Geek lunch this month was awesome! In Salt Lake City, we had 25 people attend, I heard that Roosters in Layton had a small crowd of 5. Many from Code Greene and XMission came to enjoy a meal. A special thanks goes out to XMission’s Pete Ashdown for picking up the tab for the entire group in SLC!
Below are some pictures from the event: (full set of pictures is on flickr)
See you all next month!
Cheers,
Clint
Hey folks, this Friday is Geek Lunch time! The theme this month is ‘Pub Food’. We’re planning on enjoying a few good cheese fries, Monte Christo sandwiches, or a really tasty Veggie Burger.
Meet at the nearest location to you at 12:30pm this Friday, February 26, 2010. If you have never been, look for the group with this logo at their table. Geek Lunch is organized by the Utah Open Source Foundation, but you must pay for your meal. We look forward to seeing all of you there.
Date: Friday,February 26, 2010
Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
There is currently no place planned for in Utah county due to low turnout. If you would like to help organize a Geek Lunch in Utah county, please email clint@utos.org.
See you all there!
Clint
Hey folks, this Friday is Geek Lunch time! The theme this month is ‘Indian food’ so come enjoy your ‘Chicken Tikka Masala, or Lamb Saag, Naan and a Mango Lassi
Meet at the nearest location to you at 12:30pm this Friday, January 29, 2010. If you have never been, look for the group with this logo at their table. Geek Lunch is organized by the Utah Open Source Foundation, but you must pay for your meal. We look forward to seeing all of you there.
Date: Friday, January 29, 2010
Time: 12:30pm
Well, we had around 10-15 volunteers show up throughout the day for the UTOS Installfest at the Electroregeneration Society. It was a great day. I’ve got some pictures to share, which really tell the story. I am happy to report that we installed more than 20 computers with Ubuntu and Fedora this past weekend. I think this event will become a yearly one as long as there are computers to install and people that need them.
The Electroregeneration Society doesn’t just need help during the holidays, please consider helping throughout the year. They are open most Saturdays and you can volunteer anytime. Watch for our classes coming soon as well.
Enjoy these pictures (the set is available on flickr):
See you all at next year’s UTOS Installfest at the Electroregeneration Society.
This month’s geek lunch was a blast, hope you all had a good time. I’m looking forward to the January 29th Geek Lunch. See you all there.
Here’s one picture from this month’s event!
The rest are available on flickr.
Cheers,
Clint
Hi all you fellow geeks, it’s time once again for the monthly Geek Lunch.
This month’s lunch is a bit late for November so we’re combining it with December’s lunch and moving it to the first Thursday this month. The reason we’re doing this is because we have a special guest who is joining us. She’s a former Utahn who’s returned for the holidays and wanted to spend a little geek time with the ones she really loves, us!
If you don’t know her, come and meet this local celebrity. She’s the one and only Sheri Bigelow…
Back from New York for a few days, she will be dining with us at Pat’s Barbecue.
If you’ve never been to Pat’s before, it’s an amazing BBQ place. We’ll be meeting in the main area in the back at one or two of the tables there. Make sure to look for our geek lunch logo.
Here’s all the details:
Where: Pat’s BBQ / 155 West Commonwealth Avenue (2125 South) / South Salt Lake, Utah 84115 (map)See you all there!
Cheers,
Clint
Mark your calendars! It’s cue time!
The annual Provo Linux User Group (PLUG) Barbecue is upon us again. This year it will be spectacular! The Utah Open Source Foundation is excited to be a part of this event. Because of this, UTOS will provide some soda, water and approximately 50 hamburgers.
This event is potluck so bring something everyone can enjoy. Chips, salad, vegetables, fruit, etc., just don’t come empty handed.
Where: Scera Park, Red Pavilion. This is on the east side of the park. (map)
When: Saturday, June 20, 2009 – 12pm – 2pm
Why: To allow the geek’s significant others to socialize, sympathize and find ways to cope with their geek’s habits. Or maybe it’s just to bring the kids to the park, and free food. Either way, it’ll be fun!
As normal, please feel free to bring any spare computer parts to trade or exchange. There will be people there looking for something useful and you might just have what they need. Anything left over will be recycled by Orem City*.
