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Re: [Scale-planning] SCALE 13X Call for Papers Questions
by Jenn Waterman 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Hi everyone, I'm so glad this topic has been raised because I think it could be valuable in the long term! Phil mentioned: "I would like us to gather this optional data and publish the statistics. I hope that this will encourage others to do so as well. Doing that will shed light on the problems we have and the problems we don't have, and enable all of us to work together." I agree, Phil! One of the constant refrains in technology is that there are not "enough" women (how many women are "enough" women, one wonders); at tech conferences there are not "enough" women and there is not "enough" diversity in general. A great starting point in solving these problems or at least in understanding them better seems to be in gathering some relevant data. (For example, when we say there are not "enough" women in technology, it's important to think about questions like, "How many women are graduating with degrees relating to technology?" "How many women are applying for technical jobs?" "What percentage of women are in leadership roles within the field?" ... These questions can help to identify what the true obstacles may be, weeding them out from opinions and hyperbole.) I think that it could be important and relevant to gather this information not only for SCALE -- because this would be really useful information to have when answering questions about the diversity of the event, which is a topic that always, always comes up -- but for other conferences as well. I have seen a huge increase in diversity at SCALE over the years but it seems to be an area that always needs improvement. We can't move forward meaningfully without first identifying the areas that truly need improvement. Also, it's just really interesting to gather data. Now what can be done to address the question of whether or not "enough" geeks attend? :) - Jenn

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SCALE 13x Call for Papers Questions
by Gareth J. Greenaway 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Hey everyone, I hope this email finds everyone doing well. The scale-planning list unfortunately doesn't see too much traffic but our goal is to change that as much as possible and to ensure that the planning of SCALE is more transparent, open and allow more people to participate. One of our goals with SCALE has always been to ensure that our speaker pool as well as our attendee audience is an diverse as possible. Along those lines, the SCALE 13x Call for Papers will be launching soon and we're excited to see the submissions flood in. We are considering a change to the CFP this year, not the process but more specifically around the type of questions that we ask to better gauge how we as an organization are doing on recruiting speakers. The proposal for SCALE 13x is to include two *optional* questions for potential speakers. The first would be age, the goal here obviously would be to see statistical information about the age of the speakers and what topics they're submitting talks on. Since we've introduced the TNG track at SCALE, we've had a good number of talks from the youth in the free & open source community. It will be especially interesting to see that continue in the future and how many of those speakers submit talks into the other SCALE tracks. The second additional question would be gender. In the past, SCALE has received feedback that gender diversity is an issue to be addressed. Therefore we are considering asking potential speakers to answer the *optional* question to indicate their gender, to allow us to better gauge the number of speaker submissions that we receive from both men & women. This information will be used purely for statistical analysis and will not be used as the basis of whether a speaker is accepted or not. Once again both of these questions would *optional* questions and will include a request stating that the speaker has Decline to Answer the question. During the CFP review process the answers to both of these questions would be hidden from the reviewer and would only be available after a talk has been accepted and published. The information from these questions would also not be published. Thanks everyone for your time and I welcome any & all feedback. If anyone is not comfortable providing feedback to the list at large then feel free to respond to me privately. Thanks! Gareth

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SCALE 12x Feedback
by Gareth J. Greenaway 09 Mar '14

09 Mar '14

Since it's fresh in everyone's minds now is the perfect time to send feedback on how SCALE 12x went. What worked? What didn't work? What you liked? What you didn't like? What would you like to see at SCALE 13x that wasn't at SCALE 12x? Thoughts on the Friday Night Keynote Should it be a permanent thing? Any topics not covered in speaker tracks that you would like to see covered? Thanks! -- SCALE 13x - 2015 https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/

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SCALE 12X registration
by Lei Zhang 09 Mar '14

09 Mar '14

How long was your wait in line? What worked well? What didn't? Discuss.

