November 2007
OSTC: Home Runs in IT Conference - December 6
If you are an entrepreneur or someone looking for work, the Open Source Technology Center is here to help. Next Thursday is the Home Runs in IT conference. This conference is being put on to help those “seeking new job opportunities, considering new ventures, and open for new ideas in IT.”
The Utah Open Source Foundation is sponsoring a table at this one-day event and (hopefully) a representative will be there to help where we can. This project has been put together by Shauna Theobald, our very own Stephen Shaw and many others and it looks to be a great conference. There’s quite a lineup available at the Home Runs in IT conference site.
Members of any User Group (UG) is free, along with ex/Novell employees, and students. Sign up today as space is limited!
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Posted by Clint on November 29, 2007 in Community, Conference, Events, News, UserGroups
Utah Open Source Foundation blog posts and announcements now on twitter
Yes, you’ve heard correct, when the Utah Open Source Foundation is posts are made, they’ll also be available via twitter.
This means you will not forget about a particular event or other important Local Open Source news!
Be the first on you block to follow UTOSF on twitter!
Never miss another important activity again!
Cheers,
Clint
Posted by Clint on November 18, 2007 in Events
Streaming Audio Tonight: UPHPU and BYU-UUG
Utah Open Source Foundation will be streaming both the Utah PHP User Group and the BYU Unix User Group meetings tonight as we test the power of our new streaming server. We’re looking forward to having you all there, whether at the meeting or from home. Feel free to participate either online or in person. The information is listed below:
BYU-UUG
A Git’s Perspective on Revision Control - Andrew McNabb
November 15th, 2007, 7pm
More Information
Stream Available: http://stream.utosf.org
IRC Channel: #utos-meeting on irc.freenode.net or Go Here
Utah PHP User Group
Building Rich Internet Applications with PHP, REST and ExtJS - Alvaro Carrasco
November 15th, 2007, 7pm
More Information
Stream Available: http://stream.utosf.org
IRC Channel: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net or Go Here at 7pm
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Founder, Utah Open Source Foundation
Posted by Clint on November 15, 2007 in Community, Events, Meetings, Streaming, UserGroups
Reminder, Geek Paintball, This Saturday, 10am - 2pm
Just a quick friendly reminder that this Saturday will be paintball for geeks!
Paintball markers will be available onsite or by reservation with JT Paintball Rentals starting at $10. Its a great price! Tier Four will be providing 15 cases (that’s 30,000 paintballs) of marballizer paint and make it available to all that come.
DesertEdge Practice Field (SpecialOps Info)
Saturday, November 17, 2007
10am until about 2pm
Come frag your friends and fellow geeks.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Founder, Utah Open Source Foundation
Posted by Clint on November 15, 2007 in Community, Events, Paintball, Parties
The State of FOSS in Utah Summary
Tonight was our presentation at (PLUG) on the State of Foss in Utah. We had over 25 people at Omniture.
The slides are available here http://utos.org/presents/StateofFoss.html.
A few highlights
- Utah Open Source for Families (See the slides)
- User Group Shared Calendaring (Coming in the near future)
- Utah Open Source Newsletter
- Utah Open Source Conference 2008 Theme: Howto…
The Podcast will be available shortly. We need to do a bit of cleanup, so watch for the ogg.
Cheers,
Clint
Posted by Clint on November 15, 2007 in Community, Events, Meetings, Streaming, UserGroups
BYU-UUG: A Git’s Perspective on Revision Control
Andrew McNabb will be presenting on git, Linus’ favorite VCS. This topic is of heavy debate in many circles in Utah’s Open Source community. If you are a programmer, systems administrator, or just curious about what cool things Linux can do, don’t miss this meeting.
Information can be found on the BYU-UUG website, this is looking like quite an enlightening discussion of version control systems. We hope you’ll attend, either in person, or if you aren’t able to come, by live stream and irc.
See you all there.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Posted by Clint on November 14, 2007 in Community, Events, Meetings, Streaming, UserGroups
PLUG: The State of FOSS in Utah
The Provo Linux User Group (PLUG) is hosting the Utah Open Source Foundation this Wednesday, November 14. The presentation will cover the current state of Open Source in Utah. Among the gems will be free food, giveaways, and UTOSF will be announcing its plans for the upcoming year, including some cool surprises. Omniture will be hosting this meeting and all of the details are on the PLUG website.
We look forward to sharing the current and future of Open Source in Utah and hope you’ll join us either in person, or if you aren’t able to come by, try the live stream and irc.
If you are interested in attending, check out the PLUG website.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Posted by Clint on November 13, 2007 in Community, Events, Meetings, Streaming, UserGroups
Multi-Distro Release Party A Success
In the immortal words of sontek, “Tonight was amazing!”
The Multi-Distro Release Party was a grand success. Around 30+ people, plenty of drinks, food and oh yeah, three Linux distros were discussed along with one proprietary-ish OS. Fun was had by all and even a new Linux user came and got Ubuntu installed, Christer must be proud.
Heartsbane brought his apocalypse box to install Fedora. It was quite the sight!
Shauna Theobald from the OSTC provided the pizza and decided also that it would be fun to surprise yours truly with an early *surprise* birthday party. All I can say is that I was “blown away”, and “thank you”. That was a pretty nice thing to do…
And while we were all having fun, the kids were getting into it too!
As it stands, the Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, OpenBSD and Mac OS X Release Party was a grand success. Here’s all of the pics from my camera.
Cheers,
Clint
Posted by Clint on November 11, 2007 in Community, Events, Installfest, Meetings, Parties, Photos
One Last Reminder - MDRP Today!
If you’ve been hiding under a rock, or ignoring posts lately, this is a good time to read. Later today will be the Multi-Distro Release Party. Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon), Fedora (Werewolf) and OpenSUSE (10.3) will be available via network install. CDs and DVDs for all three distributions, and possibly others, will also be available. Come and enjoy the festivities!
Map: http://tinyurl.com/yprnqr
When: Saturday (Today!), November 10, 2007 1pm-5pm MDT
What: Installfest, pizza, drinks and more.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
The Utah Open Source Foundation, Open Source for Utah, and the world!
Posted by Clint on November 10, 2007 in Community, Events, Installfest, Meetings
Geek Paintball - Saturday, November 17, 10am - 2pm
Utah Open Source along with Tier Four is hosting a paintball game for all computer geeks in Utah. If you have ever wanted to frag your friend in real life, this is the time and place to do it.
The games will be pick up style, with matches pitting language, distro, and other hot topics against each other. Training will be held before each round and safety will be discussed. Paintball markers will be available onsite or by reservation with JT Paintball Rentals starting at $10.
Tier Four will be providing 15 cases, yes that’s right 15 cases of marballizer paint and make it available to all that come until its gone. More paint should be available for sale, or you should bring your own just in case.
Where
DesertEdge Practice Field (SpecialOps Info)
When
Saturday, November 17, 2007
10am until about 2pm
Why
Because you want to shoot your friends and fellow geeks. Beware, they shoot back!
RSVP
It’d be nice if you went and checked out the guns at JT Paintball Rentals and let us know which one you’ll be getting. If you’d like to confirm your attendance (recommended, we have about 35 guns to rent and they will go fast), email participate@utos.org.
See you all there.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Founder, Utah Open Source Foundation
Posted by Clint on November 7, 2007 in Community, Events, Paintball