News: UbuCon Asia 2025: Added session recording links

Author: tillkamppeter

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 excerpt: Organized by the Ubuntu and GNOME communities of Nepal
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+**UPDATE: Links to session recordings on YouTube added**
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+**[Playlist of all currently available recordings](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr8g8zdbZAgGNzweq3NGgwLmruBIA2QBw)**
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 ## Why attending a conference in Nepal?
 This year we have done the [third Opportunity Open Source](https://oosc.org.in/) in India, and originally having planned to co-host the first [UbuCon India](https://events.canonical.com/event/136/overview) with it we had settled it on the weekend right after this year's [UbuCon Asia](https://2025.ubucon.asia/) which has taken place on August 30-31 in Kathmandu in the neighboring country Nepal, to make it possible that speakers could be on both events with only one round trip.
 
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 ## Day 1
 On Saturday, August 30, the UbuCon started. Arriving at the venue one saw a long line of people waiting. It was for the registration desk in front of the building, for the more than 300 people just attending the conference, but not giving a talk or a workshop. Speakers got shown a hidden room inside the building where they could pick up their badges. The organizers (a sponsor?) provided us with highly sophisticated all-plastic badges, which were not that easy to assemble, especially removing the protective plastic film. But this way the sponsors assure that, if a badge gets into the environment, their logos will still be seen in centuries ...
 
-After the introduction from the organizers the first session was the keynote presentation by **Dimple Kuriakose**, ["Confidential Computing Demystified: An in-depth look into CVMs"](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/649/) ([Slides](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/649/attachments/416/670/Confidential%20Computing%20Demystified%2006.pdf)), explaining all the measures in the Ubuntu operating system to keep the system secure and protect the data and privacy of the users.
+After the introduction from the organizers the first session was the keynote presentation by **Dimple Kuriakose**, ["Confidential Computing Demystified: An in-depth look into CVMs"](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/649/) ([Slides](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/649/attachments/416/670/Confidential%20Computing%20Demystified%2006.pdf), [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krzexdI2Cow)), explaining all the measures in the Ubuntu operating system to keep the system secure and protect the data and privacy of the users.
 
-And since the [Ubuntu Summit 2022](/OpenPrinting-News-November-2022/#the-first-ubuntu-summit-was-a-success) there is practically no conference any more without workshops, and the first workshop this time was ["Crafting snaps quickstart guide 101"](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/650/) ([Slides](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/650/attachments/399/643/Snap%20quickstart%20workshop.pdf), [Exercises](https://github.com/snapcrafters/snap-quickstart-workshop?tab=readme-ov-file#snap-quickstart-workshop)), by **Soumyadeep Ghosh** and me. The room was nearly full, showing that there are many people interested in packaging applications in the Snap format. In total there were 6 workshops throughout the 2 days: Snap, LXD, AppArmor, Local AI/LLMs, Documentation on GIT, and air-gapped Ubuntu.
+And since the [Ubuntu Summit 2022](/OpenPrinting-News-November-2022/#the-first-ubuntu-summit-was-a-success) there is practically no conference any more without workshops, and the first workshop this time was ["Crafting snaps quickstart guide 101"](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/650/) ([Slides](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/650/attachments/399/643/Snap%20quickstart%20workshop.pdf), [Exercises](https://github.com/snapcrafters/snap-quickstart-workshop?tab=readme-ov-file#snap-quickstart-workshop), [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNsGWiIRLw)), by **Soumyadeep Ghosh** and **me**. The room was nearly full, showing that there are many people interested in packaging applications in the Snap format. In total there were 6 workshops throughout the 2 days: Snap, LXD, AppArmor, Local AI/LLMs, Documentation on GIT, and air-gapped Ubuntu.
 
 There was lunch in the cafeteria of the college, free of charge for speakers and included in the conference fee for general attendees. Organizers redirected speakers to early and late hours during the lunch break for them to avoid long waiting lines.
 
