India’s Largest FOSS Hackathon
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
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Local Hosts
21 FEB 2025
Registrations Closing
22 FEB 2025
Hackathon start
20 mar 2025
Result Announcement
Win up to ₹10 lakhs in cash
Build your reputation as a hacker
Get recognized by recruiters
Grants for your FOSS project
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
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.
Explore Projects
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
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.
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