Name: Aaditya Singh
Affiliation: GNOME Nepal & Ubuntu Nepal
Email: aadityasingh@gnome.org
Hello dear contributors,
I am Aaditya Singh, the community lead of GNOME Nepal and Ubuntu Nepal, from Nepal.
I founded the GNOME Nepal community back in 2024 and revived the decade-long inactive Ubuntu Nepal community in 2025.
I love FOSS and contributing to it, especially in the GNOME ecosystem. I have contributed to GNOME in several capacities. I am a community builder to begin with, and have raised awareness of GNOME and exposed it to the students and youth, who hopefully are going to be a strong pillar for GNOME and FOSS in the coming days.
I am an organizer for GNOME Asia. I have worked consecutively for the past 3 GNOME Asia summits to make them successful: GNOME Asia summit in Kathmandu, Bengaluru, and Tokyo. Through GNOME Nepal, I have organized lots of instructions and training sessions for the youths, students, and professionals to aware them on GNOME and encourage new contributors to the project and the foundation.
I am part of the GNOME’s fundraising team, which focuses on the financial sustainability & stability of the foundation in order to grow the project. Also, I have been making efforts on the ambassadorship and engagement sides.
Last time, I applied for the BOD elections. GNOME Nepal had just won the bid to organize UbuCon Asia 2025. I successfully led GNOME Nepal to organize the largest UbuCon Asia to date. This time, I am applying as a candidate with more experience, leadership, and vision. This has given me lots of experience in :
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Fundraising
- Decision making
- Marketing and Branding
- Organization structure and process
- Governance & Compliance
I believe I will be a capable director and fulfill my responsibilities, as I have experience in governance and decision-making, leading GNOME Nepal, which is now a community of 400+ individuals.
If elected, my focus will be on :
GNOME Local Communities:
Problem Statements:
- A small number of functional local chapters exist.
- Minimal relations between the foundation and local chapters for the collaborations.
- No clear roadmap for the members from local communities to start contributing to the foundation’s projects.
- Lack of documented process and steps for new communities to form and sustain.
Planned Solutions:
- Expand the GNOME local chapters to more localities and maintain better communication and support for them.
- Create a sustainable and easier way to connect the local communities to the foundation and the project. This is the best way to encourage new contributors to contribute.
- Maintain a collaborative working and communication space for different local communities like GNOME Germany, GNOME Africa, GNOME Persia, GNOME Nepal, etc. At present, these communities don’t have a platform for collaboration.
- Create a clear process and documentation for the management, growth, and formation of new local GNOME communities.
New contributors Roadmap
Problem Statements:
- New contributors have a desire to contribute but don’t have ideas on what they can contribute to and how they can contribute.
- New contributors lack an understanding of the projects and requirements for contributing to the project. There aren’t many training and capacity-building initiatives going on for them.
Planned Solutions:
- Create a clearer and easier roadmap, with the collaboration of fellow directors, for the new contributors to contribute to the projects in need of contributions.
- Start online and onsite training and instruction initiatives with the help of local communities for the interested contributors.
- Create a better way to distinguish the area of the contributions the contributor is interested in. Like technical & non-technical. Then further:
– Non-technical: designer, outreach, engagement, branding, translation, etc.
– Technical: system, network, programming, etc. - This helps us to know the kind of contributors engaged in the project and plan the capacity building of what kind of new contributors the community needs.
Branding, Social Media, and Outreach
Problem Statements:
- Social media attention has reached a level where they have to be engaging and regular. But GNOME’s social media is informative, but far from engaging and regular.
- There is a lack of contents which we can share to make the community feel more connected with the project and the foundation’s work.
- There are very few ground-level updates and content on local communities, user groups, and users.
Planned Solutions:
- Encourage the creation of more regular and engaging content. Like:
– Replacing the text-based posts with infographics.
– Replacing the boring infographics with video formats. Better to show the contributors and make them feel represented. - Represent the contributors and users of the community.
– Tell the stories, experiences, and suggestions through the users and contributors.
– Start campaign such as: Meet the contributors. - Record the activities of the local communities at the ground level. Show how they are encouraging new contributors, how they are making new folks aware of the FOSS and GNOME.
So, my focus will mainly be on connecting the community with the project and making them feel represented, facilitating the formation and sustainability of GNOME’s local communities and user groups, connecting and making it easier for the new contributors to find their way into their preferred projects to start contributing, and capacity and awareness building of the interested contributors on the required knowledge and tools to start contributing.
Along with my focus areas, my experience in leadership, governance, and decision-making will be well-suited for the role. Since I am actively contributing as a member of several initiatives like fundraising, engagement, ambassadorship, etc, I have a good understanding of the current direction of the foundation and its focus areas.
Regardless of the outcome of the elections, I will always remain an active contributor.
I appreciate your consideration.
