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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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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
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Southeast Linuxfest 2012 in the bag

Another successful Southeast Linuxfest wrapped up yesterday. Came back with a little over 450 photos to go through which dropped to around 410 after a quick first pass.

Saw a fair number of people go through the conference and a bunch of familiar faces. This year ended up pretty database heavy as far as topics went and I managed to catch a fair number of good talks. Learned a few things about MySQL DBA, much of which I will probably never need, but there were some handy little nuggets to learn.

SELF stretched over three full days this year in a new venue which I think worked out pretty well. Aside from Time-Warner Cable not being able to provide the Internet service as originally promised, the rest of the meeting seemed to go pretty smoothly. Instead, this was where the Internets came from.

SELF 2012 Internet source

I spent most of it wandering around taking photos (in an “official” capacity this time), sitting in sessions and manning video cameras. Seemed like a pretty sizable crowd this year, with some early estimates putting numbers at around 500 people or so. Pretty respectable I think.

The Charlotte DrupalCamp put on by CharDUG went off pretty well with a good turnout. With three tracks, there was a little bit for everybody.

Already looking forward to next year’s SELF, June 7-9 at the same location.

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Southeast Linuxfest: T-2 days

Two days left until another Southeast Linuxfest!

There’s a lot of stuff packed into this year’s SELF and it should be a fun time.

I’ll be hitting the road for Charlotte tomorrow to help with getting things set up. This year I’ve been given the Official Photographer duties so my new Speedlite will get its first real workout.

There is also an official SELF ham radio frequency, 147.555, and the 6600 Net on 145.190 at 9PM Saturday. I have no idea what the 6600 Net is, but with my new call sign I’m hoping to find out.

There will also be ham radio licensing tests given at SELF this year, on Saturday I think. I’m planning on trying for Extra again, but I’m not sure I’ll be much more prepared for it this time than I was last Saturday. There’s still much reading left to do. Well, I still have 3 days left.