• Greets,

    So the recession is hurting and business is down, and you’re thinking, man… what to do?

    Here is what you do, come to Geek Lunch next Friday at Tucanos!  There is one in Salt Lake and one in Utah County so it’s close to everybody.

    So if you just need to pull away from the office to relax or want to network with your fellow geeks, just remember this, last geek lunch at tucanos had nearly 40 attendees from all walks in the tech field.  Coders, sysadmins, DBAs, local business owners, you name it, they were there.  Perfect casual networking opportunity!

    Here is the info:
    Salt Lake County – July 31st, 1pm
    RSVP – http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4111644/?ps=5

    Tucanos
    162 S 400 W

    Salt Lake City, UT 84101-1145

    Get Directions

    (801) 456-2550


    Utah County – July 31st 1pm
    RSVP
    http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4111665/?ps=5

    Tucanos
    4801 N University Ave # 790
    Provo, UT 84604-7745

    Get Directions

    (801) 224-4774

    Posted on July 24, 2009 to:

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  • Hi all,

    It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve just rolled out some major changes to our utos-conman staging server tonight. I’d like to get everyone involved in testing these changes so we can roll them out to the live site (http://2009.utosc.com) by end of week.

    The changes are these:

    • Twitter functionality for updates
      • updates should be going to twitter.com/utostest, (because this is a sensitive feature and we don’t want too many messages going out to our live twitter feed, we’ve put the updates behind the /admin/ section, username/password: conman/conman).
    • Multiple presenters per presentation
      • this is issue #2 on the issue tracker and it looks to be working!
      • Utahcon has some prettyness he’ll be adding to the ajax and jquery stuff we did last week.
    • Our RSS feed of abstracts is getting better
      • UTOS-ConMan now has a byline and category displayed.

    and the biggest change…

    Migrations!!

    The nice thing about migrations is the ability to roll to any state within our database if something isn’t working. It also gives us snapshots in time of where we were with the database.

    We’re using South (http://south.aeracode.org) to do our migrations and boy is it nice! The tutorial can help get anyone up to speed.  Essentially, instead of using syncdb, we’ll be using South’s migrate.functionality.

    I wanted to thank all the folks who have helped us get this far, and a special thanks to Utahcon for his work as of late. We’re really making some good progress toward some awesome conference management software.

    Feel free to check out the code from our google code svn repositoryWE TAKE PATCHES!

    If you are interested in any other improvements for previous staging releases, please feel free to let me know.

    Cheers,

    Clint

  • The Utah Open Source Foundation, in its goal to promote Open Source throughout Utah and beyond, is proud to promote the following events.  These events are generally related to Open Source and Technology in Utah.  If your event is not listed below, please contact clint@utos.org to get it added.

    Utah Technology Community Announcements

    • Utah Open Source is looking for more volunteers to join our ‘Core Team’.  Position definitions and contacts are available at http://wiki.utos.org/All_Positions.
    • UTOSC 2009 ‘Call for Papers’ is now open.  Submit your abstract - http://2009.utosc.com.
    • UTOS-ConMan HackNights are still hapening every Tuesday, watch http://utos.org for announcements.
    • PodCampSLC 2010 Kick-off Meeting will be held July 13 @ 7pm.  If you are interested in helping contact podcampslc@gmail.com

    If you have announcements or events for August 2009 or beyond happening around open source in the Intermountain West which you would like included, please contact clint@utos.org.

    Upcoming Activities for July 2009

    Wed, July 8, 11:30am – 1:00pm
    SLLUG: Daytime SIG Meeting
    Topic: Cobbler
    Where: BetaLoft SLC – 357 West 200 South, Suite 201, Salt Lake City
    Contact: Clint Savage, herlo1@gmail.com

    Wed, July 8, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
    Provo Linux Users Group
    Link: http://plug.org
    Where: Omniture
    Contact: Ryan Simpkins, simpkins.ryan @gmail.com

    Thu, July 9, 6pm – 9pm
    Utah Mobile Developers Group
    Where: STG Dev Center, 555 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah
    Contact: Glen Lewis, glen @ glenlewis.com

    Thu, July 9, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
    Utah Python User Group Meeting
    Link: http://utahpython.org
    Topic: GUI Toolkit Extravaganza cont’d
    Where: University of Utah, Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research
    Building, Room 1200
    Contact: Dave, tonedevf AT gmail.com

    Sat, July 11th, 12 – 5pm
    Utah CodeAway
    Link: http://codeaway.org/
    Where: TBD
    Contact: Laura Moncur, laura @ moncur.biz

    Sat, July 11, 6pm – 8pm
    Ubuntu-Utah Meeting
    Link: http://utah.ubuntu-us.org
    Where: University of Utah – Merrill Engineering Building (MEB)
    Comp-Sci Labs Rm 2555
    Contact: Aaron Toponce, aarontoponce@ gmail.com

    Wed, July 15, 7:10pm – 8:40pm
    Salt Lake Linux User Group (SLLUG)
    Link: http://sllug.org
    Where: University of Utah, Warnock Engineering Building (WEB) room 101
    or 103 (Previously known as EMCB)
    Contact: Marc Christensen marc aT mecworks.com

    Thu, July 16, 6pm – 9pm
    Utah Java User’s Group (ujug.org)
    Link: http://ujug.org
    Where: Intermountain Medical Center, Doty Family Education Center, Murray, Utah
    Contact: Chris Maki, chrismaki AT me.com

    Thu, July 16, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
    Utah PHP User Group (UPHPU)
    Link: http://uphpu.org
    Where: Bill Good Marketing, Draper, Utah
    Contact: Victor Villa, vvilla @ gmail.com

    Thu, July 23, 6pm – 8pm
    Logan Dev Group
    Where: Room 208 (Faculty Seminar Lounge), Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah
    State University, Logan, UT
    Contact: Matthew Reinbold, matthew.reinbold At voxpopdesign.com

    Tue, July 28, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
    SLC Ruby (slc.rb)
    Link: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/urug
    Where: Neumont University Room #300
    Contact: Jake Mallory, tinomen @gmail.com

    Tue, July 28, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
    Ogden Area Linux User Group
    Link: http://oalug.com
    Where: Weber County Main Library, Board Room
    Contact: Seth House, whiteinge@ gmail.com

    Fri, July 31, 12:30pm – 2pm
    UTOS/UPHPU Geek Lunch
    Link: http://utos.org/geek-lunch
    Contact: Victor Villa, vvilla AT gmail.com

    Each of the events are from the Utah Tech Events calendar.  Feel free to subscribe by clicking the link below (or adding the following feed to your calendaring program)

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  • As a final reminder of how completely awesome the Utah Open Source Conference is and why you should attend, we present a final video from UTOSC 2008: Glenda Rhodes presenting on GIMP for Photographers. This video is now available at OpenSourceTV.TV as a in-line Flash video and also as Ogg Theora and Xvid AVI downloads.

    Glenda Rhodes

    Glenda Rhodes

    This presentation discusses using GIMP as an alternative to Photoshop for editing digital photos. Basic GIMP techniques (black/white, sepia, cropping) and some advanced techniques (layer masks for selective coloring, head-swapping, background blurring) are covered.

    Glenda says, “I have been on the outskirts of the open source community ever since my husband made me send out the initial release of Ubuntu in our Christmas cards back in 2004. Currently I help run Utah OpenTech, a company dedicated to helping small businesses implement VoIP using open source technologies. I am a frequent user of GIMP (on windows and ubuntu), using it for editing photos and most recently digital scrapbooking.”

    Posted on July 2, 2009 to:

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