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

Weber / Davis / Utah Counties

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See you all there!

Clint

Below are some pictures from the event: (full set of pictures is on flickr)

See you all next month!

Cheers,

Clint

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

Weber / Davis Counties

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

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

Weber / Davis Counties

Utah County

Here’s one picture from this month’s event!

The rest are available on flickr.

Cheers,

Clint

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:

See you all there!

Cheers,

Clint

Here’s the Details

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

Salt Lake County

Weber / Davis Counties

Utah County

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.

Community Day – October 8, 2009

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!

Geek Day – October 9, 2009

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!

Geek Dinner – Spaghetti Mama’s

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!

Family Day – October 10, 2009

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.

Come for a Pizza Party, sponsored by openSUSE

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

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

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