Open Letter to any and all Willing Participants
Posted by Clint on June 18, 2006 in News
We are in the process of contacting any and all User Groups in Utah to ask if they would be interested in contributing some time to help promote and organize an event I am planning called the Utah Open Source Conference, or UTOS for short.
The simple idea is that we get together for 2-4 days/evenings during the spring/summer of 2007 (and hopefully yearly after that) to discuss cool new Open Source concepts as well as recognize those of us who are true geeks in the real sense of the word. It would be complementary to the O’reilly OSCON held each year in Silicon Valley. The big difference I see with this convention from the former is that this will be by, for, and about Utah Open Source. Here are a couple examples I know of in the state.
One of the maintainers of the Metacity Window Manager lives in Utah. Another great source, of course for Utah tech is Novell and the SUSE and OpenSUSE projects. In addition, there are several hundred geeks I know or have met that have genius in some Open Source projects.
This gathering of geeks would consist of a few keynote speakers, some smaller sessions covering things like security, programming, etc. which would pique most, if not all geeks’ interest levels.
To that end, we are looking for people who can help out and make this conference the best conference in the state. Our goals will obviously grow, and I see much more coming out of Utah, maybe even something rivalling (or bettering) what is done regularly in Silicon Valley.
We’ve set up a website at http://www.utos.org/, and as well, we have a wiki at http://plan.utos.org/ which will help get things started. So sign up for an account on both, include email addresses and the like. We sure look forward to working with you and your geeks.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
UTOS - Utah Open Source Conference
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