National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software - NRCFOSS, Chennai (Madras), India

NRCFOSS is a multi-institutional project funded by the Dept. of Information Technology, Govt. of India, and coordinated by C-DAC (Center for Development of Advanced Computing) Chennai. Started in 2005, its goal is the promotion of FLOSS products, technologies, tools and approaches in diverse domains in India, such as Education and Training, Administration and Governance, Industry and Business, etc. NRCFOSS activities also include supporting research on FLOSS topics like Operating Systems and Compilers, maintaining selected repositories of FLOSS tools and resources, Networking with national and global FLOSS initiatives etc. Building a sustainable FLOSS ecosystem in the country involving the government, academia, industry and community is the long term goal of NRCFOSS.