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Southeast Linuxfest 2013 photos

It’s taken me a few days to get to, but I finally found some time to go through the nearly 500 photos I took at Southeast Linuxfest 2013. First pass took it down to around 420 photos, and then trimmed it down to 406 photos that I uploaded to my gallery. I’ll make a few more passes to pick out the good ones that will get posted to Flickr eventually.

Shay Walters made a few of these wood SELF 2013 logos using a laser cutter. Pretty cool.

SELF 2013 wood cutting

A group of lock picking enthusiasts had a very popular table this year at SELF

FALE table

Linode guy had a green mowhawk to match the Linode logo

Linode guy

Saturday’s party with MC Frontalot was a fun time.

MC Frontalot

Check out the rest of the photos over in the gallery. A subset of these will end up in the Southeast Linuxfest Flickr group. If you have photos from Southeast Linuxfest you’d like to share, feel free to post them there too.

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CHarleston Uber Users Group (CHUUG)

There’s a new tech user group in Charleston, and they’re called CHUUG (CHarleston Über Users Group).

One problem that many tech user groups in Charleston suffer from is that their focus tends to be narrow (Ruby, Java, etc), which means fairly small membership and after a while, a lack of topics. I’ve seen more than a few groups around here start up, develop a good following and then fizzle out after a few months.

CHUUG was formed to combat this problem by being tech-agnostic and offer the local tech community a place to discuss, share and learn from their peers. The focus is pretty much anything and everything tech related.

If it’s tech, geek, maybe even nerdy, it’s ok

Everybody is welcome to attend. Talks and discussions tend to be fairly high level requiring some knowledge, but that’s the whole point of the group. The first few meetings have been conducted barcamp style, with people pitching ideas they’d be willing to talk about, or want to learn about and then breaking out into smaller groups around those ideas.

CHUUG meets on the second Thursday of the month at 6PM at Jack Russell Software (494 Wando Park Blvd).

You can find CHUUG on Google+ and the #chuug IRC channel on freenode.

If CHUUG makes you think of beer, there’s that too.

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SELF 2013 EOF

Southeast Linxufest 2013 has come and gone, and once again I had a great time working the conference, seeing the exhibitors and catching a few talks.

Rolled into Charlotte Thursday afternoon and after a short wait for a previous event to clear out, we got to work getting everything set up. First all the gear had to be hauled down to the conference area, figure out what was in the boxes then set up the cameras, sound and projectors. That took the bulk of the evening. Ethernet and power cables were run to the rooms and tables.

The party on Saturday featured MC Frontalot, who I’d heard of but hadn’t heard any of his music until then. Everybody seemed to enjoy it and after his show a crowd quickly developed at the merch table so people coud buy stuff and get autographs/photos.

Most of my time was spent taking photos and running around helping out wherever I could. Couldn’t get to as many talks as I wanted, but I did manage to catch a few good talks on MySQL admin and node.js.

Just a little under 500 photos to weed through, process and then upload. Could take a while to get to.

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Southeast Linuxfest 2013

The 5th incarnation of Southeast Linuxfest is just a couple months away. It’s going to be in the same location as last year (Charlotte, NC) June 7-9.

As usual, SELF 2013 is free to attend, but there’s also the $65 supporter registration which gets you a sweet SELF shirt, lunch, a warm fuzzy feeling and the undying gratitude of the organizers.

Past Southeast Linuxfests have been a great time with lots of great talks, and one heck of a party. I don’t expect it to be any different this year.

In addition to the regular SELF talks and activities, there are a number of affiliated events happening alongside SELF:

For anybody interested in getting their amateur radio license, a testing session is also being planned.

Make your plans now to come to SELF 2013!

Southeast Linuxfest 2013