[Planning] FOSS Hack 2025

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Announcing FOSS Hack 2025

We are excited to announce the 5th edition of FOSS Hack, moving further on our goal of evangelizing FOSS projects.

What is FOSS Hack?

FOSS Hack is a hybrid-mode hackathon organized by the FOSS United Foundation to promote the creation and use of FOSS in India. We invite developers—professionals and students—from all over India to compete for a cash prize of ₹10L by building Free and Open Source software and have fun doing it.

FOSS Hack continues its mission to encourage both students and professional developers to develop and contribute to free and open-source software. This year, FOSS Hack’s partner projects will also connect to the new program, Season of Commits, facilitating deeper contributions and engagements.

Date - 22nd & 23rd February,2025
Mode: Hybrid (Online and multiple in-person locations)
Prize Pool: ₹5L

Venues

The hackathon will take place in multiple editions throughout. List of venues will be updated here.

What is FOSS Hack?

A yearly hackathon organized by FOSS United Foundation to promote Free and Open Source Software by bringing together professionals and students to build or extend FOSS projects. Every year we create a pool of ₹10L cash for the winners.

FOSS Hack 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024

  • Online and Local editions
  • ₹10Lakh of cash prize pool each year
  • 5600+ Participants
  • 980+ projects
  • Total 44 winners
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The Important Documents which are required for the hackathon are listed below. I will update this message with appropriate documents, rn i am just listing them down.

  • Letter of approval format
  • Budget Proposal
  • FOSSHack Local Budget
  • FOSS Hack Local Agreement

Forms for applying to host a localhost / become an partner project / community partner will be posted soon. We will also update those links here accordingly.

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Since I am not able to edit the message, I have attached all the documents below

FOSS Hack 2025 Local - Agreement.docx (12.2 KB)
College Persmission for FOSS Hack local edition 2025-2026(1).docx (941.9 KB)
Template - FOSSHack Budget Proposal 2025.xlsx (20.2 KB)

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FOSSHack Sync - 2nd Jan, 2025

Minutes of the meeting:

For Rachit Khurana (me):

  • Mentorship Management
    • Collaborate with @ansh to assign mentors based on project dependencies.
  • Mentor Query Issue System
    • Implement a ticketing/issue system for managing mentorship requests.
  • Participant Communication
    • Send a notification to all participants about the mentorship system.
  • Call for Mentors Forms

For @Mrutyunjay_Lodhi :-

  • With the help of Ruchika mail all the past participants of Foss hack
  • Reach out all the past community partners and share them out proposal
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FOSSHack Sync - MoM - 15th Jan, 2025 (Localhost)

  • Each localhost can receive up to 10 t-shirts, and there are a total of 8 localhosts, so the total number of t-shirts is 80.

  • The new design stickers in black and white shades are ready.

  • Extra t-shirts can be printed at an additional cost, but please let us know in advance.

  • Shashank and V8V8V8V8 wanted to share the project details with the applicants. They suggested sending related emails to ensure that we receive more complete applications instead of random empty applications.

  • It is not possible to reject applicants from the user desk once they have been accepted.

  • We will share the details of the accepted localhost participants, but we will not do so before that.

  • We will try to include an email campaign for the localhost. However, due to the short deadline, it is challenging.

  • We aim to confirm the participants by the 20th noon or late by 21st morning.

  • We will confirm the mentors by the 15th or 16th.

  • We need at least 5 mentor applications for Kerala.

  • The audit process was briefly reviewed again.

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Update:

  • Each localhost can receive up to 10 8 t-shirts, and there are a total of 8 10 localhosts, so the total number of t-shirts is 80.

Thank you @Suslime for the correction.

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