FOSS United
Soham Kulkarni is currently a Research Intern at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and a Co-Founder of SwiftSynQ since January 2024. Soham serves as the Founding Lead of FOSS Club at SIT Pune, promoting a culture of open source under FOSS United's initiative. Volunteer activities include bringing FOSS United to Pune and managing community outreach and meet-ups. Previously, Soham co-founded Taksh, focusing on building a developer community and promoting project-based learning. Soham is pursuing a Bachelor of Technology at Symbiosis Institute of Technology, expected to graduate in June 2027, and completed secondary education at Jnana Prabodhini Prashala in August 2021.
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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.