About
The Seattle GNU/Linux conference (SeaGL) is a grassroots technical conference
dedicated to spreading awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and
free / libre / open source software and hardware.
Our goal for SeaGL is to produce an event which is as enjoyable and informative
for those who spend their days maintaining hundreds of servers as it is for a
student who has only just started exploring technology options.
SeaGL’s first year was 2013.
When & where
November 5th & 6th, 2021, online
Attend
SeaGL is free to attend, and you do not need to register—just show up!
You may attend SeaGL without identifying yourself, and you are encouraged to do
so to protect your privacy.
Like many other conferences, the SeaGL staff has given a lot of thought to the format.
After much discussion and consideration of the general landscape, we have decided that SeaGL 2021 will be a virtual event.
Last year’s first-ever virtual SeaGL was a great success, and we’re confident that we can deliver another delightful virtual experience this year!
We loved how the remote format brought SeaGL to a wider audience, although we absolutely miss flocking together.
Seagulls are not particularly known for clairvoyance, and we didn’t feel as though we could predict what the pandemic situation will look like in early November.
We are encouraged by the progress being made on vaccinations, but we understand that many people will still be hesitant to attend in-person events.
We’re still holding open the idea of doing an in-person meetup for those of you in the Seattle area, but the conference proper will remain online in 2021.
Join us on the Internet, Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6, 2021!
We will be announcing the Call for Participation soon.
In the meantime, we’re always looking for more help with planning the conference.
Please reach out to participate@seagl.org if you’d like to help with a well-defined, well-supported volunteer role as we ramp up to this year’s conference organization.
Many of our volunteers have been helping with the conference for years, so you’ll be joining an established team of people who care deeply about free software and community in equal measure!
Thank you so much for sticking with us through SeaGL 2020! We’ll be announcing more with videos and other content from last year soon, but the big announcement here is that we are gearing up for year NINE of SeaGL! SeaGL 2021 will be Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6, 2021!
We are very close to decided on doing another fully virtual conference, which genuinely exceeded the highest of any of our expectations, but depending on how vaccinations go, there may be some kind of hybrid option. This is undecided, but we are working on setting a date to decide by, not later than by summer 2021.
Please reach out if you’d like to help with a well-defined, well-supported volunteer role as we ramp up to this year’s conference, at participate@seagl.org. Many of the volunteers have been helping with the conference for many years, so you’ll be joining an established team of people who care about free software and community in equal measure!
Thank you & stay tuned!
Today is our second and FINAL day of SeaGL 2020! Here is the full SeaGL 2020 program, and please read on for today’s schedule, for Friday, November 13, 2020. As a reminder, SeaGL 2020 is completely virtual. SeaGL is also completely free as in tea with no registration required, so everyone is welcome to attend.
You can attend if you go to attend.seagl.org. Live streams are also available at seagl.org/watch.
Normal talk blocks are 30m - 20m for the talk, 10m for optional Q&A as led by the Room Moderator. The Moderator will read questions from the text chat audience for the speaker to answer. There are 15 minute spaces between talks, which means that the talk blocks are listed as 45 minutes long. There is no Q&A during Keynotes.
Please note that as of 6:30pm PST Friday Nov 13, a few of these have changed. Last minute schedule changes - it’s a wild world out there this year, but we can accommodate :)
All times are listed in Pacific Standard Time, which is UTC -08:00
- 9:20am Opening announcements by Wm Salt Hale, Nathan Handler, and Rachel Kelly
- 9:35am Keynote by Kathy Giori
10:00am-10:45am block
- Cameron Bielstein - Building Free CI/CD with GitHub Actions
- Elizabeth K. Joseph - Open Source on the Mainframe in 1960, 1999, and Today
- Aeva Black - Crossing the Gender Divide
10:45am-11:30am block
- Molly deBlanc - Introduction to Ethics from an Ethicist-in-Training
- Justin W. Flory and Bhagyashree (Bee) - Time for Action: How to Build D&I in your Project
- Bri Hatch - 10 Vim Tricks
11:30am-12:15pm block
- Ask Me Anything (AMA) about Kubernetes with Elana Hashman!
