Growing India's FOSS Ecosystem
ABOUT
FOSS United is a non-profit foundation that aims at promoting & strengthening the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem in India.
India is now a hub of startups, innovative consumer software, developer communities, and large scale technological infrastructure. However, somewhere along the lines, the spirit of FOSS and hacking seems to have been overshadowed. This is illustrated by the disproportionately low number of quality FOSS projects coming out of India given a thriving industry compared to the explosion of projects that has happened globally over the last decade. The foundation aims to provide grassroots support to FOSS projects and events, and evolve into a community-industry collaboration with a diverse group of members and patrons.
GOALS
01
To promote the spirit of hacking and tinkering.
GOALS
02
To build quality FOSS for public good.
GOALS
03
To evangelise the use of FOSS in different sectors.
The Team
Meet the Workforce ↗
Ansh Arora
Community Intern
Athira Girish
Industry Partnership Manager
Harsh Tandiya
Software Developer
Jessica Joseph
Design Intern
Jeswin Jose
Design Intern
mangesh
Tech Intern
Mohammed Ajzal
Design Associate
Riya P Mathew
Program Manager
Ruchika Bagde
Diversity and Operations Manager
Venkatesh
Public Policy Director
Industry Partnership
The foundation was started as a collaboration between the teams at Frappe, the publisher of ERPNext, one of the largest FOSS projects out of India, and Zerodha. Currently we have two more partners supporting us, and we invite more organisations to join the movement.
Get in Touch
Write to us at [email protected] or post a message on the forum.
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