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
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
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
Are you planning on coming to the Utah Open Source Conference 2009? Are you thinking about it? Have you been considering it, but aren’t sure? Well, now is the time, before prices go up! Save 30% with Early Bird rates before Sept 26!!
What you will be missing if you decide not to attend UTOSC 2009 is an amazing list of keynotes, presentations, events and much, much more. Here’s just a sampling of some of the things we have in store for you.
At 8am, before even the conference is happening is the great CTO Breakfast with your favorite host, Phil Windley. This event is free for anyone to attend. Don’t miss out! It will be held at the cafeteria, just west of the Miller Free Enterprise Center.
UTOSC 2009 has a great keynote in Daren Brabham from right here in Utah. Every year, we have at least one local keynote to present something they are passionately interested in talking with our conference attendees. Crowdsourcing is Daren’s interest, he’s been working on it for some time!
Several Local User Groups and Birds of a Feather sessions are taking place, and we’ve still got a few things up our sleeve!! Come see presentations on Machine Learning, Virtual Machines and more!
At the end of the day, we have Ignite Salt Lake 3.5 with some really great presentations, another free community event, but you need to register. Check out the presenters for this awesome event!
Starting off with our keynote, Stormy Peters from the GNOME Foundation, all through the day is about the presentations. We have presentations for everyone. From very technical for the programmer and system administrator to fun and entertaining presentations, this day is full of goodness.
At the end of the day, we have the GPG Keysigning BoF which will be lots of fun. Make sure to bring your GPG key or read up how to generate one!
After all of the presentations and activities on Friday, we’ll head on over to Spaghetti Mama’s for the Geek Dinner at 8pm. The entire community is invited, so come on over and enjoy pizza and pasta with your friends and community. It should be a great party!
As we did in 2008, from 10am-2pm on Saturday, 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-editiing), setting up computers for kids to use as well as some 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!
Don’t forget to attend Dave McAllister’s keynote on Open Source and Adobe. This presentation promises to be ground breaking in every way. Now that Adobe will own a local company in Omniture, there are definitely some good vibes coming through.
In addition to all the activities we have scheduled for Family Day, the folks over at openSUSE 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 7pm, 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’ll probably get to play as late as we like, so come on by and enjoy a nice relaxing game of Settlers of Catan, Carcassone or Perudo while discussing the weekends activities and fun!
See you all in just a couple of weeks.
Cheers,
Clint
phở – in English, written pho and typically pronounced (/ˈfʌ/) is a Vietnamese beef and noodle soup from North Vietnam. (Reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phở)
If you have never had phở, it is quite a good noodle soup and we’ll be joining today from 12:30-2pm at Phở Green Papaya in West Valley City to enjoy a healthy, geek conversation over some awesome noodles. For $6.50+tax+tip, you can walk away very satisfied.
If you are afraid of the phở, never fear. They have Thai and Chinese items also on their menu, and the price is very reasonable.
I look forward to seeing you all at Phở Green Papaya for Geek Lunch!
Cheers,
Clint
Greets,
So the recession is hurting and business is down, and you’re thinking, man… what to do?
Here is what you do, come to Geek Lunch next Friday at Tucanos! There is one in Salt Lake and one in Utah County so it’s close to everybody.
So if you just need to pull away from the office to relax or want to network with your fellow geeks, just remember this, last geek lunch at tucanos had nearly 40 attendees from all walks in the tech field. Coders, sysadmins, DBAs, local business owners, you name it, they were there. Perfect casual networking opportunity!
Here is the info:
Salt Lake County – July 31st, 1pm
RSVP – http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4111644/?ps=5
Tucanos
162 S 400 W
Salt Lake City, UT 84101-1145
Get Directions
(801) 456-2550
Utah County – July 31st 1pm
RSVP – http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4111665/?ps=5
Tucanos
4801 N University Ave # 790
Provo, UT 84604-7745
Get Directions
(801) 224-4774
If for no other reason than to come and check out Victor Villa’s masterpiece grill (can cook 50 burgers at once), you should come to the PLUG InterLUG BBQ. He’ll be bringing it and we’ll be providing drinks and burgers (with buns and essentials). But you should see this awesome grill! Thanks for bringing it along mindjuju!
DON’T FORGET TO BRING A POTLUCK ITEM TO SHARE (HARDWARE AND EATS)
We’ve mentioned the BBQ here a couple of times on this blog and several mailing lists have mentioned it as well. But if you can’t remember the details, here you go again:
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.
