SCaLE 4x Impressions

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 09:32 am, Dennis Kibbe kindly wrote:
> This past weekend was the fourth annual Southern California Linux Expo held
> at the LAX Radisson Hotel in Los Angeles.  This is an easy Convention for
> Phoenix area PLUGers to attend.  America West has direct flights to LAX for
> about $100 round trip if you book in advance and the Raddison is the
> closest hotel to the airport with airport shuttles every 15 minutes.
>
> The Expo was very well organized and ran very smoothly.  Each day started
> with a keynote speaker and then broken up into four one hour speaker
> sessions. There were plenty of breaks so you had the opportunity to roam
> the Expo floor and spent time talking with a speaker or another attendee. 
> You can view the complete schedule at the SCaLE website at www.
> socallinuxexpo.org.
>
> A nice thing about SCaLE is that it has become big enough to attract some
> well known Linux personalities, such as Hans Reiser (ReiserFS), Chris
> DiBona (Google), Jeremy Garcia (LinuxQuestions), Jono Bacon (LUG Radio),
> but is small enough that you can actually get to talk with them.  Also all
> the meeting rooms and the Expo hall are physically close so you're not
> spending a lot of time walking from one to the other.
>
> Saturday night there was a Linux trivia game that included our own David
> Uhlman and two other PLUGers, Michael Crusoe (LOPSA) and Ted Gould
> (Inkscape) could be found on the Expo floor.  Michael being a hit in his
> utility kilt. :-)
>
> The Expo was a good opportunity to talk with people from the LA area LUGs
> and to see what is happening commercially with Linux.  The organizers did a
> good job of impressing the marketing types that this was more a technical
> expo that a commercial/sales expo.
>
> I can recommend SCaLE as a great place to rub shoulders with other LUG
> members and commercial users of Linux.
>
> Put SCaLE on your calendar for next year!
>
> Dennisk


Very interesting. Thanks, Dennis!

Siri Amrit
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