Open Source Summit India 2026: Full Schedule

16-17 June, 2026
Mumbai, India
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Performance-by-Design: Embedding Intelligent Scaling and Guardrails Into Platform Engineering - Josephine Eskaline Joyce & Tanya Shanker, IBM India Pvt Ltd

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

In the modern practice of Platform Engineering (PE), performance has traditionally been viewed as an outcome of optimization rather than an architectural principle. This session presents a Performance-by-Design methodology that integrates intelligent scaling, guardrails, feedback-driven control loops within Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). Instead of reacting to incidents, we design platforms that manage latency, throughput, cost efficiency, and stability by applying policy-driven autoscaling, SLO-aware metrics, and Kubernetes-native mechanisms constantly. The session outlines a reference architecture with observability pipelines, custom metrics, horizontal pod autoscaling, and platform guardrails to ensure a self-regulating cloud-native operating environment. We show how performance constraints can be codified into golden paths; teams will inherit optimized defaults. Attendees will receive a structured framework to convert performance from reactive tuning task to platform capabilities - increasing reliability, decreasing resource consumption and allowing scalable innovation on enterprise cloud-native ecosystems.

Speakers

Josephine Eskaline Joyce

STSM, Principal Cloud Architect, IBM India Pvt Ltd

Josephine Eskaline Joyce is a Principal Cloud Architect and Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) at IBM India, bringing over 26 years of experience in the IT industry. As an IBM Master Inventor, she is recognized for her deep expertise in cloud architecture, cloud security, enterprise... Read More →

Tanya Shanker

Cloud Engineer, IBM India Pvt Ltd

Tanya Shanker is a Cloud Engineer at IBM with 8 years of experience in building and operating cloud-native systems, and has a strong focus on IaC, backend development in Go, automation, and CI/CD. She specializes in designing and developing scalable and secure cloud solutions and... Read More →

Performance by Design pptx

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

CI/CD

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:00pm IST

Operating a Self-Healing Bare-Metal Kubernetes Platform at Global Scale - Aparna Prabhu & Nikhil Pathak, DigitalOcean

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

Running global, self-managed k8s for stateful apps is notoriously complex. Most teams opt for managed platforms or VMs to mask the difficulty.

For platform engineers and SREs, this talk reveals how to confidently run mission-critical StatefulSets on bare-metal k8s. We share how we sustain 99.99% availability SLAs and sub-second recovery. We also explain why bare-metal drastically outperforms VM or managed setups by eliminating hypervisor overhead and granting direct hardware access.

We will dive into the architectural decisions behind:

Cluster-of-clusters: Scaling geographically with isolated regions.
Intent-driven placement: Hardware isolation for predictable performance.
Blast-radius containment: Limiting fallout via dedicated failure domains.
Automated recovery: Software, not humans at 2 a.m., handles failures.
Continuous reconciliation: Shifting operational burden to code.

This is not a "Kubernetes solves everything" pitch. It’s a candid, numbers-driven account of engineering a multi-region bare-metal k8s platform where performance and reliability are non-negotiable.

Speakers

Aparna Prabhu

Senior Engineering Manager, Storage and Platform Engineering, DigitalOcean

I’m a Senior Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean, where I lead teams focused on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). My work revolves around building and optimising cloud infrastructure that is both scalable and secure. With a passion for innovation, specially green innovation, I... Read More →

Nikhil Pathak

Senior Platform Engineer, Digitalocean

Actively working for Kubernetes clusters creation, management and upkeep

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:00pm IST

Hardening and Scaling Open Agentic Infrastructure With MCP - Hema Veeradhi, Red Hat

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

AI agents are often limited by proprietary "plugin" silos and bespoke integrations. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) offers a universal interface to break these walls, but moving from local scripts to enterprise-scale introduces Day 2 operational hurdles. How do we discover tool-servers in a dynamic cluster? How do we secure the bridge between LLM reasoning and system execution?

This session presents a technical blueprint for operationalizing MCP within a sovereign, open source stack. We move beyond basic connectivity to address 3 core pillars:
1) Dynamic Discovery: Implementing cloud-native service discovery so agents can dynamically negotiate capabilities with ephemeral MCP servers.
2) Zero-Trust Security: Hardening the "Reasoning-to-Execution" path with fine-grained authorization and audit trails to prevent privilege escalation.
3) Full-Stack Observability: Using OpenTelemetry to bridge the gap between model thinking and backend execution, pinpointing failures in production pipelines.

Attendees will leave with a roadmap for building a modular, interoperable agentic infrastructure, ensuring the future of AI remains open and auditable.

