Dec 1 – 3, 2023
Asia/Kathmandu timezone

Information on Call for Abstracts

GNOME.Asia Summit 2023 invites you to participate as a speaker! Join us for this year’s conference on December 1st-3rd in Kathmandu, Nepal by submitting your abstract.

GNOME.Asia is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia and focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, applications, and platform development tools. The Summit brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments, and businesses to discuss current technology and future developments. Possible talk topics are suggested below, but topics are not limited to this list.

Suggested Topics

  • Contributing to GNOME
  • UI design
  • Accessibility
  • Human Interface Engineering (Icons and Graphic Design)
  • Marketing/Engagement
  • Developing GNOME on embedded systems or open hardware
  • Contributing to Linux and FLOSS
  • Linux kernel and development
  • The development and promotion of open-source operating systems
  • Distributions, including Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD
  • The development and promotion of other open source projects
  • We are also interested in other topics related to Free/Libre and Open Source Software that is not listed above.

Sessions will be scheduled for 30 or 50 minutes (Q&A included). The session could be a technical or non-technical talk, panel discussion, workshop, or Birds of a Feather session (BoF). If you need more time or additional resources, feel free to get in touch with the organizing team by emailing asia@gnome.org.

NOTE: This year all speakers requiring travel sponsorship by GNOME Foundation should apply at the same time as submitting their CfP. Both Call for Participation submissions and Travel Sponsorship requests are due by September 1st.

Submission Criteria

Submission deadline: September 1st, 2023 (UTC).