SCALE 14x
SCALE 14x
Went to SCALE yesterday. 1st time attendee, though I've tried to be able to attend for years. Thanks to being a SGVLUG member, was half-price. Attended talks on Community, Mentoring, and the Linux kernel. Got to chat up fellow SGVLUG members, and ran into some previous co-workers from WBOL.
Hung out for a bit at the SGVLUG booth. They had some home made open source 3d printers running demos. Was pretty cool. They had good interest from attendees.
Visited the Debian booth, chatted up one of the developers there. Visited the WB booth, they are hiring for J2EE developers, so threw my hat in their ring. Visited the Rubicon booth, chatted up Wil, previously from WBOL. Donated to the EFF, LibreOffice when I visited their booths. Got T-shirts, and swag.
I even saw someone from LJ that frequently posts to LJ, but wasn't able to approach and say "hi", as she was being chatted up by a group.
I really liked that it was at the Pasadena Convention Center, as that is very close to where I live. I simply parked at work, for free, then walked a few blocks to the event.
For next year, I want to take vacation, and attend all 4 days. From the experience, realized today just how much I missed being a professional Geek, and living in the culture and camaraderie of Geekdom.
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x