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LinuxFest Northwest 2026

April 24 - 26, 2026 • Bellingham Technical College

LFNW Website: https://lfnw.org/ and official Schedule
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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

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Day-by-Day Listings

Saturday Schedule

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		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		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

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		Game Room	Open
Sun 11:20	Clonezilla RISC‑V Part 2	BadgeFed	Amateur Radio	AI Agent Control	Checksums	Responsible AI				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	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

8 am

Expo Hall opens (8am). Coffee is served
8:30 am Linux Prepper Trivia Challenge (Day 2)

9:30 am

10:00 am

10:25 am

11:20 am

12:00 pm

Lunch
Expo Hall: Open

1:00 pm

Downtown Bellingham: Flow Screening @ Pickford
Expo Hall: Open

2:00 pm

3:00 pm

4:00 pm

4:45 pm

CC202: Raffle