The Ubuntu California team does a lot of small events throughout the year, from release parties and jams to regular Ubuntu Hours all over the state. But our big event of the year is always the Southern California Linux Expo.

We kick off the expo with an Ubucon on SCaLE’s Friday of miniconfs.

I’ve had the pleasure of being invited to speak at this event for the past few years, and this year is no exception! The Ubucon lineup for Friday the 21st is as follows:

My 5 ways to get involved with Ubuntu today talk will cover ways that regular users can get involved with while only having minimal user-level experience with Ubuntu. In preparation, this week I’ll also be launching a series of posts where I’ll be outlining these ways as a bit of a sneak peek as to what to expect during the talk.

On Saturday and Sunday the team will be running an Ubuntu booth in the expo area. Over the years we’ve gotten quite skilled at knowing what we should bring and have used the wiki to list out everything we need to have folks sign up to volunteer and bring things:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/Scale12x

This year I’m fortunate to have Robert Wall making the trek down to SCaLE by car, so he can bring along all the booth items I signed up for (no stuffing them in my suitcase!) as well as having him on booth duty. Also thanks to Philip Ballew, Stephen Briles, Mickey Lyle, Matt Mootz and JosÃ© Antonio Rey who have already signed up for booth duty throughout the weekend. We also have System76 to thank for providing us a couple demo laptops for the booth and the rumor is Canonical has loaned us a couple of phones running Ubuntu to show off too.



Our booth at SCaLE11x in 2013

I’ll be dropping by the booth as time allows, but I learned a couple conferences ago that I don’t have the energy to run a booth all weekend and speak at a conference. My second talk of the weekend will be at the main SCaLE conference on Code Review for Systems Administrators on Saturday at 6pm, where I’ll be talking about the system we use for the Infrastructure team of the OpenStack project (my day job!).