We love these pictures from #FOSSASIA PGDay our team members Suraj Kharage and Vaibhav Dalvi shared on Slack. They had a great time presenting at the event in Bangkok, Thailand! #PostgreSQL #opensource

IS FOSSASIA STILL GOING ON? I WANT TO GO TOMORROW.

#fossasia

#FOSSASIA has been a blast so far!

Thanks to all those who stopped by our booth and our talks.

There's still time to say hello and learn about scaling observability with the LGTM Stack. Don't miss our Grafanistas!

The Kyber team is in Bangkok 🇹🇭 for FOSSASIA Summit!

Jean-Baptiste Kempf gave a talk on real-time infrastructure for robotics, AI agents & immersive systems. Come see Kyber in action at our live drone rover demo!

Big thanks to the FossAsia team for organizing!

#FOSSASIA #OpenSource #Kyber

KDE will be at FOSSASIA Summit 2026 in Bangkok!

Come by our booth on 9–10 March 2026 and talk to community members, check out devices and software, and grab some stickers.

Learn more summit.fossasia.org

#FOSSAsia #FOSSEvent #FOSS #TechEvent

Join #LPI at one of Asia’s top #opensource events, #FOSSASIA Summit 2026, March 8-10 in Bangkok!
Attend Kenji’s session on #FOSS certs (March 8/free), grab exam discounts at our booth, & network with #devs, #educators, & community leaders!
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Nice to see Prof Jun Iio at #FOSSASIA stressing the importance of #opensource and transparency in research. Particularly timely as AI-coding is creating new challenges in this (see my piece on the topic scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/g...)

The #fossasia Community Day kicking off here in Bangkok. Convenient that an #opensource conference coincides with and celebrates #IWD2026 and women coders

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hoping to see what the community is cooking up at this year's #fossasia summit

Don't miss Shivani Bhardwaj at FOSSASIA Summit 2026! 🙌 Catch her hands-on Suricata session on March 9 at 2:45 PM (+07).

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#LPI is proud to support #FOSSASIA Summit, a top #opensource event in Asia, March 8–10 in Bangkok. 🐧
Visit our booth for exam #discounts & join Kenji Ito’s session (March 8/free) to explore #FOSS certs & benefits! 📚🔍


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#FOSSASIA Summit, one of Asia’s biggest #opensource events with 5,000+ participants, takes place in Bangkok March 8–10!

#LPI is proud to be a Community Day Supporter 🐧.

Join Kenji’s session (March 8) for free & visit our booth for exam discounts: lpi.org/9q5e

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I’m excited to be speaking at hashtag #FOSSASIA Summit 2026!

Join my talk, “Scaling Design in Open Source: Building a Cross-Platform System from Scratch,” where I’ll share insights on how we scaled the design system at @tuist.dev.

Join #LPI at one of Asia’s top #opensource events, #FOSSASIA Summit 2026, March 8-10 in Bangkok!

Attend Kenji’s session on #FOSS certs (March 8/free), grab exam discounts at our booth, & network with #devs, #educators, & community leaders!

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Poster of FossAssia Summit 2026 with the GNOME Logo. Meet us in Bangkok, March 9-10 Background in red.

We will be at #FOSSASIA Summit 2026 in Bangkok!
Come by our booth on 9–10 March 2026 and meet the team.

Learn more summit.fossasia.org @fossasia

#LPI is proud to support #FOSSASIA Summit, a top #opensource event in Asia, March 8–10 in Bangkok. 🐧

Visit our booth for exam #discounts & join Kenji Ito’s session (March 8/free) to explore #FOSS certs & benefits! 📚🔍

Learn more: lpi.org/9q5e

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In the physical world we don't treat adults and children the same way. On the Internet we struggle to make this distinction.

At #FOSSASIA2026, Peter Membrey (ExpressVPN) is giving a Keynote on 'Protecting Children Online'. He explores how we can build differential protection into our […]

Running code in the cloud usually means trusting the landlord not to peek.

At #FOSSASIA2026, Peter Membrey (ExpressVPN) is releasing an open source framework for Secure GPU Workloads in Enclaves.

It allows you to cryptographically verify your hardware and treat the cloud provider as an […]

We are told that surveillance is the price of a free internet. 'If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product'.

But what if the maths proved otherwise?

