I was fortunate to receive travel sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation to attend the AsiaBSDCon 2026 conference and the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Taipei. The event was held over four days at the National Taiwan Normal University from March 19–22, 2026. The first two days were dedicated to the Developer Summit, followed by the main conference on the final two days. My journey from Vientiane, Laos, to Taipei involved a flight with a layover in Bangkok.
On the first day, I missed the conference because my flight was delayed. As a result, I arrived at my hotel in Taiwan around 4 PM on March 19, 2026, although I had originally planned to arrive in Taipei around 10:30 PM on March 18, 2026.
On the second day, I attended a tutorial session titled “IPv6 Tutorial” by Massimiliano Stucchi. From this tutorial, I understood how IPv6 works, how an addressing plan can be built for an enterprise network, and how to configure it on FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
On the third day: In the morning sessions, I attended the Opening Ceremony by Li-Wen Hsu, and then “Rethinking the Forms of OS Functionality Development” by Kenichi Yasukata. From this session, I learned about exploring the question of whether there are other possible forms of OS functionality development that can accelerate development velocity while reducing the burden on these communities. In the afternoon session, I attended “Faster, smolBSD! Boot! Boot!”, “Porting STUNMESH-go to FreeBSD and macOS: Building Peer-to-Peer WireGuard Networks”, “Design and Implementation of Bhyve Management Daemon”, and “Bring Cloud-Native Networking to FreeBSD Jails: Porting Calico from Linux.”
On the fourth day: In the morning sessions, I attended “Run Time Reoptimization for Modern Heterogeneous Systems” by George V. Neville-Neil. In the afternoon session, I attended “Bringing Memory Safety to BSD with CHERI” and “Sleep on FreeBSD: A Bedtime Story About S0ix.”
On the final day, I scheduled time to meet and discuss with Li-Wen Hsu about the LibreOffice community and the FreeBSD community in Laos, as these topics had been put in the developer submit on Day 1, but I could not attend due to my flight delay, as I mentioned previously. Regarding LibreOffice, we discussed the possibility of including FreeBSD in the lifecycle path update stream for LibreOffice. Regarding the FreeBSD community in Laos, I talked to Li-Wen Hsu about our small group of people who are interested in studying Unix-like systems, and we have made a group to study and learn together. In the future, we hope to see more people using FreeBSD in Laos and to be able to host AsiaBSDCon 2028 after AsiaBSDCon 2027 in Singapore.
From this event, I learned many new things about BSD that I have on my PC. This was my first time attending BSDCon, and I made new friends and connections, especially with Li Wen Hsu.
Thank you to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring my attendance at the conference.