[SGVHAK] Notes from SCALE

[Lan Dang]

Hi all,
Glad to see those of you who made it to Southern California Linux Expo.  Remember, find us some speakers for the rest of the year.  And get contact info from former members of the LUG, or of other LUGs in the Southern California area.  It might be helpful for our 20th Anniversary planning.

We had a lot of SGVLUG/SGVHAK presence on the SCALE A/V team.  Thanks for volunteering.  It really helps, and it's great working with so many familiar faces.
Steven and Dave have been great at manning the SGVLUG/SGVHAK booth with hardware projects contributed by them and James and Michael S.  Thanks also to John for providing some of the great items for the raffle and sales.  We have SGVHAK/SGVLUG mugs and t-shirts, the Tux-Lab bottle openers and Arduino cases.
Here's my little contribution to the booth.  I really should've picked a better color for my "R".  The pieces come from the acrylic cutouts when we lasercut the SCALE A/V computer cases.

https://plus.google.com/105186854839066863267/posts/Mv3GXkPdZQj
For those of you who haven't been paying attention, there were  live streams of most of the talks on Youtube!  Check out:https://www.youtube.com/user/socallinuxexpo
The recordings are available on Youtube, but they appear as 8-10 hour videos.  You may have to crosscheck with the SCALE conference schedule to figure out which stream to seek through to find a recording of the talk.  This year, the A/V team also managed to stream to the hotel TV.  I'm never in my hotel room during the day so I haven't seen it yet.  But I've heard people say good things.
The SGVLUG 20th Anniversary BoF was well-attended and we did some great brainstorming for the anniversary event we want to hold in November.  You will hear more chatter about that on the mailing list after we've recovered from SCALE.  

Game Night was awesome, as always, thanks to the SCALE entertainment crew.  We were well fed, and there was an assortment of entertainment from air hockey and foosball to traditional board games to the Euro-style board games, to arcade games and video games.  There was blacklight minature golf and a new display with tiny drones that are meant to fly through a ring.

Wish us luck on having a smooth Sunday.  Steven, Michael, and I will be giving talks on Sunday afternoon.  

Steven Doran is giving a talk on "How to Perform Real Time Processing on the Raspberry Pi" in Century CD at 1:30pm.http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/presentations/how-perform-real-time-processing-raspberry-pi
Michael Starch is giving a talk on "Streaming-OODT: An Open Source Platform for Big-Data Processing" in Marina at 4:30pm.http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/presentations/streaming-oodt-open-source-platform-big-data-processing

I am giving a talk on "Distributed Version Control Systems and Mercurial" in La Jolla at 4:30pm.http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/presentations/distributed-version-control-mercurial

Lan




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