Name: Learnings From a $1M Discovery and Funding Experiment - Ansh Arora, FOSS United Foundation
Start: 2026-06-16T18:30:00+0530
End: 2026-06-16T19:10:00+0530

16-17 June, 2026
Mumbai, India
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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

Open Source Summit India 2026

Ansh Arora

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