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/

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!

Dates

Between now and March 1, 2024 we will be accepting proposals via the SELF 2024 CFP form.  Speakers who have been selected will be notified in early March.

First time presenting?

We have speaker mentors available to work with anyone who would like help putting together and rehearsing their presentation.

Help make SELF 2024 the best one yet!

SELF 2024 will be June 7-9, 2024 at the Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel in Charlotte, NC.

Registration is now open for SELF 2023, June 9-11, 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 food trucks this year are: The Hog N Dog, Sprinkles, and Asian B On Wheels.

Our theme this year is FOSSbusters, a riff on Ghostbusters. Yes, there will be people cosplaying Ghostbusters. And at least one ECTO-like vehicle.

Are you troubled by strange alerts in the middle of the night? Do you experience feelings of dread in your datacenter or homelab? Have you or any of your family seen a kernel panic, zero day, or old .NET code? If the answer is yes then don’t wait another minute. Pick up your phone and call the professionals: FOSSbusters. Our courtious and efficient code is on call 24 hours a day to serve all of your technology remediation needs. We’re ready to relieve you!

SELF 2023 is go for June 9-11. Our theme this year is a parody take on Ghostbusters. We’re pleased to announce our Call For Speakers, Call For Sponsors, and hotel room block are now open. We’ll be aggressive with early speaker acceptance again this year, so get those talk submissions in early. Please be sure to read our About Us page, as it has been overhauled. Confirmed major parts of SELF 2023:

• LAN Party
• Ham Radio Special Event Station W4L
• FREE Amateur Radio License Exams
• NEW: Attendee Lounge (LAN Party, Tabletop gaming, Refreshments, Lockpicking Village)
• Friday and Saturday After Parties featuring the Craft Beer Bottle Share
• Geeks With Guns (Non-Free)

By popular request this year we are adding an Individual Sponsorship option for some of our biggest supporters and fans. For $500 you get all the benefits of a speaker including two tickets to the catered speaker BBQ dinner, access to the hospitality suite with 24/7 food and refreshments, thank you in the program guide, t-shirt, and stickers.

Registration will open 5/16. Join our low traffic announce only mailing list to be notified as soon as that happens.

Registration is open! (If you’re a speaker, sponsor, or volunteer, look for an email containing your coupon code by Monday morning, 6/6.)

Here is the schedule for SELF 2022 in full. Note the new for 2022 addition of a lock picking village. Bring your own picks! We welcome donations of locks you have laying around to be added to the village in perpetuity. We have a variety of lock types, cores, and security levels. A simple pick and turning tool will be sufficient for most of the locks we have. Though a few higher security locks will require disc detainer picks or dimple flag picks.