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UbuCon Asia 2025 now offers 3 new sponsorship offerings!

  • Youngbin Han

2025-05-25T01:00:00+09:00

UbuCon Asia 2025 now offers 3 new things in our sponsorship program! If you couldn’t find packages that fits your budget and needs, We hope these new packages would be helpful for your business and organizations!

Supporter package - Startup pricing

We heard many businesses (especially local businesses in Nepal considering to sponsor us) hesitate to sponsor us due to their budget constraints, The new startup pricing for Supporter package is now available allowing startups to join us as a sponsor easier.

Get a booth for your community or project at UbuCon Asia 2025!

  • Youngbin Han

2025-05-22T23:00:00+09:00

UbuCon Asia this year in Kathmandu, Nepal will be running exhibition area just like last year. This time, We will be also providing booth not only for business who bought sponsorship package that includes booth benefit or booth only package, but also for FOSS community and projects as complimentary.

By running a booth for your FOSS community or projects, You will be able to intereact with conference participants closely to exhibit and promote your work.

Join UbuCon Asia 2025 in Kathmandu โ€“ A Celebration of Ubuntu and Open Source!

  • Muhammad Syazwan Md Khusaini

2025-05-09T00:00:00+08:00

Exciting news for open-source enthusiasts across Asia! UbuCon Asia 2025 is set to take place in the beautiful city of Kathmandu, Nepal. Following the success of previous events in Korea, Indonesia and India, this yearโ€™s UbuCon Asia promises to bring together developers, community members, and technology enthusiasts for a weekend of insightful discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities.

What is UbuCon Asia?

UbuCon Asia is the premier regional conference for Ubuntu users, developers, and open-source enthusiasts. It serves as a platform for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and engagement with the wider Ubuntu and Linux ecosystem. The event features keynotes, technical talks, hands-on workshops, and community-driven discussions, fostering a thriving open-source culture in Asia.

UbuCon Asia 2025 Travel grant application to be closed on April 28th

  • Youngbin Han

2025-04-21T23:00:00+09:00

Every year, when we are organizing UbuCon Asia, We usually try to provide some travel grant to select beneficiery. Of course, We do also acceptes applications this year. We’re closing travel grant applications a bit earlier this year. The deadline is April 28th. If you plan to attend UbuCon Asia this year, but need travel funding support from the committee as you can’t really raise travel funding by yourself or through your employer, college or other organizations, please don’t forget to apply on-time.

CFP is now closed for UbuCon Asia 2025

  • Youngbin Han

2025-04-16T23:00:00+09:00

We have just closed our call for proposals yesterday! Thank you everyone who submitted session proposal this year.

Some numbers

How many proposals we received this year? We received total 67 proposals. Let’s try to group by with several criterias.

By topics

This year, most of proposals were submitted under “Community”, “Security and Compliance” topics followed by “Data, AI and ML” and “Devices and IoT”.

Topics (Tracks) Proposals received
Community 12
Security and Compliance 12
Data, AI and ML 11
Devices and IoT 10
Cloud and Infrastructure 10
Desktop and WSL 4
Documentations and QA 3
Other 3
Content and Design 1
Localizations and Accessibility 1

By session types

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