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Prasis Angdembe31/10/2026, 10:00Track B30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
Every open source project relies on a few people who know how things really work. When too much knowledge is concentrated in just one or two people, it can become a real risk for the project.
In this talk, I’ll look at how we can use data engineering to better understand that risk. I’ll use public GitLab data from GNOME modules, looking at things like who is contributing code, reviewing...
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Siska Iskandar (GNOME Indonesia)31/10/2026, 10:00Track A30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
Open source software in Indonesia is often evaluated through code contributions and infrastructure adoption. However, its most transformative impact lies in human cognition and cultural behavior. This session presents original empirical research gathered from 22 Indonesian FOSS contributors—spanning veteran sysadmins, software engineers, non-tech professionals, and community...
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Aashish Kumar Sah (Worldlink Communication)31/10/2026, 10:35Track B30 min presentation: REMOTE
GNOME provides a clean, modern, and user-friendly desktop environment for Linux. However, users who are new to Linux can still experience difficulties when performing common tasks or trying to understand system problems.
This talk explores the GNOME desktop from the perspective of a new Linux user. It focuses on common situations such as connecting to Wi-Fi, using Bluetooth devices,...
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Sammy Fung31/10/2026, 10:35Track A30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
Open source agentic AI is growing fast with projects like Hermes Agent and OpenClaw, but technology alone is not enough. Drawing on experience organising Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2026’s agentic AI track and daily use of Hermes Agent, this talk shows why community and ecosystem building matter, and offers practical ways GNOME and Asian F/OSS communities can shape open, sustainable...
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Jens Petersen (Red Hat)31/10/2026, 11:20Track A50 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
It is becoming really common for users and developers to have to download and install tools directly from the network and just run them on their systems. To some extent this has always been the case, and there is a degree of trust implied when downloading binaries, particularly now with the all too common "curl-to-shell" installs.
This talk presents a few CLI tools providing simple basic...
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Sailesh Singh (GNOME Nepal), Shraddha Tiwari (Gnome Nepal)31/10/2026, 12:20Track A30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
GNOME Nepal grew to a community of ~400 members without an established GNOME chapter or a local roadmap to follow. Building from that position meant experimenting constantly: reaching students, introducing people to GNOME and open source, creating opportunities for newcomers to participate, and learning which approaches actually sustained engagement.
This talk is an honest account of that...
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Syamsul Anuar Abd Nasir31/10/2026, 12:20Track B30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
Linux gaming has developed from a niche workaround into a mainstream force, driven largely by Proton, immutable operating systems and gaming-focused distributions. This session examines Bazzite, a specialised, OCI-based immutable Linux distribution built on Fedora and Universal Blue for PC handhelds and living-room gaming setups.
SteamOS helped bring handheld Linux gaming into the...
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Hardy N Jafar31/10/2026, 14:05Track A30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
My journey into open source and homelab started from a simple idea: learn by building, not just by consuming technology.
I started with Linux and gradually discovered the world of open source. Debian became one of the foundations of my learning journey. From there, I explored servers, networking, virtualization, containers, automation, web development, and self-hosted services.
My...
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Rajesh Pudasaini (Admin Asst - Provincial government/ local government of Nepal)31/10/2026, 14:50Track A30 min presentation: REMOTE
Digital government is usually discussed in terms of platforms and policy, but citizens experience it at ground level — often at the ward office. I speak from that vantage point: a Ward Secretary with 2.5 years handling the systems citizens actually touch, like VERSP-MIS (for vital event registration), SuTRA (for revenue collection), and CCIMS (for online recommendation of citizenship).
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Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail (KOSLAB PLT)31/10/2026, 14:50
How a 30 year old software philosophy holds the secret to monetizing software when generative AI drives production costs towards zero
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Divyanshu Rajput (OSS Contributor @GNOME)31/10/2026, 15:25Track A30 min presentation: REMOTE
In early 2026, I applied for Google Summer of Code with the GNOME Foundation - and I didn't get selected. For many students, that rejection is the end of the story. They close the laptop, move on, and never contribute to open source again.
I chose a different path. Instead of waiting for a program to give me permission to contribute, I opened GNOME's GitLab, found a project that needed help...
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Herpiko Dwi Aguno (BlankOn Foundation)31/10/2026, 16:00Track A30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
BlankOn Linux, one of Indonesia’s long-running Linux distributions, reached a point where its sustainability was uncertain. Before attempting to revive the project, I asked a broader question: what makes an open source project sustainable beyond the enthusiasm of its contributors?
Looking at successful open source organizations, I found that technology and contributors were only part of...
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Shraddha Tiwari (Gnome Nepal)31/10/2026, 16:35Track A30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
This paper tells the story of GNOME Nepal: how it grew from a two-person effort into a 15-strong core team, hundreds of members, without funding, institutional backing, or existing open source literacy to build on. In a country where most university curriculum have never mentioned GNOME, and open source itself remains poorly understood, growing a community is not a technical challenge, it's a...
