SCaLE 14x Highlights
Community Driven
Swapnil stops in on the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE).

Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) is a one of the largest community-driven events. SCaLE usually happens in February; however, this year, the organizers had to move up the dates to January, so SCaLE became the year's first major Linux event.
I took an 8-hour flight from icy cold Washington DC to warm and sunny Pasadena, California. This was my first year attending SCaLE, and I was impressed with the magnitude of the event – especially the fact that everything is community driven. It reminded me of FOSDEM, which I never missed when I lived in Belgium. However, unlike FOSDEM, SCaLE wasn't chaotic; it had the same organizational polish you will find in commercial events like SUSECon or LinuxCon.
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