Join Canonical at the first-ever African OpenInfra Days

For the second time, and in less than one month, Canonical is coming to East Africa! Three weeks ago, we had the first-ever UbuCon Africa, which was co-located with DjangoCon Africa 2025, and on September 6, Canonical will be coming to Kenya to support OpenInfra Days Kenya 2025. This event is set to be the first OpenInfra Days event in Africa, and the first in-person event ever hosted by the OpenInfra User Group Kenya. 

This will be a one-day event organized by the OpenInfra User Group Kenya, with support from its parent foundation, the OpenInfra Foundation. Angani Ltd. will be our graceful hosts, at their offices located at West Point Building, 1st Floor, Mpaka Road, Nairobi. 

OpenInfra Days

OpenInfra Days are annual one- or two-day events typically organized and hosted by local OpenInfra user groups and communities in conjunction with the OpenInfra Foundation and other companies within the open source infrastructure ecosystem. These events bring together open source technologists and enthusiasts, developers, infrastructure professionals, and end-user companies, making them an excellent place to meet leaders, learn from users and contributors, hear their stories, network with individuals and companies in the ecosystem, and find your open source community. 

OpenInfra Days include talks, keynotes, workshops, and breakout sessions about open source software infrastructure and projects like OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, and more.

OpenInfra Days Kenya 2025

The organizers are already hard at work on preparations. The schedule is out, with exciting talks from excellent speakers – including Canonical’s very own Tytus Kurek, the Product Manager for Canonical OpenStack and board member of the OpenInfra Foundation. Denson Ngumo, Angani’s CTO, and Tatiana Ovchinnikova, a member of RedHat and an OpenStack Horizon developer, will also be speaking.

To wrap it all up, we will be joining other user groups and communities all around the world in celebrating 15 years of OpenStack taking the cloud by storm.

OpenInfra, sponsored by Canonical

Canonical will be the main sponsor for the day, and will be represented in full force by our Kenyan colleagues and Tytus. Canonical strives to amplify the global impact of open source by making it secure, reliable and available to all at scale. It is the company behind Ubuntu, an open source Linux operating system. Beyond Ubuntu, Canonical supports and develops various open source projects across the entire spectrum of technology, including infrastructure, where products such as OpenStack, Ceph and Kubernetes, shine.

Meet our local team at our OpenInfra Days booth to chat and learn more about our open source portfolio.  It’ll be easy to spot them: find the cool people in orange polos and/or lanyards, in an orange booth, with funky, mostly orange merch!

Canonical is hiring

Canonical is strongly committed to the idea that software talent is to be found in all corners of the world. We demonstrate that commitment not only by attending events like OpenInfra Days Kenya, but also by hiring people from everywhere and anywhere to work remotely on open source software. We have 40 Canonical employees from Africa, 6 of whom are from Kenya, and we’d like to increase that number.

Take a look at our many open roles, make some notes, and when you meet us at the event, ask us some questions – we want to help the best candidates get a job at Canonical by setting them on the right track from the start.

It can get complicated working remotely, if you have never done it before – find our Kenyan colleagues at our booth to find out more about their experiences, and how they found success in the global workplace.