September 2008

Video: Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier’s keynote address at UTOSC 2008

Video of Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier’s keynote address from UTOSC 2008 is now available at opensourcetv.tv

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Joe Brockmeier

Joe Brockmeier

Joe Brockmeier, the OpenSUSE Community Manager for Novell, spoke on Friday, 29 August, about bootstrapping communities and OpenSUSE.

Posted by Doran Barton on September 29, 2008 in Community, Conference, Membership, Streaming, Videos

UTOSC 2008: More Audio

The Utah Open Source Foundation has released two more audio recordings from UTOSC 2008.

The audio recordings now available are

More audio from UTOSC 2008 will be showing up on podcast.utos.org.  This site already has audio recordings from the local Utah User Groups and other events.  Feel free to check back at any time, or use our rss feed as well.

Posted by Clint Savage on September 16, 2008 in Conference, Recordings, audio

WordCamp Utah in two short weeks

Calling anyone and everyone interested in WordPress, we’re getting together for WordCamp Utah in Provo, Utah!  They’ve got a great line up of speakers, including WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg and long time WordPress developer Alex King.

The cost is only $20 and includes lunch, t-shirt, stickers, etc. Signing up only takes a minute.  Help spread the word! Blog about it and tell your friends!

When: Saturday September 27, 2008 from 9:30am - 5:00pm
Where: Novell, Open Source Technology Center (Building A) 1800 Novell Place Provo, Utah 84606 Map
Website: http://utah.wordcamp.org/
Price: $20 - Buy Tickets

Posted by Clint Savage on September 15, 2008 in Conference, Events, News

New video: Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary

Video of Howard Tayler’s keynote address from UTOSC 2008 is now available at opensourcetv.tv.

Howard Tayler, the creator of popular web comic Schlock Mercenary (available at schlockmercenary.com), spoke on Friday, 29 August, about how he makes money while giving stuff away.

Posted by Doran Barton on September 15, 2008 in Conference, Keynotes, Videos

UTOSC 2008: Conference Audio Begins

The Utah Open Source Foundation has been working hard to get the audio and video of UTOSC 2008 presentations out for the public.  While this will take some more time, we’ve released our first set of audio recordings from UTOSC 2008.

The first audio recording is from Andrew Jorgensen, who presented on the openSUSE Build Service.

More audio from UTOSC 2008 will be showing up on podcast.utos.org.  This site already has audio recordings from the local Utah User Groups and other events.

Posted by Clint Savage on September 11, 2008 in Meetings

UTOSC 2008: Paul Frields’ and Mac Newbold’s keynotes available on OpenSourceTV.tv

If you missed the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference or attended and want to relive a piece of it, you’re in luck.

OpenSourceTV.tv, a service provided by KnowledgeBlue and the Utah Open Source Foundation, is now (finally) up and currently features video of UTOSC keynote addresses given by Paul Frields (of Fedora/Red Hat) and Mac Newbold (of Code Greene).

More video from UTOSC 2008 will be showing up on OpenSourceTV.tv in the weeks to come as well as video from UTOSC 2007 and other events.

Posted by Doran Barton on September 8, 2008 in Community, Conference, Events, Keynotes, Meetings, News, Recordings, Videos

UTOSC 2008 Has Ended. Thank you for coming

The Utah Open Source Foundation thanks you for the opportunity to share some of the best of Utah’s brightest open source folks.  We hope you all enjoyed this year’s conference and are looking forward to 2009.

Photos Going Up

It appear that flickr is getting a deluge of photos from UTOSC 2008, so go and check them out.  I anticipate there being several hundred floating around.  Remember, we have a flickr group and would love it if you could tag your photos with utosc and utosc2008.  If you took photos, please add them to our group and tag them appropriately so others can find them.

Family Day

There were plenty of fun things to do this year and I think the biggest successes outside the keynotes and presentations was the Family Day area.  A big thanks to Shauna ‘Grandma’ Theobald for her help with the ‘Kids Zone’.  We plan to do this again next year!

Keynotes Rocked!

This year was great because we had two killer keynotes on topic and several local keynotes who did a great job sharing the message of open source.  A special thank you to Paul Frields of the Fedora Project and Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier for their willingness to come and help us spread the message.

We realize these fellas have very busy lives and so we’re extremely grateful for their dedication and time at their respective booths.  I plan to not have them at the booths much next year if they attend.

Slides and Downloads

If you are looking for slides (or scripts, handouts, etc.) of your favorite presentation, many of them are already available on the UTOSC site.  For those that are not there, we’ll be contacting the presenters and asking them to upload them ASAP.

Video and Audio Recordings

I’m quite sure we’ll start to get some questions about videos and audio recordings.  The keynotes from Paul Frields and Joe Brockmeier are slated to be available within a week.  We’ll announce them on this blog.  The local keynotes from Mac Newbold and Howard Tayler, Christer Edwards and David Moss should be available within 2 weeks.  This is exciting news!

The audio recordings are a bit more slow, but we should start to see the first of those recordings arrive early next week.  We’ll be releasing 2 or so a week until we run out.  There are approximately 50 audio and video recordings, so keep your eyes peeled and again, we’ll announce them here on this blog.

A Request from the Community

This year, we did surveys in the presentation rooms.  If you attended a presentation and wished to fill out a survey, we’d love to have you fill one out anyway.  We’ve created a form with the same questions from the paper form.  If you’ve already filled out surveys, we’re extremely grateful as your opinions will go into our planning of presentations for next year.

In addition, we’ve created an overall survey we’d like you to complete.  It will help us to improve UTOSC 2009 . UTOSC provided great memories for me and I hope you all enjoyed it too.  I look forward to seeing you all next year.

Cheers,

Clint Savage
Utah Open Source Foundation

Posted by Clint Savage on September 1, 2008 in Meetings