SouthEast Linux Fest 2025

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10:00
10:00
45min
DevSecOps with DNSSEC & DANE
John Franklin

DNSSEC + DANE = DevSecOps++

FOSS in Prod
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
10:00
525min
Friday Lan Party and Lounge

Friday Lan Party and Lounge

Community Events
Altispeed - Ballroom D
11:00
11:00
45min
Breaking Down Data Warehouses: What to Know Before You Choose
Andrew Miller

How to choose the right data warehouse?

FOSS in Prod
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
11:00
45min
Getting started with Foreman/Red Hat Satellite Server
Thomas Cameron

Install and configure Foreman/Red Hat Satellite

FOSS in Prod
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
11:00
45min
What Linux offers
John Scott Hood

Discuss what Linux offers to users.

Home Lab/Linux in the home
CIQ - Ballroom A
12:00
12:00
120min
Lunch
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
12:00
120min
Lunch
CIQ - Ballroom A
12:00
120min
Lunch
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
12:00
120min
Lunch
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
14:00
14:00
45min
Adventures from the wild: Experiences Hiring for Red Hat
Steve Ovens

Experiences from hiring for technical jobs

/dev/random
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
14:00
45min
Bootable Containers: Build Your Own Immutable Distro
Michael Fox

Bootable containers: customizable immutable distro

FOSS in Prod
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
14:00
45min
Cloud CI/CD is Your New Single Point of Failure — Here's the Escape Plan
Benjamin Van Houten

CI/CD is the bottleneck you never saw coming.

Emerging Technologies
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
14:00
45min
Linux on a boat
Russ Nelson

Lots of sensors to integrate on a boat

Home Lab/Linux in the home
CIQ - Ballroom A
15:00
15:00
45min
Databases in the AI Trenches
Bruce Momjian

AI fundamentals and databases

Emerging Technologies
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
15:00
45min
Getting started with OKD (the upstream for OpenShift)
Thomas Cameron

Learn to install and configure OKD (OpenShift)

FOSS in Prod
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
15:00
45min
Monero 101: The Cypherpunk Cryptocurrency
tuxsudo

Monero, the private and untraceable cryptocurrency

/dev/random
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
15:00
45min
Photography on Linux with Darktable 5
Leander Hutton

Darktable is a FLOSS DAM and RAW developer.

/dev/random
CIQ - Ballroom A
16:00
16:00
45min
Automating Observability with Shiftmon
Mathias Palmersheim

Instrumenting is hard, learn how to make it easier

Home Lab/Linux in the home
CIQ - Ballroom A
16:00
45min
File Server War Story with Lessons Learned
Patrick Emerson

A War Story with some of the lessons I learned.

FOSS in Prod
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
16:00
45min
Pascal - The Once and Future Programming Language
Brad Whitehead

FOSS Object Pascal is not your University Pascal!

FOSS in Prod
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
16:00
45min
RISC-V Architecture Bootstrapping: An Enterprise Linux Story
Louis Abel

The story of bootstrapping RISC-V for Rocky Linux.

/dev/random
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
17:00
17:00
45min
Build Your App with Zig
Cameron Conn

A crash course in Zig and maintaining legacy C

Emerging Technologies
CIQ - Ballroom A
17:00
45min
Guarding Your Digital Treasure: A Quest for Secure Credential Management
Shelby Palmersheim

A quest to master password management and hygiene

FOSS in Prod
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
17:00
105min
OpenShift 101:Kubernetes Fundamentals From A Red Hat Perspective
Steve Ovens

Let's talk about the building blocks of k8s

FOSS in Prod
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
17:00
45min
OpenSource for Media at Church
James T

Tools used and process flow for Media Production

FOSS in Prod
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
18:00
18:00
45min
My My NixOS-Powered Homelab
Josh Lee

My My NixOS-Powered Homelab

Home Lab/Linux in the home
CIQ - Ballroom A
18:00
45min
Podman + Quadlet + Ansible: Rootless Service Management
Michael Fox

Rootless Podman with Quadlet + Ansible.

FOSS in Prod
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
18:00
45min
Who will be your Ruler
Mathias Palmersheim

A guide on creating and receiving alerts

FOSS in Prod
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
18:45
18:45
60min
Speaker Dinner

Speaker Dinner

Community Events
Altispeed - Ballroom D
19:00
19:00
60min
Dinner Break
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
19:00
30min
Dinner Break
CIQ - Ballroom A
19:00
60min
Dinner Break
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
19:00
60min
Dinner Break
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
19:30
19:30
120min
Geeks-w-Guns

Geeks-w-Guns

Community Events
CIQ - Ballroom A
19:45
19:45
240min
Friday Night Social Party

Friday Night Social Party

Community Events
Altispeed - Ballroom D
21:00
21:00
180min
Ham Exam Cram

Ham Exam Cram

Community Events
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
10:00
10:00
45min
"Hey Mycroft" v1.5-popey
elrey741 (Alex R)

Building the next gen of Mycroft AI (almost)

Home Lab/Linux in the home
CIQ - Ballroom A
10:00
45min
Data Center Hosting - What you didn't know you needed to know
Steve Ovens, Noah Chelliah

How to host services in a data center.

FOSS in Prod
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
10:00
45min
Digging into the Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS)
Dwain Sims

One of the newer File Systems in the Kernel

/dev/random
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
10:00
45min
FOSS in a Small Town
Peter Misik

How FOSS makes a telco run

FOSS in Prod
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
10:00
45min
Makerspace BoF
Tracy Homer, Issac Merkle

For people who run or make at makerspaces

/dev/random
Cake Wallet - Classroom
10:00
540min
Saturday Lan Party and Lounge

Saturday Lan Party and Lounge

Community Events
Altispeed - Ballroom D
11:00
11:00
75min
AI VibeCoding in 2025 for Fun and (no) Profit
JT (q5sys)

Vibe coding is all the rage... so lets vibe.

