Hi GNOME community!
I’m Sailesh Singh (@saileshsingh), newly approved GNOME Foundation member from Nepal. Very happy to join officially!
Foundation Membership Accepted : 14th January 2025
A little about me:
- Co-lead, GNOME Nepal (grew from 3→390+ active members since 2023)
- Founder/CEO, Nepbrain Lab Pvt Ltd (open source infrastructure & training)
- Trained 1000+ undergrad students across 10+ college sessions & events on Linux/GNOME
My contributions:
Contributions (Speaking & GNOME events):
-
GNOME Asia Submit 2024 (Bengaluru, Dec 6-8): 2 conference talks: “Talk 1” “Talk 2”
-
GNOME Asia 2025 (Tokyo, Dec 13-15): “Lightning talk”
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Ubucon Asia 2025 organizer & speaker (Co-hosted by GNOME Nepal): “Keynote Speaker”
Technical work:
- GNOME Nepal infrastructure: Django/DRF backend APIs
- Event management system + contributor dashboards
- Red Hat OpenShift deployments (GNOME Nepal)
Looking forward to:
- Helping 50+ Nepal contributors reach upstream GNOME projects
- Nepali language localization for GNOME apps
- Hosting 5+ regional GNOME workshops & events
Sailesh Singh
Co-lead, GNOME Nepal
@saileshsingh