Special events
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The UpSCALE talks are held in the style of the Ignite presentations made popular by various O'Reilly sponsored events. Participants are given five minutes to speak on a subject accompanied by 20 automatically-advanced slides, making this a fast paced, fun event for participants and audience....
Join us for snacks, games, and fun at Game Night. Laser Tag? Check! Video Games? Check! Pool? Check! Board Games? Check! Deadly Nerf Weaponry? Of Course!
This year's special Tenth Anniversary Celebration includes several unique activities:
- History of Nintendo...
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Please join OpenStack at SCALE 10x for the first community sponsored Happy Hour of 2012! Stop by Friday night at 7pm for free drinks, food, pool tables, and of course OpenStack t-shirts!
To join us RSVP online
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Got a passion you'd like to share? Have a community you'd like to connect with? Want some open discussion on a topic?
If so, create or join a BoF session on either Friday or Saturday night at SCaLE 10x. The BoFs will be Friday and Saturday nights, January 20th and 21st. The first start at...
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The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) is pleased to offer the BSDA certification exam to attendees of SCALE 10X.
The exam will be paper based and in English. Exam information is available from the Certification page of the...
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The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at SCALE 10x (Los Angeles, California: January 22, 2012...
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SCALE and the MySQL are excited to bring our joint communities a full day track covering MySQL content. This event will be held January 20, 2012 at the LAX Hilton. Sessions will cover topics across the MySQL ecosystem including MySQL, MariaDB, SkySQL, and other variants.
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juju Charm School is an event where a juju expert is available to answer questions about writing your own juju charms. The intended audience are people who deploy software and want to contribute charms to the wider devops community to make deploying in the public and private cloud easy.
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Build a Cloud Day will be dedicated to teaching users how to build and manage a cloud computing environment using free and open source software. The program is...
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Mongo Los Angeles is an annual one-day conference in Los Angeles, CA dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB. For more information and to submit a talk ...
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There are many opportunities to use Open Source Software in Education. Come see what's available! The 5th Annual Open Source Software in Education conference will be held on January 21 and 22, 2012 at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton.
The regular OSSIE schedule holds for January 21, and on...
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Many free and open source projects have had success with mentoring programs used to educate people in how to participate in their particular project. To support these great efforts, SCALE is adding another event to the already impressive list of Friday activities. The "FOSS Mentoring" event...
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PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux,...
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The Fedora Project hosts its annual Fedora Activity Day at SCALE 10x on Friday, January 20, beginning at 10 a.m.
Fedora Activity Day will focus on building community resources to educate Fedora community members about System Administration. This study session is to help those pursuing...
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The SCALE University training program continues for SCALE 10X, expanding to include additional training partners. The classes give a more intense and personal learning experience than a 45-minute seminar. This year courses will be provided by instructors from Puppet Labs, LOPSA, and the Linux...
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This class is full! If you'd like to be put on a waiting list in case of vacancies, send an email to info@socallinuxexpo.org.
SCALE is proud to present their first ever Linux Beginner training class! It's...
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UbuCon will return to SCALE 10X and will be held Friday, January 20, prior to the main Expo in the Los Angeles A room.
Part unconference, part scheduled sessions, the SCALE 10x UbuCon will cover what is going on within the Ubuntu community and how to improve the community.
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DevOps Day LA is a full day event targeted at development and operations IT professionals, who wish to improve the interaction between these traditional silos. As IT projects grow in complexity it is critical for development and operations teams to collaborate and work together more closely in...
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For the first time ever the Southern California Linux Expo will host SCALE: The Next Generation. It will be an event where the free & open source community leaders of tomorrow will be able to spotlight their talents and ideas!
The goal of conference is to be as "youth driven" as...