Meetings


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 Code Camp - Saturday, 26 April

We are proud to announce the upcoming Utah Spring Code Camp taking place on Saturday, 26 April at Neumont University in South Jordan. The event begins at 9:00 a.m.

If you go to the < http://www.utcodecamp.com/ > site, one of the first things you may notice is that this has traditionally been an event for software developers working on Microsoft platforms and, more recently, Apple platforms. The organizers are eager to include the open source developer community in these events going forward.

Registration is required to attend and should not set you back too much because registration is FREE!

Neumont University is at 10701 South River Front Parkway, Suite 300, in South Jordan. Here’s a convenient link to a Google Map to the location.

Here is an official blurb about the event:

The Code Camp is a one day training put on by local volunteers in your community. We have presentations ranging on all sorts of topics for Dba’s to Developers. We will have several tracks running throughout the day. You can check on the website for a current list of speakers and sessions. The Code Camp is open to all technologies and is a great place to get together with others and network.

We will have lots of giveaways including software, game system, and Ipod.

We are still looking for a few more speaker spots if you are interested in speaking.

Should you have any questions please visit the website or email. Pwright@medicity.com

Posted by Doran Barton on April 13, 2008 in Meetings

2008 Utah Open Source Awards

Not only is 2008 the second year we will be holding the Utah Open Source Conference, it is also the second year we will be recognizing and awarding four remarkable individuals as part of the Utah Open Source Awards ceremony at the conference.

The Utah Open Source Awards will be given in four categories:

  • Business
  • Community
  • Technology
  • Education

In 2007, awards were given in three categories as the Education category was not added until this year. The recipients of the 2007 Utah Open Source Awards were:

  • Matt Asay of Alfresco (Business) for his work evangelizing open source software in business
  • Brandon Beattie (Technology) for his excellent contributions to the MythTV project
  • Christer Edwards (Community) for his leadership in the Ubuntu Utah project

Now is the time for you to close your eyes and search deep in the crevices of your mind of who within the local community has made a positive impact on your experience using open source software. It could be someone who writes helpful documentation or blog posts. Perhaps you know someone who has developed valuable open source software. Maybe it’s someone who has made a difference in encouraging adoption and understanding of open source software. Whoever it is, concentrate on them. Now, imagine them receiving a big round of applause and a cool gift as thanks from the community. Okay, open your eyes.

When you have thought of at least one person, send a quick e-mail message to awards@utos.org with the name and a brief explanation of why you think this person is deserving of a Utah Open Source Award. There’s no limit to how many people you can nominate, but you can only submit nominations until August 1.

Winners will be announced (and awarded) during the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference held August 28-30, 2008 at the Salt Lake Community College Redwood Campus.

Posted by Doran Barton on April 7, 2008 in Community, Conference, Events, Meetings

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

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

New! UTOS Podcasts of Previously Streamed Meetings

The Utah Open Source Foundation would like to announce the availability of a new podcast available for meetings that have been recently streamed/recorded.  They’re available at http://podcast.utos.org.  These presentations are available from many of the LUGs around the state.  Check them out…

Please let us know what you think as we’d like to do more and better versions in the future.  If you’d like to have your meetings streamed and recorded, please let us know.

Cheers,

Clint Savage

Posted by Clint on January 6, 2008 in Community, Meetings, News, Podcasts, Streaming, UserGroups

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

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

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

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