Sharpen your No. 2 pencils

As you might expect, the Southern California Linux Expo — that’s SCALE 10X for those of you keeping score at home — starts a month early this year, and preparations are already in full swing.

So the folks that have to organize the Call for Papers, make the decisions, schedule the rooms, etc. — and that includes yours truly — remind you that the deadline for the SCALE 10X Call for Papers is rapidly approaching.

The SCALE team just sent out an announcement reminding those who plan to give a presentation or workshop at SCALE 10X that there are just a little over three weeks left to submit. The SCALE 10X Call for Papers closes on Nov. 17.

To submit a presentation for SCALE 10X, you have to first register as a speaker. Registrations from previous years are no longer valid. Speakers may submit multiple presentations.

For more information, visit this link.

Required tag line: SCALE 10X will be held from Jan. 20-22 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport in Los Angeles. For more information on the expo, visit the SCALE 10X page.

This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can’t change it in any way or use it commercially.

(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)

The kids are all right

Gareth Greenaway, the tallest of the SCALE team running the Southern California Linux Expo, proposes to help out the smallest of the Linux/FOSS users.

How? For the first time ever, the Southern California Linux Expo will host the SCALE Kids Conference on Gareth’s watch, a free and open source event where the community leaders of tomorrow will be able to spotlight their talents and ideas.

According to a recent SCALE release, the goal of the conference is to be as “kid driven” as possible. The event offers a unique opportunity for kids 10 to 16 to see and experience the inner workings of planning, determine the content, and help to steer the direction that the conference will take.

The SCALE Kids Conference will take place on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012 in parallel with the main SCALE 10X conference.

For those parents and kids interested in helping to plan the event, Gareth and the SCALE team (and that includes yours truly) encourage you to join the scale-kids mailing list here.

Don’t forget: SCALE 10X will be held from Jan. 20-22 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel. Call for papers is open. Mark your calendars.

This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can’t change it in any way or use it commercially.

(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)

Draw your way to LA

Want a free trip to the Southern California Linux Expo — SCALE 10X — in Los Angeles in January, with accommodations, airfare and admission to the expo all paid?

In marking 10 years of the Southern California Linux Expo and 20 years of Linux, the SCALE team announced today it wants to incorporate an open-source approach to this year’s expo logo designs for publications, signage and swag.

The SCALE team is holding a contest, closing Nov. 4, to select the artwork for use on this year’s t-shirts, attendee bags, and other conference materials. The designer of the winning submission will win a free pass to SCALE 10X, including airfare within the continental United States, as well as a three-night stay at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport.

Here’s what you do:

– Grab Troy, the SCALE penguin. Files can be downloaded at the contest site – http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/blog/design-logo-scale-10x-win-trip-la

– Design a logo

– Send your submission by e-mail no later than 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Nov. 4 to contest@socallinuxexpo.org

But wait, there’s more. Make sure that

– Your design is in either a PDF, SVG or EPS format, 300 DPI or higher; and

– You include a caption/slogan to be used with the design.

Contest rules — and there are a lot of them (and the airfare covers only the United States) — and other information can be found on the contest page at http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/blog/design-logo-scale-10x-win-trip-la

SCALE 10X will be held from Jan. 20-22 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel. For more information on SCALE 10X, visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org

This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can’t change it in any way or use it commercially.

(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)