Adam is a kind and savvy open source enthusiast. He is an adept coder, builder, producer, debugger, architect, leader, manager, lecturer, author, administrator, CISO, and CTO. He has logged professional successes in markets of all maturities, sizes, and scales, from startups to big enterprise. He's most proud of his family, growing Mifos (mifos.org), founding SeaGL (seagl.org), selling C-SATS (csats.com), and self-publishing his book about self-hosting (selfhostbook.com).

Dr. Allison Randal is a free software and open hardware developer and strategist. She is chair of the board at Software Freedom Conservancy, board member at LLVM Foundation, governing board member at CHERI Alliance and OpenInfra Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group.

In the past three decades, she has served as president of Open Source Initiative, board chair at OpenInfra Foundation, president at Perl Foundation, board member at Python Software Foundation, board chair at Parrot Foundation, and technical architect of Ubuntu. She collaborates in the Debian, RISC-V, and CHERI projects, has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and currently works on Linux and open hardware at Capabilities Limited.

A software engineer, FOSS hacker, and cooperative enthusiast.

Ariadne is an operating system designer and security engineer focused on small systems, who primarily works on Alpine, one of the main distributions used in cloud-native computing. As part of her work on Alpine, she has developed several FOSS packages such as pkgconf, libucontext and ifupdown-ng, which have been widely deployed, including on Mars. She was also the creator of the Chainguard Images stack, including apko, Melange, and the Wolfi GNU/Linux distribution.

In a previous life, she led development of Audacious, a popular audio player shipped in many Linux distributions and several IRC-related projects such as the reference IRCv3.2 server implementation, Charybdis and Atheme services package.

Ashish Jayamohan is a current contributor on Apache Pinot. Ashish was formerly an undergraduate student at UC San Diego and is now working on databases, systems, and machine learning. Ashish is specifically interested in autotuning and optimization.
@ashishjayamohan

Autumn is a product manager at Microsoft Azure specializing in Linux security. In her previous role at AWS as a software engineer, she focused on the development and release of Amazon Corretto (Java) while actively engaging in the OpenJDK community; before that, she worked as an AWS NoSQL Solutions Architect and created educational content in Python and Java.
Autumn co-hosts the exciting new "Fork Around and Find Out" podcast, sharing stories on tech lessons learned, with her previous co-host of the popular "Ship It!" podcast. A proud mom and "Rewriting the Code" alumni, Autumn serves as the Board Chair of Education at MilSpouse Coders, leading the chapter in the Greater Seattle Area, due to her advocacy for collaborative learning

Brad Chamberlain is a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Cray Inc.) who has spent his career focused on user productivity for HPC systems, particularly through the design and development of the Chapel parallel programming language (https://chapel-lang.org). He received his Ph.D in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington in 2001 where he focused on the ZPL parallel array language, and he remains associated with the department as an affiliate professor of the Paul G. Allen School.

Brady Dibble is Director of Product Management at CIQ, where he leads initiatives related to Rocky Linux.

Bri Hatch (currently a Founding Engineer and Dropzone AI) is a command line geek and Open Source contributor and proponent. He has been automating, securing, and breaking into systems since before he traded his Apple ][+ for his first Unix machine.

I started making YouTube videos covering Linux content when I was 14. I would eventually volunteer for Pine64 making their community update YouTube videos and went on to work for TechHut Media at age 17. I also built risiOS which innovated on top of Fedora by making it more user friendly thanks to friendly onboarding, and experimenting with custom features such as rTheme, our custom theming engine. Since I have merged risiOS with Nobara Linux. I have been working on stillOS, a new concept combining rpm-ostree with web app integration, a curated app store, and the user friendliness of Zorin OS.

FOSS enthusiast, computer science student, tinkerer and musician.

Hi, I'm Chris Lamb (aka lamby), a 39-year-old software engineer. I am a core team member of the Reproducible Builds project where I implement and research software supply-chain security.

Dawn likes to tinker with cloud infrastructure and security, and regularly goes down rabbit holes in a futile search for ways to develop systems that are both reliable and impenetrable. As well as accidental accessibility advocacy, Dawn can regularly be found sharing knowledge within various tech communities.

Outside work, Dawn is an occasional author, kitchen alchemist, and raging sportsball fan.

