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

Approved
Session Description

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.

References

https://floss.fund/blog/announcing-floss-fund/

Session Categories

FOSS

Speakers

Hariharan
DevOps Engineer | Zerodha

I am a software engineer currently working on DevOps and Infra at Zerodha. In my free time, I like to work on electronics / hardware projects.

Hariharan

Reviews

Would be great to see some more "advertisement" about the FLOSS Fund
Reviewer #1 Approved
Reviewer #2 Approved
yes please. more people should know about it.
Reviewer #3 Approved