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

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

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)

9:30 am

CC202: Data Garden

CC203: Mastodon Lessons

CC234: Dubious Conventions

CC235: Declarative Linux

CC236: Self‑Hosted Stack

HC108: Sewing Patterns

Expo Hall: Open

10:00 am

CC202: LINUX Unplugged LIVE

Expo Hall: Open

10:25 am

CC202: RPM Packaging

CC203: Clonezilla Deployment

CC234: Retro Internet

CC235: Vizio Case

CC236: Open Source AI Ecosystem

HC108: Choosing a Distro

HC203: Linux Kernel on FPGA

Expo Hall: Open

11:20 am

CC202: Clonezilla RISC‑V Part 2

CC203: BadgeFed

CC234: Amateur Radio

CC235: AI Agent Control

CC236: Checksums

HC108: Responsible AI

Expo Hall: Open

2:00 pm

CC202: Hardening Linux

CC203: Rocky Linux Hardening

CC234: OS Communities

CC235: Observability

CC236: Linux Desktop

HC108: MCP

Game Den: Game Room

Expo Hall: Open

3:00 pm

CC202: Reproducible Builds

CC203: A Year in Hyprland

CC234: PyLadiesCon Infrastructure

CC235: Request Tax

CC236: Nixbook OS

HC108: Witches in the Server Room

HC203: AI Scanned My Brain Rot

Expo Hall: Open

4:00 pm

CC202: 10 AI Dangers

CC203: Autonomous AI Agents

Expo Hall: Clean Up

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