FOSS Hack is back for its sixth edition! With the month-long hybrid hackathon, we bring together students, professionals and communities to contribute better to Free and Open Source software projects. Dive right in!
Timeline
Register now to express your interest in participating! If you are interested in hacking at a localhost, hurry up, because limited spots!
Make progress towards your project,
whether it's a project you're building or an existing project you're contributing to,
whether you're coding, designing, documenting, testing, etc.
During this time,
you can also seek out mentorship and expert advice regarding your work!
Wrap up your work in a neat bow - make sure that your project has an appropriate description and a demo video. If you're writing code, make sure to add a link to the source code repository, e.g., GitHub repo.
After multiple rounds of elimination, we will be sharing the results on Monday, the 4th of May. Projects will be evaluated for novelty, completeness, and relevance. For additional details, please see FAQs.
Partner Projects Programme
An effort to provide FOSS Hack participants with time and mentorship to be able to contribute to curated open-source projects.
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It’s not just code...
Documentation
Help improve documentation for open-source projects — write guides, tutorials, READMEs, or API references.
Data
Contribute datasets (OSMaps), data pipelines, or data analysis to open-source projects.
Design
Improve the user experience and visual design of open-source projects — create logos, UI/UX improvements, or design systems.
Code
Solve issues and make PRs contribution to OSS repositories.
Why Participate?
- Kickstart your journey into the FOSS ecosystem.
- Figure out how you can contribute to the Digital Commons
- Access meaningful mentorship and support as you try to solve real-world problems.
- All this with a chance to win upto 5 Lakh INR in cash prizes :)
Rules in a nutshell
- Evaluation based on contributions made during the event duration
- Core functionality shouldn't depend on closed-source software or closed/proprietary APIs
- Your project must have a valid FOSS license
- The cash prize will be split among the winners at the discretion of the jury
- No blockchain/web3 or crypto projects. Why?
- Check out the Rules & FAQ's page for more details
- Your projects will be judged on the basis of how meaningful of a problem you've decided to work on, and how well described that problem is. We will also look at the projects to evaluate how well you understand the codebase. If you have used an LLM to generate code, please make sure to give necessary attributions.
Localhosts
FOSS Hack Localhosts are localized, in-person editions of the broader hybrid version. Hackers can choose to hack at a localhost in your region.
Sponsors
