Keynote Announcement
A little squawk to get y’all checking your calendars 🗓️ and thinking about migrating north to Seattle on October 23rd and 24th! Keep an eye out — the full conference schedule will be released soon.
We’re so happy to announce 🥁 the keynote speakers for our 14th annual SeaGL conference!
This year’s lineup includes four keynotes: two morning sessions on Friday and two afternoon sessions on Saturday. True to SeaGL tradition, half of these spots are reserved for speakers who have plenty to share with the FLOSS community but may not have taken the keynote stage before.
Bradley M. Kühn
Bradley M. Kühn is the Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Kühn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992 — as an early adopter of Linux-based systems and a contributor to various FOSS projects, including Perl. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati.
Kühn’s non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). As FSF’s Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kühn led FSF’s GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kühn began as SFC’s primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first staff person in 2011. His work at SFC focuses on enforcement of GPL agreements, FOSS licensing policy, and non-profit infrastructural solutions for FOSS.
Kühn’s Master’s thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free Software programming languages. He received the Open Source Award in 2012 and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 2021 — both in recognition of his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing and enforcement.
Luis Felipe R. Murillo
Luis Felipe R. Murillo is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. Across several research projects within and beyond the Global North, his work investigates how social movements and technoscientific experts design and implement common technologies as responses to pressing social, technical, and environmental concerns.
Grounded in long-term, collaborative ethnography, Dr. Murillo’s research examines how digital technologies are designed and implemented in response to pressing social, political, and environmental issues. Based on multi-sited research, his first book, Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures, is a study of the “alterglobalization of computing expertise” among hacker-activist collectives in the Pacific Rim.
Dr. Murillo’s current research and teaching span a wide range of topics in anthropology of science and technology, including the study of large-scale computing and its alternatives; the challenges of adopting and adapting “open technologies” for socio-environmental research; the production, circulation, and (re)appropriation of common software, hardware, and data; and, more recently, the role of language ideologies in the design and implementation of computational language models.
Mariatta Wijaya
Mariatta is a Python Core Developer, open source maintainer, and community leader with over 15 years of experience in software development. She is passionate about workflow improvements, automation, and building inclusive developer communities.
As a serial conference organizer, Mariatta has helped kickstart PyCascades and PyLadiesCon.
For her contributions to the Python open source community, she has received the Python Software Foundation Community Service Award, a Google Open Source Peer Bonus award, and is recognized as a Microsoft MVP. She also appears in the official Python Documentary.
Toby Betts
Toby Betts has been breaking and, when possible, fixing computers since childhood. He has worked as a system administrator, service engineer, site reliability engineer, incident response engineer, and free and open source software consultant for mid- to large-sized businesses for over 25 years. His main interests are system security, free cryptography, and fun file systems.
Toby has been a dedicated speaker at SeaGL for several years, regaling audiences with his excellent talks on TempleOS.
CFP Review Results
Thank you to everyone who submitted proposals! Our first round of acceptances have been sent out and most speakers have confirmed their attendance, but if you haven’t heard anything in a while, please reach out ASAP.
Coming to SeaGL? Want to let us know?
Attending SeaGL has always been free/gratis and registration is optional—just show up! However, last year we created a registration form to gather information without identification. This has been helpful when estimating our attendance numbers and attendee makeup. If you know that you’ll be coming and are comfortable, please consider filling out this year’s attendance form.
We Need You! Volunteer at SeaGL 2026
As an all-volunteer conference, SeaGL simply can’t happen without folks like you pitching in on the day of the event. We’re looking for volunteers to help with tasks like staffing the registration desk, running A/V for sessions, guiding attendees, and generally keeping the flock flying smoothly on October 23rd and 24th. No experience necessary — just a friendly attitude and a willingness to help! If you’re interested in lending a hand, fill out our volunteer application form, reach out to us on Matrix, or send an e-mail to participate@seagl.org. We’d love to have you join the team!