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Speaker Interview: Robyn Bergeron

SCALE 13x media sponsor Opensource.com has graciously pitched in with writing some of the speaker interviews for those giving presentations at SCALE 13x. Opensource.com's Jen Wike Huger interviews Robyn Bergeron, who is speaking on SCALE 13x Saturday at 4:30 on "Devops + Open Source == BFF Practices!"

The link to the opensource.com article is here: http://opensource.com/life/15/2/interview-robyn-bergeron-elasticsearch

Speaker Interview: Jono Bacon

Ladies and gentlemen, Jono Bacon. In FOSS circles, that's pretty much all the introduction you need. Currently the community development leader at XPRIZE, Jono gives a talk on Solving Humanity's Grand Challenges on SCALE 13x Sunday at 1:30. The SCALE Team caught up with Jono to see what we can expect in his presentation.

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

Speaker Interview: Rafael Barrero

Walt Disney's Rafael Barrero brings a decade-and-a-half of engineering experience to his SCALE 13x presentation, Cashing in on Varnish, which will be held on SCALE 13x Saturday at 11:30. Rafael spent some time talking with the SCALE Team about his presentation.
 
Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?
 

Speaker Interview: Charlie Kravetz

Long-time Free/Open Source Software participant Charlie Kravetz, the former project lead for Xubuntu, makes his SCALE speaking debut at SCALE 13x. Charlie will be giving a talk on Accessibility in Software on SCALE 13x Saturday at 3. The SCALE Team caught up with Charlie to ask him about accessibility issues.

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

Speaker Interview: Christoph Wagner

Christoph Wagner brings together the best of two worlds: Polymer, Google's framework for web components, and pandas. His talk, "Polymer with Pandas," will be given on SCALE 13x Sunday at 1:30. The SCALE Team, curious about what would bring Polymer and pandas together, took a few minutes to talk to Christoph about his talk.

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

Speaker Interview: Peter Czanik

Peter Czanik, community manager at BalaBit, makes his SCALE 13x debut, speaking on syslog-ng: from log collecting to log processing and information extraction on SCALE 13x Sunday at 3 p.m. Peter took a few minutes to talk to the SCALE team about the help he provides to distributions to maintain the syslog-ng package, follows bug trackers, and helps users.

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

Speaker Interview: Brian Proffitt

Light sabers and physics: This is the talk you are looking for. Brian Proffitt gives SCALE 13x attendees "Why Scale Up is Like Star Trek and Scale Out is Like Star Wars" on SCALE 13x Saturday at 3 p.m. The SCALE Team beamed down to talk to Brian about his presentation.

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