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title: Ten years of SeaGL
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2022/program/proposals/900
beginning: '2022-11-05T11:30:00.000-07:00'
end: '2022-11-05T12:00:00.000-07:00'
resources:
  internet_archive_identifier: SeaGL2022-Ten_years_of_SeaGL
presenters:
- name: Wm Salt Hale
  affiliation: Snowdrift.coop
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/87
  gravatar_id: 3e18e58f206ab70b6ebd6c8cde5a37c4
  biography: "_/?/ Kilted Globetrotter,  \nFree/Libre/Open Advocate,  \nand Lifelong
    Hacker /?/_\n\nWilliam **Salt** Hale, is a Seattle local who studies Technology
    and Society at the University of Washington (UW) Department of Communication and
    is the Community Director at Snowdrift.coop. He attends, organizes, and speaks
    worldwide at: conferences, conventions, events, festivals, and faires; on various
    topics including: communication, crowdmatching, internet technologies, linux,
    music, sci-fi/fantasy, security, and windsports. Salt is very approachable and
    will always be found wearing a kilt."
- name: Deb Nicholson
  affiliation: SeaGL
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/32
  gravatar_id: ad818bec4900cb3354d2aa536a7bf207
  biography: Deb Nicholson is a free software policy expert and a passionate community
    advocate. She is the General Manager at the Open Source Initiative which stewards
    the Open Source Definition and works to raise awareness and adoption of open source
    software. She is also a founding organizer of the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference,
    an annual event dedicated to surfacing new voices and welcoming new people to
    the free software community. She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat
    in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- name: Rob Smith
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/12
  gravatar_id: f3a5f3841e22dbe2a718d296b181076b
- name: Adam Monsen
  affiliation: SeaGL
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/9
  gravatar_id: '0458eb0a01a197b5ab476c956e243e8d'
  biography: SeaGL founder. Into [FLOSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software).
    Seattleite. [VP Engineering at C-SATS](https://www.csats.com/about-us). Baker,
    biker, father of two.
---

Welcome to the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference! We can hardly believe it's we've made it ten years. Come hear how we got here and where we're going next!
