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.

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!!

The Utah Open Source Conference 2010, held October 7-9, 2010 is excited to open registration for the conference.

Visit http://attend.utosc.com to register.

Discount codes are available in many places, including twitter and identi.ca (follow the user @utos).  We also provide promo codes to Local User Groups, our sponsors, exhibitors and UTOS core team members.

With over over 50 conference presentations and several events — including:

Ignite Salt Lake and LaunchUP — UTOSC 2010 has tons of exciting, educational and fun presentations, events and much, much more.

We are also looking for volunteers! If you are interested in volunteering at the Utah Open Source Conference 2010, please send an email to enlist@utos.org.

To see the presentations and activities at Utah Open Source Conference, visit http://utosc.com.

Get registered today! Visit http://attend.utosc.com.  See you in October!

A very large thank you goes out to the gang at TenX Networks for making the space available and providing lunch and drinks.

So here’s the pictures from the event, held on August 21, 2010:

Plans for hackUTOS3 are targeted for November/December 2010.  If you know of a venue or wish to help run an implementation of hackUTOS in your area, please let us know with a comment!

Cheers,

Clint

If you don’t already know, hackUTOS isn’t all about programming.

• It’s about working on a project that you otherwise may not have time.
• It’s about learning a new technology by joining others
• It’s about networking with other smart people who like to create stuff
• It’s about junk food during up to 8 hours of hacking on your favorite stuff!
• It’s about being able to sit in a corner and focus on your project without interruption
• It’s about providing the best open source software hacking space

Some of the projects that came out of last hackUTOS (1.0):

• ConMan – an ongoing project for conference management
• Metasploit – penetration testing applicationWheresmysoda.com — a site dedicated to providing locations or best
• price of your favorite soda

TenX networks has some awesome space out by the airport.  They’ve been out there for a few years with a huge space!  The gang there is
really, really excited to meet everyone who will be at hackUTOS 2.0.

Come on down this Saturday and hang out with other geeks.  We’ll provide you space to hack, snacks, lunch and plenty of projects to
come and learn!

Saturday, August 21, 10am-4pm (early bird and late bird is open from 9-5)
TenX Networks (map)
4855 Wiley Post Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84116

See you all there!

Clint

On Friday, I’ll be heading out to the grocery store to pick up snacks, drinks and the like for everyone to eat while they hack.  I’ll likely pick up some normal hacking event snacks, caffeine, sugar, chips and the like, but what kind of snacks would you like at #hackUTOS – A Code Festival?

Take a moment to comment and list a few things you’d like to EAT while you hack :)

DON”T FORGET TO ADD YOUR PROJECT to the projects page.

Cheers,

Clint

One of the nation’s rising open source software conferences, UTOSC will be held from Oct. 7-9 at the Miller campus of Salt Lake Community College.

“We are fortunate to have a speaker of Jared Smith’s caliber address this year’s conference,” said Clint Savage, the chief executive of the Utah Open Source Foundation, which hosts the conference. “In fact, Smith leads an outstanding list of speakers who are coming to Salt Lake City for UTOSC.”

Smith will be speaking on ‘Swimming upstream: How Linux distributions help the entire community‘.

Smith, who has held a number of roles in his career including programmer and system administrator, is a published author and holds a B.S. Degree in Computer Engineering from Utah State University.

As project leader for the Fedora Project, Smith directs the operations of the Red Hat-based Linux distribution that is free and available to the public.

Nearly 60 presentations will be given in the three-day UTOSC event, and UTOSC has also released the list of presentations here: http://2010.utosc.com/presentation/schedule/

For more information on UTOSC, visit http://2010.utosc.com

For those of you who came to hackUTOS 1.0, and recall how much of a blast it was, come again, it will be even better!

The goals are simple, provide a free space for those who want to work on a project, learn a new skill, or help others with an open source project for a day.

There should be plenty of snacks and drinks, plus we should have a good lunch for everyone!

Here’s the details:

*You’re welcome to come an hour early and stay an hour late.

For more information, visit http://hack.utos.org, or add your project at http://hack.utos.org/projects

See you all there!

Cheers,

Clint

Last time we had some really interesting projects and met some new faces.

If you would like to help with set-up and take-down, send an e-mail to dsowen@utos.org.

If you have a project to work on, or an idea for one, submit it to the hack.utos.org website.

We’ll see you there!

Saturday, August 21, 10am-4pm*

*You’re welcome to come an hour early and stay an hour late.

More detail will be available at hack.utos.org very soon!

If you miss this final chance to submit a paper you may well miss out on your opportunity to present!

In addition to being a presenter there are several other opportunities to contribute to the Utah Open Source Conference, such as volunteering your time or conducting a BoF get together.

Check out http://blog.utos.org and http://2010.utosc.com for all the latest opportunities to help out this year!

The deadline for paper submission has been extended until August 1st, 2010, just in time to sit down inside a nice cool coffee shop, sip some of the great local roast and think about what to share with the community.

Really it only takes a minute or two to place a submission and you might find it so easy and fun that you submit more then one.

Don’t worry about not having a full presentation prepared, all that needs to be submitted by the deadline is the proposal, a basic outline of what would be presented to the community at the conference. The next step is easy: sit back, relax and wait to hear if your proposal was selected by vote for the conference. Once selected the entire presentation(s) should be laid out and created.

Don’t have anything to talk about? That’s not what I’ve heard!

Topics can be as wide ranging as are the members of the Utah Open Source community at large (and that is pretty gosh darn diverse!) and should include a variety of experience levels. While one presenter may submit a presentation on Building a Better Community Through Statistics another (and an excellent presentation I attended in 2009,) might be Advanced GIMP: The Digital Diet.

So don’t be afraid to submit a proposal to talk about your favorite open source program(s) that just does silly things or maybe does nothing at all!

Has anyone ever submitted a presentation on an open source pet rock? No? Hhmm…

All ideas are welcome, but please remember to keep with the 2010 theme: its better when its free*.

Being free is so easy that my open source pet rock was free!

Interested? Want more details? Visit the Utah Open Source Conference website at http://2010.utosc.com and when your ready to submit your proposal simply create an account and visit http://2010.utosc.com/speaker/papers/ to submit your paper.

You could put it off again, but then you will have to pay to attend and where’s the fun in that?