Speakers

Hema Veeradhi

Principal Data Scientist, Red Hat

Hema Veeradhi is a Principal Data Scientist working in the Emerging Technologies team part of the office of the CTO at Red Hat. Her work primarily focuses on implementing innovative open AI and machine learning solutions to help solve business and engineering problems. Hema is a staunch... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:50pm IST

Kubernetes OIDC That Works in Practice: Keycloak + RBAC + Kubelogin Without Day‑2 Pain - Manik Bindlish, Orange Business Services

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

Kubernetes supports OIDC login, but in real life it often becomes painful: users can’t log in, TLS trust breaks with private Keycloak, usernames don’t match RBAC rules, and people end up sharing kubeconfigs or using long‑lived tokens.

In this talk I’ll show a practical way to run Kubernetes access with Keycloak: configure OIDC the right way, bind users/groups to Kubernetes RBAC, and use kubelogin (kubectl exec plugin) so tokens are short‑lived and refresh is handled automatically on the client side.
I’ll also cover the “boring” but important part: handling the Keycloak CA certificate so the login works from admin machines without manual steps.
You’ll leave with a clear checklist and a working “golden path” setup you can copy for your own clusters, that eliminate manual day‑2 steps while keeping security and auditability intact.

Speakers

manik bindlish

DevOps / Platform Engineering Lead, Orange Business Services

Technical Lead with 14+ years building and operating hybrid infrastructure platforms (Kubernetes, KubeVirt, OpenStack, bare metal). I lead upstream work on Sylva, an open-source Kubernetes platform for telco/edge that orchestrates containers and VMs. Focus: secure, automated, observable... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:40pm IST

I Break Things, AI Fixes Them: Building a Self-Healing CI/CD Pipeline - Premved Dhote, Red Hat

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

A broken deployment is every developer's nightmare. Standard CI/CD pipelines fail on minor typos or missing dependencies, forcing engineers to dig through logs and push manual fixes. What if your infrastructure could safely fix itself?
This session explores the transition from rigid automation to AI-driven recovery, introducing the "Pipeline Doctor" in Python: an agentic AI system acting as a self-healing safety net for your repositories.
Allowing AI to write production code sounds terrifying, doesn't it? This is why this talk prioritizes strict execution guardrails. Attendees will learn to set strict tool-calling boundaries around the LLM that securely restrict its capabilities.
Watch me intentionally break a live deployment pipeline to demonstrate how the autonomous agent catches the failure, securely verifies its fix inside an isolated GitHub Actions sandbox, and submits a Pull Request paired with an auto-generated Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Attendees will leave with a practical, open-source blueprint to build self-healing pipelines in their own environments.

Speakers

Premved Dhote

Software Engineering Intern @ Red Hat, Red Hat

Premved Dhote is an undergraduate pursuing his Bachelor's in Computer Science at PCCOE Pune. He is currently a Software Engineering Intern at Red Hat in OpenShift AI. He contributes actively to open source software and is ambitious about building futuristic AI tools. His interests... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

CI/CD

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:40pm IST

Decoding the Open-source Blueprint for India's Sovereign AI Future - Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat & Rajgopal A S, NxtGen Cloud Technologies

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

As India transitions from being the world’s largest consumer of open-source software to a leading creator of digital public infrastructure, a new mandate has emerged: Sovereign AI. To achieve true digital autonomy, Indian enterprises and public institutions must build AI ecosystems that protect data residency, reflect local context, and avoid vendor lock-in. But how do we practically build this sovereign stack?

This session provides an end-to-end technical blueprint for building enterprise-grade sovereign AI infrastructure entirely on open-source technologies. Using a homegrown, production-ready AI coding assistant as a practical case study, we will deconstruct the architectural layers required for AI independence. We will explore how to orchestrate scalable infrastructure with OpenStack, abstract complex multi-vendor GPU environments using Kubernetes, and deploy high-throughput inference for open-weight models using vLLM.

Beyond the architecture, we will discuss how Indian firms can adopt this open-source stack to implement highly secure, air-gapped environments, protect intellectual property, and empower local engineering talent to shift from consuming global AI to building it.

