http://blog.utos.org Helping Open Source Grow in Utah Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:29:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We'd like to share some more information about the Guru Labs Troubleshooting Challenge being held as part of the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference that was recently announced. The schedule is as follows: Sessions will be held Thursday August 28th held at the Guru Labs booth in the vendor area (SI atrium).  ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/28/more-troubleshooting-challenge-information/ At last year's Utah Open Source Conference, locally-based Linux training firm Guru Labs hosted the first Troubleshooting Challenge, a contest to see who could restore a seemingly hopeless broken Linux system back to a pristine operational state the fastest. We watched as hopeful contestants rapidly keyed in commands to try ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/27/so-you-think-youre-a-guru-prove-it/ Only a couple days left until the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference begins on Thursday, 28 August. If you've been reading these dispatches, you know there are lots and lots of reasons to come and participate in this year's conference, but here are a couple more. David Moss, Salt Lake Community ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/25/two-more-local-keynotes-you-dont-want-to-miss/ The Utah Open Source Foundation is hosting dinner for geeks, bloggers, and open source enthusiasts at Tucanos Brazillian Grill at the Gateway Center in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday, August 29, beginning at 8:30 p.m. While this event is planned in conjunction with the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference going ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/23/come-to-tucanos-aug-29-for-good-food-geek-fun/ On Thursday, August 28, the Utah Open Source Conference begins. Presentations start at 12:30 p.m., but Phil Windley will be kicking off the conference with a CTO Breakfast from 7:30 - 11:00 a.m. in the Salt Lake Community College Student Center, room 221/223. The CTO breakfast is an informal monthly gathering ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/21/kick-off-utosc-with-eggs-sausage-and-techy-talk/ There's been a lot of talk about this thing called 'Family Day', being held on Saturday, August 30.  Its been in the planning for some time now and things are very close to finalization.  Because of this, its time to reveal what family day is and how it will work. Some ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/21/utosc-2008-family-day-aug-30/ Its official!  For those of you who have always wanted to know how to hack a project together, this is a great opportunity. We at the Utah Open Source Foundation learned a few weeks ago that Novell's 'Hack Week' will be occuring the same week as UTOSC 2008.  We also learned ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/19/novell-hack-week-coming-to-utosc-2008/ Mark your calendar and clear your schedule! Christer Edwards, instructor of Linux courseware for Guru Labs and a very active participant in the Ubuntu Linux community, will be giving one of several local keynote presentations at the Utah Open Source Conference schedule Aug 28-30. Christer will be presenting Saturday, Aug. 30 ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/18/local-keynote-at-utosc-2008-christer-edwards/ As an effort to help other community conferences in Utah and to help our overall technology Mecca, I'd like to invite anyone/everyone attending the Utah Open Source Conference 2008 to consider also attending the newly formed WordCamp Utah. This one day event, held Saturday, September 27, 2008, is the latest project ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/14/utosc-2008-supports-wordcamp-utah/ During UTOSC 2007, we opened our conference with an opening keynote dinner, featuring two great speakers, Matt Asay of Alfresco and Bruce Perens, well known free software advocate.  At these two keynote presentations, attendees were provided with great insight into the open source world, its technology and how great things ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/13/utosc-2008-keynote-dinner/ For those of you who are in the know in the local technology scene, you know that Utah has a lot of good choices when it comes to successful small businesses.  Today, we announce one of our local small business leaders who's accomplished a great deal and helped the community ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/12/utosc-2008-local-keynote-speaker-mac-newbold-code-greene/ Open source enthusiasts in the Weber and Davis counties have a local user group they may participate in. The Ogden Area Linux User Group, or OALUG, meets in-person the last Tuesday of every month at 7:00pm in the Weber County Main Library. Directions and a map to the meeting location ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/07/introducing-ogden-area-linux-user-group-oalug/ Its the last day for early bird registration for UTOSC,  <http://2008.utosc.com>.  After today, prices go up to $100 ($50 w/LUG discounts). Register with eventbrite today!  <http://utosc2008.eventbrite.com> See you all there! http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/07/if-you-plan-on-attending-utosc-read-this/ A few days ago, we mentioned the Dining and Lodging information that has been posted on the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference website for those looking for suggestions for where to crash and/or where to refuel while you're attending the conference this month. Thanks to Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader, we ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/06/utosc-2008-google-your-way-to-a-meal-and-a-good-nights-sleep/ 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 ... http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/04/plug-bbq-the-aftermath/