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SeaGL 2026
- Location: University of Washington, Seattle
* Streaming: Youtube Channel Here. Or, more online details and chat.
* Cost: Free, and optional registration.
* Focus: Free/Libre/Open Source Software
* Website: seagl.org
Navigation
October 23 - 24, 2026
- Livestream Details listed below.
- Most talks streamed, but not all.
- Friday Schedule, the 23rd
- Saturday Schedule, the 24th
- Front desk opens 8:00am Friday and Saturday.
- TeaGL served at 3:30pm daily.
- Evening events take place on the University Ave.
Schedule
- Click on an event to create a Wiki page for further discussion and info.
Day-by-Day Listings
Friday Schedule
| Time | Room 250 | Room 332 | Room 340 | Community |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Setup. Expo Hall Opens. | Front Desk Open | ||
| 9:10 | The mv Command Doesn't Move Things | |||
| 9:40 | Building my own infrastructure | |||
| 10:30 | Refining the Linux Elevator Pitch | Be a Starter, Not a Finisher | BadgeFed: Decentralized Badges | |
| 11:00 | Engineerspeak | Choosing a Distro | What is a flight computer? | |
| 11:30 | Sovereign AI | From E-Waste to Empowerment | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 2:00 | Art of the Fork | Learning an Ancient Language | Beyond --help: Man Pages | |
| 2:30 | Debian-Linux Desktop GUI tour | Websites that pass all tests | ||
| 3:00 | Mapbattle: OSM Community | The Small Web Is Huge | Share the dead ends too | |
| 3:30 | TeaGL | TeaGL | TeaGL | TeaGL |
| 4:30 | Guide To Mastodon/Fediverse | Functional Programming 101 | AsciiDoc: Plain Text | |
| 5:00 | Scan My Brainrot | Network Infrastructure at Scale | Alternate Technological Futures | Expo Hall Winds Down |
Saturday Schedule
| Saturday | Room 250 | Room 332 | Room 340 | Community |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Expo Hall Opens. | Front Desk Open | ||
| 9:00 | Privacy-First AI Homelab | Kalpa Desktop | Dubious Computers | |
| 10:00 | The Invisible Newcomer | Deferred Compilation | Off-Grid Networks | |
| 10:30 | Bootstrapping Sparrow | Painted Wolf Code | Tool-Assisted Speech | |
| 11:00 | Tech Docs for Everyone | |||
| 11:30 | 2026 FLOSS Research Roundup | Customer Discovery Interviews | Transactional Systems in Fedora | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 2:00 | K8s Operators | Signet Hardware Password Mgr | Why Linux Releases Take So Long | |
| 2:30 | Simple Scalable Privacy | Security shoot-out: LTS vs Regular | Building a mobile TUI | |
| 3:00 | Resource Efficient Self Hosting | |||
| 3:30 | TeaGL | TeaGL | TeaGL | TeaGL |
| 4:30 | Contributing to OpenHospital | Towards Understandable Software | ||
| 5:00 | Keynote: Luis Felipe R. Murillo | Expo Hall Winds Down |
Attend Online
Watch on Youtube once the event goes live.
Matrix real-time chat is used extensively for online conference participants.
- Main chat space and home on Matrix, available to public.
- Never used Matrix? Install Element client and create a free account.
- SeaGL 2026 Matrix space and chats TBD. Links will be added once available.
Attendees may participate anonymously, and at no cost. You must follow the Code of Conduct and, for in‑person participation, the Health & Safety Policy.