Speakers

Vincent Caldeira

CTO APAC, Red Hat

Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat APAC CTO and Industry Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, drives tech strategy and emerging engineering. A Top 10 APAC CTO (2023) with 20+ years in finance IT, he is an authority on open source, cloud-native technologies and AI. Vincent holds leadership... Read More →

Rajgopal A S

Chief Executive Officer, NxtGen Cloud Technologies

Raj is CEO of NxtGen, India's largest domestic cloud provider.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:40pm IST

Trust, but Sandbox: Securing AI Agents in Kubernetes - Sudhanshu Prajapati, Improving & Prateek Mishra, Founda Health

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

You wake up, open X, and see the post: new model just dropped. By the time you finish your coffee, it’s installed, pointed at your repo, and already making “helpful” suggestions. It works. It feels safe. But what did you actually just hand over access to, and how would you even notice if it crossed a line?

In this talk, we’ll unpack why testing every new AI model or coding assistant can quietly introduce serious security risks. Using real examples inspired by incidents like OpenClaw, we’ll show how AI systems can access internal data, influence code paths, and create vulnerabilities without ever asking for permission.

We’ll discuss why experimentation without guardrails can bypass existing security controls and normalize unsafe patterns. Most importantly, we’ll focus on what teams can do instead. The session will include a live walkthrough using the Kubernetes agent-sandbox project to demonstrate how AI agents can be isolated, sandboxed, and constrained with clear boundaries.
By the end, attendees will leave with practical approaches to evaluate AI tools safely, apply guardrails, and enable innovation without putting code or data at risk.

Speakers

Sudhanshu Prajapati

Senior Developer Advocate | AI Leader | Open Source Contributor | CNCG Organizer, Improving

Sudhanshu Prajapati is a data and backend engineer turned developer advocate with over 5 years of experience, specializing in cloud-native technologies and distributed systems. He writes technical blogs, docs, and videos to help teams adopt/build tooling around cloud native and AI... Read More →

Prateek Mishra

Cloud Engineer, Founda Health

Cloud Engineer at Founda Health. I spent the last 5 years at Atlan, starting as an intern and leaving as an SDE-II, focused on keeping cloud systems fast, scalable, and secure.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

4:50pm IST

An Introduction To Coreboot and LinuxBoot: Building Modern Open Boot Stack - Manish Baing & Arun Mahendran, Lenovo

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST

206 AB (Second Floor)

Modern server infrastructure is frequently limited by proprietary UEFI firmware—a slow, unauditable "black box" that introduces security risks and operational bloat. This session presents a transformative alternative: a lean, open-source boot stack pairing coreboot with LinuxBoot to achieve rapid boot times .
We will explore the technical synergy between these two powerhouses. coreboot handles the critical "early wake-up" of silicon—including DRAM, CPU, and PCI initialization—before handing control to LinuxBoot. By embedding a minimalist Linux kernel directly into the firmware flash, LinuxBoot replaces complex UEFI DXE phases with battle-tested upstream drivers. Attendees will learn the conceptual foundations of the u-root Go-based userland for flexible networking and storage logic, alongside the kexec system call for seamless transitions to the production OS. This session provides a roadmap for building vendor-neutral, high-performance infrastructure from the reset vector up.

Speakers

Manish Baing

Firmware Engineer, Lenovo

I am Manish Baing, an Embedded Software Developer with over 12+ years of experience. Currently working at Lenovo, focusing on OpenBMC development for Lenovo's ThinkSystem servers.
My career progressed from 8-bit microcontrollers to advanced embedded systems, covering power management, industrial automation, Semiconductor, and storage. I have presented Linux foundation 1st ever open source summit at India . I have presented two break-out session in Open compute pro... Read More →

Arun Mahendran

Advisory Engineer Lenovo, Lenovo

I am a seasoned System Software Engineer and Data Science & Machine Learning Architect with over 18 years of experience in building software systems using Python, C/C++, and advanced scripting technologies. My expertise spans cloud computing, machine learning, embedded systems, and... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST
206 AB (Second Floor)

Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

4:50pm IST

How To Tame Your Agents? - Devidas Jadhav, Vertiv

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

As a developers, we use AI for our tasks. but there are stages.
1. user of web. copy paste code.
2. opencode calude code users basic.
3. using system proimpt PRD driven developement.
4. adding MCP server/ Skills.
5. agentic tools pipelines (code-rabbit)
6. AI Dark factories (gas town)

I have grown from stage 1 to exploring stage 6. creating projects has became trivial with improved models.

Realising tools are there to be tamed but we still need to keep some gaurdrails.

Session will give chronological order how I have grown and How will I develop same project in all stages. using embedded systems example using modbus mcp as well as playwright mcp. in agent.

More over I want to put across the point although AI will make few roles redundant but it will make so many of newer role. How your domain knowledge will help you deliver same projects way faster. passing all minial tasks to AI and perform architectural and review tasks.

