• UTOS Project Day concludes : Kynetx hackathon this Saturday w/ prizes!

    By Victor Villa

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    Greets All!

    As you’ve probably have heard, Kevin Carter won the Xoom over the weekend! Congrats to him and be on the look out for other UTOS project-day events.

    That said, Kynetx (http://code.kynetx.com/) is sponsoring an all-day hackathon at Neumont this Saturday! Another chance to win some awesome prizes and code all day. Free food + all day coding FTW!

    COME HACKITY HACK – SEPT 24TH

    Join us for an all-day hackathon at Neumont University right off the freeway in South Jordan on Saturday, Sept 24th. Come work on existing projects, new projects or just to play around with cool new stuff. Mashery, Zappos, SendGrid and Doba will also be on hand to help introduce you to their technology and just to help foster ideas.

    API Hackdays are light on yaking and heavy on the coding, here’s the agenda:

    9am – 9:30am | Registration / Coffee
    9:30am -10am | Intro / API Workshops
    10am – 1pm | Hacking
    1pm – 2pm | Lunch
    2pm – 6pm | Hacking
    6pm | Submission Deadline
    6:30pm – 7pm | Presentations
    7pm- 7:30pm | Judging (Awards shortly following)
    7pm – 8pm | Dinner & Revelry

    Awesome prizes make it even more interesting including a $750 Apple Gift Card, a JAMBOX wireless speaker, service credits and more. RSVP for the event here ( http://www.meetup.com/APIHackDay/events/28420311/ )

    Posted on September 19, 2011 to:

  • Utah Open Source : Project Day / Raffle : UTOSC 2012 : This Saturday : Mumble Server UP

    By Victor Villa

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    Greets all!

    A quick reminder that the Utah Open Source is having a Project day event This Saturday! Register your project at http://project-day.utos.org/projects-2011-2/ .

    UTOS Project Day – Sept 17, 2011 10a – 5:30p
    Miller Professional Development Center

    http://project-day.utos.org/

    *Mumble Server Available for UTOSC Call for volunteer meeting*

    ## 10″ XOOM Raffle ##
    Attending the project day will get you a ticket for the raffle, attending a qualifying user groups meeting listed and you get a ticket (see rules for more info – http://project-day.utos.org/rules/). One lucky community member will be taking home the Xoom!

    ## UTOSC 2012 Call for volunteers & planning meeting ##
    Also at the UTOS project day, we will be speaking about the up coming UTOSC 2012. Please come in any time of the day to register to be a volunteer and attend our UTOSC 2012 planning meeting at 2p to help us plan another great event!

    For those of you who are far away and would like to participate, I do have a mumble server up and running. You will need to install the client on your computer. Please contact me for information on how to connect.

    mj/v

    Posted on September 13, 2011 to:

  • Utah Open Source : Project Day / Raffle : UTOSC 2012 : Reminder Wordcamp 2011

    By Victor Villa

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    Happy bday Linux!

    10″ XOOM Raffle

    Ha!  thought that would get your attention!  Utah Open Source’s quarterly project day is coming up Sept 17, 2011  10a – 5:30p at the Miller Professional Development Center.  This is a day where we supply the drink and snacks and y’all come out to code on your favorite open source project (don’t forget to register your project!)
    Yes, there REALLY is a Xoom involved in this quarter’s project day.  Here is how it works:  Attending the project day will get you a ticket for the raffle, attending a qualifying user groups meeting listed and you get a ticket (see rules for more info – http://project-day.utos.org/rules/).  One lucky community member will be taking home the Xoom!

    UTOSC 2012 Call for volunteers & planning meeting

    Also at the UTOS project day, we will be speaking about the up coming UTOSC 2012.  Please come in any time of the day to register to be a volunteer and attend our UTOSC 2012 planning meeting at 2p to help us plan another great event! (For nonlocal community memebers, please email me at vvilla@utos.org to be put on the volunteer list).  We will be providing a way for nonlocal community members to participate.

    Wordcamp 2011

    Wordcamp is coming up on September 10th, 2011 at Skaggs Biology Building @ University of Utah.  They’ve got some great presenters coming and some awesome topics, check it out at http://2011.slc.wordcamp.org/ for more details!

    And finally, if you’ve made it down this far, then here is your prize.  Add me to your google+ or facebook and post the following verbatim in your topic and you’ll get a raffle ticket.  Let’s cap it at first 50.

    UTOS Project Day – Sept 17, 2011  10a – 5:30p
    Miller Professional Development Center
    http://project-day.utos.org/

    mj/v

    Posted on August 25, 2011 to:

  • UTOS Project Day : Say hello to my little friend

    By Victor Villa

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    Yup, i know what you’re thinking, that surely looks like the box for the Xoom Wifi with the 10″ display.  As a matter of fact… It is.  And one lucky community member is going to win this baby*.

    UTOS Project Day
    Sept 17, 2011  10a – 5:30p
    Miller Professional Development Center
    Please see http://project-day.utos.org/ for more details

    *legalese on contest rules can be found at http://project-day.utos.org/

     

     

    Posted on August 15, 2011 to:

  • UTOS : Geek Lunch Friday 7/29 at 1pm for Layton, SLC and Utah County

    By Victor Villa

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    Greets all,

    This Friday is UTOS + URUG Geek lunch and UTOS is buying some appetizers!

