If you miss this final chance to submit a paper you may well miss out on your opportunity to present!

In addition to being a presenter there are several other opportunities to contribute to the Utah Open Source Conference, such as volunteering your time or conducting a BoF get together.

Check out http://blog.utos.org and http://2010.utosc.com for all the latest opportunities to help out this year!

The Greater Utah BSD User Group will be meeting at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009 on Thursday, October 8, 2009 @ 12:30pm in room 123. The GUBUG meeting is free to the public, feel free to come by and enjoy the BSD love!

Sign up for UTOSC 2009 Today

Registration is available at http://attend.utosc.com
Presentation and event information is available at http://2009.utosc.com

Contact your LUG or a sponsor for discount tickets today.

See you all at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009, October 8 – 10!!

Sharing the Love with Local User Groups and Conferences

I don’t think this idea is new, but it sure is something I know we have been working very hard toward.  Over the past few weeks, we have emailed most of the Local User Groups in the Mountain West and invited them to take 5 minutes directly after Daren Brabham‘s CrowdSourcing keynote.

The idea is that we want to promote our Local User Groups, since this is part of the UTOS charter.  Each LUG will come up and talk about their meetings and what goes on during the meetings.  We think it is really important that they have an opportunity to provide useful information about free and open source technologies.

In addition, we have representatives from a few local conferences who will be standing before the crowded auditorium as well.  They’ll come to share their passions and their events.  We have representatives from WordCamp, PodCampSLC and more…

mini-LUG Meetings

After the presentations, several of the groups will be holding their LUG meetings at UTOSC 2009.  These meetings are free to attend for anyone, however, if you wish to attend other activities on Thursday, we ask that you register on our website.  Registering for UTOSC 2009 brings in monetary funds to help these LUGs grow.

In between many of the 5 minute presentations, we’ll be handing out SWAG or other cool stuff.  If you paid money or are a volunteer for UTOSC 2009, make sure to get a raffle ticket when you arrive!

Register for UTOSC 2009 Today!!

Registration is available at http://attend.utosc.com
Presentation and event information is available at http://2009.utosc.com

Contact your LUG or a sponsor for discount tickets today.

See you all at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009, October 8 – 10

But wait no more!  The speaker list for the Utah Open Source Conference is here!  There are over 45 speakers and 50+ presentations on this amazing list, visit it today to see if your favorites are there!!  You can also see the speakers in several ways, including by category; like Keynote, or by audience, like Beginner, or by Room or by Date.   We’re still working on the full fledged printable magic schedule that lets you imagine the presentations you want to attend and creates the presentations in that exact order, but we’re working on it!

Please take a moment and share this with your friends, family, neighbors, puppies, kitty cats, and llamas!

Everyone should know about the amazing presentations at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009!  I’m excited for several, and we’ve got some killer Keynotes including Stormy Peters from the GNOME Foundation and Dave McAllister from Adobe.

We have activities that will excite and encourage!

This year we have revamped the Try-It lab from last year, with workshops throughout the weekend..  These workshops will be scheduled for 2-3 hours and will be hands-on.  But don’t worry, there’s also ample opportunity to come and try out different distributions, applications and other items during the unscheduled time of the Try-It Lab!

Birds of a Feather really do flock together!

In 2007, we had a few successful BoFs (Birds of a Feather) sessions, including GPG keysigning and the Boardgame BoF.  In an effort to develop a richer experience, we’re bringing the BoF back to UTOSC 2009.  We already have a few created, so feel free to find the board and add your BoF during UTOSC 2009.  (If you would like to pre-schedule a BoF, feel free to email feather@utos.org with your topic and we’ll get it added)

LUGs are invited to share!

Local User Groups are why we run UTOSC.  If you are part of a LUG in the Mountain West, we’ve reserved time for you to come and talk about your group.  Things like; when you meet, what topics you discuss would be good, plus the foodstuffs you serve (like ‘Punch and Pie’).  Plus, we’ve even made time for mini-LUG meetings right at UTOSC on Thursday, October 8.  For more information, email lugs@utos.org, spots are going fast!

Wow, my hands are tired!

There is so much more to share about UTOSC 2009, but I think my hands are cramping a little more than I like.  So for now, I’ll just say ‘You should go and register today! Keep in mind, if you are a member of a Local User Group in the Mountain West, your LUG will have a promo code worth 50% off admission, that’s quite a discount!

Early Bird Registration ends September 19, so Visit http://attend.utosc.com to register today!

See you all in October at UTOSC 2009!!!

The organizer of the session is not a programmer, but an economics professor at the University of Utah. He is involved as stakeholder in Governor Huntsman’s Climate Change Initiative. He is planning to present the governor a proposal which not only leads to energy savings and pollution reduction but also turns Utah into a major player in an emerging technology. This proposal is only feasible if it has the buy-in of the open source community. The Utah Open Source conference is a good platform to get feedback from the Open Source community about these ideas.

The point is that we can make a difference in Utah and this amazing idea is being discussed at the Utah Open Source Conference!  Don’t miss out on this opportunity to discuss open source techniques that may change the way we run our electricity!

Read more about the Smart Electric Grid Birds of a Feather session.