The Eleventh Annual Southern California Linux Expo
February 22-24, 2013
Hilton Los Angeles International Airport

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Securing Communications at SCALE 10X

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2012-01-16 18:23

The annual SCALE PGP Keysigning Party continues to grow: we already have over 70 people signed up! Are you one of them? Whether you're a PGP newbie or a crypto veteran, if you're interested in securing your communications we've got you covered.

Interview - Cory Fields - XBMC

Submitted by Gareth Greenaway on Sun, 2012-01-15 19:24

SCALE had a chance to sit down with Cory Fields, a member of the XBMC community, to chat about XBMC and the future of the project.

Q: How did you first get involved with the free & open source community?

Speaker Q-and-A: Alison Chaiken

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Fri, 2012-01-13 10:23

[Blogger's Note: SCALE 10X will be asking the keynoters and some of the speakers to weigh in on their presentations for the expo. This is the Q-and-A for Alison Chaiken, who will be giving a presentation on "Automotive: The Next Frontier for Mobile Linux" at 6 p.m. Saturday.]

Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

Keynote Q-and-A: Greg DeKoenigsberg

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Fri, 2012-01-13 10:05

[Blogger's Note: SCALE 10X will be asking the keynoters and some of the speakers to weigh in on their presentations for the expo. This is the Q-and-A for Greg DeKoenigsberg, who will be giving the SCALE 10X keynote on Saturday.]

Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

A: My name is Greg DeKoenigsberg; I'm VP of Community for Eucalyptus Systems. Before that, I spent many years with Red Hat, working to build the Fedora community.

Keynote Q-and-A: Selena Deckelmann

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Fri, 2012-01-13 09:39

[Blogger's Note: SCALE 10X will be asking the keynoters and some of the speakers to weigh in on their presentations for the expo. This is the Q-and-A for Selena Deckelmann, who will be giving the SCALE 10X keynote on Sunday.]

Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

Guest Blog Post: SCALE Exhibit Hall Tours

Submitted by Ilan Rabinovitch on Fri, 2012-01-13 02:08

By Guest Blogger: Phillip Banks

We get it. Sometimes there's just too much to see and do at a convention. The exhibitors have a lot to tell you about their products, services or what they are doing in the community. How on Earth do you squeeze all this into a day?

Looking for work?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2012-01-11 22:44

There have always been employment opportunities arising from a visit to the Southern California Linux Expo.  In recent years a number of companies have had booths at SCALE, actively recruiting for new employees.

Employment opportunities in IT have been rising steadily the last year.  So SCALE10X will have an unprecedented number of companies looking for your resume.  Here's an almost complete list of those firms looking to hire you at SCALE:

Call For Volunteers - Join the SCALE Team

Submitted by Ilan Rabinovitch on Tue, 2012-01-10 20:59

Do you want to be part of the SCALE team? SCALE is entirely run by volunteers and community members.  We will be onsite 1/19 - 1/22 tackling various projects and would appreciate helping hands.

SCALE has openings on a number of our teams including registration, A/V, speaker wrangling, and more. If you are interested in volunteering to help with SCALE 10x, please send an email to bala@socallinuxexpo.org.

Guest Blog Post: Time Management for Systems Administrators

Submitted by Ilan Rabinovitch on Mon, 2012-01-09 04:11

We invited frequent SCALE speaker Aleksey Tsalolikhin to tell us about his upcoming SCALE University class on Time Management for Systems Administrators. This tutorial will be held January 20, 2012 at 2:30 at SCALE University.

Guest Post: Charm School at SCALE

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2012-01-04 13:12

juju is a new deployment tool for the cloud by Ubuntu that provides "service orchestration". It has been likened to "apt for the cloud". juju is for system adminstrators who need a tool that can deploy what you need to the cloud quickly and repeatably.

With Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) coming in April, we're looking to train and educate users on how you can use juju effectively and put it to work. juju uses what we call "charms", which are scripts that encapsulate best practices for a service. Charms can be written in any language you like and more importantly, we've built in sharing and extending charms with other people as part of a simple and fun process.

Here's some sessions we'll be running at SCaLE:

- juju - DevOps Distilled- This will be our general presentation about juju. Why do you need it? What problems can you solve with it? How is it different from other tools? (This presentation will be held at 3pm on Saturday in Los Angeles B)

- juju Charm School- This will be an indepth hands on workshop for turning your trusty old deployment script into a reusable juju charm. We'll go over some use cases for cloud deployments, how you can form relations between charms, and how to scale it all up. If you're working on a project that can deploy in the cloud and want to make it a breeze for Ubuntu Cloud users to do so, then this is the session for you! (Juju Charm School will be held on Friday at 2:30pm in the Marina room. There is no charge to attend Charm School)

Whether you're in the public cloud or building your own internal private cloud, you can use juju to save time and effort doing deployments, we hope you join us. Clint Byrum and I will be available to answer any question about juju (and Ubuntu Cloud in general). Look for us and come chat with us about Ubuntu.

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