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Interview: Stuart Sheldon

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Thu, 2013-02-14 08:59

ACT USA founder Stuart Sheldon has been "the man behind the curtain" as tech director for the Southern California Linux Expo from early in the expo's history. For SCALE 11X, Stuart will leave the top-secret SCALE Operations Bunker deep in the bowels of the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel -- OK, it's a room on the same floor as the rest of the expo's presentations -- to give the talk "Linux as an IPv6 Dual Stack Firewall" on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 3 p.m. in the Los Angeles B room.

Interview: Robyn Bergeron

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Thu, 2013-02-14 08:29

Fedora Project Leader Robyn Bergeron took some time to talk to the SCALE Team about her talk, "Managing the Release and Life Cycle of an Open Source Software Project in a Community," which will be given on Friday, Feb. 22, at 3 p.m. in the Los Angeles C room. Robyn shares with us a background of the talk and her view of SCALE.

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

Interview: Mark Hinkle

Submitted by Ilan Rabinovitch on Wed, 2013-02-13 16:16

By Eric Van Johnson

Mark Hinkle works for Citrix as the Senior Director of Cloud Computing and will be speaking a couple times at SCALE11X. We had some time to talk to Mark about his talk at SCALE11X, Open Source, and Cloud. Read on for more information.

Interview: Bob Reselman

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Tue, 2013-02-12 14:17

 

Tech documentation writer Bob Reselman will give a talk entitled "How to Make Technical Documentation Work in Your Organization" at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24, in the LaJolla Room. The SCALE Team caught up with Bob for a brief interview.
 
Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

Interview: Christophe Pettus

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Tue, 2013-02-12 13:57
Christophe Pettus

Christophe Pettus speaks on Friday, Feb. 22, in the PostgreSQL track on "Unstructured Data in PostgreSQL." The SCALE Team caught up with Christophe and asked him a few questions about his talk.
 
Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?
 

Guest Post: Don Marti - SCALE Poker!

Submitted by Ilan Rabinovitch on Sat, 2013-02-02 12:23

Guest Post: Don Marti

Down with "grinding" in games! My least favorite activity in a game is mindlessly clicking and collecting. You won't catch me playing Cow Clicker or any of its imitators. I'd prefer a challenge.

Off the Internet, my least favorite grinding games are the ones where you have to go around to the booths at a trade show to collect stamps. Where's the play value in that?

Birds of a Feather Signups Now Open

Submitted by Ilan Rabinovitch on Thu, 2013-01-31 10:33

Have a passion you'd like to share? Have a community you'd like to connect with? Want some open discussion on a topic? Create or join a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session  after the Friday and Saturday talks.

SCaLE 11x will continue the tradition of providing space for groups to meet and discuss their common interests. The BoFs will be Friday and Saturday nights, February 22nd and 23rd. The first BoFs start at 19:00 and the last start at 22:00.

Interview: Jorge Castro - Juju

Submitted by Ilan Rabinovitch on Wed, 2013-01-30 02:15

Video Interview by Eric Van Johnson

We recently had the opportunity to speak with Jorge Castro of Canonical and discussed Juju, MaaS, Ubuntu Cloud, and his upcoming presentations and workshop at SCALE 11x

"The Cloud" has made building environments quicker and more dynamic however managing these deployments can still be a challenge. Canonical, the good people who bring us Ubuntu, have created an Open Source project to help with this process called Juju (https://juju.ubuntu.com/). Juju helps you manage your deployments by turning the deployment process itself into a service allowing you to connect several different systems and services in one seamless effort.

You can catch Jorge and learn more about Juju at the Eleventh Annual Southern California Linux Expo, February 22-24, 2013 at the Hilton Los Angeles International Airport.

INTERVIEW: Matthew Garrett

Submitted by Gareth Greenaway on Sun, 2013-01-27 17:37

We had a chance to sit down with Matthew Garrett, SCALE 11x keynote speaker, to discuss his upcoming keynote "The Secure Boot Journey" as well as a host of other topics including the future directions of Linux.

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