Funding and Grants

For the inaugural Season of Commits (2025), Prerak Singh will be working on PyDataStructs.

Supporting the OpenStreetMap(OSM) community mapping parties across the country.

A fast fuzzy text search engine

Zasper is a 4X Better IDE than JupyterLab

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.

Open-source development and hosted services.

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.

Sayan develops Skytable, a FOSS realtime NoSQL database.

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

A fullstack MVC web framework for Node.js created by Harminder Virk.

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.

Sayan develops Skytable, a FOSS reqltime NoSQL database.

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.