Deb Nicholson is the Executive Director at the Python Software Foundation, the non-profit steward of the Python programming language. She has previously served the open source ecosystem through her work at the Open Source Initiative, Software Freedom Conservancy, and the Open Invention Network. She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Personally, I am most interested in the ability of collaborative projects to mobilize their collective intelligences, to take advantage of all their available intellectual labour, in the name of building the commons; in this case, the digital commons. I earned a Ph.D. from a collage of urban and public affairs, with a focus on similar work.

Dima is a co-founder of VictoriaMetrics and a well-known expert in machine learning technologies. Before VictoriaMetrics, Dima worked in the self-driving and space industries before being called to entrepreneurship. He holds a Master of Science in Mathematics and is an avid mountain climber and air sports enthusiast. Dima currently resides in Seattle, USA.

Dr. Edward Ly is a Portland, Oregon native who now works as a software engineer at Nextcloud, where he is part of a team that develops ethical AI solutions and supports the greater Nextcloud and free software community. Previously, he obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Aizu, with the resulting research also being released as free software. He has also successfully given public talks at various academic research conferences (AES, EvoStar) and open source events (FOSSY, Nextcloud Community Conference), all while being openly autistic.

In his spare time, Edward enjoys playing free software games.

Emily Soward has over 15 years of experience in AI R&D with specializations in governance, operations, and security. She is a serial innovator, founder, and leader in AI incident response, ecological and edge AI research, and AI security research. She is notable for courses and teaching in AI governance, risk management, operations, and security, as well as her work on AI and ML frameworks for Amazon Web Services. Her contributions to the HITRUST Alliance AI Working Group supported the launch of the first cybersecurity certification for deployed AI systems. In 2024, she cofounded the AI Incident Response & Control (AIRCTL) Project, an open-source project making top AI security skills accessible for small and under-resourced organizations.

Esther is a newly graduated PhD turned postdoc in Computer Science at the University of Washington. She is the Director at the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Local Connectivity Lab (LCL). She founded the Seattle Community Network (SCN) in 2019, building DIY Internet infrastructure for digital equity. She has installed community networks in the US and around the world, and teaches technical networking at the Tribal Broadband Bootcamp (TBB).

Esther's projects tend to center around DIY, empowerment, and pedagogy. For example- building communities of practice to sustain technical infrastructures, and vice versa.

Originally based in San Francisco, hacker and entrepreneur Evan Prodromou now lives in Montreal where he is the Research Director at the Social Web Foundation, where he helps develop and promote the ActivityPub standard.

A passionate advocate of Open Source and Open Content, Evan is best known for founding the Free travel guide project, Wikitravel. He is the Chair of the W3C Social Web Working Group and the author of ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web (O’Reilly Media).

Jeff got his first personal computer in December 1969 [sic], and has been talking about computers non-stop ever since. His long-suffering wife hoped he would sit down and shut up when he retired, but while he did retire, he did not shut up. He still writes software, tutors, mentors, and attends computer conferences, but he doesn't make any money anymore.

A professional code twiddler. The computers work better after I’ve added code to them more often than the alternative.

Jocelyn (“Joss”) Graf has founded, grown, and sold a biomedical research editing and translation business in South Korea, co-founded a food co-op and a hardware startup, and built a project-based training business for tech workers.

Joss helps small business and tech startup founders answer these questions: Will my business idea work? What would my customers really pay for, how do I find them, and how much should I charge? Can I do good and still make money? Can I get grants or government contracts? What paperwork should I do? Who do I need on my team? How do I work with attorneys, accountants, and tech developers? How can I grow my business, and where do I want to end up?

Jonathan Haack is a Math and CS educator with 20 years experience, blending educational and technology leadership. He serves on the board of directors for the NM Partnership for Math and Science Education and operates Haack's Networking, a Free Software-driven business specializing in networking and security. A problem-solver at heart, Jonathan has tackled projects ranging from constructing a 150ft retaining wall to forming a $20,000 endowment for the Partnership. Leading through informal authority, Jonathan hosts GNU/Linux community spaces like Mastodon, Matrix, and Peertube, freely available to the public. Married for nearly 25 years, Jonathan is a proud husband and father of two children, ages 11 and 13.

