Clint Savage
My name is Clint Savage, people online call me herlo
UTOSC 2008: Family Day Activities
There’s been a lot of talk about this thing called ‘Family Day’, being held on Saturday, August 30. Its been in the planning for some time now and things are very close to finalization. Because of this, its time to reveal what family day is and how it will work.
Some of the items should be clear, the general idea is that any attendee can bring their family along and enjoy some family activities. Because Utah is a very family based community, UTOSC 2008 is focusing on technologies for the family.
Bring the Whole Family
Located just outside the SI Building at the Salt Lake Community College, will be large inflated activities for children young and old. Volunteers from UTOSC will be stationed around this area making sure the kids have a safe and fun time.
If the kids are a bit older, they might enjoy our try-it lab, and parents will get an opportunity to see the OLPC (one laptop per child) as well as some machines running educational software and possibly a mythtv setup as well.
For Lunch
Lunch will be picnic style where families can bring blankets and sit out on the grassy knolls near the venue and enjoy the BBQ food from The Smokehouse restaurant. There will be chairs and tables near the student center for your use as well. The Smokehouse will be offering southern bbq meals for a good price. They did a great job for us last year so expect some great food.
The Plan
Drop the kids off at the bouncy houses and plan on spending an hour or two in sessions you’d like to see with your significant other. After the sessions, feel free to kick around for lunch and then peruse the try-it lab. Sounds like a great day for the family!
About this conference thing
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.
Posted by Clint Savage on August 21, 2008 in Community, Conference
Novell Hack Week coming to UTOSC 2008
Its official! For those of you who have always wanted to know how to hack a project together, this is a great opportunity.
We at the Utah Open Source Foundation learned a few weeks ago that Novell’s ‘Hack Week‘ will be occuring the same week as UTOSC 2008. We also learned UTOSC 2008 will have these awesome hackers come out to the Salt Lake Community College Thursday and Friday to finish off some of their cool applications. This is the third Hack Week from Novell.
On Saturday, we’re offering these hackers an opportunity to come down to UTOSC and give a few short presentations on what was finished and how they work. Let’s hope they accept.
Posted by Clint Savage on August 19, 2008 in Meetings
UTOSC 2008 Supports WordCamp Utah
As an effort to help other community conferences in Utah and to help our overall technology Mecca, I’d like to invite anyone/everyone attending the Utah Open Source Conference 2008 to consider also attending the newly formed WordCamp Utah.
This one day event, held Saturday, September 27, 2008, is the latest project from our very own Joseph Scott, who will be presenting on WordPress Performance and Scalability at UTOSC 2008, has been hard at work planning and prepping for what will become the Inaugural WordCamp Utah.
If you are a Wordpress user as I am, it would be in your best interest to come down to the Open Source Technology Center at Novell and listen to such presenters as: Matt Mullenweg, Founder of Wordpress/Automattic, Alex King, wordpress developer and theme creator extraordinaire and many others.
We at the Utah Open Source Foundation have been working to help other local conferences succeed as well. In the true nature of open source, competition makes everything better. We look forward to your attendance at UTOSC 2008 and hope you will consider attending WordCamp Utah as well.
Posted by Clint Savage on August 14, 2008 in Community, Conference, Events
UTOSC 2008: Keynote Dinner
During UTOSC 2007, we opened our conference with an opening keynote dinner, featuring two great speakers, Matt Asay of Alfresco and Bruce Perens, well known free software advocate. At these two keynote presentations, attendees were provided with great insight into the open source world, its technology and how great things can become greater with open source software and its communities.
In addition, there was a great buffet table full of food, well, because computer geeks like to eat! And last but not least, the findlay quartet played for us, and they will be returning to entertain us with some classical music.
In 2008, we decided that the opening evening keynote dinner was a great idea. We’re keeping the same format, and providing food and drink for all that attend. This year will be more grand, UTOSC has secured the Oak Room at the Salt Lake Community College Student Center. With comfortable table seating for approximately 300, and a podium and microphone for the presenters, UTOSC 2008 is sure to end its first full day of presentations with great keynotes from Mac Newbold (Code Greene) and Paul Frields (Fedora Project/Red Hat).
The full schedule of speakers and events is being finalized right now, and we anticipate a final version very soon. In the meantime, we have the list of presenters, along with times and dates available on our website, <http://2008.utosc.com/speaker/list/>
About this conference thing
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.
Posted by Clint Savage on August 13, 2008 in Community, Conference, Events
UTOSC 2008 Local Keynote Speaker: Mac Newbold, Code Greene
For those of you who are in the know in the local technology scene, you know that Utah has a lot of good choices when it comes to successful small businesses. Today, we announce one of our local small business leaders who’s accomplished a great deal and helped the community as well.
