Website: https://fsmi.in/

We are a national coalition of various regional and sectoral free software movements operating in different parts of India. The founding conference of was held at Bengaluru on March 20-21, 2010 which marked a historic development in Free Software Movement in India. Second National conference was held in Chennai from 26th- 29th January, 2017. Sixteen Free Software Movements (FSMs) working in various states and sectors came together and decided to form a National coalition of FSMs in this Four-day National conference.

Some of the major aims of FSMI are :

Take forward free software and its ideological implications to all corners of our nation from the developed domains to the underprivileged.

Creating awareness among computer users in the use of free software

Work towards usage of free software in all streams of sciences and research

Take forward implementation and usage of free software in school education, academics and higher education

Work towards e-literacy and bridging digital divide based on free software and mobilising the underprivileged

Work among developers on solutions catering to societal & national requirements

Work towards a policy change favouring free software in all walks of life

Stop any penetration of software patents and methods which restrict the development, usage and percolation of knowledge