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Speaker Interview: Jenn Greenaway

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Fri, 2016-01-15 06:42

SCALE 14x media sponsor Opensource.com has graciously pitched in with writing some of the speaker interviews for those giving presentations at SCALE 14x. Opensource.com's Charlie Reislinger interviews Jenn Greenaway, who is speaking on SCALE 14x Saturday at 3:00 on "Dent the Universe: Mentoring in Open Source."

The link to the opensource.com article is here: https://opensource.com/life/16/1/scale14x-interview-jenn-greenaway

Speaker Interview: Akkana Peck

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Fri, 2016-01-15 06:38

SCALE 14x media sponsor Opensource.com has graciously pitched in with writing some of the speaker interviews for those giving presentations at SCALE 14x. Opensource.com's Rikki Endsley interviews Akkana Peck, who is speaking on SCALE 14x Saturday at 11:30 on "Stupid GIMP Tricks (and Smart Ones, Too)."

The link to the opensource.com article is here: https://opensource.com/life/16/1/3-smart-gimp-tricks

 

 

Speaker Interview: Herman Radtke

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Mon, 2016-01-11 23:39

SCALE first-timer Herman Radtke will be talking about Rust -- no, not the metal oxidation that ruins everything it seems to touch, but "Rust: Systems Programming for Web Developers" at SCALE 14X on Sunday, Jan. 24, at 3 p.m. The SCALE Team caught up wiht Herman and asked him about this talk, one of two he is giving at SCALE.

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

Speaker Interview: Spencer Krum

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Mon, 2016-01-11 23:37

IBM's Spencer Krum will be giving a talk on "Secure Mesh VPN with Service Discovery" at SCALE on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 11. The SCALE Team caught up with Spencer and asked him about his presentation.

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

A: My name is Spencer Krum. I work on OpenStack for IBM. I've been doing Linux and OpenSource things for around five years.

Speaker Interview: Nathan Haines

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Mon, 2016-01-11 23:36

Ubuntu's Nathan Haines is a busy man at SCALE 14X. Not only does he have three sessions to participate in at UbuCon, Nathan is also giving a talk on "Writing and Publishing Books with Free Software" on Saturday, Jan. 23 at 6 p.m. in Ballroom D. The SCALE Team caught up with Nathan to ask him about his talk.

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

Speaker Interview: Dan Walsh

Submitted by Larry Cafiero on Mon, 2016-01-11 23:33

Red Hat's Dan Walsh will be speaking on Sunday, Jan. 24 at 3 p.m. on “A Fresh Look at SELinux.” The SCALE Team caught up with him to ask him about his presentation.

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

A: My name is Dan Walsh, I have been working for Red Hat Base Engineer team for the last 15 years in Security engineering, mainly working on process isolation technologies like SELinux and containers (Namespaces). I am now the lead of the Container/Docker team at Red Hat.

Updates on Amateur Radio at SCALE 14x

Submitted by Hriday Balachandran on Tue, 2015-12-22 09:49

Boy do we have a treat in store this year. SCALE's teaming with the local amateur radio (aka HAM) community to bring you a host of amateur radio based activities. We will have a HAM radio booth, which will show case neat equipment, and demos, including one using the ham digital or MESH network. The goal is to stream video from the show floor over a MESH network - that means not going over wifi or the wired lines on the show floor.

Amateur Radio at SCALE 14x

Submitted by Hriday Balachandran on Sun, 2015-12-06 09:48

SCALE's getting into amateur radio in a big way this year, starting with offering HAM exams. The tests will be conducted on Sunday, from 11 AM to 3 PM, at our PCC venue. Walk-in's welcome.

We also have a special treat for all the HAM's and wannabe HAM's in attendence. The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) of Southern California will demonstrate their mesh network and how that facilitates emergency communication.

SCALE will also have it's own channel for the duration of the event, so if you have a licence and a radio, bring it over. Come be a part of the HAM community.