If you've ever downloaded FOSS software for use on your hardware, there a good chance that it came from the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL). The lab hosts a wide variety of FOSS projects, and the director of OSUOSL, Lance Albertson, took some time with the SCALE Team to talk about his presentation, "Ten Years of FOSS Hosting at the OSU Open Source Lab" on Sautrday, Feb. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in room Los Angeles C.

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Joe Brockmeier's long and varied history in open source projects is well known in FOSS circles. Currently, he's the open source evangelist for Citrix and committer on the Apache CloudStack project, and he served as the openSUSE community manager as well as a long-time FOSS journalist. Joe will speak at SCALE 11X this year on "Taking the Open Cloud to 11 with CloudStack" on Sunday, Feb. 24, at 11:30 a.m. in the LaJolla room. The SCALE Team caught up with Joe for this brief interview.

Free software advocate Deb Nicholson returns to the Southern California Linux Expo for SCALE 11X to give the talk "Software Patents: Who's Behind the Curtain?" on Saturday, Feb. 23, at 11:30 a.m. in room Los Angeles A. Welcoming the change in the weather in Los Angeles in February from her native Boston, Deb is a long-time SCALE attendee and gives the SCALE Team a few minutes in this interview.

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Red Hat's Thomas Cameron will be at SCALE 11X this year, giving the presentation "Packaging Software for Non-Programmers" on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in room Los Angeles B. The SCALE Team got to ask Thomas a few questions about his presentation.

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Brandon Burton (Mozilla Web Ops) interviews John Willis (VP of Customer Service and Enablement at Enstratus) about his upcoming talk on Promise Theory for Dummies at the DevOps Day LA track of SCaLE 11x, they talk about science, Deming, devops, culture, and what they're excited about for SCALE 11x.

ACT USA founder Stuart Sheldon has been "the man behind the curtain" as tech director for the Southern California Linux Expo from early in the expo's history. For SCALE 11X, Stuart will leave the top-secret SCALE Operations Bunker deep in the bowels of the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel -- OK, it's a room on the same floor as the rest of the expo's presentations -- to give the talk "Linux as an IPv6 Dual Stack Firewall" on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 3 p.m. in the Los Angeles B room.

Fedora Project Leader Robyn Bergeron took some time to talk to the SCALE Team about her talk, "Managing the Release and Life Cycle of an Open Source Software Project in a Community," which will be given on Friday, Feb. 22, at 3 p.m. in the Los Angeles C room. Robyn shares with us a background of the talk and her view of SCALE.

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By Eric Van Johnson

Mark Hinkle works for Citrix as the Senior Director of Cloud Computing and will be speaking a couple times at SCALE11X. We had some time to talk to Mark about his talk at SCALE11X, Open Source, and Cloud. Read on for more information.

Tech documentation writer Bob Reselman will give a talk entitled "How to Make Technical Documentation Work in Your Organization" at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24, in the LaJolla Room. The SCALE Team caught up with Bob for a brief interview.
 
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