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

Special events

Come see members of the free & open source community face off against each other, determining who has the greatest knowledge of geek culture.

Contestant line up for Weakest Geek:

  • Dawn Foster
  • Kyle Rankin
  • Joe Brockmeier
  • Jorge Castro
  • ...

SCALE Game Night for Everyone!

You and your whole family will NOT want to miss this spectacular SCALE event! Game Night takes place in the Plaza Ballroom (down in the basement below the Hilton lobby). 

  • Kid’s crafts and games!
  • Laser Tag!
  • ...

Come learn about the exciting technology that is changing the devops landscape. An overview of Salt's capabilities and a quick bootcamp on how to get your environment Salted.

Join OpenStack along with community members, Opscode and Rackspace for an in-booth Happy Hour Saturday, February 23 from 4-6pm (Booths #25-28).

Visit OpenStack.org to learn more about the fastest growing open-source project and how you can leverage...

Got a passion you'd like to share? Have a community you'd like to connect with? Want some open discussion on a topic?

If so, create or join a BoF session on either Friday or Saturday night at SCaLE 11x. The BoFs will be Friday and Saturday nights, February 22nd and 23rd. The first start...

Would you like to manage and understand your IT infrastructure more efficiently? Are you passionate about keeping systems stable to perform productive work?

Join us after SCALE for 4 days of high quality, hands-on training on CFEngine 3,...

The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) is pleased to offer the BSDA certification exam to attendees of SCALE. The exam will be paper based and in English. Exam information is available from the Certification page of the BSDCG...

LPI Hosts Exam Labs at SCALE 11x

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at...

Limited to 25 Students

Opscode instructors will be presenting a free morning of introductory Chef training, transitioning to an afternoon Hack Day for Chef users of all skill levels. The morning session will cover Chef fundamentals; introducing new users to concepts and...

The best open source stack for building and deploying your app is nodestack: the combination of SmartOSnode.js, and ...

Build a Cloud Day will be dedicated to teaching users how to build and manage a cloud computing environment using free and open source software. The program is designed to...

The UpSCALE talks are held in the style of the Ignite presentations made popular by various O'Reilly sponsored events. Participants are given five minutes to speak on a subject accompanied by 20 automatically-advanced slides, making this a fast paced, fun event for participants and audience....

UbuCon will return to SCALE 11x and will be held Friday, February 22nd, prior to the main Expo in the Los Angeles A room.

Part unconference, part scheduled sessions, the SCALE 11x UbuCon will cover what is going on within the Ubuntu community and how to improve the community.

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Puppet Camp LA at SCALE is a community-oriented, regional gathering of Puppet users and developers. You’ll have the opportunity to talk to a diverse group of Puppet users, benefit from presentations delivered by prominent community members, and be able to share experiences and discuss potential...

The Southern California Linux Expo will once again host the SCALE: The Next Generation conference.  An event where the free & open source community leaders of tomorrow will be able to spotlight their talents and ideas!

The goal of conference will be as "youth driven" as possible.  ...

 

How do you build a successful free & open source community?  When is a community considered successful?  How do you successfully manage a free & open source project?  If you find yourself asking these questions, then the FOSS Mentoring track at SCALE 11x is the track for you....

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux,...

The SCALE University training program continues to grow for SCALE 11X. The classes give a more intense and personal learning experience than a 45-minute seminar. This year courses will be provided by instructors from LOPSA, GitHub, OneCourseSource, and the Linux Professional Institute. We are...

SCALE and the MySQL community are excited to bring you a full day track covering MySQL content. This event will be held February 22, 2013 at the LAX Hilton. Sessions will cover topics across the MySQL ecosystem including MySQL, MariaDB, SkySQL, and other variants.

DevOps Day LA is a full day event targeted at development and operations IT professionals, who wish to improve the interaction between these traditional silos. As IT projects grow in complexity it is critical for development and operations teams to collaborate and work together more closely in...

THE LINUX BEGINNER'S TRAINING CLASS IS NOW FULL! NO MORE REGISTRATIONS CAN BE ACCOMMODATED THIS YEAR.

SCALE is reprising last year's very successful Linux Training class.   It's an intensive, two-day training class the same weekend as the Linux Expo, co-located with the...