Scale-planning May 2016

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Track ideas at future SCaLEs and Q about track leads
by SCALE Planning List 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

HI, Reaching out the key members of the pro-open source user community there's a few track ideas I would like to share with everyone here. A) I believe we can find volunteers to help get these tracks organized, so that they take minimal time from the core SCaLE team. B) Question on how to help make procedures / infrastructure to assist in building these tracks. Track ideas: 1) Open Data track / Civic Open Data - I believe this would make a great track, and that we can get the City of Pasadena, City of LA and OTHER cities to participate. They can use this track to help supplement their city run hack-a-thons. ( we can probably get the various Open Data SaaS providers to sponsor the tracks ) 2) CTO mixer - we need imho to bring in CxOs into SCaLE to help bring great industry support and encourage their staffs to join us. Joe Devon who organizers and runs a lot of the pro-open source LA meetups is currently running a CTO mixer meetup - and discussing this with him seems like this would be a great fit for SCaLE. - I was thinking Thur would be a great day for this... and I would expect that we can get some good sponsorship for this. 3) Space / Space Open Data - NASA just had their Space App Challenge and it was well attended in Pasadena, as well as OC and they had events throughout the world. The also had Open Data available for attendees, and JPL has an Open Data proponent. With Space X also in LA we should be able to find some great opportunities to make a "Space / Space Open Data" track. We could have this be a Science Open Data track for 1 day followed by a Civic Open Data track 4) Storage track - Jordan Swartz talked to me about creating an Storage track Thur before DevOps day. Sounded like a great idea, and he seemed very interested in being the lead. Qs: How do we coordinate and empower those interested in creating good tracks into SCaLE? Do I ask potential leads to join the planning list? Do we have any SaaS tools which are useful? Thank You Matti

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This Week in SCALE - May 15 & 22
by SCALE Planning List 24 May '16

24 May '16

Hello, Apologies for skipping last week. With OSCON and other events some of us found ourselves email challenged. Please find notes below on the activities from the weeks ending 9/15 and 9/22. Hope you all find these useful. We're open to feedback on frequency and content. Regards, Ilan EventsOSCON 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. ISSA-LA Summit ISSA LA held their 8th annual summit <https://summit.issala.org/> 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. Registration 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 github issue <https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/SCALE-Planning/issues/192>. Our goal is to finalize pricing by end of June so that we can launch registration. TechINFRA Hacking 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: https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-chef/issues 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. 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 bala(a)socallinuxexpo.org for details. VOIP and Telephony 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 ilan(a)socallinuxexpo.org and bala(a)socallinuxexpo.org SSL Certs 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. GitHub Orgs 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. Monitoring 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. Other Projects We have a number of other pending infra projects. If you’d like to participate please check our issue <https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-planning/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais…> queue for other areas you can lend a hand. Other LinuxFests ProgramsCommunity Leadership Summit LinuxFests’s newest member program, the Community Leadership Summit <http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com> 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: http://communityleadershipforum.com/

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Need help locating SCaLE art assets for flyers / banners
by SCALE Planning List 19 May '16

19 May '16

Hi, Please let me know where I maybe able to find SCaLE art assets for flyers / banners. ( I am attempting to put something together for our table at the ISSA-LA summit tomorrow ) Thank You Matti

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Do we want a table at the ISSA-LA summit May 19 – 20, 2016 at the Universal City Hilton LA CA
by SCALE Planning List 17 May '16

17 May '16

Hi, ISSA-LA summit has asked if we would like to have a table top during the event. ( "booth" - but just a table top - some events they have 1/2 table ( OWASP LA ) ) iirc it would be on May 20th, and we'd need to man the table top provide some info on SCALE ( banner would be nice ) please let me know if anyone would like to help me do this. ( you'd get a comp pass for May 20th ) ISSA LA shares one of the org booths at SCaLE with OWASP-LA and CDA-LA thank you matti

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ISSA LA Security Summit Next Week
by SCALE Planning List 09 May '16

09 May '16

Hi all, One of our dotOrg exhibitors, ISSA LA, is holding their 8th annual information security summit Friday May 20th 2016 at the Universal City Hilton, with some pre-event workshops on Thursday May 19th. They invite SCALE organizers to attend. In their words: "The greater LA security community is gathering for an annual security event. We're bringing some of the top security presenters in the USA to LA Everyone interested in info sec is welcome to join us. http://summit.issala.org/" They have provided us with a free pass for SCALE staff. If you're interested in attending and would like the pass please contact me off list at ilan(a)socallinuxexpo.org. Regards, Ilan Rabinovitch ilan(a)socallinuxexpo.org

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This Week in SCALE - Week of May 2nd
by SCALE Planning List 09 May '16

