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Sun 26 Jul 2020 11:46AM

Should we ask for Free Software app for UPI?

PP Pirate Praveen Public Seen by 102

@Dhanesh B. Sabane shared a news [1] about the need of platforms like UPI in our matrix group at #fsci:poddery.com in the context of foreign companies like Amazon controlling online trading platforms.

@Akshay shared this paper by Sunil Abraham on UPI and NPCI.

https://www.orfonline.org/research/unified-payment-interface/

We could possibly ask ICFOSS or Kerala Bank (both institutions under Kerala Government which has a policy to support Free Software) to launch a Free Software application for UPI. Though we should first evaluate if the concerns around monopoly an surveillance is important enough to not bother about UPI.

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/digital-india-trai-amazon-6522105/

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Nemo Sat 6 Aug 2022 7:28AM

I recently announced a community-initiative to get us to an open-source UPI app. It's called LibreFin, and you can check it out at https://github.com/librefin-in.

You can also join on Gitter/Matrix: https://gitter.im/librefin-in/community, or on Telegram: https://t.me/librefin

The GitHub page has some details around the planned roadmap, which I presented at the IndiaFOSS2.0 conference a few weeks ago. (Talk will be published in a while).

@Pirate Bady There's a roadmap in place for USSD based app as well.

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Abhijith PA Mon 19 Sep 2022 1:37PM

That's a great news. !!

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Life is Tetris Wed 20 Dec 2023 1:19PM

It has been a while now since I dropped off the Telegram chat. Is the situation changed with the open-sourcing of UPI et al? https://dpi.global

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Abhijith PA Thu 21 Dec 2023 4:34AM

Hi.

If you read the history of this thread, you can understand there is an attempt going https://github.com/librefin-in

Not sure how it is progressing.