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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
Utah Open Source Conference 2008: Location, Theme and Dates
For those of you waiting with bated breath, wait no longer. The Utah Open Source Conference volunteers have been hard at work year preparing an even more awesome conference for 2008.
Because 2007 was such a grand success, we’ve made some minor changes and improvements to help with a smoother conference. This year’s conference is at a different location and we’ve added a full day on Thursday.
The Utah Open Source Conference 2008 will be held at the Salt Lake Community College, Redwood Road campus August 28 - 30, 2008.
This years theme is HOWTO. The concept is that within the technology, education, community and business tracks, there will be plenty to talk about.
- HOWTOs will help others get started
- HOWTOs will help families use open source together
- HOWTOs will provide a stepping stone along the road to technology mastery
- HOWTOs will let those that are masters get together and make the products better.
These are just a few of the many things that HOWTO theme will accomplish during the Utah Open Source Conference (UTOSC) 2008.
The Salt Lake Community College Computer Science department is excited to be a sponsor of the 2008 conference and will be using it to improve students’ awareness and understanding of open source software.
The Utah Open Source Foundation is also re-dedicating itself to ensure the pricing structure remains reasonable for those who’d like to come and are on a budget. The pricing structure right now is tentative, but no major increases in the fees are planned for attendees.
We currently have a tentative plan on our wiki, so feel free to have a look. If you have suggestions, please join the chat anytime in the #utos channel on irc.freenode.net or email clints at utos dot org with your comments.
Watch closely over the next week for the Call for Papers, updates on the basic schedule, and the Call for Volunteers among other exciting announcements, including our keynote speakers.
See you all in August.
Clint Savage
Founder, Utah Open Source Foundation
Posted by Doran Barton on February 6, 2008 in Community, Conference, Events, News, UserGroups
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
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
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
Utah Open Source Conference 2007 Videos Released - Again!!
Okay, this time we found a better way to produce and release the UTOSC 2007 videos - YouTube! These videos are a great way to escape the in-laws (or watch while wrapping presents).
Because YouTube will let you create your own group, we’ve done so and are making the videos available on our group page. If you are interested in seeing more videos, you can sign up and watch the currently available videos.
Currently, there are only a few videos, and more will be coming everyday. A special thanks to Doran Barton (fozzilinymoo) and OpenSourceTV.tv for helping us out with these videos. We look forward to releasing more videos, and as we do so, announcements will be made here.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Utah Open Source Foundation
Posted by Clint on December 21, 2007 in Community, Conference, News, UserGroups, Videos