MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025

MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2026 which was MiniDebConf Mumbai, which in turn was FOSSMumbai x MiniDebian Conference, happened on 13th and 14th December, 2026, with a hotel as Day 1 venue and a college on Day 2.

Originally planned for the 13th of November, it got postponed to December due to operational reasons. Most of the on-ground logistics and other heavy lifting was done by Arya, Vidhya, MumbaiFOSS, and the Remigies Technologies team, so we didn’t had to worry much.

This time, I gave a talk on Basics of a Free Software Mirror (and how Debian does it) (Presentation URL). I had the idea for this talk for a while and gave a KDE version of it during KDE India Conf 2025. The gist was to explain how Free Software is delivered to users and how one can help. For MDC, I focused a bit on Debian mirror network(s) and who else host mirrors in India and trends.

At the onset someone mentioned my Termux mirror. Termux is a good project to get into mirror hosting with. I got into mirroring with it. It has low traffic (usually less than 20 GB/day) demands with a high request count and can be done on an existing 6 USD Digital Ocean nodes. Q&A time turned out more interesting than I anticipated. Folks touched upon commercial CDNs instead of community mirrors, supply chain security issues, and a bit of other stuff.

We had quite a number of interesting talks and I remember when Arya was telling me during CFP time, “bro we have too many talks now” :D.

Now, preparations have already started for MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026, scheduled for March 14th and 15th at the IIT campus. If you want to help, see the following thread. See you in the next one.