Mac Newbold - Code Greene (Chief Technical Officer & Partner)
Mac has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the University of Utah. He began intense involvement in web development in 2001 and has been an avid member of the Utah PHP User group (UPHPU) since 2004. In 2005, Mac co-founded Code Greene, a web development company, which has now grown to 10 team members. Code Greene develops using almost exclusively open source software and platforms. Code Greene helps clients make money by helping them streamline their businesses with intelligent dynamic websites and business process automation.
Keynote Title: How To Leverage Open Source in a For-Profit Business
Lessons learned by helping hundreds of companies develop an online presence and automate their businesses by using open source software and development platforms.
Mac will be warming up the crowd for the Paul Frields keynote on Thursday, August 28, 2008. He will begin at 6:30pm at the UTOSC Keynote Dinner.
About this conference thing
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.
Posted by Clint Savage on August 12, 2008 in Community, Conference, Events
If you plan on Attending UTOSC! Read this!
Its the last day for early bird registration for UTOSC, <http://2008.utosc.com>. After today, prices go up to $100 ($50 w/LUG discounts).
Register with eventbrite today! <http://utosc2008.eventbrite.com>
See you all there!
Posted by Clint Savage on August 7, 2008 in Community, Conference, Events, UserGroups
PLUG BBQ: The Aftermath
The party was scheduled from 12-2pm, and while we intended to arrive at around 11:30 to get the grills going for a 12pm start, we didn’t get there until just before noon. As we arrived, it was discovered that while we had obtained briquets for the bbq, no matches were obtained, so I made a quick call.
<Emily>: Hello?
<Me>: Its Clint, I forgot matches, are you coming over to the bbq soon?
<Emily>: Yeah, we’re just leaving now to go to the store, we’ll be 10 minutes.
Mind you, this is at noon. Luckily, nobody had arrived as of yet, standard Utah tardiness was a benefit this time. decided to go get her dog and left me alone at the park to wait.
And wait…. (12:15pm)
And wait…. (12:45pm)
UNTIL … (about 12:50pm)
Finally, in the distance, I could see a couple walking toward me with a couple kids in tow. And so the party began with the arrival of the Ellis family.
After a good bit of hanging out with them, Emily arrived, along with others shortly thereafter. The party started to rock and before long, food was cooking, people were eating and geeks were being ignored by their wives.
We saw the results of spinal surgery.
Ben Payne had spinal surgery
We enjoyed a little boy and his creamsicle experience
Little Noah Rasmussen loves his treats
Oh yeah!
People played on their ‘puters
Heartsbane is enjoying the power
And more…
More Photos available at flickr
Fun was had by all and even a little hardware swapping took place.
Hope to see you all next year as Utah Open Source plans to sponsor the PLUG bbq in late June when the weather is a bit cooler.
Cheers,
Clint
Posted by Clint Savage on August 4, 2008 in Community, Events, Parties, UserGroups
PLUG BBQ Today at Noon
So with all of the announcing and craziness of the Utah Open Source Conference, we’ve neglected to share with you all about the PLUG BBQ tomorrow at noon. It will be lots of fun there will be a the traditional hardware swap. We’ll also be bringing some boardgames to play, so come and enjoy yourself.
Bring your own meat (BYOM), a side dish for everyone to share and we’ll have the grills going strong at noon so you can throw it on and enjoy a burger, chicken or the almighty Steak you’ve been preparing since the beginning of the summer.
You can sign up for an item to bring from this list if you like.
Date: Saturday, August 2, 2008
Time: 12pm-2pm (though some will be there at 11am firing up the grills)
Location: Scera Park, Red Pavilion, look for the Utah Open Source Banner
Map: http://tinyurl.com/plugbbq
See you all there!
Clint
Posted by Clint Savage on August 2, 2008 in Community, Events, UserGroups
Reminder: Jayce^ on Couchcast.org today (NOON MDT)
Last week, we announced that Jayce^ Hall will be on couchcast.org. Well that day is today, so come and listen to him and the couchcast crew as they discuss who will be at the Utah Open Source Conference 2008.
Here’s the details again just in case you missed them the first time:
When: July 7, 2008 12pm MDT (Today)
Where: http://couchcast.org
See you all there!
Posted by Clint Savage on July 7, 2008 in Conference, Events, News, Podcasts, Streaming
Utah Open Source Podcast Update
We’ve been madly at work this week updating our podcasts through last Friday. We’ve got quite a list up at http://podcast.utos.org, with more coming this week. Take a look at the latest available podcasts:
- Utah Python - Jython by Daniel Miller
- PLUG - Samba by Steve French
- Utah Python - Google App Engine by Seth House
- SLLUG - Embedded Linux by Jeremy Garff
- UPHPU - Qcodo by Travis Barney
There are many more. Feel free to use the rss feed. Promote the open source user in you!
Cheers,
Clint
Posted by Clint Savage on July 4, 2008 in Meetings