FLOSS/fund: No Strings Attached Funding for Open Source Projects

My talk is going to be about FLOSS fund, which is an initiative from Zerodha to support Free/Libre Open Source projects. The aim of FLOSS fund is to donate up to $1 million annually to support FOSS projects. It also introduces a new spec called funding.json to help solve the discoverability problem with open source funding.

The talk will primarily focus on

1. - Why FLOSS fund was created
2. - The problems that we are trying to solve
3. - funding.json as a decentralized mechanism for discovering projects that need funding
4. - Some long term goals of this project

I will also briefly showcase the FLOSS fund portal where open source projects can apply for funding.