Helping AI to write code and Help it to test and fix errors if any. avoiding overfitting.

I will be sharing my personal journey and show How can we achive using FOSS agentic tools for perfect autonomous software facotries.

Speakers

Devidas Jadhav

Senior Software Engineer, Vertiv

I have worked mainly Embeeded Linux. Alumni of CDAC Acts. OpenWrt, Android BSP, OpenBSP and many OSS used in my work. Has been passinate contributor to stackoverflow answering quenstion it the domain of Linux. Avid interst in AI and LLM. Working on implementing Redfish MCP from scratch... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

5:40pm IST

Efficient Performance Profiling for Virtual Machines - Sandipan Das, AMD

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Performance profiling in virtualized environments has traditionally required trade-offs between accuracy and overhead. Mediated PMU, a recent change to Linux's built-in KVM hypervisor, fundamentally changes this by providing guests direct access to hardware Performance Monitoring Units (PMUs).

This talk will:
- Explore the differences between the old and new approaches.
- Demonstrate a reduction in PMU virtualization overhead and improvement in profiling accuracy.
- Discuss the key trade-off: while guests gain direct hardware access, the host loses the ability to profile guest workloads through perf.

This talk is ideal for virtualization engineers, kernel developers, and anyone performing performance analysis in cloud or virtualized environments who needs accurate, low-overhead profiling data.

Speakers

Sandipan Das

Linux Kernel Engineer at AMD, AMD

Sandipan is a Linux kernel engineer at AMD specializing in enhancing the perf events subsystem. In the past, he has also contributed to the memory management, eBPF, and tracing infrastructure as well as projects like IO Visor, QEMU and gem5.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Linux

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

5:40pm IST

Recipes and Runtimes: Making Sense of Containers in 2026 - Soundarya Rangarajan, Canonical

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST

204 AB (Second Floor)

If you feel overwhelmed by jargon thrown around in forums, conferences, and headlines focussed on containers and the cloud, you’re not alone. In 2026, image hardening, provenance, secure supply chains—oops, it’s happening again, isn’t it? Let’s step back.

This session takes a hands-on, bottom-up approach to understand containerization. Build along as we containerize a simple app and run it, starting with a naive approach and iteratively improving it until we have a production-grade image. At each step, new concepts are introduced only once we've understood the need for them. We'll work with Docker, understand container runtimes, even touch upon new-age tools like Rockcraft and Chisel.

To make this fun, we’ll use baking as a guiding analogy: images as recipes, dependencies as ingredients, and runtime environments as kitchens!

By the end, you’ll be able to walk confidently into real-world discussions about containers, ready to participate and learn better.

Speakers

Soundarya Rangarajan

Developer Success Engineer, Canonical

A classic full-stack dabbler, I’ve worked across domains, from mobile and game frontends to engineering microservices for travel workflows. Tech wasn’t always the plan though; I once saw coding as an exclusive club I didn't belong to. Community changed that, and today I’m driven... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
204 AB (Second Floor)

Open Source 101 (LF Education)

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

6:30pm IST

Lightning Talk: If Zephyr Wants To Power AI Cameras, What Must Change? - Rutvij Trivedi, Silicon Signals Pvt. Ltd.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 6:45pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Cameras are no longer just for pictures, they are now real-time data pipelines that send information to ISPs, NPUs, and control logic. This is because edge AI is becoming a most wanted vision systems. Zephyr is good at deterministic embedded control, but AI-driven camera workloads need new architectural features like zero-copy buffer sharing, accelerator coordination, bounded latency, metadata synchronization, and controlled backpressure.

This talks about what needs to change in Zephyr's camera and driver architecture to make AI vision work in the real world. Based on our experience with Linux media pipelines and setting up embedded cameras, we look at where traditional RTOS-style camera models fail and what simple abstractions are needed to make them work without adding too much complexity.

The goal is not to make Linux features equal, but to make the architecture better. This includes designing pipelines, structuring buffer ownership, making streaming states more predictable, and making things easier to see. The goal is to keep Zephyr lightweight while also allowing robotics, industrial, and mission-critical systems to work with the next generation of AI cameras.

Speakers

Rutvij Trivedi

Co-Founder & M.D., Silicon Signals Pvt. Ltd.

