The SCALE 7X Women In Open Source conference continues last year's work in encouraging women of all ages to participate in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community. The WIOS conference will be held on Friday, February 20th, prior to the 7th Annual So Cal Linux Expo. Widespread acceptance and encouragement from the user community has established SCALE as a premiere conference in the Southern California region. 2009 marks the seventh year that SCALE has been engaging and inspiring the open source community in southern California. Our event is uniquely community-based and attracts a wide variety of sponsors, non-profit groups, user groups, and attendees.

Continuing our efforts to encourage women of all ages to be a part of the Free and Open Source community, we invite you to showcase your work in the Free and Open Source community. Join us in sharing recent accomplishments, success stories, and advancements. Past attendees at this event have included women in technology, teachers, and parents of young girls. As a woman, if you've had experience working on an Free & Open Source project, deploying Free and Open Source software or been involved in the Free and Open Source community, please join us.

The proposals should be submitted in the form of a one-page extended abstract comprising:

1. Title of the talk

2. Name, affiliation, bio, a passport size picture and contact email address of the presenter (needed for publishing on the website and fïnal program schedule)

3. What will be covered? A list or a brief description of the main points to be presented should be submitted. Please include enough detail that will enable the committee to evaluate the proposal.

4. Please notify us if the presentation will require a special technical set-up. The setup provided will include:

• microphone

• overhead projector (resolution 1024 x 768)

• a laptop running Linux with a pdf viewer as well as OpenOffice

Submission formats in txt and pdf will be accepted. Presentations will be allotted a time slot of about 45 minutes. As we are attempting to increase open source awareness it is highly desirable that presentations must be done in open non-proprietary format. Please send your presentation proposals to cfp_submittals@socallinuxexpo.org

4 August, 2008: CFP Opens

31 Dec, 2008: Deadline for abstracts/proposals submissions

12 Jan, 2009: Last date for notification of acceptance

20 Feb, 2009: Conference starts