BELUG [GSLUG-announce] SeaGL 2024 is a week away! **November 8th and 9th** (fwd)

[Steve Herber]

Steve Herber her...@herber.us cell: 425-281-0355
Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services

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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 17:57:13 -0700
From: Wm Salt Hale <alt...@gmail.com>
To: GSLUG <gslug-a...@gslug.org>, GSLUG <gslug-...@gslug.org>
Subject: [GSLUG-announce] SeaGL 2024 is a week away! **November 8th and 9th**

Greetings,

The 12th annual SeaGL (the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference) is just a
week away! It will be held from 9am to 5pm on **Friday and Saturday**,
November 8th and 9th.

We'll be _hybrid_ again this year, so folks are welcome to attend
either online or in person. The in person event will be held at
University of Washington's Husky Union Building (HUB). Details for
attending, whether online or at the HUB, can be found on our website
at https://seagl.org/attend

Per usual, SeaGL can be attended anonymously and at no cost;
registration is not required, so please show up if your schedule
allows. We have an [amazing program] this year, including 4 keynotes
and 45 sessions, along with social events such as TeaGL and
Presentation Roulette.

As a reminder, everyone involved with SeaGL is required to follow our
[Code of Conduct], and in-person attendees must follow our [Health and
Safety Policy]. We will have masks freely available at the event in
support of this, but encourage attendees to bring their own.

Also per usual, we are looking for volunteers to help make the event a
success. Here are some of the positions we're looking for assistance
with:

- **Room Monitors:** introduce speakers (with their permission),
perform room head counts, make sure speakers have everything they
need, and ensure sessions run smoothly and finish on time.
- **Sign-Wranglers:** post up and take down signs, in and around the venue.
- **Refreshment Aides:** help with the set up, tear down, and clean up
of coffee and tea breaks.
- **Information Attendants:** register attendees (if they want),
check-in speakers and exhibitors, hand out programs, and provide
directions and answers to questions.
- **Virtual Hosts:** keep an eye on the Matrix channels, identify
content in need of moderation, and reach out to in-person staff as
needed.

You can sign up to help in-person or virtually through this [volunteer
form], or you can get in touch with us via [Matrix or email].

Moving on, we'd be remiss if we didn't thank [our sponsors] - it
simply wouldn't be possible to put on the event without them. (Though
we could certainly always use more, so if you know a person or company
who would be interested in sponsoring, please forward them our
[sponsor prospectus].)

Finally, if you'd like, please spread the word about SeaGL. We are on
[Mastodon] and other [less-open] [social] [networks], and have been
making use of the hashtag `#SeaGL2024`.

I can't emphasize enough how excited the organizing team is to see you
all again. The entire volunteer staff has worked incredibly hard to
make this year's SeaGL an awesome event, both online and in person,
and you - our community - are what make it all worthwhile. We hope
you'll consider joining us next Friday and Saturday!


~ Salt and the SeaGL 2024 organizing committee

[amazing program]:
https://seagl.org/news/2024/10/16/Conference-Schedule-Released
[Code of Conduct]: https://seagl.org/coc
[Health and Safety Policy]: https://seagl.org/health
[volunteer form]: https://seagl.org/volunteer
[Matrix or email]: https://seagl.org/get_involved#volunteer-for-seagl
[our sponsors]: https://seagl.org/sponsors/2024
[sponsor prospectus]:
https://seagl.org/sponsors/SeaGL_Partnership_Sponsor_Prospectus_2024.pdf
[mastodon]: https://mastodon.social/@SeaGL
[less-open]: https://twitter.com/seagl
[social]: https://www.facebook.com/events/934113148513138/
[networks]: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7206788446995034112/


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Wm Salt Hale (he/him)
SeaGL Impresario

Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
November 8 & 9, 2024
https://SeaGL.org

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