FOSS United
Deepraj Baidya is an experienced professional in the field of technology and software development, currently serving as the Founder of Pinng since September 2024 and as an Organiser for FOSS United in Dehradun since February 2024. Deepraj's previous roles include Software Engineer at Textmi, Flutter Developer at KaizenLabs, and iNeuron Campus Tech Lead at iNeuron.ai. Additionally, Deepraj gained experience as a Content Creator on YouTube, focusing on programming-related content. Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering at DIT University, with expected graduation in 2025, Deepraj also holds a 10+2 degree in Science from Kendriya Vidyalaya.
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FOSS United
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FOSS United Foundation is a registered non-profit founded in 2020, dedicated to the cause of building Free and Open Source (FOSS) projects and communities in India and elsewhere. It originally started out as the ERP Next foundation in 2016 with the same broad goals. Its new avatar is a joint collaboration between the teams at Frappe, the publisher of ERPNext, one of the largest FOSS projects out of India, and Zerodha, India's largest stockbroker and a fintech company. The foundation, currently in its infancy, aims to provide grassroots support to FOSS projects and events and invite industry patronage to support FOSS, in India. India is now a hub of startups, innovative consumer software, developer communities, and largescale 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 have happened globally over the last decade. In the Indian context, our goals are: To promote the spirit of hacking, tinkering, and writing code, not only for profit but for fun. To build quality FOSS for the public good. To build quality free software that specifically empowers people with tools to run their livelihoods and power the economy.