[SGVLUG] Speakers and Exhibitors Line Up for SCALE 6x

[Gareth J.Greenaway]

As attendee registration opens for the Sixth Annual So Cal Linux Expo, 
 speakers and exhibitors are signing up steadily.
 
 A few of the speakers and their topics  are:
 
 Akkana Peck. author of "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional" 
 will speak on "GIMP Demystified"; Jason Dixon of the OpenBSD Project 
 will discuss high availability and fail-over in OpenBSD; Sven Oehme of 
 IBM will speak on how to "Scale Out File Services using Samba and a 
 Clustered Filesystem"; and Stormy Peters of OpenLogic will discuss the 
 motivations behind coding for Open Source Software in her talk "Would 
 you do it again for free?"
 
 Some of the exhibitors that have committed to attending SCALE are 
 Novell, IBM, Plain Black,Zenoss, and Hyperic.
 
 Some of the non-profit organizations that will be exhibiting at SCALE: 
 Damn Small Linux; Debian; Foresight Linux; OpenNMS: KDE; Inkscape; 
 FreeBSD/PC-BSD; OpenBSD; Haiku and Fedora.
 
 Over the last two SCALEs, the Expo has expanded to included specialized 
 conferences on the Friday prior to SCALE.  For SCALE 6x: the Women in 
 Open Source conference will return for its second year, and the health 
 care conference, (DOHCS) Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Systems, 
 returns for a second time.
 
 Newly added for SCALE 6X is a Friday conference on education: ("OSSIE") 
 Open Source Software in Education, which focuses on opportunities for 
 Open Source in the education arena.
 
 If you have any experience in any of the above-mentioned areas, please 
 consider sharing it with the Open Source community at SCALE: the calls 
 for papers for SCALE and for the Friday conferences can be found at 
 http://socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/calls-for-papers/. 
 Submittal info for each conference can be found on their respective CFP 
 pages.  Don't wait - the calls close on November 30th!
 
 If your organization or company is considering a booth on the SCALE Expo 
 floor, apply for one soon.  If you're a commercial entity, apply at: 
 sponsorship at socallinuxexpo.org.  If you're a non-profit,  
 visit
 http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/calls-for-papers/call-for-dotorg-exhibitors/
 
 Registration for SCALE 6X is now open!  Register now at 
 http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/registration/ for SCALE in Los Angeles 
 February 8th-10th, 2008!


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Southern California Linux Expo 6x - February 8th-10th, 2008
 http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
 Gareth J. Greenaway  | gareth at wiked.org