Just hosted my first workshop on "Sustaining & Growing Open Source Communities" at GNOME Asia Summit 2025 in Tokyo! 🎉

Participants shared key challenges: slow communication, unclear structures, aging contributors, and financial worries for the next 2-3 years.

Brainstormed solutions like regular events, more transparency, and better websites.

Super engaged audience & amazing feedback—far
beyond expectations! Hope to run it again soon.

#GNOMEAsia #OpenSource

https://sammyfung.com/workshop-on-sustaining-growing-open-source-communities-at-gnome-asia-summit-2025/

One of our rising contributors recently shared his work at this year's GNOME.Asia Summit. Please join us in congratulating Krish Pandya ( @mostlyk ) on his successful presentation, showing the power of open-source collaboration and innovation! Krish Pandya's work on GTK4 and Sugar Desktop is a shining example of the impact that Sugar Labs can have on the world.

Join us in celebrating this achievement and stay tuned for more exciting updates from the Sugar Labs team!

#GNOMEAsia

After my talk at @gnome Asia Summit, I’ve published the source code of Jollpi, a Python-based text editor I’m rewriting with a modern stack.

Built with Python 3, @GTK 4 and GtkSourceView 5, using a modern async architecture and standard Python packaging (pyproject.toml, pip).
It installs cleanly and integrates like a regular Linux desktop app.

Feel free to try it and share feedback.

Source code: https://gitlab.com/zulfian1732/jollpi-text-editor

#GNOMEAsia #GNOME #GTK #Python #OpenSource

GNOME.Asia 2025 is live in Tokyo, Japan! The two day event has a fantastic schedule of talks and workshops.

https://events.gnome.org/event/303/

If you can’t attend in person, the sessions can also be viewed remotely; head over to the online registration to sign up and follow along:

https://events.gnome.org/event/303/registrations/294/

#GNOME #GNOMEAsia #GNOMEAsia2025 #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

The #GNOMEAsia2024 intent to bid is due tomorrow! If you are interested in bringing GNOME Asia to your city make sure to let us know by submitting an intent to bid by May 15. More details on how to submit here:
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/04/30/call-for-gnome-asia-2024-location-proposals/

Full proposals are due by June 6.

#GNOME #GNOMEAsia #CallForLocations

The #GNOMEAsia2024 Call for Locations is open! If you are interested in bringing GNOME Asia to your city make sure to submit an intent to bid by May 15, and your full proposal by June 6.
More details on how to submit here: https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/04/30/call-for-gnome-asia-2024-location-proposals/

#GNOME #GNOMEAsia

GNOME Asia Summit 2023 is going to feature some #LinuxMobile-y lightning talks later today:

Contributing to Phosh as a Startup: A case study of Making some Impact on the Open Source Community
https://events.gnome.org/event/170/contributions/562/

and

Sustainable computing using mobile linux.
https://events.gnome.org/event/170/contributions/563/

Also worth a look: https://events.gnome.org/event/170/contributions/561/

#GNOMEAsia

#GNOMEAsia2023 starts in just a few hours! We're excited to see everyone in person in Kathmandu and online! Make sure you're registered and check your email for links and access codes to join us remotely:
https://events.gnome.org/event/170/overview

#GNOME #GNOMEAsia #opensource