Special events

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...

The Fedora Activity Day is on again at SCaLE 12x!  The Fedora Project hosts its annual Fedora Activity Day at SCALE 12x on Friday, February 21, beginning at 10 a.m.  They are going to be working on a new interactive kiosk for the Fedora booth. If you are a coder, designer or have UI skills, or...

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....

The SCALE FOSS Camp is a new addition for SCALE 12X. These sessions give a more intense and personal learning experience than a 45-minute seminar. This year the camp will include an indepth session on using ...

The Coder's Corner will be an opportunity for attendees to explore and interact with various free & open source software projects including the OLPC, Sugar On A Stick, and Scratch.  There will be mentors available on hand for any questions.

Computers will be available for hands-on...

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 expose attendees to the concepts and best practices around deploying cloud computing infrastructure.

Attendees...

Chef is an automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code.  This is a hands-on tutorial that will cover the basics that everyone needs to know about how to use Chef for system and infrastructure management.  We'll discuss the server API, the code primitives, and the tools required...

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced promotional exam preparation and exam labs sessions for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at SCALE 12x at the Hilton Los Angeles...

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:

Leslie Hawthorn

Jordan Sissel

Ruth Suele

Brendan Gregg

Deb Nicholson...

Have a passion you'd like to share? Is there a community you want 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 12x. The BoFs will be Friday and Saturday nights, February 21st and 22nd. The first...

UbuCon will return to SCALE 12x and will be held Friday, February 21nd, prior to the main Expo in the Los Angeles A room.

Part unconference, part scheduled sessions, the SCALE 12x UbuCon will cover what is going on within the Ubuntu community and how to improve the community.

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 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.  ...

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,...

 

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 12x is the track for you....

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...

Infrastructure.Next is the event for people interested in the evolving tools and projects for managing large-scale IT infrastructure. From storage to configuration management to virtualization infrastructure, all the way to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). This is a one-day program that will...

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