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  • UTOSC 2010: Official hotel is Marriott Residence Inn – Sandy, Utah

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    If you are looking for a place to stay for UTOSC 2010, this is the place, the Marriott Residence Inn!  As with 2009, we’re trying to make it easy for those coming in from out of town to stay close by.  The Residence Inn is less than 1/2 mile from the conference venue and very close to many restaurants and nightly entertainment.

    The Residence Inn Sandy provides free wireless Internet and is less than 1 mile from the SLCC campus where the conference will be taking place. In addition, they offer a free shuttle to and from the campus. More information about the hotel can be found on the Residence Inn’s website.

    Residence Inn Sandy (map)
    270 West 10000 South
    Sandy, UT 84070
    Phone: 1-801-561-5005
    Fax: 1-801-561-9672

    Hotel Registration

    On the web

    UTOSC Hotel Registration

    By Phone

    Call the Marriott Residence Inn at 801-561-5005. Mention UTOSC 2010 and ask for the conference rate of $89/night. The Group Code is ‘UTOUTOA’.

    For additional hotel information, visit http://utosc.com and choose the  ‘lodging‘ link.

    The Utah Open Source Conference 2010 is taking place from October 7-9, 2010 at the Miller Free Enterprise Center of the Salt Lake Community College.

    To register for the conference, follow this link.

    See you all in October!!

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  • UTOSC 2009 Early Bird Registration ends September 19

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    The Utah Open Source Conference 2009 Early Bird registration ends September 19!  Register now for the best community conference in the Mountain West!

    UTOSC 2009 is literally 4 weeks away!!  It’s time to visit http://attend.utosc.com and register today.  Be sure to register before September 19 and save 30%!!

    So, what’s going on at UTOSC 2009, October 8-10 at the Miller Campus of the Salt Lake Community College?

    Over 50 presentations, including 3 awesome keynotes

    • Daren Brabham of the University of Utah will speak on Crowdsourcing on Thursday, October 8
    • Stormy Peters of the GNOME Foundation will discuss ‘Would you do it again for free?’ on Friday, October 9
    • Dave McAllister of Adobe explains ‘Big Company, Open Choice: Why Adobe is becoming Open’ on Saturday, October 10

    Visit the full schedule at http://2009.utosc.com/presentation/schedule/ to have a look and find your favorites.

    Be a part of the community – October 8, 2009

    Thursday is Community Day!  Mini-LUG meetings, Birds of a Feather Sessions and our Try-It Lab Workshops will headline this day.  Never fear, however, there are 2 tracks of presentations, the Guru Labs University, CTO Breakfast and the ODF Alliance demonstrations too!

    Round out the day with some light geek fun at Ignite Salt Lake 3.5!  Don’t miss the Lego activity and the wacky 5 minute format.  Everyone is invited (for free), but you must register at http://attend.utosc.com.

    All about the presentations – October 9, 2009

    Friday is jam-packed with presentations and workshops.  We have a great headliner with Stormy Peters, plus some really, really good presentations rounding out the day.  In the evening, we’re heading to Spaghetti Mama’s for some Italian Sodas, Pizza, Pasta and fun!  And if you are still up for more after that, all night hacking is *not* out of the question!

    Bring the whole crew on Family Day — October 10, 2009

    Saturday is among the funnest days for families.  Because Utah and the Mountain West focus a lot on the family, UTOSC does too!  Saturday has educational family presentations in the Beginner and Intermediate levels, a GPS treasure hunt and a Pizza Lunch (sponsored by openSUSE).  Bring the whole crew for free with every Full Access Attendee!!

    Get the SWAG from our awesome sponsors and exhibitors

    If this is not enough, UTOSC 2009 always has great SWAG and exhibitors!!  Among the exhibitors are; Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE, KDE, GNOME, Utah Free Media, Utah OpenTech, OpenVZ and the folks from tech.lds.org.

    REGISTER TODAY – Early Bird registration ends September 19!!

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

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

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  • UTOSC 2009: Presentations and Activities are LIVE!!

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    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!!!