At #FOSSASIA2026, Wen-jie Lu (Privacy Engineer) is presenting a third way: Multi-Party Computation (MPC). He shows how we can have […]

I spent years building commercial security appliances. Here is why Shivani Bhardwaj’s return to FOSSASIA supports the shift in who owns network defense. In the early 2000s, I served as CTO of CounterSnipe. Our core business was building Network Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS) appliances. At the time, the industry revolved around Snort. It was the engine that powered the sector, and for many years, if you wanted serious traffic analysis, you bought a black box appliance and hired a team to watch it. Today the landscape of network defense is shifting. The boundary between enterprise security and personal privacy is dissolving. ## The Enterprise-Only Myth There is a long-standing assumption that Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are too complex for smaller deployments. The argument goes that without a dedicated Security Operations Center (SOC), the data is useless. I disagree. And it seems the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) does too. Yesterday, the Suricata team hosted a webinar specifically on Suricata in Homelab and SOHO, validating a growing trend: individuals and small organizations are no longer content to rely on opaque ISP routers or basic firewalls. They want the same visibility that the banks have. They want to see the traffic on their own wire. ## The Governance Advantage This democratization is why I am so pleased to include Suricata in this year’s track. Unlike the tools of my CounterSnipe days, Suricata is backed by a non-profit foundation (OISF). This matters. In my talk last year on addressing the limits of the F/OSS approach, I identified foundations as homes for F/OSS projects as one of the mechanisms for ensuring that a project serves its community, not just a vendor’s shareholders. **Governance is a security feature**. In this case it ensures that the eyes of the network remain open. # Welcome Back: Shivani Bhardwaj This brings me to our speaker. I am delighted to welcome Shivani Bhardwaj back to the FOSSASIA Summit (she previously spoke in 2024, also on Suricata). Shivani is the ideal person to bridge the gap between hardcore engineering and community access: * As a Suricata developer, she works on the heavy lifting—writing the C and Rust code that makes Suricata fast enough to handle modern throughput. * As an Outreachy mentor, she helps underrepresented groups break into open source system programming. She understands that building a tool is only half the battle; teaching people to use it is equally important. ## The Session: Hands-On Defense On Monday, March 9, Shivani is leading a session titled A demonstration of hands-on network security with Suricata. This is not a sales pitch. It is a practitioner’s workshop designed to turn you into the analyst. She will cover: * How to get enterprise-grade inspection running on your own hardware. * How to write custom signatures so you catch what you care about (privacy leaks, IoT chatter) without drowning in noise. * How to modify existing signatures to expose the details that you care about. ## Why This Matters You don’t need a SOC to benefit from better visibility. Whether you are a student, a privacy advocate, or a sysadmin, you have the right to understand what is entering and leaving your network. Come to Bangkok to learn the tool. Stay to support the community that keeps it open. ## Join Us * Session: A demonstration of hands-on network security with Suricata * Speaker: Shivani Bhardwaj * Track: Cybersecurity & Privacy * When: March 9, 02:45 PM * Tickets: EventYay

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#FOSSASIA #FOSSASIA2026 #Suricata #BlueTeam #NetworkSecurity #OpenSource #OISF #WomenInTech

