Conference Committees

Much of the work of putting on SCaLE is broken down into committees each led by a chairperson. See below (soon) for a description of what each committee does. If you want to get involved, reach out to the chair of that committee.

Technical Committee (Networking)

Owen DeLong (Chair), David Lang, Rob Hernandez, Steve Bibayoff, Max Patera, Peter Low, Heather Stern, Jim Dennis

Infrastructure Committee (Online Services)

Phil Dibowitz (Chair), Davide Cavalca, Bryan Wann, Marcin Sawicki, Naomi Reeves

Program Committee (Speakers)

KC Braunschweig (Chair)

• Cloud Native Track: Josh Berkus (Lead) , Guinevere Saenger, Steve Wong
• PostgreSQL Day LA: Mark Wong
• DevOps Day LA:
• Open Government Track: Mark Roden
• Open Medical Track: Mark Roden
• Open Data Track: Mark Roden
• UpSCALE: Hannah Anderson
• Security Track: Don Thomas
• Systems and Infrastructure Track: Alan Willis (Lead), Naomi Reeves
• Developer Track: Chris Smith
• Embedded Track: Tom King
• Home Automation / IoT Track: Alan Willis
• Kernel & low-level systems Track: Anita Zhang (Lead), Davide Cavalca
• SCaLE The Next Generation: Luis Hernandez (Lead), Ashton Perez
• Open Source Career Day: Lori Barfield
• BoF Coordinator: der hans

This committee is primarily responsible for running the Call For Papers (CFP) process to recruit speakers for the conference, review their submissions and ultimately set the talk schedule. Members of this committee are the track leads for each of the conference talk tracks along with others who help with reviewing CFP submissions.

Volunteer Coordination

Phillip Banks (Chair), Phillip Banks Jr., David Banks, Keila Banks

Registration and Operations

Lei Zhang (Chair)

Audio/Visual (AV)

Michael Proctor-Smith (Chair), Lan Dang, Michael Starch, Jess Bermudes, Valentina Liu, Carlyn Lee, Scoops Adamczyk, Robert Perrett, Gilbert Shen, Spencer Sullivan, Matt Campbell, Kenneth Wyrick, Sean Marquez, Vincent Wong

Publicity (PR)

Hannah Anderson (Chair), Phyllis Balew, Larry Cafiero

Diversity & Safety

Phil Dibowitz (Chair), Hannah Anderson, Alan Willis

Training Programs

Orv Beach (Chair), Clint Savage, Shaun Savage

Community/DotOrg

Hriday Balachandran (Chair)

Arts

Joshua Andler (Chair), Ryan Gorley, Chris Rogers

Special Activities

Luis Hernandez (Chair), Lori Barfield, Pat Walters, Tyler Walters, Sara Walters, Matthew Doe, Marc Provitt, Brian Ragazzi, Hunter D. Banks, Phillip Banks Jr., Keila Banks, Sara Walters, Mia Mazariegos