OSS Health and Sustainability in 2025

Objective - To understand the state of open source sustainability and community health, ways of funding FOSS, models that work (and don’t), identifying what’s critical (and underfunded) from platform and grassroot funding initiatives.

The focus of the panel is around sustainability, health and maintenance of FOSS projects. We will not heavily focus on a VC angle.

Format - Moderated roundtable + QnA

Confirmed Panelists

• Kailash Nadh - CTO, Zerodha (or someone else from the FLOSS/fund team)

• Chad Whitacre - Head of OSS, Sentry and Founder of opensourcepledge.com

• What does sustainability mean for FOSS today?

• What models are working - and for whom? Discussion around discoverability and funding mechanisms (thanks.dev, fundingjson.org, github sponsors etc.)

• What is critical but invisible?

• Where does the Govt. come in?

• How to support projects beyond money? 

• What role should/can platforms like Github play?

• Lessons from the grassroots.