About
Utah Open Source Foundation (UTOS)
The Utah Open Source Foundation was created in June of 2006 with the goal of ‘Helping grow open source in Utah’. This goal, while a tremendous challenge, has brought with it some great successes, and some serious trials. UTOS is in place because of the hard work and efforts from a group of volunteers, several business folk who are interested in UTOS’ success and the generous encouragement of the Utah Open Source community.
UTOS launched out of the now defunct Utah Open Source Coalition. Our ideals are similar in nature to theirs, though on a larger scale. UTOS plans help Local User Groups (LUGs) and others involved in open source in Utah in several areas. Our main focuses are community, technology and business, with a growing interest in spreading open source in education. We believe that helping those who help free software succeed is a noble goal.
A broader discussion of these goals can be found on our wiki.
Utah Open Source Conference (UTOSC)
UTOSC 2008 will be held August 28 - 30 @ Salt Lake Community College in West Valley City, Utah
The simple idea is that we get together for 2-4 days/evenings during the spring/summer of each year to discuss cool new Open Source concepts as well as recognize those of us who are true geeks in the real sense of the word. This conference will be by, for and about Utah Open Source.
Here are a couple examples I know of in the state.
Many the GNOME developers live in Utah. Another great source of Utah open source technology is Novell and the SUSE and OpenSUSE projects. In addition, there are several hundred geeks I know or have met that have genius in some Open Source projects.
This gathering of geeks would consist of a few keynote speakers, some smaller sessions covering things like security, programming, etc. which would pique most, if not all geeks’ interest levels.
To that end, we are looking for people who can help out and make this conference the best conference in the state. Our goals will obviously grow, and I see much more coming out of Utah, maybe even something rivalling (or bettering) what is done regularly in Silicon Valley.