LinuxFest Northwest 2026

April 24 - 26, 2026 • Bellingham Technical College

Day-by-Day Listings

Time	CC202	CC203	CC234	CC235	CC236	HC108	HC203	HC204	Game Den	Expo Hall
9:30		Homelab 2.0	Secure‑boot	I’m Not a Developer—So I Built an Agentic Company Anyway	Kalpa Desktop	Sovereignty	How Linux Gave Me a Career I Didn’t Know Existed	Building Performant Network Infrastructure		Open
10:30	Scaling PostgreSQL	K8s Monitoring	Installing Ubuntu With No Handlebars	Box Theory	Root‑Causing Failures	First Black Engineer	Sneakernet	Metadeck	Game Room	Open
11:25	Scaling PostgreSQL	Swaybar	Credential Security	Protect The Humans	Local Offline AI		Software Freedom for Kids	GNU/Linux Loves All		Open
2:00	Nextcloud Apps	Zero‑Knowledge Proofs	A2A + MCP	Kernel Backports	Crystal Ball	Security Handoff	Replacing Big‑Tech	Open Source Maps	Game Room	Open
3:00	Nextcloud Apps	Certificate Authority	Testing Ansible	Linux for AXI	Online Community	Burnout Panel	End‑of‑Life Nightmare	Native Android IDE		Open
4:00	Privacy‑First Communication	Build a Router	Ansible Molecule	Ghost Protocol	stillOS	Engineerspeak	Delightful CLIs	Linux Changelogs		Open
4:45	Saturday Raffle									Open

Sunday	CC202	CC203	CC234	CC235	CC236	HC108	HC203	HC204	Game Den	Expo Hall
Sun 9:30		Data Garden	Mastodon Lessons	Dubious Conventions	Declarative Linux		Self‑Hosted Stack	Sewing Patterns		Open
Sun 10:00						LINUX Unplugged LIVE				Open
Sun 10:25	RPM Packaging	Clonezilla Deployment	Retro Internet	Vizio Case	Open Source AI Ecosystem	LINUX Unplugged LIVE	Choosing a Distro	Linux Kernel on FPGA	Game Room	Open
Sun 11:20	RPM Packaging	Clonezilla RISC‑V Part 2	BadgeFed	Amateur Radio	AI Agent Control	Checksums	Responsible AI	It's Not Rocket Science		Open
Sun 12:00	Lunch									Open
Sun 1:00										Open
Sun 2:00	Hardening Linux	Rocky Linux Hardening			Observability	Linux Desktop	MCP		Game Room	Open
Sun 3:00	Hardening Linux	Reproducible Builds	A Year in Hyprland	PyLadiesCon Infrastructure	Request Tax	Nixbook OS	Witches in the Server Room	AI Scanned My Brain Rot		Open
Sun 4:00					10 AI Dangers		Autonomous AI Agents			Open
Sun 4:45	Raffle									Clean Up