All Grantees
Browse all FOSS United grantees disbursed for Projects, Events, and Fellowships.
The grant contributes to FOSS training program for underprivileged communities.
Webminal is a free, browser-based Linux terminal and learning platform. 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 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.
IFID maps India’s varied food ingredient names into shared categories while preserving regional identity. This project was supported through the Nagarathna Memorial Grant (NMG) 2026, a micro-grant run by Thejesh GN.
Constitutional Observer is a searchable public archive of legislative debates, government orders, and gazettes that traces how India’s Constitution is applied in everyday governance. This project was supported through the Nagarathna Memorial Grant (NMG) 2026, a micro-grant run by Thejesh GN.
Harp is a private health records app that lets you keep your health events, measurements, and reports on your own device as plain text files, with no accounts, servers, or tracking. This project was supported through the Nagarathna Memorial Grant (NMG) 2026, a micro-grant run by Thejesh GN.
Data For India uses public data from the Indian government and agencies like the World Bank to produce research-backed, data-driven insights and charts on socio-economic issues. The grant supports infrastructure for the project.
Privacy respecting, free software, collaboration and communication services - https://git.fosscommunity.in/community
SciPy India is one of India's longest-running community conferences dedicated to scientific computing using free and open source software.
CogniCraft 2026 is a four-week RSET Kochi event for where participants design cognitive assistive technologies for neurodivergent individuals.
The event will bring together 600+ professionals and students and is inviting talks and workshops exclusively on FOSS tools, from programming and SRE to geospatial and hobby projects.
WLUG’s Linux Diary 7.0 at WCE Sangli covers basic to advanced Linux and networking.
Youth IGF India’s 9th Annual Forum, a UN IGF-recognized youth initiative, was held at IIT Bombay, bringing together fellows, students, and experts to discuss Internet governance, AI, and cybersecurity.
OSDHack’26 is OSDC’s five-day nationwide hackathon, drawing 500+ participants yearly, to build open-source projects with on-device AI that’s faster, more private, and works offline.
PravConf is a two-day gathering at St. Thomas Institute for Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, where the Prav and wider free software communities discuss privacy, self-hosting, and the fediverse.
HillHacks 2026 is a participant-driven unconference at The Bagicha, Bir, from June 3 to 7, where hackers, artists, students, and locals come together to make, share, and learn in the spirit of open source.
Rootconf’s Topical Edition on Databases, held alongside ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2026 in Bengaluru brings practitioners and researchers together to explore how modern data systems are designed, scaled, and run in production.
Kochi MiniDebCamp is a four-day unconference where Debian contributors and users come together for technical discussions, sprints, and bug squashing.
BarCamp Bangalore is a full-day, volunteer-led participant-driven unconference for open, peer-to-peer learning where a diverse crowd of professionals, students, entrepreneurs, and creators propose and run their own sessions to share ideas and learn from each other.
Bringing systems engineers, tooling teams, and Rust contributors to Bengaluru for a focused day of talks, community, and hiring conversations around real Rust work.
Metamorphosis 2K26 is WLUG’s two-day hands-on workshop at teaching Docker and Golang to help students build production-ready apps and contribute to open source.
FOSSMeet is an annual event on Free and Open source software, conducted at National Institute of Technology, Calicut. Started with a vision to create a culture of innovation, evolution and open standards, the meet intends to support the FOSS community and the dissemination of FOSS ideology through hands-on sessions, discussions and lectures.
Open Source Day 2026 is a community-driven conference celebrating the power of open source software. Join developers, maintainers, and builders for a full day of learning, collaboration, and innovation in Gandhinagar.
ADCx India 26 is a free-to-stream, one-day audio developer conference at the Bangalore International Centre featuring talks and keynotes on audio tech, DSP, game audio, music apps, and machine learning.
MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026 is a conference organized by Debian India. It is a local version of DebConf that focuses on Debian as free and open-source software by conducting talks and workshops.
The Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy (APIGA) is a prestigious capacity development workshop conducted by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in partnership with Korea Internet Security Agency (KISA) aimed at nurturing understanding and engagement with critical Internet governance issues, particularly within the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
FOSS event grant
The fellowship supports Pradyot’s work on improving Array API Standard support across the scientific Python ecosystem, including fixing MLX compatibility gaps, extending it to array-api-extra and SciPy.
This grant supports Soham's work on ROCm backporting, GPU benchmarking, and reproducible Linux GPU-compute workflows for older AMD hardware.
Fellowship to support Muneer's work on improving design across the open source ecosystem.
Fellowship to support Pratham's work on SunPy, RADIS, NumPy, and a plethora of other projects across the open-source ecosystem
Follow-on fellowship grant of INR 6L to support contrapunctus’ work in the OSM ecosystem. Last year, contrapunctus travelled to events all over the country to host workshops, events and give talks.
Fellowship to support Aravinda’s work on Sanka and a plethora of other projects, mostly around FOSS Kannada tooling!
Policy in Action Program (Summer cohort) by Young Leaders in Active Citizenship (YLAC). Akshit and Niya were provided a grant to pursue the program.
High School Achievers program by Young Leaders in Active Citizenship (YLAC). Arya was provided a grant to cover the fees of the fellowship.
Srihari represented SciPy India at PyConf Hyderabad 2026, with the travel and accommodation covered by a FOSS United travel grant.
FOSS United Foundation has joined the CoRE Stack Innovation Challenge to support the work on 3 POCs, under the Season of Commits program.
RethinkDNS, Zasper and Ente were supported through a FOSS United travel grant of up to Rs. 1,00,000 each to attend FOSDEM 2026, covering round-trip travel from India and stay.
Zasper is an IDE. 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.
Albony mirror 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.
FOSS event grant
Policy in Action Program by Young Leaders in Active Citizenship (YLAC). Ansh was provided a grant to cover for partial travel expenses and course fees.
As part of the NAST Fellowship conducted by The Takshashila Institution, Arpit worked on the project "Balancing Innovation and Risk Management in Open-Source Adoption for Critical Sectors"
For the inaugural Season of Commits (2025), Prerak Singh will be working on PyDataStructs.
Supporting the OpenStreetMap(OSM) community mapping parties across the country.
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. The grant supports infrastructure expenses of the project.
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.