news 28 Posted January 21, 2016 SCALE 14X is in the starting blocks, waiting for the proverbial starting gun on Thursday morning. Get that cup of coffee because there's a lot here. For an entire list of events happening on Thursday, visit our schedule page at http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x/schedule/thursday Here's what to expect at SCALE on Thursday, the first of the four days in the first-of-the-year Linux/Open Source expo: UBUCON Starts today: UbuCon returns to SCALE 14x and will be held Thursday and Friday. Part unconference, part scheduled sessions, the SCALE 14x UbuCon will cover what is going on within the Ubuntu community and how to improve the community. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth kicks off the event with the Ubucon Keynote on Thursday morning at 10 in Ballroom DE, with a multi-day, multi-track event to follow. All registered attendees of SCALE are able to attend the UbuCon Summit but if you're interested in attending the UbuCon Summit we ask that you register at http://ubucon.org/en/events/ubucon-summit-us/ [Promotional break: SCALE 14X would like to recognize and thank StackIQ, whose support helps make SCALE possible. For more information on StackIQ, visit http://www.stackiq.com ] Chef Training: No, you're not going to be anywhere near a kitchen making great food, unfortunately. Chef is an automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code. This is a hands-on tutorial that will cover the basics that everyone needs to know about how to use Chef for system and infrastructure management. We'll discuss the server API, the code primitives, and the tools required to successfully use Chef. The training session runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Thursday and for more information, visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x/presentations/chef-training [Promotional break: SCALE 14X would like to recognize and thank Facebook, whose support helps make SCALE possible. For more information on Facebook, visit https://www.facebook.com ] Apache BigTop Training: Not exactly a three-ring circus, attendees in this workshop will learn about the Bigtop project, it's ecosystem and the roadmap for the project. They will receive an introduction to the concept of in-memory computing and learn about the Apache Ignite project. Attendees will also be given an overview of the Apache Spark project, a fast and general engine for big data processing. The workshop will conclude with sessions on how Apache Bigtop can be introduced into an existing infrastructure for those wishing to build their own stacks. This workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday. For more information, visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x/presentations/apache-bigtop-workshop [Promotional break: SCALE 14X would like to recognize and thank Percona, whose support helps make SCALE possible. For more information on Percona, visit https://www.percona.com/ ] PostgreSQL Days: The annual PosgreSQL ( -at -) SCALE returns to SCALE 14X, raising its game with a two-day, two-track event of sessions designed for a general audience of web developers, sysadmins, DBAs and open source users. Talks will have significant technical content. For those of you keeping score at home PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system, with more than 30 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows. For more information, visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x/postgresqlscale SCALE 14X would like to recognize and thank Percona, whose support helps make SCALE possible. For more information on Percona, visit https://www.percona.com/ Yocto Project Training: The Yocto Project will present a training session on how to use the Yocto Project tools, including the OpenEmbedded build system and the Poky reference distribution. All are welcome. The Training session is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This course will cover the basics of the build environment, concepts and terminology, and will provide a demonstration of a build. This will not be a "hands-on" tutorial, but attendees are welcome to work along with the materials on their own laptops. This session is free of charge. For more information visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x/presentations/yocto-project-training [Promotional break: SCALE 14X would like to recognize and thank Vaddy, whose support helps make SCALE possible. For more information on Vaddy, visit http://vaddy.net ] Greater LA Drupal Camp (GLADCamp): Greater Los Angeles Drupal users team up again with SCALE for GLADCamp. Drupal is an Open Source CMS or application builder that normally runs on Linux, Apache, uses MySQL, so it works hand in hand with Linux. You can find sessions on the Thursday schedule here: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x/schedule/thursday SCALE 14X, the 14th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, runs from Thursday, Jan. 21 through Sunday, Jan. 24 at the Pasadena Convention Center. Registration is open and you can register at https://reg.socallinuxexpo.org/reg6/ For more information on SCALE 14X, visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org -- Share this post Link to post
