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SCALE 9x lifts off on Saturday; Leigh Honeywell kicks off Day 2 as attendance numbers rise

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The 9th annual Southern California Linux Expo started its second day on Saturday with a keynote by Leigh Honeywell as the attendance numbers showed a significant increase over last year. Honeywell, who spoke on the topic “Hackerspaces and Free Software,” headlined a wide variety of sessions that included a standing-room only crowd for Owen De Long’s “IPv6 Basics for Linux Adminstrators” and various education-related talks in the Open Source Software in Education (OSSIE) track.

LOS ANGELES -- The 9th annual Southern California Linux Expo started its second day on Saturday with a keynote by Leigh Honeywell as the attendance numbers showed a significant increase over last year.

Honeywell, who spoke on the topic “Hackerspaces and Free Software,” headlined a wide variety of sessions that included a standing-room only crowd for Owen De Long’s “IPv6 Basics for Linux Adminstrators” and various education-related talks in the Open Source Software in Education (OSSIE) track.

Attendance figures for the show are up from last year, according to SCALE 9X staff. According to SCALE 9X chair Ilan Rabinovitch, last year’s show in 2010 had more than 1,300 registrants attend by Saturday. This year, SCALE 9X has had nearly 1,600 attendees get badges for the show, with 300 paid tickets still outstanding.

The day wrapped up with a conference reception and the “The World’s Weakest Geek” competition.

For those who attended talks on Saturday, SCALE 9X would like to know what you thought of them. Please consider filling out the SCALE speaker survey at http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/speaker_survey/

Sunday’s SCALE 9X kicks off with Jane Silber’s keynote on ‘Cloud for Human Beings’ at 10 a.m. in the La Jolla room, for those of you at the show. For those who cannot attend, the keynote will be streamed live. To watch the keynote, visit http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/event/all?q=socallinuxexpo

The other sessions on Saturday will be streamed live by ConferenceByWire, a video-conferencing and video content distribution solution that brings live and on-demand conferences and conventions directly to one's computer.

Non-keynote sessions will be streamed at http://swarm.conferencebywire.com/web/guest/conference-page?...

SCALE 9X is being held at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel from Feb. 25-27, and registration is still open. Visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org for details.

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Comments (2)

"Standing Room Only" Way to go Owen!

Bob_Robertson ·
If anyone sees a video of Owen's talk, please let me know. Owen's an old friend (and coworker) who was the first person to mention "Linux" to me.

For that, if nothing else, I owe an unpayable debt of gratitude.

Good conference

herzeleid ·
I've been to the last several SCALE conferences, but this year I saw more companies looking for Linux talent than ever before. It's encouraging to see that the demand for good Linux skills is growing.

On Friday I attended a workshop on quickly, and realized that PyGTK would be a good way to get back into coding - even though I have a CS degree, and even though I've been working as a sysadmin for years, I haven't programmed anything other than some perl and shell scripts ever since I graduated, so it's high time.

I always buy books at scale, and this last weekend I picked up a book on python from O'Reilly, a new perl book from the perl mongers booth, and a book on postgres 9 performance tuning which was recommended by the postgres folks. Now, to get around to reading them and doing some practical stuff as a result.

I had a chance to take a closer look at tiny core linux - not knowing any better, I'd assumed it was just another minimalist distro, cut down from some existing distro - but no, it was engineered from the ground up for efficiency, using the linux kernel, busybox and fltk graphics. I was impressed, and now I'll have to think of a way to use it for a project.

Just curious, anyone here live in the OC of SoCal? If so, do you know of good local linux/lamp/postgres interest groups?

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