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LinuxFest Northwest 2026
April 24 - 26, 2026 • Bellingham Technical College
- LFNW Website: https://lfnw.org/ and official Schedule
- They also have a Discussion forum
Navigation
- Friday evening schedule not included here. Only those at the college.
- Saturday Schedule, the 25th
- Sunday Schedule, the 26th
- Expo Hall opens 8:00am Saturday and Sunday.
Schedule
- Click on an event to create a Wiki page for further discussion and info.
Day-by-Day Listings
Saturday Schedule
| Saturday | CC202 | CC203 | CC234 | CC235 | CC236 | HC108 | HC203 | HC204 | Game Den | Expo Hall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 9:30 | Homelab 2.0 | Secure‑boot | Kalpa Desktop | Sovereignty | Linux Career | Snapshotted VMs | Open | |||
| Sat 10:30 | PostgreSQL | K8s Monitoring | Ubuntu Install | Box Theory | Root‑Causing Failures | First Black Engineer | Sneakernet | Metadeck | Open | |
| Sat 11:25 | Swaybar | Credential Security | Protect The Humans | Local Offline AI | Software Freedom for Kids | GNU/Linux Loves All | Open | |||
| Sat 2:00 | Nextcloud | Zero‑Knowledge | A2A + MCP | Kernel Backports | Crystal Ball | Security Handoff | Replacing Big‑Tech | Open Source Maps | Game Room | Open |
| Sat 3:00 | Certificate Authority | Testing Ansible | Linux for AXI | Online Community | Burnout Panel | End‑of‑Life Nightmare | Native Android IDE | Open | ||
| Sat 4:00 | Privacy‑First Communication | Build a Router | Ansible Molecule | Ghost Protocol | stillOS | Engineerspeak | Delightful CLIs | Linux Changelogs | Open |
8 am
- 8:00 am Expo Hall opens. Coffee is served
- 8:30 am Linux Prepper Trivia Challenges open.
9:30 am
10:30 am
11:25 am
2:00 pm
3:00 pm
4:00 pm
Sunday Schedule
| 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 | Choosing a Distro | Linux Kernel on FPGA | Open | ||
| Sun 11:20 | Clonezilla RISC‑V Part 2 | BadgeFed | Amateur Radio | AI Agent Control | Checksums | Responsible AI | Open | |||
| Sun 2:00 | Hardening Linux | Rocky Linux Hardening | OS Communities | Observability | Linux Desktop | MCP | Game Room | Open | ||
| Sun 3:00 | 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 | Clean Up |
8 am
- Expo Hall opens (8am). Coffee is served
- 8:30 am Linux Prepper Trivia Challenge (Day 2)