As we look back on SeaGL 2024, we want to send a heart-felt thank you to the speakers, attendees, sponsors, and volunteers for making our 12th SeaGL such a success 🎉! We hope you had an opportunity to listen to some great talks and chat with other open minded folks. Here’s to continuing to ruffle some feathers and supporting a more free technological world in 2025!
Speaking of 2025, we have confirmed our dates and want to share them with you all! Please mark your calendars for SeaGL on November 7th and 8th. We are returning to the University of Washington for a third year in rainy, and proud of it, Seattle. And if you’re refraining from migration, we plan to keep you connected by live streaming our gathering as in past few years.
We also wanted to let you know that the A/V & DevOps team members are working hard to publish recordings on our archive and appreciate your patience. If you have opinions and would like to shape SeaGL for the better, we would love to have you join us! Please consider becoming a volunteer!
Cheers ✨ to all who have contributed to such a creative and inclusive community! We are looking forward celebrating the spooky thirteenth event with you at the beginning of November this year!
It is with great pleasure that we present the schedule for our 12th instance of SeaGL (the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference).
The conference starts on Friday, November 8th at 9am PST and will run through Saturday, November 9th at 7pm PST. We have four keynotes, two opening on Friday and two closing on Saturday. We will also have three tracks running concurrently each day.
The full schedule can be found here: https://pretalx.seagl.org/2024/schedule/
Some highlights of the year
Opening keynotes on Friday, November 8th:
Closing keynotes on Saturday, November 9th:
Performance events:
Special events:
- Relax with a cuppa delicious, and not so common tea, each afternoon at TeaGL
- Friday, 3:30pm to 4:30pm
- Saturday, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
- Enjoy an evening of post-conference socializing
- Saturday, 5:20pm to 7:00pm
- Give your public speaking skills a shot with presentation roulette
- Saturday, 5:30pm to 6:30pm
The schedule is made possible by the work of our volunteer Programming & Flow Commitee. If you are intereseted in contributing or joining this, or another committee, do not hesitate to get involved.
We look forward to seeing you all next month!
Our twelfth annual conference is just a few weeks away! This year, we are continuing with the hybrid in-person/virtual format, offering remote participation options throughout the event.
Last year, we reached out to our community through the post, IDEA Sharing at SeaGL, seeking insights on how to make our event more inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible (IDEA). We extend our heartfelt thanks to all who responded, participated, and contributed to making the conference more welcoming to everyone.
One significant change we have made this year is the promotion of pronoun visibility within our community. We have incorporated a pronoun field into our speaker proposals, which has been well-received. From the responses we discovered, 12.5% of our speakers identify as they/them, 15% as she/her, 37.5% as he/him and 35% preferred not to disclose. This is a small but meaningful step toward ensuring that all voices are heard and respected.
| Pronoun |
they/them |
she/her |
he/him |
prefer not to say |
| Percent |
12.5 % |
15% |
37.5% |
35% |
We recognize that fostering an inclusive environment is an ongoing process. Your feedback is important in helping us make continuous improvements. If you have suggestions on how we can further enhance inclusivity and accessibility, especially for underrepresented groups, we encourage you to share your suggestions in our anonymous feedback form. If you would like to discuss your feedback in more detail, there is an option to provide your contact information, and we would be happy to follow up with you.
Our goal is to make this event not only accommodating for those already established in the tech community, but to also welcome and provide space for those individuals who feel they are on the outside looking in. If you know someone who could benefit from attending or participating, we encourage you to share this opportunity with them. Personal invitations often have a profound impact, and can reach a wider audience.
Some ways to get involved include:
- Attend the conference on November 8th and 9th, either in-person or remotely.
- Share the event with your networks and encourage others to participate.
- Volunteer to help shape the event and its programming by signing up at https://seagl.org/get_involved.
For those attending in person, please be advised that our Code of Conduct and Health & Safety Policy will be in effect to ensure a safe environment for all.
Last but certainly not least, cheers to Google for joining our IDEA sponsors this year, we’re so grateful for your support!
Regards,
The SeaGL 2024 IDEA committee
We are very pleased to announce our 2024 Seattle GNU/Linux conference keynote speakers:
Christopher Neugebauer
Australian developer, speaker, and serial community conference organizer, who presently lives in the United States.
He serves as a Director of the Python Software Foundation, and is co-organizer of the acclaimed North Bay Python conference, a boutique one-track conference run in unusual venues — include an old vaudeville theater, and more recently a barn on a farm — in Petaluma, California.
Christopher is also a contributor on the open source Pants build system, helping make Python’s testing, correctness, and style tools accessible and fast for developers, no matter how big their codebase.
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Duane O’Brien
Duane is the Director of Collaborative Engineering at Capital One. His organization focuses on developing internal and external collaborative development practices through open source and InnerSource. He is the creator of the FOSS Contributor Fund framework, and loves helping organizations get involved in funding and sustaining their open source dependencies. Duane is a force of chaotic good using his high stats in intelligence and charisma to advocate for the open source community. If you encounter him in forested areas, he will share his fire, drink, and philosophy.
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Aaron Wolf
First time keynote speaker, Aaron is a community music teacher, co-founder of Snowdrift.coop (a long-struggling and principled platform working to solve economic coordination dilemmas around FLO public goods), and an activist and volunteer in many other areas. Originally from Ann Arbor, MI; he now lives in Oregon City with his wife, dog, and two kids.
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Rachel Kelly
Rachel is a long-time nerd and denizen of the internet, learning to form community without social media! A proud career-switcher, she has worked for tech companies small and large since 2014 and has been happily plugging away at Fastly for the last several years as an SRE on the Certificate Authority project. A staunch advocate of community and locality, Rachel now uses skills learned from many years of co-organizing Portland’s PyLadies chapter and participating in many community-oriented technology user groups toward something completely different. She and her partner live in Portland, OR, going to too many Burning Man events (not possible) and training for simply too many races of all kinds (also not possible). You can reach Rachel at her email, rkrk@rkode.com.
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