SCALE 6X--An Interview with Publicity Chairman Orv Beach | Linux Today

SCALE 6X–An Interview with Publicity Chairman Orv Beach

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 5, 2008

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Now that SCALE is in its sixth year, how big was the
convention the first time around, and what kind of growth has it
seen? How many exhibitors, speakers and attendees do you expect
this year?

“SCALE is an offshoot of the ‘LUGFests’ that SCLUG (the
Simi-Conejo Linux Users Group – http://sclug.org) held every 6
months where they met at the Nortel building in Simi Valley. They
were miniconferences, with people demonstrating open source
software and even a few commercial vendors. Even as limited as they
were, they drew Linux users from all over Southern California.
SCLUG held 4 of them before Nortel closed down that
building…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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