FOSS United is pleased to announce a follow-on grant of ₹7,00,000 to Rethink DNS, a FOSS DNS resolver that helps make the internet a safer and more transparent place.
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Is the right time to ask how these decisions are made?
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It’s always the right time.
- Until we have the Governance board, @wisharya and I are handling grant requests
- We have been promoting the grants program over the past year but we have only received two official requests from Indian FOSS projects - Rethink DNS and Circuitverse. We started a conversation with Rethink DNS after Day 1 of IndiaFOSS when we got to know of their massive uptick in usage - which also led to significant financial burden on the two-member team, After further discussion, the Rethink DNS team put in an official request for a grant (email to grants@fossunited.org)
- They needed funds to pay for the necessary infra that powers Rethink DNS - 3 Lakh Rupees. A one-time payment of 3 Lakhs enabled them to negotiate/claim discounted pricing for the infra
- They are in the process of figuring out commercialization (paid tiers) so we (@wisharya and I) decided to support the two devs on the project with a 4 Lakh Rupees grant, disbursed over 12 installments (1 year) - 2 LPA per developer
I mentioned Circuitverse above - they are interested in a grant to pay for their AWS infra costs. We have an in-principle approval but the comms are stuck at the moment and we are hoping to close this grant by Mar 2025. They are looking for < 1 Lakh Rupees to fund the infra that powers thousands of students to understand Electronic Engg using FOSS.
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We are happy to announce a grant of INR 20,000 towards Project Segfault, an initiative dedicated to hosting privacy-friendly frontends and other valuable public services
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