Speaker Interview: Peter Czanik

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

A: I am a system engineer working as community manager at Balabit, the company behind the syslog-ng logging daemon. I help distributions maintain the syslog-ng package, follow bug trackers, help syslog-ng users and talk regularly at conferences (SCALE, FOSDEM, Libre Software Meeting, LOADays, and so on). In my limited free time I am interested in non-x86 architectures, and work on one of my PPC or ARM machines.

 

Speaker Interview: Nina Kaufman

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

A: Hello! My name is Nina and I've been working at Procore Technologies for three and a half years. I'm a senior site reliability engineer, and I help manage the performance, scalability, and reliability of our many services and applications. I also enjoy mentoring engineering college students through programs at universities like UC Santa Barbara. I'm really interested in networking and security, and I'm currently taking the OSCP certification course.

 

Speaker Interview: Keith Fiske

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

A: I'm a Database Administrator with OmniTI, Inc. I've been working in IT since 2000 and been working with databases for the last 10 years. I specialized in PostgreSQL when joining OmniTI 5 years ago. Since then I've written some popular third party tools for it (pg_partman, pg_extractor, mimeo).

 

 

Speaker Interview: Kir Kolyshkin

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

A: Hi, my name is Kir Kolyshkin, I'm originally from Russia but live in Seattle nowadays. The company I work for, Virtuozzo, works on Linux containers since about 2000, and I am mostly known within the Linux community for my role in OpenVZ project.

 

Speaker Interview: Phil Dibowitz - Building Better FLOSS Community Relationships at Facebook

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

A: My name is Phil Dibowitz. I'm a Production Engineer at Facebook and I'm a tech
load on the Operating Systems team. I have a passion for figuring out scaling
systems - particularly as it relates to the people managing them, and open
source software.

In addition to technology I spend my time riding my Harley or following
Metallica around the world.

Game Night

Join your fellow SCALE attendees for drinks, games, food and fun at SCALE's 7th Annual Game Night on Saturday.  Here's a lineup:

 

Brand new, and totally fascinating:  The VR Realm

Enter the VR Realm in one of our back rooms, and find out how open source opens up the third dimension.

 

It's baack, and gigantic:  Laser Tag

Play all night.  Just don't get run over by a tank.

 

What About the Nerdy Museum?

SCALE 15x – is “N6S” On the Air!

Once again, SCaLE is sponsoring a Special Events Amateur Radio Station, operating under the temporary, event-specific, call sign “N6S” (November-Six-SCaLE).  The station will be operating live, from the front lobby of the Conference Center (i.e., the east-most building) at the Pasadena Convention Center.  Stop by and check out how Linux and the open-source community support various aspects of the Amateur Radio hobby; including Emergency Services, world-wide communications, radio-contesting, and the development of new radio and communications technology.

Christine to be the SCALE 15X Saturday Keynote

The SCALE team  is very pleased to announce our second keynote speaker - Christine Corbett Moran – for Saturday, March 4, as she presents "Open Source Software as Activism". Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, Open Source and mobile app developer and NASA finalist are but a few of the achievements Dr. Corbett Moran brings to the party.