The FOSS Journey

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Frappe runs a fully transparent, flat organization where company decisions and salaries are voted on in a weekly forum and development centers on a metadata-driven doctypes model that generates DB tables, Python classes and multiple views automatically. ERPNext is a full ERP built by about 20 core developers that uses Python/JavaScript on MariaDB/Postgres, supports multi-tenancy, and has over 1,000 doctypes; tooling includes the bench CLI. Notable results: Sharpie Charts (zero‑dependency) hit over 13,000 GitHub stars and trended on Hacker News.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:44Startup Culture
3. 3:20Weekly Friday Forum
4. 4:48Frappe Framework
5. 7:19What Is a Doctype
6. 9:55My Role at Frappe
7. 11:33Free and Open Source Software

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