09 May '16

Hello, As we mentioned in our update a few weeks ago, we are working to increase the openness of SCALE planning. With that in mind I’m going to try to send at least bi-weekly updates here on progress of our various projects. Hopefully the need for this will be obviated once the issues with mailing list are fixed and more teams are posting here directly. Regards, Regards, Ilan Rabinovitch Conference Chair Southern California Linux Expo 877-831-2569 x110 Voice 818-442-1865 Mobile ilan(a)socallinuxexpo.org Email OSCONBooth The SCALE team will be exhibiting at OSCON in collaboration with other LinuxFests.org events such as TXLF and SEAGL. We will also be sharing space with LinuxFest NorthWest. If you would like to help with producing flyers, or with staffing the booth please let us know! OSCON will be held in Austin May 16-19, 2016. Community Leadership Summit LinuxFests’s newest member program, the Community Leadership Summit <http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com> will be held May 14-15, 2016 leading in to OSCON. Many SCALE team members will be present, if you are in the area please consider joining us as well. WebsiteOpen Source Website Code Ron has posted all our drupal code to github <https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-drupal> as agreed to in the post-con meeting on 4/16. If you have experience with Drupal or PHP development, we invite you to join the scale-webdev team. Prep Call For Papers Ron has reset the CFP system and is looking for feedback. If you’d like to help test it out, please check the open github issue. <https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/SCALE-Planning/issues/190> SCALE 15x ProgramCall for Papers Shyam is currently working on writing our 2017 call for papers. Our goal is to launch it in mid May, ahead of OSCON but we may be delayed as we are still working on recruiting leads for many of the tracks. UpSCALE Jason Hibbets and the OpenSource.com team have expressed interest in producing the SCALE lightning talks program in 2017. Hannah Anderson and Jason are working on what the new format will look like, we expect to have further updates closer to SCALE. We are excited to welcome Jason and his colleagues to the SCALE planning team. If you would like to participate as well, please reach out to Hannah. TechActUSA Hand Off Josh Hoblitt, Ev Batey and Bala attended a meeting with Stu Sheldon (ActUSA) to complete a services handoff. Bala has posted notes to the tech list. Mail Migration The INFRA sub-team completed the migration of email from ActUSA’s servers to Google Apps for Nonprofits. If you are having trouble accessing your SCALE email account for some reason please let us know by filing a ticket in github or emailing Josh Hobllit, Bala or Ilan. DNS DNS for linuxfests.org/com/net and socallinuxexpo.org/com/net have been migrated from ActUSA to Amazon Web Services’s Route53. The code used for this migration is available on github <https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-dns/>. If you would like to contribute to this or other SCALE infra projects we welcome your pull requests! We are aware that as a result of this migration SCALE DNS services are now IPv4 only. This is expected to be temporary only, and was necessary to allow us to regain control of DNS to unblock our migration of mail and other services. The INFRA team is committed to ensuring that SCALE services continue to be available via both IPv4 and IPv6, we are currently evaluating long term DNS solutions. Mailing Lists and Wiki We have not yet begun work on migrating mailman or phplist to alternate providers. We are currently evaluating a number of infrastructure providers. We promised to fix the settings on scale-planning to not strip FROM addresses, bounce messages when emails are rejected, as well as allow participation from all ISPs regardless of DMARC policy. Delivery on these promises is blocked on migration. We expect to have this done before the end of May. Website Our websites remain at ActUSA until a new infrastructure provider has been selected. However, we have begun preparing automation tooling for deploying our web services. To this end, Ron Golan has made our drupal code available in a git repository <https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-drupal>. The INFRA team has begun developing chef recipes <https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-chef> for managing our web servers. The goal is to build these such that they can be tested locally in Vagrant. If you have experience with Chef for configuration management, I am sure that the team would be happy to have a hand in further development. Wiki SCALE has historically maintained a private wiki for planning purposes. The wiki was Mediawiki based. The wiki remains online on ActUSA’s servers, but we have begun the process of migrating it using mediawiki-to-markdown <https://github.com/philipashlock/mediawiki-to-markdown>. We are currently working through some formatting issues, but expect to have the wiki ported to Github later this week. Want to lend a hand? Email bala(a)socallinuxexpo.org VOIP SCALE has had a customer service line (+1-877-831-2569) for many years. The DID is via by Teliax <http://www.teliax.com>, and was historically terminated asterisk server maintained by ActUSA on our behalf. While in the past several SCALE staff members used it for inbound/outbound calls with SIP or IAX soft phones, these days the majority of calls are forwarded to individual’s cel phones. As such we are currently in discussion with Teliax about moving to a pay-as-you-go hosted PBX service they now offer. So far testing has been positive, but there is a caveat that we will need to change our users’ extensions. Current SCALE extensions are (3) digits, but Teliax only supports 2 or 4 digit extensions. Impact should be minor but we’ll need to go back and reprint any business cards as well as update our website. Other Projects We have a number of other pending infra projects. If you’d like to participate please check our issue <https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-planning/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais…> queue for other areas you can lend a hand.

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