Speakers and Exhibitors line up for SCALE 6x

As attendee registration opens for the Sixth Annual So Cal Linux Expo, 
speakers and exhibitors are signing up steadily.

A few of the speakers and their topics  are:

Akkana Peck. author of "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional" 
will speak on "GIMP Demystified"; Jason Dixon of the OpenBSD Project 
will discuss high availability and fail-over in OpenBSD; Sven Oehme of 
IBM will speak on how to "Scale Out File Services using Samba and a 
Clustered Filesystem"; and Stormy Peters of OpenLogic will discuss the 
motivations behind coding for Open Source Software in her talk "Would 
you do it again for free?"

Some of the exhibitors that have committed to attending SCALE are 
Novell, IBM, Plain Black,Zenoss, and Hyperic.

Some of the non-profit organizations that will be exhibiting at SCALE: 
Damn Small Linux; Debian; Foresight Linux; Gentoo: GNOME; KDE; Inkscape; 
FreeBSD/PC-BSD; OpenBSD; NetBSD; and Ubuntu.

Over the last two SCALEs, the Expo has expanded to included specialized 
conferences on the Friday prior to SCALE.  For SCALE 6x: the Women in 
Open Source conference will return for its second year, and the health 
care conference, (DOHCS) Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Systems, 
returns for a second time.  Last year DOHCS was a single track. For 
SCALE 6X, DOHCS splits into two tracks, a technical track and a business 
track.

Newly added for SCALE 6X is a Friday conference on education: ("OSSIE") 
Open Source Software in Education, which focuses on opportunities for 
Open Source in the education arena.

If you have any experience in any of the above-mentioned areas, please 
consider sharing it with the Open Source community at SCALE: the calls 
for papers for SCALE and for the Friday conferences can be found at 
http://socallinuxexpo.com/scale6x/conference-info/calls-f.... 
Submittal info for each conference can be found on their respective CFP 
pages.  Don't wait - the calls close on November 30th!

If your organization or company is considering a booth on the SCALE Expo 
floor, apply for one soon.  If you're a commercial entity, apply at: 
sponsorship@socallinuxexpo.org.  If you're a non-profit, apply to 
g@socallinuxexpo.org

Registration for SCALE 6X is now open!  Register now at 
http://socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/registration/ for SCALE in Los Angeles 
February 8th-10th, 2008!
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