Utah Open Source Planet

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

Date: May 14th, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: Omniture, Inc.

PLUG:

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.

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.

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().

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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

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.

Date: April 9th, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Omniture, Inc.

PLUG:

Forsythe is sponsoring a special PLUG meeting this month. Robert Weirick, Unix Consultant at Hewlett Packard, will be addressing the group. Robert will discuss HP's Linux roadmap, as well as address the offerings HP brings to the open source community. It is wonderful to see large IT organizations like Forsythe and HP recognize PLUG. HP is a major contributor to open-source software, including the Linux kernel (top 15 contributor). Plan on attending to show support for their interest in our community.

Hewlett-Packard Company provides various products, technologies, software, solutions, and services worldwide. The company's Enterprise Storage and Servers segment provides storage and server products in industry standard servers, business critical systems, and StorageWorks offerings. Its HP Services segment offers a portfolio of multi vendor IT services, such as technology, consulting and integration, and outsourcing services. Hewlett-Packard's HP Software segment offers a suite of business technology optimization software solutions comprising support that allow customers to manage and automate their IT infrastructure, operations, applications, IT services, and business processes

Forsythe helps organizations across all industries solve business problems and meet key business objectives through technology. We serve as a trusted, independent advisor, offering technology and business consulting services, technology leasing, and products from all leading IT infrastructure manufacturers. Forsythe is comprised of more than 800 professionals working from more than 50 offices in the United States and western Canada.

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PLUG is taking a break on the meeting front in March. We have a great year lined up and the next several meetings will be wonderful. Please stay tuned to the website for future meeting details, and consider subscribing to the new plug-announce mailing list.

PLUG is currently scheduling meetings past August 2008. If your organiziation is interested in presenting please contact the group.

Date: Wednesday Feb 13, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Omniture, Inc.

PLUG:

This month's PLUG meeting will have a unique spin. We have invited Matt Asay and the Alfresco team to come discuss business as it relates to Open Source. If you have an interest in business or law surrounding Open Source or technology, this is one meeting you do not want to miss. We also will be getting an introduction to the very full-featured Alfresco CMS. This is a local company, and they are doing some amazing things in this space.

Click the "read more" (or the title) link for the presenter biographies.

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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

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

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

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.utosf.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

Date: Wednesday Jan 9, 2007
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Omniture, Inc.

PLUG:
PLUG has arranged another great meeting for the month of January. Aaron Anderson, Lead Linux System Administrator at Omniture, will be addressing the group. He will be talking about enterprise scale systems management with Linux. Aaron has a unique perspective of systems growth challenges. Having seen the system he manages grow from 30 to over 10,000 Linux servers over eight years he has learned critical lessons that he will share with us. If you write code or manage servers in a business environment, this is one meeting you do not want to miss.

Aaron's Bio:
Aaron Anderson has been employed as a Un*x systems administrator since 1996 and has been working with GNU/Linux for nearly as long. Since 1999 he has been employed by Omniture, Inc. (then known as MyComputer.com), and while filling senior systems architecture and administration roles, has been instrumental in that company's IT infrastructure growth from less than 50 to more than 10,000 production Linux servers located in datacenters worldwide. Current responsibilities as senior systems administrator include service, software and hardware evaluations, OS and software deployment system development, systems software packaging and distribution, tier 5 escalation, interdepartmental application development consultation and the ongoing tasks associated with managing Omniture's extensive infrastructure and global expansion. Aaron currently resides in Sandy, UT, and when not working, enjoys participating in numerous outdoor activities, including flying his Cessna 310.

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Just a reminder there is no PLUG meeting this month due to holiday schedules. There are great meetings planned for both January and February. January 9th Aaron Anderson (Lead SA @ Omniture) will be discussing Enterprise scale issues with Linux. For February 13th, PLUG will be hosting Matt Asay and the Alfresco team.

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

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://utosf.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

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

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

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

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!

Another reminder for the Multi-Distro Release Party being held this coming Saturday. Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon), Fedora (Werewolf) and OpenSUSE (10.3) will be available via network install.

Map: http://tinyurl.com/yprnqr
When: Saturday, 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!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. We here at the Utah Open Source Foundation would like to announce that we’ve recently been able to acquire and test the video from the Utah Open Source Conference (UTOSC).

