Busy With SCALE
It’s two weeks away from the So Cal Linux Expo, so we’re all pretty busy:
- Gareth and I were on Digital Village on KPFK yesterday (Saturday). It went very well; this is the third year we’ve been on Digital Village pimping SCALE, and the hosts are very comfortable with the concept of FOSS. Due to the inclement weather (ice and snow), their FM transmitter on Mt. Wilson went down sometime late this week (it was down Saturday morning, and it still off the air at this writing). Fortunately they weren’t completely down; they stream their program content on the Internet. So, even though listeners with radios couldn’t hear us, those with computers could. And apparently someone was listening, we had several SCALE registrations shortly after the show with the promo code Gareth gave out during the program
- Ilan and I will be on The Linux Links Tech Show podcast on Wednesday, Jan. 30th, at 5:30 p.m PST. That is, the show starts at 5:30, and it seems like it runs about two hours. I don’t when we’ll be on during the show. I’ll post that afterwards.
- We finished assembling the program and sent it off to the printers for proof. By assemble, I mean we gave all the ads, bios, and schedules and other content to Ron Golan, our graphics arts guru. He assembled them, posted a draft PDF online, and we critqued it, all in the SCALE IRC channel. When done, Ilan pushed it onto the printer’s FTP site. We had to send it back to them again due some issue with ads and transparencies, but they turned it around quickly. Here’s more evidence that SCALE has grown: the program last year was 12 pages. This year it’s 20 pages. And props to Ron for putting out an excellent piece of work! We’ve used Dot Graphics in Chatsworth for our printing needs for the last three or four years, and they’ve been very responsive to our requirements and the products have been of good quality. We’ve used them for programs, posters and other signage, and postcards (both printing and mailing). Recommended.
- Last year Stu (Tech Committee chair) designed a bulletproof LAN for SCALE, with about 75 VLANs for isolation of booths and wireless. It ran almost flawlesslly. He’s doing the same sort of thing this year - but we’ll have over a hundred VLANs(!). He’s elbow-deep in programming switches for SCALE at this point.
- Registration for SCALE continues to run well above last year. It’ll be interesting to see how many more visitors we actually get compared to last year. We’re concerned about it being overcrowded, in spite of moving what we believe will be the most popular sessions into the theater at the Westin LAX. Regardless of how SCALE 6X goes, this is almost certainly our last year at the Westin; we’ve outgrown it.
- Interest in SCALE from the press is up, too; I’ve given out more press passes and press lists than in the past.
So it’s down to the wire - SCALE is less than two weeks away!
– Orv -
SCALE Publicity Chair