Sometime back, we had discussed the idea of a Ten Rupee Fund - basically a grassroots FOSS funding initiative based on small donations using UPI. A three member volunteer group @mrugesh @khitab and me have been slowly chugging along to see how to make this work.
The latest (and second iteration) of the concept is now at https://rupeefund.org/ . Hat tip to @mrugesh and @khitab for moving the tech side forward.
Treat the above website purely as a mock (nothing official about it at the moment). It’s a non-functional prototype and the sign-up doesn’t work - so please do not circulate it for any purposes other than getting comments. All types of comments are welcome at this stage to help us refine the idea and presentation on the website.
We’re trying to keep the lowest contribution down to 10 rupees, but we may be forced to increase this to 100 rupees based on accounting considerations.
We’re hoping to launch this during IndiaFOSS 2026 