SCALE Gears Up!

SCALE will again be at the Westin LAX hotel. SCALE has reserved more of the hotel resources for SCALE 6X which will help address some of the seminar crowding issues that arose during S5X (success is a nice problem to have).

Over the last two SCALEs, the Expo has expanded to included specialized conferences on the Friday prior to SCALE. The Expo will "expand upon the expansion" for SCALE 6x:

• The Women in Open Source conference will return for its second year;
• The health care conference, now knows as DOHCS - Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Systems, returns for a second time. Last year DOHCS was a single track. For SCALE 6X, DOHCS splits into two tracks, a technical track and a business track.
• And newly added for SCALE 6X is a Friday conference on education: "Open Source in Education" which focuses on opportunities for Open Source in the field of education .

All of the calls are now open for submittals. For SCALE 4X and 5X the speaker slots filled rapidly; we anticipate the same for SCALE 6X. So if you're considering speaking, don't delay submitting your proposal. Submittal info for each conference can be found on their respective CFP pages.

If your organization or company is considering a booth on the SCALE Expo floor, be advised that we no more booths than last year, and last year they went quickly. If you want to ensure that you have a booth reserved, apply for one NOW. If you're a commercial entity, apply at: sponsorship@socallinuxexpo.org . If you're a non-profit, complete the applicaton form at http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/documents/scale6x_dotO... and send it to gareth@socallinuxexpo.org

The second SCALE IRC chat will be September 16th, at 7:00 pm PST. It will be held in the #scale-chat channel of OFTC (irc.oftc.net). If you have questions or comments about SCALE, feel free to join us.

SCALE 6X looks to be even better than S5X; mark your calendar - be in Los Angeles February 8th-10th, 2008!

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