October 8, 2009 is designated as ‘Community Day’ at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009.

As such, we, the organizers of the Utah Open Source Conference, would like to extend an open invitation to all Local User Groups (LUGs) around the Mountain West to participate in our Community Day.

What is Community Day?  What are the activities?

Community is very important to us.  Without you, tons of very useful software would not be as powerful, useful, bug-free, affordable, scalable or reliable.  To celebrate all of the user groups, we’d like to invite each Local User Group to create a LUG atmosphere throughout the conference.

Rather than holding a normal Local User Group meeting in October (or in addition to holding your regularly scheduled meeting), we’d like to invite any and all Local User Groups in the Mountain West to help UTOSC create a LUG experience for about an hour.  We had this in mind as a way to recruit new members to your respective groups as well as giving some good knowledge.

We’ll provide the rooms and projectors, you provide the people and the expertise.  We thinks this will be a great opportunity to show your unique skills, maybe a Q&A session, installfest or something else for the community.

What does this mean?

We’re setting up a booth or two for the LUGs and their equipment.  We believe that it’s important to show our community at the celebration of free and open source software in the Mountain West.  Any Local User Group who uses free and open source software is welcome to come and represent themselves at the Utah Open Source Conference during ‘Community Day’ as well as a shared booth (or two).  If you present or help your LUG, we’ll give you a free pass to participate in the rest of UTOSC 2009!

How do you get involved?

We’d like to make sure that each user group is represented at UTOSC 2009, so we’re asking that each user group to participate and make UTOSC 2009 ‘Community Day’.  Those who present at the LUG meetings will be given a coupon for a free pass to UTOSC 2009 as well as anyone who helps organize these meetings.

If you are interested in helping us out in this regard, we’d like you to contact us via email (reg at utos DOT org).  We’ll also be sending this out to each of the mailing lists to invite groups to participate.