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
The audio recordings from the presentations at SCALE 7x are finally available. The links for the talks are on the Conference Schedule.
If there’s no link for a session, it either means it wasn’t recorded, or the recording wasn’t usable for some reason.
Enjoy!
At SCALE, we’re always trying new things. Some work, some don’t; some make big impacts, some don’t, but are still worthwhile. In that latter category, we have the SCALE 7x Expo Floor Time Lapse, aka “SCALE 7x - The Movie”
Mike Maki, a member of the Tech Committee, put a camera on top of the Tech Committee booth on the Expo floor. Using an external disk drive and gphoto2, he captured an image of the Expo floor. Starting Thursday night, until the Expo was completely torn down, the camera took a photo every 15 seconds.
Mike has made an MPEG4 movie out of the images, using mencoder and Kino (for titles, etc.) It’s not Gone With the Wind, but it’s worth a view. Pay close attention to how quickly the Expo floor gets torn down (hint - don’t blink) It’s here on Youtube.
Enjoy!
Finishing up our interviews with this year’s Women in Open Source speakers, we had a chance to sit down with Emma McGrattan, SVP of Engineering at Ingres. We had a chance to discuss the world of open source databases as well as many early forms of free and open source software.
- Gareth
Emma: I’m originally from Ireland, and have an Electronic Engineering degree from Dublin City University. I have had a fairly nomadic existence since leaving college back in 1989 and I’ve lived in LA, Dublin, London and New York. I currently live in New York but spend about 50% of my time on the road, pretty much evenly split between Europe and the US. Despite the fact that I haven’t really lived in Dublin since 1989 I get back there every 6-8 weeks and still call Dublin home.
Continuing our discussions with this year’s Women in Open Source speakers, we sat down with Rikki Kite, Associate Publisher and Managing Editor at Linux Pro Magazine. We had a chance to talk about the world of publishing in the open source world as well as the often false assumptions that are often made about people.
- Gareth
Rikki: I dropped out of college at KU and moved to Austin, Texas in January 1991. After taking some time off to enjoy the music scene in Austin, I went back to school and completed my B.A. in English at UT in 1996. I moved back to Kansas the last week of 1996, and have been living in Lawrence and working in publishing since then. Eventually I went back to KU and completed my Master’s in Journalism in 2008.
Continuing our discussions with this year’s Women in Open Source speakers, we sat down with Cathy Malmrose from ZaReason. We had a chance to discuss what it’s like to run a Linux-only hardware company but still support Windows users, as well as discuss ways to encourage young girls into technology and open source.
- Gareth
Cathy: French speaking DJ, elementary teacher, technical writer, ghostwriter, curriculum developer, road warrior, and most prominently a hardware geek.
Gareth: You founded Zareason; what led you to starting the company?
Cathy: I grew up in Microsoft’s back yard, then spent five years in Austin, Texas in a Dell neighborhood making friends and seeing how their company functioned. When we moved to the Silicon Valley area and were surrounded by the top-tier hardware suppliers, the decision was obvious that I would go into Linux hardware. I saw how hard it was to find well-built Linux hardware and I also saw how superior Ubuntu and other distros had become.
Continuing our discussions with this year’s Women in Open Source speakers, we sat down with Sharon Levy, PHP developer and local Southern California FLOSS enthusiast. We had a chance to discuss of the inner workings of PHP Certification as well as the best ways to deal with negative first impressions of the FLOSS community.
- Gareth
Sharon: After attaining a B.A. from UCLA, I subsequently earned a certificate in C/UNIX from UCLA Extension. I made a mid-career transition from being an administrative assistant to becoming a Web Developer, choosing to specialize later as a PHP Developer. As a result, I’ve had the opportunity to work in a variety of industries including new media, e-commerce and avionics. This past September, I became one of the very few women in the world who is a Zend Certified Engineer in PHP5.