Utah Open Source Podcast Update
Posted by Clint on July 4, 2008 in Meetings
We’ve been madly at work this week updating our podcasts through last Friday. We’ve got quite a list up at http://podcast.utos.org, with more coming this week. Take a look at the latest available podcasts:
- Utah Python - Jython by Daniel Miller
- PLUG - Samba by Steve French
- Utah Python - Google App Engine by Seth House
- SLLUG - Embedded Linux by Jeremy Garff
- UPHPU - Qcodo by Travis Barney
There are many more. Feel free to use the rss feed. Promote the open source user in you!
Cheers,
Clint
Vote! No more abstracts!
UTOSC 2008 abstract submission has ended. And while that part of the process is over, we now have the task of selecting presenters. For those of you who have submitted presentations, or those in the community we’ve contacted, feel free to vote for your favorites in our digg style voting system.
As mentioned before, login and click on the “SPEAKERS” link at the UTOSC 2008 website. Vote for or against the presentations (or don’t vote for a presentation at all). But hurry, because voting privileges are only good until July 10, 2008.
On July 15, 2008, a tentative presentation schedule will be delivered. In addition, because UTOSC 2008 has more presenters than we can possibly take, many presenters will be asked to be alternates. This selection date should give you almost 45 days to prepare your presentation.
Don’t forget, registration is open as well, visit http://2008.utosc.com/ to register today. If you haven’t already, contact your Local User Group for discount codes today.
We hope to see you all at Utah Open Source Conference 2008.
Cheers,
Clint
Posted by Clint on July 2, 2008 in Conference, Events
Announcing a UTOSC keynote speaker: Joe Brockmeier
The 2008 Utah Open Source Conference is coming up fast (August 28-30). We are going to continue to give you reasons to be very excited (as we are) to attend UTOSC 2008 until the very end.
We are very pleased to announce one of the keynote speakers at this year’s conference will be none other than Joe “Zonker” Brockmeir of Novell and the openSUSE project.
Joe’s keynote presentation, titled “How to bootstrap a community,” is sure to be interesting considering his background. What started with purchasing a copy of Slackware in 1996 turned into nearly a decade-long career writing about Linux and the open source community and industry for a variety of high-profile tech publications. Prior to being hired as openSUSE Community Manager for Novell early this year, Zonker spent time as Editor-In-Chief for Linux Magazine and as editorial director of Linux.com. His writing background also include contribution to many books, HOWTOs and other technical documents.
While his job at Novell is primarily centered around supporting and promoting the use of the openSUSE Linux distribution, Joe’s been quoted in a few recent interviews saying he’s committed to advocating the use of all forms of Linux and open source software.
Joe Brockmeier’s keynote presentation will undoubtably hold special value for users of the openSUSE and SUSE distributions, but considering Joe’s experience and knowledge about the Linux and open source industries over the last decade or so, this presentation offers great potential value for any UTOSC attendee.
A blurb about the conference
The 2008 Utah Open Source Conference is the second annual gathering of open source enthusiasts in Utah. Following the amazingly successful first conference held in 2007 at Novell’s Open Source Technology Center in Provo, UT, this year’s conference is being held on the Redwood campus of Salt Lake Community College near Salt Lake City.
For more information about this conference, to register to attend, or to see a really neat website driven by open source software, go over to <http://2008.utosc.com/>.
Posted by Doran Barton on July 2, 2008 in Meetings
UTOS / UPHPU Geek Lunch — Tucanos — July 11 @ 1:30p
Greets Geeks!
The July Geek Lunch is going to be at Tucano’s at the Gateway in Salt Lake.
Now, I know, we tried Tucano’s before, and true they dogged us at the last moment; but, they have tried to make things right. Those that RSVP’d last time will have their plate at half! When you RSVP, please let me know if you were in this group.
Like our last event, expect to see all kinds of coders (Python, PERL, PHP, etc), bloggers, graphic artists, local businesses owners and shutterbugs in the fray.
