In Seattle, the passion for #FOSS came alive!

Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Board Member Ted Matsumura shares how the @SeaGL 2025 brought together minds, hands, and hearts in a free, volunteer-run #Linux event featuring talks, workshops, socials, and vibrant connections!

Dive into this article to learn more: https://lpi.org/ing9

@LPI #LPI #Linux #GNU #opensource #FOSS #devs #SeaGL #seagl25 #libre #free #Seattle #volunteers #Techconference #Matrix #DevOps #LinuxFestNorthWest

next year's @SeaGL streaming tech stack: k8s, running on a NixOS base system, with a MongoDB-backed Haskell blockchain implementation (bc #webscale) running in the cluster on the laptop.

...the blockchain is the message bus by which the GPT controls the streaming laptop. oh and also Prometheus.

#SeaGL #seagl2025

here's the seagl fedipact talk!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/live/hxO3smXXjY4?t=18742

#seattle #seagl #seagl2025 #fedipact #meta #threads

Did anyone else see an 8 foot tall Seagull in heels closing out #SeaGL2025 or am I just high on FOSS? Can’t wait for #SeaGL2026! #SeaGL #linux #gnu #seattle

Using United Nations Open Source Principles for the presentation

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/KMCCEQ/

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSjobs #FLOSScareers

@mdowney @SeaGL

"automation of hiring process excludes people who have more potential than they show on paper"

Jocelyn Graf

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSjobs

Final round of SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* GNU/Linux Loves All from Timmy James Barnett

* Let's create our own tech jobs together following open source principles from Jocelyn Graf

* No More Mystery Brownies: SBOMs, security errata, and the recipe for safer software from Brady Dibble

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #FediPact #Fediverse #FLOSSmusic #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSSjobs #InfoSec #SBOM

The peak of the season at #SeaGL

Autumn: "Also, go to LinuxFest Northwest", ending her SeaGL talk

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Cascadia #LFNW

Q: what do you do if AI is being biased?

A: complain, this is the right time to be a Karen, tell them about, let them know this keeps you from being able to use their product

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #AIeeee #ethics #bias

Now 15 minutes away

TeaGL for Saturday is in an hour, make some tea and enjoy a break

Online hop in the Hallway ( https://attend.seagl.org/#/room/#2025-Hallway:seagl.org )

Onsite head for the Expo room

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #TeaGL

These, the penultimate SeaGL talks this year, start in 45 minutes

SeaGL talks in 2 hours ( after TeaGL ):

* How I used open-source tools to prove my marriage to the US Government (No Streaming) from Dawn Cooper

* FediPact: Why? from Vanta Rainbow Black

The final round of talks is after these talks

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #TeaGL #FediPact #Fediverse

SeaGL talks starting now:

* Local Offline AI from author ( and SeaGL founder ) Adam Monsen

* What is Free Software? from Charles Faisandier

* Intro to OpenTofu: Open Source IaC Overview from Ted Matsumura

TeaGL is after these talks, going with Thai iced tea myself

Another hour of talks after TeaGL, then social

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

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#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #TeaGL #SelfHosting #AIeeee #OpenTofu

Went for Thai food for SeaGL lunch today

Not Taste of India, but still good

Also, Thai iced tea rather than "The Chai"

#Seattle #SeattleEats #SeaGL #FLOSSconf

SeaGL talks starting again in 15 minutes

https://floss.social/@FLOX_advocate/115515907339531014

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent

SeaGL talks in 90 min ( now 15 min ):

* “Hidden in Plain Sight: Addressing Data Bias in AI-Driven Systems” from Autumn Nash

* Today I Learned.... The 2025 FLOSS Research Roundup from Kaylea Champion

* 10 years of Reproducible Builds from Chris Lamb

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

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#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #Mahlzeit #FLOSSresearch #DataBias #AIeeee #ReproducibleBuildso

Mahlzeit, next up @ SeaGL is lunch

the current sessions have 30 more minutes

Sessions will start again in 2 hours

* “Hidden in Plain Sight: Addressing Data Bias in AI-Driven Systems”

* Today I Learned.... The 2025 FLOSS Research Roundup

* 10 years of Reproducible Builds

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

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#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #Mahlzeit

Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud going on now related to this morning's first keynote, The Seattle Community Network Stack

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/BXX88L/

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/NZUCYJ/

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#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #CommunityInfrastructure

cool, the talk I want to see is in the same room I just presented in

Oh wait, I'm remote, I don't know which room I presented in ...

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #RemoteConf

SeaGL talks starting now

* pkgconf: 15 years later from Ariadne Conill

* The CLI Renaissance: Why Command Lines Matter in the Age of AI and the Promise of MCP from Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan

* Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud from
Ammar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #packagi
ng #CLI #AIeeeee #CommunityInfrastructure #sysadm