We’re proud to announce our first video. Tons of work went into getting this live. Including streaming bandwidth provided by TierFour and video editing done by KnowledgeBlue and Open Source TV. We’d like to thank all of those who made this possible and look forward to providing you with additional videos as they arrive. Please feel free to download them or watch the stream.

In the future, we’ll work on making them downloadable from this site as well. Oh, and we’re working on part 1, it will be out soon.

Podcast currently unavailable due to a bug in the PodPress software. Currently looking for a new plugin or an alternate way to release the videos.

Cheers,

Clint Savage
Founder, Utah Open Source Foundation (http://www.utosf.org)

Just a quick reminder that Saturday, November 10, from 1-5pm will be the Multi-Distro Release Party at the Open Source Technology Center at Novell. Ubuntu (GutsyGibbon), Fedora (Werewolf) and OpenSUSE (10.3) will be available via network install. Also, we’ll have a few short presentations about the three released distributions, food and a network install server for the Installfest.We hope to see you all there!

Map: http://tinyurl.com/yprnqr
When: Saturday, November 10, 2007 1pm-5pm MDT
What: Installfest, pizza, drinks and more.

Cheers,

Clint Savage
The Utah Open Source Foundation, helping Open Source grow in Utah

This month, we’ll begin our newsletter. UTOSF plans to send out this newsletter to all of the user group (UG) communities in Utah and surrounding areas. We post it here for your benefit and invite you to sign up for the News mailing list at http://utos.org/mailman/listinfo/ to receive this and other news.

In the future, UTOSF plans to make this a regular article released near the end of every month, so come by and see how we’re improving our community.

Utah Open Source Planet

The Utah Open Source Planet, run by Gabriel Gunderson can be accessed in another way, from Utah Open Source Foundation. Point your browser to http://planet.utosf.org and receive the latest and greatest local Utah bloggers talking about everything from linux to food to programming to weight loss. These people are part of Utah Open Source and have a good nose for what’s going on in tech and open source in Utah. Please join us by participating in Utah Open Source Planet. Its a great blog community.

Streaming

UTOSF is proud to announce that we will provide streamed user group (UG) meetings. Utah Open Source Foundation (UTOSF) is spearheading an effort to get a streaming server up and running. We’ve taken into considerations things like bandwidth concerns, server power, usefulness of topic and much more. As such, we’ll be attempting to stream more and more meetings, events and other discussions this year for the UGs. The current plan is to cover most of the known user groups (UGs) by end of year 2008.

We need help from you to accomplish this. UTOSF is providing the hardware, bandwidth and configuration for anyone who’s willing to record their UG meeting. We want to find people who are regulars in each of the communities and help them set up the recording software. If you are interested, please contact clint@utos.org or jayce@utos.org for more information.

Conference Videos

We’re still learning here, so please bear with us. We’ve had a lot of requests regarding when the recordings of UTOSC 2007 will be released. I’d like to say that I have *actually* seen one and OpenSourceTV and KnowledgeBlue are doing a great job getting these together. I’m excited to see how the rest turn out. The videos will be released as we get them. There will be regular announcements on http://utosf.org so continue to watch for updates.

Multi-Distro Release Party

Only once in a great while will we see an event like this one. Only once will there be so many shiny new distributions to choose from. Only once will OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, OpenBSD and Fedora be released within one month of each other. Because of this The Utah Open Source Foundation is announcing the first and probably the only Multi-Distro Release Party in Utah. The release party will involve four major distros, plus anyone is welcome to bring their own distro to hand out.

The party will be held on Saturday, November 10, from 1-5pm at the Open Source Technology Center at Novell. We’ll have a few short presentations about the three released distributions, food and a large network install server for the Installfest. We hope to see you all there!

Where: Open Source Technology Center at Novell
Map: http://tinyurl.com/yprnqr
When: Saturday, November 10, 2007 1pm-5pm MST
What: Installfest, pizza, drinks and more.

You Can Help

I’d like to invite those interested in helping the Utah Open Source Conference 2008 to start attending the upcoming Conference planning meetings. Reply with the subject “Conference Planning” if you are interested in helping.

In addition, the Utah Open Source Foundation will begin regular “meets”. We’re planning on inviting leadership of each of the UGs, plus anyone interested in helping the community as a whole. UTOSF is dedicated to helping the groups by providing resources, tools and other benefits. Come and be a part of something great!

Cheers,

Clint Savage

The audio went well except the first 2 minutes. The streaming failed miserably at the beginning and luckily I had a back up server.  After that, everything seemed to work just fine. I hope you all enjoyed the presentation. If you didn’t get a chance to listen, its available right here on our website. Just click the link below and enjoy!

BYU Unix User Group (BYU-UUG) - OpenLDAP - Michael Torrie

Cheers,

Clint

The meeting this Thursday evening at BYU-UUG given by Michael Torrie on OpenLDAP seems exciting. To me, this sounds like an amazing topic, and because of this, we at Utah Open Source would like to share it with you. And thus, we’ll be streaming our second user group meeting in as many weeks.

To listen to the stream, go to http://stream.utosf.org, right near the presentation will be links to get to the appropriate stream. This should be set up around 7:15pm, the actually meeting starts at approximately 7:30pm. You’ll hear intro music at first, and then the stream will start when the meeting starts.

We’ll also be making available the irc channel #utos-meeting on irc.freenode.net for questions and comments. There will be a moderator watching and will pose questions to Michael as requested. If you are not familiar with IRC, you can join by following the tutorial here.

For those of you who have to watch the kids, or go to some social event and would rather come to this, this is a great opportunity to still participate in the meet. Proving the live stream is something Utah Open Source Foundation plans to do at least once per month for now, and will be helping the groups enable this feature themselves.

In addition, the recording will immediately be available right here on utosf.org for download. If you are unable to listen during the meet, come back here tomorrow night after the meeting and you can download the ogg version of the file.

We hope to see many in there in person, and are excited to provide this capability for those who cannot come.

Cheers,

Clint Savage
The Utah Open Source Foundation

The audio wen’t well.  The streaming seemed to work just fine.  I hope you all enjoyed the presentation.  If you didn’t get a chance to listen, its available right here on our website.  Just click the link below and enjoy!

Southern Utah Unix User Group (SU3G) - What is Utah Open Source?

Cheers,

Clint

Hi all,

I’d like to make a quick mention of this in case you missed my presentation at UTOSC.  I’ll be doing a similar presentation entitled “What is Utah Open Source?”, tonight at 7pm at the Southern Utah Unix User Group (SU3G).  In addition, I’ll be providing a tutorial on how to setup VSFTPD if there is time.

I’m sure many of you in Utah, Davis, Weber or Salt Lake Counties might think, “heh, I can’t make it!”.  Well that might be true of the past meetings for User Groups.  From now on, Utah Open Source will be working to provide live streaming to any User Group that would like to share their meetings.

Currently, we’re in a testing mode, but you’re welcome to listen live tonight at 7pm.  There will be a link provided at http://herlo.org:8081 which can be streamed to your favorite media player that supports ogg/vorbis.  I use rhythmbox for this, but I know many other players support these live streams as well.

In addition, join the #utos channel on irc.freenode.net if you’d like to ask questions.  Someone will be in irc relaying any questions.  If you aren’t familiar with irc or how to connect, here’s an easy tutorial.

Now there is no excuse to miss this meeting.  If you want to listen, set aside the time, or play the ogg later as it will be available on this site shortly after the presentation.  See you all at 7pm tonight!

Cheers,

Clint Savage

Due to lack of a presenter PLUG is canceled this month. If you are interested in presenting in the future please contact Ryan Simpkins.

Date: Wednesday Aug 8, 2007
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: United Online

PLUG:
This month we have a unique guest presenter coming to PLUG. Robert Merrill from SOS Technical is coming to address the group. Robert is the Technical Account Manager for Utah county. He will be discussing mid-career development, including:

• What are recruiters good for?
• Why are recruiters HATED? (Open source-style feedback loop).
• Careering.
• How to be irreplaceable (protect yourself against layoffs).

Robert has a background as a programmer and web developer. Like many of us he was caught in the dot-com burst. Frustrated with recruiters that undervalued his position and never got him a job, Robert set out to tackle the way business was done. Come take advantage of this unique opportunity that may significantly change your career. Bring your suggestions regarding Open Source and technical recruiting in our area. Come learn the secrets of salary negotiation and more. See you there!!

NUPM:
6:30pm - Meeting details were not returned in time, but if you're a monger you instinctively know where to be and when. If not, just follow the camel.

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