June 13-15, 2025
Sheraton Charlotte Airport
Charlotte, NC

Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel

 

SELF 2025 Date Correction

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

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2025 Dates

SELF 2025 will be at June 6-8, 2025 at the Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel. The date has been changed to June 13-15, 2025.

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Exciting Lunch Options

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

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2024 Registration and schedule

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/

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SELF 2024 Call For Participation

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!

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SELF 2024: Save the Date

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

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SELF 2023: Registration Open

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.

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SELF 2023: I Aint Afraid of No Bug

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.

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SELF 2022: Registration Open, Schedule Release

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.

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SELF 2022: Coming Down The Home Stretch

  • In addition to our earlier early talk approvals, we’ve released another batch of early talk approvals. It will take us until Noon Monday to read and go through the submissions that are in, so call for speakers has been extended until Noon Monday ET, 5/23. You have just hours left to get your talks in! Click here to submit.
  • We had added more rooms into our room block. Our room rate discount with free WiFi expires 5/24. Get what is left of the rooms before they run out or get more expensive! Click here to book.
  • If you would like to volunteer (volunteers typically help at registration or with room moderation during talks), please contact us here. If you’ve filled that form out to volunteer, we’ll be contacting you this week for details.
  • For those interested in sponsorship or having a booth for their .edu/.org, here is our sponsor prospectus. Some sponsorship levels are almost gone: We are down to two Gold sponsorships left available, 1 Silver sponsorship left available, and several Bronze sponsorships available. The T-Shirt and WiFi sponsorships have also been claimed. One evening party sponsorship is still available. Email [email protected] for sponsorship inquiries.
  • Registration will open along with publication of our draft schedule this week!

Confirmed Special/Other Events at SELF 2022 at this time:
– LAN Party (Friday through Sunday)
– Retro Linux Ragchew (Saturday night)
– Craft Beer Bottle Share (Friday/Saturday night… if sponsored, open to all. If not sponsored, to get in you must be a speaker, sponsor, volunteer, supporting attendee, or have brought some to share. Sealed cans and bottles only please!)
– Ham radio special event station W4L (Fri-Sun/we send QSL cards!)
– FREE ham radio license testing (Saturday night)
– GPG key signing (Saturday night)
– Geeks With Guns (Friday night/Held at Blackstone Shooting Sports indoor range)
– /dev/random Track (Non-FOSS content still of interest to geeks … past talks include building your own house and the Battle of Jutland)
– Onion Futures Market Track (Non-FOSS content focused on high level intellectual discourse and self-improvement and where free speech is encouraged)
– We will once again have Birds of a Feather (BoF) rooms with full A/V kit for impromptu loosely scheduled talks/breakouts. First come first serve on time slots, sign up / see the schedule at registration.

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