You can RSVP at this URL - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/843968/
Tucanos @ the Gateway
July 11th @ 1:30p
162 South 400 West
Phone:(801) 456-2550
Victor Villa
UTOS.org | UPHPU.org
Have you signed up for the Utah Open Source Conference?
Posted by mindjuju on June 30, 2008 in Events
Utah Open Source Conference Abstract Deadline Approaches
For those of you who’ve been considering submitting a presentation for the Utah Open Source Conference, its not yet too late! But you only have until July 1 (that’s Tomorrow) to submit your presentation.
The selection committee is currently voting on presentations and will be doing so until July 10. In addition, we’re going to be extending an invitation to any and all potential speakers to help us select the best presentations for our conference. As a potential speaker, just click on the “SPEAKERS” link at the UTOSC 2008 website and start voting for your favorite presentations starting July 1. But hurry, because voting privileges are only good until July 10, 2008.
On July 15, 2008, we’ll announce which presentation have been selected, along with a tentative time and date for each. In addition, because UTOSC 2008 has more presenters than we can possibly take, many presenters will be asked to be alternates. This selection date should give you almost 45 days to prepare your presentation.
Either way, we’ll be having a great conference and we look forward seeing everyone at the Utah Open Source Conference 2008.
Cheers,
Clint
Posted by Clint on June 30, 2008 in Conference, Events, Meetings
Utah Open Source Conference and CouchCast
Hey everybody!
Guess what! The Utah Open Source Foundation’s very own Jason Hall (Jayce^ [the face]) will be discussing the Utah Open Source Conference with Robert Merrill et al, on CouchCast.
CouchCast is a local show with topics around technology and business. Its a call-in show, so be sure to get on the line in advance and ask questions. Feel free to dial in around noon, 347-324-3797 and ask pretty much anything you like.
Discussions will include keynote announcements, presentations, family day, the Utah Open Source Awards, the troubleshooting challenge (last years big hit) and many other aspects of the conference at the end of August.
Jayce will also be discussing the Utah Open Source Foundation, its purpose, goals and plans for 2009. Things like live streaming of Local User Group meetings, podcasts and other events to make it easier to spread the word about open source in Utah.
Feel free to check it out, here’s how:
When: July 7, 2008 12pm MDT
Where: http://couchcast.org (yes, its flash, sorry) –> hosted by blogtalkradio.
Enjoy the show!
Posted by Clint on June 28, 2008 in Community, Conference, Events, News, Podcasts, Recordings, Registration
The Utah Open Source Conference countdown has begun!
Hi all,
Its been a few days since we blogged about the Utah Open Source Conference 2008 (in fact, more like 2+ weeks). But I’m back now and ready to let you guys know that while there might be a few more bumps in our migration path, most of the Utah Open Source servers are up and working well.
We have been busy lately, preparing for an exciting and fun Utah Open Source Conference 2008. New features continue to crop up on our main site. Check them out and start watching for speakers as we’ll be approving presentations over the next few weeks. The selection committee, made up of many professional geeks, LUG leaders and others, has been madly voting for their favorites so it looks to be a good list of presentations.
As of right now, UTOSC 2008 will begin in approximately 63 days. And due to this, I’ve taken the time to create a little javascript that can be included in your site, with a neat countdown. Have a look at the right hand side of our site.
We’d like to invite everyone to put this link on their website to help us get more people interested in the countdown. Basically, this is a very similar countdown script to the ones released by each of the big Linuxes (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE).
Just stick this code anywhere on your site:
<script id=“utosc-banner”
type=“text/javascript”
src=“http://dl.utosc.com/08/scripts/release-counter-ext.js”>
</script>
You should get something similar to this:
See you all at the Utah Open Source Conference 2008!
Cheers,
Clint
Posted by Clint on June 26, 2008 in Community, Conference, Events, News, Registration
UTOSC 2008 registration now open + How to get in free/less
The Utah Open Source Foundation is pleased to announce that registration for the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference is now officially open!
Those who wish to attend UTOSC 2008 should go to http://2008.utosc.com/ and select the Registration link (event registration is handled by EventBright.com). The fee for early registration for the conference is $70 and includes admission to all events during the conference’s three days (28-30 August, 2008).
