Clint
PLUG May Meeting - MySQL
Date: May 14th, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: Omniture, Inc.
Details: http://www.plug.org/
MySQL will be flying Jay Pipes (North American Community Relations Manager at
MySQL) in to Salt Lake on the 14th for the sole purpose of addressing PLUG
(and all other local SIGs). Please spread the word. Set your calendars. Blog
it. Spread it. Tell everyone.
To be clear: THIS WILL BE AN IN-DEPTH TECHNICAL PRESENTATION. Expect this to
be one of those killer, mind-bending, and deep technical presentations. The
kind that leaves you barley able to drive home. Jay will keep the presentation
as language agnostic as possible - and focus just on the SQL-fu Jay
specializes in. This is one presentation you don’t want to miss.
There will be prizes (books and MySQL swag). And we will have drinks. There
might be food, but don’t plan on it.
His bio:
Jay Pipes is the North American Community Relations Manager at MySQL.
Co-author of Pro MySQL (Apress, 2005), Jay has also written articles for Linux
Magazine and regularly assists software developers in identifying how to make
the most effective use of MySQL. He has given sessions on performance tuning
at the MySQL Users Conference, RedHat Summit, NY PHP Conference, OSCON, and
Ohio LinuxFest, amongst others. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife,
Julie, and his four animals. In his abundant free time, when not being
pestered by his two needy cats and two noisy dogs, he daydreams in PHP code
and ponders the ramifications of __clone().
-Ryan
— Books we have to give away:
- A book regarding Fedora.
- A “Head First” book from O’Reilly on SQL.
- Several very excellent “Pragmatic Programmers” books:
- Programming Ruby (very good)
- Java to Ruby
- Enterprise Integration with Ruby
- Agile Web Development with Rails
- Agile Retrospectives
- Practices of an Agile Developer
Posted by Clint on May 8, 2008 in Community, Events, Meetings, UserGroups
Utah Open Source Foundation and Ubuntu Utah bring you a release party of gigantic proportion
Fedora 9 (Sulphur) will be released April 29, 2008
Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) will be released April 24, 2008
All are welcome to join in the celebration of newly released Fedora and Ubuntu distributions. Ubuntu Utah has been gracious to allow revelers from the Fedora camp join in with the Ubuntu Utah team. The entire event will be sponsored by the Utah Open Source Foundation who will also provide food.
FOOD IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE, SO COME EARLY AND COME HUNGRY!
If you’ve never been to a release party, they are a blast, and this one proves to be nothing less than spectacular. In fact, Code Greene’s owner Mac Newbold has offered up his office (or rather playground) for us to hold our party. Code Greene has foosball, video games, pool, music and more for all to enjoy.
Why: Release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) and Fedora Sulphur (F9)
When: May 3, 2008, 6-8pm (or thereabouts)
Where: Code Greene, 44 Exchange Place Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Please RSVP via upcoming.org if you are participating.
Cheers,
Clint Savage / Aaron Toponce
UTOSF / Ubuntu Utah
Posted by Clint on April 3, 2008 in Community, Events, Installfest, News, UserGroups
UTOS HackNight - Refactor ConMan
Tomorrow night, 7pm, in Murray at my house, we’ll be eating pizza and hacking on ConMan again.
If you are interested in joining the fun, please feel free to stop by and learn some kick-a** django skillz.
The last two HackNights were all-nighters and were very successful. Tomorrow’s HackNight is to refactor the views a little and build out the blog portion of the app as well. Feel free to come by and stay as long or as little as you like.
See you all there.
Cheers,
Clint
Posted by Clint on February 22, 2008 in Community, Conference, Events, Hackfests, Registration
Utah LUG Meetings: Feb 3-9, 2008
This week’s Local User Group meetings:
- Layton.rb - Feb 4, 7pm - Topic unavailable
- BYU UUG - Feb 7, 7pm - Basic DNS With Bind by Stuart Jansen
- Ubuntu Utah - Feb 9, 6pm - Debian/Ubuntu Packaging by Tim Riker
A special thanks goes out to TierFour for the streaming and podcast bandwidth to share these meetings. Please feel free to join the streaming discussion this week for the Ubuntu Utah meeting at http://stream.utos.org
Posted by Clint on February 3, 2008 in Community, Meetings, Streaming, UserGroups
UTOS ConMan: Becoming Awesome!
The UTOS Confrence Manager or ConMan, is really coming along. Tonight’s HackNight didn’t last quite as long as last weekend, but there was some definite improvements.
One of the really nice improvements was the addition of the logo by James Hancock who’s really good with his inkscape skills. Other improvements included a better gui, backend administration, refactoring much of the user creation to better accommodate future enhancements.
One of the best features that has been added tonight was the blog functionality by Kevin Kubasik of GNOME fame. When a conference is upcoming and during the conference itself, this feature will be front and center. Nice work!
Things that are left include registration, including payments with google checkout, paypal or a merchant backend. Sponsor management is another, as well as schedules for volunteers, speakers, attendees and sessions, bofs and events.
I’m even sure there are items not yet considered above, but that’s the functionality we hope to have in place within the next few months. Feel free to download the project, and submit patches back to us anytime, we dig the help.
We’re looking forward to deploying the Call for Papers components tomorrow or Sunday in our official call for papers announcement, so keep your eyes peeled.
