Lxer: SCaLE 5x: [Days 1 & 2] Feb 12, 2007, 18 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2585 reads) (Other stories by Scott Ruecker)
From Day 1:
"I have to tell you this is one big event, with over 70 booths and thousands of attendees this is by far the biggest SCaLE event ever. I will be posting pictures I have taken in the next few days. I have just been trying to take it all in. I met a man that has only been using Linux off of a live-CD that was given to him a couple of months ago. I asked him why wanted to switch to Linux and why he came to SCaLE. He told me that he is tired of Windows crashing and taking all of his music with it and he is attending SCaLE to get some help in installing Linux on his machine for good. He came to the right place.
"SCaLE's focus is on the current and future users of Open Source Software and the exhibitors are a fairly even mix of commercial and non-commercial organizations. I counted at least five LUG's in attendance and the presentations are focused on educating the audience, not just promotion. Here are a few highlighs from the speaker events..."
