Of particular interest, given the marketing priorities we've
identified for OOo2.3, is this:
"... newly added for SCALE 6X is a Friday conference on
education: “Open Source in Education” which focuses on
opportunities for Open Source in the field of education."
A natural for OpenOffice.org, I think! -- if anyone is available
to speak on the topic.
OOo could also probably have a (free) booth, if we had people to
work at it. I am unable to attend next year's SCALE.
I've attended one SCALE, in 2006, and thought it was good venue
for reaching users as well as developers. The OpenDocument booth
had copies of the OOoAuthors books on OOo, among other items, and
they were quite popular. ALthough SCALE is a Linux conference,
many people asked questions related to encouraging Windows users
to switch to OOo.
--Jean
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
Scale is an interesting and worthwhile event, from what I have heard
from those here who have attended and from those in other projects who
have gone. AFAIK, there are very few OOo community members in SoCal,
however. I doubt if we would have funds for subsidizing anyone to go to
it, but it may be worthwhile to see if there is enough interest in the
new and expanded community.
Best
louis
Begin forwarded message:
From: Ilan Rabinovitch
Date: 10 Sep 2007 1:04:07 EDT (CA)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Call For Presentations - SCALE 6x
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Louis Suarez-Potts,
I would like to bring to your attention the 2008 Southern California
Linux Expo's Call For Papers. We would like to encourage the OpenOffice
community to participate in this year's call for papers. Our 6th annual
event, SCALE 6x will be held on February 8-10, 2008 at the Los Angeles
Airport Westin.
SCALE is an annual technical conference held in the Southern California
area. We are a non-profit event organized by USC, UCLA Linux Users
Group, and the Simi-Conejo Valley Linux Users Group. SCALE's goal is to
bring together all three pillars of the Linux community: open-source
users/developers, businesses and academic institutions. Each pillar is
critical to the success and growth of Linux and open-source. SCALE has
been called " .. one of the few good grass-root level technical
conferences for Linux" by Linux Kernel Developer Robert Love.
If you are interested in presenting on a topic related to Linux /
open-source, please see the call for papers on our website at:
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/calls-for-papers/
Past presentations are available online (including slides and audio):
2007 - http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/conference+info/speakers/
2006 - http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/past/2006/hours.php
2005 - http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/past/2005/hours.php
2003 - http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/past/2003/presentations.php
2002 - http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/past/2002/presentations.php
We hope to see you at SCALE 6x!
Best regards,
Ilan Rabinovitch
Conference Chair
Southern California Linux Expo
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
