Spacewalk 2026 will kick off ATO’s year with a slate of AI‑focused talks in Raleigh -- and organizers say open source will still be woven through the entire evening.
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The ATO 2025 conference may be in the books, but the organization has more events planned before year’s end—and new events are already on its 2026 dance card.
With All Thing Open set to launch a new major AI event in March, it's no surprised that the monthly Meetup's are AI-focused.
At 2025's Southern California Linux Fest there will be at least eight colocated open source focused events in addition to the main attraction.
There's more to All Things Open than the single annual conference. Here's a look at all of the open-source events that ATO plans to stage in the Raleigh area in 2025.
Details are scarce, but All Things Open is planning to hold a special All Things Open AI conference in March. The two-day event will be held in Durham, North Carolina, about 30 miles from ATO's home venue.
Open Source 101 is an all day world-class introduction to open source for only $10 -- and the price includes lunch. Where's the profit in that?
Walking through the noisy between sessions crowd, I asked Charley Rich (not the dead country singer, he assured me) if he’d been at All Things Open last year. He hadn’t. Rich had rented a booth at the conference and had come down from Long Island to unveil his new SaaS product, jKool. We were looking for a reasonably quiet place where we could sit for an interview.
I pointed out that ATO was only in its second year. “Last year it was really good,” I said. “This year is even better.”
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I’d been saying that all day, since about an hour or so after I arrived for day one of ATO’s second go. I’m not being paid to shill for the event or anything like that — I’m just truly impressed.
Of course, some may think that I impress much too easily.
Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
I spent the summer of ’67, the Summer of Love, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Although the hippie thing hadn’t yet made it there, the city was still cool and somewhat hip, even though at first glance it appeared to be little more than just another sleepy southern capital, flush with tobacco money and not quite sure about the end of state-sanctioned segregation, which was just getting underway. Nearly fifty years later, Raleigh still has cool cred, although time has changed it greatly.
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Last year I returned to Raleigh for pretty much the first time since the sixties to attend All Things Open (ATO) and saw hardly any evidence of the city I’d known nearly a half century ago. That was okay — time marches on. What I saw was vibrant and moderately hip, in a nerdy, geeky sort of way. I was conferencing, so I expected to see the city’s geek side — which I did in spades. So much so that I began to get the idea that Raleigh had morphed into something of an open source Silicon Valley.
Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
This year IT-oLogy, the organization behind the annual POSSCON conference in Columbia, South Carolina, cancelled the event in order to focus on launching the Great Wide Open (GWO) conference in Atlanta. At the time, some expressed fear that this might signal the end of the Palmetto State event, that Great Wide Open actually meant a move and new name for the conference. At the same time, others were speculating that GWO would be a one-off event, essentially making it a one year move by POSSCON to Atlanta, which would then return to its native home in Columbia, which is where IT-oLogy is headquartered.
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