The “black box” in your hallway exacerbates a power imbalance. At the FOSSASIA Summit 2026 Dheeraj Reddy Jonnalagadda is going to show us how to level the playing field. Much of the history of the open source movement — and particularly the Free Software Movement — is a history of redressing power imbalances. When software is closed and code is kept secret, it becomes a tool for organizations to exert control over individuals. It allows vendors to compel costly upgrades, block interoperability, and hide vulnerabilities. For most of my adult life, I have worked to reduced these asymmetries, because I believe that the systems we rely on for our civil liberties must be transparent to be trustworthy. In few places is this power imbalance more physical, or more intrusive, than the plastic box sitting in your hallway: the ISP-supplied router. ## The Hidden Cost of the “Black Box” We are asked to trust these devices implicitly. They mediate our banking, our private communications, and our work. Yet, for most users, they are total black boxes. We cannot audit the code they run. We cannot verify if they are patched against the latest CVE. We are effectively tenants in our own digital infrastructure, renting access from a landlord who holds all the keys. But the cost isn’t just security; it’s sovereignty. * Want to block ads network-wide? You can’t, because you don’t have root. * Want to segregate your insecure IoT lightbulbs from your work laptop? You can’t, because VLANs are locked out. * Want to use encrypted DNS to stop your ISP from selling your browsing history? Good luck changing those settings. This is why, when we were curating the Cybersecurity & Privacy track for FOSSASIA 2026, we looked for talks that didn’t just discuss security in the abstract, but offered practical tools to reclaim it. ## Meet the Speaker: Dheeraj Reddy Jonnalagadda Dheeraj is a Senior Flight Software Engineer at Pixxel, where he builds embedded systems for space technology — a domain where “trust” isn’t a sentiment, but a verifiable engineering constraint. If code fails in orbit, the satellite is dead. He applies that same rigorous skepticism to the terrestrial hardware we use every day. ## The Session: “Don’t Trash It, Hack It” On Monday, March 9, Dheeraj is leading a session titled Don’t Trash It, Hack It: Reverse engineering secrets & repurposing ISP Routers. This session is a masterclass in auditability. Dheeraj will demonstrate the process of: * The Teardown: Analyzing the binary structure of a locked-down firmware image. * The Breach: Uncovering hard-coded backdoor credentials (the ultimate breach of trust that vendors often leave behind). * The Repurpose: Gaining root access to transform the device from a passive “ISP endpoint” into an active “User-Controlled Firewall.” ## Why This Matters This isn’t just about saving a few dollars on hardware or reducing e-waste (though keeping plastic out of the landfill is a noble bonus). It is about the fundamental principle that you cannot secure what you cannot understand. If we want an Internet that is trustworthy — one that protects individuals rather than just serving as a vector for surveillance or crime — we need to start by owning the edge of the network. We need to move from blind faith in our ISPs to verified Trust. Dheeraj is giving us the crowbar to open the black box. I hope you’ll join us to see what’s inside. ## Join Us in Bangkok * Session: Don’t Trash It, Hack It * Track: Cybersecurity & Privacy * When: March 9, 08:45 AM * Tickets: EventYay

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#FOSSASIA #FOSSASIA2026 #Bangkok #HardwareHacking #ReverseEngineering #EmbeddedSystems #NetSec #Firmware #RightToRepair #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy

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I’m happy to be speaking at #FOSSASIA Summit 2026, Asia’s leading #opensource conferences. Join me in Bangkok on 8–10 March 2026 to connect with developers, contributors, and the global tech community @fossasia
Event details: summit.fossasia.org

I’ll be at fossasia summit 2026 on March 8–10!
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2/5 แต่สิ่งที่ผมอยากผลักดันต่อคือการชวนให้น้องๆ เปลี่ยนจาก "ผู้ใช้" มาเป็น "ผู้สร้าง" ครับ ผมเดินแจกสติ๊กเกอร์ #FOSSASIA และบอกพวกเขาว่าเรามีส่วนร่วมได้หลายทาง:
✅ ร่วมเขียน Code / แก้ Bug
✅ ช่วยตอบข้อสงสัยใน Community
✅ เสนอไอเดียใหม่ๆ หรือจัด Meetup

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#LPI was thrilled to join #FOSSASIA 2025 in Bangkok, one of Asia’s top #opensource events.
Attendees got exam discounts, explored #LPI certifications, and met LPI team members Kenji Ito and @JolVilaviza.
More info: lpi.org/zya6
#Linux #FOSSASIA

#LPI thanks organizers, volunteers, & attendees for making #FOSSASIA Summit 2025 in Bangkok a success! 🔓💪🐧
#LPI was proud to join this #FOSS event, spreading #opensource skills across Asia through demos, talks, networking, & more!
Learn more: lpi.org/zya6

#FOSSASIA 2025 in Bangkok gathered #FOSS pros & supporters for 170+ talks & 200+ sessions on #AI, #cloud, #DevOps, #openhardware, & more! 🔓💪🐧

#LPI offered career guidance, exam discounts, & built ties to grow #opensource careers in #Asia.
Learn more: lpi.org/zya6

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A group of people with various beers and non-alcoholic drinks in a park

Dinner and a walk through a park festival at day 0 of #confconf in #Sofia, #Bulgaria

Just in those photos you see people who made #FOSDEM, #DENOG, #DebConf, #PromCon, #GrafanaCon, #CCC / #38c3, #WHY2025, #IndiaFOSS, #COSCUP, #FOSSASIA, and others happen. And more people will come tomorrow.

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