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Speaker Q-and-A: Mark Burgess

[Blogger's Note: SCALE 10X will be asking some of the speakers to weigh in on their presentations for the expo. This is the Q-and-A for Mark Burgess, who will give a talk on “3 Myths and 3 Challenges to Bring System Administration out of the Dark Ages” on Friday.]

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

About that Training Class...

At SCALE, in spite of having a lot of content for developers and sysadmins, we've always had a soft spot in our collective hearts for the newbie.   Sadly, we've not been able to muster a lot of material oriented towards the raw beginner in Linux and Open Source. 

Speaker Q-and-A: Alison Chaiken

[Blogger's Note: SCALE 10X will be asking the keynoters and some of the speakers to weigh in on their presentations for the expo. This is the Q-and-A for Alison Chaiken, who will be giving a presentation on "Automotive: The Next Frontier for Mobile Linux" at 6 p.m. Saturday.]

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

Keynote Q-and-A: Greg DeKoenigsberg

[Blogger's Note: SCALE 10X will be asking the keynoters and some of the speakers to weigh in on their presentations for the expo. This is the Q-and-A for Greg DeKoenigsberg, who will be giving the SCALE 10X keynote on Saturday.]

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

A: My name is Greg DeKoenigsberg; I'm VP of Community for Eucalyptus Systems. Before that, I spent many years with Red Hat, working to build the Fedora community.

Looking for work?

There have always been employment opportunities arising from a visit to the Southern California Linux Expo.  In recent years a number of companies have had booths at SCALE, actively recruiting for new employees.

Employment opportunities in IT have been rising steadily the last year.  So SCALE10X will have an unprecedented number of companies looking for your resume.  Here's an almost complete list of those firms looking to hire you at SCALE:

Call For Volunteers - Join the SCALE Team

Do you want to be part of the SCALE team? SCALE is entirely run by volunteers and community members.  We will be onsite 1/19 - 1/22 tackling various projects and would appreciate helping hands.

SCALE has openings on a number of our teams including registration, A/V, speaker wrangling, and more. If you are interested in volunteering to help with SCALE 10x, please send an email to bala@socallinuxexpo.org.