Utah Open Source Blog

This is part of a series of Local User Group (LUG) meetings that will be held at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009.

The Utah Python User Group will be meeting at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009 on Thursday, October 8, 2009 @ 7:15pm in room 108. The Utah Python meeting is free to the public, feel free to come by and see what’s happening with Python in Utah.

Sign up for UTOSC 2009 Today

Registration is available at http://attend.utosc.com
Presentation and event information is available at http://2009.utosc.com

Contact your LUG or a sponsor for discount tickets today.

See you all at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009, October 8 – 10!!

This is part of a series of Local User Group (LUG) meetings that will be held at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009.

The Utah Asterisk User Group will be meeting at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009 on Thursday, October 8, 2009 @ 6:00pm in room 123. The UTAUG meeting is free to the public, feel free to come by and see what’s happening with Asterisk in Utah.

Sign up for UTOSC 2009 Today

Registration is available at http://attend.utosc.com
Presentation and event information is available at http://2009.utosc.com

Contact your LUG or a sponsor for discount tickets today.

See you all at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009, October 8 – 10!!

This is part of a series of Local User Group (LUG) meetings that will be held at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009.

The Provo Linux User Group will be meeting at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009 on Thursday, October 8, 2009 @ 3:00pm in room 123. The PLUG meeting is free to the public, feel free to come by and see what’s happening in Provo with Linux!!

Sign up for UTOSC 2009 Today

Registration is available at http://attend.utosc.com
Presentation and event information is available at http://2009.utosc.com

Contact your LUG or a sponsor for discount tickets today.

See you all at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009, October 8 – 10!!

This is part of a series of Local User Group (LUG) meetings that will be held at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009.

The Salt Lake Linux User Group will be meeting at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009 on Thursday, October 8, 2009 @ 1:45pm in room 206. The SLLUG meeting is free to the public, feel free to come by and participate in a great Linux discussion!

Sign up for UTOSC 2009 Today

Registration is available at http://attend.utosc.com
Presentation and event information is available at http://2009.utosc.com

Contact your LUG or a sponsor for discount tickets today.

See you all at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009, October 8 – 10!!

So you’ve been very patient, and we appreciate it very much!

But wait no more!  The speaker list for the Utah Open Source Conference is here!  There are over 45 speakers and 50+ presentations on this amazing list, visit it today to see if your favorites are there!!  You can also see the speakers in several ways, including by category; like Keynote, or by audience, like Beginner, or by Room or by Date.   We’re still working on the full fledged printable magic schedule that lets you imagine the presentations you want to attend and creates the presentations in that exact order, but we’re working on it!

Please take a moment and share this with your friends, family, neighbors, puppies, kitty cats, and llamas!

Everyone should know about the amazing presentations at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009!  I’m excited for several, and we’ve got some killer Keynotes including Stormy Peters from the GNOME Foundation and Dave McAllister from Adobe.

We have activities that will excite and encourage!

This year we have revamped the Try-It lab from last year, with workshops throughout the weekend..  These workshops will be scheduled for 2-3 hours and will be hands-on.  But don’t worry, there’s also ample opportunity to come and try out different distributions, applications and other items during the unscheduled time of the Try-It Lab!

Birds of a Feather really do flock together!

In 2007, we had a few successful BoFs (Birds of a Feather) sessions, including GPG keysigning and the Boardgame BoF.  In an effort to develop a richer experience, we’re bringing the BoF back to UTOSC 2009.  We already have a few created, so feel free to find the board and add your BoF during UTOSC 2009.  (If you would like to pre-schedule a BoF, feel free to email feather@utos.org with your topic and we’ll get it added)

LUGs are invited to share!

Local User Groups are why we run UTOSC.  If you are part of a LUG in the Mountain West, we’ve reserved time for you to come and talk about your group.  Things like; when you meet, what topics you discuss would be good, plus the foodstuffs you serve (like ‘Punch and Pie’).  Plus, we’ve even made time for mini-LUG meetings right at UTOSC on Thursday, October 8.  For more information, email lugs@utos.org, spots are going fast!

Wow, my hands are tired!

There is so much more to share about UTOSC 2009, but I think my hands are cramping a little more than I like.  So for now, I’ll just say ‘You should go and register today! Keep in mind, if you are a member of a Local User Group in the Mountain West, your LUG will have a promo code worth 50% off admission, that’s quite a discount!