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Abhishek Kushwaha01/11/2026, 10:00Track B30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
GNOME's accessibility support is genuinely good — Orca has been around since 2006 and it's one of the more mature screen readers in the FLOSS world. But "mature" mostly means mature for English. I wanted to find out what happens when you try to use it in a language that almost nobody has tested it in.
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I picked Nepali, my own language, spoken by over 30 million people, and started digging. I... -
27. Operationalizing GNOME Ambassadorship: Lessons from Bootstrapping Communities in Africa and AsiaAaditya Singh (GNOME)01/11/2026, 10:00Track A30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
After introducing the GNOME Ambassador concept at GUADEC 2026, we formed a small dedicated team to turn high-level community advocacy into real-world, actionable local chapters. This session shares practical lessons, wins, and friction points from bootstrapping open-source communities across two continents: Africa and Asia.
We will explore our real-world case studies, from the early...
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Kristi Progri01/11/2026, 10:35Track B30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
Open-source communities thrive when people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives come together to collaborate. This talk explores how to build welcoming, supportive, and sustainable open-source communities by promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’ll discuss practical ways to encourage participation, reduce barriers, and create an environment where everyone feels...
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Shrinkhala Tiwari (Nepal Bar Council)01/11/2026, 10:35Track A30 min presentation: REMOTE
Free and open-source software is usually framed as a technical choice an alternative stack, a cheaper license, a community of contributors. This talk argues it should also be understood as a matter of public institutional governance, using the judiciary as the sharpest possible test case.
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Rabina Karki (Gnome Nepal / Periwinkle Services)01/11/2026, 11:20Track B30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
Open-source communities are powered by people, ideas, and collaboration. However, organizing sustainable community events also requires resources, partnerships, and meaningful support.
Through my experience working in different events and communities, including serving as a Sponsorship Lead for UbuCon Asia, I have learned that sponsorship is more than simply asking companies for financial...
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Aaditya Yadav (GNOME Nepal)01/11/2026, 11:20Track A30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
sudois one of the most familiar commands in the Linux world. For many desktop users, however, it has quietly become the default solution whenever something doesn't work: installing software, managing services, changing configuration, or fixing permissions.This talk takes a practical look at Linux's user and privilege model and asks a simple question: **does this operation actually need...
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Yudhi Satrio01/11/2026, 12:00Track A50 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
It's an a11y awareness campaign and shows that GNOME already has it. Accessibility isn't an extra feature you need to install on GNOME. It is already part of the desktop. GNOME provides built-in a11y features designed to support different ways people interact with their computers, including screen reading, magnification, visual adjustments, and alternative ways to use the keyboard and pointer....
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Shraddha Tiwari (Gnome Nepal)01/11/2026, 14:0530 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
In under two years, AI coding assistants went from a productivity promise to a maintainer's headache inside GNOME itself. In December 2025, the GNOME Extensions team banned AI-generated submissions outright after reviewer Javad Rahmatzadeh reported spending hours a day wading through 15,000+ lines of AI-produced code riddled with unnecessary try-catch blocks, invented APIs, and comments...
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Masafumi Ohta (Japanese Raspberry Pi Users Group)01/11/2026, 14:0530 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
- How Linux and Windows differ as desktop environments
- Linux as Lego bricks; Windows as a finished product.
- Proprietary Windows applications that Linux users sometimes have no
choice but to use. - Windows as an accessible environment for less technical users; Linux for
professional work. - macOS as a middle ground between the two.
- **How deeply can...
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Wan Leung Wong (Hong Kong Linux User Group)01/11/2026, 14:40Track A30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
Chinese input is often treated as a single localisation problem, but users across Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and other Chinese-speaking communities rely on very different writing systems, phonetic conventions, input methods, and long-established typing habits.
At GNOME.Asia 2012 in Hong Kong, I presented some of these challenges in Cantonese. Fourteen years later, this...
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Sailesh Singh (GNOME Nepal)01/11/2026, 14:40Track A30 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
True open-source independence requires shifting technical literacy from late-undergraduate computer science down to primary and lower secondary school fundamentals. This presentation details our complete operational and educational framework for transforming K-12 computer science using a localized GNOME and Ubuntu ecosystem, driven by university student-led community outreach.
Key...
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Muhammad Syazwan Md Khusaini (GNOME Asia)01/11/2026, 15:3030 minutes presentation: IN PERSON
When we talk about open source, we often think about developers, contributors, and the software they create. But what about the people who bring these communities together? And more importantly, how does an international open source conference somehow end up in Terengganu, a state on the east coast of Malaysia known for its beautiful beaches, cultural heritage, and sea turtles?
In this...
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Felipe Borges (Red Hat)Track B50 min presentation: REMOTE
Building native applications for the GNOME ecosystem has never been easier, yet starting from a blank editor can be intimidating. This talk guides attendees step-by-step through the process of building a modern GNOME application from the ground up using GTK4, Libadwaita, and Flatpak.
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Felipe Borges (Red Hat)Track B30 min presentation: REMOTE
Learn how to work with virtual machines in GNOME. Creating virtual machines from various operating systems and sharing resources between your system and the virtual machine.
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