[YS Learn] How Zerodha, ERPNext collaborated to build FOSS U

YourStory [YS]: Tell us about FOSS United Foundation, and why did you start it? 
Kailash Nadh [KN]: FOSS United was originally founded by Rushabh Mehta in 2016 as the ERPNext Foundation. Around the same time, Zerodha discovered ERPNext and decided to build its system on top of the ERPNext software. 
This got us talking to the ERPNext team, and we gradually realised that we shared similar views on FOSS. 
In early 2020, we co-organised a small FOSS conference in Bengaluru and realised we had the right intent and resources to do a lot more activities around FOSS. Thus, FOSS United Foundation was launched as a collaboration between ERPNext and Zerodha, where we subsumed the ERPNext Foundation into a new entity, broadening its goals.

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