Cheers,
Clint
Posted by Clint on February 2, 2008 in Community, Conference, Hackfests, UserGroups
UTOS HackNight: A grand success!
A special thanks to Guru Labs, Kevin Kubasik, John Weis, James Hancock, Will Smith and Trevor Sharpe for sticking it out much of Saturday night and into the wee hours of Sunday night.
The chinese food arrived at around 9pm, and we sat around talking design and ideas for the next 30 minutes, and about 11pm we really started digging into the project.
After about 12-13 hours of good coding, and time troubleshooting, learning, drinking loads of caffeine and a bunch of other good stuff, I’m proud to announce the first real progress on the ConMan project from UTOSF.
The general idea is to improve upon otherwise incomplete or sucky open source conferencing systems. ConMan (Conference Manager) is seeming to become quite good, with some good coding from Kevin Kubasik, good web design by John and some good perserverence as well by yours truly. Most of the group crashed out somewhere between 2am and 8am, Kevin and I however, continued to hack until we had something semi-solid at around 11:30am.
It was a great time had by all and a good framework has been built. Django seems like the perfect solution for this and we will even have CAPTCHA and email confirmation early in the 0.0.2 release.
For now though, if you are interested in seeing the Call for Papers, Call for Volunteers and Contact applications, please feel free to download it at http://code.google.com/p/utos-conman. We look forward to bug reports (which you can also make at the google code site, you just need a google account) and fixes in the future. Also any recommendations that are made will be taken into consideration.
In addition, keep an eye out for the “Call for Papers” to appear at http://2008.utosc.com very soon.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Posted by Clint on January 31, 2008 in Community, Conference, Events, Hackfests, Registration
Weekly Meeting Posts
As part of the Utah Open Source goals to help every LUG (Local User Group) grow, UTOSF plans to provide timely reminders to all who are interested about when, where and the topic for each of the LUGs we track.
In addition to this feature, UTOSF will also be providing an announcement service for podcasts of LUG meetings that were streamed and recorded.
This service should start around the beginning of February 2008 and hopefully provide simple, yet easy to read posts with all of the details needed.
If your group is not listed on the current UTOSF Groups page, or want your meetings streamed and recorded, please leave a comment, or contact clint At utosf (dot) org and we’ll get it added.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Posted by Clint on January 25, 2008 in Community, Events, Meetings, UserGroups
Podcast: January Ubuntu Utah Meeting
Another podcast is up at http://podcast.utosf.org from the Ubuntu Utah User Group.
This podcast is on “Shell Basics” from Aaron Toponce.
Enjoy,
Clint Savage
Posted by Clint on January 23, 2008 in Community, Meetings, Podcasts, UserGroups
Report: CodeAway at Wasatch Wingz
Today I spent a good bit of time up at the Utah CodeAway at Wasatch Wingz in Salt Lake. It was amazing.
What is CodeAway you ask? Well, essentially, its another social channel (read disparate tech group) to get together. In this case, its great to get together if you are a software dev or interested in improving your skill. People with all types of coding skillz are there and can help (and learn). The mood here is playful and fun, but if you want to code, there are plenty of little nooks to hide and burn out a bunch of code. If you cant figure out a piece of code, just ask, you’re bound to find an answer with this many experts in the building.
The wings were amazing, and Wayne (sp?) was quite a friendly fellow. He and another business partner run this little eclectic wing shop / internet cafe / hang out. Its a very intriguing ideal and I was glad to chat for a few minutes before the crowd really showed. Wayne explained that Wasatch Wingz really likes the idea of having people come in an hang out on their computers as they bear down on a dozen awesome wings. I had the “voodoo” wings, which were tasty with a bit of spice, quite good. Wayne has outdone himself here and if his hospitality and food are any indication, Wasatch Wingz are to be a huge hit.
Back to the event and some thoughts.
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I showed up today, but after spending a few minutes talking with Laura Moncur, I felt right at ease. She’s an amazing lady! During our discussion, I discovered her desire for this sort of thing was because at one point she was so desperate to spend time with others of like mind. It reminds me so much of UTOS, just slightly different in focus.
After talking, I realized we had so much in common and its clear that there are likely tens of groups who are just like CodeAway and UTOS out there. And that the more we find ourselves in these groups, there are another hundred who are looking for this sort of thing. And to that end (and if I have anything to do with it), we’ll see some combined efforts to provide facilities and opportunities for those interested to get involved. I wouldn’t even be surprised to see advertising become more prevalent and attendance to these sorts of events sky rocket.
It appears the next event will be February 23 from noon to 6pm (also at Wasatch Wingz) so I’d recommend getting there early and getting a good seat.
See you all there!
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Posted by Clint on January 20, 2008 in Community, Events, Hackfests, UserGroups
Another UTOSC 2007 Video - Jared Smith
The Utah Open Source Foundation, OpenSourceTV.tv and KnowledgeBlue are excited to announce another video from the Utah Open Source Conference 2007.
This time, meeting with Doran “fozz” Barton, its Jared Smith of Digium. Fozz and Jared discuss the future of Asterisk and Digium’s role in bringing Asterisk to the general public.
Here’s the link, enjoy.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Posted by Clint on January 18, 2008 in Conference, Videos