Special events

By popular demand, returning for the third year, SCALE is offering amateur radio, or HAM license exams. The exams will be held on 10 March, Sunday, walk-in's welcome. You will need to bring a Government issued photo-id, an...

Join your fellow SCaLE attendees for drinks, games, food and fun at our Game Night reception on Saturday!

 

Casino Night

Beat the odds and enjoy gambling fun with our Casino Night theme this year.  We have Poker, Blackjack, Roulette, and Craps. Join us for...

Master new cyber security skills at our three-day SCaLE 18x Capture The Flag competition.  Whether you're a beginner who's never tried a CTF before, an experienced competitor looking for an energizing challenge, or a professional who just wants to have fun, this event is for you.  This year we...

SCALE: The Next Generation a youth focused STEM event will return to Pasadena on March 7, 2020. This is an event where the free & open source community leaders of tomorrow will be able to spotlight their ideas, projects and talents! This year's program will include sessions on everything...

Join us on Friday afternoon to learn about the GitLab community and GitLab’s DevOps stages. GitLab's Community Relations team will provide an overview of our programs and resources available to the wider community. There will also be a hands-on workshop on how everyone can contribute to GitLab....

SCALE will once again host a PGP Keysigning Party on Friday evening! All the details are below.

RaiseMe

SCALE is joining forces this year with Linuxfests' own RaiseMe volunteer team to create the first ever Career Day for our community.  This event is not just for job hunters, it is also for established professionals who want to make the most out of the roles they...

 

UpSCALE is a set of lightening talks held at SCALE in partnership with OpenSource.com, in the style of Ignite presentations. Speakers will get 5 minutes to enlighten the audience. Slides will auto-advance while chosen speakers deliver their...

This year at SCALE 18x, the ALE team is presenting offer set of tutorials focused on helping you get up and running a building embedded systems using Linux.

The Embedded Apprentice Linux Engineer program, is a tutorial...

PostgreSQL @ SCaLE is a two day, two track event which takes place on March 5-6, 2020, at Pasadena Convention Center, ahead of SCALE 18x. PostgreSQL @ SCaLE will present talks designed for a general audience of web developers, sysadmins, DBAs and open source users. Talks will have significant...

We are proud to announce 10th Annual DevOps Day LA, will be held Friday, March 6, 2020. Venue space for DevOpsDay is kindly donated to our community by SCALE 18x team.

DevOps...

FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as “Berkeley Unix.” It’s known for its reliability, stability, and advanced networking and performance. Join us for a full day workshop that will teach you how to...

Have a passion you'd like to share? Is there a community you want to connect with at SCaLE? Want some open discussion on a topic?

If so, create or join a BoF as SCaLE 18x continues the tradition of providing space for groups to meet and discuss their common interests.

BoFs will run...

The Bad Voltage team return for their fifth show at SCALE which brings their fun, irreverent, tech show which is always a hit with SCALE audiences. The usual irreverent Bad Voltage style will be in full form with discussion and debate about Linux and Open...

Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is the global certification standard and career support organization for open source professionals. With more than 175,000 certification holders, it's the world’s first and largest vendor-neutral Linux and open source...