FOSS United
Kailash Nadh is an accomplished technology leader currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Zerodha since July 2013, where oversight of the technology and product stack for capital markets has been a primary focus. As a co-founder of both FOSS United and Rainmatter Foundation, Kailash has played a pivotal role in supporting Free and Open Source projects in India as well as initiatives addressing climate change and ecology. Previous experience includes serving as a Technical Advisor at Lumean and a consultant for various clients worldwide from 2002 to 2013, as well as a consultancy role at Middlesex University. Kailash holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, both from Middlesex University.
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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.