A freelance web developer since 2004, Josh primarily uses Ruby on Rails hosted on Heroku. He is the lead programmer for a number of small companies and enjoys contributing to open source projects. Josh loves tracking down bugs and mentoring programmers (when he's not sailing).

Josh is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of experience, specializing in a broad range of topics including operations, observability, agile methodologies, and accessibility. His passion for technology is matched by his enthusiasm for sharing knowledge through public speaking. Currently, Josh serves as a Developer Advocate for Altinity, where he creates educational content on ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry. Additionally, he is an active contributor to the OpenTelemetry project, helping to advance the field of observability in software development.

Justin started his Software Engineering career as a Web Development Boot Camp Instructor where he developed a passion for exciting others with new concepts and empowering individuals with the tools needed to excel in their own right. As an Advocate at Redis, Justin created numerous videos breaking down Data Structures into easy-to-understand, relatable examples with real-world use cases. Now at Elastic, he has expanded into the realm of enhanced search, monitoring, and observability capabilities.

In his spare time, Justin enjoys hiking around the Pacific Northwest, building hobby electronics, and collecting vintage music synthesizers. His love of hardware and software has led him into a deep exploration of IoT for practical applications as

Kasanwa Solane "KaSo" Aster Hope is an ace autistic panromantic polyamorous tonsi who works at a big tech company in the area (working on software engineering projects completely unrelated to faer presence at SeaGL).
Originally from Miami, FL, KaSo is happy to have moved to Seattle approximately a year and a half ago (July 2024).
Kasanwa Solane has a server in faer apartment that fae administers, with a set of services on the OctoFriends.Garden domain, including Mastodon and PeerTube instances, as well as some non-fediverse services.

Dr. Kaylea Champion studies how people cooperate to build groovy public goods like GNU/Linux and Wikipedia, including what gets maintained and the risks we face. She is an Assistant Professor in Computing and Software Systems at the University of Washington Bothell, where she teaches software engineering with an emphasis on cybersecurity and evidence-based practices. Dr. Champion is eager to build connections with communities, and has given talks at FOSSY, Quantum Wednesday, Norwescon, WorldCon, PyConUS, the OpenJS Summit, Wikimania, MozFest, Women in Data Science, PuPPY, DebConf, and SeaGL. A Linux user since 1994, she enjoys tromping through the woods, smashing goblins, conjuring data, and cooking for a crowd.

Laura is a critical feminist technology researcher and a Tech Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley.

Linnea is a tech worker and a member of the Resist Tech Monopolies collective.

As a volunteer der.hans endeavors to help build community through FLOSS
conference and user group leadership.

dh has co-chaired Open Source Career Day (OSCD) at Southern California
Linux Expo (SCaLE) and the Finance and Partnership committees for
SeaGL.

dh presents and gives career counseling sessions at large community-led
conferences (SCaLE, SeaGL, Tux-Tage, Kielux, GeekBeacon Fest, FOSSASIA,
LCA, LFNW, Tübix, OLF ) and many local groups. dh is chairperson of
the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG) and founder of the Free Software
Stammtisch.

Currently Hans manages a team of database support engineers.

Hans is available to speak remotely for local groups.

Find Hans on the Fediverse/Mastodon - https://floss.social/@FLOX_advocate

Older than sin. Fat. Likes to drink good craft beer.

Started programming in 1969
Unix in 1980
Linux in May of 1994

I have been told I have a sense of humor.

Mike Kelly is the CTO, Developer and Co-Founder of a SaaS company called MemberVault. He is not only a big Linux fan for personal uses, but uses Linux exclusively to develop and host the platform.

Mike is based in Olympia, WA where him and his wife run MemberVault, while raising 3 kids and a golden doodle.

Priya Ananthasankar is a Principal Software Engineer with deep expertise in software engineering infrastructure and distributed systems. With years of experience designing and scaling backend platforms, Priya has led several large-scale migrations and backend transformations across cloud environments. Her work focuses on building resilient, observable, and scalable systems that empower teams to modernize with confidence. She is passionate about sharing practical methodologies that bridge theory and real-world application—especially in the areas of infrastructure evolution, service reliability, and cloud-native architecture.

