Below there is an excerpt from one of the organizers of Texas Linux Fest. They are explicitly interested in Wikimedia participants / speakers. If you have a proposal for a session, please consider submitting it. Also remember that we have https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS for sponsoring travel costs in this type of situations. All the better if you are already in North America. :)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Nate Willis here; amongst my other project pastimes, I'm one of the organizers of Texas Linux Fest, which is the leading community Linux-and-FOSS conference for Texas and the surrounding region.

Our event is July 8th and 9th this year, in downtown Austin, TX. We'd really love it if folks from the WikiMedia project & surrounding community can be there—be they local or from out of town.

I especially wanted to draw your attention to our call for participation. We're intent on attracting a wide variety of speakers representing open source and free software, both users and developers, from all corners. The details are here:

http://2016.texaslinuxfest.org/call-for-papers

and the deadline is approaching.

Please consider submitting a talk proposal yourself, and we would doubly love it if you could help us spread the word by sharing the CFP with others in the community!

If you have any questions, or if you want to know more about Texas Linux Fest this year or in general, please get in touch!

Thanks, from me and on behalf of the entire TXLF 2016 team, Nate