I'd be interested in doing a booth. Tha'd be fun.
On 2/13/07, Craig White <
craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 10:13 -0700, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> > I've put a quick summary of Day One of SCaLE5x (Southern California
> > Linux Expo) at
> >
> ----
> hmmm...I wish I knew Dennis by sight.
>
> Anyway, my very small report on SCALE 07.
>
> I got there for Friday's mini-conference on Open Source and Health Care
> which was very good. I would be happy to know of any other open source
> folk in Phoenix in the health care industry to see if we can share
> notes, etc.
>
> Saturday...morning was a zoo since it appeared that the turnout was much
> larger than anticipated. I projected over 1000 people and someone
> involved with SCALE confirmed that they indeed went over the 1000 mark
> but they hadn't gotten an exact count of paid attendees as of like 4:15
> on Sunday afternoon.
>
> Exhibitors were the obvious ones...Red Hat, Novell, OpenBSD, FreeBSD,
> Gentoo, Ubuntu, and on the hardware side, Dell, IBM, Aberdeen, Coraid.
> Exhibitors list can be gotten from SCALE 07 web site.
>
> Lectures were on 4 separate 'tracts' / meeting rooms and were of
> moderate usefulness. Xen seminars (there were 3) had heavy turnouts and
> the best lecture (for my purposes) was the last time slot on Sunday by
> Jay Pipes of MySQLAB (remember this guy, knowledgable and entertaining)
> who covered optimization of MySQL (I primarily use PostgreSQL but
> definitely learned a lot here).
>
> I think that there were more people there from Phoenix than we realize
> and I would propose that we negotiate a booth next year and I would be
> happy to man the booth for a good amount of the time.
>
> Craig
>
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