Southern California Linux Expo
The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is an annual Linux, Open-Source, and Free Software conference held in Los Angeles, CA. SCALE grew out of a series of LUGFests put on by the Simi Conejo Linux Users Group in the late 90s. There were four of them, held every 6 months at the Nortel development facility in Simi Valley, California. They ended when Nortel closed that facility in 2001. Subsequently, members from SCLUG, USCLUG and UCLALUG organized to create a more regional event, which they named the Southern California Linux Expo.
SCALE is one of five community run Open-source software events in the United States, as of Spring 2011. It attempts to maintain a balance between commercial and non-profit organizations. SCALE has been held annually since 2002, and is a volunteer-run event.
The event features an expo floor with both commercial and .org / non-profit exhibitors, as well as 3 days of seminars on the topic of Linux and Open Source software.
In spite of having Linux in the name, SCALE welcomes all Open Source operating systems and software. In the past, Netbsd, Freebsd, Pcbsd, Openbsd, Reactos, Rockbox, and the Haiku operating system have all been represented at SCALE.
SCALE strives to have a broad selection of sessions/presentations for all interested in Open-source topics and technology. Everyone is welcome, from those new to linux/open-source to professionals deeply involved with linux/open-source.
Other past exhibitors have included: IBM, HP, Sharp, MySQL, Debian, Gentoo Linux, the Fedora Project, KDE, GNOME, PostgreSQL, Fluxbox, the Software Freedom Law Center, Cacert, Openstreetmap, NSLU2-linux, The Document Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google, MythTV, Drupal, Django (web framework), WebOS-internals, Inkscape, Facebook, eHarmony and others.
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