I am delighted to work with the Open Program Office of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (https://www.hpe.com/us/en/open-source.html)! This role is the culmination of my prior lives as a computer programmer, lawyer and adjunct professor specializing in intellectual property subjects including open source.

I am admitted to practice law in Ohio, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and in-house in Washington. While in private practice, I served for two years as President of CincyIP, a local bar association dedicated to intellectual property education. I served as adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati School of Law and University of Dayton School of Law on subjects including Patent Litigation, Cyberspace Law and Open Source Licensing.

Richard Littauer is a PhD student in Computer Science at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington in Pōneke, Aotearoa New Zealand. His primary focus is understanding ecology and bird populations using computational modeling. His research interests beyond that involve open science, open source, community science platforms, and taxonomy.

As well, Richard is the Interim Executive Director for the GNOME Foundation, a nonprofit building a diverse and sustainable free software personal computing ecosystem. He is an organizer for SustainOSS, and has recorded hundreds of podcasts on open source sustainability there. He is also one of the two organizers of CURIOSS, the community for university and research institution open source program

Robert Hodges serves as CEO at Altinity, an enterprise provider for ClickHouse. Robert has over 30 years of experience with database systems and applications including pre-relational databases such as M204, online SQL transaction processing, Hadoop, and analytics. In the last few years, his work has focused on analytical databases, Kubernetes, and open source. Robert is the founder of the Open Source Analytics Conference (osacon.io).

Romeo is a GNU/Linux sysadmin with about a decade of experience. Currently he specializes in HPC workloads.

Lead Developer - Kalpa Desktop
openSUSE Board Member

Simon is an open-source hardware enthusiast and programmer.

Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan is one of the founding engineers of AWS SAM CLI and also established the AWS Homebrew tap.
His open source contributions span core components of OpenStack including Poppy, Taskflow, and Zaqar. At AWS, he's also worked on CloudWatch's metric ingestion systems, developing expertise in observability at scale.
Sriram is passionate about creating developer tools that balance power with simplicity, focusing on the intersection of cloud infrastructure, command-line experiences, and serverless architectures.

Ted was born in Mountain View, California, and earned a B.S. in Psychobiology from UCLA. Entering the tech industry in 1994, he attended his first LUG two years later. His career spans various positions, including software, hardware, and network engineering, as well as product management and marketing. He also served as a college adjunct professor, teaching Linux, networking, and security.
As an R&D engineer in his most recent role, he deployed AI/NLP/voice solutions to secure public cloud platforms using Kubernetes, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code with open-source tools. Ted is a volunteer on the Board of Directors for the Linux Professional Institute and the Seattle Community Network.

Timmy James Barnett is passionate about the philosophy of FLO (Free/Libre/Open) software. He is happy to be using GNU/Linux and FLO software he wrote for his performances with GNU/Linux Loves All and !mindparade. His music is inspired by FLO technologies including GNU/Linux, Matthew Autry's skip-fretting, Kite guitar, and Jim Snow's mosaichord. These technologies have connected him with older notes that have been covered up by modern standard tuning. Rather than being limited to just one tuning, Timmy's music is inspired by both the harmonic series and various edos beyond 12edo (known as standard tuning). He finds a unique sound from the intersection between ancient tuning theory, modern music technology, and a FLO philosophy.

Toby Betts has been breaking and, when possible, fixing computers since childhood. He has worked as a system administrator, a service engineer, a site reliability engineer, and a free and open source software consultant for mid- to large-sized businesses for over 25 years. His main interests are system security, free cryptography, and fun file systems.

Open Source Linux nerd for ~30 years. SRE at Google. Coffee enthusiast, and traveler of time and space.

just pasting my mastodon bio in here...

vanta rainbow black, creator of FediPact

she/they | 28 | seattle | a cyberpunk cannabis consuming catgirl | trans enby girl polyam lesbian gender terrorist | fediverse sex symbol | prolific poster | AuDHD af | rogue wordsmith extraordinaire | fedi's favorite pirate radio DJ | anarcho-communist | DIY fashion designer | video editor vagabond | punweaver | chaotic good | a gamedev apparently? | learning toki pona

164,261 lifetime posts on past instances | joined fedi 2017 | recognized irl 16 times so far

52k words deep into writing a book called "THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP: My Mastodon Microblog Memoir"

https://vantaa.black