Early Bird Registration ends September 19, so Visit http://attend.utosc.com to register today!

See you all in October at UTOSC 2009!!!

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

• Stormy Peters, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation will keynote on Friday, October 9 at UTOSC 2009.
• Registration for the Utah Open Source Conference is now open.
  • If you are looking for the Local User Group discount, contact your LUG leader today!
• Utah Open Source is looking for more volunteers to join our ‘Core Team’.
  • Position definitions and contacts are available at http://wiki.utos.org/All_Positions.
• UTOSC 2009 ‘Call for Papers’ closes August 27 and attendee voting on abstracts start August 15.  Submit your abstract today!
• UTOS-ConMan HackNights are still happening every Tuesday night in August, join us in #utos-dev on irc.freenode.net

If you have announcements or events for August 2009 or beyond happening around open source in the Intermountain West which you would like included, please contact clint@utos.org.

Upcoming Activities for August 2009

Sat, August 8, 12 – 5pm
Utah CodeAway
Link: http://codeaway.org/
Contact: Laura Moncur, laura @ moncur.biz

Sat, August 8, 6pm – 8pm
Ubuntu-Utah Meeting
Link: http://utah.ubuntu-us.org
Where: University of Utah – Merrill Engineering Building (MEB) Comp-Sci Labs Rm 2555
Contact: Aaron Toponce, aarontoponce@ gmail.com

Wed, August 12, 11:30pm – 1:00pm
SLLUG: Daytime SIG Meeting
Where: BetaLoft SLC – 357 West 200 S, Suite 201, Salt Lake City
Contact: Clint Savage, herlo1@gmail.com

Wed, August 12, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Provo Linux Users Group
Link: http://plug.org
Where: Omniture
Contact: Ryan Simpkins, simpkins.ryan @gmail.com

Thu, August 13, 6pm – 9pm
Utah Mobile Developers Group
Where: STG Dev Center, 555 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah
Contact: Glen Lewis, glen @ glenlewis.com

Thu, August 13, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Utah Python User Group Meeting
Link: http://utahpython.org
Where: University of Utah, Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research Building, Room 1200
Contact: Dave, tonedevf AT gmail.com

Thu, August 13, 7:00pm
Advanced Git Class presented by Tim Harper and the Utah Ruby User Group
Link: http://sn.im/piz7s
Where: Lead Media Partners: 891 Baxter Dr South Jordan, UT
Contact: Tim Harper timcharper aaat gmail.com

Sat, August 15
UTOSC 2009 Abstract Voting Begins
Register Today

Wed, August 19, 6:30 – 9:30pm
Beginning Puppet presented by Tim Harper and the Utah Ruby User Group
Link: http://sn.im/piz7s
Where: Lead Media Partners: 891 Baxter Dr South Jordan, UT
Contact: Tim Harper timcharper aaat gmail.com

Wed, August 19, 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, August 20, 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, August 20, 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

Thu, August 20, 7:00pm
Ignite Salt Lake
Link: http://ignitesaltlake.com
Where: Murray Theatre 4959 South State Street, Murray

Tue, August 25, 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

Thu, August 27
UTOSC 2009 Call for Papers Ends!!
Visit http://utosc.com/speaker/papers/ to submit your abstract!

Thu, August 27, 6pm – 8pm
Logan Dev Group
Where: Room 208 (Faculty Seminar Lounge), Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Contact: Matthew Reinbold, matthew.reinbold At voxpopdesign.com

Tue, August 28, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Ogden Area Linux User Group
Link: http://oalug.com
Where: Weber County Main Library, Board Room
Contact: Seth House, whiteinge@ gmail.com

Fri, August 28, 8:00am
CTO Breakfast
Link: http://www.windley.com/cto_forum
Contact: Phil Windley phil AT WINDLEY dot org

Fri, August 28, 12:30pm – 2pm
UTOS Geek Lunch
Link: http://utos.org/geek-lunch
Contact: Victor Villa, vvilla AT gmail.com

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Each of the events are from the Utah Tech Events calendar.  Feel free to subscribe by clicking the link below (or adding the following feed to your calendaring program)
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Utah Tech Events Calendar – Google Calendar: http://sn.im/ute-calendar
Utah Tech Events Calendar – iCal Feed: http://sn.im/ute-calendar-ics

Utah Open Source Foundation also regularly records Local User Group (LUG) meetings throughout the state.  Feel free to check out our podcasts and live streaming schedules.

