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

Events

OSCON

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 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. Our goal is to finalize pricing by end of June so that we can launch registration.

Tech

INFRA 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@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@socallinuxexpo.org and bala@socallinuxexpo.org

SSL Certs

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 queue for other areas you can lend a hand.

Other LinuxFests Programs

Community Leadership Summit

LinuxFests’s newest member program, the Community Leadership Summit 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/