Strengthening India's FOSS Community

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FOSS United outlines concrete outputs: 20,000+ event participants, >150 projects featured, ₹3 crore in grants disbursed, and a recent $300,000+ tranche to nine global projects including OpenSSL and ImageMagick. It runs an open directory plus a funding.json manifest and validator to make donations discoverable, partners with the Floss Fund $1M/year to structure recurring grants, helps set up campus clubs, and cites Kerala’s Linux rollout saving ~₹300 crores annually.

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1. 0:00FOSS United introduction
2. 1:45Why India needs FOSS
3. 3:34India as FOSS consumer
4. 5:19Economic impact of FOSS
5. 6:23FOSS for tech independence
6. 7:47FOSS United achievements
7. 8:48FLOSS Fund introduction
8. 10:57How funding.json simplifies FOSS project funding
9. 12:23FLOSS Fund grants
10. 13:26Engage with FOSS United
11. 13:47Building FOSS communities
12. 14:31IndiaFOSS 2024

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