<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57408f6b-e4dd-e3fc-e4fb-7e0b4ed26783"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Hello,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Apologies for skipping last week.  With OSCON and other events some of us found ourselves email challenged.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Please find notes below on the activities from the weeks ending 9/15 and 9/22.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Hope you all find these useful. We're open to feedback on frequency and content.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Regards,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Ilan</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Events</span></h2><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">OSCON</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">OSCON took place this past week. SCALE exhibited in collaboration with other LinuxFests.org events such as TXLF and SEAGL; as well as LinuxFest NorthWest. We met with existing and prospective attendees, speakers and sponsors. Two SCALE organizers presented sessions in the conference program, Kyla Banks and Ilan Rabinovitch.</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ISSA-LA Summit</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ISSA LA held their 8th annual </span><a href="https://summit.issala.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">summit</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> this past week (May 19-20). This is the Los Angeles security community’s annual event and get together.  Given our new security track last year we though it would be a great place to recruit speakers for our call for papers as well as network with the security community.   Matti Siltanen coordinated our presence with support from Carlos Lopez, and Andy Seltzer.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Registration</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Lei Zhang and the reg team have proposed some updates to our attendee ticket pricing for SCALE 15x.  If you would like to provide feedback please add comments in this </span><a href="https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/SCALE-Planning/issues/192" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">github issue</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">. Our goal is to finalize pricing by end of June so that we can launch registration.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Tech</span></h2><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">INFRA Hacking</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">While we await selection of our final hosting provider we’ve continued to make progress on modernizing our infrastructure automation. Several new team members joined us for a hack session on Thursday night.  You can find the remaining todo list on github: </span><a href="https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-chef/issues" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-chef/issues</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Initial web and database tier automation are complete, including user management. You can now provision our website and relevant database locally via Vagrant and Chef. More progress is expected soon around testing workflows, documentation, and additional features.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We expect there will be a few more hack nights to wrap up remaining services such as mailman, phpList, etc. If you’d like to participate join us in #infra on slack or email </span><a href="mailto:bala@socallinuxexpo.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">bala@socallinuxexpo.org</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> for details.</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">VOIP and Telephony</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We’ve decided to continue with moving to the hosted solution by Teliax for our telephony needs.  We expect to complete the migration by end of May.  We could use some help with recording the prompts, so if you think you have a good voice for IVRs reach out to </span><a href="mailto:ilan@socallinuxexpo.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ilan@socallinuxexpo.org</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> and <a href="mailto:bala@socallinuxexpo.org">bala@socallinuxexpo.org</a></span></p><div><span><br></span></div><h3 style="margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-weight:normal;line-height:25.76px;white-space:pre-wrap">SSL Certs</span></font></h3><div><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;line-height:20.24px;white-space:pre-wrap">Most of our SSL certs expire on 6/23. We'll need to renew them in the next few weeks.  There is a ticket to track this in Github.</span></font></p></div><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">GitHub Orgs </span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Over the years various SCALE teams had created their own github organizations (socallinuxexpo, scale-tech, scale-av, etc), in the last couple of years most of the content from these migrated to our organization socallinuxexpo rather than the team specific orgs. This week we migrated the last of the repos, and shuttered scale-tech and scale-av github orgs.  If as part of the move you have lost access to a repo please reach out to Ilan or Bala for assistance.</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Monitoring</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Learning from our friends at DevOpsDay LA we know metrics and sharing are both critical to success, so one of our goal this year to ensure we have monitoring in place, and easily accessible by all team members.  To support this we have received offers of donated services from Datadog, New Relic, and a few others for use in our monitoring needs.  See the relevant github tickets for updates.</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Other Projects</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We have a number of other pending infra projects. If you’d like to participate </span><a href="https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-planning/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AINFRA" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">please check our issue</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> queue for other areas you can lend a hand.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Other LinuxFests Programs</span></h2><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Community Leadership Summit</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">LinuxFests’s newest member program, the </span><a href="http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Community Leadership Summit</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> was held las weekend.  We had over 200 attendees join us for two full days of presentations and discussions around community management.  Notes from the unconference portions of the sessions are available at: <a href="http://communityleadershipforum.com/">http://communityleadershipforum.com/</a> </span></p><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div></span></div>