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Hi All....<br><br>Here is the latest news from SCaLE 9X! Lots of fun stuff on the schedule. Hope to see you there. Don't forget we will have a short OLPC-SoCal/OSSIE-CUE meetup during the BOF (Birds Of A Feather) sessions at 7 pm on Saturday evening. We will finish in plenty of time for the reception, raffle, and laser tag activities. Will you be the lucky one to win the Red XO?<br><br>Caryl<br><br>> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:19:08 -0800<br>> To: caryl@laptop.org<br>> From: scale-announce@socallinuxexpo.org<br>> Subject: SCALE Update: Special events abound; using social media<br>> <br>> SCALE UPDATE<br>> <br>> SUMMARY: Special events at SCALE 9X abound;<br>> Keep track of SCALE through the magic of social media<br>> <br>> LOS ANGELES -- A wide variety of special events accent the usual fare of presentations and exhibits at the 9th annual Southern California Linux Expo.<br>> <br>> FOSS standards like Fedora, OpenSUSE, PostgreSQL and Ubuntu are holding day-long sessions on Friday, and SCALE U and DevOps Day will have a variety of sessions as well.<br>> <br>> But when the sessions are over, the fun begins. A happy hour, sponsored by Rackspace, runs from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, which leads up to the highlight of Friday evening: the UpSCALE talks, which begin at 8 p.m. in the La Jolla room.<br>> <br>> On Saturday evening after a day of sessions and booth-hopping, SCALE 9X attendees can visit the conference reception and raffle, as well as participate in "The Weakest Geek," a geek trivia game.<br>> <br>> After "The Weakest Geek," SCALE 9X will host a laser tag, video game and board game night in the Plaza Ballroom from 9 p.m. onward. <br>> <br>> Also on tap for SCALE 9X on Sunday is the LPI certification test, offered by the Linux Professional Institute, at a discounted price of $99 for LPIC-1 and LPIC-2, and $219 for the LPIC-3. For more information on the LPI exam, visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/special-events/lpi-testing<br>> <br>> For a listing of special events at SCALE 9X, visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/special-events<br>> <br>> As far as using social media is concerned, you can keep track of events as they happen by following one of these social media networks:<br>> <br>> Facebook Page:<br>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/SCALE/329976144281<br>> <br>> Facebook Event:<br>> https://www.facebook.com/socallinuxexpo<br>> <br>> LinkedIn Event:<br>> http://events.linkedin.com/SCALE-9x-2011-Southern-California-Linux/pub/431336<br>> <br>> Twitter:<br>> www.twitter.com/socallinuxexpo<br>> <br>> Identi.ca<br>> www.identi.ca/socallinuxexpo<br>> <br>> SCALE 9X will be held from Feb. 25-27 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel. For more information, visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org<br>> <br>> <br>> [TO UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe from this e-mail list, send an e-mail with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject field to unsubscribe_scale@redwoodresearch.net ]<br> </body>
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