Emerging Technologies
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
11:00
45min
Astronomy on Linux
Leander Hutton

Astronomy and observatory automation with Linux.

Home Lab/Linux in the home
CIQ - Ballroom A
11:00
45min
DeGoogle with GrapheneOS
tuxsudo

DeGoogle your Android with GrapheneOS

/dev/random
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
12:00
12:00
120min
Lunch
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
12:00
120min
Lunch
CIQ - Ballroom A
12:00
120min
Lunch
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
12:15
12:15
105min
Lunch
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
14:00
14:00
105min
Fundamentals of Modern Cryptography and TLS
Bruce Momjian

Mathematics and practice of digital communication

FOSS in Prod
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
14:00
105min
Geopolitics for Geeks
Eric S. Raymond

War is interested in you.

/dev/random
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
14:00
45min
Teaching Kids Computer Architecture with Comics
Perry E. Metzger

Dinosaurs! Computer Architecture! Comics!

/dev/random
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
14:00
45min
Technology and Hurricane Helene
Leander Hutton

A first responder's take on tech and Helene.

/dev/random
CIQ - Ballroom A
15:00
15:00
45min
Open House
Issac Merkle

A smart home with F/OSS alone.

Home Lab/Linux in the home
CIQ - Ballroom A
15:00
45min
The Two Greatest Lost Programming Languages
Dan Good

or How Two Languages Older than Me Blew My Mind

/dev/random
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
16:00
16:00
45min
Choosing the Right Master Data Management Solution: Benefits, Challenges, and Insights
Andrew Miller

The fundamentals of MDM, and it's importance.

FOSS in Prod
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
16:00
45min
MCP tools for your Homelab: Building LLM Sysadmins
Daniel Colson

Connecting LLMs to your homelab services with MCP

Home Lab/Linux in the home
CIQ - Ballroom A
16:00
45min
The Roots of Linux
Lyle Evans

Linux derives from Unix. Unix has its roots in Mul

/dev/random
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
16:00
45min
Your Open Source replacement for Okta and DUO
Cornelius Koelbel

The Open Source MFA System privacyIDEA

Emerging Technologies
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
17:00
17:00
45min
Meet Stratoshark: Wireshark's Baby Brother
Josh Clark

Meet Stratoshark: Wireshark for Linux internals!

Emerging Technologies
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
17:00
45min
Running an Open Source Hackerspace
Tracy Homer

How we run a community makerspace using only FOSS!

/dev/random
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
17:00
45min
Secure Boot: Getting to know your frenemy
Michael L. Young

Why do we need to work with Secure Boot? Possible?

/dev/random
CIQ - Ballroom A
17:00
45min
Stop Breaking Things: A Gentle Introduction to NixOS in the Homelab
Aly Raffauf

Let Nix work for your home lab.

Home Lab/Linux in the home
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
18:00
18:00
90min
Dinner Break
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
18:00
90min
Dinner Break
CIQ - Ballroom A
18:00
90min
Dinner Break
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
18:00
90min
Dinner Break
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
18:00
60min
Ham Radio Exam

Ham Radio Exam

Community Events
Cake Wallet - Classroom
19:00
19:00
10min
Minors must leave the room
Altispeed - Ballroom D
19:30
19:30
270min
Retro Ragchew and Swapfest

Retro Ragchew and Swapfest

Community Events
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
19:30
240min
Saturday Night Social Party

Saturday Night Social Party

Community Events
Altispeed - Ballroom D
10:00
10:00
45min
A Very Serious Talk About a Very Silly Paging System
Neil Hanlon

Reviving Paging Tech for Modern Mayhem

FOSS in Prod
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
10:00
45min
Boost your Recall with Anki
Jason Franklin

Discover the magic of spaced repetition!

/dev/random
CIQ - Ballroom A
10:00
45min
Programming Languages: The Long View
Eric S. Raymond

How to think about choosing a programming language

/dev/random
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
10:00
45min
Startup Success Secrets: Hiring Right and Achieving PMF from the Start
Krishna Raj Raja

Key Insights for Startup Success

Emerging Technologies
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
11:00
11:00
45min
Atomic Honeypot: A MySQL Honeypot That Drops Shells
Alexander Rubin

Meet an attacking MySQL honeypot

/dev/random
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C
11:00
45min
Elephants tap dance, penguins sing!
Tyler McAdams

Test in prod like a pro! Mircoservices for legacy.

FOSS in Prod
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
11:00
45min
Nix* on MacOS
Ihar Hrachyshka

Managing MacOS machines with Nix declarative stack

/dev/random
CIQ - Ballroom A
11:00
45min
Secret Recipe: How FreeIPA Serves Up Zero Trust with a Side of Security!
Mike Ralph

Learn how IPA aligns with Zero Trust Architecture.

FOSS in Prod
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
12:00
12:00
45min
Beyond Chatbots: How AI and GenAI Are Revolutionizing Customer Interaction
Krishna Raj Raja

AI & GenAI in Customer Engagement

Emerging Technologies
CIQ - Ballroom A
12:00
45min
Forecasting the Future: Crowd Wisdom, Prediction Markets, and AI
Yulia Kuznetsova

Prediction Markets & Robot Forecasters

Emerging Technologies
VictoriaMetrics - Ballroom B
12:00
45min
Modern Application Debugging: An Introduction to OpenTelemetry
Josh Lee

Modern Application Debugging

FOSS in Prod
45 Drives - JR Ballroom
13:00
13:00
30min
Closing Session

Closing Session

Community Events
Rocky Linux - Ballroom C