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Dates	February 19-22, 2015
Location	Los Angeles Airport Hilton, Los Angeles, USA (info)
Website	https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale13x

SCaLE is a community run open-source and free software conference held annually in Los Angeles, usually (always?) at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton.

Robinson and David running the SCALE 12x booth

Event Summary

The 2015 SCALE conference went very well! We had a number of great new volunteers, as well as seasoned pro, David Eisenberg. There was a lot of interest in running Document Freedom Day events, and several people signed up to help promote ODF, open formats, and talk about software like LibreOffice that respects user freedoms.

People enjoyed the projector demobox setup, asking questions both about LibreOffice and about the small Chromebox on which we run LibreOffice (it's running an Ubuntu flavor right now; we did get a number of q's about how to run LibreOffice on a Chromebook/ChromeOS!)

I (Robinson) gave a talk about What's preventing your organization from using Free/Open Source Software Today?, and had a great audience that had a number of good follow-up questions about LibreOffice and how to make Free Software a viable choice for orgs and companies.

Participants

Number	Name	Role	Attending?	Registered?	T-shirt size	Notes
1	Robinson Tryon	Lead (contact to SCALE) Speaker	Yes	Yes (PAID)	L
2	Gerardo Sanchez	Booth Staff	Yes	Yes (PAID)	M
3	David Yang	Booth Staff	Yes	Yes (PAID)	M
4	Bill Hughes	Booth Staff	Yes	No	L	UCLA; can likely bring 1 friend to help staff booth; flexible
5	Dahlia van Gelder	Booth Staff	Yes	Yes (PAID)	L/XL
6	Cejo Konuparamban Lonappan	Booth Staff	Yes	Yes (PAID)	M
n/a	David Eisenberg	Booth staff emeritus	Yes	n/a	n/a	Good to see old friends of LibreOffice :-)

Booth

Booth Number: __53__

• What:
  • __1__ Booth
  • __1__ Table: __6 foot__
  • __2__ Chairs
  • __1__ Ethernet drop/port
  • __x__ Free WiFi: __available throughout the venue__
  • __1__ Electrical outlet: __500__ Watts

Booth Schedule

You can read 24-hour time, right?

Flexible schedules:

• Robinson
• David
• Bill
• Dahlia

	Thursday (19th)	Friday (20th)	Saturday (21st)	Sunday (22nd)
09:00
10:00			Exhibit Hall Open	Exhibit Hall Open
11:00			Exhibit Hall Open Cejo (tentative)	Exhibit Hall Open
12:00		Setup time Robinson	Exhibit Hall Open Cejo (tentative)	Exhibit Hall Open
13:00		Setup time Robinson	Exhibit Hall Open Cejo (tentative)	Exhibit Hall Open
14:00	Setup time	Exhibit Hall Open Dahlia Gerardo (tentative) Robinson's talk	Exhibit Hall Open Cejo (tentative)
15:00	Setup time	Exhibit Hall Open Dahlia Gerardo (tentative) Robinson's talk	Exhibit Hall Open Cejo (tentative)	Teardown time
16:00	Setup time	Exhibit Hall Open Dahlia Gerardo (tentative)	Exhibit Hall Open Cejo (tentative)	Teardown time
17:00	Setup time	Exhibit Hall Open Dahlia Gerardo (tentative)	Exhibit Hall Open Cejo (tentative)	Teardown time
18:00				Teardown time
19:00				Teardown time

Materials

We'll have

• Conference kit
• T-shirts for sale
• Some extra stickers/shirts from FOSDEM

Main-track talk(s)

• Robinson has a talk: What's preventing your organization from using Free/Open Source Software Today?
  • Room: Los Angeles C
  • Time: Friday, February 20, 2015 - 14:30 to 15:30

Getting involved

• Email Robinson!