Members of participating local user groups (LUGs) may qualify for a discounted early registration price of $35. To register at the discounted price, LUG members must enter a valid discount code upon registration. These discount codes may be obtained from appropriate LUG leaders and/or administrators. A list of participating LUGs is available on the UTOS site.
As part of our collaboration with the Computer Science department at Salt Lake Community College, Computer Science students qualify for free early registration. Qualifying students must provide valid discount code (available from department representatives) and also provide a valid student ID at registration.
The big free-admission giveaway
In addition to discount registration codes, participating user groups will also be giving away certificates for free admission to UTOSC 2008! Consult with your local user group leader(s) for more information.
UTOSC 2008 is building up to be a spectacular event with several dozen excellent proposed presentations, exciting sponsorships, and fun and educational activities and entertainment, but none of it would be possible without you, the local user and supporter of open source. We look forward to seeing you at UTOSC 2008.
Posted by Doran Barton on June 3, 2008 in Meetings
UTOSC 2008 Call-For-Papers extended to July 1
Several dozen very exciting presentation proposals have been submitted for review for this year’s Utah Open Source Conference. By the looks of them, we will have an easy time finding three days worth of great presentations for most every type of person attending the conference this year.
That being said, we are extending the deadline by one month, so if you have not submitted a presentation proposal, you have until 1 July to do so. To respond to the call-for-papers go to the http://2008.utosc.com/ site and select the Submit Paper link.
If you know anyone that has done something cool or interesting with Linux or other open source technology, encourage them to present at the conference to share their story with the community.
More features on conference site
Several new features have recently been added to the http://2008.utosc.com/ site. Some of these only affect presenters, while others are visible to the public. They include:
- Presenters may upload images of themself to be displayed along with information about their presentation
- Presenters may optionally enter information about what company or organization they represent.
- The size of proposal abstracts has been extended to accomodate presenters who just can’t say enough about their presentation.
- Approved presentations/speakers will begin showing up on the public pages.
In the coming weeks, more features will be appearing including links to:
- Registration pages
- BOFs
- Lightning talks
Posted by Doran Barton on May 31, 2008 in Meetings
PLUG May Meeting - MySQL
Date: May 14th, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: Omniture, Inc.
Details: http://www.plug.org/
MySQL will be flying Jay Pipes (North American Community Relations Manager at
MySQL) in to Salt Lake on the 14th for the sole purpose of addressing PLUG
(and all other local SIGs). Please spread the word. Set your calendars. Blog
it. Spread it. Tell everyone.
To be clear: THIS WILL BE AN IN-DEPTH TECHNICAL PRESENTATION. Expect this to
be one of those killer, mind-bending, and deep technical presentations. The
kind that leaves you barley able to drive home. Jay will keep the presentation
as language agnostic as possible - and focus just on the SQL-fu Jay
specializes in. This is one presentation you don’t want to miss.
There will be prizes (books and MySQL swag). And we will have drinks. There
might be food, but don’t plan on it.
His bio:
Jay Pipes is the North American Community Relations Manager at MySQL.
Co-author of Pro MySQL (Apress, 2005), Jay has also written articles for Linux
Magazine and regularly assists software developers in identifying how to make
the most effective use of MySQL. He has given sessions on performance tuning
at the MySQL Users Conference, RedHat Summit, NY PHP Conference, OSCON, and
Ohio LinuxFest, amongst others. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife,
Julie, and his four animals. In his abundant free time, when not being
pestered by his two needy cats and two noisy dogs, he daydreams in PHP code
and ponders the ramifications of __clone().
-Ryan
— Books we have to give away:
- A book regarding Fedora.
- A “Head First” book from O’Reilly on SQL.
- Several very excellent “Pragmatic Programmers” books:
- Programming Ruby (very good)
- Java to Ruby
- Enterprise Integration with Ruby
- Agile Web Development with Rails
- Agile Retrospectives
- Practices of an Agile Developer
Posted by Clint on May 8, 2008 in Community, Events, Meetings, UserGroups