[Scale-announce] SCALE preps mini-conferences, T-Shirts.

[scale-announce at mail.socallinuxexpo.com]

Both mini-conferences to be held at the So Cal Linux Expo are ready. 
The Women in Open Source conference will  explore the obstacles that 
women face in breaking into the technology industry.  This conference 
has well-known speakers such as Stormy Peters of OpenLogic, a frequent 
keynote speaker at major conferences, and Celeste Paul, from the KDE 
Usability Project.  The full WIOS speaker schedule can be seen at 
http://socallinuxexpo.com/wios07/index.php.

The Open Source Health Care Summit will focus on the use of open-source 
software in the health care industry.  Among others, Scotte Shreeve, a 
co-founder of Medsphere Systems Corporation, will speak.  Also on the 
Summit speaker list are Fred Trotter, the director of medical software 
for Uversa, and  project manager for ClearHealth, and Shawn Bellina, the 
CTO of the Comprehensive Cancer Institute.  The list of Health Care 
Summit speakers and their topics is at 
http://socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/index.php

Both mini-conferences will be held February 9th, at the Westin LAX 
hotel, the day prior to SCALE.

There are a few BOF (Birds Of a Feather) session slots still available 
at SCALE on Sunday, February 10th.  If your group needs a meeting room 
for a BOF, contact gareth at socallinuxexpo.com to reserve one.  The 
deadline for BOF reservations is February 2nd.  The current BOFs can be 
viewed at http://socallinuxexpo.com/scale5x/events/bof.php

Earlybird registration prices end Jan 24th.
NOTE: Those who register before that date will get a nice cloth SCALE 
tote bag, with a limited edition SCALE 5x T-shirt inside.  Those who 
register after the 24th will get a plastic tote bag, minus T-shirt. 
(Shirts will be available for purchase during the Expo).

Some of the prizes that will be raffled off at SCALE:

- Books from O'Reilly Books
- Books from Sam's Publishing Books
- Books from Prentice Hall Books
- Books from No Starch Press Books
- Four VIP Tickets to the Ticketmaster Suite at the Clippers Vs Bobcats 
Game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles
- AND a Silicon Mechanics Rackform iServ R207C  1U Quad-Core Xeon® Server!

SCALE will be February 9-11, 2007, at The Westin LAX Hotel.  Expo 
information and registration is available at http://socallinuxexpo.com/