Utah Open Source Podcasts – http://podcast.utos.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

• Utah Open Source is looking for more volunteers to join our ‘Core Team’.  Position definitions and contacts are available at http://wiki.utos.org/All_Positions.
• UTOSC 2009 ‘Call for Papers’ is now open.  Submit your abstract - http://2009.utosc.com.
• UTOS-ConMan HackNights are still hapening every Tuesday, watch http://utos.org for announcements.
• PodCampSLC 2010 Kick-off Meeting will be held July 13 @ 7pm.  If you are interested in helping contact podcampslc@gmail.com

If you have announcements or events for August 2009 or beyond happening around open source in the Intermountain West which you would like included, please contact clint@utos.org.

Upcoming Activities for July 2009

Wed, July 8, 11:30am – 1:00pm
SLLUG: Daytime SIG Meeting
Topic: Cobbler
Where: BetaLoft SLC – 357 West 200 South, Suite 201, Salt Lake City
Contact: Clint Savage, herlo1@gmail.com

Wed, July 8, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Provo Linux Users Group
Link: http://plug.org
Where: Omniture
Contact: Ryan Simpkins, simpkins.ryan @gmail.com

Thu, July 9, 6pm – 9pm
Utah Mobile Developers Group
Where: STG Dev Center, 555 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah
Contact: Glen Lewis, glen @ glenlewis.com

Thu, July 9, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Utah Python User Group Meeting
Link: http://utahpython.org
Topic: GUI Toolkit Extravaganza cont’d
Where: University of Utah, Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research
Building, Room 1200
Contact: Dave, tonedevf AT gmail.com

Sat, July 11th, 12 – 5pm
Utah CodeAway
Link: http://codeaway.org/
Where: TBD
Contact: Laura Moncur, laura @ moncur.biz

Sat, July 11, 6pm – 8pm
Ubuntu-Utah Meeting
Link: http://utah.ubuntu-us.org
Where: University of Utah – Merrill Engineering Building (MEB)
Comp-Sci Labs Rm 2555
Contact: Aaron Toponce, aarontoponce@ gmail.com

Wed, July 15, 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, July 16, 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, July 16, 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

Thu, July 23, 6pm – 8pm
Logan Dev Group
Where: Room 208 (Faculty Seminar Lounge), Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah
State University, Logan, UT
Contact: Matthew Reinbold, matthew.reinbold At voxpopdesign.com

Tue, July 28, 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

Tue, July 28, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Ogden Area Linux User Group
Link: http://oalug.com
Where: Weber County Main Library, Board Room
Contact: Seth House, whiteinge@ gmail.com

Fri, July 31, 12:30pm – 2pm
UTOS/UPHPU Geek Lunch
Link: http://utos.org/geek-lunch
Contact: Victor Villa, vvilla AT gmail.com

Each of the events are from the Utah Tech Events calendar.  Feel free to subscribe by clicking the link below (or adding the following feed to your calendaring program)

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

• UTOS-ConMan HackNights happen most every Tuesday night in June, watch http://utos.org for announcements.
• Watch for the UTOSC 2009 ‘Call for Papers’ – http://2009.utosc.com

If you have announcements or events that are happening around open source in Utah which you would like included, please contact clint@utos.org.
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Upcoming Activities for June 2009

Wed, June 10, 11:30pm – 1:00pm
SLLUG: Daytime SIG Meeting
Topic: IPTables Basics
Where: BetaLoft SLC – 357 West 200 S, Suite 201, Salt Lake City
Contact: Clint Savage, herlo1@gmail.com

Wed, June 10, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Provo Linux Users Group
Topic: KVM & QEMU
Link: http://plug.org
Where: Omniture
Contact: Ryan Simpkins, simpkins.ryan @gmail.com

Thu, June 11, 6pm – 9pm
Utah Mobile Developers Group
Where: STG Dev Center, 555 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah
Contact: Glen Lewis, glen @ glenlewis.com

Thu, June 11, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Utah Python User Group Meeting
Link: http://utahpython.org
Topic: GUI Toolkit Extravaganza
Where: University of Utah, Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research Building, Room 1200
Contact: Dave, tonedevf AT gmail.com

Sat, June 13th (All Day)
SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF)
Where: Clemson, South Carolina
Info: http://southeastlinuxfest.org