 In the afternoon **Akarshan Kapoor**, GSoC contributor for OpenPrinting in [2023](https://dev.to/kappuccino111/sandboxing-scanners-a-leap-into-the-driverless-realm-gsoc-23-report-3eci) and [2024](https://dev.to/kappuccino111/pappl-scan-api-bridging-gsoc-2024-project-report-2hoc) presented his GSoC work in the talk ["Scaniverse Universal Scanner Drivers: One Solution for Every Distro"](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/664/) ([Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OfvKXLbVarYXB7Pv2_79iEG3t_tj6ElujyesAAJGMcQ/edit?usp=sharing)).
 
-My second time on the stage was also on the first day. I have participated in the panel session ["Growing Ubuntu and FOSS Community - and yourself, Locally and Globally"](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/676/), hosted by **Yush Pokharel** and with **Aryan Kaushik**, **Rashika Karki**, and me as guests. Everyone told here about the creation of their projects and building their communities, and the audience could ask questions afterwards.
+My second time on the stage was also on the first day. I have participated in the panel session ["Growing Ubuntu and FOSS Community - and yourself, Locally and Globally"](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/676/) ([Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmD-qjWWK9E)), hosted by **Yush Pokharel** and with **Aryan Kaushik**, **Rashika Karki**, and me as guests. Everyone told here about the creation of their projects and building their communities, and the audience could ask questions afterwards.
 
 
 ## Day 2
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 After that I went to the Ubuntu booth to meet some former colleagues and friends, **Mauro Gaspari**, **Andreia Velasco**, and others. As this event is an UbuCon, the Ubuntu booth was not in the outdoor space but right in front of the door of the main lecture hall, where the plenary sessions were taking place.
 
-In the afternoon I attended **Graham Morrison**'s workshop ["Open Documentation Academy Live: Make your first open source contribution"](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/656/) ([Slides](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/656/attachments/418/675/CODA%20UbuCon%20Asia%202025.pdf)) which was about documentation and managing it in GIT repositories, to get ideas to handle documentation at OpenPrinting.
+In the afternoon I attended **Graham Morrison**'s workshop ["Open Documentation Academy Live: Make your first open source contribution"](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/656/) ([Slides](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/656/attachments/418/675/CODA%20UbuCon%20Asia%202025.pdf), [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpOjiQ3Or7g)) which was about documentation and managing it in GIT repositories, to get ideas to handle documentation at OpenPrinting.
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+The last talk I attended on this UbuCon was ["How to build a sustainable Open Source company"](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/678/) ([Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcMHz8U0P2I)) by **Frank Karlitschek**, creator and founder of [NextCloud](https://nextcloud.com/). This was interesting for me and OpenPrinting for two reasons, once, for the economical aspect how Nextcloud earns money, and second because of Nextcloud itself, as I am also thinking about having it on a server of OpenPrinting, for collaborative office document work, video meetings, conference streaming, download management, ...
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+In the end of Frank's talk, when it came to the Q&A I asked him ([In the video, at 27:30 min](https://youtu.be/bcMHz8U0P2I?t=1650)):
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+> When you put AI on your own server, where does that AI get its training data? Especially because the commercial ones go through the whole internet, breaking copyright ...
 
-The last talk I attended on this UbuCon was ["How to build a sustainable Open Source company"](https://events.canonical.com/event/127/contributions/678/) by **Frank Karlitschek**, creator and founder of [NextCloud](https://nextcloud.com/). This was interesting for me and OpenPrinting for two reasons, once, for the economical aspect how Nextcloud earns money, and second because of Nextcloud itself, as I am also thinking about having it on a server of OpenPrinting, for collaborative office document work, video meetings, conference streaming, download management, ...
+As answer He told more or less that for things like face recognition there are materials under Creative Commons license but for actual LLMs you can only get the mentioned copyright-infringing bad data from others.
 
 What I missed during the day was a printing incident in the exhibition space. **Yeonguk Choo** from the Ubuntu Korea LoCo (Local Community) has, inspired by a photo booth on the [Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga](/OpenPrinting-News-November-2023/#ubuntu-summit-2023-in-riga), created his own photo booth based on Ubuntu and free software, Ubu4Cut and deployed it for the first time on the UbuCon Korea. Then he [brought it to this year's UbuCon Asia](https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/66806).