We are rapidly approaching our eleventh annual gathering. After three years of being fully virtual, for 2023 we will have a hybrid in-person/virtual format, with remote participation options throughout the conference. During this time of transition, we are directing additional care towards becoming more inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible (IDEA).
The SeaGL team has seen a lot of people carve out niches for themselves when they don’t feel welcome in the broader tech community. We hope to provide underrepresented groups a place where they have the community’s full support to get involved. To this end, SeaGL would like to extend an open invitation to all folks join us for knowledge sharing and mutual learning. We’d especially like to bring in people who care about these issues and are open to working with us to improve the state—not only of SeaGL—but of the free/libre/open source ecosystem as a whole.
Some ways you can participate:
- attend, in-person or remotely, on Friday and Saturday, November 3rd & 4th
- volunteer, day-of or before the event, by visiting https://seagl.org/get_involved
- spread the word, a personal invitation is always better received and can reach groups that are otherwise unaware
Additionally, if you have access needs or suggestions for things which would make the conference a more comfortable place for you, please submit them to this anonymous form. You will be able to provide contact if you’d like us to reach out about your feedback.
We are also interested in contracting an assessment of our CFP process, community spaces, etc., and would love to hear any recommendations that you may have for doing this.
Once again, if there’s anyone else that you think might be interested, please pass this message along. We’d love to have as many people as possible from around the tech community join us this November and beyond.
Note that if you are planning on attending in-person, we have released a new health and safety policy which will apply at the event. We’d like to thank the Public Health Pledge for their leadership in encouraging conferences to have health and safety policies!
Regards,
The SeaGL 2023 IDEA committee
Greetings to the SeaGL community! Our list of presentations for next month is finally here. Per usual, there may be some small adjustments, but this should give everyone a good idea of what they’ll really really want to attend.
See you in-person or virtually on Friday and Saturday, November 3rd & 4th! As always, SeaGL is completely free to attend and no registration is required. We’d also love for you to get involved as a volunteer.
As a reminder, all speakers, sponsors, volunteers, staff, and anyone else involved in SeaGL are required to abide by the Code of Conduct and any in-person attendees must abide by the Health and Safety Policy.
Schedule: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2023/schedule
Keynotes
- Deb Nicholson
- Hong Phuc Dang
- Kaylea Champion
- Sri Ramkrishna
Talks
(listed alphabetically by speaker’s given name)
Hello FLO (free/libre/open) friends! With the return to in-person activities this year, we are looking to expand our all-volunteer conference committees with new volunteers for SeaGL 2023 - and a chairperson to help recruit these volunteers. Think you might be a good fit or have a friend to put forward? You’re in the right place!
As an all-volunteer staff, there aren’t enough of us to run an entire conference by ourselves. For example, we need people to help answer questions and run the video streams too. As the event is rapidly approaching, we are therefore actively seeking someone to coordinate our at-event volunteers! This person would:
- work with the other committee chairs to create a list of what areas need volunteers
- create a list of how many volunteers are needed for each area
- update materials for volunteers, training and reference
- schedule volunteer trainings
- recruit volunteers, pre-event and on-site
- on-board new volunteers, especially to the Matrix space
- attend all staff meetings to update and coordinate with other committee chairs
Aside from that, we have plenty of things to do, especially related to the Attendee Experience, IDEA, and Promotion/Outreach committees - let us know if any of these areas sound interesting to you. And of course if you want to sign up to be an at-event volunteer, we’d love that too!
If you’d like more info, please reach out to us on Matrix or send an e-mail to participate@seagl.org. We also welcome you to fill out this volunteer application form. However you get ahold of us, we’ll try to respond within 48 hours.
Thank you for reading, and we hope that you consider becoming an important part of one of the best FLO community conferences!
We are excited to announce that our venue contract has been finalized and we are well into planning the details for this year’s SeaGL conference experience!
Our return to in-person will be taking place at a new venue on the University of Washington Seattle campus in the HUB (Husky Union Building). Within the HUB, we will have an expo hall and lounge space, along with dedicated presentation rooms. This means that there will be different talks, tracks, and experiences to choose from depending on your interests!
As usual, we’re planning a variety of social events, organized and otherwise, to supplement the programming. These include a career expo, tea swap (TeaGL), and more. We’ll also be hosting a Saturday evening participant party (off-site venue TBD) for more socializing once conference presentations are complete.
Travel and wayfinding details about the UW Seattle campus can be found here:
The HUB has the following accessibility and diversity features. If there are additional ones that are important to you, please suggest them in this form and we will see if accommodations can be made:
- ADA ramps and elevators throughout the building
- single stall, all gender, family-friendly, and disability accessible restroom on the 3rd floor
- baby changing and lactation stations
While this year’s event will be in-person, presentations will be streamed and we will strive to include hybrid components for social events so you will also be able to attend online. Please note that the Code of Conduct is enforced in all conference spaces and if you are attending in-person, so is the Health and Safety Policy.
We hope you will join us in November one way or the other!
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