Sat, June 13th, 12-5pm
Utah CodeAway
Link: http://codeaway.org/
Where: BetaLoft, 357 West 200 South, Suite 201, Salt Lake City
Contact: Laura Moncur, laura @ moncur.biz

Sat, June 13, 6pm – 8pm
Ubuntu-Utah Meeting
Link: http://utah.ubuntu-us.org
Where: University of Utah – Merrill Engineering Building (MEB) Comp-Sci Labs Rm 2555
Contact: Aaron Toponce, aarontoponce@ gmail.com

June 17-19
Open Source Bridge
Where: Portland, Oregon
Info: http://opensourcebridge.org

Wed, June 17, 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, June 18, 6pm – 9pm
Utah Java User’s Group (ujug.org)
Link: http://ujug.org
Where: SelectHealth (IHC), 4646 West Lake Park Blvd., West Valley City
Contact: Chris Maki, chrismaki AT me.com

Thu, June 18, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Utah PHP User Group (UPHPU)
Topic:  Fundamentals of PHP by Adam Barrett
Link: http://uphpu.org
Where: Bill Good Marketing, Draper, Utah
Contact: Victor Villa, vvilla @ gmail.com

Sat, June 20, 12pm – 2pm
Nerds in the Sun, Provo Linux User Group InterLug Barbecue
(sponsored by Utah Open Source)
Link: http://blog.utos.org/2009/05/27/event-nerds-in-the-sun-plug-summer-bbq/
Where: Scera Park, Orem, Utah (map)

Tue, June 23, 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

Thu, June 25, 8:00am – 9:30am
CTO Breakfast
Link: http://www.windley.com/cto_forum
Where: Novell Cafeteria
Contact: Phil Windley, phil At windley.org

Thu, June 25, 6pm – 8pm
Logan Dev Group
Where: Room 208 (Faculty Seminar Lounge), Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Contact: Matthew Reinbold, matthew.reinbold At voxpopdesign.com

Fri, June 26, 12:30pm – 2pm
UTOS/UPHPU Geek Lunch
Link: http://utos.org/geek-lunch
Contact: Victor Villa, vvilla AT gmail.com

Tue, June 30, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Ogden Area Linux User Group
Link: http://oalug.com
Where: Weber County Main Library, Board Room
Contact: Seth House, whiteinge@ gmail.com

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Each of the events were pulled from the Utah Tech Events calendar, feel free to subscribe by clicking the link below (or adding the following feed to your calendaring program)
——————————————————————————————————-

Utah Tech Events Calendar – Google Calendar: http://sn.im/ute-calendar
Utah Tech Events Calendar – iCal Feed: http://sn.im/ute-calendar-ics

Utah Open Source Foundation also regularly records Local User Group (LUG) meetings throughout the state.  Feel free to check out our podcasts and live streaming schedules.

Utah Open Source Podcasts – http://podcast.utos.org

The Utah Open Source Foundation is proud to present video of the December 2008 Provo Linux User Group meeting presentation given by Stuart Jansen on Security-Enhanced Linux, or SELinux. You can view the video at OpenSourceTV.tv.

Stuart Jansen

The traditional Unix security model is simple and beautiful. For decades it has been good enough for most people. However, it is starting to show its age. In the highest security settings, a more fine grained control system is needed. In the past, this meant using expensive, complicated, special purpose versions of Unix: trusted systems. (Trusted Solaris, Trusted AIX, Trusted HP-UX)

SELinux, created by the NSA, is the most mature and complete response to the need for Trusted Linux systems. Unfortunately, because of the difficulty creating and maintaining trusted systems, their success has been limited. This is no longer acceptable.

Today, even desktop systems and cell phones need high quality security. Imagine being able to sandbox your Web browser and e-mail client. The
traditional Unix model makes this difficult and only partially possible. SELinux, on the other hand, makes fine grained security available to everyone.

When it first appeared, SELinux was hard to learn and mysterious to troubleshoot. As a result, many people fear it. However, SELinux and the tools to manage it have come a long way. It’s time to lay fear aside. Stuart will teach what SELinux is, why it is great, basic troubleshooting and maintenance.

The Utah Open Source Foundation is proud to present video of the March 2009 Provo Linux User Group meeting presentation given by Stephen Weeks on creating dynamic language compilers with Parrot and its associated tools. You can view the video at OpenSourceTV.tv.

Stephen Weeks