User:Shashank16392/List of Free Software Organisations in India

List of Free Software Organisations in India

This is a list of Free Software organisations in India. This includes Indian government supported as well as Non-Governmental Organisations, Free Software meetup groups, Free Software conferences and GNU/Linux user groups operating from India.

Major Free Software Organisations

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Name of the organisation Sponsoring body Year Projects supported Recent Activity Official Website
National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India April, 2005 nrcfoss.org.in/downloads/products 2010 ncfss.org.in
Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) Autonomous March 20-21, 2010 Free Software Movements (FSMs) working in various states 2009 fsmi.in
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Non-Governmental Free Software Organisations

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Name of the organisation State Year Projects supported Recent Activity Official Website
Swecha Andhra Pradesh 2004 Swecha OS, e-swecha OS, Bala Swecha oS, Swecha Hackfest 2014 www.swecha.org
Free Software Foundation Tamilnadu (FSFTN) Tamilnadu 2001 <Please choose 'Edit'> 2013 fsftsn.org
Free Software Movement Karnataka (FSMK) Karnataka 2001 <Please choose 'Edit'> 2013 fsmk.org
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Free Software conferences/online-only Free Software Organisations

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Note: This list currently doesn't include GNU/Linux User Groups (GLUGs / LUGs) organised at institution-level and small-region level. Please discuss this on [talk page].

Name of the organisation Type of the organisation Year Projects supported Recent Activity Official Website
FOSS Community India (FCI) Online-only 2005 Example 2007 http://fci.wikia.com
foss.in Conference 2005 Example 2013 (Abandoned) foss.in
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References

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