MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025

MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025 which was MiniDebConf Mumbai, which in turn was the FOSSMumbai x MiniDebian Conference, happened on 13th and 14th December 2025, with a hotel as Day 1 venue and a college on Day 2.

Originally planned for the 8th of November, it got postponed to December due to operational reasons. Most of on-ground logistics and other heavy lifting were done by Arya, Vidhya, MumbaiFOSS, and the Remigies Technologies team, so we didn’t have to worry much.

I gave a talk on Basics of a Free Software Mirror (and how Debian does it) (presentation URL). I had the idea 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 on Debian mirror network and who hosts mirrors in India and trends.

At the onset, someone mentioned my Termux mirror. Termux is a good project to get into mirror hosting. I got into mirroring with it. It has low traffic requirement, (usually less than 20 GB/day) with high request count and can be done on an existing 6 USD Digital Ocean node. Q&A time turned out more interesting than I anticipated. Folks touched upon commercial CDNs inplace 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 telling me during CFP time, “Bro, we have too many talks now”.

Preparations are underway 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.