LinuxFest Northwest is celebrating 17 years of service to the Free and Open Source community. Please join us by presenting at the largest, technically diverse, educational, and fun open source conferences in the Pacific Northwest. The conference had 1850 attendees last year, and this year promises to be even bigger.
When and Where
April 23rd and 24th 2015 - 9:00am-5pm
Bellingham Technical College
3028 Lindbergh Avenue
Bellingham, WA 98225
Call For Papers
Presentations can cover anything that qualifies as Free/Open Source software or surrounding communities including popular topics such as makerspace, robotics, sustainable technology, Linux and complimentary communities such as Databases, DevOps, Web Development, Programming and Community building. The presentation formats include 60 minute, 90 minute, and the ever popular 5 minute lightning talk. http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016/present
Tutorials Track
New this year is a tutorials track, aimed at beginners. Tutorials may be either 90 minutes or two and a half hours in length, and will be held in the Tutorium (a computer lab with capacity for 30 people).
Papers Submission Deadline: February 10th, 2016 @ 7pm PST.
Acceptance Notification: February 23rd, 2016
Open Source Project Collaboration Space
If your project is interested in hosting a sprint or other mini-conference at Linuxfest Northwest there is very limited space to host projects. Please include as much information about your project, how you plan to advertise the sprint, and expected attendance.
Previous examples for these spaces have been PostgreSQL track, Drupal code sprints, KDE days, LibreOffice dev sprints, and a Fedora user track. You can reserve a room for sessions, code sprints, or unconferences. http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016/call-communty-tracks
Community Tracks Deadline: February 1st, 2016 @ 7pm PST.
Sponsorship
We are also seeking sponsors. If you are interested in sponsoring this fantastic event and reaching nearly 2000 technically minded individuals please visit:
http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016/sponsor/packages
Visit the 2016 linuxfestnorthwest.org site to submit your session or community collaboration track. If you've attended in the past, your existing user details should work.
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