Utah Open Source Blog

The Utah Open Source Foundation is pleased to announce its 2009 Conference: October 8-10, 2009 at the Salt Lake Community College – Miller Free Enterprise Center in Sandy, Utah.

The Utah Open Source Conference 2009 will be focusing on the developer, but we also have presentation tracks that apply to the beginner and the business person”, stated Clint Savage, founder of the Utah Open Source Foundation.

The conference, now in its third year, is designed to help developers strengthen their skill and to teach them about the latest open source technologies.

See the official press release:  Utah Open Source Conference 2009 Dates, Venue and Theme

To keep up-to-date on the latest news, visit the Utah Open Source Foundation at these locations:

http://blog.utos.org – Utah Open Source Blog
http://2009.utosc.com – Utah Open Source Conference 2009 Website

In addition, feel free to follow Utah Open Source on these social networks:

#utos on irc.freenode.net
http://identi.ca/utos – Utah Open Source on Identi.ca
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3406&trk=anet_ug_hm – Utah Open Source LinkedIn Group
http://twitter.com/utos – Utah Open Source on Twitter
http://www.flickr.com/groups/utosc/ – Flickr photos from previous years

The Utah Open Source Foundation has been doing streaming for quite some time now, at least 1.5 years.  In that time, we’ve recorded and streamed many presentations as well as podcasted the Utah Open Source Conference twice.  I found the statistics on our streaming server tonight, they seem quite interesting so I thought I might share.  On our streaming server we served:

• listener_connections:  182  (total number of listeners on all streams)
• source_client_connections    48 (total number of streams created, or total number of recordings)

Comparing that with our podcast server:

• total podcasts: 41 (meaning we didn’t podcast every stream, probably due to technical difficulties or poor quality recordings)
• total listeners to all podcasts: 5939 (since September 2007)

It’s amazing to see how many people actually download our podcasts and listen to the Local User Groups.  I’m quite impressed with these numbers.  Many of the podcasts are from the Utah Open Source Conference (in both 2007 & 2008), but the podcast that has been downloaded the most is:   Ubuntu Utah: December 2007 Meeting.

To total this up, we could say that the Utah Open Source Foundation has had 6,121 listeners to over 48 different audio presentations, live or not.  We thank you for your participation and hope to see more connections in the coming years as we expand this coverage to include more and more sources around Utah Open Source Local User Groups (LUGs).

If your LUG is interested in streaming its meetings, we can help.  It literally takes a $7 microphone, a laptop with a microphone jack and a free software program called darkice.  Utah Open Source provides the server, the logins for the IceCast server, a couple bash scripts and training to get the stream running for your LUG.

Please contact us if you are interested in getting your group streamed and podcasted by the Utah Open Source Foundation.  Probably the easiest way is to email me, <clint At utos  org> with the subject “UTOS Streaming” and we’ll get you set up right away.

Cheers,

Clint

Video of Michael Place’s (of UtahFM.org) UTOSC 2008 presentation titled HOWTO: Start an open-source radio station is now available from opensourcetv.tv. This was an excellent presentation and a jewel at UTOSC 2008.

Michael Place of UtahFM.org

Michael presented on Friday, 29 August 2008.

Video of Aaron Bockover’s UTOSC 2008 presentation titled The Banshee Media Player is now available from opensourcetv.tv.

Aaron Bockover

Aaron presented on Friday morning, 29 August

Doran “FozzMoo” Barton here with a short announcement about videos from the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference. In addition to the progressive streaming flash video versions available via OpenSourceTV.tv, we’ve made Xvid AVI and Ogg Theora versions of the presentations available as well. When you go to OpenSourceTV.tv, a list of links to alternate media types will appear below the embedded Flash applet.

We are continuing to produce videos of presentations from the conference, so stay tuned. Aaron Bockover’s presentation about the excellent Banshee media player is almost ready to go up to the site.

Video of Matt Asay’s UTOSC 2008 presentation titled The Billion Dollar (Free) Software Opportunity is now available from opensourcetv.tv.

Matt Asay at UTOSC 2008

Matt Asay presented on Friday morning, 29 August.

Video of Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier’s keynote address from UTOSC 2008 is now available at opensourcetv.tv

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Joe Brockmeier

Joe Brockmeier, the OpenSUSE Community Manager for Novell, spoke on Friday, 29 August, about bootstrapping communities and OpenSUSE.

Last week, we announced that Jayce^ Hall will be on couchcast.org.  Well that day is today, so come and listen to him and the couchcast crew as they discuss who will be at the Utah Open Source Conference 2008.

Here’s the details again just in case you missed them the first time:

When: July 7, 2008 12pm MDT (Today)
Where: http://couchcast.org

See you all there!

This week’s Local User Group meetings:

• Layton.rb – Feb 4, 7pm – Topic unavailable
• BYU UUG – Feb 7, 7pm – Basic DNS With Bind by Stuart Jansen
• Ubuntu Utah – Feb 9, 6pm – Debian/Ubuntu Packaging by Tim Riker

A special thanks goes out to TierFour for the streaming and podcast bandwidth to share these meetings. Please feel free to join the streaming discussion this week for the Ubuntu Utah meeting at http://stream.utos.org

The Utah Open Source Foundation would like to announce the availability of a new podcast available for meetings that have been recently streamed/recorded.  They’re available at http://podcast.utos.org.  These presentations are available from many of the LUGs around the state.  Check them out…

Please let us know what you think as we’d like to do more and better versions in the future.  If you’d like to have your meetings streamed and recorded, please let us know.

Cheers,

Clint Savage