NRCFOSS has been promoted by the Dept. of Information Technology,Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India,to understand and promote the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)movement in the Indian context, and to explore how FOSS can help to bridge the digital divide and also strengthen the Indian software industry.NRCFOSS is jointly implemented by the AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University and the Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Chennai.