GNOME ASIA 2025 took place in Tokyo, Japan, from 13–14 December 2025, bringing together the GNOME community for the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia.
The event was held in a hybrid format, welcoming both in-person and online speakers and attendees from across the world.

GNOME ASIA 2025 was co-hosted with the LibreOffice Asia Conference community event, creating a shared space for collaboration and discussion between open-source communities.

About GNOME.Asia Summit

The GNOME.Asia Summit focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop while also covering applications and platform development tools. It brings together users, developers, foundation leaders, governments, and businesses in Asia to discuss current technologies and future developments within the GNOME ecosystem.

The event featured 25 speakers in total, delivering 17 full talks and 8 lightning talks across the two days. Speakers joined both on-site and remotely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Around 100 participants attended in person in Tokyo, contributing to engaging discussions and community interaction. Session recordings were published on the GNOME Asia YouTube channel, where they have received 1,154 total views, extending the reach of the event beyond the conference dates.

With strong in-person attendance, active online participation, and collaboration with the LibreOffice Asia community, GNOME ASIA 2025 once again demonstrated the importance of regional gatherings in strengthening the GNOME ecosystem and open-source collaboration in Asia.

 

 

We are happy to announce that GUADEC 2026 will take place in A Coruña, Spain, from July 16th to 21st, 2026.
As in recent years, the conference will be organized as a hybrid event, giving participants the opportunity to join either in person or online.

The first three days, July 16th–18th, will be dedicated to talks, followed by BoF and workshop sessions on July 19th and 20th. The final day, July 21st, will be a self-organized free exploration day.

While the GUADEC team will share ideas and suggestions for this day, there will be no officially organized activities. The call for proposals and registration will open soon, and further updates will be shared on guadec.org in the coming weeks.

Organizations interested in sponsoring GUADEC 2026 are welcome to contact us at guadec@gnome.org.

About the city:
Hosted on Spain’s Atlantic coast, A Coruña offers a memorable setting for the conference, from the iconic Tower of Hercules, the world’s oldest Roman lighthouse still in use, to one of Europe’s longest seaside promenades and the city’s famous glass-fronted balconies that give it the nickname “City of Glass.”