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Wm Salt Hale

👥 4 conferences
🎤 5 talks
📅 Years active: 2016 to 2023
📊 Wikidata: Q122731542

Biography

William Hale, aka Salt, has been using Linux since 1996. He started on Red Hat 2 and currently uses: Debian, Lubuntu, Arch, Chromixium, Kali, Tails, OpenBSD, OpenELEC, pfSense, and Tomato. In 2007, around two years after the Greater Seattle Linux Users Group (GSLUG) had stopped meeting regularly, William got the ball rolling and was lead organizer through 2015. A Seattle local, William graduated from the University of Washington and owns a web development firm as well as an event bartending service.

His focus is on free/libre/open software and culture, information security, and entrepreneurship. Other hobbies include: urban hiking (walking), dancing (east coast swing, folk, blues, tango), windsports (windsurfing, kiteboarding, sailing), boffering, cooking, driving, gaming, programming, public speaking, reading, robotics, skiing, and travel.

Recently, William has embarked on a journey around the world. Beginning with 3-4 months in Western Europe, he will hike/bike/boat to China over the course of 6-8 months. Once there, he intends to work while gaining proficiency in Mandarin for approximately 1 year. Finally, he hopes to take 2-3 months sailing back to America aboard a refurbished junk.

Along the way he will be working as a bartender/mixologist and managing web contracts from abroad. Also, he hopes to attend conferences, conventions, events, and festivals in the fields of infosec, linux, music, and sci-fi/fantasy.

— biography from FOSDEM 2016
https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/speaker/william_hale_salt/

Conferences

4 known conferences

👥 FOSSY 2023 📅 13 Jul 2023

  ðŸŽ¤ IndieWeb 101: owning your content and identity
   15 Jul 2023 show details

👥 DebConf21 📅 24 Aug 2021

  ðŸŽ¤ Calling All FLOSS Founders
   24 Aug 2021 show details
  ðŸŽ¤ Resilience in FLOSS: Do founder decisions impact development activity after crisis events?
   24 Aug 2021 show details

👥 LibrePlanet 2017 📅 25 Mar 2017

  ðŸŽ¤ Contacts to connections: CRM funneling for FLOSS projects
   26 Mar 2017 show details

👥 FOSDEM 2016 📅 30 Jan 2016

  ðŸŽ¤ Snowdrift.coop - sustainable funding for FLO projects
   31 Jan 2016 show details