Program for SeaGL 2022

Keynote: Aeva Black

presented by Neslihan Turan

This talk will be based on my experience as a member of the Free Software Association in Turkey. In a local freedom movement, many local factors affect the way that advocacy should be made, such as economical disadvantages, priorities, country dynamics, and the target audience. It is not always feasible to bring software freedom to the table in a country with low digital literacy and major poli...

presented by justinribeiro

Researchers have grown accustomed to exploring the depths of open source software as a public good. The collective action model applies given the nature of provisioning—open source software is non-excludable and non-rivalry (Hippel & Krogh, 2003). Individual contributors author software or code that they and the public at large have free access to utilize as they see fit, while the group can us...

presented by jberkus

Containers! Orchestrators! Service Mesh! Serverless! PodSecurity! You've heard all the hype from the many, many projects that call themselves "Cloud Native", but what does it all mean? Why would you want to use any of this, and what tools do you actually need, and why does the CNCF have over 120 projects?

Welcome to the Cloud Native Taqueria, where your questions will be answered. In this ...

presented by Alex Byrne

Fediverse enthusiasts and public libraries have a shared interest in preserving privacy, control, and a smaller, more intimate, and non-commercial community for their users, but they're not collaborating as much as they could on those shared values to provide easy ways for potential Fediverse users to get started, either as a user or as an instance host.

Librarians often lack the technical r...

presented by Deb Nicholson

Become a better volunteer and maybe even a better person by diversifying the kind of organizations you volunteer for. It sometimes feels like FOSS non-profits are re-inventing the wheel with regards to tasks like outreach, volunteer recruitment and retention, community governance and strategic planning. But mission based work has been around for a long, long time and so there's a huge community...

presented by Richard Littauer

Birdwatching is the art of looking at birds; birding is the art of naming them. And subspecies identification is the nerdy Sarlacc pit of bird identification. In this talk, I'll talk about how I have over-engineered ways of getting bird subspecies distribution data from the community science site eBird, by using Node.js, React.js, D3.js, and occasionally other things like jq, grep, and plain ol...

TeaGL

presented by jberkus

Big, popular open source projects have as many elections as Seattle does. Instead of mailboxes, though, they use online voting platforms. Most of this voting software implements what are called "preference elections" in order to choose the most liked candidate. This started with the venerable CIVS, and now includes several software projects like Helios and Elekto.

We'll cover what preferenc...

Keynote: Ernie Smith

Trivia

Keynote: Lorena Mesa

presented by Alanna Burke

Having an open-source project is great, but if no one is using it, there doesn’t seem to be much point in working on it, right? Lots of open-source projects are small and easy to integrate into your workflow, and so communities quickly form around them organically. But when you have a bigger project that requires some knowledge and buy-in, and a specific need, how do you get people enthusiast...

presented by Aarti Ramkrishna

Women and people of color have always been under-represented in open source and by extension STEM. Somewhere along their educational journey, girls and people of color who initially were interested in STEM are no longer considering it as a career choice. Aarti Ramkrishna is an award-winning educator from the state of Oregon; who is building equity focused classroom curricula for school distric...

presented by Wm Salt Hale, Deb Nicholson, Rob Smith, Adam Monsen

Welcome to the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference! We can hardly believe it's we've made it ten years. Come hear how we got here and where we're going next!

Join us for a social lunch hour with other SeaGL attendees. Bring your own lunch, order in, or make one of the recipes from our no-cook lunch cookbook here: https://github.com/SeaGL/social-cookbook

presented by Deb Nicholson

The best and most reliable way to grow an open source project is to get really, really good at delegating. Maybe you don't think delegating is for you? New delegators might be tempted to delegate without documenting or without providing context. Or worse to give away the things that new folks can't or don't want to do. These behaviors lead to poor outcomes and can even leave projects unwilling ...

presented by Brian Peters

Introduction to Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO), an advanced storage technology for maximizing drive space. In this presentation we'll discuss use cases for VDO, advantages & disadvantages, and demo configuring & testing a drive using Virtual Data Optimizer.

I am a new presenter, however, I have given this presentation previously at Phoenix Linux Users Group (PLUG) in August 2022.

presented by Bri Hatch

Tab completion saves time typing keys, and helps you remember those --long-esoteric-options without pulling up a man page. You can create bash completions for your custom tools as well, which can help your coworkers and yourself down the road. We'll build up simple and advanced bash tab completions so you can build your own and save time!

presented by Charlotte McGraw

In this talk, I will discuss the pros and cons of self-hosting web apps (such as Nextcloud, Airsonic, calibre-web) and how to simplify deployment with Traefik's reverse proxy implementation and publicly available docker containers.

This presentation is targeted to folks with "beginner to intermediate" level knowledge. Attendees will benefit most if they have a basic understanding of:

• wh...

Keynote: Sumana Harihareswara

Mock/cocktails