UbuCon Asia 2025 Team meeting 2025-12-01 13:00 UTC

Meeting participants
@aryan @younggunner14 @sukso96100 @rjhsiao @jipangmenjerit @bajinra @saileshsingh36

Taiwan LoCo’s interests or thoughts for hosting UCA’26?

Taiwan LoCo is interested, but they don’t have a good number of volunteers in Ubuntu Taiwan. Will need to bring more volunteers from other local FOSS communities.

Possible communities to contact - Hacking Thursday, Mozilla Taiwan, COSCUP team, OCF.

COSCUP Co-location format?

  • We probably don’t have the main hall allocated just for us. We need to ask the COSCUP team for one keynote session.
  • 2 community tracks (1 for talks, 1 for workshops + bofs) → Looking at LibreOffice and RubyConf, this could be only a single track. But this needs to be checked.
  • Our returning international sponsors - can ask them to sponsor COSCUP instead.
  • Expand the Ubuntu Taiwan LoCo booth to the Ubuntu Community booth to a larger size if possible. (Folks from TW LoCo, UCA Committee, other Ubuntu folks involved with running the booth)
  • Probably no travel grant or accommodation handling from our (UCA) side. Redirect folks to self-fund or ask them to apply for COSCUP’s travel grant if they are a speaker and such a grant exists, or apply for Ubuntu CDA if they are a Ubuntu Member
  • No registration (just follow COSCUP)
  • We still run our own CFP using Canonical Indico, proposal review, and timetable scheduling. And, also have our own website for providing some practical information. → We will also need to check if we will need to run a joint content team with COSCUP and use their system (pretalx)
  • We can still do promotion campaigns to gather international participants.

Bayu’s experience with LibreOffice co-located in COSCUP

  • Got 1 dedicated room (track)
  • RubyConf also got 1 room - but bigger?

Syazwan

What kind of budget do we need?

  • Travel funding for our speakers (some non-Ubuntu Members)
  • For our own swags

References

What to do next

  • Write an email to the COSCUP team to suggest co-location - RJ
  • Contact past co-located organisers for reference - RJ, Bayu, Syazwan
  • Contact Mauro to inform co-location - Youngbin
  • Publish meeting note on Discourse - Aryan

AOB

  • Time to work on the finance report for UCA 2025
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