Hey Ilan, good seeing you at All Things Open. I crashed your dinner at Whiskey Kitchen for a second... I am Jonas Rosland's friend, who just stopped by since I hadn't seen him in years.

On the AI/ML front, here are some topics I would like to see:

1. Research has shown Small Language Models (SLMs) perform better for purpose-built tasks than LLMs 2. Practical Agentic AI (as in how-tos) not just hand-waving stuff 🤣 this should be by code example(s) in a repo 3. Practical recommendations for Production Agentic Systems OR Agents Using MCP... again, not just hand-waving stuff 😬 this should be by code example(s) in a repo 4. AI on IoT/Edge 5. Interesting or unique AI or ML projects that solve interesting problems

I submitted my name for volunteering, but if you need help with anything, rumor has it I might know a little bit about AI/ML. 😀

Cheers! David vonThenen

On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM Ilan Rabinovitch ilan@socallinuxexpo.org wrote:

hey scale-friends, are there any specific topics you'd like to see covered in this year's CFP? Any specific speakers you'd like to see on the schedule? Please help us spread the word to your favorite OSS projects and developers.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM KC Braunschweig kc@socallinuxexpo.org wrote:

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The new SCaLE website is live and the Call for Presentations is open:

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp

1 Nov, 2025: Early submission deadline 1 Dec, 2025: Final submission deadline

Time to get those submissions in! Onward to Pasadena!

-- KC Braunschweig Program Chair Southern California Linux Expo kcb@socallinuxexpo.org

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Hi Steve,

I wish you great success. Unfortunately I can only read your messages. I' m from Europe, the Netherlands. I can not make the air fare. I wish you all the best in the endeavour.

Op do 30 okt. 2025 02:14 schreef Steven Sewell stevenhasspam@gmail.com:

Hello All,

Just wanted to let you know I reached out to my friend Marcin at Open Source Ecology and he is very interested in doing a presentation. I had him set up a speaker profile and then I sent a proposal with him as the speaker through.

TITLE: "OPEN SOURCE ECOLOGY - TOOLS TO REBUILD THE WORLD"

This is an amazing project and I think it would be great at SCaLE.

Thanks and hope everyone's October is wrapping up well.

To Your Success! Steven

On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM Ilan Rabinovitch ilan@socallinuxexpo.org wrote:

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hey scale-friends, are there any specific topics you'd like to see covered in this year's CFP? Any specific speakers you'd like to see on the schedule? Please help us spread the word to your favorite OSS projects and developers.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM KC Braunschweig kc@socallinuxexpo.org wrote:

...

The new SCaLE website is live and the Call for Presentations is open:

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp

1 Nov, 2025: Early submission deadline 1 Dec, 2025: Final submission deadline

Time to get those submissions in! Onward to Pasadena!

-- KC Braunschweig Program Chair Southern California Linux Expo kcb@socallinuxexpo.org

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