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FOSDEM '25 Trip Report

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  From CentOS Connect to FOSDEM 2025: An Open Source Odyssey The start of 2025 kicked off with two major events for open source enthusiasts— CentOS Connect and FOSDEM —each bringing its own dose of excitement, collaboration, and insight into where our community is heading. Whether you were hacking on new projects, mingling at booths, or attending keynotes that lit up the stage, there was no shortage of inspiration. Here’s a look back at both events and how they tied together into one memorable journey. CentOS Connect 2025 – Day One A Fresh Look at CentOS The opening day of CentOS Connect 2025 set the tone by putting the spotlight on the evolution of CentOS. The day began with a keynote that walked everyone through recent milestones and upcoming goals—highlighting changes in rolling releases, community-driven governance, and the CentOS Stream roadmap. Attendees seemed especially excited about the expansions in cloud and container support, which promise to make CentOS more robu...
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Fedora x PyTorch Connect at DevConf.IN 2025

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 This is a short trip report for Devconf IN 2025 in MIT WPU, Pune. This report talks about my presence, fedora's participation. DevConf.IN 2025 brought together open-source enthusiasts, developers, and industry leaders to discuss the latest advancements in technology. As part of this, Fedora hosted a Fedora x PyTorch meetup, where we explored the intersection of Fedora, AI, and PyTorch. A Deep Dive into AI and Fedora During the session, I introduced the AI/ML Special Interest Group (SIG) in Fedora, highlighting its efforts to enhance AI and ML workflows in the Fedora ecosystem. One of the key highlights of the talk was a live demonstration of Ollama , an exciting AI tool recently packaged for Fedora 42 . The demo showcased how Fedora is evolving as a platform for AI development, enabling researchers and developers to leverage open-source AI tools seamlessly.   PyTorch and the Future of AI in RHEL     Sudhir, Senior Manager in Global Engineering, provided an insight...
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Fedora x GNOME Asia 2024 @ RHT BLR

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 Epilogue  GNOME Asia 2024 was held in Red Hat BLR office. This edition was staffed mostly by Red Hat employees and GNOME foundation members. The rendition had a nice split of Fedora, GNOME dev and Ubuntu talks. This event was a result of months on planning across multiple Timezones , seeing this come to fruition is a dream come true. Day 0 I touchdown 72hrs before the event. To helpout with last minute plannings and logistical arrangements. I was in touch with Samyak Jain (event owner) and Justin Flory (Fedora Community Arch) who had listed down the items that were still getting delivered at the office. This part of any event is hectic and support from GNOME staff was desired. Sudhir Dharanendraiah (Senior Manager @ Red Hat Core Platforms) being a Bangaluru native; led the facilities co-ordination efforts with Gowda (Red Hat India Facility Maganer). Sudhir is one of prime people who did a lot of the heavy lifting behind the curtains. Day 1 The GNOME foundation has a specific ...
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Changing Times , Riddles of Rochester - Flock 2024

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Epilogue Flock is the annual event for Fedora and this years marks 8yrs of me attending. Flock has taught me so much over the years and this year was just little it special. The direction Fedora Project takes from this moment on will be significant. The contributor base it amasses, might feel overwhelmed and debate the value to cost ratio but this all is part of much bigger picture. The change(s) will help the project to have leaner, meaner and lighter infra workload. The decent increase in the quality of life of contributor and smoother contributor convergence (in-sync) with rest of Open Source life! The prep I flew in from Kolkata,India (CCU). I will spare you folks the 40hrs of madness and travel shenanigans.  This time a lot was on my mind, from the redhat side of things .. the impending change in org structure. Fedora Project is actively trying to find another git forge replacement and sunset pagure and bugzilla. Konflux-ci is on the rise and that will be a change to the buil...
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Tales from GNOME Asia 2023

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Epilogue The GNOME Asia 2023 Summit, a key event in the open-source technology calendar, took place in Kathmandu, Nepal, from December 1 to 3, 2023. This conference is the premier annual event for the GNOME community in Asia, focusing on the GNOME desktop, applications, and development tools. The GNOME Foundation, which oversees this summit, aims to bring together various stakeholders, including users, developers, foundation leaders, government representatives, and businesses, to discuss present technologies and future developments. This iteration of the GNOME summit (as will be covered in the report) will have two parts, the community and the actual event proceedings. GNOME Asia Summit brought back the key FOSS stakeholders of Nepal into the limelight and also collaborated with the Fedora Project - helping them host a Release Party for Fedora Linux 39 and Celebrate the 20th year of the Fedora Project. Day 0  Like all "great" FOSS Projects do, Day 0 is all about intense colla...
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Location: Kathmandu 44600, Nepal
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Mine Shiba Inu ($shib) on Fedora/LINUX

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Context Please Well, all of us has heard about the new shiny $shib. When the pump is so high, news and media just happen to cover it. That's the normal. This post is not about what $shib is or what you can do with it. This post is a basic walk through of how YOU can mine $shib at home and earn [or atleast learn what mining is]. One of most hyped thing about mining is, we need Graphics Cards [GPU] and a lot of GPUs worthing lakhs in my country. Amount of money which is very hard to shell out at one go.  So, since sometime, miners have been relying heavily on a pool. A pool is collection of computing power which will together mine of a certain type of currency. We have some coins which will require a certain quantity of vRAM to start with and there are some which will require less. Depending on the power of the GPU, you can join the pool and help with collective mining.  Now, since a lot of us don't end up having such GPUs we end up not mining at all! But what if there was a way...
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