Bi-weekly Grants Updates

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Feburary , Update 1

Approved

Event Grant requests

APIGA India 2026

Event grant of INR 25k to cover for operational costs of the event.

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.

We received 3 additional event grant requests that were rejected.

Fellowships

FOSDEM 2026

We gave travel grants to maintainers from Ente, RethinkDNS, and Zasper to showcase their work at our stand at FOSDEM 2026. This was a first of its kind experiment and we are satisfied with the results overall. We are working on a retrospective blog post about this grant. You can read about the maintainers’ experience at FOSDEM here.

Projects

We had a conversation regarding a follow up grant to Circuitverse for their infrastructure funding. We are also considering possibilities to become a fiscal host for the project.

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February - Closing Update

Project Grants

Data for India

Grant of INR 5L to support Open Data work. All their work is under a Creative Commons license.

Data For India is a public platform to expand the understanding of India through data for everyone. Data For India 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.

Data For India’s work is meant to be shared and used widely. Our articles, charts and data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC-BY 4.0) and can be freely shared.

Fellowships

CoRE Stack

We supported the inaugral CoRE Stack innovation challenge with cash prizes of INR 10,000. The results from the program have been great, and three participants have advanced to the next stage of follow-on support to enhance the PoCs into a full stack integration. We will award a modest stipend to these contributors as part of Season of Commits.

Event Grants

ADCx India 26

FOSS United Foundation has joined ADCx India 26 as a diversity sponsor. The conference is happening in Bengaluru on 29th March. Applications for diversity grants are open - ADCx India 26 – Diversity Grant Form

We are delighted to invite you to attend and contribute to ADCx India 26, a one-day pop up format of the Audio Developer Conference (ADC).

ADC is a not-for-profit event and is dedicated to providing education and essential resources to audio developers around the world. Our mission is to bring the audio developer community together, and promote diversity and accessibility.

Barcamp Bangalore 2026

Event grant of INR 25k to cover for operational costs of the event.

​​​BarCamp Bangalore is an unconference, an ad hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment.

MiniDebConf Kanpur

FOSS United has joined the event as a Bronze Sponsor (INR 20k). We will also be acting as a fiscal host for the event, helping them manage their finances.

MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026 is a local version of DebConf that focuses on Debian as free and open-source software by conducting talks and workshops.

We received 9 additional event grant requests that were rejected.

Miscellaneous

We are pitching in to support the 2026 Nagarathna Memorial Grant. More details here - Supporting NMG 2026

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March - Update 1

Project grants

Osvauld

Fully open-source, end-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer application suite.

We’ll be giving a grant of INR 4L to support the creator’s work on Osvauld.

Event grants

We received 5 event grant requests that were rejected.

Miscellaneous

Travel grant of INR 15k to Srihari Thyagarajan (contributor to marimo, SciPy India co-organiser) to attend Pyconf Hyderabad. We are currently in the process of setting up a travel fund for maintainers, which will make this process more structured.

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