Open Source Hong Kong in 2025: Connecting Locally, Shining Globally
2025 Year in Review
In 2025, community events and activities of Open Source Hong Kong reached new heights: record-breaking conference attendance, growing international recognition for local maintainers, surging corporate adoption of open source tools, and a vibrant ecosystem where individuals, startups, universities, and enterprises all thrive together. A major part of this success is thanks to the steadfast support of 🙇 UDomain 🙇♀️, whose generous provision of reliable hosting infrastructure has given us the confidence and stability to focus on building, contributing, and growing the open source movement in Hong Kong.
This year, we continued our efforts with 12 regular 👨💻 meetups (here is the complete list). Several of these meetups were organized in collaboration with the Hong Kong Python User Group, bringing hundreds of developers, maintainers, students, and industry friends together to share ideas, learn from one another, and strengthen our local open source community.
We were also deeply involved in PyCon Hong Kong 2025, where several members of our executive committee served on the organizing committee, contributing to 💻 conference design, marketing, and sponsorship efforts. We proudly hosted a booth and provided the facilities for the official debut of PyLadies Hong Kong — a significant milestone for diversity and inclusion in our local Python and open source communities.
In terms of 🤝 affiliation and ✈️ global outreach, we proudly represented Hong Kong on the international stage. We attended PyCon APAC in the Philippines, PyCon Taiwan, PyCon Japan, and COSCUP in Taiwan — where we reconnected with dear friends from Korea’s FOSS For All, PyCon Korea, and the Linux Professional Institute, and delivered a lightning talk to share our experiences. We were also honored to have one of our members speak at GNOME Asia Summit 2025.
We continued supporting the wider ecosystem through active participation: casting individual 🗳️ votes in the Python Software Foundation (PSF) Board of Directors election, representing Open Source Hong Kong in the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board election, serving as a 💪 supporting organization for the Hong Kong ICT Awards (WTIA Startup and Smart People categories), and having a member act as an assessor for the Student Innovation category.
These travels and contributions reminded us how connected we are to the worldwide open source movement — and how much stronger we become when we stand together.
Looking ahead to 2026, we’re excited about the plans already underway and confident that, with your help, we’ll make even greater impact together. We are still recruiting volunteers — if you’d like to join us in shaping the future of open source in Hong Kong, we’d love to have you on board!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for being part of our community — here’s to an even brighter 2026 together. 🎄✨