Rebuilding Ubuntu Nepal: A Playbook for Reviving Open Source Communities

This session shares the real journey of how the GNOME Nepal community successfully revived Ubuntu Nepal after more than a decade of inactivity. It will walk through the challenges of restarting a dormant open-source community, including rebuilding trust, finding contributors, and creating momentum from zero.

The talk will break down the exact strategies used, community outreach, event-driven growth, collaboration between GNOME and Ubuntu ecosystems, and leadership structure. It will also highlight mistakes, lessons learned, and what actually worked in the Nepali context.

Finally, the session will translate this experience into a practical framework that attendees can apply to revive or bootstrap Ubuntu Circle and similar communities in their own regions.

More info: https://events.canonical.com/event/146/contributions/943/