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
Video of Richard Esplin’s presentation on “Technology Cooperatives” is now available on YouTube at the following URL: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNjSbvBgV70>.
Richard Esplin at UTOSC 2009
Traditional technology businesses do not achieve optimal alignment between the interests of the developer, the business investor, the consumer, and the global community. Open source businesses attempt to improve on this situation, but unfortunately, most business models do not foster open source solutions. Technical expertise is expensive and awareness of the benefits of collaborative solutions is often lacking. Companies with significant technical know-how have many incentives to guard that know-how behind proprietary licenses. Companies who should be focused on their core competencies often have to build significant technical know-how to employ open source solutions.
There is a way that non-technical businesses can take advantage of the services of technical professionals without needing to worry about maximizing capital returns. This problem is similar to how a community can pool resources in a common investment fund and take advantage of banking experience (think credit unions), how a bunch of mountain climbers can take advantage of bulk procurement expertise to lower costs (think REI), and how a collection of rural municipalities can provide shared electricity and communications infrastructure (think rural utility providers). For the last two hundred years cooperative businesses have been refining a collection of operating models which encourage collaboration and sharing of resources. These principles apply to information technology solutions. In this presentation, I’ll share my research into cooperative business models, and my experience trying to catalyze a technology cooperative for educational institutions.
Since being indoctrinated in the philosophy of free software as a CS undergraduate, Richard has been a vocal free software evangelist. After trying a variety of open source business models, Richard thinks he has found an innovative solution to many of the common problems involved with making money building open solutions. By spreading the meme, he hopes to find the right partners for this endeavor.
Richard’s website is at <http://richard.esplins.org/>.
The Utah Open Source Foundation, in its goal to promote Open Source throughout Utah and beyond, is proud to promote the following events. These events are generally related to Open Source and Technology in Utah. If your event is not listed below, please contact clint@utos.org to get it added.
Utah Technology Community Announcements
* Southern California Linux Expo is coming soon – Learn more at http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/
* PyCon is coming soon – Learn more at http://us.pycon.org/2010/about/
* PodcampSLC Registration is now open – Read more at http://podcampslc.org/
If you have announcements or events for February 2010 or beyond happening which you would like included, please contact clint@utos.org.
Saturday, January 9, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Ubuntu Utah LoCo Meeting
Link: http://utah.ubuntu-us.org
Where: MEB building at the University of Utah Room: 2555
Contact: Christer Edwards, christer dot edwards aT ubuntu.com
Wed, January 13, 11:30pm – 1:00pm
SLLUG: Daytime SIG Meeting
Link: http://sllug.org
Where: BetaLoft SLC – 357 West 200 S, Suite 201, Salt Lake City
Contact: Clint Savage, herlo1@gmail.com
Wed, January 13, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Provo Linux Users Group
Link: http://plug.org
Where: Omniture
Contact: Ryan Simpkins, simpkins.ryan @gmail.com
Thu, January 14, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Utah Python User Group Meeting
Link: http://utahpython.org
Where: Bill Good Marketing, 12393 Gateway Park Pl #600 Draper, Utah
Contact: Dave, tonedevf AT gmail.com
Tue, January 19, 6pm – 8:40pm
Utah Mobile Developers Group
Link: http://www.utahmobiledev.org
Where: 8th Avenue & C Street Salt Lake City, UT 84103 (Jon and Karen Huntsman Education Center, LDS Hospital)
Contact: Glen Lewis glen aT glenlewis.com
Wed, January 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 (or 103) (Previously known as EMCB)
Contact: Marc Christensen marc aT mecworks.com
Thu, January 21, 6pm – 9pm
Utah Java User’s Group (ujug.org)
Link: http://ujug.org
Where: Intermountain Medical Center, Doty Family Education Center, Murray, Utah
Contact: Chris Maki, chrismaki AT me.com
Thu, January 21, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Utah PHP User Group (UPHPU)
Link: http://uphpu.org
Where: Bill Good Marketing, Draper, Utah
Contact: Victor Villa, vvilla @ gmail.com
Tue, January 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
Friday, January 29, 8:00am - 10:00am
CTO Breakfast
Link: http://www.windley.com/cto_forum
Contact: Phil Windley, phil AT WINDLEY dot org
Friday, January 29, 12:30pm – 2:00pm
UTOS Geek Lunch
Link: http://blog.utos.org/geek-lunch/
Contact: Victor Villa vvilla at GMAIL
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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
As the holiday season comes upon us, many think about those who are a bit less fortunate than us. I am no different in this category and feel like I would like to do something to help those who need a hand. This year, I plan to help the Electroregeneration Society (http://electroregeneration.org/) by heading down there for our inaugural “ERGS/UTOS Holiday Linux Installfest”.
I hope this might interest a few of you as well. And if so, please consider coming down anytime and donating your time. Here’s the details:
Location: Electroregeneration Society Warehouse (555 S 400 W, Salt Lake City, UT) (map: http://sn.im/ergs-map)
Date: December 19, 2009
Time: 9am-5pm (Installfest starts at 10am)
What can I bring?
We’ll be setting up the equipment at 9am. ERGS has power strips, etherrnet switches, computers and monitors. If you have Ubuntu, Fedora or openSUSE install media (CD or DVDs are what we need), bring them with you. Please also bring your laptops so we can look up settings and the like if needed. I’ll be bringing my laptop with a tethered phone too, just in case we’re overwhelming the internets there.
Please come on down and donate your time, here’s a bit of a spiel from Dave Turnbull, one of the many volunteers at ERGS:
The Electroregeneration Society enriches lives through affordable access to technology by repurposing electronics, supporting technology education, and developing community partnerships.”
We primarily serve two groups — charities and low-income families or individuals. We provide computers to 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations without regard to mission — all nonprofits qualify. For individuals and families, we have a service-for-equipment program, where they provide 15 hours of service to ERGS in exchange for a desktop computer.
The Utah Open Source Foundation’s goals align with the Electroregeneration Society’s goals because we’ll be installing Linux on machines that will be repurposed. Sometimes, the machines are a
bit older, Linux is the only simple way these machines will be able to be repurposed.
If you have a few hours on Saturday, December 19, consider coming down and donating a bit of your time for a good cause and help us install Linux on as many machines as possible. I will be there with my family. I sure hope you can come as well. It’s going to be a blast while helping the community get connected to the world :)
See you all there,
Clint Savage
Utah Open Source Foundation
Hey folks, this Friday is Geek Lunch time! We’re going to try the three county geek lunch again since it seemed to work well last time we did it. The theme this month is ‘Pizza’ so come enjoy some gourmet pizza at ‘The Pie Pizzeria’. Unfortunately, Utah County doesn’t have a Pie Pizzeria, so we’re going to substitute the Pizza Factory as a good alternate.
Meet at the nearest location to you at 12:30pm this Friday, October 30. 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: October 30, 2009
Time: 12:30pm
On Saturday, October 10 @ 12:45mp-1:00pm during Family Day at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009, we’re going to be having a paper airplane making and flying activity above the Exhibit Hall (room 117) at the Miller Free Enterprise Center. The idea is that there will be a ream or so of paper at the top of the stairs, we’ll gather about 100 people up there to build a paper airplane.
Everyone will then countdown and launch their planes at exactly 1pm.
There will be prizes for accuracy (we’ll point out a particular booth to aim for) and for distance. We sure hope this will be an event to share with your friends, so bring the kids large and small and come fly a plane!
