India’s Largest FOSS Hackathon

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22nd - 23rd February 2025 | Hybrid

FOSS Hack 2025 is the fifth edition of FOSS Hack, a hybrid hackathon to promote Free and Open Source Software by bringing together students and professionals to build or extend FOSS projects.

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Prize pool

9

Local Hosts

21 FEB 2025

Registrations Closing

22 FEB 2025

Hackathon start

20 mar 2025

Result Announcement

Why Participate?

  • Win up to ₹10 lakhs in cash

  • Build your reputation as a hacker

  • Get recognized by recruiters

  • Grants for your FOSS project

Rules in a nutshell

  • Evaluation will be done on basis of code commit during the course of the event.

  • You cannot use external APIs as the core feature

  • Your project must have a valid FOSS license

  • The cash prize will be split among the winners at the discretion of the jury

  • Check out the rules page for more details

Partner Projects Programme

An effort to provide FOSS Hack participants with time and mentorship to be able to contribute to curated open-source projects.

  • The partner projects programme offers a curated list of open source projects with issues, for FOSS Hack participants to work on.

  • The participants can look-up issues in a curated list of projects, and propose to contribute to them.

  • Once assigned, these issues can be worked on, and PRs generated.

  • The participants will have access to forum with the maintainers to get onboarding to the project, codebase and other related queries and support.

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Timeline

Registrations Open

Registrations Close

Hacking Begins! Hackathon Day 1

Hackathon Day 2

Submissions Deadline

Results Announcement

04 Jan 2025

11:00 PM - 21 Feb 2025

22 Feb 2025

23 Feb 2025
08:00 PM - 23 Feb 2025

20 Mar 2025

Localhosts

FOSS Hack Localhosts are localized, in-person editions of the broader hybrid version of FOSS Hack 2024. Hackers can choose to hack at a localhost in your region. There are several localhosts organised across the country.