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Interview: Behind the Scenes at SCALE
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| I caught up with one of the event's organizers, Gareth Greenaway, to find get
| the inside scoop on what's new, what's different, and what they've learned
| from past events.
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| OStatic: How many people make up the various organizing committees? How do
| you decide how to divide up responsibilities?
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| We have the work load divided up among roughly 7 committees, each committee
| has varying numbers of committee members. At some point early on we decided
| what committees would be responsible for what task; over the years as the
| show grows, we've refined the tasks a bit and moved some tasks around. We've
| also added new committees to better handle various tasks and divide the load.
| Everyone knows what they have to do to make sure the show goes off without a
| hitch.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/interview-behind-the-scenes-at-scale
"look what znix is doing! cut those fuckers off."
--Brad Silverberg, Microsoft
Recent:
California to Start Review of Voting Machines
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| Vendors have time to submit their machines including documentation
| and source code until July 1st or face severe restrictions, including
| decertification, for the 2008 elections. Scheduled to start next week,
| the review will include a red-team attack and going through the
| source code.
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/09/2140206&from=rss
Connecting with the Do'ers...Here's Your Shot.
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| In the summer of 2000, I was reading lots of news about waves of viruses that
| would be coming up. Holden and I knew each other from discussing politics in
| the elevator during the 2000 election cycle, so I knew that he was a computer
| sys admin for a law firm in that building, and asked him what was the best
| anti-virus software.
|
| He said "Linux".
|
| After many conversations with Holden about the ups and downs of using Linux
| for my office, I decided that my fear of viruses was greater than my anxiety
| about an unknown operating system called Linux, and so I ordered a bunch of
| computer parts on the Internet which Holden proceeded to build into the first
| of several machines that he would build for me.
|
| [...]
|
| But we would need help making the lab work. We looked around together, and I
| found a guy by the name of Steve Hargadon who put in a commercial bid to
| build a Linux lab very reasonably. I mean VERY reasonably. In fact, the price
| was so low that it surprised the principal.
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| That Linux lab ran for two years without a reboot.
|
| And we place an additional 12 GNU-Linux machines in other teachers'
| classrooms.
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http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/06/connecting-with-doersheres-your-shot.html
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