First the good points.

The organizers did an outstanding job as always. The venue was perfect. The talks I attended had plenty of capacity. I didn't use the wireless or wired network at all. However everyone I talked to that used it had no issues. So the various core parts of the conference have vastly improved and matured.

Now the bad points.

I was thoroughly unimpressed this year. I attended two talks (one on virtualization/openvz and one on Untangle).  The Untangle talk was outstanding. The OpenVZ talk I wasn't really impressed with. They gave an incredibly high level overview and a demo. Nothing really all that exciting.

Other talks that I was potentially interested in, I have already seen the subject matter covered at various LUGs in Southern California. I did see some new vendors this year (in particular Talend). However I didn't discover anything new at SCALE, which is generally my primary reason for going. I guess its a sign of maturity in the overall community and my experience with Linux.  I actually didn't even attend the conference on Sunday.

So SCALE6 gets a score of 7 out of ten.