Our friends at the Utah Open Source Conference are organizing a great community event at the Salt Lake City Community College this October. They have an amazing speaker line up with over 50 presentations, workshops, and tutorials. (schedule). Keynotes will include a frequent SCALE speaker Stormy Peters, Adobe’s Dave McAllister, and Daren Brabham.

Other special events taking place at UTOSC are Ignite Salt Lake City, Fedora Activity Day, Try It Lab, and even a board game night.

The third annual Utah Open Source Conference is being held October 8, 9 and 10. For more information, please their website at http://2009.utosc.com/ or register online. Past SCALE attendees can receive a 50% discount on registration by use the promotional code SCALE.

Mark your calendars,  the dates and venue for the 2010 Southern California Linux Expo have been set.  Our 8th annual event will return to the Westin LAX Hotel on February 19th-21st, 2010.  We look forward to seeing you all there.

Our friends at Usenix asked that we pass along a message about their upcoming event in June.  They have included a discount code bellow for SCALE attendees.

-Ilan

The 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ‘09) will take place June 14-19, 2009, in San Diego, CA.

Join leading researchers and practitioners in San Diego, CA, for 6 full days on the latest systems research and cutting-edge practices, including training by industry experts such as Peter Baer Galvin on Solaris, David N. Blank-Edelman on system administration, and Phil Cox on virtualization.

Starting June 17, technical sessions include invited talks such as the keynote address by James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services; Plenary Closing by David Brin, science fiction author; and the latest systems research in the Refereed Papers track.

Stay competitive and learn ground-breaking practices from researchers from around the globe. Topics include virtualization, Solaris, system administration, security, cloud computing, and more.

SCALE attendees receive a discount! Use SCLATC09 when registering to receive $100 off your registration.

Register by June 1 and save up to $300!
http://www.usenix.org/usenix09/scl