Rutvij, MD of Silicon Signals, has 12 years in Embedded Linux, board bring-up, product engineering, and software development. He built a team at Silicon Signals contributing to open source (Linux kernel, ZephyrOS, AOSP, U-boot, LineageOS). His product development experience spans... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 6:45pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Zephyr

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

6:30pm IST

Hardware Assisted PMU Virtualization - Manali Shukla, AMD India PVT LTD

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Virtualizing Performance Monitoring Units (PMUs) requires careful coordination between hardware and software to provide guests with accurate, low-overhead performance monitoring while maintaining security and isolation.

This talk examines what it takes to virtualize PMU features, focusing on a hardware-assisted approach built on the upstream Mediated PMU framework in the Linux kernel.
This talk will
1. Explore motivations such as protecting confidential guests, reducing context-switch overhead, and maintaining host-guest boundaries.
2. Cover hardware support for selective interception, direct interrupt delivery to guests, and automated guest state management, as well as software handling of host state for registers not saved by hardware.
3. Demonstrate performance monitoring counters and instruction-based sampling virtualization, showing how hardware automation improves software-based state management and strengthens security for confidential computing workloads.

This talk is aimed at virtualization engineers, kernel developers, and performance analysts working in cloud or confidential computing environments.

Speakers

Manali Shukla

Linux Kernel Engineer, AMD India PVT LTD

Manali is a Linux Kernel Engineer at AMD specializing in KVM development. She contributes to virtualization infrastructure in the Linux kernel, supporting AMD's hardware virtualization features.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Linux

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

6:30pm IST

How Kubernetes Networking Really Works: A Packet’s Journey Across Pods and Nodes - Ashwin Sriram, Deutsche Bank & M Viswanath Sai, IIT (BHU)

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST

204 AB (Second Floor)

Every time one Pod talks to another in Kubernetes, the Linux kernel does a surprising amount of work.

Engineers know Pods get IP addresses. They know Services like ClusterIP and NodePort make workloads reachable. And they trust that traffic somehow finds the right destination.

But what actually happens to a packet once it leaves a Pod, especially when it needs to reach another Pod on a different node?

In this session, we trace that journey across a live Kubernetes cluster. We follow real Pod-to-Pod traffic, observe how packets move across nodes using native Linux networking primitives, and examine what enables flat, routable Pod networking without NAT between workloads.

Rather than treating Kubernetes networking as magic, we connect what we see to the underlying constructs like network namespaces, veth pairs, bridges, routing tables, and packet filtering rules.

Through live demos, attendees will build a clear, practical mental model of how Kubernetes moves packets and leave with a clear mental model for explaining, observing, and debugging Pod-to-Pod traffic in Kubernetes.

Speakers

S Ashwin

Software Engineer, Deutsche Bank

Ashwin is a Software Engineer at Deutsche Bank, working on cloud-native platforms with a focus on automation and reliability. His interest in open source led him to join Prometheus-Operator as a GSoC’24 mentee, and he continues to contribute as an active triage member. He is particularly... Read More →

M Viswanath Sai

Student, Developer, Builder, IIT (BHU)

I am an Engineering undergraduate student at IIT Varanasi. I started dabbling with software development as a small passion during my freshman year and it has now become a significant part of my life with Open Source. I'm living my best life, constantly learning something new and exciting... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
204 AB (Second Floor)

Open Source 101 (LF Education)

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

6:30pm IST

Learnings From a $1M Discovery and Funding Experiment - Ansh Arora, FOSS United Foundation

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

In October 2024, we announced floss.fund as a big experiment to fund critical Free/Libre Open Source projects globally, which in turn was the culmination of a series of ad-hoc funding attempts over the years. It is the first of its kind in India, and one of the few in the world.

Over the last year, some of the biggest FOSS projects globally applied to the fund - from devtools, programming languages, libraries, critical FOSS infrastructure, to humanitarian and social-impact projects, all via word of mouth and volunteer outreach.

While the experiment itself has done well, there have been many disappointments and learnings owing to legal and compliance-related challenges

In this talk, we will share our experience from running the program, what other projects and funders should know, and our plans for the future (making FLOSS/fund a community driven effort, pushing for the creation of an Indian sovereign FOSS fund)

We will also introduce funding.json - an open JSON manifest for describing FOSS funding requirements that we launched as an experiment with FLOSS/fund. It has been adopted by some of the biggest projects globally, and platforms like GitHub, f-droid, thanks.dev

Speakers

Ansh Arora

Program Manager, FOSS United Foundation

Ansh works as a Program Manager at FOSS United Foundation, a non profit aimed at promoting and supporting the Indian FOSS ecosystem. At the foundation, he looks into maintainer programs, grants, fundraising. He is also the co-chair of the annual IndiaFOSS conference.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

OSS Enabling & Management

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

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