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Tech: The good, the bad, and the ugly...
by Stuart Sheldon 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 A quick report from the Tech side of things... What we managed to do right: This year, the network came up, and with a little work with the hotel and Level3 we were able to deliver an awesome internet experience for attendees and exhibitors both. Wireless seemed rock solid for the entire show, and the new IP names of scale and scale-slow did exactly what they intended. This is the first time I have ever seen any statistics that showed 5g being the primary network of choice. The registration network and self registration system delivered on reliability and security this year. The use of Raspberry Pis for this was once again a well executed implementation of inexpensive hardware. The new Tech Stats sign outside of the NOC was a big hit as well this year. I don't think I saw a time when at least one person wasn't looking at it. The new radios that Tom in A/V selected for this year for the most part did exactly what we needed. And there were the orange shirts... This year if you had a question about anything related to SCaLE and couldn't find anyone to ask, you must have been color blind. No one could miss us with the new Tech shirts! Of all the feed back I got, I heard more positive comments from attendees about the shirts than almost any other new thing we did this year! What needs improvement: I almost put this up in the successful list, but although it worked flawlessly when someone called in, not many people did call in. This was most likely due to two things, lack of advertising around the hotel and the orange shirts eliminating many potential calls. I'm not sure what this will eventually turn into, but I believe we will be re-inventing this a bit for SCaLE 13x. Configuration Management was a goal for this year that we just couldn't fit into the short time we had left over for new things this year. I'm hoping we can move toward completing this earlier in our work cycles. Network Device Dependency is another thing that we need to do better. Although I am used to tracking things down via standard documentation, I am sure a visual representation of the network tree would be extremely useful to others in the NOC. I'll personally take this on, but would love input as well. This year was awesome! We all worked as a team, and we all shared our knowledge as a group. I hope everyone learned something this year, I know I did! Stu - -- "Just remember, when you?re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed." -- Charles M. Schulz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJTDOWtAAoJEFKVLITDJSGSuU4P/iKkWtFWnTe8wzDKtr7GJAD4 9frPQZ7d5i8Kv7PL6PRVMeDpQsWd7lrPTEP8zOF9Vf/PkWtbdsg/Eyb0FQI3o/qA 0GEQb3NVp8tVhlWRPl+Lm3qEdmPTe9VuA8OQiHHNd4OuY+dCv4ez2rjuDN9WXnjY 3YGnECmNRaQWToHT7D7q+V8Nv4ENhr7iWdFybPCA+Jc37bZepKA5xuRRjWgqKgbt eltmBLpp54SOMzdnpOUahWwVQCoLNtIfYLotUPnZc6+3GfNGWSs7vFiNgzhG9UXr ftHjS/HUgTYawUBXr98X0oph+pYzaXyqEog38tdS9Ea/yKGP+G0lkwqPhqxUE4in ZaNCd0RNnrvXv2t+UCe5/bbWT5DOkuTTTt175CcPgcm9uTXGwMjWiiCqGU7YF07v AYl+Gh6tyu2cMSMqQCK8LEQak8Y4wNJ67JKd1L/X5jH10TkZVc3Q+vg/hua3SYP8 YngyFEh1R0RVZWA2xPpFePJNMPPwgGEuqkJJ/KfPcVe8jB0p1TFF+GMzQKtMJ3K7 37AIEIPyE29FVb264G0zaNhl66WUJYbKmVlMe0JDxzEN3gNWD1Adg3huCgobpveR YsmWRjBdYuSbkXmlsNxvZ2mgY/G0tE+JuBeydSxnkt0/FcWM1tIXcD9MujvtF6X2 2Q31OtVJ/QrpItRXFc2a =xYy0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Game Night
by Lori Barfield 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

how about giving us some Game Night feedback? we had food, drinks, t-shirts, Neon Golf, table games, board games, movies, giveaways, and crafts for kids. let us know which things you think didn't work, and which you would like to see again. did you bring a +1 or kidling to the party? also, the pinball/arcade game vendor sent us an email asking which were your favorite games, and if we use him again, which ones you'd want in the future. ...lori

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Thank you for the ymmy leftovers and appreciation of support! Great job! Continue!
by Aleksey Tsalolikhin 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Lori brought to Deluxe some yummy leftovers from SCALE yesterday. Thank you and we are pleased we could support SCALE (6 attended and we got OK from Disney for Game Night movie). You are doing GREAT, continue!! Yours fondly, Aleksey Tsalolikhin Deluxe Digital Cinema Burbank

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Speaker surveys
by Lei Zhang 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hi folks, Just a reminder to take the speaker surveys while SCALE 12X is still fresh in our minds. https://reg.socallinuxexpo.org/speaker_survey/ Let your friends know. I added https://tinyurl.com/scale12ss as an alias.

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proof readers?
by Ilan Rabinovitch 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Hello, With most of the sessions for SCALE 12x now announced, we are about to start proofreading abstract text for our printed and mobile program guides. Extra eyes make this lighter work, so we'd love any help you can offer. Thanks! Ilan -- Ilan Rabinovitch Conference Chair Southern California Linux Expo (w) 877.831.2569 x 110 (m) 818.442.1865 SCALE 12x: Feb 21-23, 2014 - Los Angeles CA Texas Linux Fest: June 13-14, 2014 - Austin, TX

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Design Projects
by Ilan Rabinovitch 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

Hello, If anyone is interested in lending a hand with some design projects. Josh has mentioned he would love a hand with a few of our projects this year. We're currently working on the designs for our badges, mugs, tote bags and shirts. If you're interested let us know! Thanks! Ilan -- Ilan Rabinovitch Conference Chair Southern California Linux Expo (w) 877.831.2569 x 110 (m) 818.442.1865 SCALE 12x: Feb 21-23, 2014 - Los Angeles CA Texas Linux Fest: June 13-14, 2014 - Austin, TX

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