[BangPypers] Funding FOSS through CSR

[Sreekanth S Rameshaiah]

On 21 November 2015 at 01:46, Harsh Gupta <gupta.harsh96 at gmail.com> wrote:

> By a recent mandate of Government of India, all the companies which have an
> annual profit of more than 5 crores have at spend least 2% of the profit of
> last three years as Cooperate Social Responsibility (CSR). This mandate
> came
> into power from April 2014 and there is quite a buzz about it. 2% of 3
> years
> profit is huge amount and this is a great opportunity for us to direct this
> money to fund Free and Open Source Software. We ask Software Firms in India
> to
> give their CSR money to Python Software Foundation of India (PSSI) or maybe
> to
> FSF India.
>

This is not one of the 13 categories that are eligible for CSR funding in
India. But its possible to do it through (more complex) partnership with
government entity such as IITs.

- sree