Next to escaping the snow currently blanketing New England, Matthew Miller is most excited about visiting SCALE 13x and speaking at the event. Matthew will be speaking on SCALE 13x Sunday at 4:30 on "Fedora.next: Bringing Change to a Classic Distro (without too much kicking and screaming)." The SCALE Team caught up with Matthew to ask him about his presentation.

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So what can a 65-year-old computer teach us now? Justin King will tell us in his talk of the same name on SCALE 13x Saturday at 11:30. The SCALE Team took a few minutes to talk with Justin about his presentation.

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

If you've ever downloaded a Linux distribution or a FOSS program, chances are it came from servers at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab.

This year OSU OSL hosts "Gotta Catch Them All, OSL Edition," a community engagement game, at SCALE 13x.

If Ron Evans has anything to do with it, he wants to make sure the "Internet of Things" doesn't become the "AOL of Things." Ron's talk on Full Scale Robotics will be held on SCALE 13x Saturday at 6. The SCALE Team caught up with Ron to ask him about his presentation.

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Levente Kurusa comes all the way from Hungary to speak at SCALE 13x on "Linux Desktop: When Is Our Year?" Levente's talk will be on SCALE 13x Saturday at 6. The SCALE Team caught up with him to talk to him about his presentation.

Q: Can you please introduce yourself and tell me a little bit about your background?

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 Jason Hibbets (who is also a SCALE 13x presenter) interviews Jon Cruz, who is speaking on SCALE 13x Sunday at 3 on "Where's Wayland?"

The link to the opensource.com article is here: http://opensource.com/business/15/2/interview-jon-cruz-samsung-open-sour...

SCALE AV Team member Michael Starch steps out from behind the scenes and will be giving his presentation, "Streaming-OODT: An Open-Source Platform for Big-Data Processing" on SCALE 13x Sunday at 4:30. The SCALE Team caught up with Michael to ask him about his talk.

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

Bryan Lunduke expects that you might -- you just might -- have your mind blown at his SCALE 13x presentation, "Windows is Awesome," on SCALE 13x Sunday at 11:30. The SCALE Team caught up with Bryan to ask him about his talk.

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

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 Jason Baker interviews Jonathan Boulle, who is speaking on SCALE 13x Saturday at 3 on "Rocket and the App Container Spec."

The link to the opensource.com article is here: http://opensource.com/business/15/2/interview-jonathan-boulle-rocket

When sofware legal topics come to mind, the first thing you think of is  . . . "House of Cards"? Deb Nicholson is giving a presentation on "Software Patent Litigation: What Have We Learned?" on SCALE 13x Sunday at 4:30. The SCALE Team took a few minutes to ask her about her talk.
 
Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?