UbuCon India 2025
Ubuntu India's two-day conference at IISc Bangalore, covering self-hosting, LLM inference on low-resource hardware, UX in open source, production Kubernetes, and security.
Walking onto the IISc campus for UbuCon, I was not sure what to expect, and the first session immediately raised the bar. Venkatesh walked us through securing and owning an Ubuntu server like it was his own, and Abdul demystified running LLMs on hardware most people would call too small, using vLLM and quantization.
Two talks reoriented me. Archita argued that you do not need to be a designer to design, because good UX in open source is empathy and clarity rather than decoration. Kunal gave a calm, checklist-style path to production Kubernetes on Ubuntu, and V Sreenivas ended the day by separating real security from the kind you see in movies.
I left with my notions gently corrected and a much stronger sense of the people who keep Linux alive. They build, share, and explain, and being among them for two days felt like being let into something good.