We hope to see you all there!
Cheers,
Clint
* – This is not recycling really. If someone would like to recycle the left over computer parts, feel free to speak up at the BBQ.
Greets all,
This month’s UTOS Geek Lunch will be held in three locations at once. In other words, a new way of enjoying lunch with geeks in your area. We thought it’d be nice to hang out with everyone in one place, but it’s so hard to do during the lunch hour. Instead, the idea of having a Geek Lunch in each of the three main valleys along the Wasatch Front.
This month’s theme: Thai
Fri, May 29, 12:30pm – 2pm
My Thai, 1425 S 300 W, SLC, UT (map)
Fri, May 29, 12:30pm – 2pm
Pad Thai, 1986 N Hill Field Rd #8, Layton, UT (map)
Fri, May 29, 12:30pm – 2pm
Thai Chili Gardens, 430 West 800 North, Orem, Ut (map)
If you have any questions, please contact Victor Villa (vvilla At gmail.com) for more information.
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This morning, many of us were informed of the story of Julie Stout. She was diagnosed with brain cancer a couple of years ago. This, in and of itself isn’t abnormal, but what is not normal is that this woman is the wife of one of Utah’s geek’s, Brandon Stout. He’s been around this community for some time, contributed plenty and regularly participated in the Utah PHP User Group (UPHPU).
As of this morning, I was informed about their situation and wanted to do something for the family. Thus, we’ve adopted the ‘Help a Geek Family’ mantra and opened an account on chipin.com. We’re shooting for $1500 in donations and are already well on our way. These donations will be sent to the account at Deseret First Credit Union and Utah Open Source will cover the paypal fees to make the amount complete.
If you are interested in helping out a geek family, please consider donating on our main page at http://utos.org. In addition, if you are interested in learning more about Brandon and Julie, you can watch the story on ksl.com.
Cheers,
Clint
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Upcoming Activities for May 2009
Sat, May 9th, 12pm
Utah CodeAway
Link: http://codeaway.org/
Where: Rocky Mountain Pizza Company, 3977 Wasatch Boulevard, Holladay, Utah 84124
Contact: Laura Moncur, laura @ moncur.biz
Sat, May 9, 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, May 13, 11:30pm – 1:00pm
SLLUG: Daytime SIG Meeting
Where: Salt Lake Public Library – Conference Room A Lower Level
Contact: Clint Savage, herlo1 @gmail.com
Wed, May 13, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Provo Linux Users Group
Link: http://plug.org
Where: Omniture
Contact: Ryan Simpkins, simpkins.ryan @gmail.com
Thu, May 14, 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, May 14, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Utah Python User Group Meeting
Link: http://utahpython.org
Topic: GUI Toolkit Extravaganza
Where: University of Utah, Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research Building, Room 1200
Contact: Dave, tonedevf AT gmail.com
Wed, May 20, 7:10pm – 8:40pm
Salt Lake Linux User Group (SLLUG)
Link: http://sllug.org
Where: University of Utah, Warnock Engineering Building (WEB) room 101/103 (Previously known as EMCB)
Contact: Marc Christensen marc aT mecworks.com
Thu, May 21, 6pm – 9pm
Utah Java User’s Group (ujug.org)
Link: http://ujug.org
Where: SelectHealth (IHC), 4646 West Lake Park Blvd., West Valley City
Contact: Chris Maki, chrismaki AT me.com
Thu, May 21, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Utah PHP User Group (UPHPU)
Topic: Security + PHP by Erik Johnson
Link: http://uphpu.org
Where: Bill Good Marketing, Draper, Utah
Contact: Victor Villa, vvilla @ gmail.com
Tue, May 26, 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, April 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
Thu, May 28, 8:00am – 9:30am
CTO Breakfast
Link: http://www.windley.com/cto_forum
Where: Novell Cafeteria
Contact: Phil Windley, phil At windley.org
Thu, May 28, 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
Fri, May 29, 12:30pm – 2pm
UTOS/UPHPU Geek Lunch
Link: http://utos.org/geek-lunch
Contact: Victor Villa, vvilla AT gmail.com
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