Don’t let the rain ruin your fun. Come to the InterLUG BBQ anyway. We’ll still be there cooking burgers and giving away drinks, bring your fruit salad and get on over to Scera Park.
Where: Scera Park, Red Pavilion. This is on the east side of the park. (map)
When: Saturday (Today), June 20, 2009 - 12pm - 2pm
For more information — READ THIS!!
Cheers,
Clint
A little over a week ago, we announced the Nerds in the Sun (PLUG BBQ) event on June 20 from 12-2pm.
This post is a bit of an update to the details for the event. As we stated, we’ll be at Scera Park, in the Red Pavilion. Pretty much the same place we’ve been the last few years.
Utah Open Source will be providing 40 hamburgers, buns, cheese, mayo, mustard and ketchup. If you are planning on attending, please bring any potluck food item you like, pickles, salad, desert, etc. Utah Open Source will also be providing several 12-packs of soda (both leaded and unleaded) and of course, water. If you would like to bring your own meat, please feel free to do so.
As usual, Joseph Hall (redbeard) will probably bring something all chef-like and amazing. He might even share with you if you are nice, but I guess it depends if he attends.
In addition, we’re doing a Hardware potluck. This means that you should bring all of your old hardware and swap it with others who could use it. If it doesn’t get taken, it gets recycled to the big dumpster (not recycling at all).
Looking forward to seeing you all there. Here’s the details 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!
Cheers,
Clint
Mark your calendars! It’s cue time!
The annual Provo Linux User Group (PLUG) Barbecue is upon us again. This year it will be spectacular! The Utah Open Source Foundation is excited to be a part of this event. Because of this, UTOS will provide some soda, water and approximately 50 hamburgers.
This event is potluck so bring something everyone can enjoy. Chips, salad, vegetables, fruit, etc., just don’t come empty handed.
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.
As pointed out at the Ubuntu Utah website, the Ubuntu 8.10 Release Party will be held November 8, 2008.
As you are probably aware, Ubuntu version 8.10 of Linux has been released. So, a release party is on the schedule for the regularly scheduled meeting:
Date: Nov 8th, 2008
Time: 6pm-8pm
Place: Bakery at Gourmandie’s
Address: 300 East 250 South, SLC - Map
Reliable wireless is provided, and there is plenty of seating for those who have been there. The food is great and the deserts even more so. They know we are coming,
Hope this party is a blast and we look forward to lot’s of pictures.
Greets codepoets, bloggers, sysadmins, dbas and other citizenry of the net populous!
The October UTOS / UPHPU Geek lunch will be held at The Happy Sumo at the Gateway on THURSDAY, October 9th, 1pm.
Please RSVP at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1165094/?ps=5
The Happy Sumo
153 S Rio Grande St. Salt Lake City, UT
tele 801.456.7866
http://www.happysumosushi.com/map.html
mj/v
The party was scheduled from 12-2pm, and while we intended to arrive at around 11:30 to get the grills going for a 12pm start, we didn’t get there until just before noon. As we arrived, it was discovered that while we had obtained briquets for the bbq, no matches were obtained, so I made a quick call.
<Emily>: Hello?
<Me>: Its Clint, I forgot matches, are you coming over to the bbq soon?
<Emily>: Yeah, we’re just leaving now to go to the store, we’ll be 10 minutes.
Mind you, this is at noon. Luckily, nobody had arrived as of yet, standard Utah tardiness was a benefit this time. decided to go get her dog and left me alone at the park to wait.
And wait…. (12:15pm)
And wait…. (12:45pm)
UNTIL … (about 12:50pm)
Finally, in the distance, I could see a couple walking toward me with a couple kids in tow. And so the party began with the arrival of the Ellis family.
After a good bit of hanging out with them, Emily arrived, along with others shortly thereafter. The party started to rock and before long, food was cooking, people were eating and geeks were being ignored by their wives.
We saw the results of spinal surgery.
Ben Payne had spinal surgery
We enjoyed a little boy and his creamsicle experience
Little Noah Rasmussen loves his treats
Oh yeah!
People played on their ‘puters
Heartsbane is enjoying the power
And more…
More Photos available at flickr
Fun was had by all and even a little hardware swapping took place.
Hope to see you all next year as Utah Open Source plans to sponsor the PLUG bbq in late June when the weather is a bit cooler.
Cheers,
Clint
In case you haven’t heard or read already, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) was released just a few days ago (April 24). I certainly have noticed plenty of talk about it on blogs and tech news sites. Fedora 9 (Sulphur) was scheduled for release right about now, but the fine folks at the Fedora Project decided they needed a couple more weeks to work out some kinks. In the meantime, there is a fine Fedora 9 Preview release available which can be updated to the official release when it is out (May 13, or so they say).
So what does all this mean? It means it’s time to party like it’s v0.99!
Code Greene, a programming shop located in Salt Lake City, is graciously hosting a release party THIS SATURDAY to celebrate these two latest distribution releases. What?! You’re a OpenSUSE enthusiast? A long-time Slackware user? That’s okay! You can still come and enjoy good food, good company, and fun and games. (Rumor has it these Code Greene people don’t actually do any real work, they just play foosball and videogames all day.)
Here are the vital details:
Now, if you’re coming, you should take a moment and RSVP via this friendly and easy-to-use Upcoming link.
This release party is being sponsored by us- the Utah Open Source Foundation, the Fedora Project, and Ubuntu Utah.
Just a quick friendly reminder that this Saturday will be paintball for geeks!
Paintball markers will be available onsite or by reservation with JT Paintball Rentals starting at $10. Its a great price! Tier Four will be providing 15 cases (that’s 30,000 paintballs) of marballizer paint and make it available to all that come.
DesertEdge Practice Field (SpecialOps Info)
Saturday, November 17, 2007
10am until about 2pm
Come frag your friends and fellow geeks.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Founder, Utah Open Source Foundation
In the immortal words of sontek, “Tonight was amazing!”
The Multi-Distro Release Party was a grand success. Around 30+ people, plenty of drinks, food and oh yeah, three Linux distros were discussed along with one proprietary-ish OS. Fun was had by all and even a new Linux user came and got Ubuntu installed, Christer must be proud.
Heartsbane brought his apocalypse box to install Fedora. It was quite the sight!
Shauna Theobald from the OSTC provided the pizza and decided also that it would be fun to surprise yours truly with an early *surprise* birthday party. All I can say is that I was “blown away”, and “thank you”. That was a pretty nice thing to do…
And while we were all having fun, the kids were getting into it too!
As it stands, the Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, OpenBSD and Mac OS X Release Party was a grand success. Here’s all of the pics from my camera.
Cheers,
Clint
