SCALE Days

Submitted by Gareth Greenaway on Tue, 2015-01-13 12:28

With SCALE 13x fast approaching the schedule of events will be online & available very soon.  In the interim we wanted to give everyone a quick update on what to expect at SCALE 13x.  As many of you have noticed we have added an additional day this year, SCALE will begin on Thursday February 19th.  SCALE Thursday will be dedicated to specialty session tracks, these will be similar and in addition to the tracks that have traditionally populated the Friday schedule.  The list and schedule of the Thursday events will be published along with the SCALE 13x schedule.

It's on! SCALE 13x slated for February 2015

SCALE 13x – the 13th annual Southern California Linux Expo – takes place on Feb. 19-22, 2015, at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel. As the first-of-the-year Linux and Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) expo in North America, SCALE 13x expects to host more than 100 exhibitors this year, along with nearly 130 sessions, tutorials, and special events.

Held annually in Los Angeles, SCALE is the largest community-run FOSS conference in North America.

Present! The SCALE 13x Call for Papers runs from Aug. 18 to Dec. 10.

Sponsor! Sponsorship and Non-Profit/Dot-Org exhibitor opportunities are available.

Attend! Registration for SCALE 13x opens on Sept. 17.

Get Involved! Interested in helping to plan and/or to volunteer for SCALE 13x? Get in touch!

A message from Lawrence Lessig

Submitted by Ilan Rabinovitch on Thu, 2014-02-27 11:58




Hello SCALErs:

I was grateful for the chance to present at the SCALE conference last Friday, and especially grateful for the feedback and ideas. If you’d like to share the talk with others, it is CC licensed (surprise surprise!) and available here.

At the end of my talk, I made a pretty strong ask for volunteers who might be willing to lend some of their technical skills to the cause. Appropriately enough, the link that I had provided died earlier in the day, so any offers to help were lost. I am endlessly indebted to the organizers of SCALE for allowing me to make this followup pitch: If you’re willing to help, we (obviously) need it. Just send an email to SCALE@lessig.org with a description of the sort of commitment/skills you can offer, and if helpful, a description of your background.

Thank you again to SCALE and to you. There’s an enormous amount of work to be done, but I am hopeful you will make it much easier!

-Lawrence Lessig

Asking questions at the Sunday keynote

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Sun, 2014-02-23 09:19

 

SCALE 12X, at the request of the speaker, is providing a second way of asking questions of the keynoter during the keynote.

Folks have the option of asking questions during Sunday's SCALE 12X keynote – Leslie Hawthorn's “Why Checking Your Privilege is Good For *You*” -- can be asked via IRC, if one does not wish to ask it publicly.

Those wishing to use the option of asking a question via IRC can sign on to #scale-chat on the OFTC network and ask on this moderated channel.