- Kara Sowles - Alcohol and Inclusivity in Tech
12:15pm-1:15pm block - go eat some lunch, come back at 1:15pm PST :)
1:15pm-2:00pm block
- Deb Nicholson - Move Slow and Try Not to Break Each Other
- Ian Kelling - When does a Service Take Away your Freedom?
- Wm Salt Hale - Contacts to Connections: CRM Funneling for Projects and People
2:00pm-2:45pm block
- Amanda Sopkin - The United States’ History with Free Software and what we can do to improve the Future
- Aaron Wolf - Software Freedom through Collective Action
- Lisha Sterling - Building Alternative Networks for Fun and Resistance
2:45pm-3:30pm is TeaGL! Bring the tea your TeaGL buddy sent you, and come enjoy the company of tea lovers even if you didn’t sign up for the Tea Swap!
3:30pm-4:15pm block
- Paris Buttfield-Addison and Tim Nugent - First Steps with Swift for TensorFlow
- Ben Cotton - Scheduling your Open Source Project
- Nočnica Fee - Data Liberation: Open Source Observability
4:30pm Closing Keynote by VM Brasseur
6:00pm Closing Virtual Party!
If you have any questions about any of these, please pop into attend.seagl.org and we’ll get you set right up!
Today is the day! Day 1 of SeaGL begins today! Here is the full SeaGL 2020 program, and please read on for today’s schedule, for Friday, November 13, 2020. As a reminder, SeaGL 2020 is completely virtual. SeaGL is also completely free as in tea with no registration required, so everyone is welcome to attend.
You can attend if you go to attend.seagl.org. Live streams are also available at seagl.org/watch.
Normal talk blocks are 30m - 20m for the talk, 10m for optional Q&A as led by the Room Moderator. The Moderator will read questions from the text chat audience for the speaker to answer. There are 15 minute spaces between talks, which means that the talk blocks are listed as 45 minutes long. There is no Q&A during Keynotes.
All times are listed in Pacific Standard Time, which is UTC -08:00
- 9:00am Opening announcements by Wm Salt Hale
- 9:10am Keynote by Máirín Duffy
- 9:35am Keynote by Daniel Takamori
10:00am-10:45am block
- Mariatta Wijaya - Oops! I Became an Open Source Maintainer!
- Mariah Villarreal - Rise Up for Free Software in Schools!
- Neil McGovern - Patently Obvious
10:45am-11:30am block
- Ruth Ikegah - A Beginner-Inclusive Approach to Open Source
- Stephen Wilson - The Open Digital Photography Workflow
- Nočnica Fee - Data Liberation: Open Source Observability
11:30am-12:15pm block
- der.hans - FLOSS and you
- Suraj Kumar Mahto - Introducing FOSS Culture at Universities
- Gareth Greenaway - Open Source Secrets Management
12:15pm-1:15pm block - go eat some lunch, come back at 1:15pm PST :)
1:15pm-2:00pm block
- Megan Guiney - Democratizing Documentation
- Josh Boykin - Gaming for Good: Using Passions and Technology for Social Change
- Mike Hamrick - Features of a Modern Terminal Emulator
2:00pm-2:45pm block
- Jill Rouleau - Demystifying Contributor Culture: IRC, Mailing Lists, and Netiquette for the 21st Century
- Elijah C. Voigt - Let’s Make Games with Rust
2:45pm-3:30pm is TeaGL! Bring the tea your TeaGL buddy sent you, and come enjoy the company of tea lovers even if you didn’t sign up for the Tea Swap!
3:30pm-4:15pm block
- Sumana Harihareswara - Stand-up comedy about FLOSS
- Kaylea Champion - How to build a zombie detector: Identifying software quality problems
- Rowin Andruscavage - Overclocking for your Mind and Body
4:30pm and on - Cocktails and Mocktails Evening Social, as presented by Benjamin Mako Hill
If you have any questions about any of these, please pop into attend.seagl.org and we’ll get you set right up!
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