[SGVLUG] SoCal Linux Expo 6x Gears Up

[Gareth J.Greenaway]

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 5x: 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://www.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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Southern California Linux Expo 6x - February 8th-10th, 2008
 http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
 Gareth J. Greenaway  | gareth at wiked.org