    Layton – Friday, July 29th @ 1pm
    Mac Cool’s Public House
    855 Heritage Park Blvd # 3, Layton, UT || (801) 728-9111
    map: http://tinyurl.com/utosGL1107

    Salt Lake City – Friday, July 29th @ 1pm
    Mac Cool’s Public House
    1400 Foothill Dr # 166, Salt Lake City, UT || (801) 582-3111
    map: http://tinyurl.com/utosGL1107b

    Utah County – Friday, July 29th @ 1pm
    Rocky Mountain Wingshak
    456 E State Rd # 200, American Fork, UT 84003-2584 || (801) 756-2667 ‎
    map: http://tinyurl.com/utosGL1107c

    Posted on July 28, 2011 to:

  • Python layout best practices for modules / Django / CLI — Utah Django User Group

    By Clint Savage

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    Python layout best practices for modules, Django projects, and CLI apps as presented at the Utah Django User Group and the Utah Python User Group. Slides on GitHub: https://github.com/whiteinge/presentations/tree/master/upyug_2011-06-09_program-layout

    Posted on June 25, 2011 to:

  • Call for Operational Volunteers & Project Day

    By Victor Villa

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    Greets all!

    May 28th will be a full day Utah Open Source event.

    9am – 11am
    Call for UTOS Operational Volunteers

    Become an active member of the Utah Open Source Community by becoming an operational volunteer.

    12pm- 5pm
    UTOS Project Day – A bit of the whole

    It takes many kinds of people to make a Open Source Software work.  It takes some coders, some bug fixers, some documenters, some designers.  What role will you play?

    UTOS Project Day is about :

    • working on a project that you otherwise may not have time.
    • learning a new technology by joining others.
    • networking with other smart people who like to create stuff.
    • junk food during up to 8 hours of hacking on your favorite stuff!
    • being able to sit in a corner and focus on your project without interruption.
    • providing the best open source software hacking space.

    Come on down this Saturday and hang out with other geeks.  We’ll provide you space to hack, snacks, lunch and plenty of projects to come and learn!

    Date and time 28th May, 2011 12p – 5p
    Location Novell OTSC
    http://sn.im/ostc-novell

    Always free admission, free software and free food

    Posted on May 4, 2011 to:

  • UTOSC 2010: Last Minute Preparations

    By Clint Savage

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    Oh, the joy of the rush.  As we all are procrastinators, everything has to wait until the LAST minute.  Not that it’s all bad, because we still have to get our printed programs, t-shirts, networking and other such stuff done at the LAST moment no matter what, because we’re not sure of certain things about our attendees, venue and the like.

    We’re excited though, to have everyone on board and raring to go.  We’ve got over 60 presentations, a ton of events and activities for everyone, plus there’s food and fun on Saturday.  Let me highlight a couple we’ve waited until the LAST minute to sort out:

    Are you a LAST minute kind of person?  If so, you might like that we’re providing you a LAST minute deal to register for UTOSC 2010.  If you’ve been watching for a deal, consider using LAST as a promo code.  It only LASTs until midnight tonight!!

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  • UTOSC 2010: Geek Dinner. Dinner? Did someone say DINNER??

    By Clint Savage

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    Well, we’ve talked about just about everything else now.  And the Utah Open Source Conference 2010 is just about here! So what have we talked about?

    But there’s one really, really, really important session that no Geek should miss!

    Geek Dinner!!

    Yes, that’s right, Geek Dinner at UTOSC is an event not to be missed!! In fact, this event is open to anyone and everyone who wants to spend a good evening with their geek friends who’ve turned up for UTOSC 2010!

    Location: Texas Road House

    If you love a steak, we’ve got the place for you.  In fact, if you are a veggie eater, there are plenty of choices too.  From cherry limeades to marshmallow smothered sweet potatoes, Texas Road House is the place where geeks from all over Utah will be this Friday night.

    Texas Road House (map and info)
    200 West 10600 South (@ South Towne Mall, west side)
    Sandy, UT 84070-4144

    When: Friday, October 8 @ 8:30pm til close!

    Come join us all from 8:30pm until the Texas Road House kicks us out and sends us a packin’!!!  If you wish to come a few minutes earlier, there should be plenty of seating for more than 100 geeks, nerds and their supporters!

    So come on down, enjoy some grub* and party til dawn! Well, maybe not that long :)

    Cheers,

    Clint

    * – Please note that UTOS is organizing this event, but individuals are responsible for paying for their own meal ticket.

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  • UTOSC 2010: Family Day October 9

    By mindjuju

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    As we did in 2008 and 2009, from 10am-2pm on Saturday, October 9, we’re going to be making a very special effort around families.  If you have registered for a Full Access Pass, we invite you to bring your family for the Family related activities and presentations.  We have presentations on GIMP (photo-editing), Internet Filtering at Home and we’ll have a special treat as three young girls come and tell us about their experience with free and open source software.   We’ll be holding activities like a GPS treasure hunt and a family oriented Try-It Lab workshop.  Family members need not register to attend on Saturday, just show up and have some fun along with a registered Attendee!

    Don’t forget to attend the presentation from Howard Tayler, creator of Schlock Mercenary.  This presentation promises to be fun for the whole family.  Plus, Howard will be around the rest of the day to draw comics and socialize with everyone!

    Come for a Pizza Party, sponsored by the Fedora Project

    In addition to all the activities we have scheduled for Family Day, the folks over at Fedora have pitched in a ton of pizza and drinks.  Starting at about 11:45am until about 1pm, there will be pizza available for everyone at the conference, though it is first come, first served.  Come and grab a slice and share a conversation with family and friends.

    As the Utah Open Source Conference winds down around 6pm, we’ll be setting up the boardgames to play.  We’ve got quite a few games available, and you can bring your own as well.  We play pretty late into the night, so come on by and enjoy a nice relaxing game of Settlers of Catan, Carcassone or Perudo while discussing the weekends activities and fun!

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