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  • HackNight: UTOS-ConMan/Scalereg hacking begins June 2 – 6:30pm

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    So the challenge begins, UTOS-ConMan is in good shape from last year’s HackNights, but it does need a bit of a clean up and some new features as noted in a previous post.

    The problem is that the Utah Open Source Conference 2009 needs a registration system.  Recently released from the guys over at the Southern California Linux Expo is some good code in the ScaleReg system.  We’re going to update and improve it over the next few months.  Hopefully, by mid-July, we’ll have it up and running with Django 1.0, and have it ready to roll for folks to start registration.

    Now the real question is why are we blogging about all this stuff recently.  Well, the reason is, we need your help.  We’re looking for folks who are interested in learning or improving their Python/Django skills, helping with css and graphic design, testing and any other intangibles we haven’t thought about yet.  We’re looking for you and we’re looking to start this coming Tuesday.  So come on over and join the HackNight!

    You might ask yourself, why would I help out?  And that’s a really good question, so let’s provide some good answers.  If you participate and provide some good feedback, code or contribute in some other way, you’ll get free admission the to UTOSC 2009 (a $70 value).  In addition, you’ll learn a valuable skill or improve upon your skill set as this project introduces some interesting and fun challenges.  There’s also pride.  This project will be used by many of the community tech conferences around the nation and world and your name will be among the contributors.  I’m sure there will be some conferences we haven’t even considered who will be using your code or design.  We’re also working on getting a couple good mentors who are expert Python and Django developers.  They’ll be on hand to help you with troubleshooting, common issues, etc.

    I think we may have your attention now, so let’s talk about the details.  We know you want to come an help, so here’s how:

    When: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 from 6:30pm – 11pm.  We encourage you to come for as many hours of this as you can and you can come anytime during these hours.

    Where:  Clint Savage’s home; 5225 Gravenstein Park, Murray, Utah 84123

    This information is available on the Utah Tech Events Calendar as well — http://sn.im/ute-calendar (iCal: http://sn.im/ute-calendar-ics)

    If you are unable to join us physically, we’re going to be working in #utos-dev on irc.freenode.net so please feel free to join us there as well.  We’ll have some folks hanging out there as well to include you in the development project.  They’ll try to describe the goals and get you started as well.

    We’re planning on making this an every other week HackNight for a while, so come on by on the first and third Tuesdays from 6:30-11pm.  We hope to see you all at the first UTOS-Conman/Scalereg HackNight of 2009 on June 2.

    Cheers,

    Clint

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  • Utah Open Source Conference and CouchCast

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    Hey everybody!

    Guess what!  The Utah Open Source Foundation‘s very own Jason Hall (Jayce^ [the face]) will be discussing the Utah Open Source Conference with Robert Merrill et al, on CouchCast.

    CouchCast is a local show with topics around technology and business.  Its a call-in show, so be sure to get on the line in advance and ask questions.  Feel free to dial in around noon, 347-324-3797 and ask pretty much anything you like.

    Discussions will include keynote announcements, presentations, family day, the Utah Open Source Awards, the troubleshooting challenge (last years big hit) and many other aspects of the conference at the end of August.

    Jayce will also be discussing the Utah Open Source Foundation, its purpose, goals and plans for 2009.  Things like live streaming of Local User Group meetings, podcasts and other events to make it easier to spread the word about open source in Utah.

    Feel free to check it out, here’s how:

    When: July 7, 2008 12pm MDT
    Where: http://couchcast.org (yes, its flash, sorry) –> hosted by blogtalkradio.

    Enjoy the show!

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  • The Utah Open Source Conference countdown has begun!

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    Hi all,

    Its been a few days since we blogged about the Utah Open Source Conference 2008 (in fact, more like 2+ weeks).  But I’m back now and ready to let you guys know that while there might be a few more bumps in our migration path, most of the Utah Open Source servers are up and working well.

    We have been busy lately, preparing for an exciting and fun Utah Open Source Conference 2008.  New features continue to crop up on our main site.  Check them out and start watching for speakers as we’ll be approving presentations over the next few weeks.  The selection committee, made up of many professional geeks, LUG leaders and others, has been madly voting for their favorites so it looks to be a good list of presentations.

