Scale-planning February 2017

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Questions from Helen as a student volunteer
by Wang, Jing (Helen) 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Dear Team, I just successfully subscribed to the mailing list and am excited to join you! I am wondering, if possible, could you please send me a list of your teams so that I can choose what to join? I have go over the mails but haven't found a general information. It is mainly on past event coordination and sponsorship. I am a student and I am mostly free on weekend and evening. Very best, Helen

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SCALE Next Generation (Youth Track) Playground - Call for Volunteers
by Avni Khatri 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Hi all, *We need your help for the SCALE Next Generation (TNG)/Youth Track!* We are putting together a "Playground" for the TNG track at SCALE this year that will run in parallel to the TNG talks on Saturday from 10am-6pm and consist of hands-on areas/pods where kids can come and go throughout the day. There is a room that is being finalized for the playground activities. We are proposing that each pod have 4 stations with very concrete instructions printed out. Kids could be encouraged to pair up as they come to the Playground or they could do the activities on their own. The Playground would be 'staffed' by volunteers who sign-up for 1-hour or longer shifts - we would aim for 1 volunteer per pod at all times. *There are 3 things that we need help with: * 1. *Finalizing the pods and providing tutorials for youth to do*. What we'd like is a beginner and advanced exercise at each pod that youth can do mostly independently. The proposed list of ideas is below, but if you have another idea that incorporates FOSS or open hardware, we'd love to hear it. Please contact me directly at *avni(a)kidsoncomputers.org <avni(a)kidsoncomputers.org>* if you can help with critical piece!! 2. Volunteering the day of. Please sign up at: *http://tinyurl.com/tngplaygroundsignup <http://tinyurl.com/tngplaygroundsignup>* if you can help the day of for 1-hour or longer shift. Please also indicate in the signup sheet if you have a pod preference. 3. Badge Creation - We'd like to create fun badges for kids to pickup/wear after they've completed a pod. We need one design per pod and would appreciate design skills. Please let me if you'd be willing to design the badges! *Proposed pods* : 1. *Learn how to install Linux* - Equipment: 4 laptops, 10 USB Drives 2. *Sonic Pi <https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/sonic-pi-lessons/>- Learn to program with a Raspberry Pi 3* - Equipment: 4 x [Rasbperry Pi 3, Power, MicroSD, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse Headset] 3. *Edison Robot <https://meetedison.com/content/EdBooks/EdBook2-Your-EdVenture-into-Robotics…> - You're a Programmer* - Equipment: 4 Edison Robots, Batteries, 4 laptops 4. *Arduino Uno* <https://www.arduino.cc/> - LED light exercise - Equipment: 4 laptops 5. *Scratch / Scratch Jr <https://scratch.mit.edu/>. - Learn to Write your Name * - Equipment: 4 laptops THANK YOU for considering. Any and all help is GREATLY appreciated. Feel free to email me with any questions. Avni Khatri President, Kids on Computers <http://kidsoncomputers.org/blog> avni(a)kidsoncomputers.org

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Fwd: Fw: Promotional verbiage for SCaLE
by Ilan Rabinovitch 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

----- Forwarded Message ----- *From:* Lan Dang <l.dang(a)ymail.com> *To:* SCALE Planning List <scale-planning(a)lists.linuxfests.org> *Sent:* Monday, February 20, 2017 6:39 PM *Subject:* Promotional verbiage for SCaLE Along the lines of what Helen and some others are asking, is there a promo kit for SCaLE? Flyers are easy to pass around, whether you just intend on emailing them or if you plan on printing and posting them around campus. Over the past couple of years, I've promoted SCaLE heavily via email. Here is an example of what I would say. When I address students or educators, I usually tell them about the standing "STDNT" discount code, which requires verification of student/teacher id onsite. ================= The Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) is a large volunteer-run open source technology conference that will be at the Pasadena Convention Center on March 2-5, 2017. It is a family-friendly conference that serves a diverse audience from IT professionals to students and educators and even youth. Talks run the gamut from super-technical to beginner and also cover soft skills like mentorship, community building or professional development. The 4-day pass price will be $85 until Feb 21st and will go up to $90 after that. If you just want to check out the exhibit hall, the expo pass is $20. There is a promotional code ("<insert promo code here>") that will take 50% off the 4-day SCALE Pass. https://register.socallinuxexpo.org/reg6/ There are a large number of collocated meetings like Ubucon, DevOps Days, Open Infra Day, Bad Voltage Live, etc. There are also informal gatherings called Birds of a Feather sessions, after the formal programming, which allow you to meet with other attendees to talk about your specific interests. This year, there appears to be a lot of talks on containers and Docker as well as some tutorials for Kubernetes. There are talks about open source in enterprise. We have strong educational and youth programming as well. On Saturday, we have a youth track called The Next Generation(TNG), where our young technologists give talks to their peers and others. On Sunday, , our educators have their turn with talks about using Open Source Software in Education (OSSIE). In addition, there is a pretty awesome game night on Saturday night that starts around 8pm for families and is opened at 9pm for the rest of us. (Kids usually get in free if accompanied by adult.) You can find out more details about the programming at SCaLE at the links below. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/speakers http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/events http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/schedule Please consider going to SCaLE. Feel free to foward this to anyone who you think might be interested. Thanks, Lan

