SCALE 12x

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

The SCALE team is pleased to announces that Brendan Gregg has been named the first of two keynote speakers for SCALE 12X, the 12th annual Southern California Linux Expo, in February.

Gregg will speak on “What Linux Can Learn from Solaris Performance, and Vice Versa.”

Guest Post by Phil Dibowitz

We've received a lot questions about the PGP Keysigning Party this year, and I'm happy to report that it is indeed going to happen.

However, your faithful PGP enthusiast is taking a year off. Instead of me standing up and yelling instructions, Aaron Toponce has graciously volunteered to lead this year's event. Aaron has led many PGP keysigning parties and I'm sure he will bring his own unique insights and twist.

Eric Van Johnson returns to the SCALE 12x team, this time interviewing Ron Evans about open-source robotics, as well as his SCALE 12x KidsRuby Workshop and Cylon.JS.