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title: "CentOS @ SCaLE 22x"
title_lead: "March 6, 2025 - March 9, 2025 • Pasadena, USA"
thumbnails: false
talks:
  - title: "Booth #102"
    desc: "Visit the Fedora and CentOS booth #102..."
  - title: "Fedora+CentOS Classroom"
    link: "https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/presentations/fedoracentos-classroom"
    when: "Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 14:00 to 17:00"
    speakers:
      - name: Carl George
      - name: Shaun McCance
      - name: Jason Brooks
    desc: |
      <p>Learn about the ecosystems in the Fedora and CentOS projects,
      and how you can package software for both.
      Fedora Linux is the leading edge, community built operating system.
      CentOS is the open source, community operating system derived from Fedora.
      Although separate projects, Fedora and CentOS have a lot in common,
      such as packaging and build infrastructure.
      Both projects also have a wide ecosystem of special interest groups that
      develop on top of the core operating systems.</p>
      <p>We will present an overview of the Fedora project followed by an overview CentOS ecosystem.
      We'll show how both systems are developed and what the various special interest groups are doing.
      We will then provide a packaging workshop where you can learn how to package your favorite software,
      whether you want it in Fedora, EPEL, a CentOS SIG, or just for your own personal use.
      No prior packaging experience is necessary, but we will assume a basic familiarity
      with Linux and the command line.</p>
  - title: "Getting Started With OpenStack"
    link: "https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/presentations/getting-started-openstack"
    speakers:
      - name: Amy Marrich
    desc: |
      In this session we'll go over the history of the OpenStack project before
      diving deeper into how it all works and how you can contribute.
      We will look at the landscape of the project as it is today,
      while diving deeper into what some of the projects are and the services
      they provide and how they interact together.
      We will finish with a call to action on how you can get involved in the project.
      After this session, you should walk away with a better understanding of OpenStack
      as a project and an infrastructure-as-a-service, and how you can get involved
      and contriibute to the project.
  - title: "Gotchas of Everyday Systemd"
    link: "https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/presentations/gotchas-everyday-systemd"
    speakers:
      - name: Anita Zhang
    desc: |
      When working with systemd there can be edge cases or "gotchas" that run
      counter to how you think systemd should behave.
      In this talk we'll go over a couple of them and suggestions on how to
      resolve or work around such situations.
  - title: "Why You Should Join a Community"
    link: "https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/presentations/why-you-should-join-community"
    speakers:
      - name: Amy Marrich
    desc: |
      <p>In this session, you will learn the importance of joining and giving back to a community.
      We will discuss the different roles within an Open Source Community and why they are all
      important and most importantly how everyone's work is important and has value.</p>
      <p>We will start with the different roles within a community touching on developers,
      technical writers, graphic artists, operators, and community advocates.
      We will discuss how these roles all come together to make up a community and
      how they work together to maintain one.
      We will also discuss how members of a community can work together to help grow
      the community through onboarding new members, mentoring, and also providing feedback
      to help improve both the project's output and the project itself.</p>
      <p>At the conclusion of this session, attendees should leave with a realization that
      what they do matters as well as how they help improve and growth their community as well.</p>
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<p class="lead mb-6">SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and
free software conference in North America.
It is held annually in the greater Los Angeles area.
CentOS participates in <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x">SCaLE 22x</a>.</p>

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