Utah Open Source Blog

This weekend, I spent some time getting the UTOSC 2009 audio content ready to be released and realized that because we are now using wordpress-mu for our blogging structure, it would be a good time to make our new media site.  Our old site, podcast.utos.org while nice, doesn’t provide the flexibility that wordpress can.

I’ve added the new Utah Open Source Media blog at http://media.utos.org and will be slowly porting over the audio and video from our blog and podcast site to this site..

The benefits for doing this are going to be very nice when we get the design for utos.org (work is ongoing) complete.  The main benefit will be that we can directly pull in posts from media.utos.org to utos.org and display the latest audio and video from a UTOS sponsored event. There are other benefits too, like podPress, which makes it easy to publish audio or video from a remote site in one place, has an easy rss feed and provides iTunes support (should we ever decide to use that feature).

I hope you all enjoy it and the developments that will make the UTOS sites a better experience for everyone.

Cheers,

Clint

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

* Southern California Linux Expo is coming soon – Learn more at http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/
* PyCon is coming soon – Learn more at http://us.pycon.org/2010/about/
* PodcampSLC Registration is now open – Read more at http://podcampslc.org/

If you have announcements or events for February 2010 or beyond happening which you would like included, please contact clint@utos.org.

Upcoming Activities for January 2010

Saturday, January 9, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Ubuntu Utah LoCo Meeting
Link: http://utah.ubuntu-us.org
Where: MEB building at the University of Utah Room: 2555
Contact: Christer Edwards, christer dot edwards aT ubuntu.com

Wed, January 13, 11:30pm – 1:00pm
SLLUG: Daytime SIG Meeting
Link: http://sllug.org
Where: BetaLoft SLC – 357 West 200 S, Suite 201, Salt Lake City
Contact: Clint Savage, herlo1@gmail.com

Wed, January 13, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Provo Linux Users Group
Link: http://plug.org
Where: Omniture
Contact: Ryan Simpkins, simpkins.ryan @gmail.com

Thu, January 14, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Utah Python User Group Meeting
Link: http://utahpython.org
Where: Bill Good Marketing, 12393 Gateway Park Pl #600 Draper, Utah
Contact: Dave, tonedevf AT gmail.com

Tue, January 19, 6pm – 8:40pm
Utah Mobile Developers Group
Link: http://www.utahmobiledev.org
Where: 8th Avenue & C Street Salt Lake City, UT 84103 (Jon and Karen Huntsman Education Center, LDS Hospital)
Contact: Glen Lewis glen aT glenlewis.com

Wed, January 20, 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, January 21, 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, January 21, 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

Tue, January 26, 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

Friday, January 29, 8:00am -  10:00am
CTO Breakfast
Link: http://www.windley.com/cto_forum
Contact: Phil Windley, phil AT WINDLEY dot org

Friday, January 29, 12:30pm – 2:00pm
UTOS Geek Lunch
Link: http://blog.utos.org/geek-lunch/
Contact: Victor Villa vvilla at GMAIL

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The Utah Open Source Foundation is proud to announce a new mailing list, announce@utos.org.

The idea behind this mailing list is to simplify the announcements that UTOS provides to the community.  While we do a fair bit on our blog, we’d like to keep the mailngs going, but it has become complex to send mail to each Local User Group (LUG) every time we need to advertise an event or announce something.  In addition, sending mail to more and more LUGs will make it difficult as we grow the free and open source community in Utah and the Mountain West.

Therefore, we are going to be moving all of our announcements and news to the official Utah Open Source “announce” mailing list.

It is easy to sign up for this list, just visit our mailing list page and add yourself.  Here’s the link:

http://mail.utos.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

There will be a few announcements for this list sent to the individual LUG mailing lists.  I also suspect that every so often there will be reminders for those who are new to the community.  Beyond that, we plan to try to send email just to the UTOS announce list.

Please feel free to invite your fellow nerds and those you think might benefit from activities that we promote.

That is all.

Clint

Well, we had around 10-15 volunteers show up throughout the day for the UTOS Installfest at the Electroregeneration Society.  It was a great day.  I’ve got some pictures to share, which really tell the story.  I am happy to report that we installed more than 20 computers with Ubuntu and Fedora this past weekend.  I think this event will become a yearly one as long as there are computers to install and people that need them.

The Electroregeneration Society doesn’t just need help during the holidays, please consider helping throughout the year.  They are open most Saturdays and you can volunteer anytime.  Watch for our classes coming soon as well.

Enjoy these pictures (the set is available on flickr):

See you all at next year’s UTOS Installfest at the Electroregeneration Society.

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:

See you all there!

Cheers,

Clint

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls,

The Utah Open Source Conference 2009 is live starting at tomorrow’s registration / check- in @ 8:30am.  If you are registered, or wish to attend the conference, please arrive early to get your badge, bag and swag all in your hot little hands.

Checking In at UTOSC 2009

This year, thanks to Scalereg, we have a kiosk system that should rock your socks.  Printed badges will be done in real time after you check-in at these kiosks.

Registering at UTOSC 2009

Feel free to come by any time during the conference to register with cash if you like.  Our new kiosk system can accommodate that as well.  Feel free to register at the conference as well.

Don’t Forget About the CTO Breakfast @ 8am

In room 116A of the Culinary Arts Building (directly west of the Miller Free Enterprise Center) will be the CTO Breakfast starting at 8am.

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 just in!

On Saturday, October 10, 2009 at the Utah Open Source Conference, there will be the largest BZFlag tournament in UTOSC history!  Since it’s never happened before, it’s totally true!

If you have never played BZFlag before, you might not know it’s maintainer lives right here in Utah.

There will be a tournament from 11:30-2:00pm in the Try-It Lab.  Come and drive tanks and shoot other tanks.  Team up where it’s kids against adults, boys against girls, whatever you like and shoot them all for the fun of the game.

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 PHP User Group will be meeting at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009 on Thursday, October 8, 2009 @ 3:00pm in room 206. The UPHPU meeting is free to the public, feel free to come by and enjoy the PHP conversation!

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!!

The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) will offer the BSDA certification exam to attendees of the Utah Open Source Conference 2009.

The exam will be paper based and in English. Exam information is available from the Certification page of the BSDCG website (http://www.bsdcertification.org/certification/). Exam candidates should be proficient in the BSDA Certification Requirements and the Command Reference, both of which are available for free download from this page of the website.

The exam will be offered on Thursday, October 8 at 2pm, room 207 of the conference center. Due to limited seating at the event,pre-registration is required. Exam participants need to register for a BSDCG ID at https://register.bsdcertification.org//register/get-a-bsdcg-id. Once you have an ID, you can choose UTOSC as the exam location and pay for the exam. Exam candidates must bring government issued photo identification with them to the exam that matches the name they used when they registered for their BSDCG ID. Those who participated in the 2007 BSDA beta program are eligible for a 50% price discount. The exam price is $75 (or $37.50 USD for those who were beta testers) and payable through Paypal or credit card.

Register 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!!