All times are in the U.S. Eastern time zone and subject to change. Activities will take place in the Dreese Laboratories building on the Ohio State University campus except where otherwise noted.
Friday, November 20
Check-in for the conference will begin at 9:00am in the lobby of Dreese Laboratories. Please register in advance – this helps us plan. Walk-in registration will cost an extra $10, except for students. If you pre-ordered a t-shirt for delivery at the conference, you can pick it up.
Also in the lobby starting at 9:00am will be demo tables. These will include:
- Hardware from Project Cauã by Jon ‘maddog’ Hall
- Linux gaming with the OLF team
- OSU Open Source Club with how Linux is used at the university
| Time | OSU Faculty Presentations – Dreese 113 |
|---|---|
| 5:00pm | Observations on 20 Years of Open-Source Innovation – Alex Bandar |
| 6:00pm | The AI Security Paradox: Why the Basics Matter More than Ever – Roland Kreml |
| 7:00pm | STEMcoding: Ohio’s Open Source-Powered YouTube Channel – Chris Orban |
Birds of a Feather sessions will also take place from 6:00 to 8:00pm on the 2nd floor of Dreese. More details to come.
A welcome pizza party will be held starting at 8:15pm at The O on Lane at 352 W. Lane Ave. Come socialize with the people who make OLF what it is!
Saturday, November 21
If you did not check in on Friday, you can do so starting at 8:30am in the lobby of Dreese Laboratories. Please register in advance – this helps us plan. Walk-in registration will cost an extra $10, except for students. If you pre-ordered a t-shirt for delivery at the conference, you can pick it up.
| Time | Auditorium – Dreese 113 | Classroom – Dreese 264 |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am | Keynote: You’d Better Start Believing in Supply Chains—You’re in One – Ben Cotton | |
| 10:00am | A Cluster of HAppiness: Ensure Resilience with Pacemaker – Don Vosburg | Securing Your AI Agents with Open-Source Sandboxing on Linux – Liang Yan |
| 10:30am | One Config, Any Machine – Jeffery R Muter | |
| 11:00am | Introduction to Fedora Hummingbird and Red Hat Hardened Images – Scott McCarty | Stop Reinstalling Linux: Treat Your Homelab Like Infrastructure – Danny Meeks |
| 11:30am | Basix Linux and Practical Modularity – Kristopher Early | |
| 12:00pm | Break | |
| 1:00pm | From Code to Leadership: Navigating the Tech Landscape as a Woman – Shannon Ryan | You’ve Probably Never Heard of the Reticulum Network – Guy Royse |
| 2:00pm | Open-Source EDA on Linux: Designing a Microcapacitor Test Vehicle – Terry Howald | Revitalizing Silicon: Lessons from the First U.S. Linux Repair Café – Tim Tucker |
| 2:30pm | A Developer’s Guide to Leaving Microsoft SQL Server for MariaDB – Brandon Kessell | |
| 3:00pm | Keeping Puppet Open: The OpenVox Story – Steven Pritchard | Using Proxmox in Your Home Lab – Mike Kwiatkowski |
| 4:00pm | The Digital PDP-11 and the Origins of Linux – Dwain Sims | DJ-BSD: DJing and Music Production on FreeBSD – Charlie Li |
| 5:00pm | Legacy to Modern: Exploring The FOG Project’s New UI – Doug Hampton and Silas Bills | Acme: The Old IDE You Never Heard Of, But Should Have – Mat Kovach |
| 6:00pm | Keynote: No One Ever Buys a Computer – Jon ‘maddog’ Hall | |
| 7:00pm | Closing Remarks | |
The afterparty, including nachos, cake, and a cash bar, will run from 8:00 to 10:00pm at The Blackwell Inn, a short walk from Dreese on the OSU campus.