https://floss.fund/ (by Zerodha in India) is offering $1 million per year grant to open-source projects. But very few applications have been received so far, and it needs help spreading the word.
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@nilesh To apply for the fund, the `funding.json` has to be publicly available in the GitHub source code or on a project website. The file should contain information such as email and account details. IMHO, it's not a good idea to make it publicly available, at least before approval.
@nilesh #libraries take a look
@nilesh hi nilesh, we at Sailmates try keeping a list of these types of grants. Our goal is to promote alternative mobile OS, but we also list associated funding methods. How did you learn about the Floss/fund ? So we don't miss out on future new grants like this one and can add more grants to our list: https://sailmates.net//fundings/
@sailmates Zerodha is pretty well known in FOSS circles in India. They also helped start https://fossunited.org/ which has an active community (5k+ members) where this was shared.
@nilesh nice, i'll add it to our list of associations promoting open source mobile software
@sailmates I post any funding stuff I see at maintainers.github.com if you want to join there
There’s also GitHub’s new Secure Open Source Software fund https://resources.github.com/github-secure-open-source-fund/
@feynudibranch thats valuable information! thank you very much!
@silmathoron @nilesh thanks for notifying, though I have seen it. We already submitted @prav
@nilesh Oof, `funding.json` seems like it assumes there's a project website (most projects don't have one) and for those projects, requires a file checked into the root of repo (messy, not scalable for those with dozens or hundreds of projects)
also `npm fund` already exists for the JS ecosystem and they should be using that format.