<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_10908">Hi all,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_10907"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_10934">tl;dr Announcements for SCALE, Ubucon, Repair Cafe. Great material on DNSSEC from Carlos with quite a lot of questions being asked. Check him out at SCALE on Sunday morning. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_10969" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_10998" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_10986">* Reminder that SCALE is next week at the Pasadena Convention Center on Jan 21-24. If you haven't registered yet, you can use the discount code "SGVLG" to get 50% off the $85 admission fee. There are a ton of cool talks and activities, some of which are quite kid-friendly. Cory Doctorow is giving the keynote on Friday, Mark Shuttleworth on Saturday, and Sarah Sharp on Sunday.<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_10997"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11021" href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x/">http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x/</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11042" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11136" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11228">* The Ubucon Summit will be at SCALE on Thursday and Friday. It is a free conference; register at ubucon.org. You get swag and entree to some social networking events.<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11231"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11229" href="http://ubucon.org/en/events/ubucon-summit-us/register/">http://ubucon.org/en/events/ubucon-summit-us/register/</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11267" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11314" dir="ltr"> Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, will provide the opening keynote for Ubucon Summit. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11480"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11481"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11389">* Repair Cafe will be at Throop Hall in Pasadena on Sat, Jan 30th, from 11am to 2pm. Also, there is a tea tasting at 9:30am, and a tree pruning workshop at 1pm.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11761" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11400"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11399" href="http://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/227918705/">http://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/227918705/</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11829" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11847" href="http://www.meetup.com/Repair-Cafe-Pasadena/events/227943516/">http://www.meetup.com/Repair-Cafe-Pasadena/events/227943516/</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11852" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11978" dir="ltr">* LUG was great. I think we peaked at around 26 people. Carlos had a lot of great material on DNSSEC and there were a lot of questions flying around. He got plenty of feedback. Michael Starch showed off his car hack--well, a contingent of LUG went out to the parking lot to check it out. There were a lot of great conversations after the meeting. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_12093" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_12094" dir="ltr">The nice thing about meeting at a 24-hour restaurant is that you can sit in a nice warm place and have your drinks refilled as you talk for hours. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11979" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_11981" dir="ltr">Our waitress is named Margot. Tip her generously. She may seem a bit frazzled, but the room gets reserved, we get our orders taken, and we get our separate checks without having to make a fuss with the manager. And, as I mentioned, we get our drinks refilled right up to when we leave.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452846401498_12120" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Lan<br></div><br></div></body></html>