Utah Open Source Blog

As we did in 2008 and 2009, from 10am-2pm on Saturday, October 9, we’re going to be making a very special effort around families. If you have registered for a Full Access Pass, we invite you to bring your family for the Family related activities and presentations. We have presentations on GIMP (photo-editing), Internet Filtering at Home and we’ll have a special treat as three young girls come and tell us about their experience with free and open source software. We’ll be holding activities like a GPS treasure hunt and a family oriented Try-It Lab workshop. Family members need not register to attend on Saturday, just show up and have some fun along with a registered Attendee!

Don’t forget to attend the presentation from Howard Tayler, creator of Schlock Mercenary. This presentation promises to be fun for the whole family. Plus, Howard will be around the rest of the day to draw comics and socialize with everyone!

Come for a Pizza Party, sponsored by the Fedora Project

In addition to all the activities we have scheduled for Family Day, the folks over at Fedora have pitched in a ton of pizza and drinks. Starting at about 11:45am until about 1pm, there will be pizza available for everyone at the conference, though it is first come, first served. Come and grab a slice and share a conversation with family and friends.

As the Utah Open Source Conference winds down around 6pm, we’ll be setting up the boardgames to play. We’ve got quite a few games available, and you can bring your own as well. We play pretty late into the night, so come on by and enjoy a nice relaxing game of Settlers of Catan, Carcassone or Perudo while discussing the weekends activities and fun!

Posted on October 1, 2010 to:

Tagged:

UTOSC 2010: Early bird registrations ends September 25

UTOSC 2010 Early Bird Registration Ends Soon!

The Utah Open Source Conference 2010 Early Bird registration ends September 25! Register now for the best community conference in the Mountain West!

UTOSC 2010 is less than 3 weeks away!! It’s time to visit http://attend.utosc.com and register today. Be sure to register by September 25 and save 30%!!

So, what’s going on at UTOSC 2010, October 7-9 at the Miller Campus of the Salt Lake Community College.

Over 50 presentations, including 3 awesome keynotes

Jared Smith, the Fedora Project Leader, will present ‘Swimming upstream: How Linux distributions help the entire community‘
Howard Tayler, creator of Schlock Mercenary, will return and present another excellent keynote
Karsten Wade, with Red Hat’s Community Architecture Team, will present ‘Barn raising and musicians on the green – old ideas in a digital world‘

Visit the full schedule at http://utosc.com/presentation/schedule/ to have a look and find your favorites.

Getting Started – Thursday, October 7, 2010

Thursday has 4 rooms full of awesome presentations and in the evening we have some really fun activities.

6:00pm (Auditorium) will be LaunchUP, a community event to help Technology Entrepreneurs.
7:30pm (Auditorium) Ignite Salt Lake will start. Amazing 5 minute presentations are all the rage!

The evening activities above do not require registration for UTOSC, so come and enjoy the fun all evening long.

We do provide a couple other events Thursday evening:

6:30pm (Rm 123) Fedora Campus Ambassadors Birds of a Feather Session
7:30pm (Rm 123) BSD Certification Exam – Seethe event page to register.

All about the presentations – October 8, 2010

Friday is jam-packed with 5 rooms of presentations and workshops. In the evening, we’re heading out to a local pub (more details to come) for some food and fun! And if you are still up for more after that, all night hacking is *not* out of the question!

Bring the whole crew on Family Day — October 9, 2010

Saturday is among the best days at UTOSC! For families, we have several fun activities, games and presentations. Because Utah and the Mountain West focus a lot on the family, UTOSC does too! Saturday has educational family presentations in the Beginner and Intermediate levels, a GPS treasure hunt, the Gaming Corner and more. Bring the whole crew for free with every Full Access Attendee!!

REGISTER TODAY – Early Bird registration ends September 25!!

Registration is available at http://attend.utosc.com – Visit UTOSC 2010 sponsors, LUGs, facebook, twitter or identi.ca for discount promo codes. Presentation and event information is available at http://utosc.com

If this is not enough, UTOSC 2010 always has great SWAG and exhibitors!! Among the exhibitors are; Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE, KDE, GNOME, Coraid and Fusion-IO.

