The SouthEast LinuxFest is this weekend! As usual it is completely FREE to attend. Check out our schedule to see the talks and special events going on this weekend. Our theme this year is Fallout, and you’ll see various Fallout related themes and cosplay around our “GNU Vegas” this weekend. Can’t make it in person this year? Stream the talks live with remote attendee for just $5.

If you are interested in volunteering, please email [email protected] immediately. We are particularly interested in teardown help Sunday afternoon and room moderators during the event. Volunteers get various perks, including access to our volunteer raffle full of computer hardware, Fallout items, and other prizes.

We are running ham radio special event station W4L(we send QSL cards!), we have a meshtastic repeater running high up on the Sonesta tower with amazing coverage on the NW/W/SW side of Charlotte, and we will be offering completely free ham radio license exams.

So, whether you’ve got a Wayland vendetta, you want to play heavily modded Fallout, you want to talk to Europe on a ham radio, you want to improve your AI slop generation, or you just want to know when the AI security patching pain will stop … come on down the Sonesta Charlotte Lower South End this weekend. There’s something for everybody, and a few hundred of your new best friends to meet.

Do you have a favorite technology you’d like to introduce others to?  An area of technology where you’re the go-to nerd because you have so much knowledge to share?  

Today, the SouthEast Linux Fest Call For Participation (CFP) opens.  If you have ever thought of speaking at SELF, if you’d like to host a BoF (Birds of a Feather meetup) for some FOSS community, or you want to organize a panel to bring in multiple perspectives on a subject, we want to hear from you!

The 2025 SouthEast LinuxFest is this weekend, Friday 6/13 through Sunday 6/15, at the Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel in Charlotte, NC. As always, SELF is 100% FREE TO ATTEND. See the schedule here. Our theme this year is retro computing. Have some cool retro computer gear you’d like to bring to show or swap? List it here. We will once again be offering free ham radio license exams, ham radio exam crams, running ham radio special event station W4L, a nearly around the clock LAN Party, GPG key signing, and much more. Register to attend and we hope to see you there!

Can’t make it in person? No problem. Stream all the talks remotely as they happen for just five bucks. Register as ring2 – Remote Attendee.

The SELF 2025 schedule is available at https://speakers.southeastlinuxfest.org/southeast-linux-fest-2025/schedule/

This year’s theme: Retro computing.
Registration is NOW OPEN.
Call for speakers closes very soon on 4/27!
Do you have some cool retro computing stuff you’d like to bring to show or swap? We’ll be having a Swapfest at SELF.
We are looking for sponsors for this year’s event.
Get ahead of the rush and register for the ham radio exam (FREE).
We are also looking for volunteers for this year’s event. Volunteers are eligible for the volunteer raffle, which features everything from servers and networking equipment to books about open source autographed by the author.

The date for SELF 2025 has been changed to June 13-15, 2025

We are only a few days away from the start of this year’s SouthEast Linux Fest.  This year again we will have food trucks onsite for lunch on both Friday and Saturday.  
Come enjoy the following trucks.
Hog and Dog
BBQ/Chicken/hot dogs/French Fries
https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Hog-N-Dog-Too-Food-Truck-Catering-100063693783298/

New this year
Ramirez Munchies
Mexican food Tortas/Tacos/Sopes
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094438834576

Registration is now open for SELF 2024, June 7-9, at the Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel in Charlotte, NC. If you are Staff, Volunteer, Speaker, and/or Sponsor please check your email for special registration instructions.

For the regulars and newbies, please review our schedule to get a feel for what’s happening at this year’s events. For the newbies, be sure to read our About Us page to understand a bit more about the event in general.

Our room block in the host hotel is now sold out. Across the road is the SpringHill and it is owned by the same company as our host hotel. They should be able to run the shuttle over so you dont have to cross the highway on foot.
https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/cltsa-springhill-suites-charlotte-airport/overview/