Two more local keynotes you don’t want to miss
Posted by Doran Barton on August 25, 2008 in Meetings
Only a couple days left until the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference begins on Thursday, 28 August. If you’ve been reading these dispatches, you know there are lots and lots of reasons to come and participate in this year’s conference, but here are a couple more.
David Moss, Salt Lake Community College
After last year’s first Utah Open Source Conference, the core team was approached by David Moss, department chair of the Computer Science department at Salt Lake Community College. David was apparently impressed with the first UTOSC (and rightly so! It rocked!) and was interested in hosting the conference in 2008 at Salt Lake Community College. We explored lots of options for other venues, but in the end, SLCC just seemed the best place for the conference in 2008. To make things even more interesting, David said attendance at the conference would be required for students enrolled in the Computer Science program. Indoctrination… BEGIN!
We are pleased to announce that David Moss will be speaking to us the morning of Saturday, 30 August, at 8:30 a.m. and will speak on the topic of open source in education. David says he’ll be discussing the barriers the SLCC computer science department has faced adopting open source in its curriculum and how he plans to expand the use of open souce in the future.
Wait! That’s not all!
Howard Tayler, SchlockMercenary.com
Howard Tayler… where to start on this guy? Howard likes Halloween a lot, I mean, a lot. He also says he enjoys “recreational pyrotechnics and discharging firearms at helpless cans, bottles, and outdated computers.” He’s a veteran of Novell, where he was a product manager, and escaped relatively unscathed in 2004. He now has his dream job of working from home purging his demons via creative writing and drawing cartoons.
Howard is the creator of the über cool site SchlockMercenary.com which hosts a Web comic featuring the characters Kaff Tagon (Captain Kaff Tagon), Sergeant Schlock, Jevee Ceeta, and others, as they go about their mercenary missions aboard the space vessel Serial Peacemaker in the 31st century. If I didn’t get that all correct, get over it.
Howard will be speaking on Friday, 29 August, at 2:30 p.m. His topic of discussion will be… uhm… What was it again? … It’s not about carbosilicate rejuvenation, is it? Oh… right. Howard will be speaking about giving stuff away and making some money doing it.
About the Utah Open Source Conference 2008
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/>.
How to register for the conference
UTOSC 2008 has chosen to utilize eventbrite as its registration system this year. To register for the Utah Open Source Conference 2008, visit <http://utosc2008.eventbrite.com/> and sign up today. We accept credit cards (through paypal) and payment at the door. We’re looking forward to seeing you soon.
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