[SGVLUG] Fwd: [Scale-announce] SCALE Gears Up!

[Matthew Gallizzi]

Matti and I were discussing SCALE at the ITEXPO. The main point that we'd
like to get across is that SCALE is a conference for all. It's one of the
best conferences for your money, I think. SCALE tickets are no more than
$70, I believe (Probably a lot less, I'm aiming high). The ITEXPO's starting
price for a ticket was $500, and it went up to $5000. Linuxworld, I believe,
was similar. In my experience, Linuxworld/ITEXPO are more commercial driven,
whereas SCALE is more community driven, and the community driven conference
provides a better learning experience than Linuxworld/ITEXPO (for your
money). Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my two cents.

On 9/11/07, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> fyi -
>
> SCALE is a great conference, for
> a really good deal folks, so ...
>
> if you have not attended before,
> please consider it this year.
>
> matti
>
> --- SCALE Announcements <scale-announce at maggie.socallinuxexpo.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:23:12 -0700
> > To: SCALE-announce <scale-announce at mail.socallinuxexpo.com>
> > From: SCALE Announcements <scale-announce at maggie.socallinuxexpo.org>
> > Subject: [Scale-announce] SCALE Gears Up!
> >
> > The Sixth Annual SoCal Linux Expo will be February 8th-10th, 2008.
> > It
> > will again be at the Westin LAX.  SCALE has reserved more of the
> > hotel
> > resources for SCALE 6X which will help address some of the seminar
> > crowding issues that arose during S5X (success is a nice problem to
> > have).
> >
> > Over the last two SCALEs, the Expo has expanded to included
> > specialized
> > conferences on the Friday prior to SCALE.  The Expo will "expand upon
> > the expansion" for SCALE 6x: the Women in Open Source conference will
> > return for its second year; the health care conference, now known as
> > DOHCS – Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Systems, returns for a
> > second time.  Last year DOHCS was a single track.  For SCALE 6X,
> > DOHCS
> > splits into two tracks, a technical track and a business track.
> >
> > And newly added for SCALE 6X is a Friday conference on education:
> > "Open
> > Source in Education" which focuses on opportunities for Open Source
> > in
> > the field of education .
> >
> > 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
> > here:
> > http://socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/calls-for-papers/
> > All of the calls are now open for submittals.   For SCALE 4X and 5X
> > the
> > speaker slots filled rapidly; we anticipate the same for SCALE 6X.
> > So
> > if you're considering speaking, don't delay submitting your proposal.
> > Submittal info for each conference can be found on their respective
> > CFP
> > pages.
> >
> > If your organization or company is considering a booth on the SCALE
> > Expo
> > floor, be advised that we no more booths than last year, and last
> > year
> > they went quickly.    If you want to ensure that you have a booth
> > reserved, apply for one NOW.  If you're a commercial entity, apply
> > at:
> > sponsorship at socallinuxexpo.org  .  If you're a non-profit, complete
> > the
> > application form at
> >
>
> http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/documents/scale6x_dotORG_application.pdf
> >
> >
> > and send it to  gareth at socallinuxexpo.org
> >
> > The second SCALE IRC chat will be September 16th, at 7:00 pm PST.  It
> > will be held in the #scale-chat channel of OFTC (irc.oftc.net).  If
> > you
> > have questions or comments about SCALE, feel free to join us.
> >
> > SCALE 6X looks to be even better than S5X; mark your calendar – be in
> > Los Angeles February 8th-10th, 2008!
> >
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