    As of right now, UTOSC 2008 will begin in approximately 63 days.  And due to this, I’ve taken the time to create a little javascript that can be included in your site, with a neat countdown.  Have a look at the right hand side of our site.

    We’d like to invite everyone to put this link on their website to help us get more people interested in the countdown.  Basically, this is a very similar countdown script to the ones released by each of the big Linuxes (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE).

    Just stick this code anywhere on your site:

    <script id=“utosc-banner”
    type    =“text/javascript”
    src    =“http://dl.utosc.com/08/scripts/release-counter-ext.js”>
    </script>

    You should get something similar to this:

    UTOSC 2008 Countdown

    See you all at the Utah Open Source Conference 2008!

    Cheers,

    Clint

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  • UTOS HackNight – Refactor ConMan

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    Tomorrow night, 7pm, in Murray at my house, we’ll be eating pizza and hacking on ConMan again.

    If you are interested in joining the fun, please feel free to stop by and learn some kick-a** django skillz.

    The last two HackNights were all-nighters and were very successful.  Tomorrow’s HackNight is to refactor the views a little and build out the blog portion of the app as well.  Feel free to come by and stay as long or as little as you like.

    See you all there.

    Cheers,

    Clint

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  • UTOS HackNight: A grand success!

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    A special thanks to Guru Labs, Kevin Kubasik, John Weis, James Hancock, Will Smith and Trevor Sharpe for sticking it out much of Saturday night and into the wee hours of Sunday night.

    The chinese food arrived at around 9pm, and we sat around talking design and ideas for the next 30 minutes, and about 11pm we really started digging into the project.

    After about 12-13 hours of good coding, and time troubleshooting, learning, drinking loads of caffeine and a bunch of other good stuff, I’m proud to announce the first real progress on the ConMan project from UTOSF.

    The general idea is to improve upon otherwise incomplete or sucky open source conferencing systems. ConMan (Conference Manager) is seeming to become quite good, with some good coding from Kevin Kubasik, good web design by John and some good perserverence as well by yours truly. Most of the group crashed out somewhere between 2am and 8am, Kevin and I however, continued to hack until we had something semi-solid at around 11:30am.

    It was a great time had by all and a good framework has been built. Django seems like the perfect solution for this and we will even have CAPTCHA and email confirmation early in the 0.0.2 release.

    For now though, if you are interested in seeing the Call for Papers, Call for Volunteers and Contact applications, please feel free to download it at http://code.google.com/p/utos-conman. We look forward to bug reports (which you can also make at the google code site, you just need a google account) and fixes in the future. Also any recommendations that are made will be taken into consideration.

    In addition, keep an eye out for the “Call for Papers” to appear at http://2008.utosc.com very soon.

    Cheers,

    Clint Savage

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  • Home Runs in IT at the OSTC

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    Today, the Home Runs in IT Conference is taking place. Its an all day event so come on down.

    Right now is the Utah Technology Council Breakfast where they are discussing what it takes to be an entrepreneur.

    One thing I heard from Will West of Control 4 was that “its just a job” which surprised me. I’ve never thought about it this way, usually I anticipate starting an organization such as the Utah Open Source Foundation would be more than a job.

    Another was to make sure not to get to in a hurry to “Shoot of an email!”. I’ve experienced this feeling before too and tend to write an email in a fit of passion and excitement only to erase it in the end.

    Come on down, its going to be a blast! Registration is free with the discount code “hrinitutos”. See you all there

    Cheers,

    Clint Savage

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  • On-line Registration Closed – Onsite Still Available

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    As of 10 am this morning, on-line registration will be closed.  If you are interested in “last minute” registration, we will be accepting registrations on site only starting at 10am at the Open Source Technology Center.

    Here’s a map for your convenience:  OSTC Map

    Thank you for your registrations and we’re looking forward to seeing you all Today through Saturday!

    Cheers,

    Clint Savage

    Utah Open Source

    Posted on September 6, 2007 to: