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A Quick Photoblog Update! Time for real specifics later, but other news includes 2 awesome upcoming events!
New Posters From NPS!Our Tickets to Dave Matthews Band!
View From our new Place!
Sloshball!
Massive Utah Mountain Fire!
In the next 3 weeks, I will be among the busiest people I know. Probably the only people busier are Presidential hopefuls, Olympic organizers and sadly, those fighting in Georgia. The reason I am writing this post is to help me remember what I have left to complete between now and the Utah Open Source Conference 2008 on August 28-30, 2008.
Recently, I learned that our website doesn’t render well in Internet Exploder, Safari and some older versions of Firefox. I’m guessing its due to the inability I have to create and maintain css, because well, I’m not a design guy. Because of this, we’re having a hackfest tonight, both at my house, and online. Feel free to come by at 8:30 and help out.
Prior to the hackfest, I will be working with Fedora Ambassadors to grow the North American region. We’ll be discussing such things as AmbassadorKit, EventBox and of course, Fedora’s presence at UTOSC 2008. This meeting tends to get a lot of good people making the world a better place. I am interested in making this happen starting with North America. If you are interested in helping out, or just lurking, feel free to drop by #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net at 1:00UTC (9pm EDT).
Prior to the Fedora NA meeting, I’m planning on working on the PCs that we’ll be using for the Utah Open Source Conference. This will be done over at a friends house, who is loaning the PCs to UTOSC for the week of the conference.
I am attempting to record every presentation this year with either audio or video. We have been rewarded again this year by having our friends over at KnowledgeBlue come and video record much of the conference, but they don’t have enough staff or equipment to simultaneously record 4-6 rooms. So the plan went to me to setup recording devices in each room.
The plan is simple setup 6 PCs with Linux, install audacity and darkice. This way we can stream the keynote audio live over our streaming server and also just record the audio from other presentations to be published at a later date. I anticipate I’ll be able to install and complete this task pretty quickly.
Well, its now 7:40am here at my desk in my house. I still have head into the office today for a bit of work, so off I go. Feel free to come by #utos anytime today and wish me luck (or help if you are so inclined) with anything you can suggest. Hopefully, today won’t be too long.
Herlo
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
Its coming soon, the Utah Open Source Conference 2008!
and we need some help getting our registration system off the ground!
If you are interested in working on a really cool project, want to learn Django and enjoy some good food, come on over and hack.
The Hackfest will be held at my new home in Murray, Utah! So come and enjoy the new surroundings and hopefully we’ll have the projector and screen up, which means movies and video games. I’m also working on internet access (its Qwest/XMission for now. Soon to be UTOPIA/XMission), but it should be installed by Saturday. If not, we’ll let everyone know an updated location nearby.
Here’s the details:
Date/Time: Saturday, January 26, 2008 / 7pm
Location: Herlo’s house: 5225 Gravenstein Park, Murray, Utah 84123 - Map
Please feel free to ping me on IRC if you have any question.
Cheers,
Clint
