FOSSASIA Singapore Open Tech Meetup

FOSSASIA Community Day is our entry-level, Open Source 101 focused day at FOSSASIA Summit 2026. The event is designed for students, newcomers, and anyone curious about open source, open hardware, and tech communities. Check out the schedule and register here: summit.fossasia.org

Program highlights

• Learning how to think like an engineer, beyond just writing code
• Clear pathways into open source through Google Summer of Code and community contribution
• Building your professional profile with GitHub
• Career development through open source participation and professional certifications
• Beginner-friendly introductions to Apache Airflow, Kubernetes communities, and PostgreSQL collaboration
• How privacy-preserving technologies like Tor support people in censored environments
• Open hardware, hackerspaces, and grassroots innovation
• Open source tooling and workflows, including Scrum Helper and Eventyay
• Building AI-powered interactive maps with open data
• Real-world perspectives on open source business models
• Personal journeys and leadership stories, including Women in Tech, community leadership, and balancing career with family life

👉 Free registration: summit.fossasia.org

Join us for the Opening Ceremony of FOSSASIA Summit 2026 featuring hacker and inventor Mitch Altman on hardware freedom in an AI-dominated world, Roger Dingledine, co-founder of Tor, on why privacy infrastructure still matters in the age of AI, and Peter Membrey, author and Chief Research Officer at ExpressVPN on protecting children online and the role open source can play, with opening remarks from FOSSASIA founders Hong Phuc Dang and Mario Behling. View the schedule and register at summit.fossasia.org

FOSSASIA Summit host 200+ international speakers and sessions across AI, security, cloud, DevOps, data, web/mobile, and hardware, with representatives from companies such as AWS, TikTok, Huawei, ExpressVPN, Google, Fujitsu, Grafana etc., as well as major open source projects including PostgreSQL, Debian, VLC, Tor, Wikimedia and more.

Opening Agenda:

• Opening remarks from the FOSSASIA founders, reflecting on the community’s journey and impact (Hong Phuc Dang and Mario Behling)
• Why privacy infrastructure still matters in the age of AI, and what this means for societies, developers, and institutions (Roger Dingledine, Cofounder at The Tor Project)
• Hardware freedom in an AI-dominated world — how we can use AI as a tool without losing agency or control (Mitch Altman, Hacker and Inventor of TV-B-Gone, Cornfield Electronics)
• Protecting Children Online: What Role Can Open Source Play (Peter Membrey, Chief Research Officer at ExpressVPN)
• openEuler-based open source stacks and how open infrastructure is powering the next wave of AI innovation (Xiong Wei, Executive Director, openEuler)

👉 Tickets & registration: summit.fossasia.org

FOSSASIA PGDay 2026 covers PostgreSQL’s core development, performance and indexing, high availability and disaster recovery, backups, security, and operational practices. The day will also include time for discussion and informal networking with speakers and community members. Check out the schedule and register here summit.fossasia.org/pgday

The programme includes two keynotes on software longevity through 30 years of PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL’s community and contribution model, alongside in-depth technical sessions on topics such as PostgreSQL catalogs and metadata introspection, indexing evolution, wildcard search performance, logical vs. physical backups, authentication and security enforcement, HA vs. DR in production, and operational challenges such as on-call practices. Attendees will also get a look at extensions and PostgreSQL internals work, including pg_ivm, pg_fusion, and Biscuit, as well as a hands-on session with PostgreSQL 18 demos.

👉 Tickets & registration: summit.fossasia.org/pgday