The conference will encompass three simultaneous events — addressing
business needs, helping individuals build a strong skill set and and
strengthen the community user groups. Attendees will learn about new
technologies, including many that are shaping the cloud, obtain a
better understanding (sharpen skills) and network with experts and
peers from across a broad range of fields.

The event will be held at the College of Technology & Computing at
Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Call For Papers

Are you an open source evangelist? Do you want to show off your
amazing technological genius? Does the idea of surrounding yourself
with the smartest people in local tech appeal to you? Well, then why
haven’t you submitted an abstract to present at this year’s Utah Open
Source Conference??

Call for Papers submission form :
http://conference.utos.org/utosc-2012-call-for-papers/

UTOSC 2012

A 3-day series of technical presentations, tutorials and panels aimed
at businesses, developers and IT decision makers.

Call For Papers : http://conference.utos.org/utosc-2012-call-for-papers/

College of Technology & Computing at Utah Valley University :
http://www.uvu.edu/tc/

mj/v

As you’ve probably have heard, Kevin Carter won the Xoom over the weekend! Congrats to him and be on the look out for other UTOS project-day events.

That said, Kynetx (http://code.kynetx.com/) is sponsoring an all-day hackathon at Neumont this Saturday! Another chance to win some awesome prizes and code all day. Free food + all day coding FTW!

COME HACKITY HACK – SEPT 24TH

Join us for an all-day hackathon at Neumont University right off the freeway in South Jordan on Saturday, Sept 24th. Come work on existing projects, new projects or just to play around with cool new stuff. Mashery, Zappos, SendGrid and Doba will also be on hand to help introduce you to their technology and just to help foster ideas.

API Hackdays are light on yaking and heavy on the coding, here’s the agenda:

9am – 9:30am | Registration / Coffee
9:30am -10am | Intro / API Workshops
10am – 1pm | Hacking
1pm – 2pm | Lunch
2pm – 6pm | Hacking
6pm | Submission Deadline
6:30pm – 7pm | Presentations
7pm- 7:30pm | Judging (Awards shortly following)
7pm – 8pm | Dinner & Revelry

Awesome prizes make it even more interesting including a $750 Apple Gift Card, a JAMBOX wireless speaker, service credits and more. RSVP for the event here ( http://www.meetup.com/APIHackDay/events/28420311/ )

A quick reminder that the Utah Open Source is having a Project day event This Saturday! Register your project at http://project-day.utos.org/projects-2011-2/ .

UTOS Project Day – Sept 17, 2011 10a – 5:30p
Miller Professional Development Center

http://project-day.utos.org/

*Mumble Server Available for UTOSC Call for volunteer meeting*

## 10″ XOOM Raffle ##
Attending the project day will get you a ticket for the raffle, attending a qualifying user groups meeting listed and you get a ticket (see rules for more info – http://project-day.utos.org/rules/). One lucky community member will be taking home the Xoom!

## UTOSC 2012 Call for volunteers & planning meeting ##
Also at the UTOS project day, we will be speaking about the up coming UTOSC 2012. Please come in any time of the day to register to be a volunteer and attend our UTOSC 2012 planning meeting at 2p to help us plan another great event!

For those of you who are far away and would like to participate, I do have a mumble server up and running. You will need to install the client on your computer. Please contact me for information on how to connect.

mj/v

10″ XOOM Raffle

Ha!  thought that would get your attention!  Utah Open Source’s quarterly project day is coming up Sept 17, 2011  10a – 5:30p at the Miller Professional Development Center.  This is a day where we supply the drink and snacks and y’all come out to code on your favorite open source project (don’t forget to register your project!)
Yes, there REALLY is a Xoom involved in this quarter’s project day.  Here is how it works:  Attending the project day will get you a ticket for the raffle, attending a qualifying user groups meeting listed and you get a ticket (see rules for more info – http://project-day.utos.org/rules/).  One lucky community member will be taking home the Xoom!

UTOSC 2012 Call for volunteers & planning meeting

Also at the UTOS project day, we will be speaking about the up coming UTOSC 2012.  Please come in any time of the day to register to be a volunteer and attend our UTOSC 2012 planning meeting at 2p to help us plan another great event! (For nonlocal community memebers, please email me at vvilla@utos.org to be put on the volunteer list).  We will be providing a way for nonlocal community members to participate.

Wordcamp 2011

Wordcamp is coming up on September 10th, 2011 at Skaggs Biology Building @ University of Utah.  They’ve got some great presenters coming and some awesome topics, check it out at http://2011.slc.wordcamp.org/ for more details!

And finally, if you’ve made it down this far, then here is your prize.  Add me to your google+ or facebook and post the following verbatim in your topic and you’ll get a raffle ticket.  Let’s cap it at first 50.

UTOS Project Day – Sept 17, 2011  10a – 5:30p
Miller Professional Development Center
http://project-day.utos.org/

mj/v

Yup, i know what you’re thinking, that surely looks like the box for the Xoom Wifi with the 10″ display.  As a matter of fact… It is.  And one lucky community member is going to win this baby*.

UTOS Project Day
Sept 17, 2011  10a – 5:30p
Miller Professional Development Center
Please see http://project-day.utos.org/ for more details

*legalese on contest rules can be found at http://project-day.utos.org/

This Friday is UTOS + URUG Geek lunch and UTOS is buying some appetizers!

Layton – Friday, July 29th @ 1pm
Mac Cool’s Public House
855 Heritage Park Blvd # 3, Layton, UT || (801) 728-9111
map: http://tinyurl.com/utosGL1107

Salt Lake City – Friday, July 29th @ 1pm
Mac Cool’s Public House
1400 Foothill Dr # 166, Salt Lake City, UT || (801) 582-3111
map: http://tinyurl.com/utosGL1107b

Utah County – Friday, July 29th @ 1pm
Rocky Mountain Wingshak
456 E State Rd # 200, American Fork, UT 84003-2584 || (801) 756-2667 ‎
map: http://tinyurl.com/utosGL1107c

May 28th will be a full day Utah Open Source event.

9am – 11am
Call for UTOS Operational Volunteers

Become an active member of the Utah Open Source Community by becoming an operational volunteer.

12pm- 5pm
UTOS Project Day – A bit of the whole

It takes many kinds of people to make a Open Source Software work.  It takes some coders, some bug fixers, some documenters, some designers.  What role will you play?

UTOS Project Day is about :

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

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!

Always free admission, free software and free food

We’re excited though, to have everyone on board and raring to go.  We’ve got over 60 presentations, a ton of events and activities for everyone, plus there’s food and fun on Saturday.  Let me highlight a couple we’ve waited until the LAST minute to sort out:

• The CTO Breakfast will be held in MFEC 123 at 8:00 tomorrow morning, Oct 7.  Don’t worry about being a CTO, just come and enjoy the tech talk, plus Phil is bringing bagels and juice for those who wish to attend
• Then MFEC 123 will hold the presentation ‘Webhooks: Enable User Contributed Functionality‘ by Sam Curren at 10:00am
• On Friday, October 8, one of our returning exhibitors will be presenting on their amazing camera, Elphel – Open Hardware Company by Oleg Dzhimiev at 11:30am in MPDC 209 is a presentation not to miss!

Are you a LAST minute kind of person?  If so, you might like that we’re providing you a LAST minute deal to register for UTOSC 2010.  If you’ve been watching for a deal, consider using LAST as a promo code.  It only LASTs until midnight tonight!!