Funding and Grants
Support by monetary means for initiatives that foster FOSS culture in India.
The Grants Program
The grants program was initiated with the vision to provide financial support to FOSS projects and events across the country.
Currently, we do not run project grants formally, with further discussions happening to analyse the need to restart it. However, if you have a FOSS specific project or initiative and in need of monetary support, you can start a conversation with us at grants@fosunited.org.
Our event grants provide financial support to FOSS events. To avail an event grant, write to us with a proposal on the event specifics like goals, target audience, support links and documents etc.
₹50,000
Major FOSS conferences
₹25,000
Mini-FOSS conferences
₹10,000
Other FOSS events
Recent Event Grants
FOSSEra 3.0
Date
05 Apr 2024
Location
TBA
FOSSmeet 2024
Date
15 Mar 2024
Location
NIT Calicut
Techacks 4.0
Date
19 Jan 2024
Location
Chitkara University
ETHOS - FOSS Club SRM
Date
19 Oct 2023
Location
SRMIST
Hack4Bengal 2.0
Date
28 Apr 2023
Location
TBA
MeenHacks
Date
16 Apr 2023
Location
College of Engineering kidangoor
Wittyhacks 3.0
Date
07 Apr 2023
Location
NMIMS University, Indore:
TechnoHack 2023
Date
18 Mar 2023
Location
IEDC, Model Engineering College, Kochi
Project Grants
Free Software Services of India (FSCI)
FSCI hosts free software powered and privacy respecting services for general public. These services are run by volunteers in their free time.
Grant Year
2023
Grant Amt.
₹ 1,00,000
Firefiles
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.
Grant Year
2023
Grant Amt.
₹ 6,00,000
Rethink DNS
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.
Grant Year
2023
Grant Amt.
₹ 3,00,000
Sayan Nandan (developer)
Sayan develops Skytable, a FOSS realtime NoSQL database.
Grant Year
2022
Grant Amt.
₹ 6,50,000
TinkerHub Foundation
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.
Grant Year
2022
Grant Amt.
₹ 60,00,000
Co-Sponsor
Zerodha
Parseable
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
Grant Year
2022
Grant Amt.
₹ 12,00,000
AdonisJS
A fullstack MVC web framework for Node.js created by Harminder Virk.
Grant Year
2021
Grant Amt.
₹ 6,00,000
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
SMC is a free software collective engaged in development, localization, standardization of Indic language computing resources.
Grant Year
2021
Grant Amt.
₹ 25,00,000
Co-Sponsor
Zerodha
TinkerHub Foundation
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.
Grant Year
2021
Grant Amt.
₹ 25,00,000
Co-Sponsor
Zerodha
Paperd.ink
paperd.ink is a FOSS 4.2" e-paper development board to show calendar, weather, to-do lists, notifications, images and much more.
Grant Year
2021
Grant Amt.
₹ 17,00,000
Co-Sponsor
Zerodha
Internet Freedom Foundation
IFF is a non-profit organisation that defends online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India.
Grant Year
2021
Grant Amt.
₹ 25,00,000
Glific
An open source, two-way communication platform for NGOs to chat and communicate with beneficiaries.
Grant Year
2021
Grant Amt.
₹ 15,00,000
Co-Sponsor
Zerodha
Sayan Nandan (developer)
Sayan develops Skytable, a FOSS reqltime NoSQL database.
Grant Year
2021
Grant Amt.
₹ 60,000
Internet Freedom Foundation
IFF is a non-profit organisation that defends online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India.
Grant Year
2020
Grant Amt.
₹ 1,00,000
Biswas (developer)
Principal developer of the Rebuild Earth / Kerala Rescue project that was instrumental to the rescue efforts during the Kerala floods.
Grant Year
2020
Grant Amt.
₹ 1,00,000
Fika lang
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.
Grant Year
2020
Grant Amt.
₹ 5,00,000
TinkerHub Foundation
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.
Grant Year
2020
Grant Amt.
₹ 24,50,000
Co-Sponsor