Utah Open Source Blog » Geek Lunch http://blog.utos.org By, for and about Utah Open Source Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:49:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 June 2010 Geek Lunch: Philadelphia, here we come! http://blog.utos.org/2010/06/29/june-2010-geek-lunch-philadelphia-here-we-come/ http://blog.utos.org/2010/06/29/june-2010-geek-lunch-philadelphia-here-we-come/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:20:49 +0000 admin http://blog.utos.org/?p=1153 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

]]> http://blog.utos.org/2010/06/29/june-2010-geek-lunch-philadelphia-here-we-come/feed/ 0 Geek Lunch: Oops, we forgot April, let’s try May. Wings? http://blog.utos.org/2010/04/30/geek-lunch-oops-we-forgot-april-lets-try-may-wings/ http://blog.utos.org/2010/04/30/geek-lunch-oops-we-forgot-april-lets-try-may-wings/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:45:02 +0000 admin http://blog.utos.org/?p=1088 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.

]]> http://blog.utos.org/2010/04/30/geek-lunch-oops-we-forgot-april-lets-try-may-wings/feed/ 1 March 2010 Geek Lunch: Zupas and a Mix of Podcasting to boot! http://blog.utos.org/2010/03/16/march-2010-geek-lunch-zupas-and-a-mix-of-podcasting-to-boot/ http://blog.utos.org/2010/03/16/march-2010-geek-lunch-zupas-and-a-mix-of-podcasting-to-boot/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:33:20 +0000 herlo http://blog.utos.org/?p=1038 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

]]> http://blog.utos.org/2010/03/16/march-2010-geek-lunch-zupas-and-a-mix-of-podcasting-to-boot/feed/ 0 Geek Lunch: February 2010 Photos http://blog.utos.org/2010/03/02/geek-lunch-february-2010-photos/ http://blog.utos.org/2010/03/02/geek-lunch-february-2010-photos/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:45:31 +0000 herlo http://blog.utos.org/?p=1036 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

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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

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

IMG_0877b

The rest are available on flickr.

Cheers,

Clint

]]> http://blog.utos.org/2009/12/20/geek-lunch-december-pictures/feed/ 0 Geek Lunch: A special guest and a special day, December 3 @ 12:30pm http://blog.utos.org/2009/12/01/geek-lunch-a-special-guest-and-a-special-time-december-3-1230pm/ http://blog.utos.org/2009/12/01/geek-lunch-a-special-guest-and-a-special-time-december-3-1230pm/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:11:23 +0000 herlo http://blog.utos.org/?p=971 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)
When: December 3, 12:30-2pm

See you all there!

Cheers,

Clint

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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

The Pie Pizzeria
7186 Union Park Ave
Midvale, UT 84047
(801) 233-1999 (map)

Weber / Davis Counties

The Pie Pizzeria
1225 Country Hills Dr
Ogden, UT 84403
(801) 627-1920 (map)

Utah County

Pizza Factory
400 North State Street
Lindon, Utah 84042
(801) 785-4464 (map)
]]> http://blog.utos.org/2009/10/27/geek-lunch-come-eat-some-pizza-pie/feed/ 0 UTOSC 2009 is just over 2 weeks away! http://blog.utos.org/2009/09/23/utosc-2009-is-just-over-2-weeks-away/ http://blog.utos.org/2009/09/23/utosc-2009-is-just-over-2-weeks-away/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:10:37 +0000 admin http://blog.utos.org/?p=851 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.

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

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