All Things Open 2026
Find AlmaLinux at booth #79
October 19th and 20th, 2026
Come Find Us at Booth #79
We’re back in Raleigh for All Things Open, and we’d love to see you. Stop by booth #79 (right next to the Keynote room) to meet people who work on AlmaLinux regularly, tell us what you’re running, and ask us anything.
New at our booth
The Certification Station
This year we're bringing a Certification Station to the booth. Bring your laptop, boot it from a provided AlmaLinux live media thumbdrive, and run the certification suite with us. For most systems a certification run takes under 10 minutes.
When the run finishes, you approve the output, submit the results, and after review your hardware will be listed in the AlmaLinux Certification Catalog for everyone. We're announcing the catalog and the rebuilt certification suite in the next few days.
- Bring a machine to booth #79.
- Boot it from AlmaLinux live media.
- Run
alma-certifywith us. - Submit your results and get listed.
Certify From Anywhere
You don’t have to be in Raleigh to help. Community validation is a real part of how the catalog works: when a community member certifies a machine, they run the same suite that we and the hardware vendors run, and every result adds to the confidence in a listing. The more of us that prove something works, the better!
Certify Your Hardware
Boot AlmaLinux live media on the machine and run the certification suite. We're announcing the rebuilt suite in the next few days, with the install command and everything else you need to run it yourself.
Confirm Your Software
If you rely on a piece of software every day, you'll be able to confirm that it works on the AlmaLinux release you run, and report it if it works on a release its publisher hasn't listed yet. Both land with the catalog announcement.
Both days of the conference
Catch benny in Raleigh
benny Vasquez
Chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation
Monday, October 19 at 1:00 pm ET
Fireside Chat with Ruth Suehle
benny is sitting down with Ruth Suehle for a half-hour conversation about what it looks like to lead an open source foundation. It's part of the Women+ in Open Source Forum, held at Transfer Co. Food Hall on the workshop and community day of All Things Open. The Forum has its own registration.
Register for the ForumTuesday, October 20 at 12:00 pm ET
This Sh*t Don't Just Happen: The Invisible Work of Open Source Stewardship
Every time you run dnf update and it works, you're experiencing the end result of dozens of people showing up (voluntarily, consistently, and often invisibly) to build and maintain the infrastructure you depend on. This talk looks at the stewardship work that happens beyond the code, what gets in the way of people contributing, and what you can do to get involved.
Built by people like you
Get Involved
AlmaLinux is built by the community, for the community, and there's room for you whether you write code, test hardware, translate, or help other people find their way. Come by booth #79 and tell us what you're interested in, and we'll point you in the right direction!
See Ways to ContributeFind Your SIG
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are the easiest way to get involved in any open source community. All of ours are listed on the wiki, with how to join their chat channels and when they meet.
Become a Member
Membership in the AlmaLinux OS Foundation is one of the easiest ways to support the work we do here. By showing up and joining, you let us know that you care about what we do. Individual Foundation membership is free. With membership, you get a vote in our annual board election, and the ability to nominate or be nominated.
Can't make it to Raleigh?
We'll miss you, but you can still be part of it. We'll share benny's slides here after the event, you'll be able to certify your own hardware from wherever you are, and the community is always around in chat and on the forums.
