,00,000 no-strings-attached, micro-grant to support meaningful work happening in India by Thejesh GN.
Zasper is a 4X Better IDE than JupyterLab. 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.
mirror.albony.in 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.
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.