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ubiquity of BVL
by der.hans 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

moin moin, is Bad Voltage Live in every room or otherwise blocking out all events from 20:00 to 21:00 on Friday as is shown on the calendar? https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/schedule/friday https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/bad-voltage-live-0 Also, talks on Friday end at 17:30, so BoFs could start then? ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.PhxLinux.org/ # If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then # you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and # I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have # two ideas. -- George Bernard Shaw

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Re: [Scale-planning] OSSIE folks any of you participating in Educelerate LA: EdTech Meetup
by Andy Seltzer 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Anything you need someone to sit at a table for?Andy3105449439 Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note5, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

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Coder help with Design/Graphics
by Josh Andler 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Hey All, So, working on the printed program for SCALE every year is one of the most challenging tasks for the graphics/design team. If there is someone who is proficient in python and willing to learn a specific application's API, you could probably save us days of work (especially if changes happen close to the expo). Basically, I need a way to pseudo-automate populating the daily schedules for SCALE within Scribus. I spoke with a couple developers for the application and was pointed to this repository: https://gitorious.org/schedule-csv2scribus-rmll/schedule-csv2scribus-rmll?p… ... which has the relevant files to generate pages within Scribus from CSV files. Anyone interested, willing to do some digging, and want to talk more about it? It would be greatly appreciated if I could get a hand in this area. Cheers, Josh

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Friday Night at SCALE
by Ilan Rabinovitch 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Hi Folks, We've published a blog post announcing the Friday night schedule: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/blog/bad-voltage-live-and-spazmatics You may be wondering where UpSCALE is. It will move to Saturday night. Ilan Rabinovitch 877-831-2569 x110 Voice 818-442-1865 Mobile ilan(a)linuxfests.org Email

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Cryptoparty?
by Caryl Bigenho 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Hi Folks! I heard this piece on NPR yesterday and immediately thought... wow! That's something that could be done at SCaLE. Surely, there are going to be a lot of experts there who could help do this. The real challenge would be finding a place to put it in the schedule. Maybe an evening BOF? Maybe an early event with breakfast and a fee to cover the food (or maybe an "angel" would sponsor it)? Maybe running parallel to some other evening event? Check it out here! http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/02/06/513705825/cryptopa… Caryl <http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/02/06/513705825/cryptopa…> [https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/02/06/istock-477385045_wide-343676929…]<http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/02/06/513705825/cryptopa…> Cryptoparties Teach Attendees How To Stay Anonymous Online<http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/02/06/513705825/cryptopa…> www.npr.org In these days of cyber intrigue, journalists, activists and ordinary citizens are interested in learning how to navigate the Internet anonymously. At cryptoparties, they learn how to do just that.

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Re: [Scale-planning] outreach for Youth track?
by Ilan Rabinovitch 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Phillip Ballew was working on flyer. Let me check in with him. Ilan Rabinovitch Conference Chair Southern California Linux Expo 877-831-2569 x110 Voice 818-442-1865 Mobile ilan(a)linuxfests.org Email --- Ask me about sponsorship and speaking opportunities at LinuxFests.org's upcoming events: * SeaGL - Nov 11-12, 2016 * SCALE 15x - March 2-5, 2017 - Pasadena, CA On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Lan Dang via Scale-planning < scale-planning(a)lists.linuxfests.org> wrote: > _______________________________________________ > Scale-planning mailing list > Scale-planning(a)lists.linuxfests.org > https://lists.linuxfests.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scale-planning > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Lan Dang <l.dang(a)ymail.com> > To: SCALE Planning List <scale-planning(a)lists.linuxfests.org> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 04:31:57 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: outreach for Youth track? > Hi, > > I'm planning an outreach event at JPL (Pasadena/La Canada-Flintridge) on > Friday, Feb 10th aimed at encourage girls to continue pursuing an interest > in coding and technology. It is primarily targeted at high schoolers > participating in programs like Girls Who Code and FIRST Robotics, though I > have invited a couple of college outreach groups and my colleagues to > participate. > > One of the things I want to do is to bring their attention to hackathons > and conferences. SCALE is an obvious example. I've also reached out to > people I know with the NASA Space Apps Challenge and the Intel Science and > Engineering Fair. > > Is someone from SCALE available to talk about the youth track and its > activities with the aim of either encouraging them to attend SCALE or > participate in the future. > > The event will be Friday, Feb 10th, from 6pm to 9pm. Please let me know > and I will make arrangements off-list. > > Thanks, > > Lan > >

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Sunday Keynote Confirmed
by Ilan Rabinovitch 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi Folks, We have confirmed Karen Sandler as our Sunday morning keynote as Karen Sandler, who is Executive Director at the Software Freedom Conservancy. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/speakers/karen-sandler We expect to have the Saturday morning keynote confirmed in the next day or two. Regards, Ilan Rabinovitch 877-831-2569 x110 Voice 818-442-1865 Mobile ilan(a)linuxfests.org Email

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