Project Grants
We fund FOSS projects by raising funds from the tech industry, either through our Industry Partnership Program or by reaching out to them upon receiving requests from FOSS projects/organizations.
Webminal is a free, browser-based Linux terminal and learning platform running since 2011 on a single server with 8GB RAM. It provides real shell access (not a simulation) for students to learn Linux commands, system administration, and programming.
Surge is a high-performance, open-source download manager built for power users, combining multi-connection and multi-mirror acceleration, smart chunking, failover handling, resumable downloads, and live progress tracking for much faster and more reliable file transfers. It also offers a polished terminal UI, headless server mode, CLI automation, and browser extension support, making it easy to manage downloads interactively or integrate them into automated workflows.
Scrite is a screenwriting software designed for Indian languages, enabling writers to create professionally formatted scripts, visually structure stories, refine narratives with ease, and generate detailed pre-production reports.
A professional, cross-platform subtitle editing application built with Flutter. Subtitle Studio provides powerful tools for editing, synchronizing, and managing subtitle files with an intuitive, modern interface.
Data For India is a public platform to expand the understanding of India through data for everyone. It uses public data from the Indian government and multilateral agencies like the World Bank to produce research-backed, data-driven insights and charts on socio-economic issues - covering health, demographics, the economy, living conditions, and more. Its content is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0).
Privacy respecting, free software, collaboration and communication services - https://git.fosscommunity.in/community
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.
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.
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.