Audio: Six Presentations from UTOSC 2008

Posted by Clint Savage on December 14, 2008 in Conference, audio

Our podcast server has had some of these presentations for nigh on a month, and we’ve not yet announced them on the blog.  We apologize for that, we’ll get better.

The podcasts are, in release order from latest to earliest:

Enjoy them all!

Cheers,

Clint

Event: openSUSE 11.1 Release Party, December 18, 6pm

According to this post, this post and this post, there will be an openSUSE 11.1 Release Party next Thursday, December 18.  Here are the details:

When: December 18, 2008 @ 18:00
Where: 1800 South Novell Place, Provo, UT, Building A (Open Source Technology Center) Map

Hope this party is a blast and we look forward to lots of pictures.

Posted by Clint Savage on December 12, 2008 in Community, Events, News

Video: Michael Place of UtahFM.org - HOWTO: Start an open-source radio station

Video of Michael Place’s (of UtahFM.org) UTOSC 2008 presentation titled HOWTO: Start an open-source radio station is now available from opensourcetv.tv. This was an excellent presentation and a jewel at UTOSC 2008.

Michael Place of UtahFM.org

Michael Place of UtahFM.org

Michael presented on Friday, 29 August 2008.

Posted by Doran Barton on December 10, 2008 in Conference, Streaming, Videos

Video: Aaron Bockover of Novell - The Banshee Media Player

Video of Aaron Bockover’s UTOSC 2008 presentation titled The Banshee Media Player is now available from opensourcetv.tv.

Aaron Bockover

Aaron Bockover

Aaron presented on Friday morning, 29 August

Posted by Doran Barton on December 2, 2008 in Conference, Streaming, Videos

News: Ogg Theora and Xvid AVI versions of UTOSC 2008 videos

Doran “FozzMoo” Barton here with a short announcement about videos from the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference. In addition to the progressive streaming flash video versions available via OpenSourceTV.tv, we’ve made Xvid AVI and Ogg Theora versions of the presentations available as well. When you go to OpenSourceTV.tv, a list of links to alternate media types will appear below the embedded Flash applet.

We are continuing to produce videos of presentations from the conference, so stay tuned. Aaron Bockover’s presentation about the excellent Banshee media player is almost ready to go up to the site.

Posted by Doran Barton on December 1, 2008 in Conference, Streaming, Videos

Event: Fedora 10 InstallFest/Release Party, December 6, 6pm

The Fedora 10 InstallFest/Release Party will be held December 6, 2008.

Fedora Linux 10 has been released. Therefore, a release party is now in order!

Date: Dec 6th, 2008
Time: 6pm-8pm
Place: Bill Good Marketing
Address: 12393 Gateway Park Place, Suite 600, Draper, Utah 84020 - Map

Bring your machines for the installfest. There will also be a USB Creation Station.  Food and drink will be provided.  Come and enjoy yourself.

Hope this party is a blast and we look forward to lots of pictures.

Posted by Clint Savage on November 30, 2008 in Community, Events, Installfest, News

News: A New Utah Open Source Planet

Over the past few weeks, Utah Open Source (UTOS) has been working hard to provide a new version of the Utah Open Source Planet (UTOSP).  This version is based upon the PlanetPlanet feed aggregator.  The look and feel is modified from templates provided by the Fedora Planet. The Utah Open Source Planet at http://openclue.org, run by Gabe Gunderson, will continue to function for the foreseeable future.

Why the change?

The Utah Open Source Foundation has had in its plans for some time to create a Planet built solely from people providing useful technical experiences.  Many of the blogs on the current UTOSP are political, religious and many other non-technical related topics.

The point here is that many people enjoy blogging about items outside open source and technology. While blogging about whatever you like is a fine thing to do, the new UTOSP will do its best to provide options for those individuals who prefer to just discuss technology. To that end, the new UTOSP will provide multiple options to the choosy reader.  Of course there will be the full planet, with feeds from everyone, as well as a planet just for LUGs and Event announcements.

The Request

We at UTOS will be contacting those on the current planet.  The plan will be to obtain a few feeds from each contributor.  The feeds will be ‘general’ and ‘technology only’ or something along these lines.  The idea is to provide options to our readers by providing them multiple ways to get at the information they’d like to read.  If you are unavailable or unable to provide these alternate feeds, your blog will only appear on the planets for which you do have feeds, currently the ‘general’ planet.

The Future Planet

If the future plans hold, there will be a planet based upon popular categories and tags.  These planets will be static at first, then move to a more dynamic ‘pick & choose’ functionality creating a dynamic page and rss feed associated with an account.

The functional site will, for now, provide simple rss feeds based upon requests made to clints@utos.org. Watch for these changes over the next few weeks and months and feel free to provide feedback as we really would like to hear from you.  Comments here on this post or send an email.  As always, come on by #utos on irc.freenode.net as well.

Cheers,

Clint

Posted by Clint Savage on November 18, 2008 in Community, News, Planet, UserGroups

Event: Ignite Salt Lake this Thursday 6pm

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds?

Ignite Salt Lake! That’s what!

Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.  This Thursday evening for 4 hours will be this exciting new event.  Providing entertainment and networking opportunities at The Leonardo at Library Square.

The admission is free and it should be lots of fun.  See you all there this Thursday.

Cheers,

Clint

Posted by Clint Savage on November 9, 2008 in Conference, Events

Video: Matt Asay of Alfresco presenting at UTOSC 2008

Video of Matt Asay’s UTOSC 2008 presentation titled The Billion Dollar (Free) Software Opportunity is now available from opensourcetv.tv.

Matt Asay at UTOSC 2008

Matt Asay at UTOSC 2008

Matt Asay presented on Friday morning, 29 August.

Posted by Doran Barton on November 8, 2008 in Conference, Events, Membership, News, Streaming, Videos

Event: Ubuntu 8.10 Release Party, November 8, 6pm

As pointed out at the Ubuntu Utah website, the Ubuntu 8.10 Release Party will be held November 8, 2008.

As you are probably aware, Ubuntu version 8.10 of Linux has been released. So, a release party is on the schedule for the regularly scheduled meeting:

Date: Nov 8th, 2008
Time: 6pm-8pm
Place: Bakery at Gourmandie’s
Address: 300 East 250 South, SLC - Map

Reliable wireless is provided, and there is plenty of seating for those who have been there. The food is great and the deserts even more so.  They know we are coming,

Hope this party is a blast and we look forward to lot’s of pictures.

Posted by Clint Savage on October 30, 2008 in Community, Events, Meetings, News, Parties

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