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Volunteer with ADHD denied visa waiver to attend SCaLE and help with the olpc2.0 booth!
by Caryl Bigenho 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

Hi folks... We may have lost one of our booth volunteers who was to fly in from England next week. It seems that his visa waiver was denied because he marked on his application that he has ADHD! Can you imagine! How many programmers, hackers, etc have ADHD???!!! We are trying to get Sen. Diane Feinstein to help with this, but he may not be able to come. I wonder if others from outside the US will run into similar hitches??? Caryl

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Question about Saturday keynote speaker
by Lan Dang 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Hi all, I saw a SCALE Newsletter that said that Dr. Christine Corbett Moran of Caltech will be the keynote speaker for Saturday. I can see the entry on the schedule, but I'm perplexed why this was not announced on the SCaLE website or Twitter. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/speakers/christine-corbett-moran She's one of my selling points for promoting SCaLE to the Caltech/JPL community, so I would like to know if I'm being premature in advertising this. Thanks, Lan

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Video Recording Help
by Sean McCabe 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Hey Team, I just wanted to say you all are doing an awesome job. I can barely keep up with the emails. But keep up the good work, were almost there! Jono reached out to me to confirm I could shoot the Bad Voltage show. They have one video camera and are looking for someone to run it. Also if anyone has a camera they can video with they asked if they would be willing to help out? Anyone interested should reach out to them directly: Jono(a)jonobacon.org Thanks, Sean

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OSSIE folks any of you participating in Educelerate LA: EdTech Meetup
by Mx Siltanen 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Hi, This looks like a great meetup to promote OSSIE in, curious if any OSSIE folks in this group so you can chat with them about promoting the track. Educelerate LA: EdTech Meetup https://www.meetup.com/EducelerateLA/ Thank You Matti

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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 22 Feb '17

22 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 20 Feb '17

20 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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