Social at Big Time Brewery SeaGL 2026

Enjoy some refreshments and great conversation at Big Time Brewery located close to the University of Washington on the Ave. 4133 University Wy NE, Seattle, WA 98105 https://www.openstreetmap.org/?...

The LLM-gen-AI Elephant in Our FOSS Room SeaGL 2026

Not since the 1980s has technology changed as quickly as in recent months. Reprising the early PC era, capitalism dictates the pace and control of Large-Language-Model-backed generative artificial...

Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures SeaGL 2026

How did we build community for, with, and around FOSS technologies? Why does community-making matter now more than ever for the future of digital technologies? In this talk, I will present a book...

Towards Understandable Software SeaGL 2026

Programming sucks. Code sucks. It's hard to read, hard to test, and hard to maintain. Only a handful of people can understand any particular software project. All users deserve to be able to control...

Contributing to OpenHospital: A Team's First Open Source Experience SeaGL 2026

OpenHospital is a free and open-source health information management system used in hospitals across Uganda, Ethiopia, and other resource-limited regions. Built by Informatici Senza Frontiere, it...

A Paranoid’s Guide to Resource Efficient Self Hosting using nspawn SeaGL 2026

This talk explores how systemd-nspawn, a little-known but extremely versatile native process encapsulation subsystem for Linux, could be used as a resource-efficient and secure alternative to...

Simple Scalable Privacy: Unleashing OpenWRT, Pi-hole, Unbound, & Bind9 SeaGL 2026

Tired of relying on big Tech or klonky stacks? If so, come learn how to build self-hosted and scalable privacy-centered network infrastructure using mainstream FLOSS. This presentation explores...

Security showdown: LTS vs regular release systems SeaGL 2026

The security characteristics of LTS vs regular release models haven't fundamentally changed over the last 30 years, but the general community sentiment toward them has. As adversaries develop and...

Building a mobile TUI environment SeaGL 2026

What would a Linux text interface designed for mobile devices look like? At the beginning of 2026, I started building a Nix-based distribution with a TUI shell, called Huckleberry. It's intended for...

Signet Hardware Password Manager SeaGL 2026

The Signet Hardware Password Manager is an example of just how unstoppable open source hardware and software can be. This talk will include a payload that demonstrates how software password managers...

Building Production Environments with open-source Kubernetes Operators SeaGL 2026

Modern services depend on far more than compute- databases, messaging, observability, CI/CD, service meshes, IAM, and cloud resources must all work together reliably. Managing these consistently...

Linux’s secret sauce. Why Linux Releases Take So Long. SeaGL 2026

"Why isn't my distribution shipping the latest version yet?" It's a question almost every Linux user, developer, or platform engineer has asked. Behind that seemingly simple question lies one of the...

Transactional Systems in the Fedora Ecosystem SeaGL 2026

Transactional systems offer a middle ground between Fedora Atomics, and their image based updating, and read-only filesystems and Traditional Fedora, with it's read/write filesystems, as they can be...

A live interactive demo of customer discovery interviews SeaGL 2026

Whether you want to explore launching a new open-source project, dip your toe into freelance work, or identify a good startup idea, getting direct input from many potential users or customers will...

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Today I learned.... The 2026 FLOSS Research Roundup SeaGL 2026

It's time once again for the 2026 FLOSS Research Roundup! Hundreds if not thousands of research papers are written every year about open source software! How should we make sense of it all and what...

Tricycle Riders to Muscle Car Drivers: Tech Docs for Everyone SeaGL 2026

So you've got a great open source project. How do you get people to try it? One senior technical writer shares how to write tech docs that cater to all skill levels, get users started quickly, and...

Painted Wolf Code: Local-First AI Coding SeaGL 2026

Introducing Painted Wolf Code. This Apache-2.0, local-first AI coding agent is built and tuned for open source models. Agent personas and coordinator guidance use composable templates, multi-step...

Tool-Assisted Speech: DIY Speech Synth for AAC and Affirmation SeaGL 2026

I find that it's difficult for me to transform the words in my head into the audio that people can hear. Sometimes, even the right words sound wrong due to the auditory properties of how I say them....