See you all at the Utah Open Source Conference 2010, October 7-9!!

Posted on September 20, 2010 to:

Tagged:

June 2010 Geek Lunch: Philadelphia, here we come!

Hey folks, this Friday is Geek Lunch time! The theme this month is ‘Philadelphia’. Philly steaks are the plan, but you can get many other great sandwiches or just come for the geek talk!

Here’s the Details

Meet at the nearest location to you at 12:30pm this Friday, July 2, 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, July 2, 2010
Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Salt Lake County

The Philadelphian

9860 South 700 East

Sandy, Utah 84070 (map)

(801) 532-7441

Weber / Davis / Utah County

There is currently no place planned for in Weber, Davis or Utah counties at the moment. If you would like to help organize a Geek Lunch in Utah county, please add a comment here on this post.

See you all there!

Clint

Posted on June 29, 2010 to:

Tagged:

Geek Lunch: Oops, we forgot April, let’s try May. Wings?

With this wintry weather it is sure hard to tell it’s April in Utah! Combine that with a very successful #hackUTOS – A Code Festival recently, we completely forgot about the UTOS Geek Lunch!!

You’re Lucky Though

Because we forgot to announce Geek Lunch for April, we’re going to do a very special one in May. Wings!*. And the event will take place on the best day of all 50 ¢ wing day!!**

Here’s the Details (NOTE: The date is not a Friday)

Meet at the nearest location to you at 12:00pm on Monday, May 3, 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: Monday, May 3, 2010
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm

Salt Lake County

Wing Coop (website and map)

4095 South Redwood Road
Salt Lake City, Utah 84123
Phone: (801) 274-WING

Weber / Davis Counties

Wing Nutz (website and map)

2332 Kiesel Avenue (@ The Junction)

Ogden, UT 84401

Phone: (801) 528-5698

If you have a suggestion please let us know in the comments section. See you all there!

Clint

* – We apologize to those veggie eaters we have in our crowd. We’ll make sure to do a veggie friendly venue at the next Geek Lunch.

** – This only applies to folks going to Wing Coop on May 3.

Posted on April 30, 2010 to:

Tagged:

March 2010 Geek Lunch: Zupas and a Mix of Podcasting to boot!

Hey folks, this month’s Geek Lunch is in cooperation with the folks from PodCampSLC! You should register for PodCampSLC, but if you just want to come to Geek Lunch, it’s open to anyone!

NOTE: PodCampSLC attendees will be at the South Jordan location only

Here’s the Details

Meet at the nearest location to you at 12:00pm on Friday, March 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: 12:00pm – 1:00pm

Salt Lake County

Zupas (website and map)

10680 South Riverfront Parkway
South Jordan, Utah 84095
Phone: (801) 253-8881

Weber / Davis / Utah Counties

Zupas (website and map)

748 W. Antelope Dr.
Layton, UT 84041
Phone: (801) 776-1753

If you have a suggestion

See you all there!

Clint

Posted on March 16, 2010 to:

Tagged:

Geek Lunch: February 2010 Photos

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

Posted on March 2, 2010 to:

Tagged:

February 2010 Geek Lunch: To the pub we go!

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.

Here’s the Details

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

Salt Lake County

The Green Pig (website)

31 East 400 South

Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 (map)

(801) 532-7441

Weber / Davis Counties

Roosters (website)

748 Heritage Park Boulevard

Layton, Utah 84041 (map)

(801) 774-9330

Utah County

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

Posted on February 23, 2010 to:

Tagged:

Geek Lunch: January is Indian food!

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

Here’s the Details

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

Salt Lake County

India House
8660 South State Street
Sandy, UT 84070
(801) 569-0550 (map)

Weber / Davis Counties

Taste of India

1664 N Woodland Park Dr

Layton, UT 84041

(801) 614-0107 (map)

Utah County

India Palace

98 West Center Street

Provo, UT‎ 84601

(801) 373-7200‎ (map)

Posted on January 26, 2010 to:

Tagged:

Geek Lunch: December Pictures