FOSSASIA is one of Asia's major open-source communities. Since 2009, it has been building open technologies - software and hardware - and organising events, meetups, hackathons, and mentorship programs around the world. The FOSSASIA Summit 2026 is the flagship annual open-source technology conference, bringing together a global community of developers, engineers, businesses, builders, educators and contributors. This time around, the conference covers a broad range of topics, welcoming talks, panels, workshops, and spotlight sessions, including, but not limited to, the following.
- Open Source 101
- Artificial Intelligence
- Web3 and Decentralised Infrastructure
- Open Innovation & Investor Forum
- Digital Commons & Open Governance
- Cloud, DevOps & SRE
- PGDay (PostgreSQL Day)
- Databases (Beyond PostgreSQL)
- Operating Systems
- Hardware, IoT & Maker Culture
- Web & Mobile
- Security & Privacy
Location
True Digital Park West, Soi Punnawithi 4,
Bang Chak Subdistrict, Phra Khanong District,
Bangkok, 10260, Thailand
Timeline
- Event Organization Day one - 08th March 2026
- Event Organization Day two - 09th March 2026
- Event Organization Day three - 10th March 2026
- DEADLINE for ticket purchases - 10th March 2026
Presence
Are you a contributing member of the Fedora Project attending FOSSASIA 2026, in person? Introduce yourself to the listing table and utilise the comments column to specify your current role in the community, for notifying your presence only and not for budgeting.
| No | Name | FAS | Sun, 08 Mar | Mon, 09 Mar | Tue, 10 Mar | Travel itinerary | Languages | Topics |
| 1 | Akashdeep Dhar | t0xic0der |  |
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PNQ <=> BKK | hi, en, bn | Mindshare, Council, Badges, Infrastructure, Forgejo |
| 2 | Shounak Dey | sdglitched | |
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PNQ <=> BKK | hi, en, bn | Contributor, Badges |
| 3 | Yashwanth Rathakrishnan | thisisyaash | |
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CJB <=> BKK | ta, en | Fedora-Infra, Fedora CommOps, Forgejo |
| 4 | Samyak Jain | jnsamyak | |
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ALG => DEL <=> BKK => DEL => ALG | en, hi | Fedora Release Engineering, Infra, CommOps, Forgejo |
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Budgetting
Registration
Please note that in order to attend the event in person, one has to mandatorily [1] for the event by 10th March 2026. The entry fee varies from free to 160 USD based on which parts of the conference one would want to attend, and as an incidental expense, this will not be reimbursed from the Fedora Mindshare.
We strongly recommend that our Fedora Project community representatives purchase the standard ticket for around 55 USD to avail themselves of most of what the conference has to offer on or before the 10th March 2026. Please feel free to decide on your level of presence across the event based on your individual availabilities.
Proposal
Since we had recently organised the APAC Fedora Project community presence at DevConf.IN 2026, with our Fedora Project Community Corner in the first quarter of 2026, we would want to ensure that we can have regular representation of the community throughout the year. As we are exploring what FOSSASIA has to offer this year, so that we can return with a greater presence with a Fedora Project community booth in the future (or in a different region, for that matter), we will unfortunately not be able to fund contributors to travel to the conference.
Activities
The following is a list of activities, including but not limited to booth presences, short talks, long presentations, and group discussions organised by the community members of the Fedora Project in DevConf.IN 2026. Please list your activities here with the associated details to make them discoverable to other fellow contributors.
| No | Name | Type | Date | Time (IST) | Speaker | Description | URL |
| 1 | The Fedora Badges Revamp Project Story - Modernizing Legacy Running Infrastructure | Talk (15 min) | TBA | TBA | Akashdeep Dhar, Shounak Dey | How do you replace the engine of a moving car? Or better yet, how do you replace the heart of a living human? For decades, Fedora Badges has been a crucial partner for gamifying contributor engagement, but its ageing frontend technologies and backend infrastructure were becoming unmaintainable. This talk dives into the multi-year project to completely revamp Fedora Badges, piece by piece, while having it run just fine with sustainably equivalent feature parity. We will explore the transition from a legacy system to a modern architecture with our move from synchronous backend libraries like Flask to asynchronous backend libraries like FastAPI and from static templating systems like Jinja to progressive interface frameworks like React. | https://eventyay.com/e/88882f3e/cfs/session/10247 |
| 2 | New House, New Rules: From Building Fedora Forge to Fixing Longstanding Painpoints | Talk (15 min) | TBA | TBA | Akashdeep Dhar | Fedora Project is undergoing significant infrastructure changes that affect everyone from distribution users to individual contributors - that is migrating from Pagure to Forgejo as its primary Git forge for both source code and package sources. Our talk chronicles the journey from the early days of collective debating between GitLab and Forgejo with Fedora Council, through the ongoing migration of thousands of repositories with Fedora Infrastructure. While the initiative began due to the need to move away from Pagure, it gradually evolved into one that also aimed at fixing the long-standing pain points faced with workflows. We got the opportunity to streamline the processes that made sense about a decade back and have since then, slowly started getting in the way of contribution. This also allowed us to contribute back to the Forgejo upstream with the features that would end up benefitting all. Our findings serve as a blueprint for other distribution maintainers facing similar infrastructure decisions with maintaining their collaborative applications and services. They can take advantage of Fedora Project's learnings on building compatibility bridges, CI/CD workflow modernization, granular permission models, existing toolchain integration and comprehensive documentation - to ensure a sustainable approach to their significant infrastructure changes. | https://eventyay.com/e/88882f3e/cfs/session/10246 |
| 3 | NAME | TYPE | DATE | TIME | USERNAME | DESCRIPTION | LINK |
Rationale
FOSSASIA 2026 provides a strategically significant opportunity for the Fedora Project to strengthen its footprint across the broader APAC region, especially with the emphasis on Southeast Asia. The conference attracts a highly international audience of developers, engineers, businesses, builders, educators and contributors, many of whom already engage with free and open source software but may not yet have a clear pathway into structured contributions. A visible (and accessible) Fedora Project presence at a regionally influential conference like FOSSASIA 2026 lowers the barrier to entry by enabling direct conversations around the Fedora Project's mission/vision, its technical foundations and its community-driven governance model, while reinforcing the Fedora Project's role as a leading-edge GNU/Linux distribution in the global open source ecosystem.
The collaborative and multi-track nature of FOSSASIA aligns closely with the Fedora Project's values of openness, inclusiveness, mentorship and collaboration, making it an ideal venue to showcase the Fedora Project's technical innovation and community processes in practice. With strong participation from academic institutions and contributors from regional industries -- including those working within Red Hat's ecosystem -- the Fedora Project can use this opportunity to expand its presence in the Asia Pacific region by meaningfully engaging with these personas. After prospecting the conference this year for Fedora Mindshare, we can consider having more speakers and active booths from our community during the event's runtime in the coming years, while documenting our learnings from organizing/proposing this edition of Fedora Project's presence.
Contact
- Akashdeep Dhar - Connect on Fedora Chat using @t0xic0der:fedora.im
